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US10117366B2	Spring energized seals and related methods Seal assemblies with a seal body having an inside flange and an outside flange that are biased outwardly away from one another by a spring energizer, such as a canted coil spring or a V-spring. The seal assemblies further include EMI shielding by incorporating at least one spring energizer that provides at least part of a conductive path between a housing and a pin. The conductive path can alternatively be provided by two different spring energizers and optionally with a conductive strip or trace or via a conductive contact ring element. The present seal assemblies are usable in applications having the needle for both sealing and EMI shielding.
US10117364B2	Display device with optically clear fluid disposed between display panel and display cover Display devices, methods for fabricating display devices, and display systems are provided. For example, a display device comprises a display panel, a display cover bonded to a perimeter of the display panel with a perimeter seal, and an optically clear fluid disposed in a gap between the display panel and the display cover. The optically clear fluid has an index of refraction that is substantially matched to an index of refraction of the display cover. The optically clear fluid may comprise oil, alcohol, water, or a liquid gel, for example.
US10117358B2	Cooling architecture for a chassis with orthogonal connector system An electronic equipment chassis assembly includes a housing, and a plurality of openings defined in the housing that allow airflow there-through. The openings include at least one intake opening defined in the front surface of the housing and at least one exit opening defined in the rear surface of the housing. The chassis also includes an air filter, and one or more rails disposed within the housing defining receiving slots that releasably secure a first plurality of circuit boards, and a second plurality of circuit boards, which second plurality of circuit boards are orthogonally oriented relative to the first plurality of circuit boards. The chassis includes an airflow assembly proximate the top surface of the housing, and one or more output fans proximate the rear surface of the housing. The airflow assembly and the output fans balance airflow throughout the chassis.
US10117356B2	Heat sink connector pin and assembly A heat sink connector pin includes a pin assembly with linkage that provides the movement of a pin head or cap in a downward movement to cause multiple movable fingers at an opposing end of the pin to mechanically move from a retracted position that allows insertion of the heat sink connector pin through an opening in the substrate, such as a through-hole, to move to an outward extended position so that the multiple fingers engage or grasp a bottom surface of the substrate. In one example, the movable fingers are rotatably connected to share a same rotational axis with each other. In one example, the pin assembly includes a sleeve adapted to receive the shaft structure and is adapted to engage with the pin head. The sleeve includes a substrate stop surface adapted to contact a top surface of the substrate during insertion of the pin through the substrate.
US10117351B2	Cable management arm A cable management arm includes: a support arm having a connecting portion at both ends separately and at least one chute extended along the support arm; and at least one cable management box having a retaining portion on a side, and movably installed in the chute, and the cable management box including a main body and a cover, and a the main body has a cross-section being a U-shaped structure, and a first pivoting portion and a latching portion disposed at two end portions of an opening of the main body respectively, and the cover having a second pivoting portion corresponsive to the first pivoting portion for pivotally coupling the cover to the main body to cover the opening of the main body, and a locking means for adjusting the position of the cable management box with respect to the support arm all the time.
US10117349B2	Vehicle-mounted circuit board holder structure A vehicle-mounted circuit board holder structure includes: a circuit board configured to process a signal from an antenna element; a holding member configured to hold the circuit board so as to sandwich the circuit board from both sides of a mount surface; and a mold member covering the circuit board and at least part of the holding member.
US10117343B2	Three-dimensional structures and related methods of forming three-dimensional structures The present disclosure provides three-dimensional structures and related methods. The three-dimensional structures may define patterns of positive and negative spaces on opposing surfaces that combine to form the three-dimensional structures. The negative spaces of the patterns may intersect to form apertures through the three-dimensional structures, which may define linear or non-linear paths therethrough. The apertures may be configured to provide desirable characteristics with respect to light, sound, and fluid travel therethrough. Further, the three-dimensional structures may be configured to define desired stiffness, weight, and/or flexibility. The three-dimensional structures may be employed in embodiments including heat sinks, housings, speaker or vent covers, springs, etc.
US10117338B2	Method for manufacturing light emitting device A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: joining a light transmissive substrate and two or more light emitting elements; separating the light transmissive substrate into a plurality of light transmissive pieces such that one or more of the light emitting elements remains in a state joined to one of the light transmissive pieces; mounting the one or more of the light emitting elements joined to the one of the light transmissive pieces on a mounting unit; removing a portion of the one of the light transmissive pieces such that a top surface of the one of the light transmissive pieces becomes a predetermined shape; and after the removing of the portion of the one of the light transmissive pieces, separating the mounting unit into a plurality of board pieces such that one or more of the light transmissive pieces remain on one of the board pieces.
US10117337B2	Electrically isolated assembly and method for the electrical isolation of an assembly Electrically isolating an electrical or electronic assembly having a carrier and one or more electrical or electronic components mechanically and electrically connected with the carrier, includes coating the carrier or at least one of the components or both entirely or partially with powder. The powder includes powder particles of electrically isolating material that have an average particle diameter of less than 1000 micrometers.
US10117334B2	Magnetic assembly A magnetic assembly is disclosed. The magnetic assembly includes a first magnetic core, a second magnetic core and a first series winding. The first magnetic core has a first top surface, a first bottom surface, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, at least one first sidewall through-hole and at least one second sidewall through-hole. The second magnetic core is connected to the first top surface of the first magnetic core. The first series winding has a first upper winding set, a first sidewall winding set, and a second sidewall winding set disposed on the first top surface, the first sidewall and the second sidewall respectively. The upper winding set is connected to the lower winding set via the first sidewall winding set and the second sidewall winding set is further connected to the lower winding set, so as to form the first series winding around the first magnetic core.
US10117333B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor, mounting structure of multilayer ceramic capacitor, and taped electronic component array A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a stacked body including a stack of a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes, and a pair of external electrodes. In the stacked body, a width dimension is greater than a thickness dimension, a length dimension preferably is about 0.4 mm or less, a width dimension preferably is about 0.15 mm or more and about 0.35 mm or less, a thickness dimension preferably is about 0.2 mm or less, and each of the internal electrodes is made of Cu or Ag as a main component and has a width dimension that is about 60% or more of the width dimension of the stacked body.
US10117327B2	Radio-frequency module A radio-frequency module includes: boards; interconnect parts that are conductor layers on the individual boards, at least one of the conductor layers being connected to an RF chip; a land that is a conductor layer connected to one of the interconnect parts; a transmission unit disposed between the boards, connected to the boards through the land to transmit a signal; a ground conductor disposed around the land and the interconnect part connected to the land; an isolation part disposed between the interconnect layer connected to the land and the ground conductor to isolate the interconnect layer connected to the land from the ground conductor; and a coupling part disposed between the land and the ground conductor to short-circuit the land and the ground conductor.
US10117325B2	Circuit structure having two transmission lines separated by a guard pattern defined by a first longitudinal pattern and second patterns orthogonal to the first pattern A circuit structure and a mobile terminal having a circuit structure are disclosed. The circuit structure may include two transmission lines that extend in a first direction to transmit a signal, and a guard pattern provided between the two transmission lines. The guard pattern may include a plurality of slots each having an open end and a closed end in a second direction. The guard pattern arranged between the transmission lines may lower cross talk by adjusting mutual capacitance so as to improve signal quality.
US10117323B2	Circuit board with a heat-conducting element The arrangement relates to a circuit board having at least one electrically insulating layer and at least one electrically conductive layer. The circuit board has at least one heat-conducting element which is embedded in the electrically insulating layer and which is of thermally conductive form. The heat-conducting element is designed to transport heat losses transversely with respect to an areal extent of the circuit board. According to the arrangement, the heat-conducting element has at least two sub-elements formed in each case by a metal body. The heat-conducting element has an electrically insulating connecting layer which is arranged between the sub-elements and which is designed to electrically insulate the sub-elements with respect to one another and connect the sub-elements to one another in thermally conductive fashion.
US10117320B2	Accelerator and particle beam irradiation system The accelerator includes a circular vacuum container which contains a circular return yoke. With respect to the central axis of the vacuum container, an incidence electrode is arranged towards the entrance of a beam emission path inside of the return yoke. Inside of the return yoke, electrodes are arranged radially from the incidence electrode in the periphery of the incidence electrode. Recesses are arranged alternately with the electrodes in the circumferential direction of the return yoke. In the vacuum container, an orbit-concentric region is formed in which multiple beam orbits centered on the incidence electrode are present, and, in the periphery of said region, an orbit-eccentric area is formed in which multiple beam orbits eccentric to the incidence electrode are present. In the orbit-eccentric region, the beam orbits between the incidence electrode and the entrance to the beam emission path are denser.
US10117319B2	Method and system for generating plasma in an atmosphere A method is provided for generating a region of plasma in a gaseous atmosphere that includes argon. A laser beam from a Ti:sapphire laser is directed into the gaseous atmosphere such that a portion of the argon along the laser beam is ionized. Microwave energy is directed into the ionized region of the laser beam to generate a plasma.
US10117318B2	High temperature electrolysis glow discharge device A glow discharge cell includes an electrically conductive cylindrical vessel, a hollow electrode, a cylindrical screen, a first insulator, a second insulator and a non-conductive granular material. The hollow electrode is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel and extends at least from the first end to the second end of the cylindrical vessel. The hollow electrode has an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of slots or holes. The cylindrical screen is aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel and disposed between the hollow electrode and the cylindrical vessel to form a substantially equidistant gap between the cylindrical screen and the hollow electrode. The first insulator seals the first end of the cylindrical vessel around the hollow electrode. The second insulator seals the second end of the cylindrical vessel around the hollow electrode. The non-conductive granular material is disposed within the substantially equidistant gap.
US10117317B2	System and method for generating extreme ultraviolet light A system includes a chamber, a laser beam apparatus configured to generate a laser beam to be introduced into the chamber, a laser controller for the laser beam apparatus to control at least a beam intensity and an output timing of the laser beam, and a target supply unit configured to supply a target material into the chamber, the target material being irradiated with the laser beam for generating extreme ultraviolet light.
US10117314B2	Automatic and decentralized commissioning of replacement lighting units Lighting units, lighting systems, and methods are described herein for automatic and decentralized commissioning of a replacement lighting unit (140, 150, 250). In various embodiments, a replacement lighting unit may receive, from one or more remote lighting units over one or more communication networks, one or more identifiers associated with the one or more remote lighting units. The replacement lighting unit may also receive, from at least one of the one or more remote lighting units over the one or more communication networks, the lighting operation parameters associated with an inoperative lighting unit. The replacement lighting unit may then selectively energize one or more light sources (258) associated with the replacement lighting unit to emit light having one or more properties indicated in the lighting operation parameters associated with the inoperative lighting unit.
US10117311B2	Automatic power controller for a plurality of lighting arrays Systems and methods for operating one or more light emitting devices in a lighting array are disclosed. In one example, two or more negative temperature coefficient devices are electrically coupled in parallel so that a plurality of independently controlled lighting arrays may be controlled via a single amplifier. The two or more negative temperature coefficient devices are positioned in a negative feedback loop of the single amplifier.
US10117305B2	Driving system and method for planar organic electroluminescent device A driving system and a driving method for a planar organic electroluminescent device are provided. The light emitting device has multiple light emitting elements, each having a first electrode and a second electrode. The driving system includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a driving module, and a ground circuit. The first circuit is connected to and provides a constant voltage to the first electrode of each light emitting element. The second circuit is connected to the second electrode of each light emitting element. The driving module is respectively connected to the second electrode of each light emitting element through the second circuit. The ground circuit is connected to the driving module and connects each light emitting element to the ground. The first electrodes of the light emitting elements are connected to one another, and the light emitting elements are driven by a constant current output by the driving module.
US10117296B1	LED straight tube lamps The invention involves a kind of LED straight tube lamp and it falls into the field of lighting technology. The LED straight tube lamp includes a tube, lamp caps that come with contact pins and are located on both ends of the tube, a first rectifying unit and a second rectifying unit that are coupled with the pins on the two ends respectively, a filter unit, and a switch unit that's located between the rectifying unit and the filter unit. The switch unit has sampling end that is coupled with either or both pins. When the pin on either end of LED straight tube lamp is connected to a power supply, if the external impedance of the pin on the other end is equal to or higher than its set value, the switch unit will be disconnected; if it is lower than the set value, the switch unit will be closed. One may effectively increase the safety of LED straight tube lamp in use by measuring the external impedance of the pin on the other end to see if the pin is correctly plugged in the lamp base so as to prevent any risk of electric shock resulted from contact between human body and the pin.
US10117294B2	Household appliance comprising a food processing chamber and camera A household appliance constructed in the form of a microwave appliance includes a food treatment chamber having a loading opening which is closeable by a door, with the food treatment chamber being exposable to microwaves. A camera is provided to observe the food treatment chamber through a viewing window. Received in the viewing window is a shielding plate which includes a number of holes. The camera is fastened to holes in the shielding plate and directed onto the shielding plate such that at least one hole is in a field of view of the camera.
US10117288B1	Packet arbitration in overlapping frequencies Techniques for harmonizing wireless communications performed by a computing device which communicates using varying wireless communication standards are described herein. For instance, a computing device may include multiple chipsets with associated antennas that are configured to perform wireless communications using separate wireless standards which operate at overlapping frequencies. To avoid performance degradation experienced in simultaneous use cases with communications operating at overlapping frequencies, the multiple chipsets may be configured with logic to determine which communications are prioritized when multiple chipsets attempt to communicate simultaneously. The multiple chipsets may be communicatively coupled to coordinate their communications by prioritizing certain types of communications over other types of communications to avoid simultaneous communications in overlapping frequencies. In this way, multiple chipsets that communicate using different standards at overlapping frequencies may avoid performance issues experienced in simultaneous use cases, while performing the communications which are of a highest priority level.
US10117280B2	Techniques for receiving packets over aggregated connections in wireless communications A user equipment (UE) can establish a first connection using a first radio access technology (RAT), wherein the UE operates in a communication mode having one or more dormant periods with respect to the first connection. The UE can receive a data packet over a second connection using a second RAT, wherein the data packet is from a data flow which is allowed or configured to be delivered via the first connection and the second connection. It can be determined that the data packet is received over the second connection when the UE is operating in a dormant period of the one or more dormant periods with respect to the first connection. A termination of the dormant period over the first connection can be requested based at least in part on determining that the data packet is received when the UE is operating in the dormant period.
US10117278B2	Method for connection between electronic devices and electronic device thereof Apparatuses are provided for connecting electronic devices. An apparatus includes short-range communication circuitry; a communication software module; and a processor adapted to connect with a wireless access point (AP); broadcast, using the short-range communication circuitry, a request message to perform a service associated with file sharing or conferencing, the request message including a unique identifier or a unique name related to the service; receive, via the wireless AP, a response message from at least one external device connected with the wireless AP; establish a communicative connection with the at least one external device via the wireless AP; and perform, using the communication software module, an operation for the service with the at least one external device.
US10117270B2	Method for improving space reuse rate in wireless LAN system and apparatus for same The present document relates to a method for determining whether a corresponding medium (for example, a channel) is reusable so as to improve a space reuse rate in a wireless communication system, particularly, a wireless LAN system, and an apparatus for the same. To this end, a station receives a wireless LAN signal through a specific wireless medium, compares the received signal intensity of the wireless LAN signal with a CCA level selected from between a first CCA level and a second CCA level lower than the first CCA level according to the type of the received wireless LAN signal, determines that the corresponding wireless medium is usable if the received signal intensity is lower than the selected CCA level, and can use the wireless medium in a signal transmission.
US10117260B2	Method and system for communicating and sharing of information for aircraft A method and system for communicating and sharing information for an aircraft are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes identifying a situation from among a set of predetermined situations and obtaining, from a data structure recorded beforehand, a first set of information elements associated with the identified situation. The method also includes determining, from the first set of information elements, and from pieces of information recorded beforehand, a set of pieces of information unavailable in the first system and establishing at least one first request to be sent from the first system to at least one second system. The method further includes sending the at least one first request from the first system to the at least one second system.
US10117259B2	System, apparatus, and corresponding method for managing resource in shared network A method for managing a resource in a shared network includes: receiving an adjustment request from a PCEF entity, the adjustment request indicates a participant mobile network operator to which user equipment belongs, and requests to adjust a guaranteed bit rate quota and/or a maximum bit rate quota of the participant mobile network operator in the PCEF entity; obtaining, according to the adjustment request, a subscription guaranteed bit rate resource allocated by a primary operator to the participant mobile network operator and a used guaranteed bit rate resource of the participant mobile network operator; and sending an adjustment response to the PCEF entity according to the subscription guaranteed bit rate resource and the used guaranteed bit rate resource, the adjustment response indicates whether the PCEF entity is allowed to adjust the guaranteed bit rate quota and/or the maximum bit rate quota.
US10117247B2	Windowing methods for efficient channel aggregation and deaggregation A method implemented in a fronthaul communication unit, comprising applying, via a processor of the fronthaul communication unit, a plurality of first frequency-domain windowing (FDW) functions on a plurality of first communication channel signals to produce a plurality of first windowed signals, aggregating, via the processor, the plurality of first windowed signals to produce a first aggregated signal, and transmitting, via a frontend of the fronthaul communication unit, the first aggregated signal to a corresponding fronthaul communication unit over a fronthaul communication link to facilitate fronthaul communication.
US10117238B2	Mobile communications system, network element and method for resource allocation on a virtual carrier for machine-type communications with a narrow band EPDCCH A mobile communications system includes a wireless access interface communicating data to/from mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface provided on a downlink first carrier, the first carrier providing plural communications resource elements across a first frequency range, and within a second frequency range within and smaller than the first frequency range. The wireless access interface includes plural time divided sub-frames each including the plural communications resource elements of the first and second frequency ranges, each sub-frame including a first wideband control channel in a part having a bandwidth corresponding substantially to the first frequency range, and a second narrow band control channel in a second part. The second narrow band control channel can communicate control information to first and second mobile communications devices and forms part of plural communications resource elements of the second frequency range, to make more use of the communications resources available to the communications system.
US10117237B2	Communication apparatus and communication reception method Provided are a base station, whereby the erroneous detection of control information can be reduced, thereby preventing the degradation of the system throughput. A base station maps a downstream allocation control information unit, which is addressed to a terminal, to a first resource region, which can be used for any of a downstream control channel region and a downstream data channel region, or to a second resource region, which can be used only for the downstream control channel, so as to transmit the downstream allocation control information unit. In the base station, a control unit establishes a scale of the PDCCH region, and a transmission region establishing unit establishes, on the basis of a scale value established by the control unit, a mapping region to which the DCI is mapped within the R-PDCCH region and the PDCCH region.
US10117235B2	Method and device for supporting HARQ in unlicensed band A method and device for supporting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in an unlicensed band is provided. A user equipment receives first downlink control information (DCI) including uplink scheduling information. The first DCI further includes a carrier indicator field (CIF) indicating a cell to be scheduled. If the type of the cell indicated by the CIF is a licensed cell, the format of the DCI is determined as a first DCI format including a first resource allocation (RA) field used for the uplink scheduling information. If the type of the cell indicated by the CIF is an unlicensed cell, the format of the DCI is determined as a second DCI format including a second RA field used for the uplink scheduling information.
US10117234B2	Framing for an adaptive modulation communication system A system and method for mapping a combined frequency division duplexing (FDD) Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)/Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) downlink subframe for use with half-duplex and full-duplex terminals in a communication system. Embodiments of the downlink subframe vary Forward Error Correction (FEC) types for a given modulation scheme as well as support the implementation of a smart antenna at a base station in the communication system. Embodiments of the system are also used in a TDD communication system to support the implementation of smart antennae. A scheduling algorithm allows TDM and TDMA portions of a downlink to efficiently co-exist in the same downlink subframe and simultaneously support full and half-duplex terminals.
US10117228B2	HARQ-ACK signal transmission in response to detection of control channel type in case of multiple control channel types Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communications. Configuration information including a resource start offset is received. Downlink control information (DCI) is received on an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) using at least one of control channel elements (CCEs). The DCI includes a resource offset for a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback. A resource of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is determined based on a first CCE of the CCEs, the resource offset in the DCI, and the resource start offset in the configuration information. A HARQ-ACK signal is transmitted on the PUCCH using the determined resource to a base station.
US10117222B2	Communication between devices of a neighbor aware network In some examples, a method includes receiving, at a second device of a data link group of a neighbor aware network (NAN), a message including an indication of whether a first device corresponding to a particular service is available during a particular time period during which devices of the data link group are configured to operate in an active operating mode. The method also includes transitioning to a low-power operating mode during one or more transmission windows corresponding to the particular time period in response to determining that the first device is unavailable during the particular time period.
US10117221B2	Method and corresponding apparatus for sending and receiving trunking paging in LTE system The method for sending the trunking paging includes: after receiving a group paging request, a base station sending a paging message to trunking terminals in a present cell in a predetermined paging time slot, wherein the paging message includes a group identification of a group needing to be paged. A base station for sending the trunking paging includes a receiving module and a sending module. A method for receiving the trunking paging includes: after monitoring a paging message, when determining that a group identity included in the paging message is the same as a group identity of the group to which the present terminal belongs, a trunking terminal accessing the group service, and sending a paging response to base station, or not sending a paging response to base station. A trunking terminal for receiving the trunking paging includes a monitoring module, a judging module and a group service processing module.
US10117213B2	Multiple carrier attachment establishment and maintenance Systems and methods are described herein that facilitate attaching a mobile station to a target wireless network through a physical connection between the mobile station and a supporting wireless network. Uplink and downlink channels between the mobile station and the target wireless network tunnel through the supporting wireless network. The systems and methods described herein thereby enable a mobile station with a single transceiver to become simultaneously attached to multiple wireless networks. The systems and methods described herein further support the handover of a mobile station from a generic access component of a mobile network to a radio access component and the handover of a mobile station from a radio access component of a mobile network to a generic access component of the mobile network thus facilitating rapid transitions from one mobile network air interface to another.
US10117211B2	Communication session registration- and subsidiary-request processing In some implementations, a telecommunications network can include a core network device communicatively connectable with user equipment (UE). The UE can generate a registration request including a subsidiary request and transmit the registration request. The core network device can receive the registration request, determine the subsidiary request based on content of the registration request, and transmit an indication of the subsidiary request on behalf of the UE via the telecommunications network. A core network device can receive a registration request associated with a user equipment (UE), determine a subsidiary request based on content of the registration request, and transmit toward the UE an acknowledgement associated with both the registration request and the subsidiary request.
US10117208B2	Method for determining uplink transmission timing of terminal having plurality of cells configured therein in wireless communication system, and apparatus using the method Provided is a method for determining an uplink transmission timing of a terminal having a plurality of cells configured therein, and a terminal using the method in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving timing advance (TA) configuration information, and determining an uplink transmission timing for each of the two cells on the basis of the TA configuration information, wherein the plurality of cells comprise a first cell using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure and a second cell using a time division duplex (TDD) frame structure.
US10117203B2	Method and apparatus for synchronizing hearing instruments via wireless communication A hearing assistance system including a hearing instrument designated as a master device and at least another hearing instrument designated as a slave device. The master device is communicatively coupled to the slave device via a wireless link. The master device has a master clock and generates master time stamps for specified events timed by the master clock. The master time stamps are sent to the slave device via the wireless link. The slave device has a slave clock and generates slave time stamps for specified events timed by the slave clock. The slave clock is adjusted for synchronization to the master clock using the master time stamps and the slave time stamps.
US10117192B2	User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method The present invention is designed so that mismatches in the recognition of TPC command-accumulated values between a radio base station and a user terminal are resolved in a simple way. The user terminal of the present invention provides a user terminal that transmits uplink channels, and that has a receiving section that receives transmission power control (TPC) commands from each of a plurality of cells that are grouped, a control section that controls the uplink channel transmission power of each of the multiple cells based on accumulated values of the TPC commands, and, when a reset condition is fulfilled in one of the multiple cells, the control section resets the accumulated values of all of the multiple cells.
US10117188B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions with reduced latency A method and apparatus schedule uplink transmissions with reduced latency. A first transmission power of a first uplink transmission can be determined at a device based on a first set of higher layer configured power control parameters associated with a first TTI length. A higher layer can be higher than a physical layer. The first uplink transmission can span the first TTI length. The first TTI length can include a first number of symbols. A second transmission power of a second uplink transmission can be determined based on a second set of higher layer configured power control parameters associated with a second TTI length. The second uplink transmission can span the second TTI length. The second TTI length can include a second number of symbols. The second number can be different from the first number. The first uplink transmission can be transmitted in a subframe using the first transmission power. At least the second uplink transmission can be transmitted in the subframe using the second transmission power. The first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission can overlap in time for at least one symbol duration.
US10117187B2	Initializing uplink power in a wireless network A wireless device receives a media access control (MAC) activation command indicating activation of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) secondary cell. The wireless device initializes an adjustment factor employing a transmit power control value received in a random access response if the wireless device transmits a random access preamble on the PUCCH secondary cell, otherwise initializes the adjustment factor to zero. The wireless device transmits a first instance of uplink control information on the secondary PUCCH with an initial transmit power computed employing the adjustment factor.
US10117182B2	Communicating control messages that indicate frequency resource information to receive data A wireless device may receive a wireless signal having a control message that indicates frequency resource information and coding information of data associated with the control message. The wireless device may determine that a control message corresponds to the wireless device and receives data indicated by the control message that corresponds to the wireless device.
US10117171B2	Estimating intervals at which to transmit keep-alive messages from a wireless station to an access point A wireless station (STA) of a wireless network operates to estimate intervals at which to transmit keep-alive messages to an access point (AP) with which the STA is associated. The STA receives a de-authentication frame from the AP. The de-authentication frame indicates that the AP has disassociated the STA due to inactivity. The STA determines a keep-alive interval based on one or more de-authenticated messages, including the de-authentication frame. The STA transmits keep-alive messages according to the determined keep-alive interval.
US10117163B2	Network access method and mobile communication terminal A network access method includes transmitting a request for acquiring shared network information to a shared server if a mobile communication terminal detects that a network identification of a PLMN of a visited place does not exist in a local memory of the mobile communication terminal; receiving the shared network information which the shared server transmits in response to the request, and acquiring the network identification of the PLMN of the visited place from the shared network information; adding the network identification of the PLMN of the visited place to an EPLMN list by the mobile communication terminal; and accessing a network according to the EPLMN list.
US10117149B2	Obtaining of communication service Disclosed is a method for obtaining a communication service for a mobile terminal, the method including: monitoring at least one parameter representing an operational state of at least one service provided by a first communication network into which the mobile terminal is registered to with a first subscriber identity; in response to a detection that the at least one parameter does not fulfill at least one predetermined condition generating a signal to cause the mobile terminal to switch the first subscriber identity to a second subscriber identity, wherein the second subscriber identity allows the mobile terminal to register to a second communication network as a roaming subscriber. The invention also relates to a mobile terminal, a network node and a computer program product.
US10117135B2	Apparatuses and methods for reducing setup time of a circuit-switched fallback (CSFB) call A mobile communication device including a Baseband processor is provided. The Baseband processor is configured to determine whether the mobile communication device is operating in an idle mode or a connected mode with a first service network in response to starting a Circuit Switch Fallback (CSFB) call, search for a cell of a second service network on a frequency, on which the mobile communication device has previously made another CSFB call successfully from the first service network, when the mobile communication device is operating in the idle mode with the serving cell, and make the CSFB call on the cell.
US10117129B2	Method and apparatus for broadcasting using channel information Disclosed is a method and apparatus for supporting a beacon-based service. An electronic device may include a wireless communication module that may support short-range wireless communication and a processor that is functionally connected with the wireless communication module. The processor is configured to obtain a signal from at least one external device using the wireless communication module through the short-range wireless communication, determine at least one channel out of a plurality of channels based on at least a channel that obtains the signal or the intensity of the signal, and transmit, to another external device, a broadcasting signal using the at least one channel.
US10117119B2	Redundant links for reliable communication In order to maintain performance during wireless communication, a transmitting electronic device may concurrently and independently communicate redundant information to a receiving electronic device. In particular, information associated with a data stream may be communicated to the receiving electronic device using one or more channels by two radios using one or more wireless local area network communication protocols. The packets transmitted by the radios may preferentially include the same information. Moreover, the transmitting electronic device may attempt to maintain the redundant communication if a performance metric associated with the one or more channels degrades. For example, the transmitting electronic device may transfer communication to a different channel or may compress the information in the packets in the one or more channels if the throughput drops below a threshold value. Furthermore, the concurrent communication may allow the transmitting electronic device determine link quality without disrupting the communication of the information.
US10117112B2	Avoidance of interference in wireless communications In one embodiment, a terminal of a first wireless communication network determines a protection zone for each of a plurality of unintended receivers of a second wireless communication network, where a protection zone defines a geographical area where transmission by the terminal might interfere with operation of a corresponding unintended receive. At the time of an attempted transmission, the terminal determines its current location, and whether the current location is within any protection zone of the plurality of unintended receivers. If not within any protection zone of the plurality of unintended receivers, the terminal performs the transmission, but if so, then the terminal may then perform a local assessment of interference to the one or more unintended receivers. Once concluding that there would be no interference with any of the one or more unintended receivers, the terminal may then perform the transmission. Otherwise, the terminal prevents the transmission.
US10117111B2	System and method for simulating a land mobile radio system The present disclosure provides a system and method for simulating a land mobile radio system having a plurality of radio sites. The simulation system may comprise an IP network providing an IP-based interface between components within the system such as, for example, a first server designed to simulate one or more radio sites, a second server designed to simulate one or more subscriber units, and a controller interface for providing commands for controlling the simulated subscriber units. Each site in the first server may include one or more site applications each associated with an IP address, and each subscriber unit in the second server is associated with a plurality of IP addresses for communicating with the site applications over the IP network.
US10117110B2	Structuring and method for wireless radio access network deployment A structuring and deployment method is provided for a radio access network in a cellular wireless communication system, employing a single or plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The method consists of: Unifying the performance of non-Radio Transmission Functions (non-RTFs) in multi-RAT systems; providing a flexible RAN topology, comprising reconfigurable Connection Points (CPs) that may be supplemented by reconfigurable RAN Functional Elements (RFEs), that is capable of adapting to system deployment environments; Reconfiguration of the implementation of RAN functions based on changes in the available system hardware and links.
US10117109B2	System and method for determining optimal placement of telecommunication equipment Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for determining placement of telecommunication equipment so as to minimize network cost, maximize network utilization, and meet Service Level Agreements (SLA) for the given network topology and demand requirements. Systems and methods of the present disclosure can be configured to determine minimum number of telecommunication equipment and placement thereof by constructing, based on a given network topology and service requirement, using a heuristic algorithm, an initial population of possible solutions, iterating over the possible solutions to increase optimality of solution based on any or a combination of cost of placement of the one or more telecommunication equipment and number of telecommunication equipment to be placed, and identifying most optimal solution for the placement of the one or more telecommunication equipment.
US10117107B2	Method, apparatus, system and computer program An example implementation may include controlling receiving, in a first network, negotiation information for the asymmetric power usage of a shared spectrum; determining, in the first network, a minimum spectrum demand in dependence on the negotiation information; controlling receiving, in the first network, a minimum spectrum demand from at least one second network; and determining, in the first network, asymmetric power usage of the shared spectrum in dependence on the minimum spectrum demand from the at least one second network and the minimum spectrum demand of the first network.
US10117102B2	Multimedia message service method and system Disclosed is a server including a transceiver, and a controller configured to receive, via the transceiver from a terminal, multimedia contents, store the multimedia contents, receive, via the transceiver from the terminal, a request for establishing one of a plurality of access modes with respect to the multimedia contents, wherein the plurality of access modes includes a restricted mode where at least one user designated by the terminal is allowed to access the multimedia contents, and a public mode where all users are allowed to access the multimedia contents, establish an access mode for the multimedia contents based on the request, and transmit, if the request includes information on the at least one user, via the transceiver to the at least one user, a notification that the at least one user is allowed to access the multimedia contents, based on the information on the at least one user.
US10117101B2	Geographically based access management for internet of things device data The proliferation of IOT devices has led to an increase in sensitive, cloud-stored data. To provide further protection, IOT device data may be secured by geographically based access controls as a supplement to or in place of traditional password protection. A geographically based access control restricts data accessibility to designated geographical areas. In this manner, a requesting device may not access geo-fence protected IOT device data unless the requesting device is located within a designated geographical area. Geo-fence parameters utilized for creation of a geo-fence policy may be pre-specified or generated based on operating conditions. For example, a user may provide location data, such as an address or geographical coordinate, and a radial distance from the location for which data access is permissible. Additionally, geo-fence parameters can be automatically determined based on criteria such as an IOT device type or data usage characteristics.
US10117099B2	Communication apparatus, method for controlling the same, and program In a case where a communication apparatus fails in authentication when acquiring communication parameters from another communication apparatus and where it is determined that an authentication request signal received from the other communication apparatus has been transmitted by unicast, the communication apparatus notifies said other communication apparatus of an error. On the other hand, even in a case where the communication apparatus fails in authentication, when it is determined that the authentication request signal received from the other communication apparatus has not been transmitted by unicast, the communication apparatus does not notify said other communication apparatus of an error.
US10117097B1	Short-range cross-device authorization Techniques are described for cross-device authorization using a wireless network connection. Computing device(s) may broadcast an identification signal indicating that the device is authorized to access a remote service, and is therefore available to provide an authorization token to a receiving device. The receiving device may determine one of the broadcasting device(s) to use for cross-device authorization. The receiving device may send a request, to the determined broadcasting device, for an authorization token to access the remote service. The broadcasting device may receive the request and transmit a message to a server device indicating that an authorization token is to be provided to the receiving device. Alternatively, the authorization token may be sent directly from the broadcasting device to the receiving device (e.g., over the wireless communication network). On receiving the authorization token, the receiving device may use the it to access the remote service.
