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US10327393B2	Modular precision agriculture system A modular system includes a hub and a set of modules removably coupled to the hub. The modules are physically coupled to the frame relative to each other so that each module can operate with respect to a different row of a field. An individual module includes a sensor for capturing field measurement data of individual plants along a row as the modular system moves through the geographic region. An individual module further includes a treatment mechanism for applying a treatment to the individual plants of the row based on the field measurement data before the modular system passes by the individual plants. An individual module further includes a computing device that determines the treatment based on the field measurement data and communicates data to the hub. The hub is communicatively coupled to the modules, so that it may exchange data between the modules and with a remote computing system.
US10327378B2	Agricultural product delivery system An agricultural delivery system allows for the selective delivery of agricultural product (e.g., seeds or fertilizer) along one or more paths to row units according to a real-time location determined for the delivery system. The delivery system may include: a rotating drum configured to separate individual product for depositing along paths to row units; a sectional control system which may include wheels or gates for selectively cutting off product in the paths; and a controller in communication with a positioning system and the sectional control system. In operation, as the delivery system moves through a field, the controller may continuously determine a location for the delivery system. The controller may then operate to adjust individual product delivery, via the sectional control system, according to the location.
US10334768B2	Component mounting device A component mounting device with which an improvement in production efficiency may be achieved by adjusting the timing of the Q-axis rotation is provided.
US10334767B2	Shielding structure and shielding braided member A shielding structure includes a shielding braided member that is a braided member obtained by braiding a plurality of resin wires and a plurality of conductive metal wires together and arranged to achieve shielding of an electric wire, a shell that is connected to one end of the shielding braided member; and a crimp fixing portion with which the one end of the shielding braided member is crimped and fixed to the shell such that electric conduction is established. The shielding braided member includes a metal braided portion that contains no resin wires and that is formed by braiding the plurality of metal wires, and the metal braided portion in the shielding braided member is crimped and fixed to the shell with a crimp ring of the crimp fixing portion.
US10334765B1	Radio frequency shielding lock box An electronic shielding device used to secure articles like keys and key fobs from the radiating signals is disclosed. The electronic shielding device includes a housing having a lid member and a storage member, a locking unit for securing articles utilizing a locking mechanism and a plurality of attachment means connected with the housing. The lid member includes first latch member and the storage member includes a second latch member. The radiating signal includes radio frequency and electromagnetic signals. The lid member is detachably attached with the storage member utilizing the first latch member and the second latch member. The locking unit is keyed and coded to a customer's own specific key/lock. The electronic shielding device is designed to attach to an object such as but not limited to a vehicle, a door and a window.
US10334764B2	Outdoor display apparatus with a cooling structure An outdoor display apparatus more particularly, to an outdoor display apparatus having a cooling structure. An outdoor display apparatus comprising: a case provided with an inlet and an outlet; a display module disposed inside of the case and provided with a display panel on which an image is displayed; and a heat exchanger configured to perform a heat-exchange by receiving heat from the display module; wherein the heat exchanger comprises a first cooling flow path configured to circulate air around the display module in a first direction; and a second cooling flow path configured to allow air to be introduced from the outside, to perform a heat-exchange with the air in the first cooling flow path, and to be discharged in a second direction.
US10334758B1	Process for incrementally commissioning mechanical infrastructure in a data center Data center mechanical infrastructure is incrementally deployed and commissioned to support incremental changes in computing capacity in a data center while mitigating interaction between infrastructure being commissioned and installed computer systems. Incremental mechanical infrastructure commissioning can be concurrent with incremental electrical infrastructure commissioning and includes operating mechanical infrastructure to remove heat generated as a result of operating electrical infrastructure to support simulated electrical loads as part of electrical infrastructure commissioning. Incremental mechanical infrastructure deployment can be based on the power support capacity provided by incrementally deployed electrical infrastructure. Incremental infrastructure deployment can include partitioning a space in which incremental mechanical infrastructure is configured to provide cooling, so that heat generation and removal in the space, based on commissioning the incremental mechanical infrastructure, is isolated electrical and cooling support provided to electrical loads located in a remainder of the data center.
US10334756B1	Manifold structures having an integrated fluid channel system and assemblies comprising the same Embodiments described herein generally relate to an assembly including a manifold structure. The manifold structure includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The fluid inlet is for receiving a cooling fluid into the manifold structure and the fluid outlet is for removing the cooling fluid from the manifold structure. The manifold structure also includes a first cooling surface and an opposite second cooling surface. The first cooling surface includes a cooling chip inlet opening fluidly coupled to a cooling chip outlet opening. The fluid inlet is fluidly coupled to the cooling chip inlet opening. The second cooling surface includes a cavity. A first integrated fluid channel fluidly couples the cooling chip outlet opening to the cavity and a second integrated fluid channel fluidly couples the cavity to the fluid outlet. A cooling chip includes a plurality of microchannels, which fluidly couple the cooling chip to the first cooling surface.
US10334754B2	Heat dissipation device A heat dissipation device including a mounting seat, a fan hung on the mounting seat and a frame connected with the fan is provided. The fan has an air outlet and an air inlet opposite to the air outlet, the air inlet is disposed facing to the mounting seat, the frame is arranged surrounding the air inlet and clamped between the mounting seat and the air inlet. Thereby, a back flowing hot airflow is prevented from being sucked into the air inlet.
US10334742B2	Method of manufacturing an electric device based on glass substrate Provided is a method of manufacturing an electronic device, the method including: preparing first mother glass and second mother glass; forming, on the first mother glass, a plurality of device cells partially connected to the first mother glass through a plurality of first separating portions; patterning a device circuit on each of the plurality of device cells; forming, on the second mother glass, a plurality of cover cells partially connected to the second mother glass through a plurality of second separating portions; forming a plurality of electronic devices by laminating the first mother glass and the second mother glass together such that the plurality of device cells are respectively aligned to the plurality of cover cells; and separating the plurality of electronic devices from the first mother glass and the second mother glass by cutting the plurality of first separating portions and the plurality of second separating portions.
US10334735B2	LED lighting systems and methods Embodiments of the invention include LED lighting systems and methods. For example, in some embodiments, an LED lighting system is included. The LED lighting system can include a flexible layered circuit structure that can include a top thermally conductive layer, a middle electrically insulating layer, a bottom thermally conductive layer, and a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on the top layer. The LED lighting system can further include a housing substrate and a mounting structure. The mounting structure can be configured to suspend the layered circuit structure above the housing substrate with an air gap disposed in between the bottom thermally conductive layer of the flexible layered circuit structure and the housing substrate. The distance between the layered circuit structure and the support layer can be at least about 0.5 mm. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US10334731B2	Capacitor component A capacitor component includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers having a stacked structure and a plurality of first internal electrodes and a plurality of second internal electrodes alternately disposed with dielectric layers disposed therebetween. A first external electrode is on a first surface and a second surface of the body, on the opposing side of the body, and connected to the plurality of first internal electrodes. A second external electrode is on a third surface and a fourth surface of the body, opposing each other, and connected to one or more of the plurality of second internal electrodes.
US10334730B2	Color-changeable capacitor package structure and color-changeable capacitor casing structure thereof, and circuit board assembly The instant disclosure provides a color-changeable capacitor package structure and a color-changeable capacitor casing structure thereof, and a circuit board assembly. The color-changeable capacitor casing structure includes a metal casing, a first covering layer and a second covering layer. The metal casing has an outer surface and an inner surface, and the metal casing has a receiving space for receiving a capacitor. The first covering layer is formed on the outer surface of the metal casing, the second covering layer is formed on the first covering layer, and one of the first covering layer and the second covering layer is a thermochromic layer for showing a color that is changeable according to temperature variation.
US10334727B2	Electronic apparatus, and circuit board and control device thereof An electronic apparatus and a circuit board thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus operates in cooperation with a packaged electronic component. The electronic apparatus includes a circuit board and a control device disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board includes a plurality of conductive vias passing therethrough, and the conductive vias includes a plurality of first conductive vias arranged respectively corresponding to the first contact pads of the packaged electronic component. The control device includes a signal contact array including a plurality of first signal contacts. When the packaged electronic component and the control device are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the circuit board, the packaged electronic component and the control device at least partially overlap in a thickness direction of the circuit board, and the first signal contacts are respectively electrically connected to the first contact pads via the corresponding conductive vias.
US10334725B1	Adhesive based reconfigurable electronic circuit building system A system for assembling electronic circuits on an electrically non-conductive surface or substrate. The system incorporates electronic components integrated into electronic component modules. The electronic component modules include identification markings on the top surfaces and electronic contact pads on the bottom surfaces. Electrical interconnects between discrete electronic component modules is achieved through the use of electrically conductive traces placed on the substrate surface. The bottom surfaces of the electronic component modules are coated with an adhesive so the electronic component modules can be mounted onto the substrate. The electronic component modules are affixed to the substrate such that the electronic component modules contact pads make electrical contact with the appropriate electrically conductive traces.
US10334721B2	Electronic component and electronic component manufacturing method An electronic component includes: a first substrate that comprises a first substrate surface; a second substrate that is arranged on the first substrate; and a connecting member that connects the first substrate and a peripheral edge portion of the second substrate. The second substrate is fixed to the first substrate by the connecting member.
US10334715B2	Systems, methods and devices for a package securing system The present disclosure provides systems and methods for a package securing system including a top plate, an alignment frame, a gasket, and a back plate. The top plate comprises a thermal conductive member to transfer heat from a central processing unit (CPU) and secure the CPU to a ball grid array (BGA) socket and a printed circuit board (PCB). The alignment frame is configured to align a connection between the BGA socket and the PCB. The gasket is to seal the CPU, the BGA socket, and the alignment frame between the PCB and the top plate. The back plate is configured to couple with the top plate through the PCB.
US10334711B2	Airfield runway lamp controller An airfield runway lamp controller is described herein. One airfield runway lamp controller includes a current sense transformer configured to detect a failure of a light source of an airfield runway lamp, and an alternating current (AC) switch configured to shunt the light source of the airfield runway lamp upon the current sense transformer detecting a failure of the light source.
US10334708B2	Smart mood lighting control using wheel interface of smartwatch Described is a smart lighting method and device. A smart lighting control method comprises the steps of: operating a smart bulb, which includes a control unit for controlling at least one lighting attribute among attributes of saturation, brightness, and color-temperature, and an LED lamp operated by the control unit; acquiring a current attribute of the LED lamp by using a smartwatch communicatably connected with the control unit; selecting an attribute to be controlled, through an interface panel of the smartwatch; obtaining a control attribute value for adjusting the lighting attribute, by using a rotation interface of the smartwatch; and transmitting the control attribute value from the smartwatch to the smart bulb and adjusting a lighting attribute of the smart bulb by using the transmitted control attribute value.
US10334698B2	Microcontroller-based multifunctional electronic switch A microcontroller based multifunctional electronic switch using a detection circuit design to convert external control signal into message carrying sensing signal readable to the microcontroller. Based on a time length of sensing signal and a format of the sensing signal received in a preset instant period of time the microcontroller is designed to recognize working modes chosen by the external control signal generated by user, and thereby selecting appropriate working process for execution. The system and method of the present invention may simultaneously be applicable to detection circuit design using infrared ray sensor, electrostatic induction sensor, conduction based touch sensor or push button sensor for performing multifunctions such as controlling on/off switch operation, diming or speed control and delay timer management within the capacity of a single lighting load or an electrical appliance.
US10334696B2	Electronic device with a night-light function and night-light control method A night-light control method in an electronic device comprises controlling a photosensitive sensor to detect a light intensity value and controlling an acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration value of the electronic device and thus movement. Acquiring the acceleration value from the acceleration sensor when the acquired light intensity value is in the first preset light intensity range; determining whether the acquired acceleration value is in a preset acceleration range and controlling an infrared sensor to detect whether a user of the electronic device is moving when the acquired acceleration value is in the preset acceleration range. A display unit of the electronic device is controlled to emit light or control a light emitting unit of the electronic device to emit light when the user of the electronic device is moving.
US10334691B2	Organic light-emitting component device, method for producing an organic light-emitting component device and method for operating an organic light-emitting component device An organic light-emitting component device comprising a first and second organic light-emitting component, a temperature detecting device configured for detecting at least one temperature, and a control unit coupled to the temperature detecting device and configured to operate the first and second component. The control unit is such that a first or second operating parameter of the first or second component, respectively, is changed, wherein the temperature detecting device comprises a first and second temperature detecting device. The first and second temperature detecting devices are designed for detecting a first and second temperature of the first and second component, respectively. The control unit is configured to change the first or second operating parameter depending on the difference between the first and second temperature, wherein the first or second operating parameter is changed such that the same temperature is established at the first and second component.
US10334685B2	Carbon dot light emitting diodes An electroluminescent LED device comprising a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer, an active emissive layer between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer, and carbon dots forming the active emissive layer.
US10334680B2	LED lighting system An LED lighting system having at least one LED circuit and at least two circuits or drivers capable of receiving an AC voltage at a first frequency and having an output capable of driving the at least one LED circuit, wherein the output of each circuit or driver capable of driving the at least one LED circuit is provided to the at least one LED circuit through a circuit or sensor capable of permitting only a single output from the at least two circuits or drivers be provided to the at least one LED circuit.
US10334679B2	Systems and methods for stage-based control related to TRIAC dimmers System controller and method for a lighting system according to certain embodiments. For example, the system controller includes a first controller terminal configured to receive a first signal, and a second controller terminal coupled to a first transistor terminal of a transistor. The transistor further includes a second transistor terminal and a third transistor terminal. The second transistor terminal is coupled to a first winding terminal of a winding, and the winding further includes a second winding terminal coupled to a capacitor. Additionally, the system controller includes a third controller terminal coupled to the third transistor terminal of the transistor, and a fourth controller terminal coupled to a resistor and configured to receive a second signal. The second signal represents a magnitude of a current flowing through at least the winding, the third controller terminal, the fourth controller terminal, and the resistor.
US10334677B2	Systems and methods for intelligent dimming control using TRIAC dimmers Systems and methods for dimming control using TRIAC dimmers are provided. An example apparatus for a power conversion system includes: a process-and-drive component configured to receive an input signal and output a drive signal to a switch to affect a current that flows through a primary winding of a power conversion system. The input signal includes a first pulse associated with a first input period and a second pulse associated with a second input period. The drive signal is associated with a first modulation period for the first input period and a second modulation period for the second input period. The process-and-drive component is further configured to: determine the first modulation period for the first input period; change the drive signal between a first logic level and a second logic level at a modulation frequency during the first modulation period; determine the second modulation period for the second input period.
US10334670B2	Driver system The driver system according to the invention includes an infrared receiver module and a Johnson counter. The infrared receiver module receives an infrared signal and performs filtering using a low-pass filter to convert the infrared signal into a driving signal which is transmitted to the Johnson counter. Upon receiving the driving signal, the output terminals of the Johnson counter are sequentially activated to output a control signal for shifting the operation of an electrical device from one operation state to another.
US10334669B2	LED arrangement and LED driving method A lighting circuit uses a tapped linear driver architecture in which there are at least two LED types; a first LED type with a first forward voltage, and a second LED type with a second forward voltage at least double the first forward voltage. The first segment of the tapped linear driver comprises more LEDs of the first type than the second type and the last segment comprises more LEDs of the second type than the first type. This arrangement enables a reduction in the number of LEDs needed, but without significantly impacting on the efficiency of the circuit.
US10334664B2	Electric water-heater with adjustable power The invention relates to a system (1) comprising: a heating device (11) comprising at least one heating means (110) supplied by an AC power grid (2); a control module (12) for controlling said heating device (11), the system being characterized in that the heating means (110) is supplied via a switching converter (120) rectifying the alternating current of the grid (2) into direct current, the switching converter (120) being controlled by the control module (12) in accordance at least with descriptive data of a state of said power grid (2), so as to adjust the power of the heating means (110).
US10334651B2	Mobile terminal and control method thereof This document discloses an electronic device and a control method for the device. An electronic device according to the present invention and a control method for the device comprises a first wireless communication module; a second wireless communication module; and a controller obtaining information of contents from at least one different device through a first communication channel formed by the first wireless communication module and obtaining the contents through the first communication channel or forming a second communication channel by using the second wireless communication module on the basis of the information of the obtained contents and obtaining data of the contents through the second communication channel formed. According to the present invention, contents can be obtained through a better communication module between the first and the second wireless communication module.
US10334644B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting device to device communication channel in wireless communication system Provide is a method and apparatus for processing an initialization for a D2D communication between user equipments (UEs). The method includes: determining D2D subframes available for a D2D communication, the D2D subframes including a first D2D subframe and a second D2D subframe, each of the first D2D subframe and the second D2D subframe including a D2D slot corresponding to D2D slot number 0; and at a start of the D2D slot of the first D2D subframe and at a start of the D2D slot of the second D2D subframe, processing an initialization associated with a pseudo-random sequence of a D2D communication. The first D2D subframe and the second D2D subframe each include a D2D slot corresponding to D2D slot number 1. At least one of the first D2D subframe and the second D2D subframe corresponds to a non-zero subframe number of a radio frame.
US10334643B2	Relaying user communication device enabling RRC, NAS connections, user communication device, base station, system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program A system is disclosed in which a UE-Relay receives, from a user communication device, a message requesting the provision of a communication link (e.g. a Layer 2 link) between the user communication device and a network serving the user communication device. The UE-Relay communicates with its core network, responsive to the received message, to establish the communication link from the user communication device to a base station remote from the UE-Relay; and relays data, between the user communication device and the base station using the communication link.
US10334642B2	Device, system and method using non IP-based EPS bearer Devices and methods of using a reduced complexity network protocol are generally described. An evolved NodeB (eNB) transmits an Attach Request to a mobility management entity (MME), which transmits a Create Session Request for transmission of non-IP (NIP) data of user equipment (UE) to a Packet Data Network (P-GW). The P-GW in response transmits a Create Session Response, with the UE ID if originating at the P-GW and free from a UE IP address and an Up Link Traffic Flow Template, to the MME, which transmits an Attach Accept to the eNB and UE. A UE identifier (UE ID) either originates at the UE and is transmitted in the Attach Request, or is generated by the eNB, MME or P-GW. The NIP data has a tunneling NIP data packet with a NIP header with the UE ID and a NIP user data packet free from TCP/IP encapsulation and header compression.
US10334634B2	Terminal device, integrated circuit, and communication method In a first case, in which a condition is satisfied that includes at least conditions that at least one scheduling request is pending in a certain TTI, there is no UL-SCH resource available for transmission in the certain TTI, and a terminal device has a valid resource for a physical uplink control channel for the scheduling request configured for the certain TTI, when a value of a counter is equal to a prescribed value or larger than the prescribed value, the terminal device initiates a random access procedure on a primary cell, releases a PUCCH resource for a scheduling request in a serving cell other than the primary cell, and cancels all pending scheduling requests.
US10334628B2	Program executed in transmitter, receiver and program executed in receiver A transmitter generates a header frame having a frame length indicating the beginning of data to be transmitted, data frames having frame lengths representing the data to be transmitted, and an end frame having a frame length indicating the end of the data to be transmitted. Then, for all of the header frame, data frames and end frame, the transmitter executes transmitting the kth frame when the wireless communication space is available, thereby transmitting the header frame, data frames and end frame, one after another, in accordance with the CSMA/CA scheme.
US10334626B2	Method and apparatus for supporting wideband and multiple bandwidth transmission protocols Enhanced protocols and devices may be used to alleviate loss of spectrum efficiency in wideband transmission. The protocols may implement a wideband transmission opportunity (TXOP) truncation where one or more of the channels involved in communication over the wideband are released. In one scenario, an access point (AP) may receive, from a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), a first CF-End frame that includes a duration field and a basic service set identifier (BSSID) field that includes an individual/group bit. On a condition that the individual/group bit of the BSSID field has a value of one (1), the AP may determine that a scrambling sequence of the first CF-End frame indicates a bandwidth associated with a transmit opportunity (TXOP) being truncated by the WTRU. The AP may then transmit a second CF-End frame at the bandwidth indicated by the scrambling sequence of the first CF-End frame.
US10334621B2	Buffer status report Depending on data (110) available in an uplink data buffer (400) of a communication device (10) for uplink transmission and further depending on uplink radio resources previously allocated to the communication device (10) for the uplink transmission in reoccurring time intervals, a fraction (111-1) of the data (110) available in the uplink data buffer (400) is determined. A buffer status report is sent to the cellular network. The buffer status report indicates the determined fraction (111-1) of the data (110).
US10334614B1	Method and system for mitigating interference between different radio access technologies utilized by a communication device Various methods and apparatus are disclosed for mitigating interference between communications between different radio access technologies in a communication device. Methods and apparatus include communicating between a first communication device and a second communication device according to a first communication protocol, and communicating between the first communication device and a third communication device according to a second communication protocol. The methods and apparatus further include determining a first time interval associated with when data is to be transmitted between the first communication device and the second communication device according to the first communications protocol. The methods and apparatus also include sending to the third communication device, an indication of a second time interval to prompt the third communication device not transmit to the first communication device during the second time interval, wherein the second time interval corresponds to the first time interval.
US10334613B2	Signalling for group communications Apparatus and method for signalling are provided. The solution comprises reserving resources for communication of a set of nodes (114, 116, 118) organized into one or more scheduling groups having a predetermined group identity, each node in a scheduling group having a unique identity. Scheduling messages are transmitted to all nodes, the messages comprising the group identity designating the scheduling group the message is intended, an information element indicating identity of the node allowed to transmit, a bitmap indicating identities of nodes instructed to receive, and information on parameters needed to transmit and receive data utilizing the resources allocated for communication.
US10334609B2	Wireless communication device and wireless communication method for providing opportunity of fair transmission to terminals According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame including information to specify a plurality of frequency components; and controlling circuitry configured to determine whether a second frame is received via each of the plurality of frequency components. The transmitter is configured to transmit a third frame including first information concerning a first value range which is used to determine whether to respond to the first frame, the first value range being dependent on a number of frequency components via which the second frame has been received.
US10334602B2	Communications between connected devices Embodiments relate generally to method, system and apparatus for wireless communications between multiple wireless sensor nodes for wireless sensor networks. More specifically, disclosed are system and method that enable wireless communications between devices using different wireless transmission protocols, via one or more multi-channel intermediate devices.
US10334601B2	Techniques for dual-mode operations in new radio Apparatus and methods of wireless communications operating in a wideband new radio (NR) system include identifying a system bandwidth value of a cell, and identifying a user equipment (UE) bandwidth capability. Additionally, the aspects include determining a UE-specific set of bandwidth parts each having a UE-specific bandwidth based on the system bandwidth value and the UE bandwidth capability, and communicating with the cell using at least one of the UE-specific set of bandwidth parts. Further, the described apparatus and methods may enable dual-mode operations in a wideband component carrier (CC)) in the NR system.
US10334593B2	Hybrid apparatus using physical channels A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink signal, which may include a resource assignment having an indication of a first resource of a plurality of resources. The resource assignment may also have an indication of a number of resources of the plurality of resources. In addition, the plurality of resources may be consecutive resources in a sequence. Further, the first downlink signal may include an indication of a first time interval of a plurality of time intervals and a number of time intervals of the plurality of time intervals to which the resource assignment applies. Moreover, the plurality of time intervals may be consecutive time intervals. Additionally, the UE may receive at least one additional downlink signal over a downlink shared channel in the plurality of resources and in the plurality of time intervals. In an example, the first downlink signal may be received over a downlink signaling channel.
US10334590B2	Apparatus and method for setting wireless mesh network and computer-readable recording medium The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for setting a wireless mesh network and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for carrying out the method, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for preventing interference between beacon devices by setting different channels for the beacon devices and distributing different time slots to the beacon devices, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for carrying out the method.
US10334584B2	GSM evolution packet data traffic channel resource transmission management—fixed uplink allocation technique A radio access network node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem), a wireless device (e.g., a mobile station), and various methods are described herein for improving the allocation of radio resources in wireless communications. In one embodiment, the radio access network node and wireless device implement a fixed uplink allocation technique. In another embodiment, the radio access network node and wireless device implement a flexible downlink allocation technique.
US10334575B2	Hybrid FDD/TDD wireless network Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.
US10334574B2	Uplink data transmission method and device The present invention discloses an uplink data transmission method and device configured to shorten RTT in a transmission condition having a short time slot, thus reducing a user-plane latency and improving the system performance. An embodiment of the present invention provides an uplink data transmission method. The method comprises: determining, by the network side, a time slot size for data transmission, and sending, according to the time slot size, uplink scheduling signaling to a user equipment (UE); and receiving, by the network side and according to a predetermined scheduled timing, uplink data sent by the UE, wherein the time slot is a time unit having a duration smaller than 1 ms, and the predetermined scheduled timing is that when the network side employs a time slot n to send the uplink scheduling signaling, the network side receives the uplink data sent by the UE in a time slot (n+1), with l∈L, n and l both being integers greater than or equal to zero, and L denoting the set of selectable values of l.
US10334571B2	Trigger frame format for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication One or more trigger frames are generated at a first communication device to trigger an uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple second communication devices. Each of the one or more trigger frames (i) includes an indication of a trigger type and (ii) is formatted according to the indicated trigger type. The first communication device transmits the one or more trigger frames to the multiple second communication devices. The first device then receives the triggered uplink OFDMA transmission that includes respective transmissions from the multiple second communication devices.
US10334569B2	NLOS wireless backhaul downlink communication A method for communicating over a wireless backhaul channel comprising generating a radio frame comprising a plurality of time slots, wherein each time slot comprises a plurality of symbols in time and a plurality of sub-carriers in a system bandwidth, broadcasting a broadcast channel signal comprising a transmission schedule to a plurality of remote units in a number of consecutive sub-carriers centered about a direct current (DC) sub-carrier in at least one of the time slots in the radio frame regardless of the system bandwidth, and transmitting a downlink (DL) control channel signal and a DL data channel signal to a first of the remote units, wherein the DL data channel signal is transmitted by employing a single carrier block transmission scheme comprising a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spreading for frequency diversity.
US10334567B2	Neutral host architecture for a distributed antenna system A remote radio head unit (RRU) system for achieving high data rate communications in a Distributed Antenna System is disclosed. The Distributed Antenna System is configured as a Neutral Host enabling multiple operators to exist on one DAS system. The present disclosure enables a remote radio head unit to be field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. As a result, the remote radio head system is particularly suitable for wireless transmission systems, such as base-stations, repeaters, and indoor signal coverage systems.
US10334558B2	Persistent paging collision enhancement using dynamically switched higher-order antennas in idle-mode Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may detect a collision of paging messages for a first subscription and a second subscription of the wireless device during a paging processing duration, the first receive chain including at least one antenna path. The wireless device may determine that, in a connected mode, it is configured to operate a second receive chain with one or more additional antenna paths, and may allocate, for a subsequent instance of the paging processing duration, the first subscription to one of the first receive chain or the second receive chain, and the second subscription to the other of the first receive chain or the second receive chain. The wireless device may monitor, during the subsequent instance of the paging processing duration, for a first paging message and a second paging message using the first and second receive chains.
US10334545B2	Synchronizing time among two or more devices A time server device may send a first message to a client device, capturing and storing the time value of the time server clock when the first message is sent. When the first message is received by the client device, the client device starts a timer. At some later time, the time server device sends a second message to the client device that includes the stored time value. The clock of the client device may be updated based at least in part on the value of the timer and the received time value.
US10334544B2	Precision relative positioning and free space time transfer between moving platforms Aspects herein describe techniques for synchronizing clocks between two moving platforms (e.g., land vehicles, ships, aircraft, and the like) using optical signals generated from lasers. In one aspect, a method for mixing an intermediate signal with a local reference clock in a method of communicating between moving platforms includes mixing the intermediate signal with a sine representation of the local reference clock to generate a first offset error; mixing the intermediate signal with a cosine representation of the local reference clock to generate a second offset error; and combining the first and second offset errors to generate the fine phase offset.
US10334540B2	Uplink synchronization device and method of wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present invention are to provide a method and apparatus for performing uplink synchronization in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of operating a terminal in a wireless communication system includes the processes of: receiving an adjustment message including a first timing advance (TA) value from a first base station; and transmitting an uplink signal to a second base station based on a second TA value for the second base station that is determined based on the first TA value. According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to decrease the overhead of an uplink resource by adjusting an uplink signal time transmitted to other base stations or other cells by using information for uplink synchronization in a base station or cell in a wireless communication system.
US10334532B2	Real-time location and presence using a push-location client and server A system for providing real-time always-on location is presented for maintaining the current location of a mobile device, while saving the battery by managing the GPS in a power-saving mode while the device is considered to be stationary. The system also provides a real-time location in an indoor environment where a GPS signal may not be available. Additionally, methods for driving detection are also presented.
US10334530B2	Access and power management for centralized networks A system and method for managing power in a subnet having a hub in communication with one or more nodes is disclosed. The hub and nodes communicate using one or more non-contention access methods, such as scheduled, polled or posted access. The node may enter a sleep or hibernation state while no scheduled, polled or posted allocation interval is pending. The hibernation state allows the node to hibernate through one or more entire beacon periods. In the sleep state, the node may be asleep between any scheduled, polled and posted allocation intervals for the node or during another node's scheduled allocation interval in a current beacon period. By selecting which access scheme is in use, the node and hub can increase the node's chances to be in hibernation or sleep state and minimize power consumption.
US10334519B2	Chirp signal formats and techniques A UE may be operating in a wireless communication network having a UE-centric medium access control layer, and the UE may detect presence of a trigger event to signal a base station of the wireless communication network. The UE may identify one of a plurality of functionalities corresponding to the trigger event, and may generate a chirp signal that includes chirp purpose indicator and a chirp message, wherein the chirp purpose indicator and a format of the chirp message correspond to the identified one of the plurality of functionalities. Accordingly, the UE may transmit the chirp signal having the chirp purpose indicator to the base station, which may provide a chirp response message that includes message contents that relate to the chirp purpose indicator.
US10334517B2	Communications system, infrastructure equipment, communication terminal and method A communications system communicating data to/from a communications terminal includes plural wireless communications networks to transmit/receive signals to/from the communications terminal via wireless access interfaces. The communications terminal receives from an access server selection information for selecting one of the wireless communications networks, for transmitting or receiving the data in accordance with the selection information in combination with one or more determined measurements of the wireless access interface of the wireless communications networks. The access server includes an indication of a preferred communications characteristic for transmitting or receiving the signals representing the data, and in accordance with the preferred communications characteristic the communications terminal adapts the determined measurements and selects one of the wireless communications networks which most closely satisfy the preferred communications characteristic in accordance with the adapted-determined measurements.
US10334508B2	Systems and methods for implementing band service discovery A system and method are provided for implementing unique multi-band service discovery protocols between communicating devices, including wireless communicating devices supporting operations according to multiple standards and in different frequency bands, particularly in peer-to-peer or ad hoc networking schemes. The disclosed systems and methods define within each service discovery frame, whether a service discovery query or a service discovery response, an indication of the frequency band and/or channel that may support a specific service indicated by the service discovery frame. Cooperating communicating devices between which communications are to be established supporting a specific service protocol are provided with a mechanism by which to identify which common frequency bands and/or channels the communicating devices may communicate in executing the specific service.
US10334506B2	Method for transferring information between base station and terminal, base station, terminal, and system Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a method for transferring information between a base station and a terminal, a base station, a terminal, and a system, which diversify manners for transferring information between a base station and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a broadcast channel, where the broadcast channel is not only used for transferring basic physical layer configuration information of a cell, but also used for transferring first specific content agreed between the terminal and the base station, and the first specific content is used for transferring configuration information required by the terminal to access a network; and parsing out the first specific content from the broadcast channel. The present application is mainly applied to transfer of information between a base station and a terminal.
US10334505B2	Congestion control method and apparatus The present invention provides a congestion control method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a user equipment, a first network connection request to a network device of a first mobile network; receiving, by the user equipment, a first network connection rejection message from the network device, where the first network connection rejection message includes network switching indication information, where the network switching indication information is used for instructing the user equipment to switch to a second mobile network, and the network switching indication information is from a subscription manager SM; and accessing, by the user equipment, the second mobile network according to the network switching indication information. The present invention ensures normal execution of a service on an eUICC user equipment when network congestion occurs.
US10334502B2	Systems and methods for geo-staging of sensor data through distributed global (cloud) architecture There is disclosed a method of staging real-time data in proximity to a mobile device. The method includes determining a geographic location associated with the mobile device and identifying a storage device located in proximity to the determined geographic location. The method also includes enabling real-time data published by the mobile device or provided to the mobile device to be stored on the identified storage device.
US10334497B2	Method, terminal, and system for cell reselection A method and terminal are disclosed for cell reselection. The terminal obtains a dedicated priority list and a valid time of the dedicates priority list for cell reselection from a first communication system, such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, when the terminal is in a cell of the fists communication system. In case that the terminal camps on a cell of a second communication system, such as a non-LTE system (for example, a UMTS system), and before the valid time expire, the terminal performs cell reselection using the dedicated priority list.
US10334495B2	Non-cellular link integration with cellular networks Improved non-cellular (e.g., Wi-Fi) link integration with a cellular (e.g., LTE) network is described. The improved link integration can relate to utilizing an eNodeB device (e.g., residing in a radio access network portion of a cellular network) as an anchor point rather than a packet data network gateway device (e.g., residing in a core network portion of the cellular network) utilized by other approaches. The improved link integration can maintain full compliance with or support for other approaches, and can reduce signaling overhead, simplify quality-of-service management, and/or provide a more rapid reaction to changes of access, particularly in cases where the eNodeB device and a non-cellular access point device are co-located.
US10334492B2	Method, apparatus and system for key derivation Method, apparatus and systems are provided for key derivation. A target base station receives multiple keys derived by a source base station, where the keys correspond to cells of the target base station. The target base station selects a key corresponding to the target cell after obtaining information regarding a target cell that a user equipment (UE) is to access. An apparatus for key derivation and a communications system are also provided.
US10334490B2	Overall network performance and/or overall quality of service of a mobile communication network by assigning a physical cell identifier information to a plurality of radio cells A method for improving overall network performance and/or overall quality of service of a mobile communication network by assigning physical cell identifier information to a plurality of radio cells includes: in a first step and for each of a plurality of coverage area elements of a common radio coverage area, generating a set of handover likelihood information; in a second step, calculating, based on elements of the sets of handover likelihood information, an overlap score value indicative of the overlap between at least one source radio cell and at least one target radio cell; and in a third step, assigning the physical cell identifier information to the at least one source radio cell and/or the at least one target radio cell dependent on the overlap score value.
US10334489B2	Mobility synchronization measurements There is provided a method for handling mobility synchronization measurements. The method is performed by a wireless device. The method comprises receiving an indication to perform mobility measurements on a set of transmission beams associated with a unique identity. The method comprises checking if the unique identity has previously been stored by the wireless device. The method comprises, if the unique identity has not previously been stored by the wireless device, performing mobility measurements on the set of transmission beams to determine synchronization information of the set of transmission beams. The method comprises storing the unique identity and the synchronization information of the mobility measurements.
US10334486B2	Handover processing method and base station A handover processing method and a base station are provided. The method includes: receiving a handover request message sent by a source base station or a core network node; sending a first message, according to the handover request message, to a second target base station to notify the second target base station that a handover of part or all of a service of a user equipment to the second target base station is to be performed; and sending a handover request acknowledge message to the source base station or the core network node to notify the source base station or the core network node to hand over the user equipment to at least one target cell of the first target base station and/or at least one target cell of the second target base station. The present application realizes a multi-cell handover.
US10334483B2	Serving GW triggered relocation The present solution relates to a method in a source serving gateway (207a) for triggering relocation of at least one user equipment bearer resource from the source serving gateway (207a) to at least one target serving gateway (207b) in a communication network (200). The source serving gateway (207a) serves the user equipment (203) by providing bearer resources to the user equipment (203). The source serving gateway (207a) detects (501) an event indicating relocation of the at least one user equipment bearer resource from the source serving gateway (207a) to the at least one target serving gateway (207b). Furthermore, the source serving gateway (207a) sends (502) a message to a mobility management node (205, 209). The message comprises a trigger to relocate the at least one user equipment bearer resource from the source serving gateway (207a) to the at least one target serving gateway (207b).
US10334480B2	Method, system, device for controlling congestion or overload and evolved node B (eNB) Provided are a method, system, device for controlling congestion or overload and an eNB. The method includes: one or more eNBs configured to detect congestion or overload of user plane data are selected, and the one or more eNBs selected are notified; the one or more eNBs selected detect a congestion or overload event of the user plane data; when a triggering condition is met, the one or more eNBs selected send congestion or overload indication information to a GCS AS; and the GCS AS determines a start or end of congestion or overload which occurs in an MBMS area according to the congestion or overload indication information, and correspondingly selects a manner in which trunking service data are sent. By the technical solutions of the disclosure, the problem of influence for a trunking service when congestion or overload occurs in a network may be solved.
US10334479B2	Traffic steering method and heterogeneous radio access network system applying the same A heterogeneous radio access network system includes a mobile device and a first base station operated in a first wireless access network. The mobile device is wireless communicated with the first base station. One of the mobile device and the first base station sends a traffic steering initial message to request a traffic steering operation, the traffic steering initial message including a plurality of traffic flows. The other one of the mobile device and the first base station decides whether to accept or reject the traffic steering initial message. If the other one of the mobile device and the first base station accepts the traffic steering initial message, the mobile device performs a selective traffic steering, wherein the selective traffic steering comprises traffic flow(s), and the traffic flow(s) in the selective traffic steering are selected among the traffic flows of the traffic steering initial message.
US10334476B2	Single MPDU frame signaling Embodiments of systems and methods for providing single MPDU frame signaling are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10334474B2	Method for cancelling interference in wireless communication system and device therefor The present invention relates to a method and a device for cancelling interference of a terminal in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving information on N (N is a natural number) subbands of a neighboring cell; decoding an interference signal of the neighbor cell on the basis of the information on subbands of the neighbor cell; and cancelling the interference caused by the neighbor cell from a signal which is received from a serving cell, on the basis of the decoded interference signal, wherein the information on the subbands indicates a transmission mode TM of the neighbor cell.
US10334465B2	RRM based on signal strength measurements in LTE over unlicensed spectrum UE-aided channel selection within unlicensed frequency bands. A base station may communicate with UEs using LTE/LTE-A carrier waveforms (e.g., configured as a secondary cell) in the unlicensed frequency band. The base station may configure UEs for wide-band interference feedback for channels in the unlicensed frequency band. The measurements of wide-band signal strength may be performed by the UEs on channels for which the base station is not currently transmitting, or during silent periods of a configured secondary cell. The UEs may feedback an average total received power over a measurement bandwidth for one or more frequency channels of the unlicensed frequency band. The base station may receive the wide-band signal strength feedback from the UEs and identify potential frequency channels for channel selection for the secondary cell based on its own measurements of the candidate channels, and the wide-band signal strength feedback from the UEs.
US10334460B2	System and method for passive intermodulation source localization The present disclosure describes various embodiments for detecting and/or localizing a passive intermodulation distortion signal in a radio frequency system having multiple transmit and/or receive paths.
US10334458B2	Intelligent sequencing of multiple wireless nodes for transfer between wireless mesh networks in a process control system A method of sequencing a logical transfer of wireless nodes between wireless mesh networks includes iteratively evaluating each wireless node in a first set of wireless nodes to be transferred. Each evaluation includes a predictive analysis of a source wireless mesh network which tests communications between the gateway of the source wireless mesh network and each of the remaining wireless nodes, and a predictive analysis of the wireless node under evaluation in a destination wireless mesh network which tests communications between the gateway of the destination wireless mesh network and the wireless node under evaluation. The wireless node under evaluation is appended to a second set of wireless nodes to be transferred in response to the first predictive analysis of the source mesh network, and the predictive analysis of the wireless node under evaluation. The wireless nodes are structured in the second set in order of priority of transfer.
US10334446B2	Private multefire network with SDR-based massive MIMO, multefire and network slicing A private wireless network for providing connections between a public wireless network and wireless devices includes a first interface to the public wireless network and at least one second interface to the wireless devices. A wireless communications network interconnecting the first interface and the second interface implementing a MulteFire wireless communications standard includes a first plurality of control layers. The wireless communications network further comprises a plurality of nodes within a mesh network. A plurality of transceivers is associated with each of the plurality of nodes within the mesh network. Each of the transceivers implement a software defined radio that may be configured within a plurality of transceiving configurations. At least one server implements at least a portion of the wireless communications network within the at least one server. The at least one server is configured to select a first slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the wireless communications network and a first slice portion of at least a portion of the plurality transceivers in a first transceiving configuration to support operation of a first application or service and to select a second slice portion of the first plurality of control layers of the wireless communications network and a second slice portion of at least the portion of the plurality transceivers in a second transceiving configuration to support operation of a second application or service.
US10334444B1	Automatically switching to a barricade mode to secure mobile computing devices in response to predetermined mobile computing device events A predetermined event occurring on a client device is detected. The predetermined event can be in the form of a user-initiated action, an audio command, geolocation information, a breaking of a wireless connection, or exceeding a relative distance. The detection of the predetermined event triggers a switch of the current access mode of the client device to a more secure access mode. Access mode switches on other client devices may also be triggered. Additional actions may be executed on the client device and the other associated client devices to further secure these devices.
US10334440B2	Network service access control In some implementations, a telecommunications network can include an anchoring network device. The anchoring network device can receive, from a first party of a communication session, a service message including information of a first session attribute and associated with identification information of a party of the communication session. The anchoring network device can retrieve, from an authorization registry, authorization information corresponding to the identification information. In response to the authorization information indicating the first session attribute is not permitted, the anchoring network device can determine a status message based at least in part on the service message and transmit the status message via a communications interface. The status message can include a service-failure message or a second service message including information of a second, different session attribute.
US10334436B2	Method and device for wireless communication between communication terminals Provided is a device that performs wireless communication with a second communication terminal via a server, the device including a communication determiner that determines whether to perform communication in a long-range wireless communication mode, which is a communication mode for communicating with the second communication terminal by using the server; a communicator, which, based on the determination, transmits a connection request to the server and receives a response message including authentication information for establishing communication with the second communication terminal from the server; and a controller, which controls the first communication terminal to perform wireless communication with the second communication terminal in response to the response message.
US10334434B2	Phone factor authentication Systems and techniques are described for authenticating a user. A described technique includes receiving, by an identity management application running on a user computer, a request to authenticate a user to access a user application using the user computer. The technique includes determining, by the identity management application, that a mobile device associated with the user is connected to the user computer using a short distance wireless connection. The technique includes requesting, by the identity management application running on the user computer, authentication information for the user from the mobile device over the short distance wireless connection. The technique includes receiving, by the identity management application running on the user computer, the authentication information for the user from the mobile device over the short distance wireless connection. In response to receiving the authentication information, the technique includes authenticating the user to access the user application using the user computer.
US10334421B2	Near field communication device Disclosed is a near field communication device which includes an antenna, a transmission amplifier, a matching circuit connected between the antenna and the transmission amplifier, and a transmitter. The transmitter transmits a transmit clock to the matching circuit through the transmission amplifier, extracts an extraction clock from a waveform formed in the matching circuit, stores a phase difference between the transmit clock and the extraction clock, and controls transmission of an information signal through the antenna, the transmission amplifier, and the matching circuit based on the phase difference.
US10334416B2	Control of group triggers for MTC services Systems and methods for controlling group triggers for Machine-Type Communications (MTC) services. In one embodiment, a Services Capability Server (SCS) of a network receives a request indicating a group trigger from an MTC server to activate an MTC feature in a group of MTC devices. In response to the group trigger request, the SCS queries a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) for network policies defined for group triggers, and controls delivery of the group trigger to the group of MTC devices based on the network policies provided by the PCRF.
US10334412B1	Autonomous vehicle assistance systems Apparatuses and methods of operating the same are described. A sensor system including a sensor, a processor, and a communication subsystem. The sensor may measure a defined area of a path located below the sensor system to obtain a sensor measurement. The processor may be coupled to the sensor. The processor may determine at least one of environmental condition information within the defined area or characteristic information associated with an object within the defined area using the sensor measurement. The communication subsystem may be coupled to the processor. The communication subsystem may send at least one of the environmental condition information or the characteristic information to a communication system of a vehicle.
US10334411B2	Tailgating detection Systems and methods for detecting doorway tailgating are disclosed. A method includes: determining, by a computer device, a mobile device moves through a doorway to a secure area; determining, by the computer device, a security protocol was not passed for the mobile device to move through the doorway; and generating, by the computer device, an alert based on both the determining the mobile device moves through the doorway to the secure area and the determining the security protocol was not passed.
US10334406B2	Methods and apparatus for analyzing and grouping service layer subscriptions and notifications for enhanced efficiency A subscription analyzing and grouping mechanism can group similar subscription requests from different subscribers and generates an aggregated notification for them. The subscription analyzing and grouping mechanism reduces the number of subscription request messages and notification messages and in turn improves subscription efficiency and makes M2M/IoT service layer more efficient and scalable.
US10334401B2	Real time location system A method includes receiving a beacon identifier and a location of a beacon associated with the beacon identifier from an individual location monitoring system operated by a first entity. The method further includes, with a data hosting system operated by a second entity, determining an identity of a monitored individual associated with the beacon identifier, associating the location of the beacon with the identity of the monitored individual, and receiving a request for the location of the monitored individual including authentication credentials. The method further includes, with the data hosting system, determining if the requesting individual is authorized to access data about the monitored individual and, if the requesting individual is authorized to access the data, providing the location of the monitored individual to the device, wherein the identity of the monitored individual is stored on the data hosting system and is inaccessible to the individual location monitoring system.
US10334398B2	Customer touchpoint patterns and associated sentiment analysis Systems and methods for customer touchpoint pattern and sentiment analysis are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: detecting, by a computer device, the presence of a mobile device of a participant within a venue during a first event; monitoring, by the computing device, the location of the mobile device of the participant within the venue during the first event; detecting, by the computing device, at least one interaction event between the participant and a venue associate; recording, by the computing device, first event data including interaction event data; detecting, by the computing device, the presence of the mobile device of the participant within the venue during a second event; determining, by the computing device, one or more customer service parameters based on the first event data; and generating, by the computing device, an alert based on the one or more customer service parameters.
US10334385B2	Music collection navigation device and method An audio navigation device comprising an input means for inputting two or more audio pieces into the navigation device; a spatialization means for allocating a position in the form of a unique spatial co-ordinate to each audio piece and arranging the audio pieces in a multi-dimensional arrangement; a generating means for generating a binaural audio output (3) for each audio piece, wherein the audio output (3) simulates sounds that would be made by one or more physical sources located at the given position of each audio piece; an output means for simultaneously outputting multiple audio pieces as binaural audio output (3) to a user (5); a navigation means (1) for enabling a user (5) to navigate around the audio output (3) in the multi-dimensional arrangement; a selection means (A) for allowing a user (5) to select a single audio output (3).
US10334372B2	Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage A bone conduction speaker includes a housing, a vibration board and a transducer. The transducer is located in the housing, and the vibration board is configured to contact with skin and pass vibration. At least one sound guiding hole is set on at least one portion of the housing to guide sound wave inside the housing to the outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interfaces with the leaked sound wave, and the interfacing reduces a sound pressure level of at least a portion of the leaked sound wave. A frequency of the at least a portion of the leaked sound wave is lower than 4000 Hz.
US10334366B2	Audio playback device To provide an audio playback device which allows a novel listening experience for a listener by bone conduction from a prescribed position of the head area. [Solution] Provided is the audio playback device including at least one bone conduction device. The bone conduction device is provided at a position to be worn at a prescribed position of a head area of a listener. The prescribed position is a position allowing the listener to feel that a sound source moves from a position to which the bone conduction device is attached and to feel the sound source from another position.
US10334364B2	Transducer control based on position of an apparatus Techniques for transducer control based on position of an apparatus are described. In at least one implementation, the apparatus comprises a peripheral device that can be connected to a user terminal. The apparatus includes a first portion moveably coupled to a second portion such that the first portion and the second portion are positionable at different positions relative to each other. According to one or more implementations, the apparatus includes a transducer (e.g., a speaker, a microphone, and so forth) that can be selectively controlled based on different relative positions of the first portion and the second portion of the apparatus. In at least some implementations, the apparatus can include multiple transducers that can be controlled differently based on different relative positions of the first portion and the second portion of the apparatus.
US10334361B1	Speaker driver circuitry A loudspeaker driver circuit, comprises: at least one input for receiving an input signal; a loudspeaker protection module coupled to the input for receiving the input signal and for generating a modified signal in response to the input signal; an amplifier coupled to receive the modified signal from the loudspeaker protection module and to generate an output signal; an output for outputting the output signal for driving a speaker; and an ultrasonic signal generator, for generating an ultrasonic signal, wherein the ultrasonic signal generator is coupled to the amplifier for applying the ultrasonic signal thereto.
US10334354B2	Speaker box A speaker box includes a housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the housing. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm for forming a front sound cavity cooperatively with the housing. A sound transmitting channel communicates the front sound cavity with the outside for forming a front cavity of the speaker box. A through hole is formed at a position on the housing corresponding to the front cavity. The speaker box further includes an elastic cover plate provided on a side of the housing close to the diaphragm for covering the through hole and for absorbing vibration energy at a specific resonance frequency. A Young's modulus or strength of the elastic cover plate is smaller than that of the housing.
US10334350B2	Identifying an acoustic signal for a user based on a feature of an aural signal In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and computer-readable devices. An audio processing device plays a source audio signal with an electroacoustic transducer of a user earpiece, and records an aural signal that is sensed by same said electroacoustic transducer. The audio processing device determines values of one or more features of the aural signal that indicate a characteristic of a space in which the user earpiece is located. The audio processing device compares the determined values of the one or more features of the aural signal with pre-defined values of the one or more features. Based on a result of the comparing, the audio processing device determines whether the user earpiece is located at a user's ear.
US10334348B2	Earphones with activity controlled output The present disclosure relates to an earphone apparatus and method. The earphone apparatus includes an earpiece, including a speaker, configured for arrangement relative to a user's ear for listening to audio from the speaker, a bio-sensor, a motion sensor, and a controller configured to determine an activity state of the user based on aggregated sensor data from the bio-sensor and the motion sensor over time, and to control audio output to the user based on the determined activity state.
US10334340B2	Microphone with integrated sound box A microphone with integrated speaker which includes a front casing with a front connecting portion and a front handle portion having a battery opening; a rear casing with a rear connecting portion and a rear handle portion connected to the front casing to form a first cavity with a cylindrical connecting portion and a cylindrical handle portion with a second cavity; a metallic net cover coupled with the cylindrical connecting portion; a vocal pickup support arrangement provided inside the metallic net cover between the front connecting portion and the rear connecting portion in which a vocal pickup unit is provided; a speaker positioned inside the first cavity; a pair of electrode plates positioned inside the second cavity; a circuit board affixed on the front casing; a battery cover detachably connected to the front handle portion; and an aluminum alloy handle covers the cylindrical handle portion.
US10334337B2	Speaker A speaker includes a housing, a member secured to the housing, and a locking pin which passes through a first portion of the speaker. The member substantially covers at least two sides of the locking pin. The member thus provides some protection against the locking pin unintentionally coming into contact with another object. The member has two or more feet which are secured to the member and which can support the speaker on a substantially horizontal surface when the speaker is oriented such that the member is facing the surface.
US10334329B2	Method and system for delivery of content over an electronic book channel Computer-implemented systems and methods of providing content to a user via communications between a content provider and a user over a plurality of disparate communication channels are provided. Content is provided to a user via a first transmission channel for presentation. Metadata associated with the content identifies a content event trigger at a point in the content. The content is displayed using a first presentation system. When the content event trigger is reached, supplemental content is provided to the user via a second transmission channel. The supplemental content is provided to the user during continued presentation of the content, and the supplemental content is provided to the user using a content providing system that is wholly separate from the first presentation system.
US10334326B2	Enhanced playback bar Enhancements to the video playback bar, involving snapping to time markers, are described herein. The playback bar is part of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a TV or other display device, and includes a current playback time (CTI) and a plurality of scene change markers. The playback bar is sticky. The stickiness of the playback bar is based on (1) a speed of the CTI in the playback bar, while a movie or TV show (or other content) is being played in the display device, and (2) a distance of the CTI to a closest scene change marker in the playback bar, at a time a pause or stop command is received. The method operates by receiving a first command to play, fast forward, rewind, seek, or scrub through the content being played on the display device. The first command is executed, and then a second command to pause or stop is received. The second command is executed. A scene change marker in the playback bar closest to the CTI after execution of the second command is identified. Then, it is determined whether the distance from the CTI to the closest scene change marker is within a time threshold. If the distance is within the time threshold, then the CTI is snapped to the closest scene change marker. In some embodiments, the time thresholds associated with speeds of the CTI may be adjusted in a crowdsourced manner.
US10334315B2	System and method for video mosaic A system and method is provided that enables a viewer to view all the available content on a mosaic display, even when advertisements would otherwise prevent a viewer from doing so. Whenever a channel is displaying non-program content, the mosaic may instead display pre-recorded content for the current program on that channel prior to the ad-period.
US10334311B2	Method of providing external device list and image display device An image display device including a display; a first external interface configured to receive a first image signal input from a first external device connected to the image display device; a second external interface configured to receive a second image signal input from a second external device connected to the image display device; and a controller coupled with the display, the first external interface and the second external interface, the controller configured to display a plurality of external device icons, on a first area of the display, wherein the plurality of external device icons include a first external device icon corresponding to the first external device and a second external device icon corresponding the second external device, and display, on a second area of the display, a first image based on the first image signal in response to the first external device icon being selected if the first external device is connected to the image display device. The controller is further configured to display a symbol representing that the first external device or the second external device is connected to the display device.
US10334308B2	Method and apparatus to create intuitive favorites for users Example embodiments provide systems and methods for dynamically creating intuitive favorites for a user. The system and methods include monitoring actions performed, by the user at a digital receiver, with respect to a plurality of content programs. The actions performed with respect to the plurality of content programs are analyzed. The analysis includes comparing a level of the actions with respect to a first content program of the plurality of content programs with a threshold. Based on the comparing indicating that the first content program is a favorites, an indication that the first content program is a favorites content program is stored to a data store.
US10334303B1	Systems and methods for personalized feature setup and parental guidance sensing A user receiving device including a proximity module, a mode module, a profile module and an output module. The proximity module is configured to detect a first mobile device in a proximity of the user receiving device. The mode module is configured to transition the user receiving device to an active mode based on the detection of the first mobile device. The profile module is configured to, subsequent to transitioning to the active mode and based on an identifier of the first mobile device, access a first profile allocated to the first mobile device or a user of the first mobile device. The output module, based on the first profile, is configured to display on a display a guide or content.
US10334300B2	Systems and methods to present content A content presentation system in which a set of content items, which may include static stored content documents and/or live content streaming from computing devices, is provided by a web channel engine to a web channel. A rules engine (e.g., of a web channel server or a web channel presenter) is configured to sequentially present some of the contents to a user in a video form in an automated way, based on real-time sensor data of user devices and/or interactions of the users with the web channel, including users who are provided with permissions to edit the content, look and feel of the web channel, and users who watch the web channel without editing privileges.
US10334294B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, generating input packets including broadcast content data; generating a link layer packet by using the generated input packets, wherein the link layer packet includes a link layer header and a link layer payload including the generated input packets, wherein the link layer header includes a count field indicating number of the input packets included in the link layer payload, wherein the link layer header further includes a length part, wherein the length part includes a plurality of length fields as many as that the count field indicates, wherein each of the length fields indicates length of the each input packets included in the link layer payload; generating a broadcast signal including the generated link layer packet; and transmitting the broadcast signal.
US10334293B2	Multiplexing apparatus, receiving apparatus, multiplexing method, and delay adjustment method A multiplexing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry multiplexes a plurality of MMT packets including at least one MMT packet to which first output time information representing a first output time and presentation time information representing a presentation time are added. The processing circuitry rewrites the first output time information to second output time information representing a second output time. The processing circuitry adds a time necessary to multiplex the plurality of MMT packets to the presentation time represented by the presentation time information as a delay time.
US10334287B2	Digital data streaming using server driven adaptive bitrate A method and system for server driven adaptive transcoding is provided. A transcoding server computer may initially receive a first portion of a particular media file from a media file repository. The transcoding server computer may transcode the first portion of the particular media file into a first transcoded media segment of a first quality and send the first transcoded segment to a client computing device. The transcoding server computer may receive a second portion of the particular media file from the media file repository, transcode the second portion of the particular media file into a second transcoded media segment of a second quality different than the first quality, and send the second transcoded media segment to the client computing device.
US10334282B2	Methods and devices for live broadcasting based on live broadcasting application Methods and devices are provided for live broadcasting in a live broadcasting field. The method includes: displaying a first button corresponding to public live broadcasting; obtaining a public account associated with a log-in account logging in to the live broadcasting application, when a trigger operation on the first button is detected; sending a live video streaming to respective audience sides corresponding to the public account.
US10334280B2	Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method and image decoding apparatus An image coding method including: binarizing last position information to generate (i) a binary signal which includes a first signal having a length smaller than or equal to a predetermined maximum length and does not include a second signal or (ii) a binary signal which includes the first signal having the predetermined maximum length and the second signal; first coding for arithmetically coding each of binary symbols included in the first signal using a context switched among a plurality of contexts according to a bit position of the binary symbol; and second coding for arithmetically coding the second signal using a fixed probability when the binary signal includes the second signal, wherein in the first coding, a binary symbol at a last bit position of the first signal is arithmetically coded using a context exclusive to the last bit position, when the first signal has the predetermined maximum length.
US10334279B2	Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a horizontal filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a vertical block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a vertical filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a horizontal block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, and a control section configured to cause the horizontal filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of vertical block boundaries included in a processing unit containing a plurality of coding units and cause the vertical filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of horizontal block boundaries included in the processing unit.
US10334274B2	Multi-view video codec supporting residual prediction Multi-view video coding/decoding supporting residual prediction involving a reference picture of different view and timestamp compared to a currently coded/decoded picture is improved in terms of robustness and/or processing cost by avoiding checking any picture availability or non-availability in a decoded picture buffer.
US10334272B2	Method for intra prediction and device therefor A method for intra prediction comprises determining a first MPM candidate corresponding to a left-side candidate block on the basis of a position of the left-side candidate block adjacent to a left side of a current block; determining a second MPM candidate corresponding to an upper-end candidate block on the basis of a position of the upper-end candidate block adjacent to an upper end of the current block; generating an MPM candidate list including a plurality of MPM candidates, on the basis of the first MPM candidate and the second MPM candidate; and determining one MPM candidate of the plurality of the MPM candidates that constitute the MPM candidate list as an intra prediction mode of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block.
US10334260B2	Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding A method comprising: encoding a first picture on a first scalability layer and on a lowest temporal sub-layer; encoding a second picture on a second scalability layer and on the lowest temporal sub-layer, wherein the first picture and the second picture represent the same time instant, encoding one or more first syntax elements, associated with the first picture, with a value indicating that a picture type of the first picture is other than a step-wise temporal sub-layer access (STSA) picture; encoding one or more second syntax elements, associated with the second picture, with a value indicating that a picture type of the second picture is a step-wise temporal sub-layer access picture; and encoding at least a third picture on a second scalability layer and on a temporal sub-layer higher than the lowest temporal sub-layer.
US10334256B2	Video compression method A method of decoding and encoding video, the encoding method comprising: receiving a video; performing a shrink operation on the received video, the shrink operation comprising: creating a first lower resolution video from the video; and sequentially creating additional N−1 lower resolution videos, each one of the additional lower resolution videos created from the preceding lower resolution video; compressing the lowest resolution video; creating a lowest resolution reconstructed video by decompressing the lowest resolution compressed video; performing a first raise operation on the lowest resolution reconstructed video, the first raise operation comprising sequentially creating N higher resolutions reconstructed videos, each one of the higher resolution reconstructed videos created from the preceding lower resolution reconstructed video by: creating a higher resolution video from the lower resolution reconstructed video; computing a residual between the respective lower resolution video and the created higher resolution video; compressing the computed residual; decompressing the compressed residual; and combining the decompressed residual with the created higher resolution video, yielding the respective higher resolution reconstructed video; and providing a bit stream comprising the lowest resolution compressed video, said compressed residuals and control information.
US10334248B2	Coding data using an enhanced context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) design Context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) techniques are generally described. Aspects of the techniques are generally directed to inheritance-based context initialization. An example video coding device includes a memory configured to store video data, and one or more processors. The processor(s) are configured to initialize context information for a current slice of a current picture by inheriting context information of a previously-coded block of a previously-coded picture of the stored video data as initialized context information for the current slice of the current picture. The processor(s) are further configured to code data of the current slice using the initialized context information.
US10334247B2	Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parameters Methods and apparatus are provided for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parameters. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding image data for at least a portion of a picture using a quantization parameter predictor for a current quantization parameter to be applied to the image data. The quantization parameter predictor is determined using multiple quantization parameters from previously coded neighboring portions. A difference between the current quantization parameter and the quantization parameter predictor is encoded for signaling to a corresponding decoder.
US10334242B1	Test system and test method for audio-video device A test system for audio-video device comprises an output control circuit, a sensing circuit, a storage medium and a processor. The sensing circuit detects the sensible conditions of the AVDUT (Audio-Video Device Under Test). The storage medium stores a test script and a verification data set related to the AVDUT, wherein the test script comprises a plurality of test instructions, and each of the test instructions comprises a plurality of test signals. The processor is configured to generate a test sequence related to the test instructions, and outputs a plurality of control signals to the AVDUT through the output control circuit according to the test sequence, and the processor determines whether an abnormal event occurs in the AVDUT according to said sensible conditions, when the abnormal event occurs, the processor determines whether to update the test script according to a comparison result.
US10334237B2	Information processing device, display device, and information processing method An information processing device includes: an information processing section configured to detect a figure of a target object from an image captured from a movie of the target object so as to perform information processing on the detected image; a main data generating section configured to generate data of a main image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; an auxiliary data generating section configured to generate data of an auxiliary image including the captured image; and an output data transmitting section configured to transmit to an output device the main image data and the auxiliary image data in relation to each other such that the main image and the auxiliary image are displayed together.
US10334236B2	See-through type display apparatus A see-through type display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator configured to time-sequentially output a multi-layered two-dimensional (2D) image, a depth generator configured to generate a multi-layered depth image having pieces of different depth information from the multi-layered 2D image based on a focal distance that is a distance between the depth generator and a focus point of the multi-layered 2D image; and a light path change member configured to change at least one of a first transmission path of light corresponding to the multi-layered depth image and a second transmission path of external light corresponding to an external image, to thereby transmit the multi-layered depth image and the external image to a same area.
US10334229B2	Method for obtaining a refocused image from a 4D raw light field data using a shift correction parameter A method for obtaining a refocused image from a 4D raw light field data for a given focus (zfocus) is described. The method is remarkable in that it comprises applying a shift correction parameter on shifted and summed images from said 4D raw light field data, the shifted and summed images being defined as a function of the given focus (zfocus), and the shift correction parameter (Δ) including, for at least a part of pixels of at least two sub-aperture images derived from at least one 4D light field data of a test-chart image, determined shifts for pixels belonging to the part of pixels between the at least two sub-aperture images, the test-chart image comprising patterns adequate to compute disparities between the sub-apertures images.
US10334219B2	Apparatus for switching/routing image signals through bandwidth splitting and reduction and the method thereof The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for IP switching/routing SDI format image signal through bandwidth splitting and reduction, more specifically, which decomposes image signals consisting of YCbCr type color format entered with serial digital interface (SDI) into Y (luminance) component and C (chrominance) component, or multiple bit slice components; converts the components into IP packets and performs switching and/or routing of the IP packets; extracts Y component and C component or multiple bit slice components from the switched or routed IP packets; and combines the components into SDI format image signal and outputs the combined SDI format image signal. In addition, the present invention provides an apparatus switching/routing image signals through grid based networking, in which broadband switching or routing is performed with multiple narrow band switches or routers by switching or routing image signals through bandwidth splitting and reduction.
US10334218B2	Video reproduction device and video reproduction method A video reproduction device (100) reproduces expanded video data (DV1) whose brightness dynamic range is wider than a standard video. The video reproduction device (100) includes a brightness information adjustment unit (150). The brightness information adjustment unit (150) changes first output brightness levels of the expanded video data (DV1) to second output brightness levels. When the expanded video data (DV1) is reproduced at a second reproduction speed faster than a first reproduction speed which is a normal speed, the brightness information adjustment unit (150) reduces the first output brightness levels to the second output brightness levels.
US10334215B2	Projecting obstructed content over touch screen obstructions Systems and methods for detecting and projecting obstructed content over touch screen obstructions are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method, includes: displaying, by a computing device, content on a touch screen of the computing device; detecting, by the computing device, an obstruction of the content on one or more areas of the touch screen; determining, by the computing device, obstructed content in the one or more areas; determining, by the computing device, a display configuration for a portion of the obstructed content, wherein the display configuration defines a manner in which the portion of the obstructed content is to be projected by at least one wearable projector device; and sending, by the computing device, the display configuration to the at least one wearable projector device adapted to project the portion of the obstructed content over at least one object causing the obstruction of the content.
US10334214B2	Method and apparatus configured for combined vibratory and projection functions Apparatus, such as can be included in an electronic device, performs a method for operating apparatus configured for combined vibratory and projection functions. The apparatus includes a mirror configured to reflect a projected image and a motor. The mirror is coupled as a counterweight to the motor to configure the apparatus for a vibratory function. The motor is further configured to translate and rotate the mirror about a first axis to align the mirror with a projector to reflect the projected image during a projection function.
US10334208B2	Technologies for following participants in a video conference Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for enabling participant following in an electronic conference. An example method can involve generating a graphical interface for an electronic conference including a group of participants, the graphical interface displaying an active participant in a first display region and a panel of respective graphical participant representations in a second display region. The method can further involve receiving, via the graphical interface, an input requesting to move at least one of the respective graphical participant representations out of the panel in the second display region to a location in the first display region of the graphical interface, and based on the input, updating the graphical interface to display the at least one of the respective graphical participant representations in the first display region.