US10117091B2	Method for administering life cycles of communication profiles A method for administering life cycles of communication profiles that are managed by a subscriber identity module (100) embedded in a telecommunications terminal (110) may be performed by the module (100), which is suitable for using at least one process for administering the life cycles of communication profiles. The process uses a set of at least one command and/or of at least one rule. The method includes operations for receiving (B610) a message (M610) issued by the terminal (110) and representative of the capabilities of the terminal (110); selecting or not selecting (B615) the set used by the process as a function of the capabilities of the terminal (110); and if the set is selected, administering at least one life cycle of at least one of the profiles by using the set of at least one command and/or of at least one rule.
US10117085B2	Deployment of proximity beacon devices A technique for deploying proximity beacons involves coupling proximity beacon transmitters and/or hubs to an enterprise network device. The coupling can be by way of physically connecting communication interfaces of the network device and the proximity beacon transmitter or hub. In some implementations, the communication interface can be implemented as a USB interface. In some implementations, the communication interface can be embedded within the network device, such that the communication interface can provide the physical connection in the form of an embedded or internal connection.
US10117084B2	Context-dependent allocation of shared resources in a wireless communication interface Resource allocation logic in a user device can determine allocation of a shared resource among different communication modules supporting a number of different communication types (e.g., GNSS, cellular, Wi-Fi, and/or Bluetooth communications) in a context-dependent manner. For example, the logic can determine an operating context of the user device. Based on the operating context, the logic can assign a priority to each of the signal types. The shared resource can be allocated among the signal types based on the priority.
US10117079B2	Information processing apparatus and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to perform communication with a short-distance wireless communication tag; a display control unit configured to display position information of the communication unit on a display unit; and a first determining unit configured to determine whether an establishing signal for establishing the communication is received from the short-distance wireless communication tag. The communication unit performs the communication with the short-distance wireless communication tag in response to the first determining unit determining that the establishing signal is received.
US10117068B2	Multi-acked multicast protocol Multicast transmissions do not allow for individual receivers to acknowledge that data was received by each receiver in the network. This is not acceptable for isochronous systems that require specific levels of QoS for each device. A multimedia communications protocol supports using multicast transmissions (one-to-many) in multimedia isochronous systems. A transmitter establishes a Multi-ACKed Multicast protocol within which a group of receiving devices can acknowledge the multicast transmission during a multi-acknowledgment period.
US10117060B1	Detecting handling of a device in a vehicle Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether or not an apparatus, such as a mobile device, is being handled or otherwise used within a vehicle. The apparatus may comprise an accelerometer configured to measure acceleration and a gyroscope configured to measure orientation. The apparatus may determine an axis of gravity of the apparatus based on acceleration measurements made by the accelerometer over a period of time. The apparatus may also determine a rotation vector of the apparatus based on orientation measurements made by the gyroscope. Using the axis of gravity of the apparatus and the rotation vector of the apparatus, the apparatus may determine a rate of rotation of the apparatus perpendicular to the axis of gravity. If the rate of rotation of the apparatus perpendicular to the axis of gravity exceeds a threshold, the apparatus may determine that it is being handled or otherwise used within the vehicle.
US10117059B2	Wireless bridge hardware system for active RFID identification and location tracking In various example embodiments, a system and method for facilitating proximity detection and location tracking using a mobile wireless bridge are provided. The system includes a beacon badge, a beacon tag, and a real-time location services (“RTLS”) server communicatively coupled to the beacon badge, such as via a wireless network or the like. The beacon tag broadcasts a beacon message receivable by the beacon badge. The beacon badge determines whether it is proximate to the beacon badge based on the signal strength of the received beacon message. The beacon badge further communicates identifying information contained with the received beacon message to the RTLS server. The RTLS server uses the identifying information to determine the proximate location of the beacon badge.
US10117058B2	Generating a pre-caching schedule based on forecasted content requests A method includes accessing information identifying user devices, and accessing media consumption data indicating content requests corresponding to the user devices. The method also includes determining expected locations of the user devices based on the information, and determining forecasted content requests based on the media consumption data. The method further includes generating a pre-caching schedule based on the forecasted content requests and the expected locations, and determining that the pre-caching schedule indicates that particular media data is to be provided via a multicast transmission to a first user device and to a second user device. The method also includes sending an instruction to the first user device directing the first user device to store the particular media data. The method includes sending, responsive to a request from the second user device, the particular media data via the multicast transmission to the first user device and to the second user device.
US10117048B2	Client boundary location Example implementations relate to client boundary location. For example, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to cause a computer to estimate a location of a client within a first boundary; determine whether there is a pathway between the first boundary and a second boundary for the client to move; and indicate whether the client is in the first boundary or the second boundary based on the determination of the pathway and the estimated location of the client.
US10117047B1	Location and time based application management An application manager on a user device determines a current time period and determines that the current time period corresponds to a previous time period when the user device has previously been used to access one or more application files. The application manager identifies previous state information for the user device corresponding to a previous state of the user device during the previous time period and restores a current state of the user device to the previous state based at least in part on the previous state information.
US10117044B2	Sharing of location-based content item in social networking service A method and/or system allows a user of a social networking service to publish a content item tagged with location information for sharing with other users of the social networking service. The user publishing the content item performs operations on the originating device to generate the content item. The originating communication device attaches the location information to the content item, and transmits the content item to a social networking system. The social networking system may provide various location-based services based on the content item tagged with the location information.
US10117040B2	Audio system and method of extracting indoor reflection characteristics An audio system and method of extracting indoor reflection characteristics, the method including generating a detection signal based on an input signal and a modulation code, outputting a sound signal generated based on the detection signal through a plurality of speakers, measuring sound signals output through the plurality of speakers, or sound signals reflected by a wall of a space in which the plurality of speakers is installed, and extracting reflection characteristics of the space based on the measured sound signals and the modulation code, is disclosed.
US10117035B2	Active output driver supply compensation for noise reduction An electronic system, in some embodiments, comprises: a power source; a load coupled to the power source; an analog-to-digital converter, coupled to the power source and the load, that samples a fluctuating voltage supplied by the power source and generates a digital representation of said fluctuating voltage; control logic, coupled to the analog-to-digital converter, that generates an amplitude correction signal based on said digital representation of the fluctuating voltage and on a target voltage; correction logic, coupled to the control logic, that uses the amplitude correction signal and an audio signal to generate a switch control signal; and an output driver, coupled to the correction logic, that controls coupling between the power source and the load based on the switch control signal.
US10117032B2	Hearing aid system, method, and recording medium A hearing aid method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a cognitive state analysis circuit configured to analyze a cognitive state of a user, a context analysis circuit configured to analyze a context of the user, and an audio characteristic controller configures to control an audio characteristic of a hearing aid based on a joint assessment of the cognitive state of the user and the context of the user.
US10117029B2	Method of operating a hearing aid system and a hearing aid system A method of operating a hearing aid system with virtually zero delay and phase distortion. The invention also provides a hearing aid system (100) adapted for carrying out such a method.
US10117026B2	Bone conduction speaker and compound vibration device thereof The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US10117023B2	Audio enhancement A signal processing module is configured to receive left and right channels of stereo input audio data and generate first and second channels of output audio data for first and second loudspeakers where the first and second loudspeakers have different frequency responses to one another. The signal processing module comprises an impulse emphasis block configured to emphasize impulsive sounds in the received audio in at least one of the first and second channels of output audio data.
US10117020B2	Systems and methods for restoring microelectromechanical system transducer operation following plosive event A system may include control circuitry for detecting a plosive event associated with a microphone transducer and in response to the plosive event, causing restoration of acoustic sense operation of the microphone transducer and a processing circuit associated with the microphone transducer. A system for configuring a filter having at least two frequency response configurations to achieve an effective frequency response configuration intermediate to the at least two frequency response configurations may include control circuitry for rapidly switching between the at least two frequency response configurations such that a weighted average frequency response of the filter corresponds to the effective frequency response configuration.
US10117015B2	Earphones optimized for users with small ear anatomy An earphone audio device includes a housing, a speaker component, and a step-styled tip wherein the tip comprises a mid-section and a leading-section, the leading section having a smaller radial profile than the mid-section, and the speaker component is at least partially disposed within the aperture formed by the interior wall of the mid-section. In some embodiments, the speaker component may be entirely disposed within the mid-section such that no part of the speaker component extends toward the housing of the earphone beyond the aperture formed by the mid-section.
US10117014B2	Power control for battery powered personal area network device system and method A system and method for managing wireless earpieces. Circuitry of the wireless earpieces are powered utilizing a high power mode in response to detecting a magnetic field is not applied to one or more of the wireless earpieces. The power sent to the circuitry of the wireless earpieces is altered to a low power mode in response to detecting the magnetic field is applied to one or more of the wireless earpieces.
US10117011B2	Adjustable holder for a microphone accessory and method of use A holder for securing a microphone having a bracket extending along a bracket axis, a mounting bar extending along a mounting bar axis, the mounting bar having a platform extending from its end, a first fastener securing the mounting bar to the bracket, the first fastener being releasable such that the mounting bar is adjustable in a direction parallel to the bracket axis when the first fastener is released and the mounting bar is fixed relative to the bracket when the first fastener is secured, an arm extending along an arm axis, a second fastener securing an end of the arm to the platform, the second fastener being releasable such that the arm is rotatable when the second fastener is released and fixed relative to the platform when the second fastener is secured, a threaded post is disposed on the arm, which can mate with a microphone accessory.
US10117006B2	Hybrid fiber coaxial node Digital information can be carried on the fiber leg of an access network using binary modulation. Binary modulated data received at an O/E node can then be modulated onto an analog waveform using quadrature amplitude modulation or some other technique for modulating an analog waveform and transmitted over, for example, the coaxial leg of the network. The O/E node may also receive an analog signal, over the coaxial leg, modulated to carry upstream data from subscriber devices. The O/E node may demodulate the upstream signal to recover the upstream data and forward that upstream data over the fiber leg using a binary modulated optical signal.
US10116998B2	Internet protocol television streaming methods and apparatus A system, method, and apparatus for Internet Protocol television streaming are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a remote access point configured to receive television programming via a data feed from a television service provider. The remote access point is specifically assigned to an application operating on a client device. The apparatus also includes a connection controller configured to determine television programming received in the remote access point is to be transmitted to the specific application operating on the client device and transmit the encrypted television programming to the application via a secure communication channel. The apparatus also includes a management controller configured to provision a virtual local area network between the remote access point and the connection controller and provision the secure communication channel from the connection controller to the application operating on the client device.
US10116994B2	Methods and apparatus for providing parental or guardian control and visualization over communications to various devices in the home Methods and apparatus for providing a supervisor such as a parent or guardian with a way to monitor and control the delivery of content, e.g., video and audio programs, to users of devices within a home. Exemplary embodiments include methods and apparatus for operating a home network monitoring device located in a home including detecting delivery of content to one or more users in the home, storing, in the home, portions of content delivered to a first user, presenting some of the stored portions of content to a person responsible for setting content restrictions applicable to the first user, and subjecting further content delivery to the first user via the home network to restrictions established by the person responsible for setting content restrictions applicable to the first user. Some embodiments also detect and report potential attacks, e.g., cyber attacks, on the home network.
US10116993B2	Series reminders and series recording from an interactive television program guide An interactive television program guide system with program series reminder and recording capabilities is provided. The system allows a user to set a reminder or schedule a recording for a single episode or for each episode of a program series. In addition, other options may be provided that allow the user to determine, for example, whether to schedule reminders/recordings for episodes on all channels on which the program airs or only on a selected channels, whether to schedule reminders/recordings for all episodes including reruns or only new episodes, whether to schedule reminders/recordings for network or syndicated episodes, and whether to schedule reminders/recordings for episodes on all days or only on selected days of the week. Before the scheduled broadcast time of each episode of each selected program series, the system sends a reminder message to the user that reminds the user of the program episode or sends a record command to a videocassette recorder to initiate recording of the episode. The system allows a user to view a list of all currently requested program reminders and scheduled program recordings. The user may update, change, or cancel any entry in either list or the system may automatically update the lists to match new broadcast schedule information. If the user sets a reminder or schedules a recording that conflicts with an existing reminder or recording, the system may inform the user of the conflict and allow the user to resolve the conflict or the system may resolve the conflict.
US10116988B2	Signal transmission device and method for controlling same A signal transmission device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The signal transmission device comprises: a control unit for setting a state variable by using an application of the signal transmission device and for generating an event which can be used by an application of a companion device for a connection with the companion device; and a communication unit for transmitting the event to the companion device, wherein if a connection request signal is received from the companion device through the communication unit, the control unit registers an event for managing the connection with the companion device.
US10116984B2	Portable terminal, information processing apparatus, content display system and content display method A portable terminal includes a receiving unit which receives content information, an external device communication unit which conducts communication with an external information device, a display unit which displays the content information received by the receiving unit, an acquiring unit which acquires identification information identifying the content information displayed by the display unit, an operation unit which receives an operation indication from a user, and a control unit which conducts control such that if a transmission indication of the identification information is received by the operation unit while the content information is being displayed, the identification information acquired by the acquiring unit is transmitted to the external information device and the display of the content information by the display unit is terminated.
US10116973B2	Advanced data cell resource mapping An example method of mapping a plurality of modulation symbols of a plurality of physical layer pipes present in a frame to a resource grid of data cells for the frame is described. The modulation symbols of the plurality of physical layer pipes are represented by a two-dimensional array comprising the modulation symbol values for the plurality of physical layer pipes and the resource grid of data cells is represented by a one-dimensional sequentially indexed array.
US10116968B2	Arithmetic encoding-decoding method and codec for compression of video image block An arithmetic encoding-decoding method for compression of a video image block. The method includes an encoding process and a decoding process. The encoding process includes: 1) acquiring an information of an image block to be encoded; 2) extracting an encoding command of a weighted skip model; 3) acquiring an index of a reference frame according to the information of the image block to be encoded and the command of the weighted skip model, in which the reference frame includes a prediction block for reconstructing the image block to be encoded; 4) acquiring a context-based adaptive probability model for encoding; and 5) performing arithmetic encoding of the index of the reference frame and writing arithmetic codes into an arithmetically encoded bitstream according to the context-based adaptive probability model for encoding.
US10116967B2	Method and apparatus for coding of sample adaptive offset information A method and apparatus for Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) processing of video data in a video decoder are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving a block of processed-reconstructed pixels associated with a picture from a media or a processor, wherein the block of processed-reconstructed pixels are decoded from a video bitstream; determining a SAO type index from the video bitstream, wherein the SAO type index is decoded according to truncated unary binarization, the SAO type index is decoded using CABAC (context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding) with one context, or the SAO type index is decoded by CABAC using a context mode for a first bin associated with the SAO type index and using a bypass mode for any remaining bin associated with the SAO type index; and applying SAO processing to the block of processed-reconstructed pixels based on SAO information including the SAO type index.
US10116966B2	Image decoding device A hierarchical moving image decoding device (1) includes a profile information decoding unit (1221a) that decodes/configures sublayer profile information after decoding a sublayer profile present flag regarding respective sublayers, and a level information decoding unit (1221b) that decodes/configures sublayer level information.
US10116962B2	Image coding device, image decoding device, image coding method and image decoding method A generation circuit generates first palette information from a decoded image of a first block used for predicting second palette information of a second block in a coding target image when the first block has not received palette coding. A storage circuit stores the first palette information. A coding circuit performs prediction coding on the second palette information by using the first palette information so as to generate coded palette information.
US10116952B2	Bitstream decoding method and bitstream decoding circuit A stream decoding method is provided. The stream includes a plurality of frames. The method includes: obtaining a display order of a current frame that belongs to a group by parsing a header of the current frame; and determining whether to decode the current frame or to drop instead of decoding the current frame according to the display order of the current frame.
US10116949B2	Method and apparatus for encoding video signal and method and apparatus for decoding video signal Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video signal and a method and apparatus for decoding a video signal. The method of encoding the video signal includes: determining an optimum scaling bit depth of the video signal in consideration of a maximum bit number of an intermediate value obtained during transformation of the video signal and a maximum bit precision of the video signal; scaling the video signal according to a local shift value corresponding to a difference between the determined optimum scaling bit depth and an original bit depth of the video signal; and transforming the scaled video signal.
US10116944B2	Video encoding device, video encoding method, and program A video encoding device includes: first video encoding means for encoding an input image to generate first coded data; a buffer for storing the input image; coded data transcoding means for transcoding the first coded data generated by the first video encoding means, to generate second coded data; and second video encoding means for generating a prediction signal based on the second coded data supplied from the coded data transcoding means. The first video encoding means includes: dividing means for dividing the input image into a plurality of image areas; and at least one encoding means corresponding to the image areas each of which is made up of a plurality of blocks, and for performing encoding in units of blocks. The encoding means also encodes a block that is included in an image area adjacent with a dividing line in between and is located near the dividing line.
US10116942B2	Method and apparatus for decoding a video using an intra prediction A video decoding apparatus using an intra-prediction, performs a method including: reconstructing information on an intra-prediction mode of a current block to be decoded from a bitstream, wherein the current block is a square block; reconstructing transform block information from the bitstream and reconstructing transform coefficients corresponding to each of one or more transform blocks divided in a quad tree structure from the current block; and reconstructing the current block based on the information on the intra-prediction mode and the reconstructed transform coefficients of the transform blocks.
US10116933B2	Method of lossless mode signaling for video system with lossless and lossy coding A method of efficient lossless mode syntax signaling for a coding system supporting both lossless and lossy coding is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first syntax element is incorporated in a picture level to indicate whether to use a forced lossless coding mode if lossless coding is allowed for the current picture. If the first syntax indicates that the forced lossless coding mode is selected, all coding units in the slices of the picture are coded using lossless coding. If the first syntax indicates that the forced lossless coding mode is not selected, each coding unit in a slice of the picture can be coded according to a second syntax element indicating whether each coding unit is coded using lossless coding or not. In another embodiment, the forced lossless mode can be applied to coding units on a slice by slice basis.
US10116931B2	Hierarchical inter-layer prediction in multi-loop scalable video coding A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder to generate a scalable bitstream is provided that includes encoding the video sequence in a first layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a first sub-bitstream, encoding the video sequence in a second layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a second sub-bitstream, wherein portions of the video sequence being encoded in the second layer encoder are predicted using reference portions of the video sequence encoded in the first layer encoder, combining the first sub-bitstream and the second sub-bitstream in the scalable bitstream, and signaling an indication of a highest temporal level of the first sub-bitstream comprising at least one of the reference portions in the scalable bitstream.
US10116930B2	Icon-based home certification, in-home leakage testing, and antenna matching pad A method for determining the magnitude of leakage in a subscriber's premises CATV installation; a frequency multiplexer for coupling between an antenna and a receiver for the multiplexed frequencies; and, a method for a technician to certify a CATV subscriber's premises for the provision of CATV services are disclosed.
US10116928B2	Three-dimensional (3D) display screen and 3D display device A 3D display screen and a 3D display device are provided. The 3D display screen comprises a pixel array comprising m laterally displaced groups. The laterally displaced group includes n rows of sub-pixel units, the sub-pixel units in a same sub-pixel unit row are arranged in a first lateral direction, m is a positive integer larger than or equal to 1, and n is a positive integer larger than or equal to 2. The sub-pixel unit includes a plurality of light-shielding stripes, and two adjacent light-shielding stripes have a gap of P in the first lateral direction. Along the first lateral direction, the nth sub-pixel unit row has a lateral displacement of P with respect to the 1st sub-pixel unit row, the ith sub-pixel unit row has a lateral displacement of P/n with respect to the (i−1)th sub-pixel unit row, where i is a positive integer and 1
US10116927B2	Method for reproducing image information and autostereoscopic screen A method for reproducing image information on an autostereoscopic screen including a pixel matrix and an optical grid, in which a period length defined by a lateral offset of adjacent strip-shaped structures of the optical grid is greater by a certain factor than a lateral offset of directly adjacent columns of the pixel matrix. The method including the steps of assigning an angle value and a location coordinate value to each of the specified columns, for each of the columns, calculating an extract of an image by image synthesis, wherein this image is a parallel projection of a 3D scene to be reproduced having a projection direction corresponding to the angle value assigned to the respective column, and controlling the pixels of the pixel matrix in such a way that each of the columns has written into it the extract calculated for this column.
US10116922B2	Method and system for automatic 3-D image creation Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media that relate to stereoscopic image creation. A camera captures an initial image at an initial position. A target displacement from the initial position is determined for a desired stereoscopic effect, and an instruction is provided that specifies a direction in which to move the camera from the initial position. While the camera is in motion, an estimated displacement from the initial position is calculated. When the estimated displacement corresponds to the target displacement, the camera automatically captures a candidate image. An acceptability analysis is performed to determine whether the candidate image has acceptable image quality and acceptable similarity to the initial image. If the candidate image passes the acceptability analysis, a stereoscopic image is created based on the initial and candidate images.
US10116921B2	Method for providing a multimedia message service The disclosure relates to a method for providing a multimedia message service from a server or relay to a user agent in a multimedia network, the method comprising: determining a video content characteristic of a video content by the server or relay; determining display and/or decoding capabilities of the user agent; signaling options of the video content to the user agent; and providing the video content depending on the display and/or decoding capabilities and depending on an option selected via the user agent from the signaled options of the video content.
US10116920B2	Balancing colors in a scanned three-dimensional image A method of balancing colors of three-dimensional (3D) points measured by a scanner from a first location and a second location. The scanner measures 3D coordinates and colors of first object points from a first location and second object points from a second location. The scene is divided into local neighborhoods, each containing at least a first object point and a second object point. An adapted second color is determined for each second object point based at least in part on the colors of first object points in the local neighborhood.
US10116917B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium In filter processing of a disparity map and a depth map, a disparity estimation accuracy is improved while maintaining the edge of a subject. An image processing apparatus that corrects a depth image representing information about a depth to a subject in a scene, which is the same scene of a plurality of images obtained by photographing the same subject from different viewpoints. The image processing apparatus includes: an evaluation value derivation unit configured to derive a matching evaluation value between the plurality of images; a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight in the correction based on the evaluation value; and a correction unit configured to correct a pixel value in the depth image by using the weight.
US10116916B2	Method for data reuse and applications to spatio-temporal supersampling and de-noising A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for image processing to reduce aliasing using a temporal anti-aliasing algorithm modified to implement variance clipping. The method includes the step of generating a current frame of image data in a memory. Then, each pixel in the current frame of image data is processed by: sampling a resolved pixel color for a corresponding pixel in a previous frame of image data stored in the memory, adjusting the resolved pixel color based on a statistical distribution of color values for a plurality of samples in the neighborhood of the pixel in the current frame of image data to generate an adjusted pixel color, and blending a color value for the pixel in the current frame of image data with the adjusted pixel color to generate a resolved pixel color for the pixel in the current frame of image data.
US10116909B2	Detecting a vertical cut in a video signal for the purpose of time alteration A circuit and method for detecting a vertical cut in a sequence of digital video images. Each pixel of a video frame is filtered then compared to a filter threshold. If the threshold is met, a current pixel bit is set as active. A delayed pixel bit is generated from the current pixel bit, and a changed pixel bit is generated if either but not both of the current pixel bit and the delayed pixel bit is active. Active pixels are counted. The count of active pixels in the current image and the count of active pixels in the delayed image are used to weight the active pixel count of the changed image. The counts are used to determine a change value for the current image. The change value may be a large positive value, a large negative value, or neither. A predefined pattern of the change values over a sequence of frames indicates a vertical cut in the sequence.
US10116903B2	Apparatus and method for recognition of suspicious activities A medication confirmation method and apparatus. The method of an embodiment of the invention includes the steps of capturing one or more video sequences of a user administering medication by a video capture device, storing the captured one or more video sequences to a non-transitory memory, and analyzing at least one of the stored video sequences to determine one or more indications of suspicious activity on behalf of the user.
US10116902B2	Program segmentation of linear transmission Content streams may be segmented to provide automatic extraction and storage of content items without intervening commercials or other unrelated content. These content items may then be stored in a database and made accessible to subscribers through, for example, an on-demand service. Automatic segmentation may include the identification of program boundaries, segmentation of a content stream based on the boundaries and the subsequent classification of the segments into content types. For example, audio and video duplication detection may be used to identify commercials since commercials tend to repeat frequently over a relatively short amount of time. A system may further identify an end of program indicator in a video stream to determine when a program ends. Accordingly, if a program ends after a scheduled end time, a recording device (e.g., the program is being recorded) may automatically extend the recording time to capture the entire program.
US10116896B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus includes a first signal transmission device provided with a first video cable configured to selectively transmit a first image signal transmitted by a first method and a second image signal transmitted by a second method, an audio cable configured to transmit a sound signal, and a first output connector connected to the first video cable and the audio cable; a second signal transmission device provided with a second video cable configured to transmit a third image signal transmitted by the second method, and a second output connector connected to the second video cable.
US10116894B2	Retail outlet TV feature display system An automatic feature demonstration mode for TV products that can be used in retail stores. TV features that otherwise would be overlooked by customers or misrepresented by the sales staff are advertised on the TV itself. The system may be used to convey information beyond TV features.
US10116888B2	Efficient method and system for the acquisition of scene imagery and iris imagery using a single sensor The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for capturing images of an iris and a scene using a single image sensor. An image sensor may capture a view of a scene and a view of an iris in at least one image. An image processing module may apply a level of noise reduction to a first portion of the at least one image to produce an image of the scene. The image processing module may apply a reduced level of noise reduction to a second portion of the at least one image to produce an image of the iris for use in biometric identification.
US10116884B2	Systems and approaches for thermal imaging A thermal imaging system includes a thermal imaging sensor adapted to capture any number of thermal images of any number of assets in an environment, a non-thermal imaging sensor coupled to the thermal sensor and being adapted to capture any number of non-thermal images of the assets, an asset identification system adapted to identify a particular asset from the assets, an image alignment system, and a controller adapted to control operation of the thermal imaging sensor, the non-thermal imaging sensor, the asset identification system, and the image alignment system. Upon identifying the particular asset via the asset identification system, the controller is adapted to control the image alignment system to adjust an orientation of the thermal image and the non-thermal image and cause the thermal imaging sensor and the non-thermal imaging sensor to capture the image.
US10116883B2	System and methods for depth imaging using conventional CCD image sensors Systems and methods for providing depth imaging using a CCD image sensor. In a method for visual imaging and depth imaging, steps include providing a CCD image sensor device arranged to receive light from an optical lens and having an array of pixels and corresponding pixel charge storage elements; providing a light source for transmitting light pulses responsive to a pulse control signal; providing timing signals to configure the CCD image sensor to collect and store charge from the pixel storage elements; and performing a depth calculation using a background charge, a reflected charge, and a depth charge collected in three frame periods for each pixel in the CCD image sensor. A system including a CCD image sensor for use with the embodiments is disclosed. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10116873B1	System and method to adjust the field of view displayed on an electronic mirror using real-time, physical cues from the driver in a vehicle An apparatus comprising a first sensor, a second sensor and a processor. The first sensor may be configured to generate a first video signal based on a targeted view from a vehicle. The second sensor may be configured to generate a second video signal based on a targeted view of a driver. The processor may be configured to (A) receive the first video signal, (B) receive the second video signal, (C) determine a field of view to present to the driver, (D) generate a third video signal and (E) present the third video signal to a display showing the field of view. The field of view is determined based on (i) a body position of the driver extracted from the second video signal and (ii) the first video signal.
US10116871B2	Tunnel lining surface inspection system and vehicle used for tunnel lining surface inspection system The invention is aimed that the soundness (degree of deterioration) of a tunnel can be inspected according to each span. The image synthesis processing is performed to obtain the image showing both sides of the tunnel lining surface according to the each span of the tunnel lining surface, by comparing the first image photographied by the photography means, showing one side face in both side faces of the tunnel lining surface, while the photography means is fixed to the first photography position, and the second image photographied by the photography means, showing the other side face in both side faces of the tunnel lining surface, while the photography means is fixed to the second photography position, and indicating the portions forming the identical span of the tunnel lining surface.
US10116862B2	Imaging apparatus An image generation apparatus and method includes a first imaging circuit that acquires first image data, a second imaging circuit that acquires second image data, a control circuit that searches a region corresponding to the first image data from the second image data, a designating circuit that limits a region in the second image data corresponding to the first image data by a touch operation designating a limited region in the second image data corresponding to the first image data, and a communication circuit that is provided in the second imaging circuit, transmits, upon receipt of an information acquiring operation, information obtained by analyzing the limited region or the corresponding region in the second image data to a server, and receives information relating to the first image data from the server.
US10116858B2	Imaging apparatus, control method thereof, program, and recording medium At least one embodiment of an imaging apparatus has: an imaging plane capable of being curved; an evaluation unit that determines an evaluation value indicating a degree of in-focus of an image signal from the imaging element; an adjustment unit adjusting a position of the focus adjustment lens to a position with the highest evaluation value; and a control unit that controls the curvature of the imaging plane for correcting an image plane curve in the optical system and for bringing the image signal into focus. When the adjustment unit adjusts the position of the focus adjustment lens to an end portion of the movable area, the curvature of the imaging plane is controlled for bringing the image signal into focus on a priority basis.
US10116855B2	Autofocus method for microscope and microscope comprising autofocus device A microscope including an objective having a focal plane in a sample space, and an autofocus device comprising a light modulator for generating a luminous modulation object that is intensity-modulated periodically along one direction, an autofocus illumination optical unit that images the modulation object such that its image arises in the sample space, an autofocus camera, an autofocus imaging optical unit that images the image of the modulation object in the sample space onto the autofocus camera, a control device, which receives signals of the autofocus camera and determines an intensity distribution of the image of the modulation object and generates a focus control signal therefrom. The control device determines an intensity distribution of the image of a luminous comparison object imaged by the optical unit to correct the intensity distribution of the image of the modulation object with regard to reflectivity variations in the sample space.
US10116853B2	Integrated sensor and lens assembly with differential threads adjustment An integrated image sensor and lens assembly comprises a lens barrel, an adapter tube, and a lens mount. The lens mount includes a first thread having a first pitch and the tube adapter comprises a second thread reciprocal to the first thread. The first and second threads secure the tube adapter within the lens mount. The tube adapter further comprises a third thread having a second pitch different than the first pitch, and the lens barrel comprises a fourth thread reciprocal to the third thread. The third and fourth threads secure the lens barrel within the tube adapter. A rotation of the tube adapter with respect to the lens barrel and the lens mount causes linear movement of the lens barrel and the lens mount with respect to the tube adapter in a same direction along the optical axis.
US10116851B2	Optimized video denoising for heterogeneous multisensor system The description relates in particular to a method for temporal denoising of image sequences with the aid of at least two sensors of different types. The description also relates to an optronics device, a computer program and a storage medium for the implementation of such a method.
US10116847B2	Imaging unit and imaging apparatus The imaging apparatus of the present invention includes a main body, first camera fixedly arranged on the main body, an opening-closing unit provided rotatably with respect to the main body via a first hinge unit, a second camera mounted on the opposite side of the opening-closing unit from the first hinge unit, and a second hinge unit for rotatably supporting the imaging direction of the second camera. A body surface of the second camera is uneven, and the rotation direction of the first hinge unit and the rotation direction of the second hinge unit are the same rotation direction at the time of starting shooting with the second camera.
US10116845B2	Imaging device An imaging device includes an imaging unit having an imaging part, and a holder to hold the imaging part at one end; a housing including a recess part in a first surface to house the imaging unit; and a hinge device having a hinge member housed in the recess part pivotally coupled to the housing around an axle extending in parallel with the first surface. The imaging unit pivots around the axle via the hinge device between a housing position and a projecting position of the imaging unit. The imaging part includes a rectangular imaging element, a lens introducing external light into the imaging element, and a lens hood at an outer periphery of the lens. The lens hood projects from the lens surface by a distance allowing the imaging part to introduce necessary light from the lens into the imaging element and block unnecessary light.
US10116844B2	Camera module having base with mental substrate, conductive layers and insulation layers A camera module is provided, including a lens driving mechanism, a lens unit, a circuit board, and an image sensor. The lens unit is disposed on the lens driving mechanism. The image sensor is disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board includes a metal member, an insulation layer, and a metal wire. The insulation layer is disposed between the metal member and the metal wire, and the metal wire is electrically connected to the image sensor. The lens driving module can drive the lens unit to move relative to the image sensor. The image sensor can catch the light through the lens unit.
US10116841B2	Relation to underwater imaging for underwater surveys The present invention relates to methods and systems for performing underwater surveys, in particular on sub-sea installations such as oil and gas pipelines, risers, well-heads and so on. Further the invention relates to providing an augmented underwater image of a scene for use in an under-water survey, using an underwater imaging system comprising a light module, image processing module and a camera module, the light module comprising a plurality of light classes each light class having one or more light sources. The invention uses sequential imaging to provide the augmented output image.
US10116831B2	Management server configured to extract information indicating an availability of an identified image forming apparatus, information processing method, system and recording medium An information processing system includes: an authenticating unit configured to perform an authenticating process based on information on a user of at least one image forming apparatus, the information being transmitted from an information processing apparatus to a server, and identify the at least one image forming apparatus; an extracting unit configured to extract device information including information on availability of the identified at least one image forming apparatus and history information on the identified at least one image forming apparatus; an information output unit configured to output the device information on the identified at least one image forming apparatus to the information processing apparatus; and a display processing unit configured to display the device information transmitted from the information output unit on a display unit.