US10334198B2	Image sensor, electronic device, control device, control method, and program The present technology relates to an image sensor capable of achieving both higher S/N and higher frame rate, an electronic device, a control device, a control method, and a program.An AD converter has a comparator in which differential pairs are provided at an input stage. The differential pairs have a plurality of transistors as first transistors and second transistors paired to configure the differential pairs. The AD converter compares a level-changing reference signal with an electric signal output by a shooting unit for performing photoelectric conversion and outputting the electric signal, thereby performing AD conversion on the electric signal. The comparator is controlled such that a transistor to be operated is selected as active transistor from among the transistors depending on the amount of light incident in the shooting unit and the active transistor operates. The present technology is applicable to an image sensor for shooting an image, and the like, for example.
US10334189B1	HDR pixel array with double diagonal binning An image sensor has a pixel cell array comprising clusters of pixel cell blocks each block having four pixel cells under the same microlens and filter wherein during readout electrical signals from two pixels positioned along a first diagonal are binned followed by binning the signals from two pixels positioned along the remaining second reverse diagonal in order to reduce spatial color artifacts associated with orthogonal binning schemes and minimize gaps or irregular spacing between optical centers within an image read out from the array of pixel cells.
US10334186B2	Liquid crystal fourier transform imaging spectrometer A method of calibrating a hyperspectral imaging device includes illuminating a hyperspectral imaging sensor with a light source having known spectral properties, sampling the light from the light source with the hyperspectral imaging sensor to obtain sampled spectral properties, and calibrating a performance characteristic of the hyperspectral imaging sensor based upon comparing the sampled spectral properties of the light source to the known spectral properties.
US10334182B1	Multi-switch module expander A multi-switch module expander includes a chassis that includes signal input ports and signal output ports configured to couple with signal input ports provided on a first multi-switch module and couple with signal input ports provided on a second multi-switch module. A splitting circuit is housed in the chassis and coupled to the signal input ports and the signal output ports. The splitting circuit is configured to provide signals received at each signal input port of the multi-switch module expander to respective signal input ports of the first multi-switch module and the second multi-switch module that are coupled with the signal output ports of the multi-switch module expander.
US10334179B2	Assembly and method for glare elimination An assembly is disclosed, which comprises a light fixture comprising a light source thereon; an image capturing device mounted adjacent with the light source; and a housing covering the image capturing device, wherein the housing has a window within a field of view of the image capturing device; wherein at least a portion of the window serving as working optical surface of the image capturing device is located within a shadow of direct light from the light source of the light fixture.
US10334172B2	Multi-aperture imaging device, method for producing the same and imaging system A multi-aperture imaging device includes an image sensor, a single-line array of juxtaposed optical channels, wherein each optical channel includes optics for projecting a partial area of an object area on an image sensor area of the image sensor and beam deflector for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels. The multi-aperture imaging device includes an actuator unit for generating a relative movement between the image sensor, the single-line array and the beam deflector, wherein the actuator unit is arranged such that the same is arranged at least partly between two planes that are spanned by sides of a cuboid, wherein the sides of the cuboid are oriented parallel to one another as well to a line extension direction of the single-line array and part of the optical path of the optical channels between the image sensor and the beam deflector.
US10334165B2	Omnistereo capture for mobile devices Systems and methods for capturing omnistereo content for a mobile device may include receiving an indication to capture a plurality of images of a scene, capturing the plurality of images using a camera associated with a mobile device and displaying on a screen of the mobile device and during capture, a representation of the plurality of images and presenting a composite image that includes a target capture path and an indicator that provides alignment information corresponding to a source capture path associated with the mobile device during capture of the plurality of images. The system may detect that a portion of the source capture path does not match a target capture path. The system can provide an updated indicator in the screen that may include a prompt to a user of the mobile device to adjust the mobile device to align the source capture path with the target capture path.
US10334164B2	Virtual 360-degree view of a telecommunications site Systems and method for creating and utilizing a virtual 360-degree view of a telecommunications site include capturing first data of a 360-degree view at multiple points around the telecommunications site; capturing second data of a 360-degree view at aerial points above the telecommunications site; capturing third data of a 360-degree view inside a shelter or cabinet at the telecommunications site, wherein each of the first data, second data, and third data comprise one or more of photos and video; stitching the first data, the second data, and the third data together with links to create a virtual 360-degree view environment of the telecommunications site, wherein the links enable virtual navigation about the telecommunications site; and displaying the virtual 360-degree view environment to a viewer over a network and adjusting the virtual 360-degree view environment based on commands received from the viewer.
US10334158B2	Autonomous media capturing A media capture device (MCD) that provides a multi-sensor, free flight camera platform with advanced learning technology to replicate the desires and skills of the purchaser/owner is provided. Advanced algorithms may uniquely enable many functions for autonomous and revolutionary photography. The device may learn about the user, the environment, and/or how to optimize a photographic experience so that compelling events may be captured and composed into efficient and emotional sharing. The device may capture better photos and videos as perceived by one's social circle of friends, and/or may greatly simplify the process of using a camera to the ultimate convenience of full autonomous operation.
US10334155B2	Imaging device and capsule endoscope An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a first change amount calculating unit, and a second change amount calculating unit, and a control unit. The imaging unit continuously performs imaging to generate images of a plurality of frames of which the resolution is any one of a plurality of resolutions. The first change amount calculation unit calculates a first change amount that is an information change amount of the images of a plurality of frames. The second change amount calculation unit calculates a second change amount that is a temporal change amount of the first change amount. The control unit controls a resolution of the imaging unit on the basis of a result of comparing the second change amount with a threshold value and a result of discriminating a sign of the second change amount.
US10334144B2	Imaging device, endoscope, and endoscope system An imaging device includes: an image sensor including a plurality of pixels; a transmission cable configured to transmit power to the image sensor; a power source provided on a proximal end side of the transmission cable and configured to supply a voltage to the image sensor; a pulse signal superimposing unit provided on the proximal end side of the transmission cable and configured to superimpose a pulse signal on the voltage; a separator connected between the image sensor and the transmission cable and configured to separate an offset voltage and a pulse voltage from the voltage; a pulse signal detector connected between the separator and the transmission cable on a distal end side of the transmission cable and configured to detect the pulse signal superimposed on the offset voltage; and a timing generator configured to generate a driving signal based on the detected pulse signal.
US10334141B2	Vehicle camera system A method for creating high dynamic range (HDR) images with an HDR camera system. The method includes capturing with a camera of the HDR camera system a plurality of camera exposures. The method also includes creating a first HDR image from a first subset of the plurality of camera exposures, each exposure of the first subset having a different exposure value. The method further includes creating a second HDR image from a second subset of the plurality of camera exposures, the second subset including at least one exposure from the first subset and at least one additional exposure captured more recently than the exposures of the first subset, each exposure of the second subset having a different exposure value.
US10334140B2	Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes a corrector configured to provide a color correction based on a reference image selected from a plurality of color images having different polarization states acquired by changing a retardation provided to light from an object, for a synthesized image generated with polarization information of the object obtained from the plurality of color images.
US10334139B2	Image decoloring apparatus and method setting password to access difference of image data read before and after heating An image decoloring apparatus includes a reader configured to read an image on a sheet to acquire image data, a storage section configured to store the image data acquired by the reader, and a first heater configured to heat the sheet. The apparatus further includes a difference extractor configured to extract difference image data based on first image data read from the sheet before it is heated by the first heater and second image data read from the sheet after it is heated by the first heater. The apparatus additionally includes a setting section configured to set a password required to access the difference image data.
US10334130B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and position adjustment method An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor to convey a conveyed object in a conveyance direction, a plurality of head units to perform image formation on the conveyed object, a displacement sensor disposed downstream from the plurality of head units to detect a position adjustment image on the conveyed object, formed by the plurality of head units, and at least one processor configured to adjust an image formation position of at least one of the head units in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, based on a result generated by the displacement sensor. The image forming apparatus further includes a surface sensor to obtain surface data of the conveyed object at a position corresponding to the head unit to be adjusted, and the processor further adjusts the image formation position in the orthogonal direction based on the surface data obtained by the surface sensor.
US10334129B2	Method of printing and scanning A multifunctional printer having a printer section, an auto document feeder, a scanner section, a print path, and a path guide. When the multifunctional printer is not in a print and scan mode, the path guide can move to a position that routes printed paper from the print path to a print output tray. When the multifunctional printer is not in a print and scan mode, the path guide can move to a position that routes printed paper from the print path to the auto document feeder, where it can be scanned.
US10334124B2	Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing system for print job management An information processing apparatus to which plural image forming apparatuses having different functions are connected and which transfers a print job transmitted from a terminal apparatus of a user to the image forming apparatus usable by the user, includes a generation unit that generates a model group of the image forming apparatus usable by the user, for each user.
US10334123B2	Communication apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, and storage medium A communication mode in an address book to be imported is replaced with a communication mode supporting an own apparatus and registered therein. A control method for controlling a communication apparatus that performs IP fax communication via an IP network, includes importing a destination of G3 fax communication, storing in a storage unit the destination imported as a destination of the IP fax communication to be performed via the IP network, and allowing a user to select a communication mode of the IP fax communication to be performed using the destination stored in the storage unit.
US10334122B2	Dynamic media item layout presentation A method may include generating a list of frame candidates, the list of frame candidates including a plurality of aspect ratios, based on a characteristic of a display device and an aspect ratio of a base tile; receiving a set of media items, each with a respective aspect ratio (AR), to display on the display device; and for each respective media item in the set of media items: filtering the list of frame candidates based on a respective aspect ratio of the list of frame candidates being within a threshold cropping amount of the AR of the respective media item; and matching the respective media to a frame candidate of the filtered list of frame candidates.
US10334117B2	Method and apparatus for modifying charging mode, mobile terminal, and network side device A method and an apparatus for modifying a charging mode, a mobile terminal and a network side device are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: transmitting a signaling message containing information of modifying roles of current calling and called parties or modifying a charging mode to a network side, after receiving a signaling message containing calling information; and receiving a signaling message transmitted by the network side that contains information that the roles of the current calling and called parties are modified, or the charging mode is modified. In the present disclosure, calling and called parties can be modified in real time through network, which is convenient to operate, and can save network signaling overhead and can avoid a current call being interrupted by the network side due to insufficient tariffs of a current calling party.
US10334109B1	Automated intelligent personal representative A virtual assistant application, system, and service that interacts with a caller over a telephone, cellular, or VoIP network as the called party's representative when the called party is unavailable, providing answers to queries and performing commands that were provisioned by the called party. The application includes a telephony interface, speech recognition and synthesis, a dialog manager, and knowledge domain. The application can also be configured to interact with a sender of SMS, MMS, or IM messages.
US10334104B2	Information retrieval and display for an IVR system The invention herein disclosed provides the display of stored information when creating a dialstring for use with mobile smartphones and other computer-enabled telephones. A software app recognizes input from the user (such as the initial digits of a phone number) that identifies the organization to be called, and accesses stored representations of information about or provided by the company along with the IVR phone tree for that organization. The app then presents a graphical representation of all or part of the retrieved information on a display. The user can then respond to the graphical representation by providing selective inputs that cause the synthesis all or part of the dialstring needed to navigate the phone tree to the desired destination. Once a dialing option has been synthesized, the user may provide additional input that the system interprets as an instruction to open a phone call and dial the synthesized number.
US10334102B2	Device and method for voice communication control in fixed-mobile convergence system The present invention provides an apparatus and method for a voice communication control in a fixed-mobile convergence system, which can efficiently control, at the time of providing a fixed-mobile convergence service in the fixed mobile convergence system, a call path for a voice communication outgoing from or incoming to a user terminal, thereby optimizing call cost and call quality.
US10334097B2	Method and apparatus for disabling alarm in device, and storage medium A method and apparatus for disabling an alarm in a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: when a powering-off event for the device is detected, determining whether a condition for disabling a preset alarm in the device is satisfied; and when the condition for disabling the preset alarm in the device is satisfied, disabling the preset alarm in the device to prevent the preset alarm from being activated when the device is in a powered-off state.
US10334095B2	Method for switching off communication screen to avoid false triggering based on mobile terminal and system employing the same A method for switching off communication screen to avoid false triggering based on a mobile terminal and system employing the same are described. The method comprises: controlling the mobile terminal to switch off the touch-screen and enter a communication gesture mode when the mobile terminal is detected to be in the communication mode and there is no touch operation in the mobile terminal during a predetermined interval; and acquiring a gesture operation instruction of a user and controlling the mobile terminal to perform a plurality of corresponding operations based on a preconfigured gesture operation instruction. The present invention switches off the communication screen to avoid false triggering.
US10334093B2	Apparatus and method for controlling built-in microphone of portable terminal A mobile phone is provided that is configured to obtain information of one or more external wireless devices operatively coupled with the mobile phone. In response to a call connection event, when the mobile phone is operatively coupled with one external wireless device among the one or more external wireless devices, and if obtained information regarding the one external wireless device indicates that the one external wireless device does not include a microphone, an audio input is obtained via the built-in microphone. In response to a call connection event, when the mobile phone is operatively coupled with one external wireless device among the one or more external wireless devices, and if obtained information regarding the one external wireless device indicates that the one external wireless device includes a microphone, an audio input is obtained via the microphone of the one external wireless device.
US10334089B2	Method for serially transmitting a frame from a transmitter to at least one receiver via a bus system, and a subscriber station for a bus system The disclosure relates to a method for serially transmitting a frame from a transmitter to at least one receiver via a bus line, as well as a subscriber station for a bus system. According to said method, stuff bits for generating additional signal edges are inserted into the frame by the transmitter according to a predetermined rule, and the stuff bits are removed again by the receiver when evaluating a received frame, a CRC calculation logic of a CRC generator calculating a CRC checksum that is comprised by said frame, and a value of “1” being inserted into said CRC calculation logic in an additional evaluation step if a value of “0 . . . 0” has been determined for the CRC checksum in the running calculation executed by the CRC calculation logic.
US10334086B2	Header redundancy removal for tunneled media traffic A system that transmits frames by establishing a tunnel between a tunneling client of a user equipment and a tunneling server enables a redundant header removal functionality for an inner socket of the tunnel. The system receives a frame that includes an Internet Protocol (“IP”) header and removes redundant information from the IP header, the removed redundant information including a source address of the frame. The system transmits the frame with a modified header after the removed redundant information over the inner socket of the tunnel.
US10334085B2	Facilitating custom content extraction from network packets The disclosed embodiments provide a system for extracting custom content from network packets. During operation, the system receives a stream of packets. The system then parses packets in the stream to determine a protocol for each packet. Next, the system applies a custom-content-extraction rule to each packet associated with a target protocol to obtain the extracted content. Then, the system stores the extracted content in events in a data store to facilitate subsequent queries involving the extracted content.
US10334080B2	Local persisting of data for selectively offline capable voice action in a voice-enabled electronic device Data associated with a selectively offline capable voice action is locally persisted in a voice-enabled electronic device whenever such an action cannot be competed locally due to the device being offline to enable the action to later be completed after online connectivity has been restored. Synchronization with an online service and/or another electronic device, and/or retrieval of context sensitive data from an online service may be performed after online connectivity has been restored to enable the voice action to thereafter be completed.
US10334077B2	Contractor data server and methods for use therewith A contractor data server includes at least one processor that executes a contractor data server application to bidirectionally communicate contractor data with a first user of a first client device via a network interface. The contractor data includes service menu data sent to the first client device that includes a plurality of service types and a plurality of specific services and service data received from the first client device indicates a selected one of the plurality of service types, a selected one of the plurality of specific services that indicates a service performed, service date data that indicates a service date, service address data that indicates a service address, and contractor review data relating to services performed at the service address. The contractor data server application processes the contractor review data to generate individual scoring data relating to the service address.
US10334075B2	Virtual browser integration Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for integrating a virtual browser into a native browser and native web applications are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a request to open a first uniform resource locator. Subsequently, the computing device may determine that the first uniform resource locator is natively unsupported. Based on determining that the first uniform resource locator is natively unsupported, the computing device may launch a hosted virtual browser application in a virtual session hosted by a virtualization server. Thereafter, the computing device may receive, from the virtualization server, first hosted browser graphics generated by the hosted virtual browser application, and the first hosted browser graphics generated by the hosted virtual browser application may include content associated with the first uniform resource locator. Then, the computing device may present the first hosted browser graphics generated by the hosted virtual browser application.
US10334074B2	System and method for initiating a forced migration of a virtual machine in a high-performance computing environment Systems and methods for initiating a forced migration of a virtual machine. An exemplary embodiment can provide a subnet manager (SM) and an active virtual machine registration cache, where the subnet manager can access the active virtual machine registration cache. The SM can record a first virtual machine incarnation number in the active virtual machine registration cache, where the virtual machine incarnation number is associated with an active virtual machine (VM). Upon receiving a request to register the active VM on a different host, the SM can evaluate a second virtual machine incarnation number with the first virtual machine incarnation number to determine the legality of the request. In accordance with an embodiment, if the second virtual machine incarnation number is evaluated as greater than the first virtual machine incarnation number, the SM determines the request is legal.
US10334072B2	Characterizing data using descriptive tokens In one embodiment, a method includes a computing device receiving postings from users of an online social networking system. A postings may include location data along with one or more tags that may describe the content of the posting. The computing device may identify regions and subregions from which the postings originated, and may determine a distribution of the tags according to two data dimensions: the ubiquity of the tags across the regions, and the ubiquity of the tags across the subregions. Based on the distribution, the computing device may create a neighborhood characterization to accurately describe one or more subregions. The computing device may also determine applications for the neighborhood characterization.
US10334071B2	Systems and methods for distributing published content among users of a social network Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user.
US10334063B2	Systems, computing devices, and methods for setting data usage levels among computing devices based on predicted data usage Systems, computing devices, and methods for setting data usage levels among computing devices based on predicted data usage are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes predicting data usage by a computing device. The computing device is associated with a data usage plan including the computing device and at least one other computing device. The method also includes setting a data usage level of the at least one other computing device based on the predicted data usage.
US10334057B2	Pattern based optimization of digital component transmission Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing digital component transmission. A data structure stores session data for a user session. An encoder accesses the session data, encodes at least a portion of the online activities by representing different online activities with different symbols, and generates an encoded session string that includes multiple different symbols representing an order of occurrence of the different online activities. One or more servers classify the user session to a positive session classification or a negative session classification based on a classification score for the encoded session string, aggregates the classification of the user session with other classifications of other user sessions that have a same session string as the encoded session string, and adjusts distribution of digital components to client devices based on the aggregated classifications.
US10334050B2	Software application and logic to modify configuration of an autonomous vehicle Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an autonomous vehicle fleet as a service. In particular, a method may include identifying a location of a user device associated with a user, transmitting a command to an autonomous vehicle system associated with an autonomous vehicle service to transit to the location, and providing information associated with the user device to the autonomous vehicle system, where the information includes configuration data to adapt one or more sub-systems of the autonomous vehicle. Sub-systems of the autonomous vehicle may include interior lighting, ambient sound, road handling, seating configuration, communication synchronization, and temperature control systems.
US10334042B2	Method and system for providing remote access to a state of an application program A method and system for providing remote access to a state of an application executing on a remote server. A client computer includes a client remote access program that is used to connect to a server remote access program. At the client computer, a client difference program having encoded data indicative of a change of a state of the application last received from the server computer is generated and transmitted to the server remote access program. At the server computer, the client difference program is executed to update the state of the application and a server difference program is generated having encoded a difference between the updated state of the application and the state of the application last sent to the client computer. The server difference program is transmitted to the client computer to update the state of the application since it was last received from the server computer.
US10334036B2	System and method for risk-aware server load balancing Systems and methods are provided for managing server loads that accounts for various measures of risk associated with different workloads assigned to servers. The systems and methods may include a memory storing instructions for server load management operations, and a processor configured to execute the stored instructions. The processor may receive a workload, determine a value associated with the workload indicating a predetermined importance of the workload, receive information for a plurality of active servers in a server cluster associated with the processor, determine risk levels associated with the active servers based on the received information, and assign the received workload to one of the active servers based on the determined value and the determined risk levels.
US10334026B2	Resource assignment system In response to receiving a request from a user to initiate a new resource pool, a determination of a purpose of the new resource pool is made. The system may receive the purpose of the resource pool from the user and thereafter access user data regarding types of resource pools owned by the user and other users and the allocation of resources therein. The system identifies suggested resource pools and/or resource pool allocations to present to the user at the time the user initiates the new resource pool. The systems may receive a selected resource pool from the user, and begin initiate the new resource pool. Determining the purpose of the new resource pool, and allocations therefor at the time the resource pool is initiated, improves processing since the processors open the desired resource pool and allocate resources at the time of initiating the new resource pool.
US10334017B2	Tracking a status of a file transfer using feedback files corresponding to file transfer events A device may receive a set of feedback files associated with a file transfer from a first device to a second device. A feedback file, of the set of feedback files, may include a timestamp corresponding to an event associated with the file transfer. The device may determine configuration information associated with the file transfer. The configuration information may include timing information, associated with the event, that identifies an expected time associated with the event. The device may determine status information associated with the file transfer. The status information may be determined based on the timestamp corresponding to the event and the timing information associated with the event. The device may provide the status information.
US10334016B2	System and method for context specific website optimization A system for optimizing a website for different contexts includes an intermediary component configured to connect to clients and servers via network connections, means for analyzing a HTTP request from a client and determining specific context of the HTTP request, means for configuring optimization settings of selected website properties for the specific context of the HTTP request, and means for applying the configured context-specific optimization settings to redirected HTTP requests and HTTP responses. The intermediary component includes a traffic management system (TMS) and a traffic processing system (TPS). The TMS manages HTTP requests originating from the clients and targeting the servers and HTTP responses targeting the clients and redirects the HTTP requests to the intermediary component. The TPS receives the redirected HTTP requests and the HTTP responses, detects the context and applies relevant optimization techniques for the specific context to the redirected HTTP requests and the HTTP responses.
US10334008B2	Method and device for data streaming in a mobile communication system Interfacing between radio units in a base station in a mobile communication system uses a common public radio interface CPRI for streaming IQ data samples arranged in lanes. A separate serial interface sRIO is now additionally used for transferring selected data samples arranged in packets, the selected samples corresponding to selected lanes streamed between other radio units via the common public radio interface. In the radio unit, the selected data samples are arranged in packets to be transmitted via the serial interface, and, vice versa, the selected data samples arranged in packets received via the serial interface are arranged in lanes. A system timer coupled to the CPRI generates a timebase for controlling the sRIO interface in order to have it synchronized. Advantageously the data sample transfer capacity of the streaming CPRI interface is extended using the packet based serial interface.
US10333999B2	Synchronous delivery of media content in a collaborative environment An apparatus and method for facilitating a synchronous display of a time-based media object (e.g., a video or audio file) with a remote device is provided. In one example, the apparatus comprises control logic for controlling the display of a media object in response to a user entered command with a first device, and communication logic for causing communication of the user entered command (e.g., play, pause, skip, etc.) and a metric (e.g., time or frame reference) associated with the media object to a second device for synchronizing the display of the media object with the first and second devices. The first and second devices may communicate via peer-to-peer communications, for example, in a collaborative or social application such as an IM application. Further, the apparatus may include various devices such as a personal computer, mobile phone device and/or mobile personal entertainment device, DVR, or the like.
US10333987B2	Security enhancement tool for a target computer system operating within a complex web of interconnected systems Systems and methods the improve operation and security of large complex webs of 200,000 to 2,000,000 interconnected systems are provided. Systems and methods may dynamically schedule downtime for target systems within the complex. The schedule downtime may not impact operations stability of the complex web. Based on computational resource constraints, systems and methods may provide dynamic rescheduling of system downtime. Systems and methods may provide dynamic computational capacity management by adding capacity and/or reorganizing systems within the complex web.
US10333985B2	Distribution and management of services in virtual environments Distribution and management of services in virtual environments is described herein. In one or more implementations, a service distribution and management model is implemented in which system services and applications are seamlessly distributed across multiple containers which each implement a different runtime environment. In one or more implementations, a system for distributing access to services in a host operating system of a computing device includes a host operating system configured to implement a host runtime environment, and one or more services implemented by the host operating system. The system further includes a service control manager configured to enable communication between a client stub of a service implemented in a client runtime environment and a service provider of the service that is implemented in a service runtime environment that is separate from the first client runtime environment.
US10333981B2	Method and apparatus for security checking of image for container Method and apparatus for security checking of image for container are provided, one of methods comprises, receiving an image for creating a container, wherein the container is an isolation region for an application executable on a host operating system, identifying one or more layers composing the image by parsing the image, collecting a path of a security configuration file, a security check object, from the one or more layers, and searching the collected path and checking whether a security configuration file violating a predetermined security policy is present.
US10333972B2	Method and apparatus for detecting hidden content of web page According to an example, a web page is loaded and description information of the web page and layout information of the web page are generated, the description information of the web page is compared with the layout information of the web page, whether all tag nodes comprised in the description information of the web page are comprised in the layout information of the web page is determined, and it is determined at least one tag node, which being comprised in the description information of the web page and not contained in the layout information of the web page, as hidden content.
US10333967B2	Method and system for dynamic platform security in a device operating system A system and method is provided for implementing platform security on a consumer electronic device having an open development platform. The device is of the type which includes an abstraction layer operable between device hardware and application software. A secure software agent is provided for embedding within the abstraction layer forming the operating system. A secure store is provided for storing security information unique to one or more instances of the application software. The secure software agent uses the security information for continuous runtime assurance of ongoing operational integrity of the operating system and application software and thus operational integrity of the device.
US10333965B2	Methods and systems for on-device real-time adaptive security based on external threat intelligence inputs Methods, and computing devices implementing the methods, that enable client computing devises to work in conjunction with a server device to identify and temporarily defend against non-benign applications (e.g., malware, etc.) and other threats before a more permanent solution or defense (e.g., a patch or software upgrade) becomes available and installed on the client computing device. The server device may be configured to receive reports from the client computing devices, receive threat feeds from third-party servers (e.g., threat intelligence servers, etc.), and use information included in the received threat feed and information included in the received reports to analyze, in the server computing device, a software application that is operating on a client device in multiple passes. The server may generate threat scores (e.g., one for each pass, etc.), and the threat scores to the client computing device for use in devising a customized security response.
US10333958B2	Multi-dimensional system anomaly detection In one embodiment, a device in a network receives a first plurality of measurements for network metrics captured during a first time period. The device determines a first set of correlations between the network metrics using the first plurality of measurements captured during the first time period. The device receives a second plurality of measurements for the network metrics captured during a second time period. The device determines a second set of correlations between the network metrics using the second plurality of measurements captured during the second time period. The device identifies a difference between the first and second sets of correlations between the network metrics as a network anomaly.
US10333953B1	Anomaly detection in dynamically evolving data and systems Detection of abnormalities in multi-dimensional data is performed by processing the multi-dimensional data to obtain a reduced dimension embedding matrix, using the reduced dimension embedding matrix to form a lower dimension (of at least 2D) embedded space, applying an out-of-sample extension procedure in the embedded space to compute coordinates of a newly arrived data point and using the computed coordinates of the newly arrived data point and Euclidean distances to determine whether the newly arrived data point is normal or abnormal.
US10333952B2	Online alert ranking and attack scenario reconstruction Methods and systems for detecting security intrusions include detecting alerts in monitored system data. Temporal dependencies are determined between the alerts based on a prefix tree formed from the detected alerts. Content dependencies between the alerts are determined based on a distance between alerts in a graph representation of the detected alerts. The alerts are ranked based on an optimization problem that includes the temporal dependencies and the content dependencies. A security management action is performed based on the ranked alerts.
US10333949B1	Proactive protection of mobile operating system malware via blocking of infection vector The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for blocking an infection vector. In some embodiments, a method may include detecting, at a first device, a synchronization event with a second device, the first device and the second device operating with a proprietary mobile operating system. In some examples, the method may include recognizing, by the first device, that the first device is attempting to send a data package to the second device, and identifying the data package as malware. The method may further include blocking the data package from being received at the second device based at least in part on the identifying.
US10333940B2	Data transmission method and apparatus The present disclosure provides a data transmission method, including: upon receipt of a service request, it is determined whether said service request is a data sharing request; if the determined result is that said service request is a data sharing request, then the data source node and data-receiving destination node corresponding to said data sharing request are determined; according to the distance principle and/or signal quality principle and the credit principle and/or incentive principle, a bearer network node is selected corresponding to said data source node and said data-receiving destination node; according to said bearer network node, data source node, and data-receiving destination node, the data sharing network structure is determined. The technical solution of the present disclosure resolves the trust and incentive problem in terminal direct-connection communication networks, increasing security in the sharing of data.
US10333939B2	System and method for authentication An apparatus and a method allow for authentication of user information in an application system. The method includes receiving an authentication request, the authentication request including user information and candidate permission point information, and confirming at least one piece of upper layer subject information associated with the user information. The method also includes acquiring a first set of permission point information associated with the user information, and acquiring a second set of permission point information associated with the at least one upper layer subject information. The method continues with determining an authentication set based on an intersection of the first set of permission point information and the second set of permission point information, and determining that the authentication is successful if the candidate permission point information is in the authentication set.
US10333926B2	Trusted container A secure identifier is derived, using a secured microcontroller of a computing device, that is unique to a pairing of the computing device and a particular domain. Secure posture data corresponding to attributes of the computing device is identified in secured memory of the computing device. The secure identifier and security posture is sent in a secured container to a management device of the particular domain. The particular domain can utilize the information in the secured container to authenticate the computing device and determine a security task to be performed relating to interactions of the computing device with the particular domain.
US10333924B2	Reliable selection of security countermeasures Among other things, this document describes a computer-implemented security method such as for authenticated selection of security countermeasures and for reliable identification of computing devices. The method can include receiving, by a computing system, a request from a computing device for an electronic resource. The computing system can identify a security token received from the device that made the request. Based on the security token, particular security countermeasures can be selected that are to be applied to the electronic resource to be served in response to the request. The countermeasures can be operable to interfere with an ability of malware to interact with the served electronic resource when the served electronic resource is on the computing device. Portions of the electronic resource that are to be executed on the computing device can be re-coded using the selected particular security countermeasures.
US10333917B2	Controlling access to electronic resources based on a user's sociometric identification document A method establishes a session between a network resource and a user device used by a user having a particular sociometric identity. One or more processors identify an interaction between a user and one or more provider entities. The processor(s) identify profiles for the one or more provider entities, and compute a sociometric identity of the user based on the profiles of the one or more provider entities with which the user has had an interaction. One or more processors transmit the sociometric identity to a network resource in order to establish a session between the network resource and a user device used by the user having the sociometric identity.
US10333912B2	Method for inducing installation of private certificate The present invention relates to a method for inducing the installation of a private certificate, the method setting an installation confirmation parameter as “false”, executing a parameter change file stored in a security network server, and connecting a page for installing a private certificate if the installation confirmation parameter is not changed after the execution of the parameter change file fails.
US10333908B2	Transaction-based secure information delivery and assessment This patent is generally directed to a transaction-based secure information delivery system and method referred to as “SEDS” herein. SEDS consists of secure method(s) and infrastructure to transmit sensitive information, such as but not limited to medical information. SEDS may be used instead of email, fax, removable media and other non-secure methods. SEDS also supports a sender/receiver risk-assessment based communication protocol.
US10333900B2	Enveloping for multilink communications Enveloping techniques using incoherent wavefront multiplexing (WF muxing or K-muxing) will enhance privacy protection on data communications. The disclosure relates to methods and architectures of packing or enveloping data using WF muxing, or K-muxing, for information transport via multiple communication links such as concurrently via multiple satellites, airborne platforms, wireless terrestrial links, and/or other wireless links. The multi-link communications may include the use of cloud transport of multiple WF-muxed data packages. It is focused to appearance of a digital envelop and reliability of enclosed data. The K-muxing on information digital streams before modulation in a transmitter shall provide enhanced data privacy and better availability. The WF multiplexed (WF muxed or K-muxed) information data streams will be individually and concurrently sent to the multiple links accordingly for data transport. The corresponding WF demuxing or K-demuxing will be performed on received K-muxed information digital stream after demodulation in a receiver. The terms of information data or digital information streams are used to differentiate them from those of data signals or digital signal streams. In a transmission, information data usually will be modulated by modulators and converted into data signals before being transmitted. Similarly in a receiver, a received digital signal stream is demodulated by a demodulator and become a digital information stream. The incoherent K-muxing and K-demuxing will be used for processing information data or digital information streams for the benefits of enhanced privacy and better availability. On the other hand, the coherent K-muxing and K-demuxing for processing data signals or digital signal streams will be used for power combining and/or dynamic resource allocations for communications channels.
US10333899B2	Systems and methods for implementing a privacy firewall Systems and methods for protecting private data behind a privacy firewall are disclosed. A system for implementing a privacy firewall to determine and provide non-private information from private electronic data includes a data storage repository, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium. The storage medium includes programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to analyze a corpus of private electronic data to identify a first one or more portions of the data having non-private information and a second one or more portions of the data having private information, tag the first one or more portions of the data as allowed for use, determine whether the second one or more portions of the data includes non-private elements, and if the second one or more portions of the data comprises non-private elements, extract the non-private elements and tag the non-private elements as information allowed for use.
US10333894B2	System and method for supporting flexible forwarding domain boundaries in a high performance computing environment System and method for supporting flexible forwarding domain boundaries in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, flexible forwarding domain boundaries can be supported by dividing/partitioning a physical switch into two or more logical switches, where each switch is logically in a different domain, and allowing a fabric to be decomposed into independent subnets with one two or more physical end ports at the physical switch. By doing so, the same hierarchical forwarding structure and management structure between subnets can be provided as when complete physical switches are used as building blocks.
US10333884B2	Building or enhancing a relationship between users of a communications network A method for building or enhancing a relationship between user A and user C may include receiving an identification of user C of a communications network with whom user A of the communications network wants to build or enhance a relationship. The method may also include receiving an identification of an existing relationship that user A wants to use as a model for building or enhancing the relationship with user C. The method may additionally include developing the model for building or enhancing the relationship with user C based on the existing relationship. The method may further include using the model for building or enhancing the relationship between user A and user C.
US10333869B2	Telephony endpoint presence and instant messaging data-packet management Federated computing architectures allow for the interoperability of components and facilitates the exchange of data between varying systems and components. Endpoints, such as those utilizing Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) assume the same XMPP stream is used for both messaging and presence. Such systems are unable to accommodate a representational state transfer (“REST”) or, in other words, be “RESTful,” where the messaging server and presence server are distinct servers and may be on different domains. Provided here are systems described to split the protocols and enable an endpoint to appear to communicate with a single server while a protocol splitter routes and receives messages from distinct servers handling messaging and presence separately.
US10333867B2	Active-active load-based teaming Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems manage network interface controllers (NICs) to determine when NICs within a host operating in active-passive mode can operate in an active-active mode. A host sends probe messages from a first NIC of the host to determine whether a second NIC of the host receives the probe messages. When the second NIC does not receive probe messages, the NICs within the host can operate in an active-active mode.
US10333858B2	Method for controlling bandwidth and corresponding device The present invention concerns a device and a method at the device, the device comprising a first interface to a first network comprising an adaptive streaming server, a second interface to a second network comprising at least one adaptive streaming client device, a stream identifier for detecting at least one streaming content requested by the at least one adaptive streaming client device, the at least one streaming content being available at more than one data rate, a bandwidth manager for selecting a data rate among the more than one data rate, a scheduler for transmitting at the second interface the at least one streaming content to the at least one client device at a data rate above said selected data rate but below any higher data rate available for said streaming content.
US10333857B1	Systems and methods for data packet metadata stabilization 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.
US10333851B2	Systems and methods for customizing layer-2 protocol A method includes: receiving, by a controller of a layer-2 network abstraction comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by links, information defining at least a performance of each link; identifying, by the controller, at least one underperforming link of the network based on the received information; and for each identified under-performing link of the network: computing, by the controller, at least one updated layer-2 protocol parameter for at least one traffic flow of the under-performing link based on the information; and sending, by the controller, the at least one updated layer-2 protocol parameter to at least one node of the under-performing link.
US10333842B2	System and method for federated network traffic processing A system includes a base station including a first MODEM of a first MODEM pool configured to generate a first data packet (including first data and a first VRF instance identifier) based on a first RF signal and a second MODEM of a second MODEM pool configured to generate a second data packet (including second data and a second VRF instance identifier) based on a second RF signal. The system includes a network device coupled to the base station and configured to receive the first data packet, transmit a first packet (including the first data and a first header including a first indicator associated with the first VRF instance) to a first device via a network, receive the second data packet, and transmit a second packet (including the second data and a second header including a second indicator associated with the second VRF instance) to a second device.
US10333831B2	Method of optimizing the load of a network connection concentrator An method for optimizing load of a network connection concentrator in which data packets transmitted or received by a client-device compatible with a multipath connection protocol are intercepted by a concentrator reachable from a network to which the client-device is connected. The concentrator aggregates connections using a plurality of paths that may be used by the client-device. The method includes: a) the client-device sends a message for setting up a connection with a third party; b) the connection setup message is intercepted by the concentrator; c) the concentrator sends a connection setup message to the third party in which the source address is identical to one of the addresses of the concentrator; d) the concentrator sends information to the third party including another address; and e) the concentrator notifies the third party to switch the session associated with the source address so as to associate it with the other address.
US10333830B2	Passive routing in mesh network According to an example aspect of the disclosed embodiments, there is provided passive routing in a mesh network. One or more media frames from source nodes to target nodes in the mesh network are received. Routing information from a received media frame is derived, said routing information including a source node identifier, a target node identifier, a last node identifier and a frame identifier. The derived routing information is stored into a route ring buffer. A reverse route for the received media frame is determined. The received media frame is prevented from being forwarded in the mesh network, when the route ring buffer includes routing information corresponding to the reverse route.
US10333829B2	Service function chaining and overlay transport loop prevention A method implemented by a service function forwarder (SFF) comprises receiving, by a receiver of the SFF, a service chain packet comprising a loop prevention field, the loop prevention field comprising a plurality of bits indicating whether an error has occurred during packet transmission, and determining, by a processor of the SFF, whether to forward the service chain packet based on a value in the loop prevention field being less than a predefined parameter, the predefined parameter based on a number of bits (n) in the loop prevention field.
US10333827B2	Adaptive session forwarding following virtual machine migration detection A network system includes a first network access device having an input/output (IO) module of a firewall to capture a packet of a network session originated from a first node associated with the first network access device, a first security device having a firewall processing module to determine based on the captured packet whether the first node is a destination node that is receiving VM migration from a second node that is associated with a second network access device. The first security device is to update a first flow table within the first network access device. The network system further includes a second security device to receive a message from the first security device concerning the VM migration to update a second flow table of the second network access device, such that further network traffic of the network session is routed to the first node without interrupting the network session.
US10333825B2	Link cost determination for network links A link cost determining method including computing, by a station, a new composite data rate using a set of data rates including an average data rate, a geometric mean data rate, and a minimum data rate for data samples, computing, by the station, a pair of hysteresis thresholds for a previous composite data rate, determining, by the station, whether the new composite data rate exceeds one of the pair of hysteresis thresholds, and advertising, by the station, the new composite data rate when the new composite data rate exceeds one of the pair of hysteresis thresholds.
US10333824B1	Analysis of transmission characteristics in a voice-over-IP network Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses and methods for providing Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a first network node configured to communicate VoIP-packets between upstream and downstream network nodes in a network and to communicate metadata with at least one of the VoIP packets downstream in the network. The apparatus also includes a second network node configured to receive the set of metadata and at least one VoIP packet, and communicate the at least one of the VoIP packet further downstream in the network. The second network node is also configured to send a response packet upstream in response to receiving the metadata. A network pathway assessment module is configured to derive, from the response packet a latency corresponding to the VoIP-packets communicated along a pathway between the first network node and the second network node.
US10333822B1	Techniques for implementing loose hop service function chains price information A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a forwarding node of a Service Function Chain (“SFC”)-enabled network a packet having a packet header including at least one context header comprising metadata information for the packet, wherein the metadata information comprises price information indicative of a value of a traffic flow of which the packet comprises a part; identifying based on the metadata information and at least one of network state and environmental information a Virtual Network Function (“vNF”) to which to forward the packet for processing; and forwarding the packet to the identified vNF for processing.
US10333818B2	Testing of communications equipment A method of testing communications equipment comprises providing to the communications equipment a test traffic load which varies with time to a different level of test traffic load. The method also comprises measuring one or more parameter which characterizes the communications equipment in handling a transition of the test traffic load to the different level.
US10333817B2	Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, communication device, and determination method A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a determination program that causes a communication device to execute a process including transmitting a check packet to the communication destination device, when the communication device receives a first response packet, determining whether or not header information of a second response packet is included in data of the first response packet, a communication path corresponding to the first response packet and a communication path corresponding to the second response packet being different each other, and determining that a failure occurs in the communication path corresponding to the second response packet when the header information of a second response packet is included in data of the first response packet and when the communication device does not receive the second response packet within a predetermined time from transmitting the check packet.
US10333816B2	Key network entity detection A method includes receiving, for each of a plurality of entities in a network, device information associated with the entity, and network traffic information regarding data packets associated with the entity. The method also includes determining, using a processor, a priority score for each of the plurality of entities in the network based on the device information and the traffic information. The method additionally includes determining a polling frequency for each of the plurality of entities based on each priority score, wherein the polling frequency for a first entity having a first priority score is greater than the polling frequency for a second entity having a second priority score that is lower than the first priority score. The method further includes polling each of the plurality of entities at its polling frequency.
US10333804B2	Visualization of analysis results of contents A method, system and computer program product for visualizing analysis results of contents. Contents collected from various kinds of communication tools are read into memory. The contents are analyzed to obtain analysis results, where the analysis results include information on user groups, information on topics and degrees of involvement of users with the topic. Furthermore, user objects assigned according to the degree of involvement are dynamically displayed for a designated period of time and for each topic using the analysis results, where the displaying of each of the user objects is modified according to the degree of involvement and the information on a user group. A communication volume object which represents a communication volume between users may be further displayed between the user objects associated with these users and displayed so as to be different depending on the communication volume.
US10333803B2	Relay apparatus and relay method A relay apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled with the memory. The processor is configured to determine whether a frame received from a first device is to be discarded. The frame includes first information set at a first communication layer and second information set at a second communication layer different from the first communication layer. The processor is configured to transmit the frame to a second device upon determining that the frame is not to be discarded. The second device is set as a destination in the first information. The processor is configured to extract third information from the second information upon determining that the frame is to be discarded. The processor is configured to output the third information.
US10333800B2	Allocating physical nodes for processes in an execution plan Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for allocating physical nodes for processes in an execution plan. An execution plan is generated indicating a plurality of processes. A resource requirement is generated indicating requested physical nodes and an assignment of the processes to execute on the requested physical nodes. A determination is made from the resource requirement of a resource allocation of physical nodes for the requested physical nodes and the processes. The execution plan is updated to generate an updated execution plan indicating the physical nodes on which the processes will execute according to the received resource allocation.
US10333792B2	Modular controller in software-defined networking environment and operating method thereof Disclosed are a modular controller and an operating method thereof. An operating method of a modular controller having a plurality of modules in a software-defined network environment includes generating a first event including a message that is received from a network device, transmitting the first event to an event handler, transmitting the first event to the plurality of modules from the event handler, determining whether the first event is identical to a target event in event type through the plurality of modules that receive the first event, and performing a function of a first module, which corresponds to the identity between the first event and the target event, by using the first event. A network manager is able to easily form a controller with various functions such as performance enhancement and security enhancement at need, facilitating combination and separation of different modules in a controller.
US10333782B1	System and method for distributed management of cloud resources in a hosting environment Some embodiments provide a method of managing cloud resources on several of nodes of a hosting system. The method receives a cloud resource configuration. The method identifies a particular node from the several nodes to host the cloud resource configuration. The method sets an administrative state of the hosting system to reflect the hosting of the cloud resource configuration on the particular node. The administrative state includes information for each node in the hosting system. Each node includes a performer operating on the node that manages an operational state of the node based on the administrative state of the node.
US10333781B2	Changing between different roles at acceleration components Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for changing between different roles at acceleration components. Changing roles at an acceleration component can be facilitated without loading an image file to configure or partially reconfigure the acceleration component. At configuration time, an acceleration component can be configured with a framework and a plurality of selectable roles. The framework also provides a mechanism for loading different selectable roles for execution at the acceleration component (e.g., the framework can include a superset of instructions for providing any of a plurality of different roles). The framework can receive requests for specified roles from other components and switch to a subset of instructions for the specified roles. Switching between subsets of instructions at an acceleration component is a lower overhead operation relative to reconfiguring or partially reconfiguring an acceleration component by loading an image file.
US10333770B2	Prioritizing connectivity fault management conditioning actions in ethernet networks Systems and methods for prioritizing Connectivity Fault Management conditioning actions in a node in an Ethernet network include transmitting a configured priority of a Maintenance End Point (MEP) associated with the node to other nodes in the Ethernet network; receiving a fault notification from a remote MEP with a received priority configured at the remote MEP; and performing an action based on a comparison between the configured priority and the received priority at the node.
US10333761B2	Method and system for compressed sensing joint channel estimation in a cellular communications network Methods and systems for performing compressed time domain joint channel estimation in a multi-user MIMO wireless network include receiving training signals from a plurality of users, estimating a maximum delay spread for the received data according to a coherence bandwidth of the received data, limiting the received data in the time domain to the estimated maximum delay spread, selecting and estimating an active tap from the limited data set, and subtracting a contribution of the selected active tap from the reduced data set. These steps can be repeated until the residual signal falls below a specified minimum. The network can be a C-RAN network. The training data can be SRS or DMRS data. Limiting the received data ensures that only a few significant taps are analyzed, so that the system is not under determined and can be analyzed for accurate channel estimation using any of several existing algorithms.
US10333751B2	Method for transmitting signals in DCM mode in wireless LAN system, and device for same Disclosed according to one embodiment of the present invention is a method whereby a first station (STA) transmits signals using dual carrier modulation (DCM) in a wireless LAN system, comprising: modulating HE-SIG B field information and/or data field information on a wireless frame transmitted by the first STA and transmitting same to a second STA, wherein in the case of modulating the HE-SIG B field information and/or the data field information in a BPSK mode, if a random symbol C1 among symbols modulated in the BPSK mode is mapped to a subcarrier K, a symbol formed by rotating the phase of the symbol C1 is mapped to a subcarrier K+N/2 in a repeating manner, wherein N corresponds to the number of subcarriers of a resource unit for transmitting the HE-SIG B field information and the data field information and K is a random integer equal to or less than N/2.
US10333743B2	Electronic apparatus with power over coaxial cable function An electronic apparatus with power over coaxial cable (PoC) function including a transmission port, a low-pass filter, a dynamic impedance circuit and a switching power converter is provided. The transmission port is coupled to a coaxial cable. The low-pass filter is coupled to the transmission port to receive a mixed signal from the coaxial cable and filter the mixed signal to obtain a first power. The dynamic impedance circuit is coupled to the low-pass filter to receive and store the first power and provide a second power accordingly. The switching power converter is coupled to the dynamic impedance circuit to receive the second power and convert the second power to an operation power. The dynamic impedance circuit changes an impedance thereof dynamically in response to a current change of the second power, so as to prevent a noise of the switching power converter from being feedback to the transmission port.
US10333742B1	Termination for wire pair carrying DC and differential signals using isolation transformer with split primary and secondary windings A PHY is coupled across split primary windings of an isolation transformer for differential data transmission and reception between PHYs and for DC isolation. Positive and negative low impedance terminals of a DC power supply are coupled to first and second secondary windings of the transformer as split center taps of the transformer. Respective ends of the wires in the wire pair are coupled to the other ends of the secondary windings. Therefore, the power supply conducts DC current through the secondary windings, while the differential data signals also flow through the secondary windings, generating corresponding differential data signals at the inputs to the PHY. The transformer also attenuates common mode noise. Therefore, the circuit makes multi-use of the isolation transformer, allowing fewer components to be used for the DC coupling, wire termination, and common mode noise cancellation.
US10333735B2	Electronic circuit for controlling an actuator The present invention provides an electronic circuit for controlling an actuator comprising a transceiver unit (1) for a bus system the bus terminal (2) of which has a monostable behavior with an active period of greater than 1 ms, wherein the transceiver unit (1) is controlled by a microcontroller (3), wherein the monostable behavior of the transceiver unit (1) is switched off with additionally superimposed control pulses, wherein the time interval between two control pulses is smaller than the monostable active period of the transceiver unit (1) and the control pulses are generated by temporal combination of two control signals the time resolution of which is lower than the pulse duration of the control pulses derived therefrom, which is implemented by use of a RC combination (4) and/or a logic gate (6) with a differentiating or delaying effect.
US10333727B2	Replicating broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast traffic in overlay logical networks bridged with physical networks A novel method for performing replication of messages in a network that bridges one or more physical networks to an overlay logical network is provided. A physical gateway provides bridging between network nodes of a physical network and virtual machines in the overlay logical network by serving as an endpoint of the overlay logical network. The physical gateway does not replicate messages from the bridged physical network to destination endpoints in the overlay logical network directly, but instead tunnels the message-to-be-replicated to a designated tunnel endpoint in the overlay logical network. The designated tunnel endpoint in turn replicates the message that was tunneled to it to other endpoints in the overlay logical network.
US10333726B2	Network device configured to track multicast receivers A first network device adapted for communication with one or more other network devices is configured to originate a first route identifying a tunnel for carrying traffic for a multicast, to originate a second route specifying a leaf information requirement for the multicast but not identifying a tunnel for carrying traffic for the multicast, and to track a plurality of receivers of the multicast based at least in part on leaf information received from the multicast receivers responsive to the specified leaf information requirement of the second route. The first route may comprise an inclusive route having a tunnel attribute that identifies an inclusive tunnel for the multicast and the second route may comprise a selective route having a tunnel attribute configured to indicate that it carries no tunnel information. Multicast traffic can be switched between an inclusive tunnel and a selective tunnel responsive to the multicast receiver tracking.
US10333723B2	Control device and method for power supplying of communications network A control apparatus and control method for power supply of a communication network are provided. The method includes: detecting circuit data of each power supply circuit, comparing the circuit data of the each power supply circuit to get an average value, and analyzing output circuit data that the each power supply circuit should have; adjusting an output voltage of each power supply circuit according to the output circuit data that each power supply circuit should have; and connecting output voltages of all the power supply circuits in parallel and supplying power to a next stage electrical load.
US10333701B2	Reconfigurable free-space quantum cryptography system A system, and methods, for transmitting encrypted information as a quantum transmission between a first node and a second node, or among more than two nodes. Each node is characterized by an instantaneous spatial position, and the instantaneous spatial position of the second node is repositionable within a frame of reference associated with the first node. A hovering drone is adapted either for running a quantum key transmission protocol in secure communication with the first node, and/or for running a quantum key reception protocol in secure communication with the second node. Either drone may serve as a relay of optical data between a base station and another drone. Secure communication among more than two nodes may be reconfigured.
US10333700B2	Method and system for exchanging cryptographic keys with an unauthenticated device The present teaching relates to exchanging a key with a device. In one example, a secret value is generated. A message is transmitted to the device. The message includes information related to the secret value based on which the device is to create a cryptographic key. A visual code displayed on the device is captured. The visual code includes a first piece of information and a second piece of information. A key value is generated based on the first piece of information and the secret value. A test value is calculated based on the key value. It is determined whether the device is securely connected based on the test value.
US10333698B2	Entwined encryption and error correction Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for entwined encryption and error correction and/or error detection. An entwined cryptographic encode device can include a memory including data indicating a set of relatively prime, irreducible polynomials stored and indexed thereon, entwined encryption encoding circuitry to receive data, transform the data to a set of data integers modulo respective polynomial integers representative of respective polynomials of the polynomials stored on the memory, and perform a Da Yen weave on the transformed data based on received cipher data, and provide the weaved transformed data to a medium.
US10333691B2	Receiver and signal processing method Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a receiver, including a high-speed sampling module (110), an analog Fast Fourier Transform (AFFT) module (120), a selection switch module (130), a low-speed analog to digital converter (ADC) module (140), and a control module (150). The high-speed sampling module (110) is configured to sample a received signal and output a sampled signal; the AFFT module (120) is configured to perform time-to-frequency conversion on the sampled signal and output an analog frequency domain signal; the selection switch module (130) is configured to transmit the analog frequency domain signal to the low-speed ADC module (140); and the control module (150) is configured to perform configuration on a sampling rate of the high-speed sampling module (110), a quantity of points of Fast Fourier Transform that are used b the AFFT module (120) for performing time-to-frequency conversion, and a target input port of the selection switch module (130).
US10333689B2	High speed sense amplifier latch with low power rail-to-rail input common mode range Described is an apparatus which comprises: an input sensing stage for sensing an input signal relative to another signal; a decision making circuit, coupled to the input sensing stage, for determining whether the input signal is a logic low or a logic high; and a power management circuit, coupled to the input sensing stage and the decision making circuit, which is operable to monitor a state of the decision making circuit and to disable the input sensing stage according to the monitored state. Described is an apparatus which comprises: a decision making circuit integrated with an input sensing stage, wherein the decision making circuit is operable to pre-charge its internal nodes during a phase of the clock signal; and a latching circuit to latch an output of the decision making circuit.
US10333677B2	Reference signal transmission method and apparatus Embodiments disclose a reference signal transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes receiving reference signal resource configuration information sent by a base station, where the reference signal resource configuration information includes antenna port quantity information and a resource configuration index. The method also includes determining a reference signal configuration from a reference signal configuration set according to the antenna port quantity information and the resource configuration index. The method also includes obtaining, according to the determined reference signal configuration, positions of the resource elements REs that are used to send the reference signal on the antenna ports in the antenna port set, and receiving reference signals according to the positions of the REs.
US10333675B2	System and method for heterogeneous carrier aggregation Techniques for aggregating heterogeneous carriers in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A mobile device may receive a configuration for aggregating a plurality of component carriers including one or more cellular carriers and a wireless local area network (WLAN) carrier. The one or more cellular carriers may include LTE carriers, and aggregation may be performed at a sub-IP protocol layer of operation. In one aspect, protocol entities may be modified to perform quality of service determinations, carrier selection, traffic mapping, or the like, in view of the different capabilities and characteristics of the heterogeneous carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration.
US10333674B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system In the present invention, a method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting the same are disclosed. Particularly, a method for transmitting uplink control information performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise receiving, from a base station, a message comprising a specific symbol index indicating a starting point of the uplink control channel region of the terminal and a specific comb index indicating a comb structure of the uplink control channel region of the terminal and transmitting, to the base station, uplink control information by using at least one resource element corresponding to the received specific symbol index and the received specific comb index, wherein the specific comb index is allocated according to the number of symbols configuring the uplink control channel region of the terminal.
US10333671B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal based on shared resource in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor A method for transmitting and receiving a signal based on a shared resource according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided, wherein configuration information about the shared resource can be received from a base station, a reference signal for uplink data can be generated, and the reference signal for transmitting the uplink data of the shared resource can be mapped to a resource unit and the same can be generated based on a specific sequence in a reference signal sequence set that is assigned with respect to the shared resource.
US10333667B2	Method and device for transmitting a sounding reference signal A method of transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving a first UE-specific configuration indicating possible subframes for aperiodic SRS transmission via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, wherein the possible subframes are periodically configured; receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including request information of requesting aperiodic SRS transmission; and transmitting at least one SRS one time in response to the request information within the possible subframes.
US10333666B2	Method and device for transmitting data Disclosed is a method for transmitting data. The method comprises: dividing an available system bandwidth into a plurality of pre-defined candidate positions, and determining a frequency domain position of data transmission based on the pre-defined candidate positions; and transmitting data in the determined frequency domain position. Also disclosed is a device for transmitting data, comprising: a dividing module configured to divide an available system bandwidth into a plurality of pre-defined candidate positions; a determination module configured to determine a frequency domain position of data transmission based on the pre-defined candidate positions; and a transmission module configured to transmit data in the determined frequency domain position.
US10333644B2	Encapsulating digital communications signals for transmission on an optical link A method (10) of encapsulating digital communications signals for transmission on a communications link, comprising steps: a. receiving a first signal of a first signal type and comprising a first clock signal and receiving a second signal of a second signal type, different to the first, and comprising a second clock signal different to the first clock signal, each clock signal having a respective clock value and accuracy (12); b. obtaining the first clock signal (14); c. obtaining a difference between at least one of the clock values of the clock signals and the accuracies of the clock signals (16) and buffering the second signal for a time at least long enough to compensate for the difference (18); and d. assembling the first signal and the buffered second signal into a frame comprising an overhead and a payload comprising a first portion and a second portion, mapping the first signal into the first portion and the second signal into the second portion (20), wherein step d. is performed using the first clock signal.
US10333643B2	Apparatus and method for IP based transmission of upstream RF signal in cable broadcasting network An apparatus and a method for converting an upstream radio frequency (RF) signal to a digital signal and transmitting the digital signal via an Internet protocol (IP) packet based on an optical network in a cable broadcasting network is provided. The apparatus for transmitting an upstream RF signal includes a detector configured to detect an upstream RF signal, and a transmitter configured to digitize the detected upstream RF signal and transmit the digitized RF signal to a headend via an IP packet.
US10333627B2	Rx delay line inteferometer tracking in closed-loop module control for communication The present invention is directed to a communication signal tracking system comprising an optical receiver including one or more delay line interferometers (DLIs) configured to demultiplex incoming optical signals and a transimpedance amplifier configured to convert the incoming optical signals to incoming electrical signals. The communication signal tracking system further includes a control module configured to calculate a bit-error-rate (BER) of the incoming electrical signals before forward-error correction decoding, and use the BER as a parameter for optimizing settings of the one or more DLIs in one or more iterations in a control loop and generating a back-channel data.
US10333622B2	Method and system for transmitter optimization of an optical PAM serdes based on receiver feedback The present invention is directed to data communication system and methods. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide a communication interface that is configured to transfer data at high bandwidth using PAM format(s) over optical communication networks. A feedback mechanism is provided for adjusting the transmission power levels. There are other embodiments as well.
US10333620B2	System and method for lighting and building occupant tracking Disclosed is a system and method for using visible light communication (“VLC”) to perform indoor position location. Through use of a system and method configured as set forth herein, the position of any appropriately marked person or item may be found indoors using data interconnected modules that communicate with one another via RF and visible light. A mobile receiver in the form of a tag or badge attached to the person or item to be tracked receives a VLC signal from a plurality of lighting modules, and transmits back to a mesh network formed by the modules the data it received to determine the tag's or badge's physical position with respect to the individual network modules.
US10333616B1	Detecting burst PIM in downstream at drop Detecting PIM in a downstream signal, wherein the downstream signal is received from a cable plant via a subscriber network and an upstream signal is transmitted to the cable plant via the subscriber network. The upstream signal is transmitted in bursts during active intervals. PIM arises from an interaction between the upstream signal and a nonlinear component in the subscriber network and occurs in bursts corresponding to the upstream signal. The detection steps are: (a) identifying the potentially affected downstream signal from the upstream signal; (b) receiving the downstream signal during an active interval; (c) measuring a metric of the downstream signal to obtain an active value; (d) receiving the downstream signal during a quiet interval; (e) measuring the metric of the downstream signal to obtain a quiet value; (f) comparing active and quiet values; and (g) determining whether PIM distortion has been detected based on the comparison.
US10333615B2	Optoelectronic module management platform An optoelectronic module management system includes a network connection communicatively coupled to an optoelectronic module, a memory, and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory. The processing device is configured to perform or control performance of operations that include identify the optoelectronic module via a management network. The optoelectronic module includes a management communication element that is communicatively coupled to the management network and an optical communication element that is communicatively coupled to a fiber optic cable. The operations further include add the optoelectronic module to a list of monitored devices, monitor the optoelectronic module, provide a service to the optoelectronic module in response to the monitoring, and generate a report of the service provided to the optoelectronic module.
US10333614B2	Partial survivability for multi-carrier and multi-module optical interfaces Partial survivability systems and methods implemented in a node in an Optical Transport Unit Cn (OTUCn) network include, subsequent to an optical carrier (Optical Tributary Signal (OTSi)) failure of a plurality of optical carriers, determining which Optical Data Unit k (ODUk) services in an OTUCn associated with the OTSi are affected; signaling a partial failure for the OTUCn and a failure only for the affected ODUk services; adjusting overhead associated with the OTUCn based on the OTSi failure; and applying actions to the affected ODUk services subsequent to the OTSi failure. The signaling of the partial failure can include signaling one or more of a partial Alarm Indication Signal (P-AIS), a partial Backward Defect Indication (P-BDI), and a partial Server Signal Fail (P-SSF) for the OTUCn, and the signaling the failure can include signaling one or more of AIS, BDI, and SSF only for the affected ODUk services.
US10333606B2	Method for estimating channel state and controlling transmission/reception signal by multiple antenna device, and multiple antenna device using same A multi-antenna apparatus for controlling transmission and reception of signals based on channel estimation includes: a signal transmitter configured to transmit a first signal using a multi-antenna; a signal receiver configured to receive a second signal using the multi-antenna based on the transmitted first signal; a signal transferrer configured to receive a third signal received from the signal transmitter and provide the third signal to the signal receiver; and a controller configured to estimate a channel state of the multi-antenna based on the second signal and the third signal obtained from the signal receiver, and control transmission and reception of signals through the multi-antenna according to the estimated channel state.
US10333602B2	Apparatus and method for selecting beam in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present invention provide beamforming transmitting/receiving apparatus and method to use in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)-based wireless communication systems. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a transmitting node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining at least one transmit beam candidate from a plurality of transmit beams and at least one receive beam candidate from a plurality of receive beams, determining an optimal beam pair from pairs of the transmit beam candidates and the receive beam candidates, and transmitting/receiving data with a receiving node based on the optimal beam pair.
US10333599B2	Antenna array beamforming in a remote unit(s) in a wireless distribution system (WDS) Embodiments of the disclosure relate to antenna array beamforming in a remote unit(s) in a wireless distribution system (WDS). In this regard, a remote unit in a WDS includes an antenna array having a plurality of radio frequency (RF) antennas. The RF antennas transmit a plurality of modified downlink RF signals in a plurality of phases. A control circuit in the remote unit determines the phases to cause the RF antennas to transmit a formed radiation beam(s) in a radiation direction(s). The control circuit controls a plurality of phase shifters to generate the modified downlink RF signals in the phases. By supporting antenna array beamforming in the remote unit, it is possible to steer the formed radiation beam(s) according to a specific floor layout(s) to provide enhanced indoor RF coverage in the WDS. As a result, it may be possible to reduce deployment and/or installation costs of the WDS.
US10333597B2	Method and system for enabling block bundling in LTE-A systems A base station includes a transmit path circuitry to transmit an indication of whether a subscriber station is configured with precoding matrix indicator/rank indicator (PMI/RI) reporting. The transmit path circuitry sets a pre-coding granularity to multiple physical resource blocks in the frequency domain to perform a same pre-coding over a bundled resource block if the subscriber station is configured with PMI/RI reporting. The bundled resource block includes multiple consecutive physical resource blocks in the frequency domain. The base station also includes a receive path circuitry to receive feedback from the subscriber station.
US10333589B2	Communication device A communication device may monitor an establishment of a first type of communication link between a communication device and an external device while the communication device is in a first state in which a P2P mode of an NFC standard is active and a first mode of the NFC standard is active. The communication device may send first data to the external device by using the first type of communication link. The first data may include a command for causing the external device to execute an activation of a particular application. The communication device may change the state of the communication device from the first state to a second state in which the P2P mode is active, and perform the two-way communication with the external device that operates the particular application by using a second type of communication link.
US10333586B2	Lamp power line communication A method for transmitting data over a power signal to at least one lamp, said power signal comprising alternating high-power and low-power sections, said method comprising: modulating said power signal in one or more interface regions based upon at least one data symbol to generate a modulated signal having one or more modulated portions, each modulated portion having a first average power, each of said interface regions comprising adjacent portions of a high-power section and a low-power section, said adjacent portions having a second average portion; wherein said first average power is about the same as said second average power.
US10333583B2	Signal detection circuit and signal detection method A signal detection circuit includes: a correlation circuit including the first through nth correlators connected sequentially as the first through nth stage correlators and each computing a correlation value between a received signal and a spreading sequence while shifting the received signal to the next stage depending on the chip rate period of the spreading sequence; a first adder that adds k correlation values computed by k correlators so as to generate a first addition value; a second adder that adds r correlation values computed by r correlators so as to generate a second addition value; a subtractor that subtracts the first addition value from the second addition value so as to generate a subtraction value; and a synchronization detection unit that compares the subtraction value with a threshold value, so as to detect the synchronization timing of the spreading sequence and the received signal.
US10333580B2	Communication apparatus and method for controlling communication apparatus In a communication device that performs communication by a time division system, it is intended to enhance the communication speed. A communication apparatus includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, a switching unit, and a discharge unit. In the communication apparatus, the transmission unit transmits a transmission signal. Moreover, the reception unit receives a reception signal. Moreover, in the communication apparatus, the switching unit switches a connection destination of one end of a communication path from one of the transmission unit and the reception unit, to the other. Furthermore, the discharge unit lowers, by discharging, a surge voltage generated in the switching unit due to the switching of the connection destination.
US10333579B1	Multi-mode configurable transceiver with low voltage switches A wireless transceiver includes a receive path having a first switch and configured to receive an input signal when the first switch is in an open position, a first transmit path having a second switch and configured to provide a first output signal when the second switch is in a closed position and the first switch is in a closed position, and a second transmit path having a third switch and configured to provide a second output signal when the third switch is in a closed position, the first switch is in the closed position, and the second switch is in an open position. The first, second, and third switches are integrated together with the receive path, the first RF transmit path, and the second transmit path within a same integrated circuit.
US10333572B2	Antenna tuner control circuit, front-end circuit and communication device There are provided an antenna, an antenna tuner configured to adjust frequency characteristics of the antenna, and a control circuit configured to change frequency characteristics of the antenna tuner in a boundary time set for a unit of time of communication. For example, after matching indicators based on VSWRs and received signal strength indicators based on RSSIs have been acquired in a plurality of times of communication space time, the antenna tuner is put into an optimum mode. This suppresses the decrease in communication throughput caused by the adjustment of the antenna tuner and suppresses the interruption of communication at the time of adjustment of the antenna tuner.