US10116823B2	Cleaning device that removes toner and paper powder, and image forming apparatus A cleaning device includes a removal roller, a collecting roller, a blade, and a toner storage section. The removal roller and the collecting roller do not have relationship such that a rotation speed or a diameter of one of the removal roller and the collecting roller is an integral multiple of a rotation speed or a diameter of the other removal roller and collecting roller. A first outer circumferential region having a first surface roughness and extending in an axial direction of a second rotary shaft and a second outer circumferential region having a greater second surface roughness than the first surface roughness and extending in the axial direction of the second rotary shaft are provided on an outer circumferential surface of the collecting roller in a circumferential direction thereof. A width of the second outer circumferential region is smaller than a width of the first outer circumferential region.
US10116820B2	Image forming apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium An image forming apparatus to function as an input unit configured to input image data, a printing unit configured to print an image based on the image data input by the input unit, a control unit configured to perform control to, if the image forming apparatus operates in a first mode, print by the printing unit an image generated from the image data input by the input unit, and if the image forming apparatus operates in a second mode, print by the printing unit an image obtained by adding a predetermined pattern image to the image generated from the image data input by the input unit, and an accepting unit configured to, if the image forming apparatus operates in the second mode, accept selection regarding whether to perform printing in the second mode in response to operation performed to start printing the image.
US10116805B2	Apparatuses and methods for determining usage of a wireless communication service An apparatus includes means for accessing a communication service via a wireless network and for sending a first message and a second message via the wireless network. The apparatus also includes means for displaying a user interface and means for receiving a first selection and a second selection responsive to the user interface. The first and second selections respectively indicate work and personal billing accounts. The first message is associated with first usage profile-related information indicating work usage of the communication service that is to be billed to the work billing account. The second message is associated with second usage profile-related information indicating personal usage of the communication service that is to be billed to the personal billing account.
US10116802B2	IP carrier peering Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method and system to interconnect a first communications carrier to a second communications carrier by receiving a request to connect a communication from a first carrier to a second carrier; modifying a private ENUM (tElephone NUmber Mapping) domain of the request to include an intercarrier ENUM apex based domain; retrieving a routing record using a domain name server (DNS) indicated by the intercarrier ENUM apex based domain; and routing the communication to the second carrier using the routing record. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10116800B1	Techniques for behavioral pairing in a contact center system Techniques for behavioral pairing in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for behavioral pairing in a contact center system comprising: determining, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to and configured to operate in the contact center system, a plurality of agents available for connection to a contact; determining, by the at least one computer processor, a plurality of preferred contact-agent pairings among possible pairings between the contact and the plurality of agents; selecting, by the at least one computer processor, one of the plurality of preferred contact-agent pairings according to a probabilistic model; and outputting, by the at least one computer processor, the selected one of the plurality of preferred contact-agent pairings for connection in the contact center system.
US10116799B2	Enhancing work force management with speech analytics A method for generating an agent work schedule includes: analyzing, on a processor, a plurality of recorded interactions with a plurality of contact center agents to classify the recorded interactions based on a first plurality of interaction reasons and a plurality interaction resolution statuses; analyzing, on the processor, the classified recorded interactions to compute agent effectiveness of an agent of the plurality of agents, wherein the agent effectiveness corresponds to an interaction reason of the first interaction reasons; forecasting, on the processor, a demand of the contact center agents for a first time period for handling interactions classified with the interaction reason; and generating, on the processor, the agent work schedule for the first time period based on the forecasted demand and the computed agent effectiveness.
US10116796B2	Real-time communications-based internet advertising Provided are methods, systems, and media for Internet Advertising. Exemplary methods may include: providing an advertisement including a first identifier to a website using at least one of a template and an application programming interface (API), the advertisement to be displayed on the website; receiving a communications session initiated by an end customer using the first identifier, the communications session including a second identifier associated with the end customer; accepting the communications session when the second identifier is not included in a black list; retrieving a record associated with the end customer using the second identifier; determining to provide a promotional message to the end customer using the record; selecting an offer using the record; providing the promotional message to the end customer using the communications session, the promotional message including the offer and a request for an indication of interest.
US10116795B1	Techniques for estimating expected performance in a task assignment system Techniques for estimating expected performance of a task assignment strategy in a task assignment system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method comprising receiving, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to a task assignment system, a plurality of historical agent task assignments; determining, by the at least one computer processor, a sample of the plurality based on a strategy for pairing agents with tasks; determining, by the at least one computer processor, an expected performance of the strategy based on the sample; outputting, by the at least one computer processor, the expected performance; and optimizing, by the at least one computer processor, the performance of the task assignment system based on the expected performance.
US10116794B2	Determining an active station based on movement data Methods for determining an active station based on sensor data are provided. In one example, a method includes the steps of receiving movement data and determining a pattern of movement associated with a contact center station based at least in part on the movement data. An active contact center station is updated based on the pattern of movement.
US10116788B2	Detecting notable events and annotating multimedia data based on the notable events A user device, such as a smart phone, may capture sensor data or interface with a wearable device, such as a smart watch, or another user device to capture sensor data related to the capture of multimedia content. The sensor data may relate to a user, other people, and/or an associated environment. The sensor data may be processed to detect notable events based on a sensor value having a value or being within a range of values associated with the notable event. When a notable event is detected, the multimedia content may be annotated or modified based on the notable event. For example, the multimedia content may be modified to identify the notable event and/or present sensor data captured in connection with the notable event. A user interface may be presented to enable a user to identify instances of notable events and exchange sensor data.
US10116784B2	Camera capable of communicating with other communication device A cellular phone is capable of telephone-calling with an external device, and includes an antenna by which to communicate with the external device; a lens; an image sensor that outputs an image signal; a display; a loudspeaker; and a processer. The processor controls the display to display an announcement of an incoming call from the external device after receiving a calling signal via the antenna, and in a case that the calling signal is received during operation of the image sensor in a moving image mode, the processor permits communication between the cellular phone and the external device via the antenna and using the loudspeaker and a microphone of the cellular phone after the announcement of the incoming call is displayed by the display and after the processor receives an instruction from an input device of the cellular phone to allow starting of the telephone-calling with the external device.
US10116764B1	Method for state based snapshot difference with restart capability A data management device includes a buffer and a processor. The processor may select an unprocessed full key and generate a buffer entry based on a difference between an entry of a local snapshot specified by the unprocessed full key and an entry of a previous local snapshot specified by the unprocessed full key. The processor may make a first determination that a lookup key entry associated with the unprocessed full key is different than a lookup key entry associated with a processed full key. The process may add the generated buffer entry to the buffer after processing the buffer in response to the first determination.
US10116760B2	Active data push system and active data push method An active data push system comprising a plurality of human-detection devices and a management system is presented. The human-detection devices respectively send a trigger signal when detecting a human entrance into one of a plurality of zones. The management system recognizes the zone detected with the human entrance when receiving the trigger signal, and retrieves a basic data of each electronic device installed in the recognized zone, and transmits the retrieved basic data to a mobile device held by the human.
US10116755B2	Apparatus and method for providing social network service A method of providing a service includes receiving, from a user terminal, a first request to search for a service provider, a second request to display a newsfeed screen, or a third request to display a home screen; and providing a result corresponding to the received first, second, or third request. When the first request is received, providing of the result corresponding to the received first request includes providing a list of service providers searched for according to the first request such that a service provider recommended by more friends is set to have a higher exposure priority on the list. The friends correspond to other user accounts designated to have a first relation with a first user account which is the user's account.
US10116753B2	System and method for supporting data communication in a heterogeneous environment System and method can support data communication in a heterogeneous environment. The system can establish a connection between a first device and a second device, wherein the connection is based on a protocol, which associates a host mode or an accessory mode with one or more connected devices. Furthermore, a controller on the first device can determine a device type associated with the second device, and can configure the first device to be in either the host mode or the accessory mode, based on the determined device type associated with the second device, to handle data communication between the first device and the second device.
US10116742B2	Scalable approach to manage storage volumes across heterogenous cloud systems There is provided a method for managing heterogeneous cloud data storage systems across heterogeneous cloud computing systems. The method comprises: defining rules that govern storing of data in one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous cloud data storage systems; receiving complete data from a user's computer; splitting the complete data; and storing the split data according to the defined rules into the plurality of heterogeneous cloud data storage systems.
US10116728B2	System and method for transferring data using a directional touch gesture A method for transferring files between information handling systems is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at an information handling system, a selection of a file, requesting, by the information handling system, nearby information handling systems in response to the selection of the file, and receiving coordinate information and contact information for the nearby information handling system from a server. The method also includes calculating a sector of a room based on the coordinate information for the nearby information handling systems and information about the information handling system, receiving a pass file indicator, and in response to the pass file indicator being aligned with the sector, sending the file to an identified information handling system of the sector.
US10116723B2	Campus content distribution systems and methods A predetermined set of channels from a satellite broadcast are received and tuned in parallel at a head end module of a local area network, which potentially serves a large number of users with electronic devices via multiple wired and/or wireless access points, such as at a college campus or a business center. Each channel of content is transcoded into multiple content streams providing multiple bit-rate options for each channel of content, e.g., using HTTP Adaptive Streaming protocols and/or Scalable Video Coding. The transcoded content streams are packetized and transmitted with respective multicast IP addresses to the access points on the local area network. Electronic devices connected to an access point are able to stream content from any one of the predetermined set of channels by joining one or more corresponding multicasts.
US10116717B2	Playlist compilation system and method A method, computer program product and client electronic device for storing, in a memory of a client electronic device, a location of at least one remote media data file available to stream from a server device. A location of at least one local media data file available on the client electronic device is stored in the memory of the client electronic device. A playlist is compiled that defines the location of the at least one remote media data file and the location of the at least one local media data file. The at least one local media data file and the at least one remote media data file in the playlist are rendered and metadata concerning the at least one local media data file rendered is transmitted to the server device.
US10116715B2	Adapting encoded bandwidth A method comprising: conducting a communication session between a first terminal and a second terminal, the session comprising transmitting an encoded bitstream from an encoder of the first terminal over a channel to the second terminal; measuring a bandwidth capacity experienced over the channel at multiple different times, thereby collecting a history of bandwidth measurements for the channel; based on the history of bandwidth measurements, obtaining at least a selected upper bandwidth constraint for the encoded bitstream; and during the session, dynamically adapting an encoded bandwidth with which to encode the bitstream, by dynamically selecting the encoded bandwidth based on one or more current conditions of the channel, but constrained by at least said upper bandwidth constraint.
US10116712B2	Quality of experience based queue management for routers for real-time video applications Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for managing real-time traffic video flows. A node may comprise a processor configured to receive a first real-time video traffic flow. A state variable may be associated with the first real-time video traffic flow at the node and a state variable may be associated with the second real-time video traffic flow at the node. The first real-time video traffic flow may comprises plurality of packets and each packet may comprise a lost packet indicator. The node may be configured to drop a first packet in the first real-time video traffic flow, update the state variable associated with the first real-time video traffic flow at the node to indicate the dropped packet, and update the lost packet indicator for a second packet in the first real-time video traffic flow based on the dropped packet.
US10116699B1	Systems and methods for network security Enhanced electronic security systems and methods are provided. A whitelist, blacklist, or both of resource access sources that are allowed to use a particular resource access account are obtained. Upon detecting an access attempt to a particular resource on a computer network, a source of the access attempt and a resource access account used in the access attempt is identified. The whitelist, blacklist, or both are referenced to determine if the source of the access attempt is allowed to use the resource access account used in the access attempt. When the source of the access attempt is not allowed to use the resource access account used in the access attempt, one or more mitigation tasks may be performed.
US10116696B2	Network privilege manager for a dynamically programmable computer network A network security policy may be implemented at network switches as a set of active packet disposition directives. In a dynamically programmable network, the network switches can be dynamically reprogrammed with new packet disposition directives. An event auditor passively monitors network traffic and provides network activity data indicative of network flows to a network privilege manager. The network privilege manager determines a current network context based on the network activity data. In response to the current network context, the network privilege manager selects a security policy and generates one or more flow policy directives in accordance with the selected policy.
US10116695B1	Systems and methods for verifying that operators are human based on operator gaze The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying that operators are human based on operator gaze may include (1) presenting an image to a user of the computing device via a display element of the computing device, (2) tracking the user's gaze as the image is presented to the user, (3) determining, based on an analysis of the user's gaze, that one or more patterns of the user's gaze are consistent with one or more human gaze patterns, and (4) classifying the user as a human in response to determining that the one or more patterns of the user's gaze are consistent with one or more human gaze patterns. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10116693B1	Server using proof-of-work technique for hardening against denial of service attacks A computerized device and a process protect against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by using a memory-time hard problem that a client (e.g., IoT device or mobile app) solves as part of a request such as an initial registration process. The process may use parameters obtained from a public source of randomness. The problem is designed such that all memory allocated for the algorithm is used in a random manner, making it difficult for attackers to use FPGA/ASIC approaches. The client provides a proof-of-work (PoW) value to a server, which performs a more directed version of the calculation done by the client to confirm that the PoW value is correct. When confirmation is not obtained, the server can refrain from further processing of the client request, thwarting DoS attacks.
US10116682B2	System and method for evaluating and enhancing the security level of a network system Examples described herein provide for a system that evaluates a security level of a network system. Additionally, examples described herein evaluate a security level of a network system in order to enable a determination of components that can be used to enhance the security level of the network system.
US10116670B2	Event specific relationship graph generation and application in a machine data processing platform A security platform employs a variety techniques and mechanisms to detect security related anomalies and threats in a computer network environment. The security platform is “big data” driven and employs machine learning to perform security analytics. The security platform performs user/entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) to detect the security related anomalies and threats, regardless of whether such anomalies/threats were previously known. The security platform can include both real-time and batch paths/modes for detecting anomalies and threats. By visually presenting analytical results scored with risk ratings and supporting evidence, the security platform enables network security administrators to respond to a detected anomaly or threat, and to take action promptly.
US10116663B2	Identity proxy to provide access control and single sign on Techniques to provide secure access to a cloud-based service are disclosed. In various embodiments, a request is received from a client app on a device to connect to a security proxy associated with the cloud-based service. A secure tunnel connection between the device and a node with which the security proxy is associated is used to establish the requested connection to the security proxy. Information associated with the secure tunnel is used to determine that the requesting client app is authorized to access the cloud-based service from the device and to obtain from an identity provider associated with the cloud-based service a security token to be used by the client app to authenticate to the cloud-based service.
US10116655B2	Hybrid data managed lock system A residential key may be programmed by a computer with access rights information. A lock device may receive the access rights information from the residential key. The lock device may store and utilize the access rights information if the lock determines that the residential key is authorized to update the lock device.
US10116640B2	Image processing system, image processing device, and authentication method An image processing system includes: a first image processing device including: an input unit that receives an input of first authentication information for authenticating a user based on a first authentication method; an authentication unit that performs authentication on an own device by using the first authentication information; and a cooperating unit that uses a function of one or more second image processing devices. The authentication unit transmits, when the cooperating unit is to be operated, the first authentication information to the one or more second image processing devices, and transmits, when authentication to a second image processing device based on the first authentication information has failed, a transmission request of authentication method information indicating a second authentication method of the second image processing device to the second image processing device, the authentication to which based on the first authentication information has failed.
US10116636B2	Apparatus and method for secure transmission avoiding duplicate data A first communication device determines whether an encryption key is stored in a first memory in association with an identifier of data requested to transmit, and transmits the identifier of data requested to transmit and the encryption key associated therewith to a second communication device, when it is determined that the encryption key is stored in the first memory in association with the identifier of data requested to transmit. The second communication device determines whether encrypted data is stored in a second memory in association with the identifier contained in data received from the first communication device, decodes, when it is determined that the encrypted data is stored in the second memory in association with the identifier contained in the received data, the encrypted data with the encryption key contained in the received data, and outputs the decoded data.
US10116629B2	Systems and methods for obfuscation of data via an aggregation of cloud storage services The present disclosure describes systems and methods for aggregation and management of cloud storage among a plurality of providers via file fragmenting to provide increased reliability and security. In one implementation, fragments or blocks may be distributed among a plurality of cloud storage providers, such that no provider retains a complete copy of a file. Accordingly, even if an individual service is compromised, a malicious actor cannot access the data. In another implementation, file fragmenting may be performed in a non-standard method such that file headers and metadata are divided across separate fragments, obfuscating the original file metadata.
US10116626B2	Cloud based logging service Methods and systems are provided for facilitating access to a cloud-based logging service. According to one embodiment, access to a cloud-based logging service is integrated within a network security appliance by automatically configuring access settings for the logging service and creating an account for the security appliance with the logging service. A log is created within the logging service by making use of the automatically configured access settings and the account. A request is received by the security appliance to access data associated with the log. Responsive thereto and without requiring separate registration of a network administrator with the cloud-based logging service, the data is retrieved by the security appliance from the logging service and is presented via a graphical user interface of the security appliance.
US10116625B2	Systems and methods for secure containerization A method for provisioning a secure container for running an application includes routing traffic between the application and a secure container service over a virtual private network, and restricting the flow of traffic to or from the application other than traffic to or from the secure container service. The method further includes providing limited name resolution for the secure container with a customized domain name system server, establishing network proxy services to filter and route approved inbound traffic to the application, and establishing outbound network proxy services to filter and route approved outbound traffic from the application.
US10116621B2	Method and system for messaging security An e-mail firewall applies policies to e-mail messages transmitted between a first site and a plurality of second sites. The e-mail firewall includes a plurality of mail transfer relay modules for transferring e-mail messages between the first site and one of the second sites. Policy managers are used to enforce and administer selectable policies. The policies are used to determine security procedures for the transmission and reception of e-mail messages. The e-mail firewall employs signature verification processes to verify signatures in received encrypted e-mail messages. The e-mail firewall is further adapted to employ external servers for verifying signatures. External servers are also used to retrieve data that is employed to encrypt and decrypt e-mail messages received and transmitted by the e-mail firewall, respectively.
US10116608B2	Email deal alerter through data scraping Systems and methods for alerting a user of deal emails are provided. Emails that contain deals are analyzed to determine which emails will be expiring soon and are of interest to a user. Deal alerts containing hyperlinks to relevant deal emails are sent to the user, and the user can view the deals by clicking on the hyperlinks. If the user decides to delete the deal alert, the deal email is deleted from the user's inbox as well.
US10116599B2	Topic categorized instant message communication Techniques are presented for defining, for an online conference session, a plurality of pages, which may be preconfigured, based on information received from a moderating participant having administrative privileges for the conference session, each page corresponding to a discussion topic of a text-based conversation. A request is received from the moderating participant to select one of the plurality of pages. After a page has been selected, the selected page is synchronized such that the selected page is displayed to the moderating participant and each of the one or more other participants, and subsequent text-based communications are displayed in the display area of the selected page.
US10116592B2	Connecting network deployment units Efficient and highly-scalable network solutions are provided that each utilize deployment units based on Clos networks, but in an environment such as a data center of Internet Protocol-based network. Each of the deployment units can include multiple stages of devices, where connections between devices are only made between stages and the deployment units are highly connected. In some embodiments, the level of connectivity between two stages can be reduced, providing available connections to add edge switches and additional host connections while keeping the same number of between-tier connections. In some embodiments, where deployment units (or other network groups) can be used at different levels to connect other deployment units, the edges of the deployment units can be fused to reduce the number of devices per host connection.
US10116590B2	Network virtualization and resource allocation for the internet of things A system and method for network virtualization and resource allocation, including storing one or more received network requests in a request table, and updating at least one of a flow table, a waiting list table, or a candidate group map based on the one or more received network requests. The updating includes monitoring a transmission progress of each of one or more flows in a network of interconnected computing devices and moving completed flows from the flow table to a success list, moving requests in the waiting list table which have reached an attempt threshold from the flow table to a fail list, and compiling any residual requests in the waiting list with new requests to generate a new request table. A deterministic request allocation and/or an optimizing request allocation is performed based on the new request table.
US10116587B2	Electronic distribution of applications having multiple service levels Techniques for electronic distribution of software applications to users and devices belonging to a single network domain, wherein such applications are configurable to provide multiple service levels. In an aspect, a first service level is provided to users and/or devices sharing the same network domain. Upon request by an admin of the network domain, an application control server verifies the admin's control of the domain, as well as fulfillment of conditions for accessing a second service level. Upon verification of control and fulfillment, the application control server allows access by the admin to an admin portal. The application control server further reassigns the service level of users and/or devices sharing the network domain from the first service level to the second service level.
US10116578B2	Techniques for optimizing wireless wide area network-wireless local area network aggregation Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless communication device. One method includes receiving wireless wide area network (WWAN) packets at a WWAN processing subsystem of the wireless communication device; transferring wireless local area network (WLAN) packet information from a WLAN processing subsystem of the wireless communication device to the WWAN processing subsystem, the WLAN packet information comprising a subset of data associated with WLAN packets; performing a reordering process in the WWAN processing subsystem, the reordering process based at least in part on the received WWAN packets and the WLAN packets that correspond to the transferred WLAN packet information; and providing an indication of the reordered WWAN packets and the WLAN packets to an application processing subsystem of the wireless communication device.
US10116567B1	Load balancing for multipath group routed flows by re-routing the congested route Techniques are disclosed regarding interfaces, each configured to output network packets. The techniques can include a memory storing a first multipath group associated with the interfaces and a routing table, containing a first route to the first multipath group. The techniques can also include congestion detection logic configured to determine that an interface of the first multipath group is congested. The techniques can additionally include congestion avoidance logic configured to, upon determining that the interface of the first multipath group is congested, generate a second route in the routing table to a second multipath group associated with the interfaces of the first multipath group, wherein the second route diverts a flow of network packets from the first multipath group to the second multipath group.
US10116563B1	System and method for automatically updating data packet metadata Systems and methods for accelerated stabilization of data packet metadata are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory having a content database and a user profile database. The system can include a user device having a first network interface and a first I/O subsystem. The system can include one or more servers. The one or more servers can: retrieve data packet metadata for a data packet; determine that the data packet metadata is unstable; identify a set of potential recipients of the data packet; select one of the set of potential recipients as the recipient of the data packet; provide the data packet to the recipient of the data packet; receive a response from the recipient to the provided data packet; and automatically update the data packet metadata based on the response received from the recipient.
US10116562B2	Communication interface apparatus Disclosed embodiments relate to a communications interface apparatus that may include: a physical layer interface configured to receive first data from an external device and output the received first data; a relay configured to create first transmit data based on processing condition information of received data; and a medium control access (MAC) layer interface configured to receive the receive data output via the physical layer interface, transmit the received data to an upper layer, and receive second data in response to the transmitted data. The relay may store the processing condition information corresponding to the data received from the external device, and create the first transmit data based on the processing condition information corresponding to the received data when the received data is output via the physical layer interface.
US10116555B2	Switch mode switching method, device, and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a switch mode switching method, a device, and a system, so that routing and switching information in a hardware forwarding entry in the conventional switching mode is represented in a form of OpenFlow flow table. The method includes: receiving, by a switch, a mode switch request message that is sent by a controller and that is used to request the switch to switch from a conventional switching mode to an OpenFlow switching mode; freezing, by the switch, all routing and switching information tables of the switch in the conventional switching mode, and generating, according to routing and switching information in each routing and switching information table, an OpenFlow flow table corresponding to the routing and switching information table; and switching, by the switch, to the OpenFlow switching mode, and sending a mode switch response message to the controller.
US10116551B2	Single queue link aggregation A method for transmitting a packet on a logical port comprising two or more physical ports comprises receiving a packet of a class of service; storing the packet in a memory; maintaining a lookup table relating a plurality of identifiers to at least one physical port; storing a pointer to the stored packet in the memory in a single pointer list for the class of service along with a selected one of the identifiers; and copying the stored packet to one or more physical ports corresponding to the selected identifier for transmission on at least one of the physical ports. In one implementation, a plurality of the physical ports are grouped into a logical port, and the received packet is processed to determine its logical port and its class of service.
US10116535B1	Monitoring internet usage on home networks of panelist users using a measurement device The present disclosure relates generally to monitoring internet usage on home networks of panelist users. One example method includes, after receiving informed consent from a user, identifying the user's home network including one or more devices and a gateway configured to receive network traffic from the devices and send the received network traffic to an external network; configuring the home network to send network traffic from the devices to a measurement device connected to the gateway; and after configuring the home network, monitoring, at the measurement device, network traffic received from the devices on the home network.
US10116533B1	Method and system for logging events of computing devices A method for logging events of computing devices. The method includes receiving, by a management service, a log event message from a computing device. The log event message includes a log event associated fingerprint. The method further includes reconstructing, by the management service, an object corresponding to the log event associated fingerprint and reconstructing, by the management service, at least one parent object of the object corresponding to the log event associated fingerprint. The method also includes gathering, by the management service, configuration information from the object corresponding to the log event associated fingerprint, and from the at least one parent object.
US10116532B2	Cloud-based operator interface for industrial automation A cloud-based operator interface system is provided that runs as a cloud service on a cloud platform. The cloud-based operator interface system collects industrial data from one or more industrial systems via respective cloud gateway devices. A set of predefined operator interface screens are stored on cloud storage associated with the operator interface system, and delivered to authorized Internet-capable client devices upon request. The industrial data received from the cloud gateways can be delivered to the client devices from the cloud platform via the operator interface screens. Additional cloud-side services can correlate and analyzes the industrial data on the cloud platform to facilitate additional reporting, alarming, and notification features.
US10116528B2	Direct network traffic monitoring within VM platforms in virtual processing environments Systems and methods are disclosed that provide direct network traffic monitoring within virtual machine (VM) platforms operating in virtual processing environments. The disclosed embodiments in part provide direct network packet monitoring through client packet monitor applications that run within client VM platforms to obtain packet traffic and to forward this traffic directly to tool packet monitor applications operating within tool VM platforms. Further, the tool VM platforms can receive multiple incoming streams of network packets from various client VM platforms, and these incoming streams can change over time due to changes in the number of client VM platforms running within the virtual processing environment. Preferably, the network packet streams are communicated using encapsulation tunnels and related encapsulation headers, such as GRE tunnels using GRE identifiers in related encapsulation headers. These tunnels can be used to selectively forward particular packet streams to particular destination tool VM platforms.
US10116526B2	Systems and methods for providing a self-electing service A method for a self-electing service by a managed device is described. The method includes configuring the managed device with a service. The service is configured on at least one additional managed device in a network segment. The method also includes determining whether the managed device is selected to provide the service by negotiating with the at least one additional managed device in the network segment based on preconfigured election rules.
US10116519B2	Programmable distributed management system of interconnected things and applications Aspects are described for managing a network of things and applications that are distributed, such as geographically or globally distributed. One exemplary aspect of the system and method is based on a centralized cloud-based processing unit that implements a Rule Processing Application (RPA) and compiles a set of User Rules. The execution of the User Rules is distributed across a number of independent Decision Making Algorithms (DMA). Each DMA can be implemented in one or more devices (e.g., servers, gateways, processing units, etc.) distributed across the network such as a worldwide network. One exemplary method also utilizes gateways within Local Area Networks (LANs) with the characteristics that (i) each gateway communicates with a centralized cloud-based processing unit and (ii) each gateway can respond to commands from the centralized cloud-based processing unit to alter the gateway's functionality and implement a DMA (in whole or in part).
US10116509B2	System and method for monitoring and managing objects across data centers A computer implemented method for monitoring and managing one or more objects on granular object level across datacenters is provided. The method includes following steps: (i) creating an application id; (ii) searching the one or more objects across the datacenters; (iii) adding the one or more objects to the application ID; (iv) monitoring configurations of the one or more objects; (iv) providing a graphical depiction of logs of the one or more objects; (v) providing an option to check a work order and configuration changes of the one or more objects; (vi) providing a graphical depiction of the configuration changes occurred on the one or more objects over a period of time; (vii) providing a trend graph for the one or more objects; and (viii) creating a new rule for the application ID to monitor and manage the one or more objects on granular object level.
US10116508B2	Server profile templates Methods, systems, and computer-readable media with executable instructions stored thereon are provided for applying server profile templates. A method includes providing a user interface (UI) to define a template. The template includes a template identifier, a common configuration, and a list of server profiles which share the common configuration. The method further includes using the UI to create a number of server profiles. The template is applied to server profiles such that changes to the common configuration are replicated across all associated server profiles, including associated server profiles with different physical connections.
US10116499B2	Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exchange In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a virtual circuit by which the customer accesses a cloud service from the one or more cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets.
US10116498B2	Method and system for network and intra-portal link (IPL) sharing in distributed relay control protocol (DRCP) A method supporting network and intra-portal link (IPL) sharing in a link aggregation group at a network device is disclosed. The method starts with transmitting frames on the IPL at the network device, where the physical link or aggregation link of the link aggregation group is dedicated to the IPL. The network device determines that the network device is configured with a network and IPL sharing method that is consistent with the neighbor network device, the network and IPL sharing method including sharing by at least one of time, tag, and encapsulation, where the network and IPL sharing method indicates sharing of the physical link or link aggregation between frames for the IPL and frames for another IPL or a network link of the link aggregation group. Then the network device transmits the frames between the network device and the neighbor network device using the network and IPL sharing method.
US10116497B2	Systems and methods for providing split control of multiple execution environments The present disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media implementing techniques for providing split control of an execution environment. According to aspects of the disclosure, a first entity may be configured to exert control over presentation related aspects (e.g., the look and feel) of services provided by a second entity, while the second entity may exert control over backend processing and execution of the services. To facilitate the different portions of the split control, one or more servers may be configured to provide a first execution layer, a second execution layer, and a second execution layer control panel. The first execution layer may perform operations for executing the provisioning of the service. The second execution layer may perform operations for presenting the computing/execution environment for providing the service, and the second execution environment control panel may provide the first entity to customize/modify presentation related aspects of the computing/execution environment.
US10116488B2	System for analyzing an industrial control network A system may be provided in which an industrial control network may be discovered and characterized such that useful networking data may be presented to a user and/or monitored for events. By configuring an interrogator device to send a “generic” message to ranges of network locations, presences of devices at particular locations may be determined. The generic message may direct any of numerous devices types to provide a response including multiple parameters. The interrogator may store such parameters in “data records,” and may advantageously send periodic collections of data records, or “data sets,” to a processing manager. The processing manager, in turn, may communicate with one or more data structures to format, enrich and/or monitor the networking data to more conveniently and reliably capture and maintain networks and connected devices.
US10116487B2	Management of interactions with representations of rendered and unprocessed content A browsing process is directed to the management of interactions with representations of rendered and unprocessed content. A client computing device requests a first network resource from a network computing component. The network computing component processes the requested content for display, and provides a processing result corresponding to a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device. The client computing device may send user interaction data based on user interactions with the representation to the network computing component for processing. The client computing device may receive an unprocessed second network resource, and process a user interaction with a representation of the second network resource locally.
US10116485B1	TX/RX imbalance and carrier leakage calibration This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for contemporaneously estimating transmitter in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalances, receiver I/Q imbalances, and transmit carrier leakage in a wireless transceiver. In some implementations, first, second, and third frequency-domain multi-tone (FDMT) signals transmitted through a calibration path of the wireless transceiver are captured to generate frequency domain representations of the first, second, and third FDMT signals. The frequency domain representations of the first, second, and third FDMT signals may be used to contemporaneously estimate the transmitter I/Q imbalances, receiver I/Q imbalances, and the transmit carrier leakage, which in turn may be used to determine transmitter and receiver I/Q imbalance correction filter coefficients and a transmit carrier leakage correction factor.
US10116484B1	Techniques and apparatuses for odd-exponent quadrature amplitude modulation Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may identify groups of bits of a particular size; map the groups of bits, with corresponding parity bits, to an even-exponent modulation constellation to generate an odd-exponent modulation constellation, wherein at least one corresponding parity bit, of the corresponding parity bits, is added to a group of bits, of the groups of bits, for the mapping; and transmit a signal based at least in part on the odd-exponent modulation constellation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10116480B2	Broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, broadcast signal receiving apparatus, broadcast signal transmitting method, and broadcast signal receiving method Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a broadcasting signal. The method comprises formatting input streams into at least one data transmission channel, encoding data corresponding to each of data transmission channel carrying service data or service component data, building at least one signal frame comprising the encoded data, modulating the at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and transmitting a broadcasting signal comprising the at least one modulated signal frame.
US10116465B2	Method for operating a network A method for operating a network that has a network subscriber that is connected to a superordinate bus and to a subordinate bus comprises steps for the reception of a first superordinate data message by the network subscriber via the superordinate bus, the extraction of first data from the first superordinate data message by the network subscriber and for the transmission of a first subordinate data message by the network subscriber via the subordinate bus. In one case, the first subordinate data message comprises the first data.
US10116463B2	Bridging apparatus A bridging apparatus includes an address-table managing unit configured to manage an address table in which devices connected to networks are registered, a presence-check-frame transmission control unit configured to transmit a presence check frame for checking whether a device is connected to a network, and a network transmission-reception control unit configured to call, upon receipt of a response request frame transmitted from a first device connected to a first network toward a second device connected to a second network, the address-table managing unit to register the first device in the address table and check whether the second device is registered in the address table, and when the second device is registered, transmit an acknowledgement to the first device and transfer the response request frame to the second network, whereas when the second device is not registered, instruct the presence-check-frame transmission control unit to transfer the response request frame to the second network.
US10116461B2	Control infrastructure Control infrastructure. In an embodiment, the infrastructure comprises a script execution module that comprises a compiler that compiles scripts, having instructions that reference device properties, into virtual-machine programs, a virtual machine that executes virtual-machine programs, and a script manager that stores scripts, retrieves scripts, and loads scripts into the compiler. In addition, the infrastructure may comprise gateway(s), communicatively connected to physical device(s). The gateway(s) may each comprise processor(s), driver(s) that each communicate with at least one physical device using a communication protocol to read and/or write device properties of the physical device, and a device manager that maps device properties referenced in the virtual-machine programs to device properties used by the driver(s).
US10116459B2	Transmission method for common message and device A transmission method for a common message and a device may be used in a machine-to-machine (M2M) application based on a long term evolution (LTE) network, which relates to a field of communication technologies and for effectively ensuring that both a low cost machine type communication (MTC) terminal and a normal LTE terminal may reliably receive the common message, where the transmission method includes determining common message transmission time instances corresponding to a first terminal, wherein the common message transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal are a part of time instances of cell common message transmission time instances, and sending a common message at the determined common message transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, a bandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the common message being no larger than a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting.
US10116451B2	File backups using a trusted storage region A storage device is divided into a trusted storage region (TSR) and a standard storage region (SSR). A backup and recovery tool (BRT) is used to generate a public/private key pair and provide the public key to the storage device. The BRT detects a trigger to back up a file from the SSR to the TSR and sends a write instruction to the storage device to perform the backup. The BRT signs the write instruction with the private key. The storage device uses the public key to verify the write instruction and performs the backup based on the verification. The TSR cannot be accessed without the private key, therefore if a malware attack is detected in the storage device, the device may be formatted to delete infected files. A fresh operating system may be installed on the formatted storage device and the file may be recovered from the TSR.
US10116448B2	Transaction authorization method and system Authorizing transactions by an authentication provider involves at least one preparatory phase and an authorization phase. The preparatory phase includes registering a user account with several personal devices, each with an authentication application installed. The authorization phase receives knowledge of the transaction; determines the user account related to the transaction; determines at least one personal device registered with the user account related to the transaction; receives a request for details specific to the transaction from at least one personal device; provides the authentication application of the at least one personal device with the requested details specific to the transaction; receives from the authentication application a digitally signed transmission which indicates transaction-specific instructions received by the authentication application; and authorizes or denies the transaction based on the received transaction-specific instructions.
US10116445B2	Method and system for protected exchange of data A result of application of a test to information about a user (U) is securely transmitted between a source of information (A) and a destination of information (B) via an intermediary device (C). The source of information can be, for example, a database of personal data, and the destination of information (B) a server of a service provider performing services depending on an age limit. The intermediary device (C) minimizes the information that is made available to the source (A) and the destination (B) about the purpose of the test and the underlying data. To this end, the intermediary device (C) executes a secure comparison protocol with the source (A), whereby the encrypted result is additionally blinded, for example, with a blinding that comes from the user. The intermediary device (C) decrypts the blinded encrypted result, so that a blinded result is left. The destination B removes the blinding, preferably on the basis of blinding information of the user. The intermediary device (C) preferably sends the blinded comparison result to the user (U).
US10116434B2	Method for transient change detection with adaptive sampling, and detector implementing the method A method of detecting transient changes in the distribution of a discrete time series includes: operating in a sparse mode wherein, at sniff periods successively repeated at a first rate, at most K test phases are performed, K being an integer superior or equal to two, each test phase consisting of analyzing, by a sampling stopping time determination unit, samples of the time series captured by a sampler at sampling times according to a second rate which is higher than the first rate to provide a positive or negative result of the test phase. If the results of K successive test phases of a sniff period are each positive, the method switches to operate in a dense mode wherein the sampler is operated to continuously capture samples of the time series at sampling times according to the second sampling rate.
US10116432B1	Real-time phase synchronization of a remote receiver with a measuring instrument A measuring instrument for measuring electrical characteristics of a device under test (DUT) includes a signal generator for generating a synchronization signal transmittable to a receiver and a phase shifter. The measuring instrument is configured to receive a retransmission of the synchronization signal from the receiver. The phase shifter configured to receive the synchronization signal from the signal generator and the retransmission of the synchronization signal from the receiver and shift a phase of the synchronization signal so that pulse edges of the synchronization signal are aligned at the measuring instrument and the receiver.
US10116424B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data Provided is a technology related to a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and the Internet of things (IoT). Transmitting data between transceivers including transmitting data segments of source data and parity data segments including restoration information for a transceiver to restore the source data. The method is applicable to intelligent services based on the technology (e.g., smart home services, smart building services, smart city services, smart or connected car services, health care services, digital education services, retail business services, security and safety-related services, etc.).
US10116423B2	Inter-carrier modulation A method and apparatus for communicating information by: dividing the information into at least a first information portion and a second information portion; modulating a plurality of domain resources to encode the first information using an index or grammar; and encoding the second information by modulation of domain resources. Optionally, the plurality of domain resources may be modulated to encode the first information by allocating at least two different modulation types to a plurality of sub-carriers. The modulation type is allocated to domain resources according to the index or grammar, which applies meaning to which modulation type is allocated to which domain resource. The modulation may include encoding part of the first information portion using one or more domain resources of a first domain and another part of the first information portion using one or more domain resources of a second domain.
US10116416B2	Apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal and method of transmitting and receiving a signal The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of extracting PLP from data slices.
US10116400B2	Optical signal frequency calibration method and device The present invention discloses an optical signal frequency calibration method and device. The method includes: receiving a first optical signal that experiences a frequency offset and that is generated by a laser in a transmitter of an access node; receiving a reference optical signal sent by a local oscillator; calculating a difference between a specified frequency difference and a frequency difference between the reference optical signal and the first optical signal; and performing frequency calibration on the first optical signal according to the difference, modulating to-be-sent uplink data by using the calibrated first optical signal, and sending the modulated uplink data to a primary node.
US10116399B2	Circuit arrangement for RF loopback A circuit arrangement includes a transceiver unit, a switching device coupled to the transceiver unit with a terminal and a control device coupled to the switching device. The control device is configured to operate in a first and in a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the switching device is configured by the control device such that a first signal is routed from the transceiver unit via the switching device back to the transceiver unit in a feedback loop. In the second mode of operation, the switching device is configured by the control device such that a second signal is routed from the transceiver unit via the switching device to the terminal or the second signal is routed from the terminal via the switching device to the transceiver unit.
US10116398B2	System for testing efficacy of electromagnetic shielding and method A system to test efficacy of electromagnetic shielding includes a radio frequency anechoic housing and a testing device. The testing device includes a signal source, at least one antenna, and a receiver. When one of the antenna is connected to the signal source, the receiver receives a first frequency field. When the antenna and the signal source are in the shielding shell and the shielding shell is in the radio frequency anechoic housing, the receiver receives a second frequency field. Values of the shielding efficacy are obtained according to the first frequency field and the second frequency field. A determination of whether the shielding shell meets requirements is obtained according to the values of the shielding efficacy. A method for testing shielding efficacy is also disclosed.
US10116394B2	Optical pairing Disclosed systems and methods transmit and receive data encoded as optical signals that include a progression of symbols, with each symbol represented as a combination of light frequencies. Light is used as the carrier medium to limit reception to devices that are within visible range of the transmitting device. No mapping of data to symbols is required for generation of the symbol progression by the transmitter and no mapping of symbols to data for recognition of the symbols is required by the receiver. Disclosed embodiments allow arbitrary selection among a plurality of mappings between symbols sent and symbols received. Embodiments are robust to: ambient lighting conditions, differences in optical and temporal response of the first and second devices, and differences in relative orientation between the first and second devices. Embodiments enable a variety of functions including device discovery, feature discovery, beacon identification, status reporting, error readout, key exchange, and authentication.
US10116373B1	Dynamically adjusting vertical beamforming weights Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting vertical beamforming weights to influence a width of a vertical beam emitted from an antenna. A quantity of users present in a particular geographic area is determined, where the user devices have a line of sight with the antenna and are vertically distributed from other user devices. CQIs are received from the user devices. It is determined that the quantity of user devices is above a maximum threshold of user devices, and the CQIs indicated that channel quality is below a minimum threshold. The amplitude and phase components of the vertical beamforming weight are adjusted to modify the width of the vertical beam emitted from the antenna.
US10116367B1	Method and system for multiple-hop relayed directional wireless communication Multiple-hop relayed directional beam formed wireless communication (mm-wave mesh network) method and apparatus which takes place at the PHY layer. Network capability is enhanced by improving routing protocols between neighboring STAs when communicating from an originating STA, through intermediate STAs, to a destination STA. The routing takes into consideration antenna sector selection to limit interference with neighboring STAs, and channel time utilization to increase throughput. Link metrics and channel times are established for optimizing routing and the determination of intermediate stations between an originating STA and a destination STA. The apparatus and method balances both end-end path link quality and interference impact.
US10116365B2	Wireless communication device and wireless communication method A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device participates in wireless communication involving an antenna array, includes: a communication unit, configured to receive a signal including antenna array geometric information about a target communication device from the target communication device of the wireless communication device; and an antenna array geometric information parsing unit, configured to determine an antenna array geometric configuration of the target communication device according to the signal, wherein the antenna array geometric information indicates at least one of a geometric arrangement way of antenna elements in the antenna array, an antenna element interval and an antenna polarization direction.
US10116358B2	Service signal processing method and apparatus, and customer-premises equipment A service signal processing method includes obtaining signal strength information of a current service antenna, and obtaining signal strength information of another service antenna; selecting a working antenna according to the signal strength information of the current service antenna and the signal strength information of the another service antenna; and controlling the working antenna to process a service signal of a current service using a radio frequency channel of the current service antenna. The working antenna determined according to the signal strength information of the current service antenna and the signal strength information of the another service antenna may be the current service antenna or may be the another service antenna. When multiple working antennas are determined, the working antennas may process a same service or may process different services.
US10116354B2	Harvest tag design and systems The instant invention is directed to a tuned inductive coil that is designed to work within the field of a separate NFC (Near Field Communication) tag for the purpose of harvesting ambient energy that is transmitted during the bi-directional signal process in order to effect unique functionality which requires higher energy consumption and which would not otherwise be possible or as effective absent such harvest of energy such as, but not limited to operation of a light, a sound or a tactile transducer or similar circuitry, separate of the function of the nearby NFC tag.
US10116353B2	Contactless communication device and electronic system having the same A contactless communication device includes a transceiver and a contactless communication chip. The transceiver generates an antenna voltage based on an electromagnetic wave received from an external device. The contactless communication chip generates an internal clock signal, operates based on the internal clock signal, and communicates with the external device using the transceiver. The contactless communication chip generates a reference clock signal based on the antenna voltage and adjusts a frequency of the internal clock signal based on the reference clock signal.
US10116351B2	Pollution detection circuit for data lines and method thereof A pollution detection circuit and a pollution detection method for data lines are provided. The pollution detection circuit and the method detect an impedance of at least one data terminal for detecting the pollution occurring at the data terminal or the data lines. The pollution occurring at the data terminal or the data lines is confirmed when the impedance is low.
US10116347B1	Lossless switch for radio frequency front-end module An integrated front-end module (FEM) includes at least one power amplifier (PA) coupled to an antenna without inclusion of a switching element in a transmit signal path in the FEM between an output of the PA and the antenna. The FEM further includes at least one low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a switching circuit coupled in a receive signal path of the FEM between the antenna and an input of the LNA. The switching circuit is configured in a first mode to disable the PA and to connect the input of the LNA to the antenna for receiving signals from the antenna. The switching circuit is configured in a second mode to disconnect the input of the LNA from the antenna and to enable the PA for transmitting signals to the antenna.
US10116340B2	Wideband low distortion power amplifier A circuit and apparatus for filtering harmful harmonics is disclosed. The circuit and apparatus include a power amplifier core that uses equally sized inverter based amplifiers. The amplifier core cells provide uniform load to all phases of a fundamental frequency to cancel all harmonics at an output. The power amplifier stages are driven into nonlinearity, and the combination of harmonics is performed at the output by varying series connected capacitors. The harmonic combination is performed at the output, leaving no further scope of nonlinearity in the signal chain.
US10116333B2	Decoder with parallel decoding paths A device includes a memory configured to store syndromes, a first data processing unit coupled to the memory, and a second data processing unit coupled to the memory. The first data processing unit is configured to process a first value corresponding to a first symbol of data to be decoded. The second data processing unit is configured to process a second value corresponding to a second symbol of the data. Syndrome aggregation circuitry is coupled to the first data processing unit and to the second data processing unit. The syndrome aggregation circuitry is configured to combine syndrome change decisions of the first data processing unit and the second data processing unit.
US10116326B2	Semi-exhaustive recursive block decoding method and device Embodiments of the invention provides a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal carrying information symbols selected from a given alphabet and being associated with a signal vector, said transmission channel being represented by a channel matrix, wherein said decoder comprises: a sub-block division unit (301) configured to divide the received signal vector into a set of sub-vectors in correspondence with a division of a matrix related to said channel matrix; a candidate set estimation unit (305) for recursively determining candidate estimates of sub-blocks of the transmitted signal corresponding to said sub-vectors, each estimate of a given sub-block being determined from at least one candidate estimate of the previously processed sub-blocks, wherein said candidate set estimation unit is configured to determine a set of candidate estimates for at least one sub-block of the transmitted signal by applying at least one iteration of a decoding algorithm using the estimates determined for the previously processed sub-blocks, the number of candidate estimates determined for said sub-block being strictly inferior to the cardinal of the alphabet and superior or equal to two, the decoder further comprising a signal estimation unit (306) for calculating an estimate of the transmitted signal from said candidate estimates determined for said sub-blocks.
US10116324B2	High-linearity sigma-delta converter A sigma-delta converter comprises a sigma-delta modulator suitable for supplying a series of binary samples (BS(k)) representative of an analogue input signal (Vin) to be digitized, in which at least one analogue signal internal to the modulator is weighted by a coefficient that is variable according to a first predetermined law (f).
US10116313B2	Apparatus and method to mitigate phase and frequency modulation due to inductive coupling Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first clocking source having a first divider; a second clocking source having a second divider, wherein the first and second clocking sources are inductively coupled; and calibration logic to monitor clock signals associated with the first and second clocking sources and to generate at least one calibration code for adjusting at least one divider ratio of the first or second dividers according to the monitored clock signals.
US10116311B2	Embedded FPGA with multiple configurable flexible logic blocks instantiated and interconnected by abutment An embedded field programmable gate array (EFPGA) includes several abuttable configurable logic blocks (ACLBs). Each ACLB is interconnected with adjacent ACLBs by abutment of an out pin to an adjacent in pin. Each ACLB may be an instance of multiple programmable functional blocks. Each ACLB may be a particular ACLB type that provides a particular instance of the multiple programmable functional blocks. The EFPGA may include several ACLBs of the same type. An ACLB of one type may be adjacent an ACLB of a different type. The ACLBs may form sets that are configured identically. The sets may be interconnected by abutment of an out pin to an adjacent in pin. The EFPGA may be part of a system-on-chip integrated circuit. A method for designing an EFPGA with ACLBs that are interconnected by abutment is disclosed.
US10116304B2	Gate transistor control circuit A device for controlling a first control gate transistor, including: a second transistor and a third transistor series-connected between a first and a second terminals of application of a power supply voltage, the junction point of these transistors being connected to the gate of the first transistor; a terminal of application of a digital control signal; a circuit for generating an analog signal according to variations of the power supply voltage; and for each of the second and third transistors, a circuit of selection of a control signal of the first transistor representative of said digital signal or of said analog signal.
US10116303B2	Parallel devices having balanced switching current and power A power circuit includes a power source for providing electrical power and two driving transistors being disposed in parallel and receiving electrical power from the power source. Each of the two driving transistors includes a gate terminal, a source connection, and a kelvin source connection. The power circuit also includes a control voltage source having a first terminal and a second terminal. The control voltage source provides a control signal to the two driving transistors for determining driving currents through the two driving transistors. The first terminal is connected to the gate terminals of the two driving transistors, and the second terminal is connected to the kelvin source connections of the two driving transistors. The kelvin source connections of the two driving transistors are inductively coupled.
US10116298B2	Apparatus with main transistor-based switch and on-state linearization network An apparatus including a main transistor-based switch having a first end node and a second end node and an ON-state linearization network that is coupled between the first end node and the second end node of the main transistor-based switch is disclosed. The ON-state linearization network is configured to receive a monitored signal that corresponds to a signal across the first end node and the second end node and cancel at least a portion of non-linear distortion generated by the main transistor-based switch when the main transistor-based switch is in an ON-state based on the monitored signal. A control signal applied to a control input of the ON-state linearization network causes the ON-state linearization network to activate when the main transistor-based switch is in the ON-state and to deactivate the ON-state linearization network when the main transistor-based switch is an OFF-state.
US10116281B2	Power combiner/divider using mutual inductance Disclosed is a power divider circuit providing a mutual inductance and including a first primary inducing element having a first terminal connected with a first output port and a second terminal connected with a second primary inducing element having a first terminal connected with a second output port and a second terminal connected with the first primary inducing element and magnetically and mutually coupled with the first primary inducing element, a sub inducing element having a first terminal connected with an input port and a second terminal connected with the second terminal of the first primary inducing element and the second terminal of the second primary inducing element, and an isolation network connected between the first output port and the second output port. The sub inducing element is magnetically and mutually coupled with each of the first primary inducing element and the second primary inducing element.
US10116280B2	Coil component A coil component includes a magnetic body having a plurality of filter parts disposed on a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction. A plurality of input terminals and output terminals are disposed on outer surfaces of the magnetic body. Each of the filter parts includes upper and lower coils disposed in the magnetic body and spaced apart from each other in the thickness direction. In one example, a number of turns of the upper and lower coils of one filter part is different from a number of turns of the upper and lower coils of another filter part adjacent thereto. In another example, the number of turns of the upper and lower coils of the one and the other filter parts are the same, but capacitances of the one and the other filter parts are different.
US10116279B2	Impedance matching for inductive power transfer systems Methods and apparatuses for improved efficiency of power transfer across an inductive charging interface by adaptively changing the impedance of the receive coil in response to changes in load conditions during inductive power transfer are disclosed.
US10116278B2	Electronic component An electronic component including a substrate, a capacitor lower electrode disposed on the substrate, an inorganic dielectric layer disposed on the substrate to cover the lower electrode, a capacitor upper electrode disposed directly on the inorganic dielectric layer and facing the lower electrode via the inorganic dielectric layer, and a coil electrically connected to the lower electrode or the upper electrode. The upper surface of the inorganic dielectric layer is flat.
US10116274B2	Process-compensated HBT power amplifier bias circuits and methods The present disclosure relates to a system for biasing a power amplifier. The system can include a first die that includes a power amplifier circuit and a passive component having an electrical property that depends on one or more conditions of the first die. Further, the system can include a second die including a bias signal generating circuit that is configured to generate a bias signal based at least in part on measurement of the electrical property of the passive component of the first die.
US10116264B1	Calibrating a power amplifier such as in a remote unit in a wireless distribution system (WDS) Embodiments of the disclosure relate to calibrating a power amplifier. The power amplifier calibration circuit is configured to provide a plurality of bias signal combinations each including a respective first bias signal and a respective second bias signal to the power amplifier. Power amplifier performance parameters for each of the bias signal combinations can be measured and provided to a control circuit in the power amplifier calibration circuit. The control circuit is configured to rank the measured power amplifier performance parameters based on predefined ranking criteria and determines a selected bias signal combination that can optimize the power amplifier performance parameters of the power amplifier. As such, it is possible to calibrate the power amplifier to operate at a balanced performance level, thus helping to improve radio frequency (RF) coverage and performance of the remote unit in a wireless distribution system (WDS).
US10116262B2	Front-end amplifier circuits for biomedical electronics A front-end amplifier circuit for receiving a biological signal includes a signal channel. The signal channel amplifies the biological signal to generate a detection current and includes a capacitive-coupled transconductance amplifier. The capacitive-coupled transconductance amplifier amplifies the biological signal with a transconductance gain to generate a first current.
US10116238B2	Power grid frequency flexible operation system and method using the same A power grid frequency flexible operation system is provided. The system comprises a generating unit, which includes a base-load unit and a peak-load unit; a high voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission unit, which transmits the power generated in the generating unit as direct current (DC) power; and a load, which is supplied with the power generated by the generating unit; wherein the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission unit comprises a converter, which transforms to direct current (DC) power, alternating current (AC) power generated in the generating unit and having a first frequency variation allowance range; an inverter, which is connected to the converter and transforms the direct current (DC) power to alternating current (AC) power having a second frequency variation allowance range, wherein the first frequency variation allowance range is larger than the second frequency variation allowance range.
US10116233B2	Hybrid full bridge-voltage doubler rectifier and single stage LLC converter thereof A hybrid rectifier that works as either a hybrid full bridge or a voltage doubler. Under 220 V AC input condition, the hybrid rectifier operates in full bridge mode, while at 110 V AC input, it operates as voltage doubler rectifier. The hybrid rectifier may be used with a DC-DC converter, such as an LLC resonant converter, in a power supply. With this mode switching, the LLC converter resonant tank design only takes consideration of 220 V AC input case, such that the required operational input voltage range is reduced, and the efficiency of the LLC converter is optimized. Both the size and power loss are reduced by using a single stage structure instead of the conventional two-stage configuration.
US10116231B2	Digital current-sharing loop design of PSUs to ensure output voltage regulation during dynamic load transients Power supply units (PSU) provide for digital current-sharing loop control to ensure output voltage regulation during dynamic load transients by (i) delaying an internal current signal to match a delay in a shared current signal, and (ii) controlling the output amplifier based on the shared current signal and the delayed local current signal to maintain the respective local DC electrical power in proportion to contributions by other ones of the more than one PSU to the shared DC electrical power and thereby avoid instability in dynamic response to a load transient induced by the power consuming component.
US10116223B2	Switching power supply apparatus capable of achieving soft switching operation A switching power supply apparatus is configured of, as a primary-side circuit, a synchronous rectification step-up/down chopper circuit including a main switching element (14), a commutation element (16), a choke coil (18), and a buffer capacitor (20). As a secondary-side circuit, to a secondary winding provided to the choke coil, a series circuit including a rectifying element and an output capacitor is connected. An inductance of the choke coil is set to have a predetermined value so that a choke coil current IL flowing through the choke coil flows in both of a positive direction and a negative direction across zero in one cycle of switching when an output current is equal to or smaller than a maximum output current. A switching control circuit performs control of complementarily turning the main switching element and the commutation element ON/OFF in a switching cycle by providing a deadtime, thereby performing soft switching.
US10116222B2	Soft switching flyback converter with primary control Disclosed examples include synchronous rectifiers and flyback converters, integrated circuits and operating methods, in which a first switch is turned on to allow current to flow for a first time period in a first direction in a transformer primary winding responsive to a first switch voltage transitioning below a first threshold, and a second switch is turned on for a second time period after the first time period to transfer energy from a secondary transformer winding to drive a load. In the same converter cycle, the second switch is again turned on for a third time period in response to a second switch voltage transitioning below a second threshold at one of a series of troughs of a resonant ringing voltage waveform across the second switch, to cause current flow in a second direction in the primary winding to discharge a capacitance of the first switch to cause the first switch voltage to transition below the first threshold to initiate a subsequent converter cycle.
US10116214B2	DC-DC converter with digital current sensing A regulated DC-DC switching converter includes a bypass mode in which ends of an output inductor are coupled together. Circuitry determines output capacitor current and load current components of output inductor current during operation of the switching converter, for use in controlling switching operations.
US10116213B2	Semiconductor module and electric power conversion apparatus A semiconductor module includes an IGBT and a MOSFET. The IGBT is made of a silicon semiconductor. The MOSFET is made of a wide-bandgap semiconductor having a wider bandgap than the silicon semiconductor. The IGBT and the MOSFET are connected in parallel to each other to form a semiconductor element pair. The IGBT has a greater surface area than the MOSFET. The semiconductor module is configured to operate in a region that includes a low-current region and a high-current region. Electric current flowing through the semiconductor element pair is higher in the high-current region than in the low-current region. In the low-current region, the on-resistance of the MOSFET is lower than the on-resistance of the IGBT. In contrast, in the high-current region, the on-resistance of the IGBT is lower than the on-resistance of the MOSFET.
US10116212B2	Voltage regulation based on current sensing in MOSFET drain-to-source resistance in on-state RDS(ON) A direct current (DC) power supply system performs a method of delivering electrical energy by a synchronous buck voltage regulator (VR) coupled to an information handling resource of an information handling system by switching between a high side (HS) control switch and a low side (LS) synchronous switch to regulate a direct current (DC) output voltage (VOUT) generated from an input voltage (VIN). Inductor current (IMON) values of the voltage regulator are measured during LS synchronous switch ON state. IMON values of the voltage regulator are synthesized during HS power switch ON state. A complete inductor current signal is generated that combines the measured and synthesized IMON values.
US10116208B2	DC-DC converter with improved energy management, method for operating the DC-DC converter, environmental energy harvesting system using the DC-DC converter, and apparatus using the energy harvesting system A converter includes an inductor configured to receive an input signal and output configured to supply an electrical load with an output signal. The converter operates to charge the inductor until a maximum pre-set current value is reached during a first operating condition in which the electrical load is not supplied. Next, the converter actively supplies the electrical load by partially discharging the inductor during a first time interval of a second operating condition. Then, the converter passively supplies the electrical load by the residual charge of the inductor during a second time interval, subsequent to the first time interval, of the second operating condition, by discharging the inductor completely.
US10116207B1	Hysteretic controller with fixed-frequency continuous conduction mode operation A switching power converter with a hysteretic current-mode controller switches at a fixed frequency responsive to a pulse generator that pulses a set signal and a reset signal at the fixed frequency. A power switch in the switching power converter is configured to close responsive to the pulsing of the set signal and to open responsive to the pulsing of the reset signal.
US10116206B2	Loop compensation circuit and switching power supply circuit The embodiment of the present invention discloses a loop compensation circuit and a switching power supply circuit. The loop compensation circuit can comprise: a voltage detection circuit, a control chip and a RC circuit, and the voltage detection circuit is coupled to a voltage generation circuit, and employed to detect a variation of an output voltage of the voltage generation circuit; the control chip is respectively coupled to the voltage detection circuit and the RC circuit, and employed to detect a response speed of the loop compensation circuit and to adjust a parameter of the RC circuit according to the response speed of the loop compensation circuit and the variation of the output voltage of the voltage generation circuit for adjusting the response speed of the loop compensation circuit.
US10116195B2	Displacement devices and methods for fabrication, use and control of same A displacement device comprise a stator having a plurality of electrically conductive coils shaped to provide: a first plurality of coil traces generally elongated in a stator-x direction and distributed over at least a first portion of a first layer; a second plurality of coil traces generally elongated in a stator-y direction and distributed over at least a second portion of a second layer. The first and second portions of the first and second layers overlapping one another in a stator-z direction. The displacement device also comprises a moveable stage having one or more magnet arrays. The moveable stage is moveable relative to the stator within a two-dimensional working region. The one or more magnet arrays include a first magnet array comprising a plurality of first magnetization segments, each having a corresponding first magnetization direction. The displacement device comprises one or more amplifiers connected to drive a plurality of currents in the plurality of electrically conductive coils; and a controller configured to control the currents driven by the one or more amplifiers and to thereby cause the moveable stage to track a desired position, (xr,yr), within the working region.
US10116188B2	Fan directing element for an electric machine An electric machine having a stator and a rotor arranged on an axis of rotation and a first fan, which extends in the radial direction on one section of the axis of rotation and delivers a coolant flow into the electric machine during operation. The electric machine further includes a fan directing element, which interacts with the first fan and deflects at least a proportion of the coolant flow. Variable and demand-based cooling of the electric machine can be achieved by the fan directing element, which can in particular be adjustable.
US10116187B1	Thin-profile counter-rotating differential electric motor assembly An efficient thin-profile counter-rotating (CR) differential electric motor assembly is utilized to power an aircraft vehicle or fan for moving a gas and includes two oppositely rotating propellers that may be mounted to horizontal flight and vertical lift-off aircraft or a fan housing in spaces similar in size to mounting spaces for traditional motors having only one propeller.
US10116186B2	Brushless wiper motor A motor case (31) in which a stationary portion (35) is fixed, and a gear case (41) in which a gear mechanism (SD) is accommodated are made of aluminium, most heat generated from the stationary portion (35) at the time of actuation of a brushless wiper motor (20) can be directly dissipated outside from the motor case (31). That is, compared with conventional technique, heat transmitted to the motor case (31) can be efficiently dissipated outside, and the motor case (31) does not reach high temperature. Therefore, as a matter of course, reduction in size and weight can be achieved, suppression of electromagnetic noise can be achieved, and heat-resistance strength can be enhanced. Expensive components capable of resisting high temperatures are not required, and reduction in manufacturing cost can be achieved.
US10116181B2	Slot insulating paper A slot insulating paper (12) is arranged in a slot (18) of a core (10) of an electric motor or generator. In a state where the slot insulating paper (12) is spread in a sheet shape, a region (high stiffness portion (36)) that is part of the slot insulating paper (12) is a breakage resistance portion having a higher resistance against breakage than the other region (ordinary portion (38)). The slot insulating paper (12) may be formed by laminating a plurality of insulating layers. In the breakage resistance portion, for example, at least one of the laminated insulating layers is a high stiffness layer formed of a high stiffness material. Thus, the breakage resistance portion is formed to have a high stiffness. With a high stiffness, it is possible to improve breakage resistance.
US10116165B2	Powergrid operation and supervision system Various aspects of the disclosure provide for an integrated system to facilitate operational and supervisory functions for transmission and distribution power grids. The system can facilitate switching operations for the power grid as well as providing an integrated planning, scheduling, and logging of power grid supervisory functions in order to reduce human error, improve labor efficiencies, and provide tools to assist in daily work plan assignments. The system includes modules to assist with outage and switching management, as well as modules for daily operation planning, work assignment planning, interruption tracking and analysis, and logging and recordkeeping.
US10116161B2	Line ripple compensation for switching power converters A line ripple compensation technique is provided for a switching power converter operating in both a pulse frequency mode of operation and a pulse width modulation mode of operation.
US10116159B1	Family of isolated battery energy storage system (BESS) with multiple functions for DC grid application This invention presents a family of isolated BESS topologies with multiple functions, which are suitable for high voltage and high power DC grid application. A battery energy storage system (BESS) for direct current (DC) grid applications is provided, including an alternating current (AC) transformer having a primary side and a secondary side, at least one primary side arm coupled to the primary side of the AC transformer, the at least one primary side arm comprising a plurality of cascade connected voltage source converter sub-modules and a plurality of energy storage battery units and at least one secondary side arm coupled between the secondary side of the AC transformer and a DC grid voltage bus, the at least one secondary side arm comprising a plurality of cascade connected voltage source converter sub-modules. Modulation and control strategies for the various topologies are also provided.
US10116156B2	Hybrid battery The present invention relates to a hybrid battery. The hybrid battery has a housing, a first energy storage device, a second energy storage device, a detection control circuit, an stabilizer circuit, and a charging circuit connected between the first energy storage device and the second energy storage device. Negative terminals of the first energy storage device and of the second energy storage device are coupled to a negative pole. A positive terminal of the first energy storage device is connected to a first fixed contact of a relay. A positive terminal of the second energy storage device is connected to a second fixed contact of the relay. The detection control circuit is connected to a coil of the relay. An input terminal of the relay is coupled to a positive pole. The first energy storage energy, the second energy storage energy, the detection control circuit, the stabilizer circuit, the charging circuit, the relay are disposed within the housing. The positive pole and the negative pole respectively are connected to the positive electrode and to the negative electrode of an electrical device. The hybrid battery has good reliability and an extended service life and is environment friendly.
US10116155B2	Battery charging circuit with high capacity, control circuit and associated control method A battery charging circuit has a first switching circuit and a second switching circuit which are coupled in parallel. A control circuit has a plurality of feedback control loops, a logic integrated circuit, a first logic circuit and a second logic circuit, wherein the plurality of feedback control loops provides a plurality of feedback control signals, the logic integrated circuit provides a logic integrated signal based on the plurality of feedback control signals, the frequency dividing circuit provides a first frequency dividing signal and a second frequency dividing signal based on the logic integrated signal, the first logic circuit controls the first switching circuit based on the first frequency dividing signal and a first duration signal, the second logic circuit controls the second switching circuit based on the second frequency dividing signal and a second duration signal.
US10116151B2	Battery charger rental kiosk system A battery pack device including a housing, a plurality of electrical contacts, a plurality of electrical connectors, a moveable control device, and a battery. The housing may have a chamfered edge. The plurality of electrical contacts may be carried by an outer surface of the housing. The plurality of electrical connectors may be carried within the housing. The moveable control device may be adapted to position at least one of the plurality of electrical connectors through an aperture located in the housing when activated. The battery may be contained within the housing and in electrical communication with each of the plurality of electrical connectors and the plurality of electrical contacts.
US10116142B2	Load control apparatus, program, method, and system A load control apparatus receives information regarding the consumed electric power in load devices and the generated electric power by a power generator. The apparatus includes a control unit, which controls a device based on the received information. A determination unit determines whether the device can execute a predetermined process with surplus electric power in target period from the present until a predetermined period of time elapses. An execution unit controls the device such that when it is determined that the abovementioned process can be executed, a control signal is provided to cause the process to start.
US10116138B2	Wind power plant, and a method for controlling a reactive current injection in a wind power plant In various embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for controlling a reactive current injection in a wind power plant during a grid fault. According to an embodiment, the method includes measuring an amount of reactive current to be provided by the wind power plant to the grid during the grid fault. The method further includes determining a difference between a given required reactive current contribution from the wind power plant and the amount of reactive current to be provided by the wind power plant to the grid during the grid fault. According to an embodiment, the method includes controlling a plurality of wind turbine generators in the wind power plant to generate additional reactive current according to a reactive current reference generated based on the difference. A corresponding wind power plant is further provided.