US10333550B2	Data processing device and data processing method The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15, 8/15, or 10/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
US10333546B2	Encoder, encoding method, decoder, decoding method, and codec system The present disclosure relates to an encoder and an encoding method thereof, as well as a decoder and a decoding method thereof, which can be used to reduce the number of wires necessary for data transmission and transmit more data at a faster speed with the same number of wires, thereby improving the efficiency of data transmission. The encoder may comprises two input terminals configured to receive two input signals simultaneously, each input terminal comprises a wire identifying a positive voltage and a wire identifying a negative voltage; and a plurality of output terminals, wherein each output terminal comprises a wire identifying a positive voltage and a wire identifying a negative voltage, a combination of the two input signals corresponds to one of the plurality of output terminals, and the output terminal to which the current combination of the two input signals corresponds is configured to output signals through the two wires of the output terminal.
US10333545B2	Sigma-delta modulator Proposed is a sigma-delta modulator circuit. The circuit comprises a loopfilter having at least one integrator or resonator section; and a feed-forward path adapted to provide a feed-forward signal to the output of the at least one integrator or resonator section via a filter.
US10333544B1	Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuits employing resistor rotator circuits configured to be included in analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuits employing resistor rotator circuits configured to be included in analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits are disclosed. In one aspect, a DAC circuit includes multiple DAC stages, each of which may be configured to generate one or more DAC analog signals corresponding to selected resistances within the DAC stage. Each DAC stage is configured to receive a corresponding top and bottom voltage. Each DAC stage is configured to generate a number of DAC analog signals based on the corresponding top voltage and the corresponding bottom voltage, as well as on the selected resistance of the DAC stage. Each DAC stage includes an adjusting circuit comprising a resistance configured to adjust a resistance of the corresponding DAC stage such that a parallel combination of the resistance of the adjusting circuit and a resistance of a next DAC stage is maintained at an ideal resistance level.
US10333538B1	Time interleaved ADC adaptive filtering The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for compensating mismatches among sub-converters in a time interleaved analog digital converter structure. A digital finite impulse response (FIR) equalization filtering unit is coupled to outputs of the sub-converters. The FIR filtering unit includes a digital FIR filter dedicated to each sub-converter. The FIR filtering coefficient is adapted specifically for each sub-converter to achieve a compensation for sub-converter mismatches and inter-symbol interference (ISI) equalization.
US10333537B2	Atomic oscillator and a method of generating atomic oscillation An atomic oscillator includes: an atomic cell containing metal atoms; a light source generating light to be emitted to the atomic cell; a driver outputting a driving signal for driving the light source; a light detector detecting the light having passed through the atomic cell; a phase detector detecting an output of the light detector; a voltage controlled oscillator having an oscillation frequency adjusted based on the output detected by the phase detector; a phase modulator phase modulating an output signal of the voltage controlled oscillator and outputting the phase modulated signal; a frequency multiplier which outputs a microwave to the driver, the microwave being obtained by multiplying a frequency of the phase modulated signal; and a frequency divider which frequency divides the output signal of the voltage controlled oscillator and outputs the frequency divided output signal to the phase detector and the phase modulator.
US10333532B2	Apparatuses and methods for detecting a loop count in a delay-locked loop Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for detecting a loop count in a delay-locked loop that uses a divide clock in a measure initialization process. An example apparatus includes a divider configured to receive a signal and produce a first divided signal and a second divided signal that is complementary to the first divided signal, a first circuit configured to count the first divided signal during a first enabled period and produce a first count value, a second circuit configured to count the second divided signal during a second enabled period and produce a second count value, and an adder configured to produce a third count value responsive to the first and second count values.
US10333530B1	Voltage-controlled oscillator and phase locked loop having voltage-controlled oscillator According to one embodiment, a voltage-controlled oscillator includes a voltage-current conversion circuit and hold circuit that outputs a first current corresponding to a control voltage, a current addition circuit that outputs a second current corresponding to the first current, and a current subtraction circuit that outputs a third current corresponding to the first current. The voltage-controlled oscillator also includes a narrow-band low-pass filter that passes a current in a first frequency band to reduce noise of the second current, a voltage-current converter that outputs a sixth current corresponding to a fifth current obtained by subtracting the third current from a fourth current corresponding to the control voltage, and a low-pass filter that passes a current in a second frequency band to reduce noise of the sixth current. The second frequency band is different from the first frequency band. The voltage-controlled oscillator further includes a current-controlled oscillator that oscillates a clock signal in accordance with a combined current of the second current and the sixth current.
US10333529B1	Method of forming a conversion circuit and structure therefor In one embodiment, a differential to single ended conversion circuit is configured to convert a differential signal to a single ended signal without using an operational amplifier and without using a current source to charge a capacitor.
US10333526B2	Oscillator circuit with bias current generator An oscillator circuit (100) comprises a crystal oscillator (10) arranged to generate an oscillation signal, a bias current generator (20) arranged to supply a bias current to the crystal oscillator (10), and a feedback stage (30) arranged to generate a feedback signal in response to an amplitude of the oscillation signal reaching an amplitude threshold. The bias current generator (20) is arranged to: in response to a supply of power to the oscillator circuit (100) being switched on, generate the bias current at an increasing level commencing from a first level; in response to the feedback signal, terminate the increasing; and during subsequent oscillation of the crystal oscillator (10), supply the bias current at a second level dependent on a final level of the bias current reached when the increasing is terminated.
US10333519B2	On-die termination Local on-die termination controllers for effecting termination of a high-speed signaling links simultaneously engage on-die termination structures within multiple integrated-circuit memory devices disposed on the same memory module, and/or within the same integrated-circuit package, and coupled to the high-speed signaling link. A termination control bus is coupled to memory devices on a module, and provides for peer-to-peer communication of termination control signals.
US10333506B2	High-speed current comparator suitable for nano-power circuit design Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for a current comparator with biasing circuitry to provide for low power consumption and high-speed performance. In one example, a system includes an input port to receive a current pulse and an amplifier configured to provide a voltage pulse at an output port in response to the current pulse. The system also includes a first biasing circuit coupled between the output port and the input port to selectively limit a voltage at the input port. The system further includes a second biasing circuit coupled to the amplifier to selectively adjust a bias of the amplifier.
US10333503B1	Quantum controller with modular and dynamic pulse generation and routing A quantum controller comprises raw pulse generation circuitry, pulse modification circuitry, and output management circuitry. The raw pulse generation circuitry is operable to generate a raw output pulse. The output management circuitry is operable to route one or more output pulses onto a selected one or more signal paths based on to which one or more of a plurality of elements of a quantum processor the one or more output pulses are to be sent. The pulse modification circuitry is operable to select pulse modification settings to use for processing of the raw output pulse, wherein the selection is based on which of the signal paths are selected and/or to which elements of a quantum processor the pulses are to be sent. The pulse modification circuitry is operable to process the raw pulse using the selected pulse modification settings to generate the output pulses.
US10333498B2	Low-power, small-area, high-speed master-slave flip-flop circuits and devices including same An integrated circuit includes a plurality of positive edge-triggered master-slave flip-flop circuits sharing a clock signal. At least one of the positive edge-triggered master-slave flip-flop circuits includes; an input stage that provides a first output signal generated from an input signal in response to the clock signal and an inverted clock signal, a first inverting circuit that generates the inverted clock signal by delaying the clock signal, a transmission gate that receives a second output signal and generates a final output signal, and a second inverting circuit that receives the first output signal and generates the second output signal from the first output signal. The clock signal is applied to an NMOS transistor of the transmission gate and a PMOS transistor of the input stage, and the inverted clock signal is applied to a PMOS transistor of the transmission gate and an NMOS transistor of the input stage.
US10333494B2	Simplified acoustic RF resonator parallel capacitance compensation RF circuitry, which includes a first acoustic RF resonator (ARFR) and a first compensating ARFR, is disclosed. A first inductive element is coupled between the first compensating ARFR and a first end of the first ARFR. A second inductive element is coupled between the first compensating ARFR and a second end of the first ARFR. The first compensating ARFR, the first inductive element, and the second inductive element at least partially compensate for a parallel capacitance of the first ARFR.
US10333493B2	Embedded RF filter package structure and method of manufacturing thereof A filter package and method of manufacturing thereof is disclosed. The filter device package includes a first dielectric layer having an acoustic wave filter device attached thereto, the acoustic wave filter device comprising an active area and I/O pads. The filter device package also includes an adhesive positioned between the first dielectric layer and the acoustic wave filter device to secure the layer to the device, vias formed through the first dielectric layer and the adhesive to the I/O pads of the acoustic wave filter device, and metal interconnects formed in the vias and mechanically and electrically coupled to the I/O pads of the acoustic wave filter device to form electrical interconnections thereto, wherein an air cavity is formed in the adhesive between the acoustic wave filter device and the first dielectric layer, in a location adjacent the active area of the acoustic wave filter device.
US10333490B2	Piezoelectric vibrator and frequency adjustment method for piezoelectric vibrator A frequency adjustment method is provided in which a residual substance is unlikely to be generated, the frequency can be adjusted with high precision, and a decrease in strength is made small.A frequency adjustment method for a piezoelectric vibrator includes preparing the piezoelectric vibrator having a base portion, a vibration arm that includes a connection portion connected to the base portion as well as vibration arm main bodies extending from the connection portion and that is made of a single crystal, a lower electrode formed on the vibration arm, a piezoelectric thin film formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric thin film; and forming an alteration portion by irradiating the connection portion with a laser beam.
US10333488B2	Electroacoustic component and crystal cuts for electroacoustic components An electroacoustic component is disclosed. In an embodiment, the electroacoustic component includes a piezoelectric substrate comprising a rare earth metal and calcium oxoborates (RE-COB) and component structures arranged on the substrate, the component structures being suitable for converting between RF signals and acoustic waves, wherein the waves are capable of propagation in a direction x′″, and wherein the direction x′″ is determined by Euler angles (λ, μ, θ), the Euler angles being selected from angle ranges (20-90, 95-160, 15-55), (20-85, 95-160, 95-125) and (15-25, 85-100, 0-175).
US10333487B2	Acoustic wave element, filter element, and communication device An acoustic wave element of the present invention includes a piezoelectric substrate, an excitation electrode which is arranged on the piezoelectric substrate and includes a plurality of electrode fingers, and two reflectors arranged on the piezoelectric substrate, each of which includes a plurality of reflection electrode fingers, which sandwich the excitation electrode therebetween in the propagation direction of an acoustic wave. The excitation electrode includes a main region in the center vicinity of the line of the plurality of electrode fingers in which the intervals between the centers of the plurality of electrode fingers are uniformly a first interval. In the reflector, at least one of the reflection electrode fingers shifts to the excitation electrode side relative to virtual electrode finger positions which are repeatedly set at the first intervals from the electrode fingers in the main region.
US10333482B1	Dynamic output level correction by monitoring speaker distortion to minimize distortion A speaker system featuring automatic volume adjustment to avoid excess distortion includes a first converter for converting an input signal to an input frequency domain signal; and a second converter for converting a microphone signal to an environmental frequency domain signal. A distortion analyzer receives output of the first and second converter and determines at least one distortion level and provides at least one gain adjustment signal used to control a corrector to adjust gain of a speaker driver. The system performs a method of reducing distortion by automatically adjusting volume in each of a plurality of frequency bands including converting an input signal to a frequency domain input signal; converting a microphone signal to an environmental frequency domain signal; determining a distortion level; generating a gain adjustment signal; and adjusting gain of a signal provided to a speaker driver.
US10333480B2	Crystal oscillator device and method of measuring crystal oscillator characteristic A crystal oscillator device is disclosed. The crystal oscillator device includes a casing; a crystal piece; a pair of excitation electrodes; a transmission antenna electrically coupled to one of the excitation electrodes; a reception antenna configured to receive a radio wave from the transmission antenna; and an alarm generator configured to generate an alarm based on a signal whose amplitude is equal to or less than a reference value, the signal being received by the reception antenna.
US10333478B1	Slew boost disable for an operational amplifier An input stage of an operational amplifier receives first and second input voltages. An output slew detection circuit decreases a first current responsive to slewing of an output of the operational amplifier and increases the first current responsive to no slewing. A slew boost and differential input voltage detection generates a second current at a first level when the first and second input voltages are approximately equal and to generate the second current at a second level, smaller than the first level, responsive to the first and second input voltages not being approximately equal. A voltage on a capacitor increases responsive to the first current from the output slew detection circuit increasing and responsive to the second current being at the second level. A current mirror is activated responsive to the voltage on the capacitor exceeding a second threshold. The current mirror decreases a third current of the input stage.
US10333476B2	Electric power converter and power amplifier An electric power converter includes a first capacitor being located between an input terminal and an output terminal, and that connects a first terminal being located between the input terminal and a ground, a reactor that connects through electric contact between the first terminal and the output terminal, a switching element that connects through electric contact between the input terminal and the output terminal, and a control unit that executes a first PWM control process controlling a pulse width of the PWM waveform by on and off of the switching device according to the fluctuation of the output voltage, and that executes a second PWM control process widening a pulse width of the PWM and a duty cycle of a PWM than those of the previous cycle when a pulse width becomes a lower limit.
US10333469B2	Cascaded switch between pluralities of LNAS An apparatus includes a first plurality of low noise amplifiers (LNAs) and a cascaded switch configured to route outputs of the first plurality of LNAs to a second plurality of LNAs.
US10333467B2	Crystal oscillator A crystal oscillator includes a surface mount type crystal unit and a mounting substrate. The surface mount type crystal unit includes a ceramic container. The surface mount type crystal unit has a rectangular shape as a planar shape. The mounting substrate includes a ceramic substrate on which an electronic component is mounted, the mounting substrate having a rectangular shape as a planar shape. The crystal oscillator has a structure where the surface mount type crystal unit and the mounting substrate are laminated, and both terminals of the surface mount type crystal unit and the mounting substrate are connected with a bonding material. The mounting substrate and the surface mount type crystal unit are connected in a positional relationship where a long side of the mounting substrate and a long side of the surface mount type crystal unit are orthogonal.
US10333463B2	Stress compensated oscillator circuitry and integrated circuit using the same A stress compensated oscillator circuitry comprises a sensor arrangement for providing a sensor output signal SSensor, wherein the sensor output signal SSensor is based on an instantaneous stress or strain component σ in the semiconductor substrate, a processing arrangement for processing the sensor output signal SSensor and providing a control signal SControl depending on the instantaneous stress or strain component σ in the semiconductor substrate, and an oscillator arrangement for providing an oscillator output signal Sosc having an oscillator frequency fosc based on the control signal SControl, wherein the control signal SControl controls the oscillator output signal Sosc, and wherein the control signal SControl reduces the influence of the instantaneous stress or strain component σ in the semiconductor substrate onto the oscillator output signal Sosc, so that the oscillator circuitry provides a stress compensated oscillator output signal.
US10333462B2	Measuring apparatus for solar cell A measuring apparatus for solar cell is provided, which is configured to measure a solar cell to obtain a characteristic curve thereof. The measuring apparatus includes a signal measurement control circuit and a signal transmitting control circuit. The signal measurement control circuit is configured to output at least one control signal for controlling a resistance circuit thereof to provide a measurement loading. The signal transmitting control circuit includes at least one path separating circuit, each path separating circuit is configured to provide at least two signal transmitting paths with different signal transmitting directions. The signal measurement control circuit outputs the control signal to the resistance circuit by using the signal transmitting control circuit, so that the resistance circuit can be controlled to provide the measurement loading.
US10333456B2	Regulating temperature on an actuator A safety device for an actuator that can modulate power to an electric motor in response to a fault condition (e.g., stall). In one embodiment, the actuator can include a motor with a shaft, a sensor disposed in proximity to the shaft, and a control processor coupled with the sensor and the motor. The control processor can be configured to receive a signal from the sensor that conveys operating data that relates to rotation of the shaft, use the operating data to identify a fault condition on the motor, and change the motor from an energized condition to a de-energized condition in response to the fault condition.
US10333453B2	Power tool having a universal motor capable of being powered by AC or DC power supply A power tool is provided including an electric universal motor configured to operate within an operating voltage range of approximately 90V to 132V. A power supply interface is arranged to receive at least one of Alternating Current (AC) power from an AC power supply having a first nominal voltage or Direct Current (DC) power from a DC power supply having a second nominal voltage, where the first and second nominal voltages fall approximately within the operating voltage range of the motor. The power supply interface is configured to output the AC power via an AC power line and the DC power via a DC power line. A motor control circuit supplies electric power from one of the AC power line or the DC power line via a common node to the motor such that the motor brushes are electrically coupled to one of the AC or DC power supplies.
US10333451B2	Controller and method for detecting a blocked state of an electrical machine A blockage detector for detecting a blocked state of an electrical machine has: a first power determiner and a second power determiner for determining a first power consumption and a second power consumption of the electrical machine while a first phase voltage and a second phase voltage for operating at a first rotating field speed and a second rotating field speed are applied to the electrical machine, a quotient former for producing a power quotient between the first power consumption and the second power consumption; and a comparator for comparing the power quotient with a threshold value for the power quotient. The invention also relates to an inverter controller, an inverter, a drive, ventilation or air-conditioning system and a vehicle having a blockage detector according to the invention. In addition, the invention relates to a corresponding method for detecting a blocked state of an electrical machine.
US10333445B2	Torque ripple compensation with feedforward control in motor control systems Technical solutions are described for providing torque ripple compensation when a motor control system is operating in feedforward mode. An example motor control system includes a feedforward controller that receives a first current command corresponding to an input torque command, and receives a second current command corresponding to a torque ripple. The feedforward controller generates a voltage command based on the first current command and the second current command, the voltage command being applied to a motor.
US10333444B2	System and method for stability control in adjustable speed drive with DC link thin film capacitor A control system for actively damping an output of an adjustable speed drive (ASD) having a DC link thin film capacitor is programmed to calculate a d-axis damping coefficient and a q-axis damping coefficient for stabilizing an output of the ASD based at least on a voltage across the DC link thin film capacitor at a steady operating point. The control system is further programmed to extract d-axis and q-axis perturbations in d-axis and q-axis output currents of the ASD using a high pass filter, damp the d-axis perturbation and the q-axis perturbation with the d-axis damping coefficient and the q-axis damping coefficient, respectively, and calculate a damping frequency based on the damped d-axis perturbation and the damped q-axis perturbation. The control system is also programmed to damp an angle of rotation of a reference motor speed command for controlling the ASD using the damping frequency.
US10333443B2	Apparatus and method for controlling a device An apparatus and method for adjusting an amplitude of a drive signal applied to a device are presented. The method of driving a device includes providing a drive signal to drive the device, monitoring a gradient value of the response signal; and changing an amplitude level of the drive signal based on the gradient value. The monitoring of the gradient value includes sensing an electrical parameter of the response signal and calculating the gradient value based on the electrical parameter.
US10333440B2	Motor control apparatus and electric power steering system In an apparatus, an execution determiner determines, for each of sequential first and second motor control cycles, whether to execute a voltage correction task for a voltage command, and obtains, for each of the first and second motor control cycles, a voltage correction as a function of a fundamental voltage correction and the determination result. A voltage corrector corrects, for each of the first and second motor control cycles, the voltage command based on the voltage correction. A correction voltage feedback unit feeds back a value of the voltage correction calculated at the first motor control cycle to a voltage command calculator. The voltage command calculator calculates a value of the voltage command for the second motor control cycle based on the value of the voltage correction fed back from the correction voltage feedback unit in addition to a value of the motor current parameter and a predetermined current command.
US10333429B1	Method for controlling inverter The present disclosure provides a method for controlling an inverter in an inverter system including the inverter, wherein the inverter includes a direct current-link capacitor, an inverting unit and a control unit, wherein the method comprises: when a direct current-link voltage of the direct current-link capacitor is greater than or equal to a predefined first voltage and is smaller than a second voltage which is greater than the first voltage, calculating a value using the direct current-link voltage and a time, and accumulating the calculated value over time to generate a cumulative value; when the cumulative value is greater than or equal to a predefined first value, blocking an output of the inverting unit; and when the direct current-link voltage is smaller than the first voltage, obtaining a value by subtracting a second predefined value from the cumulative value, and updating the cumulative value as the obtained value.
US10333426B2	Inverter with identification of neutral connection A method and system for operating an inverter, which has a terminal with four conductor connectors for connection of the inverter to three outer conductors and to a neutral conductor of an AC voltage grid is disclosed. The method includes determining a connection configuration of the inverter to the AC voltage grid by actuating switching elements of a bridge circuit of the inverter to generate a zero-phase sequence system having a zero-phase sequence system current, and measuring and evaluating output currents of the inverter with respect to the zero-phase sequence system current. The method also includes identifying a presence of a connection of the neutral conductor to a conductor connector provided for connection to the neutral conductor when the zero-phase sequence system current exceeds a prescribed threshold value and identifying that the neutral conductor is not connected to the conductor connector provided for connection to the neutral conductor otherwise.
US10333425B1	Self-biasing ideal diode circuit An ideal diode circuit is described which uses an NMOS transistor as a low-loss ideal diode. The control circuit for the transistor is referenced to the anode voltage and not to ground, so the control circuitry may be low voltage circuitry, even if the input voltage is very high, referenced to earth ground. A capacitor is clamped to about 10-20V, referenced to the anode voltage. The clamped voltage powers a differential amplifier for the detecting if the anode voltage is greater than the cathode voltage. The capacitor is charged to the clamped voltage during normal operation of the ideal diode by controlling the conductivity of a second transistor coupled between the cathode and the capacitor, enabling the circuit to be used with a wide range of frequencies and voltages. All voltages applied to the differential amplifier are equal to or less than the clamped voltage.
US10333424B2	Offline power supply According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a power supply system comprising an input line configured to receive input AC power, a rectifier having an input coupled to the input line and an output, a switch having a first end coupled to the output of the rectifier and a second end selectively coupled to an inductor, a capacitor coupled to the inductor, and control circuitry coupled to the inductor and the capacitor, wherein the control circuitry is configured to control the switch to selectively couple the output of the rectifier to the inductor to generate a first DC power level, operate in a first mode of operation while receiving the first DC power level, detect a phase angle of the rectified AC power, and transition into a second mode of operation in response to detection of the phase angle.
US10333422B2	Constant inrush current circuit for AC input power supply unit A power supply circuit includes a rectifier module configured to rectify an input voltage and a capacitor including a first terminal coupled to the rectifier module. In addition, the power supply circuit includes first and second transistors. The first transistor couples to a second terminal of the capacitor, and the second transistor couples in series to the first transistor. The power supply circuit also includes a resistor, configured to set an inrush current value, in parallel with the second transistor. When coupled to a power supply, the power supply circuit is configured to turn-on the first transistor such that an inrush current flows, at the inrush current value, through the capacitor, first transistor, and resistor. After a delay time, the power supply circuit is configured to turn-on the second transistor such that the inrush current drops to around zero, thus maintaining a low impedance path during steady-state operation.
US10333419B2	Input responsive AC-AC converter for heat tracing A power converter for heat tracing applications is disclosed. The power converter includes a controller configured to control an input switching stage. The power converter also includes an output filter, the output filter electrically coupled to the input switching stage. Further, the power converter includes a passive cooling element, the passive cooling element coupled to the power converter. The controller is configured to select a peak voltage and set a power converter output voltage based on at least one of the peak voltage and a power converter input voltage. The passive cooling element is configured to decrease a temperature of the power converter and to obviate the need for cooling with moving parts, making the system viable for hazardous areas in addition to non-hazardous areas. The input switching stage includes a plurality of transistors. The power converter output voltage and the power converter input voltage are both alternating current.
US10333416B2	System and method for controlling voltage control loop in power converter A method for controlling a power converter includes determining whether a value of a feedback signal is in a first range, detecting a plurality of points of the feedback signal, and decreasing one or both of a proportional coefficient and an integral coefficient of a first control loop of the power converter at a first plurality of times corresponding to the detected plurality of points of the feedback signal when the value of the feedback signal is in the first range. The feedback signal indicates an output signal of the power converter. A circuit for controlling a power converter includes a transient detector that generates a transient detection signal in response to a feedback signal indicating an output signal of the power converter and a gain selector that generates a gain selection signal in response to the transient detection signal.
US10333415B2	Insulated synchronous rectification DC/DC converter including synchronous rectification controller controlling synchronous rectification transistor A synchronous rectification controller configured to control a synchronous rectification transistor is provided on the secondary side of an insulated synchronous rectification DC/DC converter. A DRAIN pin receives the drain voltage VDS2 of the synchronous rectification transistor. A pulse generator generates a pulse signal S11 based on the voltage at the DRAIN pin. A driver drives the synchronous rectification transistor based on the pulse signal S11. Upon detecting an open-circuit fault of the DRAIN pin, an abnormality detection circuit asserts an abnormality detection signal S13.
US10333413B2	System and method for automatically and adaptively enhancing transient response for a plurality of output voltages A system and method of operating an automatic variable voltage transient response management system comprising a switchable power regulator circuit for receiving an input voltage and generating a plurality of output voltages for an information handling system the switchable power regulator circuit including a feedback loop for an adaptable error amplifier circuit, and a memory for storing a control circuit resistance table wherein each of the plurality of output voltages are associated in the control circuit resistance table with one of a plurality of total control circuit resistance values to adapt the error amplifier circuit feedback gain, and a digital core processor executing code instructions of the automatic variable voltage transient response management system to determine a requested regulated output voltage, identify one of the plurality of the total control circuit resistances associated with the requested regulated output voltage of the plurality of output voltages in the controller resistance table, and to activate an adaptable resistance control circuit to apply the identified total control circuit resistance.
US10333412B2	Power delivery device, AC adapter, AC charger, electronic apparatus and power delivery system A PD device comprises: a DC/DC converter disposed between an input and a VBUS output; a primary-side controller configured to control an input current of the DC/DC converter; a signal conversion and switching circuit coupled to a control input and configured to executes signal conversion and switching; an output capacitor CO connected between the VBUS output and the signal conversion and switching circuit; and a secondary-side controller coupled to the signal conversion and switching circuit, and configured to receive the control input signals subjected to the signal conversion and switching executed in the signal conversion and switching circuit, and to feed back the control input signals to the primary-side controller. The primary-side controller varies an output voltage value and an available output current value (MAX value) of the DC/DC converter by controlling the input current on the basis of the control input signals fed back from the secondary-side controller.
US10333403B2	Adaptive on-time switching converter Adaptive-on-time techniques to improve the frequency variations inherent in constant-on-time COT converters are presented. A switching converter contains a power switch; a pulse generator adapted to generate a pulsed signal to switch the power switch on with a switching frequency; a ramp generator adapted to generate a ramp signal; and a controller adapted to detect a parameter of the ramp signal, compare the parameter with a reference value, and to generate a control signal based on the comparison to control the switching frequency. This allows controlling a switching frequency of the converter without increasing a noise level of the converter.
US10333399B2	Power activation control circuit and power activation control device According to one embodiment, a power circuit includes a DC-DC converter and an activation control circuit. The DC-DC converter converts input voltage into voltage that is different from the input voltage. The activation control circuit sends a first enable signal to start operation of the DC-DC converter when voltage depending on the input voltage becomes equal to or higher than a first threshold voltage, and sends a second enable signal to start operation of a load connected to an output side of the DC-DC converter when the voltage depending on the input voltage becomes equal to or higher than a second threshold voltage. The second threshold is higher than the first threshold voltage.
US10333395B2	Charge pump circuit A bipolar output charge pump circuit having a network of switching paths for selectively connecting an input node and a reference node for connection to an input voltage, a first pair of output nodes and a second pair of output nodes, and two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, and a controller for controlling the switching of the network of switching paths. The controller is operable to control the network of switching paths when in use with two flying capacitors connected to the two pairs of flying capacitor nodes, to provide a first bipolar output voltage at the first pair of output nodes and a second bipolar output voltage at the second pair of bipolar output nodes.
US10333392B2	Reconfigurable switched capacitor power converter techniques An apparatus for converting a first voltage into a second voltage includes a reconfigurable switched capacitor power converter having a selectable conversion gain. The power converter has switch elements configured to electrically interconnect capacitors to one another and/or to the first or second voltage in successive states. The switch elements are configured to interconnect at least some capacitors to one another through the switch elements. A controller causes the reconfigurable switched capacitor power converter to transition between first and second operation modes. The controller minimizes electrical transients arising from transition between modes. In the first operating mode, the power converter operates with a first conversion gain. In the second operating mode, it operates with a second conversion gain.
US10333381B1	High voltage start-up circuit for zeroing of standby power consumption and switching mode power supply having the same A high voltage start-up circuit includes a power supply terminal configured to supply power, a latch unit connected to the power supply terminal and comprising a first P-type Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, a first N-type metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor connected to the first PMOS transistor, a second PMOS transistor, and a second NMOS transistor connected to the second PMOS transistor, wherein the transistors form a latch structure, a charge sharing unit comprising a first capacitor configured to supply a first voltage to a drain of the second PMOS transistor and a second capacitor configured to supply a second voltage to a drain of the first PMOS transistor, and a switching unit configured to form a current path that charges an external capacitor using a voltage supplied from the power supply terminal as a power voltage, based on the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10333371B2	Stator and rotating electric machine including the same A stator includes a stator core, a winding, and a temperature sensor. In the stator core, a plurality of slots are formed in a circumferential direction of the stator. The winding is formed by a plurality of conductors which are housed in the slots and are electrically connected. The slots are formed such that a predetermined number of the conductors are housed and arrayed in a radial direction of the stator. The temperature sensor is located in at least one of the slots and detects temperature of the conductors.
US10333369B2	Motor driving assembly and torque transmission mechanism A motor driving assembly includes a single phase motor and a torque transmission mechanism. The torque transmission mechanism includes a driving member being driven by the motor, a driven member for driving a load to rotate along a predetermined direction, and a connecting device comprising a resilient member and a damping member. The resilient member includes one end connected to the driving member and the other end connected to the driven member. The damping member is coated on or attached over the resilient member, or filled in a gap of the resilient member, or the resilient member is made from a damping material in order to reduce noise produced by the resilient member.
US10333356B2	Electronic business card information exchange method and device An electronic business card information exchange method and device are provided in the present invention. The electronic business card exchange is achieved by way of by way of receiving by a first terminal in a power-off state an induced electric energy provided by a second terminal, sending by the first terminal the first electronic business card information stored locally to the second terminal under the driving of the induced electric energy, then receiving and storing second electronic business card information written by the second terminal. The technical problem in the prior art that the electronic business card information exchange can not be achieved when one of two terminals is in a power-off state is solved.
US10333354B2	Contactless communication medium and electronic device using the same A contactless communication medium, includes: a coil sensitive to a magnetic field; a rectifying circuit configured to rectify an alternating power energy generated in the coil; a smoothing circuit configured to smooth a rectified output outputted from the rectifying circuit to generate a DC voltage; an output terminal connected to the smoothing circuit; a voltage detecting circuit configured to compare an output voltage extracted from the output terminal with a reference voltage; a switch configured to operate in response to an output from the voltage detection circuit and to attenuate the alternating power energy generated in the coil when the output voltage reaches a predetermined value; and a load connected to the output terminal, wherein impedance of the load has a value such that the output voltage has a predetermined value when an effective value of the magnetic field applied to the coil is 12 A/m or more.
US10333348B2	Control device, electronic apparatus, and contactless power transmission system A control device that can perform discharging execution and stop of a power receiving device included in a contactless power transmission, electronic apparatus, contactless power transmission system, and the like. The control device is on a receiving side in a contactless power transmission system including a power transmitting device and a power receiving device, and includes: a charging unit that charges a battery based on power received by a power receiving unit that receives power from the power transmitting device; a discharging unit that performs an operation of discharging the battery; a control unit that controls the discharging unit; and a monitoring unit that monitors the operation state of a switch unit. The control unit causes the discharging unit to discharge when removal of the power receiving device has been detected, and stops the discharging when an off operation of the switch unit has been detected by the monitoring unit.
US10333345B2	Energy storage device and energy management method capable of increasing stability of energy supply An energy management method capable of increasing stability of energy supply is applied to an energy storage device. The energy storage device includes a casing, an energy storage unit, an electronic latching component and a control unit. The energy storage unit is detachably disposed inside the casing. A constraining structure is disposed on an outer surface of the energy storage unit. The electronic latching component is disposed on the casing. The control unit is electrically connected to the energy storage unit and the electronic latching component. The control unit detects storage capacity of the energy storage unit, compares the storage capacity with a threshold, and determines whether to engage the electronic latching component with the constraining structure in accordance with a comparison result, so as to constrain a movement of the energy storage unit relative to the casing.
US10333343B2	Uninterruptible power system, control apparatus of the same and method of controlling the same An uninterruptible power system includes a power conversion apparatus, a switch unit and a control apparatus. The switch unit outputs a mains voltage in a line mode, and output an alternating conversion voltage in a battery mode. The control apparatus is configured to generate a base triangular wave signal according to the mains voltage. When the uninterruptible power system is in a battery mode and the control apparatus detects the regeneration of the mains voltage, the control apparatus is configured to determine whether a cross-over value of the base triangular wave signal is within a predetermined range when the mains voltage is at a zero-cross point. The control apparatus is configured to control the switch unit to output the mains voltage instead of the alternating conversion voltage when the cross-over value of the base triangular wave signal is within the predetermined range.