US10116135B1	Method and apparatus for voltage control in electric power systems A system for controlling voltage for an electric power system comprising: at least two substations and at least one load using voltage control devices, with one voltage control module required for each substation with appropriate control elements for OLTC equipped transformers or turbo generator's automatic voltage regulators. Utilizing the system, methods of the like have the purpose of controlling the distribution of reactive power to minimize power losses, maintain each busbar voltage in accordance to selected set point, maintain active and reactive power reserves, and minimizing the reactive power drawn from the transmission system.
US10116126B2	Outdoor unit of air conditioner An outdoor unit of an air conditioner is provided that improves work efficiency at the time of installation and maintenance of the outdoor unit and prevents a cover for covering an opening from being unintentionally left open. The outdoor unit of the air conditioner includes an electrical box, a housing that covers the electrical box to form an contour, an electrical box cover member that covers components inside the electrical box, a housing cover that covers the electrical box cover member from outside, wherein the electrical box cover member has a work opening and has an opening cover that covers the work opening mounted thereon, and in which the housing cover abuts on the opening cover in a state of the opening cover being open.
US10116119B2	Compact laser device The invention describes a laser device comprising between two and six mesas (120) provided on one semiconductor chip (110), wherein the mesas (120) are electrically connected in parallel such that the mesas (120) are adapted to emit laser light if a defined threshold voltage is provided to the mesas (120). Two to six mesas (120) with reduced active diameter in comparison to a laser device with one mesa improve the yield and performance despite of the fact that two to six mesas need more area on the semiconductor chip thus increasing the total size of the semiconductor chip (110). The invention further describes a method of marking semiconductor chips (110). A functional layer of the semiconductor chip (110) is provided and structured in a way that a single semiconductor chip (110) can be uniquely identified by means of optical detection of the structured functional layer. The structured layer enables identification of small semiconductor chips (110) with a size below 200 μm×200 μm.
US10116114B2	Method and system for generating a high laser power According to the invention, a plurality of elementary laser beams (fi) are generated, the phases of which are adjusted by an electro-optical feedback loop (6, 7i, 8i, 9) implementing the matrix equation of a phase-contrast filtering device (6).
US10116109B1	Threaded lamp socket conversion connector Present invention disclosed a threaded lamp socket conversion connector, having the major parts of a metal shell, a metal contact point located at the top portion of said metal shell, an insulator surrounding the metal contact point, a plastic main body, a first terminal piece and a second terminal piece. By relying on the terminal pieces extending and connecting from the structure of a connection port, different power input sources pertaining to the newer generation energy-saving lights can be converted to the prevalent E26/E27 specification via the connection mechanism as disclosed in the present application.
US10116095B1	Electrical connector with position assurance device An electrical connector includes a first-housing, a second-housing, and a connector-position-assurance (CPA) device. The first-housing has two parallel actuation-ribs extending from an outer-surface of the first-housing. The actuation-ribs are aligned parallel to a longitudinal mating-axis of the electrical connector. The second-housing is configured to mate with the first-housing and includes two opposing lugs projecting from a top-surface of the second-housing. The CPA device is slideably mounted to the second-housing and is moveable from a pre-stage-position to a latched-position. The CPA device includes two parallel latching-arms that engage the lugs. The latching-arms are in a relaxed-state when in the pre-stage-position. The actuation-ribs disengage the latching-arms from the lugs when the first-housing is mated with the second-housing. This enables the CPA device to be moved from the pre-stage-position to the latched-position. The latching-arms return to the relaxed-state when in the CPA device is in the latched-position.
US10116082B2	Electrical connector with removable external load bar, and method of its use An electrical connector, having an elongated plastic housing which is open at its rearward end and has an essentially continuous forward end wall with a flat upper portion, a lower portion of the forward end wall being integrally thickened to project forward beyond its upper portion, and having a plurality of wiring holes formed in the thickened lower portion which are arranged in two parallel rows.
US10116074B1	Graded midplane An electronic module includes, a circuit board having front and rear edges, and first and second connectors. The rear edge includes, (i) a first section at a first distance from the front edge, and (ii) a second section at a second distance from the front edge, different from the first distance. The first and second connectors are mounted along the rear edge at the first and second sections, respectively, and are configured to connect the circuit board to an interconnect unit.
US10116068B1	Bonding block with rotatable compression ground contact A bonding block has a block body configured to be secured to a structure, a threaded hole extending in an axial direction, and a ground wire channel extending through the threaded hole in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The bonding block also has a screw assembly having a screw and a contacting element having a substantially flat first contact surface. The contacting element is rotatable relative to the screw such that the contacting element traverses axially without rotating while the screw is tightened in the threaded hole. The block body has a substantially flat second contact surface positioned at a bottom of the threaded hole and the ground wire channel. The screw assembly compresses a ground wire extending through the ground wire channel between the first contact surface and the second contact surface as the screw is tightened in the threaded hole.
US10116062B2	Looped multi-branch planar antennas having a floating parasitic element and wireless communications devices incorporating the same Antenna systems are provided including a ground plane; a loop antenna positioned on the ground plane on a first layer, the loop antenna having antenna feed positioned at a center of an edge of the first layer; and a multi-branch parasitic element electrically coupled to the loop antenna, the multi-branch parasitic element being parallel to and positioned above the ground plane on a second layer, different from the first layer, wherein the loop antenna on the first layer is positioned between the ground plane and the multi-branch parasitic element on the second layer. Related wireless communications devices and loop antennas are also provided herein.
US10116061B2	Beam steerable communication apparatus Disclosed is a beam steerable communication apparatus comprising a focusing element with a focal plane, a plurality of antenna elements disposed on the focal plane of the focusing element, a beamforming network which has a plurality of antenna ports and a plurality of beamforming ports, at least one radio frequency transceiver capable to control the phase of carrier frequency signals on its independent outputs, and a baseband modem, wherein each antenna port of the beamforming network is coupled to at least one antenna element, each beamforming port of the beamforming network is coupled to an independent transceiver output, and the phase distribution law formed on the beamforming ports is determined by a baseband modem control commands to the transceivers, said phase distribution law is to combine or distribute signal power on all beamforming ports from or to at least one antenna port of the beamforming network, wherein each radio frequency transceiver includes at least a phase shifter, a Tx/Rx switch, LNA, PA, up and down-conversion mixers, LO generation circuit, receive power combining and transmit power distribution schemes. The technical result of the invention is in the capability of providing efficient beam steering with high gain antennas with all the prospect features of phased antenna arrays, such as the ability to combine/distribute signal power between several RF amplifiers, thus, facilitating linearity requirements and increasing an output power of a transmitter. The present invention can be used, without limitations, in radio relay point-to-point communication systems, e.g. for forming backhaul networks of cellular mobile communication, in car radars and other radars, in local and personal communication systems, in satellite and intersatellite communication systems, etc.
US10116049B2	Steering systems and methods Disclosed are devices configurable with, for example, the location and motion of satellites can be configured to drive actuators connected to the motion of a steerable device. A steerable device may be augmented, for example, with gears or drivers to drive orientation, sensors to report current position and a mechanism to lock the device in place for the duration of the steering process such that power gears from the device mesh and can drive gears in the steerable device. Signals from the device intelligently guide the actuators to steer the orientation of the steerable device towards a satellite selected by a person or algorithm. Upon completion of the steering of steerable device by the device, the device can be detached, leaving the steerable device locked in place and fully functional as a steerable device, while also leaving the device capable if engaging with another similarly steerable device.
US10116043B2	Antenna module and wearable device using same An antenna module includes a main body, a baseboard, and a ground portion. The main body is made of conductive material. The baseboard is received in the main body and includes a feed point. One end of the feed point is electrically connected to the main body. Another end of the feed point feeds current to the main body. The ground portion is grounded and defines a space. The baseboard is spaced from the main body to form a first gap therebetween. The ground portion is positioned in the first gap to electrically connect the baseboard to the main body and an area of the first gap corresponding to the space forms a second gap.
US10116041B2	Tuneable antenna for a wireless communication device The present invention relates to a tuneable antenna for a wireless communication device comprising at least one antenna element and at least one adaption element. The adaption element has an electric and/or magnetic susceptible material and is moveable relative to the antenna element. The position of the adaption element relative to the antenna element is adjustable by at least one actuator as a function of at least one of the antenna characteristics.
US10116036B2	Wired pipe coupler connector A wired pipe segment includes a body extending from a box end to a pin end and a coupler located in one of the box and pin ends. The coupler includes a carrier having at least one electrical component disposed therein and one or more antennas supported by and spaced from the carrier and being electrically coupled to the carrier through at least one of the electrical components, the antennas being formed in the carrier in a same molding machine. The segment also includes a transmission line extending away from the coupler towards the other of the box and pin end and in communication with the one or more antennas.
US10116035B2	Electrically conductive articles with discrete metallic silver layers and methods for making same An electrically conductive article that includes a monolithic glass body having a first primary surface; and an electrically conducting element formed in the body. The element includes a discrete layer, or a plurality of discrete layers, of metallic silver. Each layer has a thickness T such that 0.1 μm≤T≤0.5 μm and an electrical resistivity of about 50 nΩ·m to about 2000 nΩ·m. In addition, the element is spaced apart from the first primary surface by a distance D, wherein 0.1 μm≤D≤20 μm. In some aspects, the electrically conducting element and/or the monolithic glass body are configured as an antenna assembly, an optical fiber or a flexible glass substrate.
US10116009B2	Battery pack including inserted type BMS assembly Disclosed herein is a battery pack configured to have a structure including at least one battery module having a structure in which a plurality of unit cells or a plurality of unit modules, each of which includes a plurality of unit cells, is electrically connected to each other, a battery pack case in which the battery module is received, an inner cartridge for fixing the battery module in the battery pack case, and a battery management system (BMS) assembly including a BMS circuit board for monitoring and controlling operation of the battery pack and a BMS case in which the a BMS circuit board is mounted, the BMS assembly being mounted in the inner cartridge from outside the battery pack in an inserting fashion.
US10116004B2	Electrolyte for lithium battery for solid state drive backup power and lithium battery for solid state drive backup power including the same An electrolyte for a lithium battery for solid state drive backup power and a lithium battery for solid state drive backup power including the same, the electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent; and a lithium salt, wherein the lithium salt includes LiBF4 and the electrolyte has a molar concentration of the LiBF4 of about 0.8 M to about 1.2 M.
US10115998B2	Cathode additives to provide an excess lithium source for lithium ion batteries A lithium ion electrochemical cell is described in which an electrode comprises a lithiation agent. The lithiation agent, which comprises a lithium constituent, is designed to provide an excess source of lithium to minimize capacity loss of the lithium ion electrochemical cell. The anode of the lithium ion cell comprises a material matrix comprising carbon, graphene and an active element such as silicon or tin.
US10115997B2	Prismatic electrochemical cell A method of manufacturing an electrochemical cell is provided. The cell includes a rigid housing and an electrode assembly disposed in the housing. The method includes providing a housing that includes a first end, a second end formed separately from the first end, and a tubular sidewall formed separately from each of the first end and the second end. After the electrode assembly is inserted into the sidewall, the first end is welded to one end of the sidewall, and the second end is welded to the other end of the sidewall.
US10115989B2	Operation method of fuel cell system and fuel cell system An operation method of a fuel cell system includes providing a turbo pump to supply an oxidant gas to a fuel cell to generate power through a reaction between a fuel gas and the oxidant gas. A branch valve to regulate a flow rate of the oxidant gas which flows through a branch passage that connects an oxidant gas supply passage and an oxidant off-gas discharge passage is provided. The turbo pump and the branch valve are controlled to regulate a flow rate of the oxidant gas to be supplied to the fuel cell in an extremely low power generation mode in which an extremely low generation power is requested. The extremely low generation power is less than or equal to a predetermined generation power corresponding to a minimum flow rate of the oxidant gas that is supplied by the turbo pump.
US10115986B2	Method for changing a fuel cell system over to a standby mode as well as such a fuel cell system A method for changing a fuel cell system from a normal mode of operation over to a standby mode comprises the following steps: a) reducing the load withdrawal—via the electric circuit of the fuel cell stack—down to a load within the range from −1% to +5% around a load with an optimal system efficiency, b) regulating down the anode pressure down via the anode supply system, c) in the meantime, maintaining and controlling the cathode gas feed via the cathode supply system so that the pressure differential between the anode spaces and the cathode spaces does not exceed a prescribed maximum pressure differential, d) switching off the cathode gas feed if the pressure differential between the anode spaces and of the fuel cell stack and the environment has reached the prescribed maximum pressure differential, and e) switching off the load withdrawal via the external electric circuit at the latest when a prescribed minimum limit voltage of the fuel cell stack has been reached.
US10115982B2	Fuel cell system and fuel cell system module A fuel cell system (100) comprises: a plurality of cell units including a first cell unit (10A) and a second cell unit (10B) positioned below the first cell unit (10A) in the vertical direction; and at least one connection portion including a first connection portion (20A) for connecting the first cell unit (10A) and the second cell unit (10B). In the fuel cell system (100), the cell units each have at least one electrode cell (2) equipped with: a processing bath (3) having a flow path (8) for circulating a liquid to be processed; a liquid supply inlet (11A, 11B) for supplying the liquid to be processed to the flow path (8); and a liquid discharging outlet (13A, 13B) for discharging the liquid to be processed from the flow path (8). The first connection portion (20A) has: a connection path (9) for circulating the liquid to be processed discharged from the liquid discharging outlet (13A, 13B) of the first cell unit (10A) to the liquid supply inlet (11A, 11B) of the second cell unit (10B); and an atmospheric pressure adjustment portion for suppressing atmospheric pressure variations caused by the movement of the liquid to be processed in the connection path (9).
US10115981B2	Fuel cell stack An oxygen-containing gas discharge manifold member is provided for a first end plate of a fuel cell stack. The oxygen-containing gas discharge manifold member has a first opening connected to a non-circular oxygen-containing gas discharge passage and a second opening connected to a circular external pipe. In a front view of the first end plate, in an area where the opening shape of the first opening and the opening shape of the second opening are overlapped with each other a sensing part is provided.
US10115980B2	Cooling module for a fuel cell A cooling module (2) for a fuel cell (1) including a cooling circuit (3) for conducting a coolant, and a treatment unit (10) for the coolant, which is situated in the cooling circuit (3) in such a way that the coolant flowing in the cooling circuit (3) flows through it. The treatment unit (10) includes a filter medium (11) for removing metal ions from the coolant which includes a polymer having amidoxime and/or hydroxamic acid groups and is in contact with the coolant.
US10115971B2	Fuel cell electrode having porous carbon core with macrocyclic metal chelates thereon The invention concerns a method for manufacturing of an electrocatalyst comprising a porous carbon support material, a catalytic material in the form of at least one type of metal, and macrocyclic compounds chemically bound to the carbon support and capable of forming complexes with single metal ions of said metal or metals, said method comprising the steps of: i) providing a template capable of acting as pore structure directing agent during formation of a highly porous electrically conducting templated carbon substrate, ii) mixing the template with one or several precursor substances of the catalytic material, the macrocyclic compounds and carbon, iii) exposing the mixture of the template and the precursor substances to a carbonization process during which the precursors react and transform the mixture into a carbonized template composite in which the carbon part of the composite is chemically bound to macrocyclic compounds present in complexes with the metal or metals. The invention also concerns an electrocatalyst for electrochemical reactions, a method for manufacturing of a membrane electrode assembly using such an electrocatalyst and to a fuel cell making use of such an electrocatalyst.
US10115967B2	Method of producing positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A method of producing a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the method includes preparing nickel-containing composite oxide particles having a ratio 1D90/1D10 of a 90% particle size 1D90 to a 10% particle size 1D10 in volume-based cumulative particle size distribution is 3 or less; mixing the composite oxide particles and a lithium compound to obtain a first mixture; subjecting the first mixture to a first heat treatment at a first temperature and a second heat treatment at a second temperature higher than the first temperature to obtain a first heat-treated product; and subjecting the first heat-treated material to a dispersion treatment.
US10115955B1	Battery terminal adapter A battery terminal adapter providing support for a plurality of wires, allowing several wires to be connected simultaneously and in parallel to a single battery electrode or terminal, such as the positive or negative electrode of a vehicle battery. For this purpose, the battery terminal adapter includes an adapter body having clamping arms arranged around a battery terminal receiving cavity in which the battery terminal is to be inserted. Wire-receiving holes are provided on both ends of the arms, i.e. on the free end of the arms and on the end opposing the free end. The holes are in electrical communication with the battery terminal receiving cavity so that all electrical wires connected to the wire-receiving holes are powered by the battery. Clean and safe connection of a plurality of electrical wires is achieved by having the wire-receiving holes arranged on opposite sides of the arms.
US10115953B2	Energy storage apparatus An energy storage apparatus includes: one or more energy storage devices; a wiring connection component for connecting first wiring and second wiring, the first wiring being connected to at least one of the one or more energy storage devices, the second wiring being external wiring; and an attachment portion to which the wiring connection component is detachably attached.
US10115951B2	Swelling tape for filling gap The present application relates to a swelling tape and a method of filling a gap. The swelling tape is, for example, applied in gaps in which a fluid is present and deformed into a three-dimensional shape to fill the gaps and fix in place objects separated by gaps as needed.
US10115945B2	Hearing aid battery packaging A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, and a tray positioned between the card and the cover. The cover includes an opening and a door. The door is movable between an open position and a closed position. The tray includes multiple receptacles. The battery package further includes multiple batteries and multiple tabs. Each battery is positioned within one of the receptacles. Each tab is removably attached to one of the batteries. The tray is rotatable relative to the card and the cover to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening which provides an arc of access of at least 90 degrees.
US10115936B2	Lead-acid battery A lead-acid battery including: a power generating element; and a container accommodating the power generating element and having a narrowed portion that is partially provided at an outer wall and reduces an internal space, wherein the container has a corner of a thick portion that is thickened inward within a range not inwardly beyond the narrowed portion to be thicker than the outer wall.
US10115932B2	Method of designing electroluminescent device, electroluminescent device manufactured with the design method, and method of manufacturing electroluminescent device with the design method A method of designing an electroluminescent device includes preparing a reference device including a construction of an electroluminescent device and a desired analyzed device including a construction of an electroluminescent device, performing quantum optical analysis, electromagnetic field analysis, and ray trace with thicknesses and complex relative permittivities of a first transparent member, a first electrode, a first functional layer, a second functional layer, an emissive layer, and a second electrode as well as a position of a light-emitting point in the emissive layer and a distribution of light-emitting points in the emissive layer being used as design variables, calculating a “ratio of light extraction efficiency” between the reference device and the analyzed device by computing efficiency of light extraction from the emissive layer into the transparent member or air in both of the reference device and the analyzed device, finding relation of the thickness and the complex relative permittivity of each layer forming the reference device and the analyzed device with the “ratio of light extraction efficiency,” and obtaining thicknesses and complex relative permittivities of the first transparent member, the first electrode, the first functional layer, the second functional layer, the emissive layer, and the second electrode as the design variables, based on the relation and an electroluminescence spectrum in air and the first transparent member measured by feeding a current to the reference device.
US10115925B2	Organic optoelectronic device and display apparatus The present invention relates to an organic optoelectronic device and a display apparatus comprising same, the organic optoelectronic device comprising: an anode and a cathode facing each other; a light-emitting layer located between the anode and cathode; a hole transport layer located between the anode and light-emitting layer; an auxiliary hole transport layer located between the hole transport layer and light-emitting layer; an electron transport layer located between the cathode and light-emitting layer; and an auxiliary electron transport layer between the electron transport layer and light-emitting layer, wherein the auxiliary electron transport layer comprises at least one type of a first compound expressed by a particular Chemical Formula, and the auxiliary hole transport layer comprises at least one type of a second compound expressed by a particular Chemical Formula.
US10115919B2	Optoelectronic diodes and electronic devices including same An optoelectronic diode may include a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first active layer between the first and second electrodes, and a second active layer between the second and third electrodes. Two of the electrodes may be electrically connected to each other and may have different resistances. The first and second active layers may be isolated from each other. The first active layer, the first electrode, and the second electrode may form a diode, and the second active layer, the second electrode, and the third electrode may form a diode. The second electrode may have a refractive index different from a refractive index of the second active layer.
US10115917B2	Dopant-free polymeric hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cell The present teachings relate to hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells including a hole-transport layer in contact with the perovskite light-absorbing layer, where the hole-transport layer (HTL) is a pristine (undoped) polymer. More specifically, the HTL comprises a copolymer including a benzo[1,2-d;4,5-d′]bistriazole-containing repeating unit and a benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-containing repeating unit.
US10115915B1	Organic thin film transistor and method for making the same A method for forming an organic thin film transistor is provided. An interdigital electrode layer is located on a surface of the insulating substrate. An organic semiconductor layer is formed on a surface of the interdigital electrode layer. An insulating layer is located to cover the organic semiconductor layer. A gate electrode is formed on the insulating layer. A method for forming the organic semiconductor layer is provided. An evaporating source is provided, and the evaporating source and the interdigital electrode layer are spaced from each other. The carbon nanotube film structure is heated to gasify an organic semiconductor material to form the organic semiconductor layer on an interdigital electrode layer surface.
US10115912B2	Organometallic complex, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device An object is to provide a novel organometallic complex. Another object is to provide an organometallic complex that can exhibit yellow to blue phosphorescence. A platinum complex with a tetracoordinate ligand including a phenothiazine skeleton or a phenoxazine skeleton is provided. In the ligand, nitrogen at the 10-position and carbon at the 2-position of the phenothiazine skeleton or the phenoxazine skeleton have a pyridyl group and a phenoxy group, respectively. A five-membered heteroaromatic residue is present at the 3-position of the phenoxy group. The five-membered heteroaromatic residue has two or three nitrogen atoms in its skeleton. Carbon at the 1-position of the phenothiazine skeleton or the phenoxazine skeleton and carbon at the 2-position of the phenoxy group are bonded to platinum, and nitrogen of the pyridyl group and nitrogen or carbene carbon of the five-membered heteroaromatic residue are coordinated to platinum.
US10115910B2	Organic electroluminescent material, organic electroluminescent device and quantum dot electroluminescent unit An organic electroluminescent material, an organic electroluminescent device, a quantum dot electroluminescent unit, and a quantum dot electroluminescent device are disclosed. The quantum dot electroluminescent unit includes a plurality of electro-phosphorescent quantum dots and at least an organic electroluminescent material, and the electro-phosphorescent quantum dots disperse in the organic electroluminescent material. The organic electroluminescent material has a structure of the following Formula (1), wherein one or two of R2, R4, R6, R9, or R13 are independent triazole derivatives, and the triazole derivatives have the structure of the following Formula (2),
US10115907B2	Compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A compound, an organic light-emitting device, and a flat display apparatus, the compound being represented by any one selected from the following Formula 1, Formula 2, and Formula 3:
US10115905B2	Organic compound for organic electroluminescence device and using the same The present invention generally discloses an organic compound and organic electroluminescence (herein referred to as organic EL) device using the organic compound. More specifically, the present invention relates to an organic EL device employing the organic compound as fluorescent emitting layer which can display long lifetime, high efficiency and emitting fluorescent blue light and green light.
US10115899B1	Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional nonvolatile memory A method is provided that includes forming a word line above a substrate, the word line disposed in a first direction, forming a bit line above the substrate, the bit line disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, forming a nonvolatile memory material between the word line and the bit line by selectively forming a conductive oxide material layer adjacent the word line, and forming a semiconductor material layer adjacent the bit line, and forming a memory cell comprising the nonvolatile memory material at an intersection of the bit line and the word line.
US10115892B2	Multilayer structure for reducing film roughness in magnetic devices A seed layer stack with a uniform top surface having a peak to peak roughness of 0.5 nm is formed by sputter depositing an amorphous layer on a smoothing layer such as Mg where the latter has a resputtering rate 2 × to 30 × that of the amorphous layer. The uppermost seed (template) layer is NiW, NiMo, or one or more of NiCr, NiFeCr, and Hf while the bottommost seed layer is Ta or TaN, for example. Accordingly, perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in an overlying magnetic layer is maintained during high temperature processing up to 400° C. and is advantageous for magnetic tunnel junctions in embedded memory devices, or read head sensors. The amorphous seed layer is SiN, TaN, or CoFeM where M may be B.
US10115882B2	Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module Provided are a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module using the thermoelectric conversion element. The thermoelectric conversion element has a first substrate having a high thermal conduction portion which has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of other regions, a thermoelectric conversion layer formed on the first substrate, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer formed on the thermoelectric conversion layer, a second substrate formed on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, having a concave portion, which at least partially overlaps the high thermal conduction portion of the first substrate in a plane direction and is on the pressure sensitive adhesive layer side, and made of a metal material, and an electrode pair connected to the thermoelectric conversion layer. According to the present invention, a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module are obtained which improve the heat utilization efficiency and generate electric power with excellent efficiency.
US10115867B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor chip An optoelectronic semiconductor chip is disclosed. In an embodiment the optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor body of semiconductor material, a p-contact layer and an n-contact layer. The semiconductor body includes an active layer intended for generating radiation. The semiconductor body includes a p-side and an n-side, between which the active layer is arranged. The p-contact layer is intended for electrical contacting the p-side. The n-contact layer is intended for electrical contacting the n-side 1b. The n-contact layer contains a TCO layer and a mirror layer, the TCO-layer being arranged between the n-side of the semiconductor body and the mirror layer.
US10115866B2	Light emitting device and projector In a light emitting device, a ridge section has first and second tapered sections respectively increasing in width from a center position toward first and second light exiting surfaces, and a connection area has third and fourth tapered sections respectively increasing in width from the center position toward the first and second light exiting surfaces. The outer edge angle of the connection area that specifies the third tapered section's width relative to the center line of an optical waveguide is greater than the outer edge angle of the ridge section that specifies the first tapered section's width relative to the center line. The outer edge angle of the connection area that specifies the fourth tapered section's width relative to the center line is greater than the outer edge angle of the ridge section that specifies the second tapered section's width relative to the center line.
US10115862B2	Fluidic assembly top-contact LED disk A method is provided for forming a direct emission display. The method provides a transparent substrate with an array of wells formed in its top surface. A fluid stream is supplied to the substrate top surface comprising a plurality of top-contact light emitting diode (LED) disks. The wells are filled with the LED disks. A first array of electrically conductive lines is formed over the substrate top surface to connect with a first contact of each LED disk, and a second array of electrically conductive lines is formed over the substrate top surface to connect with a second contact of each LED disk. An insulator over the disk exposes an upper disk (e.g., p-doped) contact region. A via is formed through the disk, exposing a center contact region of a lower (e.g., n-doped) disk contact region. Also provided are a top-contact LED disk and direct emission display.
US10115849B2	Solar cell and method of fabricating the same A solar cell includes a substrate, a back electrode layer on the substrate, a light absorbing layer on the back electrode layer, a buffer layer on the light absorbing layer, and a front electrode layer on the buffer layer. The buffer layer includes at least one of zinc sulfide (ZnS), zinc oxide (ZnO) and zinc hydroxide (Zn(OH)2). A method of fabricating the solar cell includes forming a back electrode layer on a substrate, forming a light absorbing layer on the back electrode layer, forming a first buffer layer on the light absorbing layer, and forming a second buffer layer on the first buffer layer. The first buffer layer or the second buffer layer includes at least one of zinc sulfide (ZnS), zinc oxide (ZnO), and zinc hydroxide (Zn(OH)2).
US10115843B2	Broadband antireflection coatings under coverglass using ion gun assisted evaporation The present disclosure generally relates to broadband antireflective coatings for reducing reflection of light in the infrared without compromising visible light reflectance in multijunction solar cells bonded to coverglass, and methods of forming the same. The antireflective coatings include a high index, one or more intermediate index, and low index of refraction dielectric layers. The high index dielectric layer utilizes an ion beam assisted deposition to maximize the density and index of refraction. The intermediate index layer(s) increase the bandwidth of the antireflection coating, thereby improving the performance of the antireflective coating in the infrared spectrum.
US10115833B2	Self-aligned heterojunction field effect transistor A junction field effect transistor (JFET) comprises an insulating carrier substrate, a base semiconductor substrate formed on the insulating carrier substrate and a gate region formed on the base semiconductor substrate. The gate region forms a junction with the base semiconductor substrate. The JFET further comprises a first source/drain region formed on the base semiconductor substrate and located on a first side of the gate region and a second source/drain region formed on the base semiconductor substrate and located on a second side of the gate region. A gate stack is deposited on the gate region, a first source/drain stack is deposited on the first source/drain region and a second source/drain stack is deposited on the second source/drain region. At least one of the gate stack, first source/drain stack and second source/drain stack overlaps onto another one of the gate stack, first source/drain stack and second source/drain stack.
US10115831B2	Semiconductor device having an oxide semiconductor layer comprising a nanocrystal In a channel protected thin film transistor in which a channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor, an oxide semiconductor layer which is dehydrated or dehydrogenated by a heat treatment is used as an active layer, a crystal region including nanocrystals is included in a superficial portion in the channel formation region, and the rest portion is amorphous or is formed of a mixture of amorphousness/non-crystals and microcrystals, where an amorphous region is dotted with microcrystals. By using an oxide semiconductor layer having such a structure, a change to an n-type caused by entry of moisture or elimination of oxygen to or from the superficial portion and generation of a parasitic channel can be prevented and a contact resistance with a source and drain electrodes can be reduced.
US10115825B1	Structure and method for FinFET device with asymmetric contact The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a fin-type active region extruded from a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack disposed on the fin-type active region; a source/drain feature formed in the fin-type active region and disposed on a side of the gate stack; an elongated contact feature landing on the source/drain feature; and a dielectric material layer disposed on sidewalls of the elongated contact feature and free from ends of the elongated contact feature.
US10115821B2	FDSOI LDMOS semiconductor device Semiconductor devices are provided that use both silicon on insulator region and bulk region of a fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) device. For example, a semiconductor device includes a drain region that is disposed above a first type well and a first drain extension region that is disposed above the first type well and laterally spaced apart from the drain region. The semiconductor device further includes a second drain extension region that is disposed above the first type well and is laterally spaced apart from the drain region and the first drain extension region. The semiconductor device further includes a source region disposed above a second type well and laterally spaced apart from the second drain extension.
US10115820B2	Vertical transistors with sidewall gate air gaps and methods therefor A method is provided that includes forming a first vertically-oriented transistor above a substrate, the first vertically-oriented transistor comprising a first sidewall gate disposed in a first direction, forming a second vertically-oriented transistor above the substrate, the second vertically-oriented transistor including a second sidewall gate disposed in the first direction, and forming an air gap chamber above the substrate disposed between the first sidewall gate and the second sidewall gate, and extending in the first direction, the air gap chamber including an air gap.
US10115819B2	Recessed high voltage metal oxide semiconductor transistor for RRAM cell A recessed high voltage metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor is provided for use in a two-terminal memory cell. The two-terminal memory cell can include a resistive switching device connected to the recessed MOS transistor. The recessed MOS transistor provides for an increased channel length relative to the transistor size in comparison to a traditional MOS transistor. This allows for a decreased memory cell size while maintaining comparable electrical parameters (threshold voltage, channel length, and leakage) than would otherwise be possible. The recessed MOS transistor can be made as either a NMOS or PMOS device using n-type or p-type materials respectively, where the channel, or inversion layer, is formed by electrons (NMOS) or holes (PMOS) between the source and drain in the transistor.
US10115818B1	Reducing MOSFET body current An illustrative bidirectional MOSFET switch includes a body region, a buried layer, a gate terminal, a first configuration switch, and a second configuration switch. The body region is a semiconductor of a first type separating a source region and a drain region that are a semiconductor of a second type. The buried layer is a semiconductor of the second type separating the body region from a substrate that is a semiconductor of the first type. The gate terminal is drivable to form a channel in the body region, thereby enabling conduction between the source terminal and the drain terminal. The first configuration switch disconnects the body terminal from the source terminal when the source terminal voltage exceeds the drain terminal voltage; and the second configuration switch connects the body terminal to the buried layer terminal when the source terminal voltage exceeds the drain terminal voltage.
US10115814B2	Process method and structure for high voltage MOSFETs This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor power device comprises a plurality of trenches each having a trench endpoint with an endpoint sidewall perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the trench and extends vertically downward from a top surface to a trench bottom surface. The semiconductor power device further includes a trench bottom dopant region disposed below the trench bottom surface and a sidewall dopant region disposed along the endpoint sidewall wherein the sidewall dopant region extends vertically downward along the endpoint sidewall of the trench to reach the trench bottom dopant region and pick-up the trench bottom dopant region to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10115812B2	Semiconductor device having a superjunction structure A semiconductor device includes a drift region of a first conductivity type, an anode region of a second conductivity type situated below the drift region, an inversion region of the second conductivity type situated above the drift region, an enhancement region of the first conductivity type situated between the drift region and the inversion region, first and second control trenches extending through the inversion region and the enhancement region into the drift region, each control trench being bordered by a cathode diffusion region of the first conductivity type, and a superjunction structure situated in the drift region between the first and the second control trenches so that the superjunction structure does not extend under either the first or the second control trench. The superjunction structure is separated from the inversion region by the enhancement region and includes alternating regions of the first and the second conductivity types.
US10115807B2	Method, apparatus and system for improved performance using tall fins in finFET devices At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein fin field effect transistor (finFET) comprising a tall fin having a plurality of epitaxial regions. A first fin of a transistor is formed. The first fin comprising a first portion comprising silicon, a second portion comprising silicon germanium and a third portion comprising silicon. A gate structure above the third portion is formed. An etching process is performed for removing the silicon germanium of the second portion that is not below the gate structure. A first epitaxy region is formed above the first portion. A second epitaxy region is formed vertically aligned with the first epitaxy region and above the silicon germanium of the second portion that is below the gate structure.
US10115805B2	Extremely thin silicon-on-insulator silicon germanium device without edge strain relaxation A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a strained silicon germanium layer on top of a substrate. At least one patterned hard mask layer is formed on and in contact with at least a first portion of the strained silicon germanium layer. At least a first exposed portion and a second exposed portion of the strained silicon germanium layer are oxidized. The oxidizing process forms a first oxide region and a second oxide region within the first and second exposed portions, respectively, of the strained silicon germanium.
US10115802B2	Manufacturing method for compound semiconductor device A support substrate is bonded to a GaN epitaxial substrate including at least an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer grown on a growth substrate in the Ga-polar direction such that the support substrate faces the Ga-plane of the GaN epitaxial substrate. Furthermore, at least the growth substrate is removed from the GaN epitaxial substrate so as to expose an N-plane of the GaN epitaxial substrate. Subsequently, a semiconductor element is formed on the N-plane side.
US10115793B2	Semiconductor device An improvement is achieved in the IE effect of a semiconductor device including an IGBT having an active cell region with an EGE structure. Each of a plurality of hybrid cell regions extending in a Y-axis direction has first, second, and third trench electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction, a p-type body region, and contact trenches provided between the first and second trench electrodes and between the first and third trench electrodes to extend in the Y-axis direction and reach middle points in the p-type body region. Each of the hybrid cell regions further has a plurality of n+-type emitter regions formed in an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate located between the contact trenches and the first trench electrode to be shallower than the contact trenches and spaced apart at regular intervals in the Y-direction in plan view. The n+-type emitter regions are arranged in a staggered configuration in plan view.
US10115780B2	Display device A display device including a substrate including a first display region having a first width, a second display region having a second width smaller than the first width, a peripheral region at a periphery of the first and second display regions, and a dummy region in the peripheral region, a first pixel in the first display region, a second pixel in the second display region, a first control line connected to the first pixel and extending in the first display region, a second control line connected to the second pixel and extending in the second display region, and a dummy line connected to the second control line in the dummy region, wherein the second control line is at a first conductive layer on a first insulating layer, the dummy line is at a second conductive layer on a second insulating layer on the first conductive layer.
US10115776B2	Organic light emitting display devices An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a pixel defining layer, a first intermediate layer, a fluorine-containing layer, an emitting layer and a second electrode. The first electrodes are spaced apart from each other on a substrate. The pixel defining layer is disposed on the substrate. The pixel defining layer partially exposes the first electrodes. The first intermediate layer is disposed on the substrate, the pixel defining layer and the exposed first electrodes. The fluorine-containing layer is formed on a portion of the first intermediate layer overlapping an upper surface of the pixel defining layer. The fluorine-containing layer includes fluorine diffused from the pixel defining layer or the first intermediate layer. The emitting layer is at least partially disposed on a portion of the first intermediate layer not including the fluorine-containing layer thereon. The second electrode is disposed on the emitting layer.
US10115770B2	Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional nonvolatile memory A method is provided that includes forming a dielectric material and a first sacrificial material above a substrate, forming a second sacrificial material above the substrate and disposed adjacent the dielectric material and the first sacrificial material, forming a first hole in the second sacrificial material, the first hole disposed in a first direction, forming a word line layer above the substrate via the first hole, the word line layer disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, forming a first portion of a nonvolatile memory material on peripheral sides of the word line layer via the first hole, forming a second hole in the second sacrificial material, forming a second portion of the nonvolatile memory material on a sidewall of the second hole, forming a local bit line in the second hole, and forming a memory cell including the nonvolatile memory material at an intersection of the local bit line and the word line layer.
US10115766B2	Stretchable display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes (“LED”s); a stretchable substrate including a flat portion, and a plurality of protrusions protruding from the flat portion, where each of the protrusions has bent surfaces, and at least some of the light-emitting diodes are disposed on the protrusions; and a plurality of thin film transistors in the stretchable substrate and connected to the LEDs.
US10115757B2	Image sensor and electronic device having the same An image sensor may include: a substrate including a substrate comprising a photoelectric conversion element; a pixel lens formed over the substrate and comprising a plurality of light condensing layers in which a lower layer has a larger area than an upper layer; a color filter layer covering the pixel lens; and an anti-reflection structure formed over the color filter layer.
US10115752B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device that can achieve a higher resolution while increasing sensitivity, and an electronic apparatus. In a pixel array unit, pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, and the pixels are formed with a combination of: a first pixel that performs photoelectric conversion on light of a first color component with a first photoelectric conversion unit, and photoelectric conversion on light of a third color component with a second photoelectric conversion unit, the light of the third color component having passed through a first color filter and the first photoelectric conversion unit, the first color filter being designed to pass light of a second color component; a second pixel that performs photoelectric conversion on light of the first color component with a first photoelectric conversion unit, and photoelectric conversion on light of a fifth color component with a second photoelectric conversion unit, the light of the fifth color component having passed through a second color filter and the first photoelectric conversion unit, the second color filter being designed to pass light of a fourth color component; and a third pixel that performs photoelectric conversion on light of the first color component with a first photoelectric conversion unit, and photoelectric conversion on light of a sixth color component with a second photoelectric conversion unit, the light of the sixth color component having passed through the first photoelectric conversion unit. The first color component and the sixth color component are mixed, to generate white (W).
US10115749B2	Array substrates and the manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and the manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes depositing a conductive layer on a substrate, forming three poles of at least one thin film transistor (TFT), a first signal line, and a second signal line by etching the conductive layer via a first mask, The method also includes depositing an intermediate layer in sequence, forming a first connecting bridge connecting a first portion and a second portion by etching the intermediate layer via a second mask, depositing a conductive electrode, and forming at least one pixel electrode and a connecting line between the first portion and the second portion by etching the conductive electrode via a third mask. In this way, the time of the manufacturing process of the array substrates may be reduced such that the manufacturing cost may be decreased.
US10115746B2	Manufacturing method for active matrix substrate, active matrix substrate and display apparatus Provided is a manufacturing method for an active matrix substrate, capable of providing a hole for alignment at an interlayer dielectric film without possible etching of a substrate surface and abnormal electric discharge and of allowing the position of a formed film to be easily corrected to be aligned with the position of the film of the lowest layer, with high overlaying precision. Also provided are the active matrix substrate and a display apparatus comprising the active matrix substrate.An interlayer dielectric film 14 of the active matrix substrate is formed using an SOG material with photosensitivity, and an adjustment hole 14b for adjustment of the patterns of a gate insulation film 15, a first semiconductor film 16, a second semiconductor film 17 and a source metal that are formed on the upper side of a substrate 10 and the interlayer dielectric film 14 is formed. The position of each film is adjusted while viewing an edge of the gate wiring 11 through the adjustment hole 14b.
US10115737B2	Charge storage region in non-volatile memory Disclosed herein is a non-volatile storage system with memory cells having a charge storage region that may be configured to store a higher density of charges (e.g., electrons) in the middle than nearer to the control gate or channel. The charge storage region has a middle charge storage material that stores a higher density of charges than two outer charge storage materials that are nearer to the control gate or channel, in one aspect. The charge storage region of one aspect has oxide regions between the middle charge storage material and the two outer charge storage materials. The oxide regions of one embodiment are thin (e.g., less than one nanometer) such that during operation charges may easily pass through the oxide regions. The non-volatile memory cell programs quickly and has high data retention.
US10115735B2	Semiconductor device containing multilayer titanium nitride diffusion barrier and method of making thereof A semiconductor device includes a silicon surface, a titanium silicide layer contacting the silicon surface, a first titanium nitride layer located over the titanium silicide layer, a titanium oxynitride layer contacting the first titanium nitride layer, a second titanium nitride layer contacting the titanium oxynitride layer, and a metal fill layer located over the second titanium nitride layer.
US10115730B1	Three-dimensional memory device containing structurally reinforced pedestal channel portions and method of making thereof A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a semiconductor surface, a memory opening extending through the alternating stack, a semiconductor pedestal channel portion located at a bottom portion of the memory opening and contacting a top surface of the semiconductor surface, and a memory stack structure located in the memory opening and contacting a top surface of the pedestal channel portion. The memory stack structure includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel located inside the memory film. A maximum lateral extent of the pedestal channel portion is greater than a maximum lateral dimension of an entire interface between the pedestal channel portion and the memory stack structure.
US10115717B2	Electrostatic discharge protection structure and fabrication method thereof A method is provided for fabricating an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure. The method includes forming a substrate having a first region and a second region, wherein the first region and the second region have a preset distance; forming a well area in the substrate; forming a first fin portion in the substrate in the first region and a second fin portion in the substrate in the second region; forming a supporting gate structure, wherein the supporting gate structure includes a first supporting gate crossing the first fin portion and a second supporting gate crossing the second fin portion; forming a dielectric layer on the well area; and forming a conductive structure in the dielectric layer, wherein the conductive structure includes a first conductive structure connecting to the first fin portion and a second conductive structure connecting to the second fin portion.
US10115707B2	Adhesive film and semiconductor package using adhesive film An adhesive film that can solve the problem of pickup defect and improve the yield rate of semiconductor packages. The adhesive film includes: (A) a bismaleimide resin; (B) a radical initiator; and (C) a coupling agent that contains a (meth)acrylic group. Further, an adhesive film with dicing tape, which includes such an adhesive film laminated onto a dicing tape, is provided. Furthermore, a semiconductor package that includes such an adhesive film with dicing tape is provided.
US10115705B2	Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed and may include a first semiconductor device comprising a first bond pad on a first surface of the first semiconductor device, a first encapsulant material surrounding side edges of the first semiconductor device, and a redistribution layer (RDL) formed on the first surface of the first semiconductor device and on a first surface of the encapsulant material. The RDL may electrically couple the first bond pad to a second bond pad formed above the first surface of the encapsulant material. A second semiconductor device comprising a third bond pad on a first surface of the second semiconductor device may face the first surface of the first semiconductor device and be electrically coupled to the first bond pad on the first semiconductor device. The first surface of the first semiconductor device may be coplanar with the first surface of the encapsulant material.
US10115702B2	Semiconductor chip for sensing temperature and semiconductor system including the same In one example embodiment, a semiconductor system includes a first chip configured to generate first temperature information of the first chip, the first temperature information being based on at least one temperature measurement using at least one first temperature sensor. The semiconductor system further includes a second chip including a second temperature sensor configured to be controlled based on at least the first temperature information.
US10115701B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming conductive vias by backside via reveal with CMP A semiconductor device has a semiconductor wafer and a conductive via formed through the semiconductor wafer. A portion of the semiconductor wafer is removed such that a portion of the conductive via extends above the semiconductor wafer. A first insulating layer is formed over the conductive via and semiconductor wafer. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer includes an inorganic material and the second insulating layer includes an organic material. A portion of the first and second insulating layers is removed simultaneously from over the conductive via by chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). Alternatively, a first insulating layer including an organic material is formed over the conductive via and semiconductor wafer. A portion of the first insulating layer is removed by CMP. A conductive layer is formed over the conductive via and first insulating layer. The conductive layer is substantially planar.
US10115700B2	Power module, electrical power conversion device, and driving device for vehicle The object of the present invention is to compensate for a difference in threshold voltage between a plurality of switching devices incorporated in a power module.The present invention solves the subject described above by mounting a switching device having a high threshold voltage in comparison with a different switching device at a location at which the temperature of the power module during operation is higher than that at another location at which the different switching device is mounted. Eventually, a power conversion apparatus of a high performance and a vehicle drive apparatus of a high performance can be provided.
US10115693B2	Solder layer of a semiconductor chip arranged within recesses One semiconductor chip includes a substrate having insulation properties, a plurality of bump electrodes provided on one surface of the substrate, a plurality of recesses provided in the other surface of the substrate, and a solder layer disposed within the recesses. The recesses are formed such that the area of the opening decreases from the other surface side toward the one surface side of the substrate.
US10115692B2	Method of forming solder bumps A method of forming solder bumps includes preparing a substrate having a surface on which a plurality of electrode pads are formed, forming a resist layer on the substrate, the resist layer having a plurality of openings, each of the openings being aligned with a corresponding electrode pad of the plurality of electrode pads, forming a conductive pillar in each of the openings of the resist layer, forming conductive layers to cover at least side walls of the resist layer in the openings to block gas emanating from the resist layer, filling molten solder in each of the openings in which the conductive layers has been formed and removing the resist layer.
US10115671B2	Incorporation of passives and fine pitch through via for package on package This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for glass via bars that can be used in compact three-dimensional packages, including package-on-packages (PoPs). The glass via bars can provide high density electrical interconnections in the PoPs. In some implementations, the glass via bars can include integrated passive components. Packaging methods employing glass via bars are also provided.
US10115665B2	Semiconductor resistor structures embedded in a middle-of-the-line (MOL) dielectric A resistor structure composed of a metal liner is embedded within a MOL dielectric material and is located, at least in part, on a surface of a doped semiconductor material structure. The resistor structure is located on a same interconnect level of the semiconductor structure as a lower contact structure and both structures are embedded within the same MOL dielectric material. The metal liner that provides the resistor structure is composed of a metal or metal alloy having a higher resistivity than a metal or metal alloy that provides the contact metal of the lower contact structure.
US10115663B2	3D semiconductor device and structure A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors and a first metal layer, where the first metal layer includes interconnecting the first transistors forming a plurality of logic gates; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the first single crystal layer; a plurality of third transistors overlaying the second transistors; a second metal layer overlaying the third transistors; and Input/Output pads to provide connection to external devices, where the third transistors are aligned to the first transistors with less than 40 nm misalignment, where the first single crystal layer includes an Electrostatic Discharge (“ESD”) structure connected to at least one of the Input/Output pads, where at least one of the third transistors is a junction-less transistor, and where a memory cell includes at least one of the third transistors.
US10115653B2	Thermal dissipation through seal rings in 3DIC structure A package includes a die, which includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of through-vias penetrating through the semiconductor substrate, a seal ring overlapping and connected to the plurality of through-vias, and a plurality of electrical connectors underlying the semiconductor substrate and connected to the seal ring. An interposer is underlying and bonded to the die. The interposer includes a substrate, and a plurality of metal lines over the substrate. The plurality of metal lines is electrically coupled to the plurality of electrical connectors. Each of the plurality metal lines has a first portion overlapped by the first die, and a second portion misaligned with the die. A heat spreader encircles the die and the interposer. A wire includes a first end bonded to one of the plurality of metal lines, and a second end bonded to the heat spreader.
US10115652B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor device includes a power device and a temperature detection diode. The semiconductor device has a device structure configured to insulate between a power lien of the power device and the temperature detection diode.
US10115651B2	Electronic component having a chip mounted on a substrate with a sealing resin and manufacturing method thereof An electronic component includes a substrate that has a first principal surface and a second principal surface, a chip that includes a mounting surface on which a plurality of terminal electrodes are formed and a non-mounting surface positioned on a side opposite to the mounting surface and that is arranged at the first principal surface of the substrate in a posture in which the mounting surface faces the first principal surface of the substrate, and a sealing resin that seals the chip at the first principal surface of the substrate so as to expose the non-mounting surface of the chip.
US10115649B1	External connection mechanism, semiconductor device, and stacked package A semiconductor device encompasses a connecting base including a semiconductor substrate and a surface insulating-film on the semiconductor substrate, a passivation film covering the surface insulating-film and surface electrode on the surface insulating-film, establishing a groove that exposes a central part of the surface electrode, a barrier-metal film spanning from the bottom of the groove to an upper face of the passivation film, and micro-bumps arranged on the barrier-metal film located on the passivation film.
US10115639B2	FinFET device and method of forming the same A method may include depositing a first conductive material in an opening disposed between a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure, the first conductive material comprising at least one first void. The method further includes removing a portion of the first conductive material to form a trench, the trench exposing the at least one first void and being defined by a remaining portion of the first conductive material; and depositing a second conductive material in the trench, the second conductive material and the remaining portion of the first conductive material forming a dummy gate layer.
US10115635B2	Method for filling a wafer via with solder A wafer via solder filling device includes a solder bath comprising an accommodation space for accommodating a molten solder, with an open top, and an air outlet for exhausting air from the accommodation space; a fixing unit for fixing the wafer having a via formed in one surface in the accommodation space to seal the accommodation space airtight; and a pressing unit for pressing a bottom of the molten solder arranged in the solder bath and moving the molten solder upward, to fill the molten solder in the via.
US10115633B2	Method for producing self-aligned line end vias and related device A method for producing self-aligned line end vias and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include trench lines formed in a dielectric layer; each trench line including a pair of self aligned line end vias; and a high-density plasma (HDP) oxide, silicon carbide (SiC) or silicon carbon nitride (SiCNH) formed between each pair of self aligned line end vias, wherein the trench lines and self aligned line end vias are filled with a metal liner and metal.
US10115632B1	Three-dimensional memory device having conductive support structures and method of making thereof An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a horizontal layer, which can be formed over a lower-interconnect-level dielectric material layer overlying a substrate. Structural integrity of insulating layers vertically spaced from one another by backside recesses during replacement of sacrificial material layers with electrically conductive layers can be enhanced by forming electrically inactive laterally-insulated support structures concurrently with formation of laterally-insulated conductive via structures that vertically extend through each layer in the alternating stack and through the horizontal layer and to lower-interconnect-level metal interconnect structures. Alternatively or additionally, the structural integrity of insulating layers during the replacement process can be enhanced by M×N array of semiconductor-containing support structures that extend through staircase region and having same materials as memory stack structures.
US10115617B2	System architecture for vacuum processing A system for processing substrates in plasma chambers, such that all substrates transport and loading/unloading operations are performed in atmospheric environment, but processing is performed in vacuum environment. The substrates are transported throughout the system on carriers. The system's chambers are arranged linearly, such that carriers move from one chamber directly to the next. A conveyor, placed above or below the system's chambers, returns the carriers to the system's entry area after processing is completed. Loading and unloading of substrates may be performed at one side of the system, or loading can be done at the entry side and unloading at the exit side.
US10115616B2	Carrier adapter insert apparatus and carrier adapter insert detection methods Methods, apparatus, and assemblies are provided for an adapter insert including an adapter frame including a support rail adapted to support one or more substrates in a substrate carrier, a frame extension coupled to, or integral with, the adapter frame, and a mapping feature formed on the frame extension and disposed to be detected by a sensor for determining whether an adapter insert is present or absent in a substrate carrier. Numerous additional features are disclosed.
US10115614B2	Transfer chamber and method for preventing adhesion of particle A transfer chamber is provided between a processing unit for performing a predetermined process on a target substrate to be processed in a depressurized environment and an atmospheric maintaining unit for maintaining the target substrate in an atmospheric environment to transfer the target substrate therebetween. The transfer chamber includes a chamber main body for accommodating the target substrate, a gas exhaust unit for exhausting the chamber main body to set the chamber main body to the depressurized environment, and a gas supply unit for supplying a predetermined gas to the chamber main body to set the chamber main body in the atmospheric environment. Further, in the transfer chamber, an ionization unit is provided outside the chamber main body, for ionizing the predetermined gas and an ionized gas supply unit is provided to supply the ionized gas generated by the ionization unit to the chamber main body.
US10115612B2	Manufacturing method for vertical cavity surface emitting laser A manufacturing method for a vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes steps of forming, on a substrate, a multilayer body including first and second Distributed Bragg Reflector layers, an active layer, and a to-be-oxidized layer becoming a current constriction structure, processing the multilayer body such that a lateral surface of at least the to-be-oxidized layer is exposed, and forming a current constriction structure by oxidizing the to-be-oxidized layer from the lateral surface thereof after the multilayer body has been processed. The step of forming the current constriction structure includes steps of holding the substrate to be positioned along a uniformly-heated plate that is placed on a heat conduction member, and to be spaced from the uniformly-heated plate, and heating the substrate by radiant heat from the uniformly-heated plate by heating the heat conduction member.
US10115608B2	Method and apparatus for rapid pump-down of a high-vacuum loadlock A gas expansion module for use with semiconductor wafer loadlocks and other regulated-pressure components of semiconductor processing tools is provided. The gas expansion module may be barometrically isolated from the loadlock or other component and pumped down to a vacuum condition while the loadlock is performing operations at a higher pressure, such as ambient atmospheric conditions. After an initial pump-down of the loadlock is performed, the gas expansion module may be fluidly joined to the loadlock volume and the gases within each allowed to reach equilibrium. A further pump-down of the combined volume may be used to bring the loadlock pressure to a desired vacuum condition.
US10115607B2	Method and apparatus for wafer outgassing control Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to apparatus and methods for controlling substrate outgassing such that hazardous gasses are eliminated from a surface of a substrate after a Si:As process has been performed on a substrate, and prior to additional processing. The apparatus includes a purge station including an enclosure, a gas supply coupled to the enclosure, an exhaust pump coupled to the enclosure, a first purge gas port formed in the enclosure, a first channel operatively connected to the gas supply at a first end and to the first purge gas port at a second end, a second purge gas port formed in the enclosure, and a second channel operatively connected to the second purge gas port at a third end and to the exhaust pump at a fourth end. The first channel includes a particle filter, a heater, and a flow controller. The second channel includes a dry scrubber.
US10115604B2	Semiconductor package and method for fabricating base for semiconductor package A method for fabricating a base for a semiconductor package is provided. The method operates by providing a carrier with conductive seed layers on the top surface and the bottom surface of the carrier, forming radio-frequency (RF) devices respectively on the conductive seed layers, laminating a first base material layer and a second base material layer respectively on the conductive seed layers, covering the RF devices, and separating the first base material layer the second base material layer, which contain the RF devices thereon, from the carrier to form a first base and a second base.
US10115600B2	Method of etching semiconductor structures with etch gas Disclosed are sulfur-containing compounds for plasma etching channel holes, gate trenches, staircase contacts, capacitor holes, contact holes, etc., in Si-containing layers on a substrate and plasma etching methods of using the same. The plasma etching compounds may provide improved selectivity between the Si-containing layers and mask material, less damage to channel region, a straight vertical profile, and reduced bowing in pattern high aspect ratio structures.
US10115589B2	Epitaxial substrate for electronic devices, electronic device, method for producing the epitaxial substrate for electronic devices, and method for producing the electronic device An epitaxial substrate for electronic devices, including: a Si-based substrate; an AlN initial layer provided on the Si-based substrate; and a buffer layer provided on the AlN initial layer, wherein the roughness Sa of the surface of the AlN initial layer on the side where the buffer layer is located is 4 nm or more. As a result, an epitaxial substrate for electronic devices, in which V pits in a buffer layer structure can be suppressed and longitudinal leakage current characteristics can be improved when an electronic device is fabricated therewith, is provided.
US10115583B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes: supplying a process gas to a process chamber in a state in which a substrate with an insulating film formed thereon is mounted on a substrate support part inside the process chamber; supplying a first power from a plasma generation part to the process chamber to generate plasma and forming a first silicon nitride layer on the insulating film; and supplying a second power from an ion control part to the process chamber in parallel with the generation of plasma, to form a second silicon nitride layer having lower stress than that of the first silicon nitride layer on the first silicon nitride layer.
US10115581B2	Removal of particles on back side of wafer The present disclosure provides a method of cleaning a semiconductor wafer during a process of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes loading a semiconductor wafer into a wafer handling system. The method includes removing contaminant particles from an edge region of the wafer from the back side, wherein alignment marks are located in the edge region. The method includes collecting the removed contaminant particles and discarding the collected contaminant particles out of the wafer handling system. The disclosure also provides an apparatus for fabricating a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a wafer cleaning device that is operable to clean a predetermined region of the wafer on the back surface thereof. The predetermined region of the wafer at least partially overlaps with one or more alignment marks.
US10115579B2	Method for manufacturing wafer-level semiconductor packages During the manufacture of a semiconductor package, a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of bond pads on a surface of the wafer is provided and the surface of the wafer is covered with a dielectric material to form a dielectric layer over the bond pads. Portions of the dielectric layer corresponding to positions of the bond pads are removed to form a plurality of wells, wherein each well is configured to form a through-hole between top and bottom surfaces of the dielectric layer for exposing each bond pad. A conductive material is then deposited into the wells to form a conductive layer between the bond pads and a top surface of the dielectric layer. Thereafter, the semiconductor wafer is singulated to form a plurality of semiconductor packages.
US10115577B1	Isotope ratio mass spectrometry Isotope ratio mass spectrometry is effected by: injecting a sample for analysis into a gas chromatography column; directing an effluent from the gas chromatography column to a switching arrangement; and selecting a configuration of the switching arrangement, such that: in a first mode, the effluent from the gas chromatography column is provided as an input to a peak broadener; and in a second mode, an effluent from the peak broadener is provided to a mass spectrometer for isotope ratio mass spectrometry without the effluent from the gas chromatography column being provided as an input to the peak broadener.
US10115573B2	Apparatus for high compressive stress film deposition to improve kit life Apparatus for extending process kit components lifetimes are disclosed. In some embodiments, a process kit includes: a first ring having an inner wall defining an inner diameter, an outer wall defining an outer diameter, an upper surface between the inner wall and the outer wall, and an opposing lower surface between the inner wall and the outer wall, wherein a first portion of the upper surface proximate the inner wall is concave, and wherein a second portion of the upper surface extends horizontally away from the first portion; and a second ring having an upper surface and an opposing lower surface, wherein a first portion of the lower surface is configured to rest upon the second portion of the first ring, wherein a second portion of the lower surface is convex and extends into but does not touch the concave first portion of the upper surface of the first ring.
US10115572B2	Methods for in-situ chamber clean in plasma etching processing chamber Embodiments of the disclosure include methods for in-situ chamber cleaning a plasma processing chamber utilized for photomask plasma fabrication process. In one embodiment, a method for in-situ chamber cleaning after a plasma process includes supplying a cleaning gas mixture including at least an oxygen containing gas and a hydrogen containing gas into the plasma processing chamber, controlling the processing pressure at less than 2 millitorr, applying a RF source power to the processing chamber to form a plasma from the cleaning gas mixture, and cleaning the processing chamber in the presence of the plasma.
US10115566B2	Method and apparatus for controlling a magnetic field in a plasma chamber Methods and apparatus for controlling a magnetic field in a plasma chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a process chamber liner may include a cylindrical body, an inner electromagnetic cosine-theta (cos θ) coil ring including a first plurality of inner coils embedded in the body and configured to generate a magnetic field in a first direction, and an outer electromagnetic cosine-theta (cos θ) coil ring including a second plurality of outer coils embedded in the body and configured to generate a magnetic field in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein the outer electromagnetic cos θ coil ring is disposed concentrically about the inner electromagnetic cos θ coil ring.
US10115553B1	Ground fault circuit interrupter and reset mechanism thereof A reset mechanism includes: a reset button, electromagnet, and reset mounting bracket, where a rotary lifting block is movably on the bracket; lifting parts are separately at two sides of one end of the block, and a clamping hook is the other end; a lifting block spring is on one side of the lifting part of the block; a position-limiting block matched with the block is on the bracket, which has a slide rocker in a movable manner; a rocker bending part is at a tail of the slide rocker; an end part of the rocker bending part has a rocker bayonet; an iron core of the electromagnet has an iron core card slot matched with the bayonet, which is clamped to the iron core card slot; and a bottom of the reset button has a reset lever matched with one side of the clamping hook of the block.
US10115542B1	Keyboard The present invention relates to a keyboard, including a first baseboard, a second baseboard, a deformation element, a key cap, and a connecting element. The deformation element is disposed between the first baseboard and the second baseboard and is capable of deforming according to a received voltage signal. The deformation element drags the second baseboard to move in a first direction when the deformation element receives the voltage signal and therefore deforms to be in an extended state, so that the key cap is at a first height. The deformation element pushes the second baseboard to move in a second direction when the deformation element does not receive the voltage signal and therefore deforms to be in a bent state, so that the key cap is at a relatively shorter second height.
US10115533B2	Rechargeable power source comprising flexible supercapacitor The present invention relates to a rechargeable power source comprising a flexible supercapacitor and a charge connection unit. The flexible supercapacitor comprises an electrolyte sandwiched between nickel foams electrodeposited with a nanocomposite. The nanocomposite comprises of a conducting polymer, graphene oxide and a metal oxide. The charge connection unit comprises a microcontroller having an electrical connection line connecting an energy collecting unit with the flexible supercapacitor.
US10115530B2	Solar cell and methods of fabrication and use thereof An energy conversion device comprising a first electrically conductive layer, a mesoporous oxide layer contiguous with the first electrically conductive layer and comprised of volcanic ash particles and photoactive dye molecules adsorbed on the ash particles, an electrolyte layer contiguous with the mesoporous oxide layer and comprised of a redox mediator, a catalyst layer comprised of an electrically conductive catalyst material, and a second electrically conductive layer contiguous with the catalyst layer. The electrically conductive catalyst material may be graphene, graphite, platinum, or carbon. The device may be further comprised of a light transmissive substrate contiguous with the first electrically conductive layer. The mesoporous oxide layer may be further comprised of titanium dioxide particles. The volcanic ash may comprise a mixture of particles from different indigenous sources of volcanic ash. Methods of fabrication of the device and conversion of light energy to electrical energy using the device are also disclosed.
US10115520B2	Systems and method for wireless power transfer Systems and methods for enabling efficient wireless power transfer, and charging of devices and batteries, in a manner that allows freedom of placement of the devices or batteries in one or multiple (e.g., one, two or three) dimensions. In accordance with various embodiments, applications include inductive or magnetic charging and power, and wireless powering or charging of, e.g., mobile, electronic, electric, lighting, batteries, power tools, kitchen, military, medical or dental, industrial applications, vehicles, trains, or other devices or products. In accordance with various embodiments, the systems and methods can also be generally applied, e.g., to power supplies or other power sources or charging systems, such as systems for transfer of wireless power to a mobile, electronic or electric device, vehicle, or other product.
US10115518B2	Coil electronic component A coil electronic component includes a substrate; a coil pattern formed on at least one of first and second main surfaces of the substrate; a body region filling at least a core region of the coil pattern and having a magnetic material; and a magnetic flux controlling part covering at least the coil pattern and having a material having a saturation magnetic flux density higher than that of a magnetic material contained in the body region.
US10115516B2	Planar inductor The present invention relates to a planar inductor for progressive case hardening, comprising a carrier and an induction coil, which is accommodated by the carrier and exposed on a first side of the carrier and which is in the form of a conductor loop. According to the invention, the inductor comprises two spacing elements, which are space apart from one another and inserted into the carrier and which protrude from the carrier and beyond the conductor loop on the first side. The invention further relates to a preferred method for producing the planar inductor.
US10115514B2	Three-phase high frequency transformer A three-phase high frequency transformer has: a ferrite core formed from three solid-cylindrical cores and a ceiling plate and a bottom plate; and three sets of coils having primary coils of a predetermined inner diameter that are formed by bending flat wires plural times in width directions of the flat wires, and secondary coils that are formed such that an inner diameter is the same as the inner diameter of the primary coils by bending flat wires, that have a width that is different than a width of the flat wires of the primary coils, in width directions of the flat wires, and the flat wires that structure the secondary coils are interposed within intervals of the flat wires that structure the primary coils, and the three sets of coils are structured such that inner peripheries of the primary coils and the secondary coils coincide, and are disposed such that the respective solid-cylindrical cores are inserted in respective inner portions, and the primary coils and the secondary coils are Δ-connected or Y-connected.
US10115513B2	Integrated inductor structure An integrated inductor structure includes a guard ring, a patterned ground shield, and an inductor. The guard ring includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and an interlaced structure. The inner ring is disposed in a first metal layer, and includes at least two inner ring openings. The outer ring is disposed in a second metal layer, and includes at least one outer ring opening. The interlaced structure is coupled to one of the at least two inner ring openings and the outer ring opening in an interlaced manner, such that the outer ring opening is enclosed. The patterned ground shield is disposed at an inner side of the inner ring, and coupled to the inner ring and the outer ring. The inductor is formed above the guard ring and the patterned ground shield.
US10115508B2	Magnetic-dielectric composite for high-frequency antenna substrate and manufacturing method therefor The present invention relates to a magnetic-dielectric composite for a high-frequency antenna substrate, and a manufacturing method therefor, the composite comprising: a porous insulating dielectric substrate including an upper surface, a lower surface and lateral surfaces, and having a plurality of pores penetrating the upper surface and the lower surface; and soft ferrite nano-wires provided within the pores, wherein the soft ferrite nano-wires are encompassed by the insulating dielectric substrate so as to be separated from each other. The present invention controls a dielectric constant and can minimize eddy current loss by having a structure in which the soft ferrite nano-wires are provided within the pores of the insulating dielectric substrate and in which the soft ferrite nano-wires are encompassed by the insulating dielectric substrate so as to be separated from each other.
US10115500B2	Composite cable and composite harness A composite cable includes a first twisted-pair wire formed by twisting a pair of first electric wires, a second twisted-pair wire formed by twisting a pair of second electric wires, a pair of third electric wires arranged between the first and second twisted-pair wires in a circumferential direction, each third electric wire having a larger outer diameter than the first and second electric wires, and a tape member spirally wound around an assembled article that is formed by twisting the first twisted-pair wire, the second twisted-pair wire and the pair of third electric wires together. The two twisted-pair wires have the same twist direction, the twist direction of the two twisted-pair wires is different from a twist direction of the assembled article, and the twist direction of the assembled article is different from a winding direction of the tape member.