US10333337B2	Secondary power system A secondary power system is configured to connect to a motor vehicle having a powertrain comprising an engine and a first alternator. The secondary power system includes a second alternator connected to the engine, one or more electro-chemical storage devices coupled to the second alternator and configured to be charged by the alternator, and one or more inverter chargers. The inverter chargers may operate in a first mode to provide AC power to loads on the vehicle or in a second mode to receive alternative power and charge the storage devices. In an embodiment, the secondary power system includes multiple storage devices each comprising at least one electro-chemical storage pack and a logic. The storage devices are interconnected by a junction box. The logics within each storage device may selectively disrupt power flow from the junction box upon detection of an error condition.
US10333332B1	Cross-polarized dipole antenna An antenna to receive wireless power signals to charge a battery of an electronic device may include a first dipole antenna element disposed on a first side of a PCB. A second dipole antenna element may be disposed on the first side of the PCB, where the first and second dipole antenna elements may be configured to receive wireless RF signals at different polarizations. A third dipole antenna element may be disposed on a second side of the PCB. A fourth dipole antenna element may be disposed on the second side of the PCB, where the third and fourth dipole antenna elements may be configured to receive wireless RF signals at different polarizations. The first and third dipole antenna elements, and the second and fourth dipole antenna elements may be physically associated with one another to form respective first and second dipole antennas.
US10333331B2	Charging device and terminal providing power with alternating current The present disclosure discloses a charging device and a terminal. The device includes: a charging receiving terminal configured to receive a first alternating current; a first rectifier configured to rectify the first alternating current and output a first voltage with a first pulsating waveform, a switch unit configured to modulate the first voltage according to a control signal to obtain a modulated first voltage, a transformer configured to output a plurality of voltages with pulsating waveforms according to the modulated first voltage, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the plurality of voltages to output a second alternating current; and a central control module configured to output the control signal to the switch unit so as to adjust voltage and/or current of the second alternating current in response to a charging requirement of the battery.
US10333328B1	Multi-battery charging station which selectively connects battery sub-modules to a common power bus for charging Battery sub-modules are selecting to electrically connect to a common power bus, including by: determining if a discharge-related fault indication for a given battery sub-module indicates that the given battery sub-module is in a discharge-related fault condition. If so, the given battery sub-module is excluded from the selected battery sub-modules such that said given battery sub-module is electrically disconnected from the common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules are configured so that the selected battery sub-modules are electrically connected to the common power bus; the selected battery sub-modules that are electrically connected to the common power bus are charged.
US10333325B2	Charging state indicating circuit Disclosed is a charging state indicating circuit, including a indicating circuit, having: a first operational amplifier, having a non-inverting input end inputted with a first sampled voltage and an inverting input end inputted with a first reference voltage; a first triode, having a base coupled to an output end of the first operational amplifier through a first resistor, an emitter coupled to a second reference voltage through a second resistor and a collector coupled to an anode of a first light emitting diode; a second triode, having a base coupled to the output end of the first operational amplifier through a third resistor, an emitter coupled to an anode of a second light emitting diode and a collector coupled to the second reference voltage; a cathode of the first light emitting diode and a cathode of the second light emitting diode are grounded and light colors are different.
US10333324B2	Charger and charging method According to the present invention, in a charger for charging a secondary battery, in order to solve the problem that when usage fees are settled before the start of charging to prevent the nonpayment of usage fees, the possibility arises that the usage fees will be refunded, the usage fees of the charger are settled before the charging is completed. The charger (200) has: a power supply unit (210) that supplies electric power to a secondary battery; and a settlement unit (220) that settles the usage fees for using the charger after the supply of electric power to the secondary battery has started but before the termination of charging.
US10333318B2	Electric vehicle supply equipment with temperature controlled current In electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), interruption of charging due to overheating is prevented by adjusting the pulse duty cycle on the control pilot conductor communicating the maximum allowed current level to the electric vehicle, the adjustment being performed whenever the EVSE temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature below the maximum operating temperature as a function of the approach of the temperature to the maximum operating temperature.
US10333314B2	Multiple buck stage single boost stage optimizer The disclosure relates to technology for providing power, voltage, and/or current from a combination of DC power sources, such as photovoltaic modules or DC batteries. One aspect includes a buck-boost optimizer having a number of inductorless buck stages and a boost stage. The buck-boost optimizer may be used within a power generation system. The combined output voltages of each of the buck stages may be input to the boost stage. The boost stage may have an inductor that may serve as an energy storage device to boost a voltage, as well as to filter a signal from the buck stages. Thus, the buck-boost optimizer may use a single inductor. Having a single inductor provides for a very efficient power generation system. Also, cost and size of components in the power generation system may be reduced.
US10333312B2	Distributed control in electric power delivery systems This disclosure includes various systems and methods for determining an operating stage based on electrical conditions in electric power delivery systems and identifying a control strategy based upon the operating stage. The control strategy may be selected and customized to avoid or to ameliorate stresses in an electric power delivery system while maintaining the stability of electric power delivery systems. Various embodiments consistent with the present disclosure may include a distributed controller configured receive a plurality of indications of electrical conditions from a plurality of control devices in electrical communication with the electrical power delivery system. The distributed controller may determine an operating stage from among a plurality of operating stages based upon the plurality of indications of electrical conditions. The distributed controller may further identify a control strategy based upon the operating stage. The control strategy may be communicated to and implemented by the plurality of control devices.
US10333311B2	Electric motor control device A control unit of an electric motor control device includes an inverter circuit 6 that supplies power to an electric motor, a current control unit that outputs a voltage command value as a drive command of the inverter circuit, a current detecting unit that detects current flowing to each phase of the electric motor, and a failed phase identifying unit that identifies a location of a failure in the current detecting unit. The failed phase identifying unit determines whether or not a magnitude or a phase of a frequency component of the test voltage command included in a detected current value when the inverter circuit is driven with a test voltage command having a frequency higher than a rotational frequency of the electric motor as a drive command is within a predetermined range, and determines that a failure has occurred in a phase that is not within the predetermined range.
US10333306B2	Data-driven demand charge management solution A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for demand charge management. The method includes receiving an active power demand for a facility, a current load demand charge threshold (DCT) profile for the facility, and a plurality of previously observed load DCT profiles. The method also includes generating a data set of DCT values based on the current load DCT profile for the facility and the plurality of previously observed load DCT profiles. The method additionally includes forecasting a next month DCT value for the facility using the data set of DCT values. The method further includes preventing actual power used from a utility from exceeding the next month DCT value by discharging a battery storage system into a behind the meter power infrastructure for the facility.
US10333305B2	Management device, management system, control method for management device, and control program A management device includes a surplus power calculator configured to compute a measurement value or an estimated value for a surplus power which is power output from the power generator excluding the power consumption of the electrical appliance; and a scheduler configured to create an operation schedule for a designated appliance scheduled to operate during a period different from a surplus power period when the surplus power is available so that the designated appliance uses the surplus power during the surplus power period to operate; the scheduler also configured to shift the operation period of the designated appliance when a potential usable power is greater than an increment in the power consumption resulting due to shifting the operation period of the designated appliance, where the potential usable power is the surplus power with a potential feed-in power excluded therefrom.
US10333303B2	Power supply device and method of controlling power supply device A power supply device includes an output circuit configured to be supplied with electric power from a power supply, and to output a current, a driving circuit configured to control an output operation of the output circuit to output a current, an overcurrent detection circuit configured to output a detection signal to a first node when detecting an overcurrent in the output circuit, an off-state fixing circuit configured to output an off-state fixing signal to the driving circuit for performing a forcible suspension of the output operation of the output circuit based on a detection signal inputted to the first node, regardless of whether a control signal is outputted, and a control unit configured to receive the detection signal and to output the control signal for controlling the output operation to the driving circuit in order to cause the driving circuit to control the output operation.
US10333302B2	Circuits, devices and methods for selecting voltage sources Circuits, devices, and method for selecting voltage sources. A voltage selection module may include an analog voltage input. The voltage selection module may also include a digital based voltage input. The voltage selection module further include a control component coupled to the analog voltage input and the digital based voltage input, the control component configured to determine whether to use a first voltage received from the analog voltage input or a second voltage received from the digital based voltage input to generate an output voltage.
US10333294B2	USB cable with thermal protection A cable including a power conductor configured to transmit electrical power between a first device and a second device, a first data conductor configured to transmit data between the first device and the second device, and a first bimetallic switch coupled to the first data conductor and configured to mitigate current flowing through the first data conductor if a temperature of the first bimetallic switch exceeds a predefined first trip temperature, wherein the opening of the first data line indicates a fault condition to a device to which the cable is connected, whereby electrical power flowing through the power conductor is resultantly mitigated.
US10333279B2	Quantum cascade laser device A quantum cascade laser device has a light-absorbing cover member located between one emission end face of a quantum cascade laser element and an emission window of a housing. The emission end face and an opposing surface of a submount with respect to the cover member are flush with each other. The cover member has an opening at a position opposing the emission end face. The opening has a tapered first opening part increasing its diameter from the emission end face side to the emission window side and a second opening part formed with a fixed diameter not smaller than the smallest diameter of the first opening part.
US10333271B2	Pin-covering apparatus and bi-directional optical device using the same A pin-covering apparatus applied to a plurality of pins of an emitting end of a bi-directional optical module comprises a plurality of mediums and a plurality of metal sleeves. The mediums respectively cover the pins. The metal sleeves cover the mediums by taking the pins as centers, respectively. The metal sleeves are disposed at the emitting end of the bi-directional optical module. A bi-directional optical device using the pin-covering apparatus is also disclosed.
US10333267B2	Terahertz laser, terahertz source and use of such a terahertz laser A terahertz laser suitable for emitting at least one first electromagnetic radiation, a first emission frequency of which is between 700 and 1200 GHz. The laser comprises an infrared laser source and a resonant cavity arranged to be optically pumped by the infrared laser source, the resonant cavity containing ammonia gas as an amplifier medium and having at least one configuration in which the resonant cavity is a resonant cavity at the first emission frequency. The infrared laser source is a continuous semiconductor laser source capable of exciting molecules of the amplifier medium from an initial energy level to at least one first excited energy level, the molecules of the amplifier medium placed in the first energy level being able to relax through a pure inversion transition for which the relaxation energy corresponds to the first emission frequency.
US10333258B2	Electrical connector with soldering legs extending from shell rear edge and retained to inner edge of PCB An electrical connector includes: a housing having a base and a tongue, the base having a mounting face; plural contacts arranged in the housing and exposed to the tongue, each contact having a contacting portion, a tail portion, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the tail portion, the tail portions of the plural contacts being arranged in a front and rear rows at the mounting face of the housing base; and a shielding shell enclosing the housing and having a pair of rear mounting legs; wherein the shielding shell has a pair of soldering legs at two opposite outer sides of the front row of contact tail portions, respectively, forwardly and inwardly of the pair of rear mounting legs.
US10333256B2	Electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly includes: a circuit board, provided with at least one chip; an electrical connector, electrically connected to one end of the circuit board, and used to be mated with a mating connector; and a metal shell, covering the circuit board and the electrical connector. The metal shell is provided with at least one through hole running therethrough. Each through hole is provided with a waterproof layer preventing liquid from passing from an exterior of the metal shell to an interior of the metal shell and enabling gas to pass between the interior and the exterior of the metal shell, thereby achieving water proofing and heat dissipation, avoiding malfunctioning of the electrical connector and the chip due to excess temperature or liquid entry, ensuring the reliability of signal transmission between the electrical connector and the chip, and prolonging the service lives of the electrical connector and the chip.
US10333253B2	Electrical connector with reinforced and thickened metallic shielding plate on front edge of mating tongue An electrical connector includes a metallic frame, an insulative housing and two rows of contacts. The metallic frame made by metal injection molding and includes a main part and a first plat section. Two rows of contacts are respectively located by two sides of the first plate section in the vertical direction. The housing is secured to both the contacts and the frame and forms a mating tongue enclosing the first plate section. Thickened portions are formed on a front edge and two opposite side edges of the first plate section, and exposed upon a front edge and two opposite side edges of the mating tongue.
US10333250B2	Electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly including a first connector and a second connector mated with each other. The first connector includes an insulative housing with a mating cavity sounded by opposite top wall and bottom wall, two opposite side walls and a rear wall. The rear wall forms opposite inner surface and outer surface. A plurality of contacts are retained to the housing and include the contacting sections exposed in the mating cavity and soldering sections exposed outside of the housing and behind the rear wall. A plurality of inner partitions are formed on the interior surface of the rear wall and extend into the mating cavity to separate the contacting sections of the neighboring contacts, respectively. A plurality of outer partitions are formed on the exterior surface of the rear wall to separate the soldering sections of the neighboring contacts.
US10333249B1	Electronic connector with magnetic element and data transmission line using same An electronic connector is disclosed in the present disclosure. The electronic connector includes: a male connector; a female connector comprising: a shell; a supporting element received in the shell, and including an insertion opening and a receptacle space communicated with the insertion opening; a magnetic element received in the shell and surrounding the supporting element; a first terminal assembly and a second terminal assembly corresponding to the first terminal assembly received in the supporting element, wherein, the first terminal assembly including a plurality of first terminals, and the second terminal assembly including a plurality of second terminals, each of the first terminal extending into the receptacle space, and each of the second terminal extending into the receptacle space, and the first terminal and the corresponding second terminal forming a clamp for clamping the male connector which is inserted into receptacle space via the insertion opening.
US10333247B2	Wire harness In order to provide a wire harness with which it is possible to suppress vibration of a coating material and a central conductor between a shield conductor swaging position and a terminal, this wire harness (1) is provided with: a first cable (21) that has a central conductor (201), a coating material (202) that coats the central conductor (201), and a shield conductor (203) that covers the coating material (202); a terminal (30) that is connected to the central conductor (201) of the cable (21); a connector housing (40) that houses an end of the first cable (21) along with the terminal (30); a first ferrule (51) that is electrically connected to the shield conductor (203) and has the central conductor (201) and the coating material (202) inserted thereinto; and a fixing member (61) that fixes the first ferrule (51) to the connector housing (40). The first ferrule (51) has a first swaging portion (511) for swaging the shield conductor (203) and a second swaging portion (512) for swaging the coating material (202), said second swaging portion (512) being positioned further to the terminal (30) side than the first swaging portion (511).
US10333245B2	Connection device, manufacturing method of the same, and electronic device including the same A connection device and method of manufacturing the same is provided. The connection device includes a housing that includes a first face, into which a plug is introduced, and a second face that is formed to be in contact with the first face, a connection hole that extends to the inside of the housing from the first face, an opening that extends from the first face to the second face to partially expose the connection hole on at least the second face, and a sealing member that is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the housing to surround a region where the opening is formed. When mounted on the case member of the electronic device, the sealing member may form a dustproof and waterproof structure between the inner peripheral surface of the case member and the outer peripheral surface of the housing.
US10333242B2	Electrical wiring device with shutters An electrical device includes a shutter support structure having a return position, at least one blocking position and an open position. A first shutter element is configured to rotate about a first dimensional axis within a predetermined angular range while being translated in two-dimensions between the return position to the open position, each of the two dimensions being orthogonal to the first dimensional axis. A second shutter assembly includes a second shutter element coupled to the first shutter element, the first shutter element allowing the second shutter portion to move in a first direction parallel to the first dimensional axis when the first shutter element is in the open position, the first shutter element being configured to drive the second shutter element in a second direction parallel to the first dimensional axis when the first shutter element is being translated into the return position.
US10333241B2	Easily removable contacts for micro connectors A plug including a base having a top surface, a plurality of openings in the top surface, a retraction unit having a first portion in the base and a second portion extending from the base to a position in front of a corresponding opening, and a conductive unit having a notch where the conductive unit extends through one opening such that the retraction unit engages the notch to prevent the conductive unit from passing back through the opening.
US10333237B2	Mezzanine connector with terminal brick A connector is provided that includes a first housing that supports first terminal bricks. The first housing can mate with a second housing that supports second terminal bricks that are configured to mate with the first terminal bricks. The first housing and first terminal bricks can be adjusted so that a variety of spacing requirements can be meet by the combination of the first and second housings while allowing for reduced tooling investment.
US10333233B2	Electrical connector element The invention relates to an electrical connector element for contacting a conductive structure arranged on a flat carrier wherein the contacting is performed by a thermally bonded connecting material, wherein devices for fixing an advantageously flexible conductor are arranged on one side, wherein the connector element is configured as a soldering base or soldering bridge with a connector portion, characterized in that at least a portion of the soldering base or of the soldering bridge that is to be connected with the conductive structure is configured as a fanned area and includes at least two bars that are offset from each other by a slot.
US10333221B2	Antenna array integrated on the metal back cover of the 5G mobile terminal An antenna element includes a feed probe, an insulating sleeve, and a reflecting cavity. The reflecting cavity is formed by an inner concave of an outer side of the metal frame of the metal back cover. The reflecting cavity includes a first wall and a second wall. One end of the feed probe is connected with the first wall. The middle of the feed probe is connected with the second wall through an insulating sleeve, and the other end of the feed probe is connected with a signal feeder line. The present invention also provides an RF frontend system which includes the above mentioned antenna system. Through an architecture which includes a feed probe and a reflecting cavity, the present invention realizes that the 5G antenna is arranged at the sides of the mobile terminal. Therefore the 5G antenna can coexist with 3G, 4G, GPS, WIFI and other antennas.
US10333218B2	True time delay compensation in wideband phased array fed reflector antenna systems Systems, devices, and methods for determining and applying true time delay (TTD) values for compensating for free-space path length differences between a phased array and a reflector in wideband communication are disclosed. TTD values are determined for individual and groups of antenna elements in phased array fed reflector (PAFR) antennas based distances from a focal region of the reflector. The distance from the focal region of the reflector and the offset of the phased array from the reflectors focal plane can be used to determine path length differences. Corresponding TTD values for antenna elements are then determined based on the path length difference associated with the antenna elements. Each antenna element can be coupled to a TTD element to provide the corresponding TTD value to the signals received by and generated by the antenna elements of the phased array. The TTD elements include transverse electromagnetic (TEM) mode mechanisms.
US10333212B2	Radiator, solderless interconnect thereof and grounding element thereof A radiator includes an aperture plate defining multiple slots in first and second transverse directions, spring probes disposed within each of the multiple slots, printed circuit boards (PCBs) each having major and minor surfaces and being recessed on either side of multiple portions of one of the minor surfaces to define multiple pads plated with conductive pad material electrically interconnected with a PCB circuit and a grounding element. Each of the PCBs is disposed with the corresponding one of the minor surfaces inserted into a slot such that the PCBs form a crisscrossing pattern and the pads form horizontal blind-mate contacts with the spring probes that are in-plane with corresponding PCB planes. The grounding element is interposed between crisscrossing PCB pairs at complementary notches thereof.
US10333209B2	Compact volume scan end-fire radar for vehicle applications A vehicular radar system with antenna structures to provide volumetric radar scanning for use in vehicles. The vehicular radar system includes a first antenna array having two or more tapered slot end-fire antennas. The vehicular radar system includes a second antenna array having two or more tapered slot end-fire antennas positioned adjacent to the two or more tapered slot end-fire antennas such that the first antenna array is stacked above the second antenna array. A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) is coupled to the first antenna array and the second antenna array. The RFIC is configured to control each of the two or more tapered slot end-fire antennas of the first antenna array and the two or more tapered slot end-fire antennas of the second antenna array to transmit a signal. At least some signals have different phases so they may be combined to form a three-dimensional radar beam.
US10333204B2	Antenna component having a magnetic core and a plurality of electrical conductors An antenna component is disclosed. In an embodiment the antenna component including a first, second and third electrical conductors and a magnetic core integrally embodied having different section, wherein the first, second and third electrical conductors are located at different sections of the magnetic core.
US10333198B2	Antenna apparatus and communication terminal apparatus An antenna apparatus includes a conductive radiating element, a conductive member, and a first impedance circuit. The first impedance circuit includes a first parallel resonant circuit (an LC parallel resonant circuit) and is directly connected between the radiating element and the conductive member (the conductor plate). Since the first parallel resonant circuit has high impedance in its resonant frequency band and is equivalently in an open state, one end of the radiating element is opened in the resonant frequency band. Accordingly, the radiating element defines and functions as a standing-wave antenna that contributes to electric-field radiation and a loop portion including the radiating element, the conductive member, and the first impedance circuit defines and functions as a magnetic-field radiation antenna that contributes to magnetic-field radiation.
US10333195B2	Electronic device According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing, an antenna, and a sheet metal member. The antenna is contained in the housing with a gap formed between the antenna and the housing. The sheet metal member is supporting the antenna to be thermally connected with the antenna.
US10333191B2	Ceramic block RF filter having a first plurality of through-hole resonators and a second plurality of through-holes for blocking RF signal coupling A ceramic monoblock RF filter for the transmission of an RF signal comprising a block of dielectric material including opposed top and bottom surfaces, opposed longitudinal side surfaces, and opposed transverse side surfaces. A plurality of spaced apart through-hole resonators extend through the block and terminate in openings in the top and bottom surfaces of the block. A second plurality of grounded RF signal blocking through-holes extend through the block and terminate in respective openings in the top and bottom surfaces of the block. The grounded through-holes are located and positioned in a relationship off-set and on opposite sides of the first plurality of through-hole resonators for blocking the coupling of the RF signal between RF signal input/outputs and selected ones of the first plurality of resonators and also between non-adjacent ones of the first plurality of resonators.
US10333188B2	Transverse magnetic (TM) mode dielectric filter A transverse magnetic (TM) mode dielectric filter includes an enclosure, a dielectric resonator, a main cover, and an elastic component, where the dielectric resonator is disposed in a resonant cavity of the enclosure; the main cover is secured between the elastic component and an open end of the enclosure; the elastic component includes multiple elastic flaps; the multiple elastic flaps are evenly distributed around an axial direction of the dielectric resonator; one end of each of the elastic flaps is fixedly connected to the main cover, and free ends of the elastic flaps elastically act on a central part of an outer surface of the main cover, to provide an elastic force towards the dielectric resonator. The evenly distributed multiple elastic flaps produce a pressure towards the dielectric resonator. A uniform and stable pressure is produced around the dielectric resonator, to ensure a uniform current density inside the resonant cavity.
US10333185B2	Battery module including cooling structure in which coolant channel is minimally bent Disclosed herein is a battery module configured to have a structure in which two or more unit modules, each of which includes one or more battery cells, a frame member configured to have a structure to surround outer edges of the one or more battery cells, the frame member including cooling manifold elements located at opposite ends of one side of the outer edges of the battery cells, and a cooling member mounted in the frame member such that the cooling member faces the battery cells while being in contact with the battery cells, the cooling member including a plate-shaped cooling fin having a shape and a size corresponding to those of the battery cells and a coolant conduit having a hollow structure located at an outer edge of the cooling fin, are arranged while being in tight contact with each other, wherein the coolant conduit includes a coolant inlet port and a coolant outlet port connected to the cooling manifold elements of the frame member of each of the unit modules in a communicating fashion.
US10333182B2	Estimation of cell voltage excursion in the presence of battery pack sensing faults A method and system are disclosed for estimating cell voltage excursion in a battery pack in the presence of a sensing fault in which actual cell voltages of first and second battery cells in a block of battery cells become unknown or missing. The sensing fault is detected, and a cell voltage is determined for each cell in the block other than the first and second cells. The method also includes measuring a block voltage, calculating an average cell voltage in the block, and estimating that the first cell is equal to the calculated average cell voltage. All excursion or deviation of the measured block voltage from a sum of the cell voltages and the estimated cell voltage of the first cell is assigned to the second cell. A control action is executed using the estimated cell voltages, including selectively enabling or disabling functionality of the battery pack.
US10333181B2	Transparent autophotorechargeable electrochemical device A transparent photorechargeable electrochemical device is provided. An n-type semiconductor may be used as a positive-electrode active material in the transparent photorechargeable electrochemical device. A method for photorecharging the device is also provided.
US10333179B2	Method for operating a battery system, battery system and motor vehicle The disclosure describes a method for operating a battery system having at least a first battery module and a second battery module. The method includes activating the first battery module for a defined clock time, then activating the second battery module for the defined clock time, and at the same time deactivating the first battery module.
US10333171B2	Hexacyanometallates as highly conducting solid electrolytes for batteries Described here is a solid-state lithium-ion battery, comprising a cathode, an anode, and a solid-state electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the electrolyte comprises a hexacyanometallate represented by AxPy[R(CN)6-wLw]z, wherein: A is at least one alkali metal cation, P is at least one transition metal cation, at least one post-transition metal cation, and/or at least one alkaline earth metal cation, R is at least one transition metal cation, L is an anion, x, y, and z are related based on electrical neutrality, x>0, y>0, z>0, and 0≤w≤6.
US10333168B2	Carbon dioxide composite getter A carbon dioxide composite getter comprising a CO2-permeable envelope containing powders of two active materials and sealed systems employing the carbon dioxide composite getter.
US10333167B2	Jig for improving adhesion between battery cell Provided are a jig of improving adhesion between a battery cell and a metal plate, which improves the adhesion between the battery cell and the metal plate of the battery pack to improve quality of laser welding and a method using the same.
US10333155B2	Porous medium with increased hydrophobicity and method of manufacturing the same The present invention provides a porous medium with increased hydrophobicity and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a micro-nano dual structure is provided by forming nanoprotrusions with a high aspect ratio by performing plasma etching on the surface of a porous medium with a micrometer-scale surface roughness and a hydrophobic thin film is deposited on the surface of the micro-nano dual structure, thus significantly increasing hydrophobicity. When this highly hydrophobic porous medium is used as a gas diffusion layer of a fuel cell, it is possible to efficiently discharge water produced during electrochemical reaction of the fuel cell, thus preventing flooding in the fuel cell. Moreover, it is possible to sufficiently supply reactant gases such as hydrogen and air (oxygen) to a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), thus improving the performance of the fuel cell.
US10333146B2	Electrode-forming composition The invention pertains to an aqueous electrode-forming composition comprising:—at least one fluoropolymer [polymer (F)];—particles of at least one powdery active electrode material [particles (P)], said particles (P) comprising a core of an active electrode compound [compound (E)] and an outer layer of a metallic compound [compound (M)] different from Lithium, said outer layer at least partially surrounding said core; and—water, to a process for its manufacture, to a process for manufacturing an electrode structure using the same, to an electrode structure made from the same and to an electrochemical device comprising said electrode structure.
US10333145B2	Methods of making electrodes, electrodes made therefrom, and electrochemical energy storage cells utilizing the electrodes Method of making interconnected layered porous carbon sheets with porosity within the carbon sheets and in-between the carbon sheets for use as an electrode. Method of making a metal-nanoparticle carbon composite, wherein metal particles are surrounded by shells made of amorphous carbon. Electrodes containing an amorphous carbon structure comprising a plurality of interconnected layered porous carbon sheets. Electrodes containing graphitic carbon structure with a surface area in the range of 5-200 m2/g. Electrodes containing a metal-nanoparticle carbon composite comprising metal core-carbon shell like architecture and an amorphous structure, wherein metal particles are surrounded by shells made of amorphous carbon.
US10333144B2	Metal-ion battery with hexacyanometallate electrode A method is provided for forming a metal-ion battery electrode with large interstitial spacing. A working electrode with hexacyanometallate particles overlies a current collector. The hexacyanometallate particles have a chemical formula AmM1xM2y(CN)6.zH2O, and have a Prussian Blue hexacyanometallate crystal structure, where A is either alkali or alkaline-earth cations. M1 and M2 are metals with 2+ or 3+ valance positions. The working electrode is soaked in an organic first electrolyte including a salt including alkali or alkaline earth cations. A first electric field is created in the first electrolyte between the working electrode and a first counter electrode, causing A cations and water molecules to be simultaneously removed from interstitial spaces in the Prussian Blue hexacyanometallate crystal structure, forming hexacyanometallate particles having the chemical formula of Am′M1xM2y(CN)6.z′H2O, where m′
US10333141B2	Silicon-silicon oxide-lithium composite material having nano silicon particles embedded in a silicon:silicon lithium silicate composite matrix, and a process for manufacture thereof A process for producing a silicon:silicon oxide:lithium composite (SSLC) material useful as a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous battery cells includes: producing a partially lithiated SSLC material by way of mechanical mixing; subsequently producing a further prelithiated SSLC material by way of spontaneous lithiation procedure; and subsequently producing a delithiated SSLC material by way of reacting lithium silicide within the dispersed prelithiated SSLC material with organic solvent(s) to extract lithium from the prelithiated SSLC material, until reactivity of lithium silicide within the prelithiated SSLC material with the organic solvent(s) ceases. The delithiated SSLC material is a porous plastically deformable matrix having nano silicon embedded therein. The delithiated SSLC material can have a lithium silicide content of less than 0.5% by weight. A battery cell having as its negative electrode active material an SSLC material as set forth herein can exhibit an irreversible capacity loss of less than 10%.
US10333128B2	Energy storage apparatus and energy storage apparatus checking method An energy storage apparatus provided with an energy storage device is provided with an electrode terminal disposed on the energy storage device, and a bus bar placed on a surface of the electrode terminal and connected to the electrode terminal. The bus bar includes a plurality of opening portions formed such that the surface of the electrode terminal is exposed.
US10333127B2	Rechargeable battery module A rechargeable battery module includes: a plurality of unit cells, wherein each of the unit cells comprises: an electrode assembly having a plate shape; a case receiving the electrode assembly and having an opening at one side; and a cap assembly sealing the opening of the case, wherein the case comprises a first buffer unit configured to reduce a force generated inside or outside the case on an inner surface and an outer surface of a bottom of the case, the cap assembly comprises a second buffer unit configured to reduce a force generated inside or outside the case on an inner surface and an outer surface of the cap assembly, and the first buffer unit of each unit cell partially overlaps the first buffer unit of a neighboring unit cell.
US10333122B2	Energy storage apparatus Disclosed is an energy storage apparatus which includes: an energy storage device; an outer case which accommodates the energy storage device; a partition plate which is disposed between the energy storage device and a side wall of the outer case; and a discharge portion which is disposed on the outer case, the discharge portion having one or more openings through which a gas, which has passed through a flow passage formed between the partition plate and the side wall, is discharged from the outer case.
US10333120B2	Cylindrical secondary battery with reduced circumferential surface rupture A secondary battery includes: a cylindrical can including a first region, a second region, and a first bent portion extending between the first region and the second region on a circumferential surface of the can; an electrode assembly accommodated in the can; and a cap assembly at a top end of the can and sealing the can. The first bent portion is bent such that an angle between the first region and the second region is in a range of about 90° to about 100°; the first region of the can partially covers a top surface of the cap assembly facing an exterior side of the can, and the second region of the can surrounds side surfaces of the cap assembly.
US10333106B2	Light-emitting panel having plurality of organic light-emitting elements A light-emitting panel including at least a first light-emitting element, each light-emitting element having, between a first conductive film and a second conductive film, a first layer including a metal and a second layer including a light-emitting organic compound. The second layer having the organic compound emits light having a wavelength between 600 nm and 800 nm, and light having a wavelength between 400 nm and 600 nm. The distance between the first conductive film and the second conductive film in one of the light emitting elements being N/2 (where N is a natural number) of a length between 600 nm and 800 nm, and the distance between the first conductive film and the second conductive film in the other one of the light-emitting elements being N/2 (where N is a natural number) of a length between 400 nm and 600 nm.
US10333098B2	Transparent OLED display panel and manufacturing method thereof The invention provides a transparent OLED display panel and manufacturing method thereof, the OLED display panel comprising: a transparent substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on the substrate arranged in an array; each sub-pixel comprising: an anode disposed on the substrate, an organic light-emitting layer disposed on the anode, and a transparent cathode disposed on the organic light-emitting layer; the anode comprising: a first transparent electrode, a reflective electrode stacked on the first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode stacked on the reflective electrode, the reflective electrode forming a hollow area at the center; through forming hollow area on the reflective electrode of the anode, the light can be emitted simultaneously for the cathode and the hollow area to achieve transparent display with a simple and stable structure, high yield rate and low production cost.
US10333097B2	OLED display device An OLED display device includes an assisting conductive layer formed on a bottom surface of an upper substrate in such a way that the assisting conductive layer is in direct contact with and electrically connected to a second electrode that is located on a top surface of a lower substrate so that electrical conduction capability of the second electrode is enhanced and the electrical resistance of the second electrode is reduced to thereby make in-plane voltage homogenous, improve consistency of displaying, and alleviate the issues of non-uniform panel brightness and mura and also help reduce the thickness of the second electrode for saving material of the second electrode and increase light transparency of the second electrode.