US10115499B2	Cable arrangement A cable arrangement of at least two cables which extend adjacently in a substantially parallel manner, a first cable and a second cable of which each having at least one stranding group which has two or more conductors that are twisted together. The length of lay of each of the stranding groups varies in the longitudinal direction of the individual cables. In addition, the length of lay of a stranding group winding of the stranding group of the first cable is smaller than the length of lay of a most directly adjacent stranding group winding of the stranding group of the second cable.
US10115492B2	Electrically conductive carbon nanotube wire having a metallic coating and methods of forming same An attachment device includes a central body formed of a plastic material and defining a cavity configured to receive a temperature probe and a plurality of straps extending from the central body. Each strap of the plurality of straps is configured to secure a cable to the central body. The central body defines a wall having a first side configured to be in contact with the temperature probe and a second side in contact with a cable. This attachment device may notably be used in an electrical connection assembly having a connector, a temperature sensor disposed within the device, and at least two cables.
US10115490B1	Method for nuclear waste storage and monitoring A method comprising storing nuclear waste, including identifying a subterranean storage site location having a shale rock layer. The layer has an expected fluid overpressure in a range corresponding to greater than hydrostatic pressure to less than lithostatic pressure from overlying rock layers. Storing the waste can include forming a storage borehole, with an end segment of the storage borehole located within the layer and measuring the fluid pressure in the end segment of the storage borehole. If the measured fluid pressure in the end segment of the storage borehole is in the expected fluid overpressure range, forming a monitoring borehole in the layer with an end segment of each of the monitoring boreholes being in a vicinity of the end segment of the storage borehole and storing nuclear waste in the end segment of the storage borehole. A system for storing and monitoring nuclear waste is also described.
US10115482B2	Reflexive education: a method for automated delivery of educational material linked to objective or subjective data A health management system (10) comprises educational content sessions (150, 152, . . . ) each being directed toward achieving a health management goal. A user interface (48) is configured for presenting the content sessions (150, 152, . . . ). At least one feedback path (48, 82, 120, 122) provides at least one input which includes an item of interest. A content flow engine (170) configured to automatically select the content sessions (150, 152) based on the at least item of interest and on content flow rules and initiate presentation of the selected content sessions via the user interface (48).
US10115481B2	Read-assist circuits for memory bit cells employing a P-type field-effect transistor (PFET) read port(s), and related memory systems and methods Read-assist circuits for memory bit cells employing a P-type Field-Effect Transistor (PFET) read port(s) are disclosed. Related memory systems and methods are also disclosed. It has been observed that as node technology is scaled down in size, PFET drive current (i.e., drive strength) exceeds N-type FET (NFET) drive current for like-dimensioned FETs. In this regard, in one aspect, it is desired to provide memory bit cells having PFET read ports, as opposed to NFET read ports, to increase memory read times to the memory bit cells, and thus improve memory read performance. To mitigate or avoid a read disturb condition that could otherwise occur when reading the memory bit cell, read-assist circuits are provided for memory bit cells having PFET read ports.
US10115474B1	Electronic device with a fuse read mechanism A method of operating an electronic device includes: precharging a fuse read node to an intermediate voltage less than an input voltage, wherein the fuse read node connects a fuse array and a fuse read circuit, the fuse array including a fuse cell configured to store information and the fuse read circuit configured to read the stored information; connecting the fuse cell to the fuse read node for reading the information; and determining, with the fuse read circuit, the information from the fuse cell based on changes to the intermediate voltage at the fuse read node.
US10115468B2	Solid state storage device and read control method thereof A solid state storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a controlling circuit. In a first read retry process, the controlling circuit judges whether an information corresponding to a first block of the non-volatile memory is recorded in the cache table. If the information is not recorded in the cache table, the controlling circuit sequentially provides plural predetermined retry read voltage sets to the non-volatile memory according to a sequence of the plural predetermined retry read voltage sets in the retry table and performs a read retry operation. If a read data of the first block is successfully decoded through the read retry operation according to a first predetermined retry read voltage set of the plural predetermined retry read voltage sets in the retry table, the controlling circuit records the first predetermined retry read voltage set into the cache table.
US10115466B2	Nonvolatile memory system that erases memory cells when changing their mode of operation An method of operating a memory system including a plurality of memory cells includes changing an operation mode at least some of the memory cells which operate based on a first operation mode to operate based on a second operation mode; and performing a change erase operation on the memory cells for which an operation mode is changed on the basis of a change erase condition when the operation mode is changed. When memory cells operate in the first operation mode, a normal erase operation is performed based on a first erase condition, and when memory cells operate in the second operation mode, a normal erase operation is performed based on a second erase condition. The change erase condition is different from at least one of the first and second erase conditions.
US10115460B2	Phase-change memory device with drive circuit A memory device includes an array of phase-change memory cells and a word line. The memory device includes a control circuit, a first pull-up MOSFET and a second pull-up MOSFET connected in series between a first power-supply node set at a first supply voltage and the word line, a first pull-down MOSFET and a second pull-down MOSFET connected in series between the word line and a second power-supply node set at a reference potential, and a biasing MOSFET connected between the word line and a third power-supply node set at a second supply voltage higher than the first supply voltage. The first and second pull-up MOSFETs and the first and second pull-down MOSFETs have breakdown voltages lower than the breakdown voltage of the biasing MOSFET.
US10115450B1	Cascode complimentary dual level shifter A level shifter and dynamic random-access memory that includes a first output terminal and a second output terminal. A first voltage or a third voltage is outputted from the first output terminal. A second voltage or a fourth voltage is outputted from the second output terminal. The second voltage is lower than the first voltage. The third voltage is lower than the first voltage and higher than the second voltage. The fourth voltage is lower than the first voltage and higher than the third voltage.
US10115449B2	Frequency synthesis for memory input-output operations A memory channel including an internal clock circuit is disclosed. The clock circuit may synthesize an internal clock signal for use by one or more components of the memory channel. The internal clock signal may have a different frequency than an external clock frequency. The memory channel may include multiple clock circuits that generate multiple internal clock signals. Each portion of the memory channel associated with a different clock circuit may be phase and/or frequency independent of the other portions of the memory channel. The clock circuit may synthesize an internal clock signal based on an external clock signal. The clock circuit may use encoded timing data from an encoded I/O scheme to align the phase of the internal clock signal to a data signal.
US10115445B2	Magnetic memory device that is protected against reading using an external magnetic field and method for operating such magnetic memory device A magnetic memory device including a plurality of magnetic units, each unit including a first and second magnetic tunnel junctions—electrically connected in series by a current line and a strap. Each junction includes a first and second storage layer having a first and second storage magnetization and a first sense magnetic layer having a first and second senses magnetization. A field line is configured to provide an input signal generating a first and second magnetic field for varying the first and second sense magnetization. Each magnetic unit is provided with a data state such that the first and second storage magnetizations are aligned in opposed directions. The first and second magnetic field are adapted for varying respectively the first and second sense magnetization in a first and second direction opposed to the first direction.
US10115442B2	Demand-based provisioning of volatile memory for use as non-volatile memory A computing device may comprise a processor, a volatile memory and a non-volatile storage device. An operating system or firmware of the device may cause one or more pages of the volatile memory to be treated, by applications executing on the computing device, as non-volatile memory pages. A number of pages that may be treated as non-volatile may be determined based on demand for non-volatile storage by at least one application executing on the computing device.
US10115440B2	Word line contact regions for three-dimensional non-volatile memory Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for three-dimensional non-volatile memory. A stack of word line layers includes word lines for a three-dimensional non-volatile memory array. A stack of word line layers may include a plurality of tiers. Word line switch transistors transfer word line bias voltages to the word lines. Word line contact regions couple word line switch transistors to word lines. A word line contact region includes a stepped structure for a tier of word line layers. A level region separates a word line contact region for a first tier from a word line contact region for a second tier.
US10115439B2	On-die termination of address and command signals A system has a plurality of memory devices arranged in a fly-by topology, each having on-die termination (ODT) circuitry for connecting to an address and control (RQ) bus. The ODT circuitry of each memory device includes a set of one or more control registers for controlling on-die termination of one or more signal lines of the RQ bus. A first memory device includes a first set of one or more control registers storing a first ODT value, for controlling termination of one or more signal lines of the RQ bus by the ODT circuitry of the first memory device, and a second memory device includes a second set of one or more control registers storing a second ODT value different from the first ODT value, for controlling termination of one or more signal lines of the RQ bus by the ODT circuitry of the second memory device.
US10115438B2	Sense amplifier constructions A sense amplifier construction comprises a first n-type transistor and a second n-type transistor above the first n-type transistor. A third p-type transistor is included and a fourth p-type transistor is above the third p-type transistor. A lower voltage activation line is electrically coupled to n-type source/drain regions that are elevationally between respective gates of the first and second n-type transistors. A higher voltage activation line is electrically coupled to p-type source/drain regions that are elevationally between respective gates of the third and fourth p-type transistors.
US10115434B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for editing media content In an example embodiment, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes facilitating receipt of a first media content comprising a first audio track and a first video track, and a second media content comprising a second audio track. Section mapping between a first and a second plurality of audio sections associated with the first and second audio tracks, respectively is performed to determine a plurality of mapping audio sections. Relative position of at least one video transition with respect to the audio section is determined. A corresponding at least one video transition associated with at least one video transition is created in a mapping audio section, based on the relative position of the at least one video transition in the audio section. The first video track is modified based on the relative position of the corresponding at least one video transition in mapping audio section.
US10115420B2	Head gimbal assembly (HGA) support cartridge for magnetic head and disk testers A unitary cartridge, or module, provides a self-contained, high accuracy, ready-to-use assembly for controlling fine positioning of a head gimbal assembly (HGA) disposed on a head mounting unit mounted on the cartridge, with respect to a spinstand or other device associated with a head tester. In a form, the head-mounting unit and a counterweight element are configured to be moveable relative to the base in opposite directions along a displacement axis in response to actuators in the cartridge, and are operative in concert with a damping assembly configured to interact with the counterweight element and the heads mounting unit to mitigate vibrational movement of the cartridge.
US10115414B1	DJ control disc configuration optimized for DJ performance The turntable platter configuration of the present invention includes a groove on the platter edge about its periphery to allow for an improved ergonomic finger control for a DJ to alter the speed of the platter rotation. The turntable platter configuration also includes a regularly spaced shape about the periphery of the platter to be used with a strobe for allowing the user to ensure the rate of the rotation is at the appropriate speed, such as 33 RPM or 45 RPM.
US10115402B2	Audio encoding device, method and program, and audio decoding device, method and program An audio packet error concealment system includes an encoding unit for encoding an audio signal consisting of a plurality of frames, and an auxiliary information encoding unit for estimating and encoding auxiliary information about a temporal change of power of the audio signal. The auxiliary information is used in packet loss concealment in decoding of the audio signal. The auxiliary information about the temporal change of power may contain a parameter that functionally approximates a plurality of powers of subframes shorter than one frame, or may contain information about a vector obtained by vector quantization of a plurality of powers of subframes shorter than one frame.
US10115388B2	Communications system providing automatic text-to-speech conversion features and related methods An electronic mail server, computer-readable medium and method of delivering an electronic message to a wireless communication device are provided. An electronic text message for delivery to a wireless communication device is received. When the wireless communication device is determined to be in an audio message mode, an audio message comprising speech generated from the received electronic text message is delivered to the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may be determined to be in an audio message when an audio message filter parameter received from the wireless communication device corresponds to the electronic text message. The audio message filter parameter may be based upon a sender's identity. The electronic text message is converted to the audio message by sending a conversion request for the electronic text message to a text-to-speech conversion server and receiving the audio message from the text-to-speech server.
US10115387B2	Active noise-reduction earphones and noise-reduction control method and system for the same A noise-reduction control method includes performing frequency-domain weighting and temporal-domain weighting to a noise signal collected at current time to obtain a weighted energy. Judging whether active noise-reduction control is needed based on the weighted energy; calculating an energy value of a first sub-band and an energy value of a second sub-band of the noise signal collected by the feedforward microphone at the current time, wherein the first sub-band and the second sub-band are determined based on a feedforward noise-reduction curve and a feedback noise-reduction curve of the earphone, respectively. Determining a feedforward noise-reduction amount and a feedback noise-reduction amount based on the energy value of the first sub-band and the energy value of the second sub-band, respectively. Controlling the earphone to perform feedforward noise reduction based on the feedforward noise-reduction amount, and controlling the earphone to perform feedback noise reduction based on the feedback noise-reduction amount.
US10115386B2	Delay techniques in active noise cancellation circuits or other circuits that perform filtering of decimated coefficients This disclosure describes circuit configurations that may be used for active noise cancellation in the digital domain. In particular, this disclosure proposes the use a down sample unit and an up sample unit, rather than memory-based delay circuits, to achieve one or more desired delays in digital adaptive noise cancellation circuits or other circuits that use delay for signal processing. The delay achieved by the down sample unit and the up sample unit may be tunable so as to allow flexibility in producing the necessary delay for different active noise cancellation circuit configurations. Many different adaptive noise cancellation circuit configurations are discussed, and the techniques may also be useful for other types of circuits, such as low-latency equalization circuits.
US10115385B2	Ultrasonic transmission/reception unit, manufacturing method of ultrasonic transmission/reception unit, and ultrasonic flow meter device An ultrasonic transmission/reception unit includes a metal plate, an acoustic matching member, a piezoelectric substrate, a first lead wire, a second lead wire, and a vibration suppression member containing a thermoplastic resin as a major component, the vibration suppression member being configured to cover, in a unitary manner, the other main surface of the metal plate, which is other than a portion of the other main surface to which the piezoelectric substrate is fastened, a surface of the piezoelectric substrate, an end surface of the metal plate, an outer peripheral portion of the one main surface of the metal plate, the first lead wire, and the second lead wire.
US10115378B1	Laser etched stringed instrument and method of manufacture A method for creating the laser etched image in an instrument. The etching can be applied to bare wood, through a single layer of a contrasting coating, or through a plurality of layers to expose a layer having a contrasting color. The instrument can be prepared by applying one or more layers of coatings of different colors upon the surface. The programmed laser etches through a desired number of layers, exposing a target color, creating a multi-colored image. The etched material can be filled enhancing a contrast. The artwork can be aesthetic and/or functional, such as providing a series of note references laser etched into a fingerboard of the instrument. Each note reference is located respective to a position along a length of a respective string to generate the respective note and would be used for training a musician how to play the instrument.
US10115375B2	Systems and methods for enabling a systems management interface with an alternate frame buffer A method may include in response to determining a host system is off, configuring a video controller of an information handling system including setting a display resolution of the video controller and writing management video data associated to a primary frame buffer such that management video data is able to be retrieved by the video controller for output to one or both of a first display associated with the host system and a second display of a management interface communicatively coupled to a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the memory and configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system. The method may further include in response to determining the host system is on, writing the management video data to an alternate frame buffer such that management video data is able to be retrieved by the video controller for output to the second display.
US10115371B2	Look up table management method of liquid crystal display and device The embodiment of the present invention discloses a look up table management method of a liquid crystal display and a device. The method can include: obtaining an input data and an output data from a first look up table; performing preset operation to the output data to obtain a middle data, of which a sum of absolute values is smaller than a sum of the output data, and associatively storing the input data and the middle data to be a second look up table; as the liquid crystal display performs display, performing an inverse operation of the preset operation to the middle data in the second look up table which is corresponded with a display data inputted in real time to obtain and output an output data corresponded with the display data.
US10115368B2	Liquid crystal display driving method and drive device A liquid crystal display driving method provided includes the following steps: acquiring a current gray level value of a current frame image; determining a gray level of the current gray level value; if the current gray level value is the high gray level, then determining whether to perform an overvoltage driving according to a first gray level difference threshold value; if the current gray level value is the low gray level, then determining whether to perform the overvoltage driving according to a second gray level difference threshold value. The present invention can precisely determine whether to perform the overvoltage driving on the pixel electrode.
US10115365B2	Gate driving circuit and display apparatus having the same A gate driving circuit including a plurality of stages connected with each other and configured to output a plurality of gate signals. An n-th (n is a natural number) stage including a gate output part including a first transistor connected between a clock signal and an output node outputting an n-th gate signal, the first transistor having a gate electrode connected to a control node, a carry part connected between the clock signal and a carry node outputting an n-th carry signal, a first node control part connected between the output node and a first low voltage, and a second node control part including at least one transistor connected between the control node and a second low voltage different from the first low voltage.
US10115361B2	Display device A display device is presented which includes a timing control module, a source driving module and a gate driving module. The timing control module being configured to output a driving signal to the source driving module and the gate driving module respectively. The display device further includes a detection module and a reminding module. The detection module is configured to acquire the driving signal and detect the driving signal and configured to output a warning control signal to the reminding module when detecting an abnormity of the driving signal. The reminding module is configured to acquire the warning control signal output by the detection module and configured to output a warning under control of the warning control signal.
US10115358B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of primary color pixels and a plurality of white pixels. The white pixels include a first white pixel to receive a first white pixel signal generated based on a first gamma curve and a second white pixel to receive a second white pixel signal generated based on a second gamma curve.
US10115355B2	Shift register A shift register is disclosed. The shift register comprises a multistage shift register units. Each of the stage shift register unit comprises: a driving module, charging to the driving signal via the first clock signal based on the driving control signal; an input module, outputting the driving control signal based on the second clock signal and the first control signal; a low level maintenance module, keeping the potential of the driving signal at the low level potential of the second reference. The shift register can avoid the leakage from the first output end, decrease the raising time of the driving signal and occupy the small area.
US10115353B2	Backlight adjustment method, liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, comprising a backlight part, and the liquid crystal display device includes an image collection circuit, a gray scale judgment circuit, a PWM signal generation circuit and a LED driving circuit, and the backlight part is electrically coupled to the LED driving circuit; the image collection circuit obtains a gray scale of a target image and transmits the gray scale of the target image to the gray scale judgment circuit, and the gray scale judgment circuit compares the gray scale of the target image with a preset gray scale threshold to generate a control signal to be transmitted to the PWM signal generation circuit; the PWM signal generation circuit generates a PWM signal of which a duty ratio is zero to be transmitted to the LED driving circuit, and the LED driving circuit cuts off an input current of the backlight part.
US10115350B2	Semiconductor device having rectifying elements connected to a pixel of a display device When writing a signal current from a current source to a current source circuit, noise occurs in some cases in a wiring through which a current flows, which may cause a potential of the wiring to be outside the normal range. As the potential does not turn back within the normal range easily at this time, writing to the current source circuit is delayed. According to the invention, when the potential becomes outside the normal range due to noise occurring in a wiring through which a current flows when writing a signal current from a current source to a current source circuit, a current is supplied from other than the current source, thereby the potential of the wiring can turn back within the normal range rapidly.
US10115343B2	Sub-pixel of organic light emitting display device and organic light emitting display device including the same A sub-pixel of an organic light emitting display device according to an embodiment includes an organic light emitting diode connected to a first node; a driving transistor comprising a first electrode, a second electrode connected to the first node, and a gate electrode connected to a second node; a first capacitor connected between the first node and the second node; a second capacitor connected between an emission control line and the second node; a first transistor comprising a first electrode connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a gate electrode connected to a scan line; and a second transistor comprising a first electrode connected to a high potential voltage line, a second electrode connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor, and a gate electrode connected to the emission control line.
US10115342B2	OLED driving circuit and OLED display apparatus The present application discloses an OLED driving circuit and an OLED display panel. The OLED driving circuit including a switch thin film transistor, a driver thin film transistor, a storage capacitor, and a compensation circuit, a first terminal of the switch thin film transistor receives data signal, a gate of the switch thin film transistor receives the nth level scanning signal, a the second terminal of the switch thin film transistor is electrically connected to a first terminal of the driver thin film transistor, a gate of the driver thin film transistor is electrically connected to a voltage source through the storage capacitor, and a second terminal of the driver thin film transistor is electrically connected to the positive electrode of the OLED through partial of the elements in the compensation circuit, the negative electrode of the OLED is loaded low electrical level.
US10115338B2	Driving circuit and display device using the same A driving circuit is provided. The driving circuit includes an input module for inputting a control signal from a signal input terminal; a pull-down module connected to the input module, used for pulling down the control signal from the input module to a low level; a pull-up module connected to the input module, used for pulling up the control signal from the input module to a high level; and an output module for outputting an output signal to a signal output terminal based on the control of the pull-down module and the pull-up module. Wherein, between the pull-up module and the pull-down module, an eleventh switching element is provided, and the eleventh switching element includes a control terminal, a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal.
US10115328B2	Displaying apparatus and method The present disclosure relates to imaging techniques, and more particularly, to a display device configured to generate and display a 2D or 3D image having an increased image size in vertical and/or horizontal directions, an increased image viewing angle and improved image resolution. The technical result of the present disclosure is to increase the size of a displayed image in at least one direction, while simultaneously providing an increased image viewing angle and improved image resolution in the at least one direction. The display device includes an controller, an display, a spatial-to-angular distribution transformer, an image relay and scanner, and a screen.
US10115327B1	Optical display system with enhanced resolution, methods, and applications An optical display system includes an information display (image-generating) component, a polarization dependent image offset optical element and possibly also a polarization rotator. By controlling the image offset optical element either by direct applying voltage or by controlling the polarization of the displayed light through the polarization rotator, the display pixels can be switched by a certain portion. By switching between offset and non-offset state with appropriate image displayed, the resolution as observed by the users can be enhanced.
US10115311B2	Apparatus and computer readable recording medium for situational warning An adverse situation warning device includes a route data storing portion for storing a first route data of a host vehicle including a first geohash corresponding to a moving route of the host vehicle, a route comparing portion for receiving a second route data of a remote vehicle including a second geohash corresponding to a moving route of the remote vehicle, and for comparing the geohash of the first route data and the geohash of the second route data, and a warning output portion for outputting an adverse situation warning based on the comparison result.
US10115309B2	Method for processing measurement data of a vehicle in order to determine the start of a search for a parking space A method for processing measurement data of a vehicle for determining the start of a search for a parking space includes acquiring journey data vectors, each containing information about a speed, position data and a time of acquisition of the speed and the position data, and establishing a feature vector at each time of acquisition of the journey data vectors, where the information about a current and a previous journey data vector is processed, and where the feature vector comprises as feature components at least one item of speed information and one item of path information. The method also includes classifying each feature vector, where a first traffic category, which represents a vehicle journey, or a second vehicle category, which represents parking space-seeking traffic, is assigned to each feature vector, and where a probability is established, which specifies the probability with which the first or the second traffic category is to be assigned to the feature vector. In addition, the method includes segmenting the feature vectors over the time profile of the established traffic categories, where there is a subdivision of the journey from the start to the last acquisition of a journey data vector into two segments in accordance with the determined traffic categories of the feature vectors and the transition from one segment into the other segment represents the start of the search for a parking space.
US10115308B2	Target addressing system Examples include a system and service for addressing users, vehicles, and service providers to targets using multi-segmented routes and/or targets whom are persons.
US10115304B1	Identification and control of traffic at one or more traffic junctions Techniques for autonomously optimizing traffic flow amongst one or more traffic junctions are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a piece-wise sinusoidal representation of traffic arrival at a first traffic junction. The computer-implemented method can also comprise determining, by the system, an offset a parameter of one or more traffic junctions based on the piece-wise sinusoidal representation and a polynomial objective.
US10115299B2	Intraoral sensing and communications appliance Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for communicating via an electronic device for use in a mouth environment of an animal and resistant to damage from bodily fluids and pressure. The device can be anchored to a tooth or a teeth of the mandible, or implanted in (or attached to an implant in) the maxilla or mandible. The device includes: a power device, which can power the apparatus, a memory storage device, which can store and recall data; a communications subsystem, which communicates with one or more remote devices; an output device, which creates stimulus directly or indirectly observable in the mouth environment; an input device, which can create signals according to activity in the mouth environment and can send them to the memory storage device and/or processor; and a processor coupled to the memory storage device, the communication subsystem, the output device and the input device.
US10115297B2	Configuring a smart home controller A method performed at a computer system includes: obtaining current location data for a user; obtaining door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of the user; obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling; setting a configuration of a controller for the dwelling, based at least in part on two or more of: the current location data for the user, the door lock activation data for the door, or the current occupancy data for the dwelling; the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor.
US10115295B2	Portable security device having rescue request function based on internet of things and security system using the same Provided are a portable security device having a rescue request function based on IoT which sprays tear gas to perform self-protection, automatically transmits a rescue request message and notifies a rescue requester of a response of a rescuer to the rescue request message to relieve the rescue requester, and a security system using the same.
US10115287B2	Monitoring system, apparatus and method A system, topology, and methods for monitoring of an environment via one or more sensors and controlling the operation of a controllable module configured to modify the environment. A base system may be coupled to various sensor modules to form different monitoring and control systems. The base system may be connected to the controllable module and a server allowing control of the controllable module.
US10115285B2	Security system with earthquake detection The present disclosure relates to approaches for detecting and monitoring for earthquakes using a control unit of a security system. A security system may include a plurality of sensors that detect alarm conditions and send alarm condition messages to a control unit for the security system. The control unit may be communicatively coupled to the sensors and configured to receive the alarm condition messages from the sensors. The security system may also include an earthquake sensor that senses earthquake conditions and sends an earthquake condition message to the control unit if it detects the earthquake condition. The control unit may include an alarm module. The control unit causes the alarm module to generate an alarm in response to receiving the earthquake condition message from the earthquake sensor.
US10115280B2	Detector with optical block An optical smoke detector includes a radiant energy source and a sensor. The source and the sensor are carried by an optical block that provides a fixed orientation therebetween and barriers therebetween. The barriers reduce noise and false alarming due to bugs, dust, water vapor, and other intrusive elements. The barriers can include V-shaped members at a selective angle relative to center lines of the source and the sensor.
US10115279B2	Surveillance monitoring systems and methods for remotely viewing data and controlling cameras A surveillance systems monitors a predetermined environment based on received data. The surveillance system includes a first intelligent appliance configured to capture video and/or still images and configured to be in wireless communication with a second intelligent appliance that operates based on data from the first intelligent appliance. The surveillance system can detect a person located within the predetermined environment and can track the person's movement. The surveillance system is configured to allow remote viewing of data and/or controlling cameras.
US10115265B2	Device for instant lottery ticket inspection and activation, and method and system for same A device, system, and method are provided for inspecting, activating or voiding scratch-off instant lottery tickets. A remote point-of-sale device has a detector system that detects tampering with the coating placed over concealed game play information on the tickets, and reads coded identification and authentication information on the tickets. The device automatically communicates the coded identification and tampering data to a central computer system of a lottery. The central computer system provides activation signals back to the point of sale on a ticket-by-ticket basis. The device, method and system provide automated generation and communication of ticket-by-ticket tampering, activation, and voiding data between the remote device and a central computer system of a lottery.
US10115259B2	Item validation A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining if an item of media is invalid. The method includes providing an ultrasound image of an item of media, determining a plurality of regions of the image that satisfy a pre-determined condition and determining that an item of media is invalid if the location of said regions satisfies a pre-determined condition.
US10115254B1	Electronic access control and location tracking system A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allow for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking.
US10115251B2	Semiconductor device A sophisticated semiconductor device is provided. A semiconductor device including an IPD chip and an MCU chip which are included in one package. The IPD chip includes: a power transistor that drives an external load; a gate drive circuit that drives the power transistor; and a protection circuit that protects the power transistor from having a breakdown. The MCU chip includes an arithmetic processing unit that performs arithmetic processing based on detected data output from the protection circuit, and a storage unit that stores a program for the arithmetic processing unit. The MCU chip has a function of controlling operation of the power transistor according to the detected data.
US10115246B1	Driver identification for trips associated with anonymous vehicle telematics data A method for attributing vehicle telematics data to individuals may include receiving vehicle telematics data collected by a data collection device during a plurality of trips. Subsets of the vehicle telematics data may correspond to different trips, and may be used to generate respective metric sets. Each metric set may include one or more metrics each indicative of a different driving behavior or a different feature of a driving environment. The method may also include retrieving, from a policy database, policy information pertaining to an insurance policy associated with the data collection device, and determining, based upon the policy information, a number of disclosed drivers associated with the insurance policy. A statistical analysis may be performed on the metric sets, and, based upon the results, at least some of the metrics and/or at least some of the subsets of vehicle telematics data may be assigned to the disclosed drivers.
US10115243B2	Near field communication system The disclosure relates to a method of operating a system, the system comprising a near field communication, NFC, tag, an NFC device associated with a user of the system and a computer, the method comprising: the NFC device requesting a message from the NFC tag; the NFC tag generating a message comprising a representation of a counter value; the NFC tag sending the message to the NFC device; the NFC device generating a request comprising the representation of the counter value in response to receiving the message; the NFC device sending the request to a computer; the NFC device submitting user authentication data to the computer; and the computer executing an operation on verification of the counter value and the authentication data.
US10115242B2	Electronic toll management Identifying a vehicle in a toll system includes accessing a set of toll transaction entries. Each entry in the set designates a toll transaction between a vehicle and the toll system and includes a transaction descriptor and a transaction time stamp. A series of toll transaction pictures is accessed. The series includes a plurality of pictures, each of which is associated with a picture time stamp. A toll transaction entry is identified from the set as a violation transaction entry based on the transaction descriptor. A toll transaction picture is selected from the series. The transaction time stamp of the violation transaction is compared, using a processing device, with the picture time stamp of the selected toll transaction picture. The selected toll transaction picture is identified as a violation picture corresponding to the violation transaction entry based on a result of the comparison.
US10115237B2	Virtual reality display of pipe inspection data One aspect provides a method of projecting pipe data into a virtual reality system, including: obtaining, using a pipe inspection robot, pipe data relating to one or more pipe segments in a pipe network; processing, using a processor, the pipe data to format the pipe data for virtual panoramic display; providing, using the processor, the formatted pipe data to a virtual reality system. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10115235B2	Method for controlling head mounted display, and system for implemeting the method A method for controlling an immersive head mounted display configured to provide a virtual space to a user. The method includes generating a virtual space image that forms a virtual space viewable by the user. The method further includes determining a reference line of sight. The method further includes determining a field-of-view region of the virtual space based on the reference line of sight. The method further includes generating a region of the virtual space image corresponding to the field-of-view region as a field-of-view image having an image quality higher than an image quality of a different portion of the virtual space image.
US10115233B2	Methods and systems for mapping virtual objects in an augmented or virtual reality system 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.
US10115231B1	Traversal selection of components for a geometric model Systems and methods for traversal selection of components of a geometric model are disclosed. An embodiment includes displaying a plurality of components corresponding to a geometric model, selecting a first component, receiving a first input indicating a first direction for selecting a next component, wherein the next component is connected to the first component by an edge, identifying one or more candidate edges connected to the first component for selecting the next component, determining an angle between an indicated direction vector corresponding to the indicated first direction and each of the one or more candidate edges, and selecting a second component as the next component, wherein the second component is connected to the first component via a particular candidate edge forming a smallest angle with the indicated direction vector.
US10115224B2	Method and apparatus generating acceleration structure A method of generating a ray tracing acceleration structure includes transformatively mapping locations of object primitives in a three dimensional first space into Morton codes indicating respective locations of the primitives along a meandering linear path through the first space; determining a Morton distance indicating a difference between a first Morton code corresponding with a first primitive and a second Morton code corresponding with a second primitive; generating an acceleration structure to include nodes representing portions of the first space and adaptively adjusting a reference level of the acceleration structure, based on the Morton distance between primitives; and dividing the first space using a first division method when a level of a first node of the acceleration structure which corresponds to the first space is lower than the reference level, and dividing the first space using a second division method when the level of the first node exceeds the reference level.
US10115220B2	Method and apparatus for changing 3D display based on rotation state A Three-Dimensional (3D) display method is provided, and includes displaying a 3D screen including a plurality of objects having different depth perceptions, and displaying the 3D screen with a unified depth perception through adjustment of the depth perceptions of the plurality of objects to one depth perception, when a 3D display apparatus moves to a first state. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively control the operation of the display apparatus while viewing the 3D screen.
US10115216B2	Display control apparatus, display control method, and program A display control apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a first control unit, a selecting unit, a second control unit, a switching unit, and an arranging unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image group including pieces of image data. The first control unit displays a layout image in which images selected from the acquired image group are arranged in slots. The selecting unit selects a change target slot in which an image to be changed is arranged from the slots in the displayed layout image. The second control unit displays candidate images which are selected based on the image arranged in the change target slot. The switching unit switches the displayed candidate images to candidate images selected based on an image arranged in a slot different from the change target slot. The arranging unit arranges a candidate image selected from the displayed candidate images in the change target slot.
US10115212B2	Image reconstruction system and method in magnetic resonance imaging A method and system for image reconstruction are provided. Multiple coil images may be obtained. A first reconstructed image based on the multiple coil images may be reconstructed based on a first reconstruction algorithm. A second reconstructed image based on the multiple coil images may be reconstructed based on a second reconstruction algorithm. Correction information about the first reconstructed image may be generated based on the first reconstructed image and the second reconstructed image. A third reconstructed image may be generated based on the first reconstructed image and the correction information about the first reconstructed image.
US10115209B2	Image target tracking method and system thereof An image target tracking method and system thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The image target tracking method includes the following steps: determining a relative position between a target and a camouflage interference in an image; generating a prediction trajectory according to the relative position between the target and the camouflage interference in the image; and correlating an observation sample position with the prediction trajectory to generate a correlation result, and determining whether the target is blocked and tracking the target according to the correlation result. Throughout the process, the prediction trajectory is generated based on the determined relative position between the target and the camouflage interference, and the prediction trajectory is correlated to determine whether the target is blocked and to accurately track the target.