US10333095B1	Organic electroluminescence device and its organic electroluminescence component An organic electroluminescence component includes a substrate, a first electrode layer, an organic material layer, a second electrode layer and a first electrical connection portion. The organic material layer is located between the second electrode layer and the first electrode layer. A common overlapping region of the second electrode layer, the organic material layer and at least one part of the first electrode layer defines a light-emitting region. The shape of the part of the first electrode layer has a first end and a second end which are opposite to each other and unequal in impedance. The first electrical connection portion is electrically connected to the first electrode layer, and located opposite to the second end of the shape.
US10333090B2	Light-emitting device including quantum dots A light emitting device including an emissive material comprising quantum dots is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a cathode, a layer comprising a material capable of transporting and injection electrons comprising an inorganic material, an emissive layer comprising quantum dots, a layer comprising a material capable of transporting holes, a layer comprising a hole injection material, and an anode. In certain embodiments, the hole injection material can be a p-type doped hole transport material. In certain preferred embodiments, quantum dots comprise semiconductor nanocrystals. In another aspect of the invention, there is provided a light emitting device wherein the device has an initial turn-on voltage that is not greater than 1240/λ, wherein λ represents the wavelength (nm) of light emitted by the emissive layer. Other light emitting devices and a method are disclosed.
US10333081B2	Compound for organic optoelectronic device, organic light emitting diode including the same and display including the organic light emitting diode A compound for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic light emitting diode including the same, and a display device including the organic light emitting diode are disclosed and the compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by a combination of the following Chemical Formulae 1 and 2 provides an organic light emitting diode having life-span characteristics due to excellent electrochemical and thermal stability, and high luminous efficiency at a low driving voltage.
US10333073B2	Compound for organic electric element, organic electric element using the same, and electronic device comprising same Provided is a novel compound for EBL capable of improving the light emitting efficiency, stability and life span of a device, and an organic electric element and an electronic device using the same.
US10333066B2	Pixel definition layer and manufacturing method thereof, display substrate and display device A pixel circuit, driving method thereof, organic light-emitting display panel and display apparatus, comprise driving transistor, first storage capacitor, collecting unit, writing unit and light-emitting unit; the collecting unit is used for collecting the threshold voltage of the driving transistor and storing the threshold voltage into the first storage capacitor, under the control of the first scan signal; the writing unit is used for storing the data voltage inputted from the input terminal for the data voltage under the control of the second scan signal; and the light-emitting unit is used for emitting lights, driven by the data voltage and a voltage inputted from the input terminal for the controllable low voltage, under the control of the light-emitting control signal. Thus, the organic light-emitting device is not affected by the threshold voltage shift of the driving transistor, which may enhance the image uniformity of the organic light-emitting display panel effectively.
US10333063B1	Fabrication of a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (PMTJ) using block copolymers According to one embodiment, a method includes forming an etch-stop layer above a substrate, forming a matrix layer above the etch-stop layer, forming a set of pillars above the matrix layer, the set of pillars having a predefined spacing therebetween along a plane in an element width direction and an element depth direction, the plane being normal to a film thickness direction, forming a functionalization layer above the pillars, along sides of the pillars, and above the matrix layer, forming first diblock copolymer layers above the functionalization layer, the first diblock copolymer layers self-segregating into a first polymer and a second polymer in a first pattern, removing the first polymer from the first diblock copolymer layers to create a first mask layer, and removing portions of the matrix layer to expose portions of the etch-stop layer positioned therebelow and create a second pattern in the matrix layer.
US10333060B2	Electronic device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating an electronic device including a semiconductor memory includes: forming an etching target layer over a substrate; forming an initial hard mask pattern including a carbon-containing material over the etching target layer; forming a hard mask pattern by doping an impurity which increases a hardness of the carbon-containing material into a surface portion of the initial hard mask pattern; and etching the etching target layer by using the hard mask pattern as an etching barrier.
US10333050B2	Method for producing a composite comprising a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) layer The invention relates to a method for producing a composite comprising a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) layer based on rare earth metal-barium-copper oxide on a substrate with defined biaxial texture, having the following steps: applying a first HTS coating solution to the substrate, drying the first HTS coating solution to produce a first film, pyrolyzing the first film to produce a first pyrolyzed sublayer, removing an interfacial layer on the upper side of the first pyrolyzed sublayer to produce a first pyrolyzed sublayer with reduced layer thickness, applying a second HTS coating solution to the first pyrolyzed sublayer with reduced layer thickness, drying the second HTS coating solution to produce a second film, pyrolyzing the second film to produce a second pyrolyzed sublayer, optionally forming one or more further pyrolyzed sublayers on the second pyrolyzed sublayer, and crystallizing the overall layer formed from the pyrolyzed sublayers to complete the HTS layer, wherein the removal of the interfacial layer in step D) is effected in such a way that a texture determined by the defined biaxial texture of the substrate is transferred to the first and also to the second pyrolyzed sublayer, and also to a product producible by such a method.
US10333048B2	Universal topological quantum computers based on majorana nanowire networks In this disclosure, example networks of coupled superconducting nanowires hosting MZMs are disclosed that can be used to realize a more powerful type of non-Abelian defect: a genon in an Ising×Ising topological state. The braiding of such genons provides the missing topological single-qubit π/8 phase gate. Combined with joint fermion parity measurements of MZMs, these operations provide a way to realize universal TQC.
US10333043B2	Light emitting device having element connection sections with convex shapes A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element, a light transmissive member and a sealing member. The substrate has a first main surface, a second main surface that is opposite from the first main surface, and a mounting surface that is adjacent to at least the second main surface. The substrate includes an insulating base material, and a pair of connection terminals. The insulating base material defines a concave component opening on the second main surface and the mounting surface. The connection terminals are disposed on the first main surface, and respectively have element connection sections with convex shapes. The light emitting element has a pair of electrodes which connect to the element connection sections of the pair of connection terminals. The light transmissive member is disposed on an upper surface of the light emitting element. The sealing member is in contact with at least a part of a side surface of the light emitting element, covers a side surface of the light transmissive member, and is formed substantially in the same plane as the substrate on the mounting surface.
US10333041B2	Integrated light-emitting package An integrated light-emitting package is provided for excellent light extraction efficiency and heat dissipation effect. The integrated light-emitting package includes: a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting units arranged at predetermined intervals; an optical conversion substrate disposed along the upper portion of the light-emitting device layer; and a first adhesive member disposed in each gap between the light-emitting units.
US10333032B2	Optoelectronic light-emitting component and leadframe assemblage An embodiment optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a housing having a leadframe with a first and second connection conductor. The housing further has a housing body surrounding the leadframe in one or more regions. The housing body extends in a vertical direction between a mounting side of the housing body and a front side of the housing body opposite the mounting side. The first connection conductor has a recess. A semiconductor chip configured to generate radiation is arranged within the housing, and the semiconductor chip is disposed in the recess and is affixed to the first connection conductor within the recess. A side face of the recess forms a reflector for reflecting the generated radiation. The first connection conductor protrudes from the housing body at the mounting side. The semiconductor chip is, in at least some regions, free of an encapsulation material adjoining the semiconductor chip.
US10333026B2	Lateral light emitting diode device and method for fabricating the same Provided are a lateral light emitting diode device and a method for fabricating the same. The lateral light emitting diode device includes a substrate; an n-type GaN layer disposed on the substrate; an activation layer disposed on the n-type GaN layer; a p-type GaN layer disposed on the activation layer, a plurality of holes being formed in the p-type GaN layer; a current spreading layer disposed on the p-type GaN layer; a p-electrode disposed on the current spreading layer; a seed layer disposed on bottom surfaces of the plurality of holes; metal oxide structures grown on the seed layer in a crystalline state to fill the plurality of holes; and an n-electrode disposed on the n-type GaN layer exposed by removing portions of the current spreading layer, the p-type GaN layer, the activation layer, and the n-type GaN layer.
US10333014B2	Method and substrates for making photovoltaic cells Methods of and apparatuses for making a photovoltaic cell are provided. The photovoltaic cell is able to have a substrate made of a composite material. The composite material is able to be formed by mixing a binder and a physical property enhancing material to form a mixer. The binder is able to be pitch, such as mesophase pitch. The physical property enhancing material is able to be fiber glass. The substrate of the photovoltaic cell is able to be flexible, such that the photovoltaic cell is able to be applied on various surfaces.
US10333011B2	In-plane resonant cavity infrared photodetectors with fully depleted absorbers Resonant-cavity infrared photodetector (RCID) devices that include a thin absorber layer contained entirely within the resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the absorber is a single type-II InAs—GaSb interface situated between an AlSb/InAs superlattice n-type region and a p-type AlSb/GaSb region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises quantum wells formed on an upper surface of the n-type region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises a “W”-structured quantum well situated between two barrier layers, the “W”-structured quantum well comprising a hole quantum well sandwiched between two electron quantum wells. In other embodiments, the RCID includes a thin absorber region and an nBn or pBp active core within a resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the RCID is configured to absorb incident light propagating in the direction of the epitaxial growth of the RCID structure, while in other embodiments, it absorbs light propagating in the epitaxial plane of the structure.
US10333007B2	Self-aligned contact (SAC) on gate for improving metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) varactor quality factor A short-channel metal oxide semiconductor varactor may include a source region of a first polarity having a source via contact. The varactor may further include a drain region of the first polarity having a drain via contact. The varactor may further include a channel region of the first polarity between the source region and the drain region. The channel region may include a gate. The varactor may further include at least one self-aligned contact (SAC) on the gate and between the source via contact and the drain via contact.
US10333004B2	Semiconductor device, semiconductor wafer, module and electronic device A semiconductor device including a highly reliable transistor is provided. A semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes first and second gate electrodes, first and second gate insulators, a source electrode, a drain electrode, first to sixth oxides, first and second layers, and first and second gate insulators. The third oxide is under the source electrode. The fourth oxide is under the drain electrode. The sixth oxide is under the second gate electrode. The third and fourth oxides each have a function of supplying oxygen to the second oxide. The sixth oxide has a function of supplying oxygen to the second gate insulator.
US10333000B2	Forming strained channel with germanium condensation A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a strained fin on a substrate, a sacrificial gate on a channel region of the fin, a first spacer adjacent to a sidewall of the fin, and a second spacer adjacent to the first spacer. A source/drain region is grown on an exposed portion of the fin. Atoms are driven from the source/drain region into the fin and form an oxide layer on the source/drain region. The second spacer and the oxide layer are removed. An insulator layer is formed over the source/drain region, and the sacrificial gate is removed to expose the channel region of the fin. A gate stack is formed over the channel region of the fin.
US10332999B1	Method and structure of forming fin field-effect transistor without strain relaxation A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes patterning a strained semiconductor layer on a substrate into at least one strained fin, forming a plurality of dummy gates spaced apart from each other on the at least one strained fin, forming a spacer layer on the plurality of dummy gates, and on part of the at least one strained fin between the plurality of dummy gates, growing a plurality of source/drain regions on exposed portions of the at least one strained fin, removing the spacer layer from the part of the at least one strained fin between the plurality of dummy gates, and converting the part of the at least one strained fin between the plurality of dummy gates into at least one oxide.
US10332998B2	Transistors with heteroepitaxial III-N source/drain Transistors including doped heteroepitaxial III-N source/drain crystals. In embodiments, transistors including a group IV or group III-V channel crystal employ n+ doped III-N source/drain structures on either side of a gate stack. Lateral tensile strain of the channel crystal may result from lattice mismatch between the channel crystal and the III-N source/drain crystals. In embodiments, an amorphous material is employed to limit growth of III-N material to only a single channel crystal facet, allowing a high quality monocrystalline source/drain to form that is capable of sustaining significant stress. In some embodiments, an n+ III-N source/drain crystal is grown on a (110) or (111) surface of a silicon channel crystal fabricated into a fin structure to form a tensile strained NMOS finFET.
US10332990B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided comprising a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and a dummy trench portion having a main body portion and one or more branch portions, the main body portion formed in a front surface of the semiconductor substrate and extending in a predetermined extending direction, the branch portions extending from the main body portion in directions different from the extending direction. The semiconductor substrate has an emitter region of first conductivity type and a base region of a second conductivity type which are provided sequentially from the front surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and the dummy trench portion has a dummy trench which penetrates the emitter region and the base region from the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a dummy insulating portion which is provided within the dummy trench.
US10332989B2	Back-channel-etched TFT substrate and manufacturing method thereof The invention provides a BCE TFT substrate and manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises forming a first IGZO thin film with polycrystalline IGZO particles in a predetermined area of active layer before sputtering IGZO, the polycrystalline IGZO particles in the first IGZO thin film used as seed crystal during sputtering to grow a C-axis crystallized IGZO in good crystalline state to form a second IGZO thin film. The first and second IGZO thin films form an active layer. Because the surface of the active layer is presented as C-axis crystallized IGZO, the active layer is not damaged by the copper etchant during etching source and drain so as to ensure stable performance of active layer and to avoid the development of special copper etching solution. As such, the BCE TFT substrate has stable electrical performance. The BCE TFT substrate manufactured by the above manufacturing method has stable electrical performance.
US10332975B2	Epitaxial substrate for semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same Provided is a group 13 nitride epitaxial substrate with which the HEMT device having superior characteristics can be manufactured. This epitaxial substrate is provided with: a base substrate composed of SiC and having a main surface with a (0001) plane orientation; a nucleation layer formed on one main surface of the base substrate and composed of AlN; an electron transit layer formed on the nucleation layer and composed of a group 13 nitride with the composition AlyGa1-yN (0≤y<1); and a barrier layer formed on the electron transit layer and composed of a group 13 nitride with the composition InzAl1-zN (0.13≤z≤0.23) or AlwGa1-wN (0.15≤w≤0.35). The (0001) plane of the base substrate has an off angle of 0.1° or more and 0.5° or less, and an intermediate layer composed of a group 13 nitride with the composition AlxGa1-xN (0.01 ≤x≤0.4) is further provided between the nucleation layer and the electron transit layer.
US10332973B2	N-channel bipolar power semiconductor device with p-layer in the drift volume A power semiconductor device having a semiconductor body configured to conduct a load current is disclosed. In one example, the device includes a source region having dopants of a first conductivity type; a semiconductor channel region implemented in the semiconductor body and separating the source region from a remaining portion of the semiconductor body; a trench of a first trench type extending in the semiconductor body along an extension direction and being arranged adjacent to the semiconductor channel region, the trench of the first trench type including a control electrode that is insulated from the semiconductor body. The semiconductor body further comprises: a barrier region and a drift volume having at least a first drift region wherein the barrier region couples the first drift region with the semiconductor channel region.
US10332970B2	Method for manufacturing horizontal-gate-all-around devices with different number of nanowires A method includes the following operations: (i) receiving a FET precursor including a first fin and a second fin, each of the first fin and the second fin having nanowire channels and sacrificial layers; (ii) forming a dummy gate traversing the first and second fins, thereby defining channel regions of the first and second fins under the dummy gate; (iii) forming source/drain features from exposed portions of the first and second fins; (iv) removing the dummy gate to expose the channel regions of the first and second fins; and (v) suspending the nanowire channels of the first and second fins by removing portions of the sacrificial layers of the first and second fins.
US10332967B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device including, a semiconductor layer including a plurality of first trenches formed therein and a second trench formed in a region between the first trenches, channel regions formed in regions between the first and second trenches in a surface layer portion of the semiconductor layer, field plate electrodes embedded at bottom portion sides of the respective first trenches, first gate electrodes embedded at opening portion sides of the respective first trenches so as to face the channel regions across first gate insulating films above the field plate electrodes, second insulating films interposed between the field plate electrodes and the first gate electrodes, an embedded insulating film embedded to an intermediate portion of the second trench, and a second gate electrode embedded in the second trench so as to face the channel regions across a second gate insulating film above the embedded insulating film.
US10332964B2	Single poly electrical erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) A single poly electrical erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) includes a source, a drain, a dielectric layer and an electrode layer. The source and the drain are located in a substrate, wherein the source and the drain have a first conductive type. The dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate and between the source and the drain, wherein the dielectric layer includes a first dielectric layer having two tunnel dielectric parts separating from each other, and thicknesses of the two tunnel dielectric parts are thinner than thicknesses of the other parts of the first dielectric layer. The electrode layer is disposed on the dielectric layer, wherein the electrode layer includes a first electrode disposed on the first dielectric layer, thereby the first electrode being a floating gate.
US10332957B2	Stacked capacitor with symmetric leakage and break-down behaviors A layered structure including a tri-stack dielectric layer and a plurality of metal layers insulated from each other by the tri-stack dielectric layer. The plurality of metal layers includes a set of first-type metal layers and a set of second-type metal layers. An adjacent pair of the plurality of metal layers includes a first-type metal layer and a second-type metal layer. The tri-stack dielectric layer includes a first tri-stack layer including Al2O3, a second tri-stack layer including HfO2; and a third tri-stack layer including Al2O3.
US10332953B2	Organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The display area includes a plurality of pixel regions including a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes and non-pixel regions between the pixel regions. The pixel electrodes are spaced apart from each other, with a pixel-defining layer above the plurality of pixel electrodes and exposing the plurality of pixel electrodes. A plurality of intermediate layers respectively above the plurality of pixel electrodes include an emission layer. A plurality of opposite electrodes respectively face the plurality of pixel electrodes and are spaced apart from each other. A plurality of connection electrodes that connect the plurality of opposite electrodes are in the non-pixel regions. A power line electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of connection electrodes is in the peripheral area.
US10332951B2	Display device which prevents parasitic capacitance and a drop in driving A display device includes a plurality of pixels, wherein a first pixel of the plurality of pixels includes: a scan line extending in a first direction; a data line and a driving voltage line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a switching thin film transistor connected to the scan line and the data line; a driving thin film transistor connected to the switching thin film transistor; a first shielding layer overlapping the data line; and a second shielding layer overlapping the data line, the second shielding layer being spaced apart from the first shielding layer in the second direction such that the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer are spaced apart a predetermined distance apart from each other.
US10332935B2	Storage apparatus A storage apparatus according to embodiments includes: a first interlayer insulating film extending in a first direction; a second interlayer insulating film extending in the first direction; a first conductive layer extending in the first direction and provided between the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film; a second conductive layer extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a resistance change layer including a first portion provided between the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film and including a second portion provided between the second conductive layer and the first interlayer insulating film, between the second conductive layer and the first conductive layer, and between the second conductive layer and the second interlayer insulating film; and a sidewall insulating film provided between the first portion and the first interlayer insulating film and between the first portion and the second interlayer insulating film.
US10332926B2	Structure of a readout circuit with charge injection The invention concerns a structure of a readout circuit, formed on a semiconductor substrate (1) of a first type, and intended to measure the charges received from an external charge source (2) external to the substrate (1) according to successive charge integration cycles, said structure comprising: an injection diode configured to inject, into the substrate (1), the charges received from the external charge source (2), a collector diode suitable for collecting, in the substrate (1), at least a portion of the charges injected by the injection diode and for accumulating said charges during an integration cycle, a charge recovery structure (7), configured to recover the charges accumulated in said collector diode, means for initializing the charge recovery structure (7) at the end of each integration cycle, by restoring the electrical potential of said charge recovery structure to an initial potential.
US10332921B2	Solid-state image sensing device and method for manufacturing the same, and electronic device The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image sensing device capable of restricting an occurrence of a dark current and a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic device. A solid-state image sensing device includes a FD part formed on a P-type semiconductor substrate by implanting an N-type impurity, a high-dielectric insulative film laminated on at least the FD part, and a contact electrode connected to the FD part in a connection structure via the high-dielectric insulative film. For example, the high-dielectric insulative film is formed by use of a material which reduces the schottky barrier height in a connection part between the FD part and the electrode in a single layer or in a plurality of layers. The present technology is applicable to CMOS image sensors, for example.
US10332920B2	Hollowed electronic display Presented here are manufacturing techniques to create an irregularly shaped electronic display, including a hollow within which a sensor, such as a camera, can be placed. The manufacturing techniques enable the creation of the hollow anytime during the manufacturing process. The resulting electronic display occupies the full side of the mobile device, with the sensors placed within and surrounded by the display.
US10332911B2	Integrated circuits (ICs) on a glass substrate An integrated circuit (IC) includes a glass substrate and a buried oxide layer. The IC additionally includes a first semiconductor device coupled to the glass substrate. The first semiconductor device includes a first gate and a first portion of a semiconductive layer coupled to the buried oxide layer. The first gate is located between the glass substrate and the first portion of the semiconductive layer and between the glass substrate and the buried oxide layer. The IC additionally includes a second semiconductor device coupled to the glass substrate. The second semiconductor device includes a second gate and a second portion of the semiconductive layer. The second gate is located between the glass substrate and the second portion of the semiconductive layer. The first portion is discontinuous from the second portion.
US10332908B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first channel layer and a second channel layer, each extending from an upper portion to a lower portion; and word lines stacked toward the upper portion from the lower portion, the word lines spaced apart from each other, the word lines each extending to surround the first channel layer and the second layer; a first lower select group surrounding a portion of the first channel layer that further protrudes toward the lower portion than the word lines; and a second lower select group surrounding a portion of the second channel layer that further protrudes toward the lower portion than the word lines.
US10332903B2	Multi-layer structure and a method for manufacturing the same and a corresponding contact structure A method for manufacturing a multi-layer structure is provided. The method includes following steps. First, a stack of alternate conductive layers and insulating layers is formed on a substrate, and the stack includes a multi-layer area and a contact area adjacent to the multi-layer area. Next, a plurality of first openings are formed in the contact area. Then, a conductive connecting structure is formed on the stack and into the first openings. Thereafter, the stack is patterned. The conductive connecting structure continuously extends on the contact area and into the first openings to maintain an electrical connection among the conductive layers while the stack is patterned.
US10332898B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first active pattern and a second active pattern on a substrate, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode respectively across the first active pattern and the second active pattern, a first insulation pattern between and separating the first and second gate electrodes, a gate spacer on a sidewall of the first gate electrode, on a sidewall of the second gate electrode, and on a sidewall of the first insulation pattern, and a second insulation pattern between the gate spacer and the sidewall of the first insulation pattern, wherein the first gate electrode, the first insulation pattern, and the second gate electrode are arranged along a first direction, and wherein the gate spacer extends in the first direction.
US10332897B2	Method of reducing fin width in FinFet SRAM array to mitigate low voltage strap bit fails Various aspects include a static random access memory (SRAM) bitcell array structure. In some cases, the SRAM bitcell array structure includes at least one fin in an array of fins in a substrate, where a width of a first portion of the at least one fin is less than a width of a second portion of the at least one fin in the array of fins.
US10332896B2	SRAM circuits with aligned gate electrodes A device includes a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) array, and an SRAM cell edge region abutting the SRAM array. The SRAM array and the SRAM cell edge region in combination include first gate electrodes having a uniform pitch. A word line driver abuts the SRAM cell edge region. The word line driver includes second gate electrodes, and the first gate electrodes have lengthwise directions aligned to lengthwise directions of respective ones of the second gate electrodes.
US10332886B2	Thyristor volatile random access memory and methods of manufacture Memory cells are formed with vertical thyristors to create a volatile memory array. Power consumption in such arrays is reduced or controlled for an operation on a set of memory cells in an array, sequentially engaging subsets of memory cells for the operation while keeping the remaining memory cells of the set on hold until all the memory cells of the set have been operated on.
US10332884B2	FinFET semiconductor device A method of manufacturing FinFET semiconductor devices in memory regions and logic regions includes the steps of forming a first gate material layer on a substrate and fins, patterning the first gate material layer to form a control gate, forming a second gate material layer on the substrate and fins, performing an etch process to the cell region so that the second gate material layer in the cell region is lower than the second gate material layer in the peripheral region, patterning the second gate material layer to form a select gate in the cell region and a dummy gate in the logic region respectively.
US10332874B2	Indirect readout FET A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure includes source and drain regions formed within a semiconductor substrate, a first conducting layer formed over the source and drain regions, and a dielectric layer formed over the first conducting layer. The MIM capacitor structure further includes a second conducting layer formed over the dielectric layer, and a sidewall dielectric formed adjacent the first conducting layer and the dielectric layer. An electric field is created indirectly through the sidewall dielectric to an adjacent field effect transistor (FET) channel in the semiconductor substrate.
US10332873B2	Apparatus comprising antifuse cells An apparatus comprises an antifuse cell comprising first and second nodes, an antifuse element, and a transistor. The antifuse element and the transistor are coupled in series between the first and second nodes. The antifuse element comprises an antifuse gate. The transistor comprises a transistor gate comprising a substantially-annular structure substantially surrounding the antifuse gate.
US10332863B2	Method of miniaturized chip on chip interconnection of a 3D electronic module The invention relates to a 3D electronic module including, in a direction referred to as the vertical direction, a stack (4) of electronic dice (16), each die including at least one chip (1) provided with interconnect pads (10), this stack being attached to an interconnect circuit (2) for the module provided with connection bumps, the pads (10) of each chip being connected by electrical bonding wires (15) to vertical buses (41) that are themselves electrically linked to the interconnect circuit (2) for the module, a bonding wire and the vertical bus to which it is linked forming an electrical conductor between a pad of a chip and the interconnect circuit, characterized in that each electrical bonding wire (15) is linked to its vertical bus (41) by forming, in a vertical plane, an oblique angle (α2) and in that the length of the bonding wire between a pad of a chip of one die and the corresponding vertical bus is different than the length of the bonding wire between one and the same pad of a chip of another die and the corresponding vertical bus, and this is obtained by wiring the bonding wire in a non-rectilinear manner to compensate for the difference in vertical length of the vertical bus from one die to the other, such that the electrical conductor between the pad of a chip of one die and the interconnect circuit, and the electrical conductor between said same pad of a chip of the other die and the interconnect circuit, are the same length.
US10332862B2	Semiconductor package structure and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor package structure includes a first substrate, at least one first semiconductor element and a second substrate. The first semiconductor element is attached to the first substrate. The second substrate defines a cavity and includes a plurality of thermal vias. One end of each of the thermal vias is exposed in the cavity, and the first semiconductor element is disposed within the cavity and thermally connected to the thermal vias.
US10332860B2	Apparatus and method for multi-die interconnection A semiconductor and a method of fabricating the semiconductor having multiple, interconnected die including: providing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of disparate die formed within the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of scribe lines formed between pairs of adjacent die of the plurality of disparate die; and fabricating, by a lithography system, a plurality of inter-die connections that extend between adjacent pair of die of the plurality of die.
US10332856B2	Package structure and method of fabricating the same A package structure including at least one semiconductor die, an insulating encapsulant, an insulating layer, conductive pillars, a dummy pillar, a first seed layer and a redistribution layer is provided. The semiconductor die have a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The insulating encapsulant is encapsulating the semiconductor die. The insulating layer is disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor die and on the insulating encapsulant. The conductive pillars are located on the semiconductor die. The dummy pillar is located on the insulating encapsulant. The first seed layer is embedded in the insulating layer, wherein the first seed layer is located in between the conductive pillars and the semiconductor die, and located in between the dummy pillar and the insulating encapsulant. The redistribution layer is disposed over the insulating layer and is electrically connected to the semiconductor die through the conductive pillars.
US10332851B2	Semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a carrier having a first surface and including a power layer adjacent to the first surface of the carrier, an electrical component disposed on the first surface of the carrier, and a conductive element disposed on the first surface of the carrier. The electrical component is electrically connected to the power layer. The conductive element is electrically connected to the power layer. The conductive element, the power layer, and the electrical component form a power-transmission path.
US10332844B2	Manufacturing method of package structure A manufacturing method of a packaging structure is provided. First, a carrier is provided. A conductive layer is formed on the carrier. A conductive frame is formed on the conductive layer. The conductive frame is in contact with and electrically connected to the conductive layer. A chip is placed on the conductive layer. The conductive frame surrounds the chip. An insulation encapsulation is formed to encapsulate the chip, and the insulation encapsulation exposes an active surface of the chip. A redistribution layer is formed on the active surface of the chip. The redistribution layer extends from the active surface to the insulation encapsulation.
US10332841B2	System on integrated chips and methods of forming the same A semiconductor device and methods of forming are provided. The method includes bonding a second die to a surface of a first die. The method includes encapsulating the second die in an isolation material, and forming a through via extending through the isolation material. The method also includes forming a first passive device in the isolation material.
US10332834B2	Semiconductor fuses with nanowire fuse links and fabrication methods thereof Semiconductor fuses with nanowire fuse links and fabrication methods thereof are presented. The methods include, for instance: fabricating a semiconductor fuse, the semiconductor fuse including at least one nanowire fuse link, and the fabricating including: forming at least one nanowire, the at least one nanowire including a semiconductor material; and reacting the at least one nanowire with a metal to form the at least one nanowire fuse link of the semiconductor fuse, the at least one nanowire fuse link including a semiconductor-metal alloy. In another aspect, a structure is presented. The structure includes: a semiconductor fuse, the semiconductor fuse including: at least one nanowire fuse link, the at least one nanowire fuse link including a semiconductor-metal alloy.
US10332829B2	Stacked semiconductor apparatus and semiconductor system A semiconductor apparatus may include a through via and a redundancy through via which couple a first chip and a second chip. A transmission circuit may perform a repair operation for the through via with the redundancy through via or supply the redundancy through via with a power supply voltage based on through via defect information.
US10332816B2	Circuit device and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a circuit device in which encapsulating resin to encapsulate a circuit board is optimized in shape, and a method of manufacturing the circuit device. A hybrid integrated circuit device, which is a circuit device according to the present invention includes a circuit board, a circuit element mounted on a top surface of the circuit board, and encapsulating resin encapsulating the circuit element, and coating the top surface, side surfaces, and a bottom surface of the circuit board. In addition, the encapsulating resin is partly recessed and thereby provided with recessed areas at two sides of the circuit board. The providing of the recessed areas reduces the amount of resin to be used, and prevents the hybrid integrated circuit device from being deformed by the cure shrinkage of the encapsulating resin.
US10332815B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes an electronic element, and a wire bonded to the electronic element. The electronic element includes a bonding pad to which the wire is bonded. The main component of the bonding pad is Al. A metal is mixed in the wire, and the mixed metal is one of Pt, Pd and Au.
US10332809B1	Method and structure to introduce strain in stack nanosheet field effect transistor A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a pFET gate-all-around nanosheet structure and an nFET gate-all-around nanosheet structure integrated together on the same substrate. The pFET gate-all-around nanosheet structure contains a nickel monosilicide gate electrode layer that does not introduce strain into each suspended semiconductor channel material nanosheet of a first vertical stack of suspended semiconductor channel material nanosheets. The nFET gate-all-around nanosheet structure contains a Ni3Si gate electrode layer that introduces strain into each suspended semiconductor channel material nanosheet of a second vertical stack of suspended semiconductor channel material nanosheets.
US10332808B2	Device comprising multiple gate structures and method of simultaneously manufacturing different transistors A method of manufacturing first, second, and third transistors of different types inside and on top of first, second, and third semiconductor areas of an integrated circuit, including the steps of: a) depositing a first dielectric layer and a first polysilicon layer on the third areas; b) depositing a second dielectric layer on the second areas; c) depositing an interface layer on the first areas; d) depositing a layer of a material of high permittivity and then a layer of a metallic material on the first and second areas; e) depositing a second polysilicon layer on the first, second, and third areas; f) defining the gates of the transistors in the third areas; and g) defining the gates of the transistors in the first and second areas.
US10332786B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stack over a substrate; forming an interlayer dielectric over the substrate to cover the gate stack; forming an opening in the interlayer dielectric to expose to the gate stack; forming a glue layer over the interlayer dielectric and in the opening; partially removing the glue layer, in which a portion of the glue layer remain in the opening; and tuning a profile of the remained portion of the glue layer.
US10332776B2	Bearing substrate, fabrication method for flexible display Embodiments of the disclosure provide a bearing substrate and a fabrication method for a flexible display device, which relate to the field of display technology and may achieve a uniform separation between a flexible substrate and bearing substrate, and not cause damage to the flexible substrate and the display element. The bearing substrate comprises a first sub-bearing substrate and a second sub-bearing substrate. The first sub-bearing substrate has a plurality of through holes, and the second sub-bearing substrate has a plurality of protrusions that are in one-to-one correspondence with the protrusions. The protrusions and the through holes are configured such that the protrusions are capable of passing through the through holes when assembling the first sub-bearing substrate with the second sub-bearing substrate, so that the protrusions are flush with a surface of the first sub-bearing substrate and spliced together with the surface.
US10332760B2	Method for controlling plasma processing apparatus There is provided a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus that eliminates a preliminary study on a resonance point while maintaining a low contamination and a high uniformity even in multi-step etching. In a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus including the step of adjusting a radio frequency bias current carried to a counter antenna electrode, the method includes the steps of: setting a reactance of a variable element to an initial value; detecting a bias current carried to the counter antenna electrode; searching for a maximum value of the detected electric current; and adjusting a value of the reactance of the variable element from the maximum value to the set value and then fixing the value.
US10332758B2	Substrate treatment apparatus A substrate treatment apparatus for treating a substrate with a chemical liquid in a treatment chamber. The apparatus includes a higher temperature chemical liquid supplying unit, and a rinse liquid supplying unit for rinsing away the higher temperature chemical liquid. A control unit controls a rotation unit for rotating the substrate, as well as the chemical liquid supplying unit and the rinse liquid supplying unit. The higher temperature chemical liquid is supplied while rotating the substrate at a first speed; the rinse liquid is supplied to a center portion of the substrate while rotating the substrate at a lower speed, so that the rinse liquid remains in said center portion; and then the substrate is rotated at a higher speed to spread the rinse liquid over the entire substrate while supplying the rinse liquid onto said center portion.