US10115204B2	Method and apparatus for predicting eye position Provided is an apparatus and method for predicting an eye position of user that may detect eye position coordinates in an image which is recently generated, determine a current prediction velocity of an eye movement based on a velocity of a previous eye movement, and predict the eye position coordinates of the user based on the detected eye position coordinates and the current prediction velocity.
US10115190B2	Determining a material type and/or a surface condition of a workpiece This disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for determining a material type and/or a surface condition of a workpiece. A surface of the workpiece is illuminated with illuminating radiation. At least one image of the illuminated surface is recorded. The material type and/or the surface condition of the workpiece is determined on the basis of a statistical analysis of the at least one image converted into a spatial frequency domain.
US10115187B2	Apparatus and processes for classifying and counting corn kernels Methods and apparatus are provided for identifying optimal threshold values to generate optimal binary images from a digital image. In one example, a method includes, for each of a plurality of candidate threshold values, processing an image using the candidate threshold value to create a first segmented image of a first plurality of blobs; for each of the plurality of candidate threshold values, calculating a threshold value evaluation metric as a count of qualifying blobs in the first plurality of blobs in the first segmented image, wherein the qualifying blobs have a fill factor exceeding a predefined fill factor and have an area within a predefined area range; identifying an optimal threshold value from the plurality of candidate threshold values for which the threshold value evaluation metric is maximized; and processing the image using the optimal threshold value to create a second segmented image of a second plurality of blobs.
US10115185B2	Dynamic image recognition model updates A method includes receiving first image data at an electronic device, and performing a first image recognition operation on the first image data based on a first image recognition model stored in a memory of the electronic device. The method may include sending an image recognition model update request from the electronic device to a server, in response to determining that a result of the first image recognition operation fails to satisfy a confidence threshold. The method includes receiving image recognition model update information from the server and updating the first image recognition model based on the image recognition model update information to generate a second image recognition model. The method further includes performing a second image recognition operation based on the second image recognition model.
US10115180B2	Image interpolation device and method thereof The present application discloses an image interpolation method for interpolating a pixel and enhancing an edge in an image, comprising detecting an edge position in an image; obtaining edge characteristics associated with the edge position; determining whether an interpolation point is located within an edge region based on the edge characteristics of an array of p×q pixels surrounding the interpolation point, wherein p and q are integers larger than 1; determining edge direction of an interpolation point located within the edge region, wherein the edge direction is normal to gradient direction; classifying the edge direction accordingly to in angle subclasses and n angle classes; wherein each angle class comprises one or more subclasses, m and n are integers, and n≤m; selecting a one-dimensional horizontal interpolation kernel based on the angle class; performing a horizontal interpolation using the selected one-dimensional horizontal interpolation kernel; and performing a vertical interpolation using a one-dimensional vertical interpolation kernel.
US10115178B2	Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Provided is an image processing apparatus that determines crop positions for an image including a plurality of objects in a preferred manner. This image processing apparatus specifies object regions from the image, and sets a plurality of crop region candidates for each of the specified object regions. The image processing apparatus selects a predetermined number of crop regions from among the plurality of crop region candidates based on evaluation values obtained for the plurality of crop region candidates and on similarities among the plurality of crop region candidates.
US10115177B2	Online texture compression and decompression in hardware A method of variable rate compression of image data in an image pipeline of a graphics processing system, the method includes identifying, by a processor of the graphics processing system, a set of cTiles associated with the image data, each cTile including a plurality of pixels, for each cTile of the set of cTiles identifying, by the processor, a pivot pixel from among the plurality of pixels, identifying, by the processor, a compression type of the cTile by comparing, bit-by-bit , pixels within the cTile with the pivot pixel, and compressing, by the processor, the cTile based on the identified compression type, and generating, by the processor, a metadata entry associated with the set of cTiles, the metadata entry indicating the compression type of each one of the set of cTiles and defining a mapping between an uncompressed address space of the set of cTiles and a compressed address space.
US10115175B2	Uniform predicates in shaders for graphics processing units A method for processing data in a graphics processing unit including receiving an indication that all threads of a warp in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are to execute a same branch in a first set of instructions, storing one or more predicate bits in a memory as a single set of predicate bits, wherein the single set of predicate bits applies to all of the threads in the warp, and executing a portion of the first set of instructions in accordance with the single set of predicate bits. Executing the first set of instructions may include executing the first set of instruction in accordance with the single set of predicate bits using a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) processing core and/or executing the first set of instruction in accordance with the single set of predicate bits using a scalar processing unit.
US10115173B1	System and method for standardized evaluation of driver's license eligibility Systems and methods are provided for standardized evaluation of new drivers seeking driver's licenses. A driving license acquisition system may determine the requirements for a new driver to obtain a full driver's license in a particular state, track the driver's driving performance to determine when the requirements are met, and administer a written test and a driving test. Upon passing the written test and the driving test, the driving license acquisition system may communicate with a driver's license issuing authority system (e.g., Department of Motor Vehicles) to recommend issuing a driver's license to the driver. The driving license acquisition system may reduce the need for a parent or other supervisor to monitor the new driver's driving record, and may reduce the need for the new driver visiting a local driver's license issuing authority to obtain a driver's license.
US10115171B2	Medication related task notification system A task management system for informing a clinician of medication administration related tasks to be performed, includes a repository of information. The repository of information associates data identifying multiple different medications with corresponding multiple post-administration alert messages. An individual alert message notifies a clinician of a particular post-administration task to be performed concerning a particular medication following administration of the particular medication to a patient. An input processor receives data indicating the particular medication has been administered to the patient. A workflow processor, in response to received data indicating the particular medication has been administered to the patient, uses the repository for identifying a post-administration task associated with the particular medication and automatically adds data indicating the post-administration task to be performed to a task list of a clinician. A reproduction device presents the post-administration task and task list of the clinician for viewing by a user.
US10115167B2	System and method for identifying key targets in a social network by heuristically approximating influence One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for selecting a set of nodes to maximize information spreading. During operation, the system receives a budget constraint and a population sample, constructs a social network associated with the population sample, analyzes a network graph associated with the social network to obtain structural information associated with a node within the social network, estimates characteristics associated with the node, and selects the set of nodes that maximizes the information spreading under the budget constraint based on the structural information and the characteristics associated with the node.
US10115164B1	Systems and methods to quantify and differentiate individual insurance risk based on actual driving behavior and driving environment The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for generating data representative of an individual's insurance risk based on actual driving behaviors and driving environment. The systems and methods may include collecting data from personal electronic device sensors, vehicle sensors, driver inputs, environment sensors and interactions of the vehicle, the driver and the environment. The systems and methods may further include analyzing the data to generate data representative of an individual insurance risk. The systems and methods may further include presenting the data representative of the individual insurance risk to an individual.
US10115153B2	Detection of compromise of merchants, ATMS, and networks A system and method for detecting compromise of financial transaction instruments associated with a merchant or automated teller machine (ATM) are disclosed. Historical data representing a historical aggregate financial transaction instrument behavior history is stored in a computer memory. The historical data is received at the computer from one or more merchants and ATMs via a communications network. Authorization data representing authorization behavior of a plurality of financial transaction cards related to corresponding financial transactions at the same or a different one or more merchants and ATMs is received by the computer. Abnormal activity data representing an abnormal aggregate financial transaction instrument activity based on the authorization data is determined, and the historical data is compared with the abnormal activity data to generate a compromise profile for the plurality of financial transaction instruments.
US10115152B2	Line item management system method and apparatus A method and apparatus to manage accounts auditing data. Embodiments of the invention correlate and apply credits from one vendor account with other related-entity (or “family” entity) vendor accounts, automatically recovering credits through the marshalling of line-items with related-entity vendors.
US10115150B2	System and method for constructing and displaying active virtual reality cyber malls, show rooms, galleries, stores, museums, and objects within A first virtual reality scene corresponding to a physical scene is displayed. The first virtual reality scene includes a plurality of objects. The plurality of objects is selectable by a user and is built from a plurality of images representing varied views of the plurality of objects in the physical scene. The user is enabled to navigate within the first virtual reality scene to observe the first virtual reality scene from at least two perspectives. The user is enabled to rotate at least one of the plurality of objects within the first virtual reality scene about at least one axis. An object in the first virtual reality scene maybe linked with a second virtual reality scene. If an object selected by a viewer is linked with a second virtual reality scene, the second virtual reality scene is displayed, and the viewer is enabled to navigate in the second virtual reality scene and select the plurality of objects presented in the second virtual reality scene. A selection received from the user corresponds to at least one of the plurality of objects within the first virtual reality scene. In response to the selection, additional information about a selected at least one of the plurality of objects is displayed. The additional information includes at least one of a link to the detailed information or specification of the object, a link to buy and a link to bid on the selected at least one of the plurality of objects.
US10115147B2	Information communication terminal, information distribution apparatus, information distribution system, content management method, broadcast reception method, information distribution method, programs and storage medium It is an object of the present invention to enhance convenience and service qualities in an information distribution system. In a server serving as an information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, contents are managed by using content identifiers (content IDs) managed as IDs conforming to a rule of uniformity. Particularly, in the information communication terminal, a content ripped from a recording medium such as a CD and stored in storage means such as an HDD is also managed by using a content identifier acquired from the information distribution apparatus. In this way, contents stored in the storage means can be managed by using content IDs each managed as an ID common to the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus. In communication between the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus, a content identifier conforming to a rule of uniformity is used for identifying a content to which the content identifier is assigned so that the terminal is capable of downloading the content as well as acquiring additional information relevant to the content from the apparatus, and the apparatus is capable of rendering a plurality of other services.
US10115136B2	Building containers of uncategorized items at multiple locations Methods and systems to build containers of uncategorized items are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access a search request for items available for purchase via a network-based location, collect information associated with available items having product description information satisfying the search request and located at multiple network-based locations, determine one or more containers that associate items available for purchase based on the collected information, and publish a result for the search request that is based on the determined containers.
US10115135B2	System and method to support diameter credit control session redirection using SCIM/service broker A system and method which overcome the limitations of online charging systems which do not natively support redirection functionality. In an embodiment of the invention a SCIM provides the added redirection functionality to online charging systems which do not natively support redirection functionality. The SCIM supports redirection of a user session to a process application in a manner which allows the user to easily continue with the activity the user was engaged. If selected criteria are met the SCIM can update credit control answers (CCA) with redirection information to redirect the session to an application.
US10115131B2	Managing interactive communications campaigns A campaign strategy manager (CSM) component for a hosted communications campaign system allows users to define more granular and specific campaign strategies, including pass escalation for alternative channels (e.g., text and email) and/or based upon attempt results, contact attributes and response group data. The campaign strategy manager allows users to define pass strategies statically and dynamically, to manage lists across multiple campaigns, and to view results in real-time. A defined strategy is a static strategy created by a user for a particular campaign that, once created, typically is not modified. A dynamic strategy is one where, during the course of a day (e.g., as a sub-campaign is running), a user may alter the defined strategy, preferably just for that day (or portion thereof). In particular, the campaign strategy manager enables the user to make changes to the current strategy as a sub-campaign is running through a particular list.
US10115129B1	Deal allocation platform A deal allocation platform is disclosed. The deal allocation platform may be configured to be used in multiple contexts, such as, for example, a batch processing context and a real-time context. Further, the deal allocation platform may be configured to reallocate users assigned to deals based on an approximation of a global optimization problem. In addition, the deal allocation platform may enable configuration of one or multiple experiments.
US10115126B1	Leveraging geographic positions of mobile devices at a locale Embodiments are disclosed for a method that may include accessing events in a field-searchable data store. The events may include raw machine data associated with a timestamp. The raw machine data may represent interactions between a mobile device and one or more network devices at a locale. The method may further include determining, based on the interactions, one or more geographic positions of the mobile device, and calculating a metric for the locale using the geographic positions.
US10115119B2	Audience migration information A server machine obtains media content information and event records, which include session data. The session data including consumer identifiers identifying consumers, and content provider identifiers identifying media stations. The server uses the event records and the media content information to generate tune-away events when first session data includes a first content provider identifier, but subsequent session data includes a second content provider identifier different from the first content provider identifier. The server aggregates tune-away events for a specific program across multiple different media outlets to determine a total number of tune away events for that program during a specified time period. The total number of tune-away events can be transmitted to an end user machine, which can display a graphical representation.
US10115114B2	Systems and methods for secure distribution of coupons Systems and methods for secure distribution of electronic coupons involve a mobile device receiving an electronic coupon and displaying a degraded image of the electronic coupon. A non-degraded image of the electronic coupon is displayed by the mobile device when an attempt to capture the electronic coupon is detected.
US10115110B2	Pet feeding system A pet feeding system for effectively communicating information between a packaged consumable product for pets and a device. The pet feeding system generally includes a container that stores a volume of a consumable product for a pet, a tag attached to the container that stores product data corresponding to the consumable product within the container, and a monitor device configured to wirelessly communicate with the tag when the tag is near the monitor device. The monitor device is configured to receive the product data from the tag and determine if the consumable product associated with the tag is acceptable for consumption by a pet using the product data. The monitor device is configured to provide an alert to the user if the consumable product associated with the tag is identified by the monitor device as having a consumption problem for the pet.
US10115109B2	Self correcting online reputation A system to determine a first reputation value for a first user associated with a transaction with a second user first determines a weighted value based on one or more user transaction attributes. The user transaction attributes may be associated with at least one of the first user and the second user. Next the system calculates the first reputation value for the first user as a function of a first current reputation value of the first user and the weighted value.
US10115106B2	Systems and methods for providing ACH transaction notification and facilitating ACH transaction disputes A system and method for identifying incoming ACH transactions involving subscriber accounts at a financial institution, comparing the ACH transaction details with preset notification criteria, suspending any ACH transaction that satisfy the preset criteria so that the transaction does not post to the account, notifying the subscriber of the incoming ACH transaction, providing the subscriber with the option to either authorize or dispute the ACH transaction, and facilitating the dispute process according to applicable banking rules by requesting further information from the subscriber and forwarding the dispute information to the ACH operator.
US10115104B2	Systems and methods for generating and managing dynamic customized electronic tokens for electronic device interaction Systems and methods are provided for generating and managing dynamic customized electronic tokens for electronic device interactions. A system for transferring data between a user device associated with a user and a remote device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the stored instructions. The stored instructions may configure the processor to receive, via a network, transaction information from the remote device, access information associated with an electronic token, and provide the electronic token to the remote device. The electronic token may be associated with at least one of the user or the user device, and a token server may generate the electronic token based on the received transaction information, and determine one or more expiration parameters for the electronic token.
US10115102B2	Providing identification information to mobile commerce applications Aspects and examples are disclosed for facilitating mobile commerce. In one example, a processing device receives a data network identifier or other identifier from a commerce application. The data network identifier or other identifier can be associated with a mobile device conducting a transaction with the commerce application. The processing device can also obtain a credential associated with the mobile device using the data network identifier. The processing device can additionally retrieve identification information from a credit file associated with the credential. The identification information can be useable for completing the transaction. The processing device can further transmit the identification information to a computing device executing the commerce application.
US10115095B2	Methods and apparatus for unified inventory and financial transaction management In some embodiments, a system includes one or more computers configured to implement by executing instructions on one or more processors a platform-agnostic transaction-related communication system. The transaction-related communication system includes one or more receiving modules for receiving a first item of financial transaction information from a customer-facing interface, and receiving a second item of financial transaction information from a merchant-facing point-of-sale interface. In some embodiments, the transaction-related communication system includes a point of sale server for rendering in a common internal format the first item of financial transaction information from the customer-facing interface, and rendering in the common internal format the second item of financial transaction information from the merchant-facing point-of-sale interface. In some embodiments, the transaction-related communication system includes a payment processing module for rendering in a second format the first item of financial transaction information for payment processing by a first external financial party.
US10115088B2	Methods and systems for selecting accounts and offers in payment transactions Embodiments provide systems, methods, processes, computer program code and means for using mobile devices to conduct payment transactions at merchant locations including brick and mortar locations and remote locations as well as for person to person transactions.
US10115077B2	System for facilitating management and organisational development processes Business scorecard software provides management with traffic light displays to reflect strategy, objectives and targets. Typically, these systems focus on the Kaplan and Norton Balanced Scorecard and scorecarding of numbers. Search engines, knowledge retrieval systems and web portals use meta data to retrieve relevant information. The current invention provides a way to use the meta data inherent in an enhanced scorecard to enable focussed and efficient search and retrieval based on purpose or intent and thereby to create focussed purposeful web portals. Management expertise is the ability to achieve targets by implementing processes and developing appropriate climate and culture. The current invention provides a way to codify expertise and knowledge in relation to targets, process and culture as Process DNA, so that expertise can be captured and reused on-demand. Benefits include improved synergy across large organizational systems and increased likelihood of web portal users finding resources to support their intentions.
US10115075B1	Radio frequency identification (RFID) inventory management system Disclosed embodiments relate to a rapid inventory management system that comprises an RFID reader, an antenna with an antenna shape, a high-conductive material, and RFID tags attached to items. In some embodiments, an inventory management system tracks inventory by interrogating RFID tags with an RF wave of a wavelength generating an RFID field and receiving data from the RFID tags that include information on the item. The high-conductive material may disposed at a distance of a quarter wavelength from the antenna. The antenna may comprise a particular shape of bends and arms, the arms at a distance of a quarter wavelength from each other.
US10115061B2	Motif recognition Methods and systems for motif recognition in graph sets. Distribution scores comparing the canonical representations of a compressed graph in the set of graphs versus the canonical representations of a compressed graph in a reference graph are used to determine the significance of the compressed graph.
US10115060B2	Methods and systems for predicting a proposed electronic message as spam based on a predicted hard bounce rate for a list of email addresses Methods and systems for predicting a proposed electronic mail (email) for an email campaign to be sent to a list of email addresses received from a sender is spam. A hard bounce rate is predicted for the list of email addresses based on hard bounce rates calculated for respective email addresses on the list. If predicted hard bounce rate exceeds a threshold, the proposed email is deemed spam and sender may be informed. If predicted hard bounce rate falls within range of the threshold, proposed email may be sent to less than all the email addresses on list. If an acceptable number of the sent emails are received, the email may be sent to remaining email addresses on list. Prior to sending proposed email, the list of email addresses may be compared to purchased lists of email addresses. If there is a match, the proposed email may be deemed spam.
US10115053B2	NFC/RF mechanism with multiple valid states for detecting an open container, and methods of making and using the same A wireless (e.g., near field or RF) communication device, and methods of manufacturing and using the same are disclosed. The wireless communication device includes a receiver and/or transmitter, a substrate with an antenna thereon, an integrated circuit, and one or more protection lines. The antenna receives and/or transmits or broadcasts a wireless signal. The integrated circuit processes the wireless signal and/or information therefrom, and/or generates the wireless signal and/or information therefor. The integrated circuit has a first set of terminals electrically connected to the antenna. The protection line(s) are on a common or different substrate as the antenna. The protection line(s) sense or determine a continuity state of a package or container on which the communication device is placed or to which the communication device is fixed or adhered, and are electrically connected to a second set of terminals of the integrated circuit different from the first set of terminals.
US10115052B2	RFID devices using metamaterial antennas A radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag can comprise an RFID chip, an antenna provided by a patch cell stack; and a feed line electrically coupling the RFID chip to the antenna. An equivalent circuit for the patch cell stack can comprise at least one inductance group comprising at least two series inductances, and at least one shunt capacitance. The antenna can have a composite right- and left-handed (CRLH) structure.
US10115045B2	Absolute surface coding/encoding an area in absolute terms Some embodiments of the invention include an area position code pattern, comprising an arrangement of code marks in a basic grid. At least one portion of said position code pattern is readable by a matrix sensor for determining positions. According to some embodiments of the invention, the position code pattern is embodied with a first absolute code sequence in a stringing-together of the code marks in a first line direction of the basic grid as first line on the area to be encoded and the code marks are encoded with a second absolute code sequence in the line direction along a second line which follows the first line. The first line and the second line form a line pair and the two absolute code sequences are each arranged offset in the first direction in the basic grid in a subsequent line pair.
US10115036B2	Determining the direction of rows of text A page orientation component of an image processing device receives an image of a document, transforms the image to a binarized image by performing a binarization operation on the image, and identifies a portion of the binarized image that comprises one or more rows of textual content. The page orientation component identifies a plurality of horizontal runs of white pixels and a plurality of vertical runs of white pixels in the one or more rows of textual content in the portion of the binarized image. The page orientation component generates a first histogram for the plurality of horizontal runs of white pixels, and a second histogram for the plurality of vertical runs of white pixels, and determines an orientation of the one or more rows of textual content in the image based on the first histogram and the second histogram.
US10115029B1	Automobile video camera for the detection of children, people or pets left in a vehicle An apparatus comprising a camera sensor and a processor. The camera sensor may be configured to generate a video signal based on a targeted wide angle view of an interior of a vehicle. The processor may be configured to detect a type of object in the interior of the vehicle based on a classification of information visible in the video signal. If the vehicle is unattended by a person capable of operating one or more accessories of the vehicle, the processor may be configured to initiate one or more corrective measures based on the type of the object.
US10115026B2	Method for lane detection A method for lane detection for a camera-based driver assistance system includes the following steps: image regions in images that are recorded by a camera are identified as detected lane markings if the image regions meet a specified detection criterion. At least two detected lane markings are subjected to a tracking process as lane markings to be tracked. By means of a recursive state estimator, separate progressions are estimated for at least two of the lane markings to be tracked. Furthermore, for each of a plurality of the detected lane markings, a particular offset value is determined, which indicates a transverse offset of the detected lane marking in relation to a reference axis. By means of an additional estimation method, the determined offset values are each associated with one of the separate progressions of the lane markings to be tracked.
US10115021B2	Scorebook creating apparatus, scorebook creating system, scorebook creating method, program, imaging device, and reproducing method A scorebook creating apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects first information that indicates a starting point of a scene included in picture data; a temporary-tag creating unit that creates a temporary tag including time information of the first information when the detecting unit detects the first information; a tag-identification (ID) assigning unit that issues, when second information is input from an external unit, a tag ID for associating the temporary tag with the second information to assign the tag ID to the second information; and a scorebook processing unit that creates a scorebook by the second information. The temporary-tag creating unit makes a set of the last temporary tag before the tag ID is issued and the tag ID.
US10115020B2	Image processing method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, and image processing device An image processing device acquires multiple sets of continuous image data, captured by a capturing device, determines whether an object having a predetermined characteristic is present in a partial region of image data included in the sets of image data, using the processor repeatedly detects the object from image data that is captured prior to the image data where the object is present, when the object is determined to be present in the partial region, using the processor, calculates a movement trajectory of the object in accordance with positions of the object, detected from multiple sets of image data, and times of the sets of image data, using the processor and identifies a start position and a start time of the movement trajectory.
US10115016B2	System and method to identify a vehicle and generate reservation A system and method having a number of technological elements, one of which being a controller, which causes improvements to the controller and creates significantly more than the original default controller functionality. The elements collaborating to cause the controller to operate a camera to record images of a visual content; store the recorded images to a memory, the recorded images being in a digital form as digital images; perform a visual recognition module to identify at least one targeted object within at least one digital image; produce the identification results of the visual recognition module; compare the identification results to the vehicle-reservation information; generate reservation information derived from the comparison outcome of the identification results to the vehicle-reservation information; and operate the display to exhibit the reservation information.
US10115013B2	Method and apparatus for single-particle localization using wavelet analysis Accurate localization of isolated particles is important in single particle based super-resolution microscopy. It allows the imaging of biological samples with nanometer-scale resolution using a simple fluorescence microscopy setup. Nevertheless, conventional techniques for localizing single particles can take minutes to hours of computation time because they require up to a million localizations to form an image. In contrast, the present particle localization techniques use wavelet-based image decomposition and image segmentation to achieve nanometer-scale resolution in two dimensions within seconds to minutes. This two-dimensional localization can be augmented with localization in a third dimension based on a fit to the imaging system's point-spread function (PSF), which may be asymmetric along the optical axis. For an astigmatic imaging system, the PSF is an ellipse whose eccentricity and orientation varies along the optical axis. When implemented with a mix of CPU/GPU processing, the present techniques are fast enough to localize single particles while imaging (in real-time).
US10115009B2	Body relationship estimation method and apparatus A body relationship estimation method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a target picture, calculating a first body relationship feature of two persons according to at least one of first location information of a body part of each person of the two persons in the target picture or second location information of body parts of the two persons, where the first location information is obtained by performing single-person gesture estimation on each person, and the second location information is obtained by performing two-person joint gesture estimation on the two persons when the first location information indicates that the body parts of the two persons overlap, and determining a body relationship between the two persons according to the first body relationship feature.
US10115007B2	Tracking of handheld sporting implements using computer vision A path and/or orientation of object approaching an athlete is tracked using two or more cameras. At least two sets of video images of the object are obtained using at least two different cameras having different positions. Motion regions within video images are identified, and candidate locations in 2D space of the object is/are identified within the motion region(s). Based thereon, a probable location in 3D space of the identifiable portion is identified, for each of a plurality of instants during which the object was approaching. A piecewise 3D trajectory of at least the identifiable portion of the object is approximated from the probable locations in 3D space of the object for multiple instants during which the object was approaching the athlete. A graphical representation of the 3D trajectory of the object is incorporated into at least one of the sets of video images.
US10115002B2	Electronic device with a fingerprint reader and method for operating the same A method for operating an electronic device is provided, in which the device detects contact with a user's finger, scans its fingerprint and sets the orientation of the electronic device based on the fingerprint (e.g., whether is from the user's left hand or right hand) and on an angle of the fingerprint with respect to the device. This allows the electronic device to determine its orientation with respect to the user rather than with respect to the environment.
US10114997B2	Reader for optical indicia presented under two or more imaging conditions within a single frame time The present invention embraces an optical indicia reader, e.g., barcode scanner, that captures images of optical indicia under multiple imaging conditions within the span of a single frame. The reader includes an image sensor having selectively-addressable pixels that can be divided into groups having regions of interest (ROIs) within the reader field of view. Each pixel group is shuttered separately to obtain independent partial frame images under separate imaging conditions.
US10114994B2	Code for animal ID marking An animal identification code is described comprising two numbers, one of which is encoded into a human-readable marking and the other of which is encoded into a machine-readable marking, where the two numbers and the two encodings are different. The combination of the two numbers, plus additional information not marked on a first animal, such as time of read, is looked up a first table to determine conditional validity and from there to a second table to determine a valid and unique animal ID associated with the animal, a primary key. The animal may be a rodent in a vivarium and the markings may be tattooed on the animal tail. The second marking may be a vine code with a spine where the spine is aligned with the animal tail. The first number may be unique within a first animal population such as an animal study. The combination of the first and second marking may be reused on a second animal wherein the lifetimes of the first and second animal do not overlap. The primary key is unique among all animals in a third population, dead or alive.
US10114993B2	RFID system and associated antenna-coupler A RFID system and an associated antenna-coupler are provided. The system may be for selectively communicating with a targeted transponder from among a group of multiple adjacent transponders is provided. The system may include a transponder conveyance, a transceiver, and an antenna-coupler. The transponder conveyance is adapted to transport at least one targeted transponder from a group of multiple adjacent transponders through a transponder operating region. The transceiver is configured to generate one or more electrical signals. The antenna-coupler has first and second microstrips in a cross-like arrangement relative to each other. Each of the first and second microstrips is configured to transmit one or more electro-magnetic fields concentrated in a near-field region of the antenna-coupler based on the one or more electrical signals for communicating with the targeted transponder.
US10114991B2	Reading and writing verification device for RFID medium, and reading and writing verification method for same Focusing on providing a plurality of device antennas along a transfer path of the RFID media, and providing a device antenna for verification, the reading and writing verification device comprises: a data reading and writing unit having a first device antenna, a second device antenna and a third device antenna provided sequentially in the transfer path; and a data verification unit having a fourth device antenna provided on a downstream side of the third device antenna, reading and writing of medium data being made sequentially executable by wireless data communication between the data reading and writing unit and the RFID medium, and in the data verification unit, the medium data being read from the RFID medium to enable verification of the medium data.
US10114989B2	RFID reading apparatus and method for bin occupancy recognition in a shelf An RFID reading apparatus (18) for bin occupancy recognition in a shelf (10) is provided having at least one antenna (16), an RF transceiver (20) connected to the antenna (16), a control and evaluation unit (22) that is configured to communicate with an RFID transponder (24) by means of RFID signals via the RF transceiver (20) and the antenna (16), and having at least one additional sensor (24) for detecting objects at or in the shelf (10). In this respect, the control and evaluation unit (22) is configured to recognize and locally associate changes of the bin occupancy from a combination of information of the antenna (16) and information of the additional sensor (24).
US10114985B2	Systems and methods for controlling radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag communication Systems and methods for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag communication are provided. One radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a communication device configured to communicate with an RFID reader and an impedance element configured to change an variable impedance of the RFID tag. The RFID tag further includes at least one switch connected to the impedance element and a controller connected to the at least one switch and configured to control operation of the switch between open and closed states based on a control signal received from the RFID reader, wherein the variable impedance of the RFID tag is changed between a first modulating impedance value and a second modulating impedance value when the switch is changed between the open and closed states.
US10114975B1	Apparatus and method for data redaction in a semi-structured document database An apparatus has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to store a semi-structured document database including a collection of documents having semi-structured data formats. Data redaction rules are defined. Each data redaction rule includes a redaction type and a path expression to a redaction location within a semi-structured data format of a document within the collection of documents. The data redaction rules are applied to form redacted documents. The redacted documents are supplied.
US10114972B2	Intelligent database with secure tables Methods to perform an operation comprising upon determining that a received query requests values of sensitive data stored in a secure database table of a database, computing a security score for the received query based on a determined specificity of a selection predicate of the received query, and upon determining that the security score exceeds a security threshold, performing a predefined operation to restrict access to the requested values of the sensitive data.
US10114967B2	Converged mechanism for protecting data Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for a converged mechanism for protecting data. In a particular embodiment, a method provides identifying a level of importance for a plurality of data items and tracking changes to the plurality of data items. The method further provides aggregating the changes based on the level of importance and logging the aggregated changes.
US10114954B1	Exploit prediction based on machine learning Generation of one or more models is caused based on selecting training data comprising a plurality of features including a prevalence feature for each vulnerability of a first plurality of vulnerabilities. The one or more models enable predicting whether an exploit will be developed for a vulnerability and/or whether the exploit will be used in an attack. The one or more models are applied to input data comprising the prevalence feature for each vulnerability of a second plurality of vulnerabilities. Based on the application of the one or more models to the input data, output data is received. The output data indicates a prediction of whether an exploit will be developed for each vulnerability of the second plurality. Additionally or alternatively, the output data indicates, for each vulnerability of the second plurality, a prediction of whether an exploit that has yet to be developed will be used in an attack.
US10114952B2	System, apparatus and method for performing secure memory training and management in a trusted environment In one embodiment, a system includes: a processor; a security processor to execute in a trusted executed environment (TEE), the security processor to execute memory reference code (MRC) stored in a secure storage of the TEE to train a memory coupled to the processor; and the memory coupled to the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10114950B2	Mobile application management Code of a particular application is analyzed against a semantic model of a software development kit of a particular platform. The semantic model associates a plurality of application behaviors with respective application programming interface (API) calls of the particular platform. A set of behaviors of the particular application is identified based on the analysis of the code and a particular one of the set of behaviors is identified as an undesired behavior. The particular application can be automatically modified to remediate the undesired behavior. The particular application can be assigned to one of a plurality of device modes, and access to the particular application on a user device can be based on which of the plurality of device modes is active on the user device.
US10114949B2	Techniques for monitoring integrity of OS security routine Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for monitoring the integrity of an operating system (OS) security routine that checks the integrity of an OS and/or one or more application routines. An apparatus may include a first processor component to execute an operating system (OS) in a first operating environment within a processing device and to execute an OS security routine to recurringly verify an integrity of the OS; a challenge component within a second operating environment within the processing device that is isolated from the first operating environment to recurringly challenge the OS security routine to provide a measure of itself; and a response component within the second operating environment to analyze each measure provided by the OS security routine and an elapsed time to receive each measure from the OS security routine to verify an integrity of the OS security routine.
US10114948B2	Hypervisor-based buffer overflow detection and prevention Technologies for securing an electronic device include determining addresses of one or more memory pages, injecting for each memory page a portion of identifier data into the memory page, storing an indication of the identifier data injected into each of the memory pages, determining an attempt to access at least one of the memory pages, determining any of the identifier data present on a memory page associated with the attempt, comparing the indication of the identifier data with the determined identifier data present on the memory page, and, based on the comparison, determining whether to allow the access.
US10114945B2	Clock rollback security Methods and systems for preventing clock rollback attacks are described herein. A rollback attack may occur when a user manually sets a system clock to a date/time earlier than the actual present day date and time, thereby tricking any software relying on the system clock to believe it is in fact the earlier date and time rather than the current date and time. According to aspects described herein, a particular application may check and store a record of the system time when an application goes inactive (or at intervals) and again when the application subsequently is activated again. When the application determines that the time has gone backward, the application (or system) may take some remedial measure(s) to prevent further use of the application (or system) until the user reestablishes trust (e.g., by reauthenticating or reestablishing a connection with a trusted time server).
US10114938B2	Secure electronic lock Embodiments are directed to simulating an operation of a mechanical lock in an electronic context, comprising: applying a contactless wireless credential to a lock, authenticating the credential, unlocking the lock to provide access to a resource protected by the lock based on having authenticated the credential, determining a security level associated with the lock, and conditionally capturing the credential based on the security level.

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