US10332745B2	Dummy assist features for pattern support Methods of forming printed patterns and structures formed using printed patterns. A first line and a second line are lithographically printed in a first layer composed of photoimageable material with a space arranged between the first line and the second line. A dummy assist feature is also lithographically printed in the photoimageable material of the first layer. A second layer underlying the first layer is etched with the first line, the second line, and the dummy assist feature present as an etch mask. The dummy assist feature is arranged on a portion of the space adjacent to the first line and supports the photoimageable material of the first line during etching.
US10332736B2	Mass spectrometer with ion frequency selection An object of the invention is to provide a mass spectrometer system capable of obtaining a mass spectrum with high resolution as the mass number of an ion becomes higher. In the mass spectrometer system of the invention, a control unit 8 controls a mass spectrometry unit 4 so that a direct current voltage U, an amplitude V of a radio-frequency voltage, and a frequency F of the radio-frequency voltage, which are applied to a quadrupole electrode 13, are increased as a mass-to-charge ratio m/z of an ion of a target for mass spectrometry becomes larger. By controlling in this manner, the ion frequency when the ion passes through the inside of the mass spectrometry unit 4 is increased as the mass number of an ion becomes higher, and therefore, it is possible to obtain the mass spectrum with higher resolution.
US10332735B2	Sample preparation apparatus and method for elemental analysis spectrometer A sample preparation apparatus for an elemental analysis system comprising a sample combustion and/or reduction and/or pyrolysis arrangement for receiving a sample of material to be analyzed, and producing therefrom a sample gas flow containing atoms, molecules and/or compounds; a gas chromatography (GC) column into which the sample gas flow is directed; a heater for heating at least a part of the GC column; and a controller for controlling the heater. The controller is configured to control the heater so as to increase the temperature of at least the part of the GC column while the sample gas flow in the GC column elutes.
US10332730B2	Method for balancing consumption of targets in pulsed dual magnetron sputtering (DMS) processes A sputtering system and method are disclosed. The system has at least one dual magnetron pair having a first magnetron and a second magnetron, each magnetron configured to support target material. The system also has a DMS component having a DC power source in connection with switching components and voltage sensors. The DMS component is configured to independently control an application of power to each of the magnetrons, and to provide measurements of voltages at each of the magnetrons. The system also has one or more actuators configured to control the voltages at each of the magnetrons using the measurements provided by the DMS component. The DMS component and the one or more actuators are configured to balance the consumption of the target material by controlling the power and the voltage applied to each of the magnetrons, in response to the measurements of voltages at each of the magnetrons.
US10332729B2	Compression member for use in showerhead electrode assembly A compression member for use in a showerhead electrode assembly of a capacitively coupled plasma chamber. The member applies a compression force to a portion of a film heater adjacent a power supply boot on an upper surface of a thermal control plate and is located between the thermal control plate and a temperature-controlled top plate. The member is composed of an electrically insulating elastomeric material which can work over a large range of compressions and temperatures.
US10332722B2	Ion milling device and ion milling method To provide an ion gun of a penning discharge type capable of narrowing a beam with a low ion beam current at a low acceleration voltage, an ion milling device including the same, and an ion milling method.An ion milling device that controls half width of a beam profile of an ion beam with which a sample is irradiated from an ion gun to be in a range of 200 μm to 350 μm. The device includes: the ion gun that ionizes a gas supplied from the outside, and emits an ion beam; a gas-flow-rate varying unit that varies a flow rate of the gas supplied to the ion gun; and a current measurement unit that measures a current value of the ion beam emitted from the ion gun. The gas-flow-rate varying unit sets a gas flow rate to be higher than a gas flow rate at which the ion beam current has a maximum value based on the current value measured by the current measurement unit and the flow rate of the gas determined by the gas-flow-rate varying unit.
US10332721B2	Aberration computing device, aberration computing method, image processor, image processing method, and electron microscope An aberration computing device (100) includes a fitting section (48) for fitting line profiles of a diffractogram taken in radial directions to a fitting function and finding fitting parameters of the fitting function and a computing section (49) for finding at least one of an amount of defocus and two-fold astigmatism, based on the fitting parameters.
US10332705B2	Zero-current pulse with constant current gradient for interrupting a direct current A configuration for generating a zero current pulse for generating a zero current crossing in an electrical component through which a direct current flows, in particular a vacuum interrupter, includes a switch and an electrical energy storage device or store having two poles through which the electrical energy storage device can be charged by a voltage source. A loop can be formed by the energy storage device, the electrical component through which the direct current flows and the switch, so that the energy storage device can be discharged by closing the switch while generating a zero current pulse counter to the direct current across the electrical component. The energy storage device has a plurality of energy storage elements for mutual generation of a zero current pulse.
US10332704B2	Devices, systems, and methods for protection of switchgear against electrical arcs An arc protection system for an electrical enclosure having an electrical component positioned in an interior thereof. The system includes two busbars and at least one arc routing device positioned in the interior and an arc containment device defining a cavity and including an electrode assembly positioned within the cavity, wherein the electrode assembly is electrically coupled to the two busbars. The system also includes at least one arc routing device having a first end proximate the electrical component and a second end proximate the arc containment device. The at least one arc routing device is operative to i) attract arc plasma generated during an arc event at the electrical component, and ii) transport the arc plasma to the arc containment device, wherein the arc containment device is configured to transfer electrical energy of the arc plasma to an exterior of the electrical enclosure.
US10332703B2	Safety switch assembly The invention relates to a safety switch assembly (100) having a switch installation (120) having at least one switching member (12) and at least one actuation installation (110) having at least one assigned actuator (13, 13′, 13″, 14), wherein a transmission installation (130) having at least one transmission member (135) which is coupleable or coupled to the switching member (12, 12a), on the one hand, and to the at least one actuator (13, 13′, 13″, 14), on the other hand is provided between the actuation installation (110) and the switch installation (120). In order to have available a safety switch assembly (100) in which a mechanical fault does not lead to a failure of that functionality that optionally permits the integration of a diagnostic function in order for the system in the case of a fault being detected to be able to be brought back to a safe state and that permits a transfer of mechanical as well as of electrical/electronic functions across the entire system, it is provided that the transmission installation (120) is provided with a plurality of separate transmission members (135) which in the actuation of the at least one actuator (13, 13′, 13″, 14) of the actuation installation (110) are drivable or driven in a synchronous and mutually independent manner, and that each of the transmission members (135) by way of a rotary movement is permitted to convert an actuation movement of the at least one actuator (13, 13′, 13″, 14) to a translatory movement of in each case one separate switching member (12, 12a) of the switch installation (120). (FIG. 4).
US10332699B2	Power efficient add-on device An electronically controlled add-on device with a switch arrangement comprises a powered switch which is open during most of its lifetime, i.e. during both storage and operational use. More specifically, in one embodiment the add-on device comprises a secondary switch so that there are an open and a closed switch. The logics of the electronic circuitry control the circuitry so that the closed switch will be un-powered and the open switch will be powered. When the switch is mechanically changed, both switches are changed by the controller so that the closed switch will be un-powered and the open switch will be powered.
US10332697B2	Encapsulation of components and a low energy circuit for hazardous locations Embodiments of the disclosure provide an encapsulated compressor overload, an encapsulated compressor relay start, an encapsulated head pressure control switch and a wiring diagram for a circuit for air conditioning units which prevent gases from being ignited by means of encapsulating sparking components, use of solid-state switching devices, and/or wiring circuits in such a way that open contacts do not contain enough energy to produce a spark capable of igniting the atmosphere.
US10332692B2	Electrode, method for producing said electrode, electricity storage device provided with said electrode, and conductive carbon mixture for electricity storage device electrode Provided is an electrode which gives an electric storage device that has high energy density and good cycle life. This electrode for an electric storage device is characterized by having an active material layer that contains: an electrode active material particle; and a paste-like conductive carbon that is derived from an oxidized carbon obtained by giving an oxidizing treatment to a carbon raw material with an inner vacancy and covers a surface of the electrode active material particle. The paste-like conductive carbon derived from the oxidized carbon is densely filled not only into a gap that is formed between the electrode active material particles adjacent to each other but also into a pore that exists on the surface of the active material particle, so that the electrode density is increased, thereby improving the energy density of the electric storage device. In addition, since the paste-like conductive carbon suppresses dissolution of the active material, the cycle characteristics of the electric storage device are improved.
US10332688B2	Methods for making perovskite solar cells having improved hole-transport layers An aspect of the present disclosure is a device that includes a first layer that includes a hole-transport material and an acid, where the first layer has a conductivity between 20 μS/cm and 500 μS/cm. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first layer may absorb light having a wavelength between 400 nm and 600 nm. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the hole-transport material may include at least one of 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD), a derivative of spiro-OMeTAD, poly(triarylamine), poly(3-hexylthiophene), and/or N,N′-bis(3-methylphenyl)-N,N′-diphenylbenzidine.
US10332681B2	Multilayer capacitor and manufacturing method for same A manufacturing method for a multilayer capacitor includes alternately laminating dielectric layers and conductor layers including less than 50 included in a first arrangement and a second arrangement different from the first arrangement when viewed from a lamination direction to form a laminate in which at least one pair of the conductor layers adjacent to each other with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween are included in the first or second arrangement, pressing the laminate to stretch the conductor layers in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the lamination direction, pressing the laminate to bend the conductor layers in the lamination direction, and forming first and second outer electrodes on laminate surfaces such that the first outer electrode is connected to the conductor layers included in the first arrangement and the second outer electrode is connected to the conductor layers included in the second arrangement.
US10332678B2	Power storage module A power storage module includes: a power storage unit with a plurality of power storage elements; and a circuit unit attached to the power storage unit. The circuit unit includes: a high-current member through which a composite current obtained from the plurality of power storage elements flows; a low-current member through which a detection current for detecting a state of the individual power storage elements flows; and a lower case and an upper case that hold the high-current member and the low-current member.
US10332671B2	Solenoid inductor An inductor with multiple loops and semiconductor devices with such an inductor integrated thereon are proposed. In an aspect, the semiconductor device may include a die on a substrate, an inductor on the die in which the inductor comprises a wire with multiple non-planar loops above the die. In another aspect, the semiconductor device may include a plurality of posts on a die on a substrate, and an inductor on the die. The inductor may include a wire looped around the plurality of posts such that the inductor includes multiple non-planar loops.
US10332651B2	Method for making polyvinyl alcohol/carbon nanotube nanocomposite film Nanocomposite films comprising carbon nanotubes dispersed throughout a polymer matrix and further comprising at least two surfaces with differing amounts of carbon nanotubes and differing electrical resistivity values are provided. Nanocomposite films comprising a polymer layer, a conductive nanofiller layer, and a polysaccharide layer having antistatic properties are provided. In particular, nanocomposites comprising polyvinyl alcohol as the polymer, graphene as the conductive nanofiller and starch as the polysaccharide are provided. In addition, processes for forming the nanocomposites, methods for characterizing the nanocomposites as well as applications in or on electrical and/or electronic devices are provided.
US10332648B2	Charge stripping film for charge stripping device of ion beam A charge stripping film for a charge stripping device of ion beam is a carbon film produced by annealing a polymer film, and has a film thickness of 10 μm to 150 μm, an area of at least 4 cm2, and an atomic concentration of carbon of at least 97%. A charge stripping film for a charge stripping device of ion beam is a carbon film having a thermal conductivity in a film surface direction at 25° C. of at least 300 W/mK, and has a film thickness of 10 μm to 150 μm, an area of at least 4 cm2, and an atomic concentration of carbon of at least 97%.
US10332644B2	Radiation attenuating protective garments A radiation-attenuation garment system having a plurality of radiation-attenuating material panels adapted to conform to the contours of a body. The radiation-attenuation garment system includes a shirt and underwear shorts formed by compression material. A plurality of radiation-attenuating material panels are removably disposed within the shirt and underwear shorts to protect the wearer from radiation exposure in the areas having the radiation attenuation panels.
US10332643B2	Apparatus and method for stripping tritium from molten salt A method of stripping tritium from flowing stream of molten salt includes providing a tritium-separating membrane structure having a porous support, a nanoporous structural metal-ion diffusion barrier layer, and a gas-tight, nonporous palladium-bearing separative layer, directing the flowing stream of molten salt into contact with the palladium-bearing layer so that tritium contained within the molten salt is transported through the tritium-separating membrane structure, and contacting a sweep gas with the porous support for collecting the tritium.
US10332642B2	Apparatus for storing and/or transporting high level radioactive waste, and method for manufacturing the same A system for storing and/or transporting high level radioactive waste, and a method of manufacturing the same. In one aspect, the invention is a ventilated vertical overpack (“VVO”) having specially designed inlet ducts that refract radiation back into the storage cavity. A clear line-of-sight does not exist through the inlet ducts and, thus, the canister can be supported on the floor of the VVO. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing a variable height VVO that falls within a regulatory license previously obtained for a shorter and taller version of the VVO.
US10332639B2	Cognitive collaboration with neurosynaptic imaging networks, augmented medical intelligence and cybernetic workflow streams The invention integrates emerging applications, tools and techniques for machine learning in medicine with videoconference networking technology in novel business methods that support rapid adaptive learning for medical minds and machines. These methods can leverage domain knowledge and clinical expertise with cognitive collaboration, augmented medical intelligence and cybernetic workflow streams for learning health care systems. The invention enables multimodal cognitive communications, collaboration, consultation and instruction between and among cognitive collaborants, including heterogeneous networked teams of persons, machines, devices, neural networks, robots and algorithms. It provides for both synchronous and asynchronous cognitive collaboration with multichannel, multiplexed imagery data streams during various stages of medical disease and injury management—detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, measurement and monitoring, as well as resource utilization and outcomes reporting. The invention acquires both live stream and archived medical imagery data from network-connected medical devices, cameras, signals, sensors and imagery data repositories, as well as multiomic data sets from structured reports and clinical documents. It enables cognitive curation, annotation and tagging, as well as encapsulation, saving and sharing of collaborated imagery data streams as packetized medical intelligence. The invention augments packetized medical intelligence through recursive cognitive enrichment, including multimodal annotation and [semantic] metadata tagging with resources consumed and outcomes delivered. Augmented medical intelligence can be saved and stored in multiple formats, as well as retrieved from standards-based repositories. The invention provides neurosynaptic network connectivity for medical images and video with multi-channel, multiplexed gateway streamer servers that can be configured to support workflow orchestration across the enterprise—on platform, federated or cloud data architectures, including ecosystem partners. It also supports novel methods for managing augmented medical intelligence with networked metadata repositories [inclduing imagery data streams annotated with semantic metadata]. The invention helps prepare streaming imagery data for cognitive enterprise imaging. It can be incorporate and combine various machine learning techniques [e.g., deep, reinforcement and transfer learning, convolutional neural networks and NLP] to assist in curating, annotating and tagging diagnostic, procedural and evidentiary medical imaging. It also supports real-time, intraoperative imaging analytics for robotic-assisted surgery, as well as other imagery guided interventions. The invention facilitates collaborative precision medicine, and other clinical initiatives designed to reduce the cost of care, with precision diagnosis [e.g., integrated in vivo, in vitro, in silico] and precision targeted treatment [e.g., precision dosing, theranostics, computer-assited surgery]. Cybernetic workflow streams—cognitive communications, collaboration, consultation and instruction with augmented medical intelligence—enable care delivery teams of medical minds and machines to ‘deliver the right care, for the right patient, at the right time, in the right place’ - and deliver that care faster, smarter, safer, more precisely, cheaper and better.
US10332614B2	Methods, apparatus, and systems to repair memory Methods, apparatus and systems pertain to performing READ, WRITE functions in a memory which is coupled to a repair controller. One such repair controller could receive a row address and a column address associated with the memory and store a first plurality of tag fields indicating a type of row/column repair to be performed for at least a portion of a row/column of memory cells, and a second plurality of tag fields to indicate a location of memory cells used to perform the row/column repair.
US10332612B2	Methods for memory interface calibration Integrated circuits with memory interface circuitry may be provided. Prior to calibration, a number of samples may be determined by computing probability density function curves as a function of timing window edge asymmetry for different degrees of oversampling. During calibration, duty cycle distortion in data strobe signals may be corrected by selectively delaying the data strobe rising or falling edges. A data clock signal that is used for generating data signals may also suffer from duty cycle distortion. The rising and falling edges of the data clock signal may be selectively delayed to correct for duty cycle distortion. The data path through which the data signals are routed may be adjusted to equalize rising and falling transitions to minimize data path duty cycle distortion. Multi-rank calibration may be performed by calibrating to an intersection of successful settings that allow each memory rank to pass memory operation tests.
US10332611B2	Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices including stair structures and dummy electrodes A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device including a substrate including a first connection region, a second connection region, and a cell array region disposed between the first and second connection regions. The memory device further includes an electrode structure including a plurality of electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate, wherein each of the electrodes has a pad exposed on the first connection region, and a dummy electrode structure disposed adjacent to the electrode structure and including a plurality of dummy electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate. Each dummy electrode has a dummy pad exposed on the second connection region. The electrode structure includes a first stair structure and a second stair structure which each includes the pads of the electrodes exposed on the first connection region. The first stair structure extends along a first direction, and the second stair structure extends along a second direction that crosses the first direction.
US10332598B2	Block decoder and semiconductor memory device having the same There are provided a block decoder including a control signal generating circuit suitable for generating a control signal in response to address signals, a potential level switch circuit suitable for outputting an internal voltage having an internal power potential level or a negative potential level in response to the control signal, and a voltage apply circuit suitable for outputting a block selecting signal having a high potential level higher than the internal power potential level in response to the control signal and the internal voltage having the internal power potential level, or outputting the internal voltage having the negative potential level as the block selecting signal in response to the control signal.
US10332595B2	Determining resistance states of memristors in a crossbar array The resistance state of a memristor in a crossbar array is determined. For instance, a combined reference-sneak current is determined based on a reference voltage, a sense voltage, a non-access voltage, and a voltage applied to a target row line, and a combined read-sneak current is determined based on a read voltage, a sense voltage, a non-access voltage, and a voltage applied to a reference row line. The resistance state of a target memristor is then determined based on the combined reference-sneak current and the combined read-sneak current.
US10332594B2	Semiconductor memory device with in memory logic operations According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a read circuit array, a multiply-accumulate operator array, a first bus, an operation controller circuit, and a second bus. The read circuit array reads the data from the nonvolatile memory. The multiply-accumulate operator array receives the data read from the read circuit array. The first bus is connected between the read circuit array and the multiply-accumulate operator array and having a first bit width. The operation controller circuit is electrically connected to the multiply-accumulate operator array. The second bus is connected to the operation controller circuit and having a second bit width smaller than the first bit width.
US10332581B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell including a first transistor and a first capacitor, a second memory cell including a second transistor and a second capacitor, a first word line electrically coupled to the first transistor, a second word line electrically coupled to the second transistor, and a first circuit which supplies a first voltage to the first word line, and a second voltage different from the first voltage to the second word line, during a sleep mode.
US10332580B2	DRAM and method for determining binary logic using a test voltage level A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes a memory array and a control device. The memory array includes a refresh unit. The refresh unit includes a first cell and a second cell. The first cell is configured to store data, and have a programmed voltage level by being programmed. The second cell is configured to have a test voltage level by being programmed in conjunction with the first cell, wherein the first cell and the second cell are controllable by a same row of the memory array. The control device is configured to increase a voltage difference between the programmed voltage level and a standard voltage level for determining binary logic when the test voltage level becomes lower than a threshold voltage level, wherein the threshold voltage level is higher than the standard voltage level.
US10332577B2	Storage element and storage apparatus A storage element includes a layer structure including a storage layer having a direction of magnetization which changes according to information, a magnetization fixed layer having a fixed direction of magnetization, and an intermediate layer disposed therebetween, which intermediate layer contains a nonmagnetic material. The magnetization fixed layer has at least two ferromagnetic layers having a direction of magnetization tilted from a direction perpendicular to a film surface, which are laminated and magnetically coupled interposing a coupling layer therebetween. This configuration may effectively prevent divergence of magnetization reversal time due to directions of magnetization of the storage layer and the magnetization fixed layer being substantially parallel or antiparallel, reduce write errors, and enable writing operation in a short time.
US10332571B2	Memory device including memory cell for generating reference voltage A memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, a third memory cell, a bitline sense amplifier, and a switch circuit. The first memory cell is connected to a first wordline and a first bitline. The second memory cell is connected to the first wordline and a second bitline. The third memory cell is connected to the first wordline and a third bitline. The bitline sense amplifier is connected to the third bitline. The switch circuit is connected to the first bitline, the second bitline, and the bitline sense amplifier. The switch circuit performs charge sharing between the first memory cell and the first bitline to generate a first reference voltage, and charge sharing between the second memory cell and the second bitline to generate a second reference voltage.
US10332568B2	Memory apparatus and memory module including a power management integrated circuit A memory module includes a module substrate. The module substrate includes a plurality of regions, on which a plurality of memory apparatuses are mounted. A plurality of inductors are formed in the plurality of regions of the memory module substrate, respectively.
US10332545B2	System and method for temporal and power based zone detection in speaker dependent microphone environments A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a speech signal from a speaker via a plurality of microphone zones. A temporal cue based confidence may be determined for at least a portion of the plurality of microphone zones. A power cue based confidence may be determined for at least a portion of the plurality of microphone zones. A microphone zone of the plurality of microphone zones from which to use an output signal of the speaker may be identified based upon, at least in part, a combination of the temporal cue based confidence and the power cue based confidence.
US10332537B2	Dynamic player selection for audio signal processing A set of signal measures is sent, wherein each signal measure in the set of signal measures corresponds to a respective audio signal received by a playback device in a media playback system and is processed based on a first set of audio processing algorithms. A plurality of signal measures is identified in the set of signal measures. Audio signals corresponding to the identified plurality of signal measures are processed by one or more devices in the media playback system to improve a signal measure of each of the audio signals. The audio signals are processed based on a second set of audio processing algorithms. The processed audio signals are combined into a combined audio signal.
US10332533B2	Frequency domain parameter sequence generating method, encoding method, decoding method, frequency domain parameter sequence generating apparatus, encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, program, and recording medium The present invention reduces encoding distortion in frequency domain encoding compared to conventional techniques, and obtains LSP parameters that correspond to quantized LSP parameters for the preceding frame and are to be used in time domain encoding from coefficients equivalent to linear prediction coefficients resulting from frequency domain encoding. When p is an integer equal to or greater than 1, a linear prediction coefficient sequence which is obtained by linear prediction analysis of audio signals in a predetermined time segment is represented as a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], and ω[1], ω[2], . . . , ω[p] are a frequency domain parameter sequence derived from the linear prediction coefficient sequence a[1], a[2], . . . , a[p], an LSP linear transformation unit (300) determines the value of each converted frequency domain parameter ˜ω[i] (i=1, 2, . . . , p) in a converted frequency domain parameter sequence ˜ω[1], ˜ω[2], . . . , ˜ω[p] using the frequency domain parameter sequence ω[1], ω[2], . . . , ω[p] as input, through linear transformation which is based on the relationship of values between ω[i] and one or more frequency domain parameters adjacent to ω[i].
US10332525B2	Automatic speaker identification using speech recognition features Features are disclosed for automatically identifying a speaker. Artifacts of automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) and/or other automatically determined information may be processed against individual user profiles or models. Scores may be determined reflecting the likelihood that individual users made an utterance. The scores can be based on, e.g., individual components of Gaussian mixture models (“GMMs”) that score best for frames of audio data of an utterance. A user associated with the highest likelihood score for a particular utterance can be identified as the speaker of the utterance. Information regarding the identified user can be provided to components of a spoken language processing system, separate applications, etc.
US10332522B2	Speed podcasting Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to podcasting and provide a method, system and computer program product for speed podcasting. In an embodiment of the invention, a speed podcasting method can include speech recognizing an audio portion of a podcast, parsing the speech recognized audio portion to identify essential words, and playing back only audio segments and corresponding video segments of the podcast including the essential words while excluding from playback audio segments and corresponding video segments of the podcast including non-essential words.
US10332519B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An apparatus including circuitry configured to determine a position of a mouth of a user that is distinguishable among a plurality of people, and control an acquisition condition for collecting a sound based on the determined position of the user's mouth.
US10332518B2	User interface for correcting recognition errors Speech recognition is performed on a received utterance to determine a plurality of candidate text representations of the utterance, including a primary text representation and one or more alternative text representations. Natural language processing is performed on the primary text representation to determine a plurality of candidate actionable intents, including a primary actionable intent and one or more alternative actionable intents. A result is determined based on the primary actionable intent. The result is provided to the user. A recognition correction trigger is detected. In response to detecting the recognition correction trigger, a set of alternative intent affordances and a set of alternative text affordances are concurrently displayed.
US10332507B2	Method and device for waking up via speech based on artificial intelligence A method and a device for waking up via a speech based on artificial intelligence are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: acquiring pronunciation information of a customized wake-up word; acquiring approximate pronunciation information of the pronunciation information; and constructing a network for identifying wake-up words according to a preset garbage word list, the pronunciation information and the approximate pronunciation information, identifying an input speech according to the network to acquire an identified result, and determining whether to perform a wake-up operation according to the identified result. With embodiments of the present disclosure, different networks for identifying the wake-up words may be constructed dynamically for different customized wake-up words, thus effectively improving an accuracy of waking up, reducing a false alarm rate, improving an efficiency of waking up, occupying less memory, and having low power consumption.
US10332505B2	Systems and methods for providing automated natural language dialogue with customers A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a providing automated natural dialog with a customer. The system may generate one or more events and commands temporarily stored in queues to be processed by one or more of a dialog management device, an API server, and an NLP device. The dialog management device may create adaptive responses to customer communications using a customer context, a rules-based platform, and a trained-machine learning model.
US10332504B1	Noise mitigation for road noise cancellation systems A road noise cancellation (RNC) system may include a noise controller for detecting non-stationary events, such as objects striking vibration sensors, based on sensor signals having a spectral character significantly different from steady-state road noise. Upon detection of an object strike, the RNC system may be deactivated or certain speakers may be muted. Alternatively, the RNC system may modify the sensor signals to mask the non-stationary event, thereby preventing the RNC system from generating anti-noise based on the object strike.
US10332499B2	Precision solid state string motion transducer for musical instruments with non-ferromagnetic strings, and method for precision measurements of time-variable position using 3-pole permanent magnets A single axis position transducer uses an elongate permanent three pole magnet having a radial magnetic field at a spot along the magnet in which the magnetic field has radial field lines that decay as 1/R. R is the distance from the center of the magnet along a radial field line perpendicular to the axis of the magnet. The spot has a first pole of one polarity, and the magnet has poles of the opposite polarity spaced along the magnet on opposite sides of the first pole of the radial magnetic field located at the spot. At least one magnetic field sensor is positioned proximal to the spot along the elongate member that detects the motion of the spot and electrically amplifies the sensor output.
US10332498B2	Fret scanners and pickups for stringed instruments Techniques are described that relate to various aspects of converting the mechanical energy of instrument strings to digital representations for use in a variety of applications.
US10332488B2	Generating a secure state indicator for a device using a light pipe from a fixed position on the device's display A handheld device is configured with a mode indicator to provide an easily seen indication of a defined mode of operation. A command may be received by the handheld device to enter the defined mode of operation. After entering the defined mode of operation, the device may set one or more specific pixels on a display of the handheld device to a predefined color indicative of the defined mode of operation. The mode indicator on the handheld is illuminated by transporting colored light generated by the one or more specific pixels to the mode indicator.
US10332485B2	Image converting method and device An image converting method and image converting device that are able to properly reproduce the appearance of the original image even in an environment having different brightness. The image converting method includes a JND corresponding value width acquisition step of, on the basis of input image data, acquiring a JND corresponding value width corresponding to a reflectance component of the input image data, a luminance width acquisition step of acquiring a luminance width corresponding to the JND corresponding value width or a value obtained by converting the JND corresponding value width in accordance with a predetermined rule using, as a reference, a second reference luminance different from a first reference luminance.
US10332483B1	Systems and methods for providing intelligent display brightness control Some embodiments described herein provide a method for providing brightness control of a display. An image including a first pixel associated with a first color and a second pixel associated with a second color may be obtained for display. A first brightness control mapping may be designed for the first color and a second brightness control mapping may be designed for the second color. Linear interpolation between the first brightness control mapping and the second brightness control mapping may be applied for a third pixel within the image having a third color different from the first color and the second color. The first, second and third brightness control mapping may then be applied to the first, second and third pixels, respectively. An output image including the first pixel, the second pixel and the third pixel may be displayed after the applying.
US10332480B2	Color display method and system for mobile terminal The present invention discloses a color display method and system for a mobile terminal. According to the method, an environmental ambient light level for a mobile terminal is detected, a color enhancement factor is calculated according to the ambient light level, and display color of the mobile terminal is enhanced according to the color enhancement factor. A color enhancement technology widely used in a display screen is combined with the environmental ambient light level. The color enhancement is dynamically adjusted according to the intensity of ambient light.
US10332469B2	GOA circuit over-current protection system and method thereof The present invention provides a GOA circuit over-current protection system and method thereof. The over-current protection system for a GOA circuit, which comprises a power management chip and a level-shift chip. The level-shift chip comprises an over-current protection module. The over-current protection module comprises a current comparator, an AND gate circuit, a rising edge pulse delay circuit, a power supply, a voltage comparator, a first switch and a second switch, and a capacitor. With the current comparator to detect a current on the wiring of the clock signal in the GOA circuit, when the current on the wiring of the clock signal in the GOA circuit is too high, the power supply is controlled for charging the capacitor. With the voltage comparator to detect both ends of the capacitor (the first node voltage), when the first node voltage is too high, an over-current protection control signal is outputted to the power supply management chip to control the power management chip to stop supplying power to the GOA circuit, to perform an over-current protection of the GOA circuit, to avoid the melted phenomenon caused by the short circuit of the GOA circuit.
US10332456B2	Vehicular display device and display method of vehicular display device A vehicular display device includes an image display device that is arranged in front of a driver in a vehicle and that displays images. In a case in which the image display device interruptively displays a warning on a partial region of an image display region, the image display device displays, on the partial region, a warning image indicating warning content and a frame image surrounding the warning image. The image display device performs animation display to change at least one of the position and the shape of the frame image when starting display of the frame image.
US10332455B2	Organic light-emitting display device and display method thereof An organic light-emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including an organic light-emitting device configured to emit colored light; a gamma data generating unit configured to generate gamma data corresponding to received RGB data; a correction rate calculating unit configured to determine a luminance correction rate of each of the plurality of pixels based on the gamma data respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels; and a correction value determining unit configured to determine a luminance correction value of a color displayed via each of the plurality of pixels.
US10332443B2	Luminaire and lighting system, combining transparent lighting device and display coupled to output image via the transparent lighting device Examples of a lighting and display type luminaire use relatively transparent lighting devices. In such a luminaire, a light transmissive element of the lighting device is coupled to an output of a display device. For example, an edge lit lighting device includes an optical waveguide and one or more illumination light sources coupled to supply light to/through a surface along an edge or periphery of the waveguide. The waveguide allows emission of illumination light through a front surface. A display is coupled to a back surface of the waveguide. During display operations, the waveguide is sufficiently transparent to allow image display light to pass through the waveguide for emission through the front surface of the waveguide. Another example utilizes a light transmissive OLED (organic light emitting diode) panel as the relatively transparent lighting device.
US10332437B2	Method and device for display color adjustment Provided is a color adjustment method for a display apparatus. The color adjustment method includes: measuring first luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on a display device when image data corresponding to a white point is supplied to a drive circuitry; measuring second luminance coordinate data indicating luminances and color coordinates of colors displayed on the display device when image data corresponding to the white color of intermediate grayscale values are supplied to the drive circuitry; measuring third luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on the display device for each of R, G and B elementary color points when image data corresponding to each of the R, G and B elementary color points is supplied to the drive circuitry; and calculating correction parameters based on the first to third luminance coordinate data.
US10332435B2	Color display device The present invention provides a solution for a highlight or multicolor display device, in which each display cell can display high quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises three types of pigment particles, having different levels of size, threshold voltage or charge intensity.
US10332434B2	Reset circuit, shift register unit, and gate scanning circuit A reset circuit for compensating a level reduction at a first node during a first stage without affecting levels during a second stage includes a reset portion, a reset control portion, and at least three input terminals. The reset portion is coupled to the first and second input terminals, and a second node, and is configured to be turned on if the second node is at a first level, to electrically couple the second and first input terminals. The reset control portion is coupled to the first, second, and third input terminals, and the second node, and is configured to electrically couple the second input terminal with the second node if the first input terminal is at the first level, and to electrically couple the second node with the third input terminal if the second input terminal is at a second level.
US10332424B2	Training devices and methods of using the same An apparatus includes a model unit and a template member. The model unit defines a shape in the form of a portion of a body. The template member is disposed adjacent to the model unit such that a portion of the template member is disposed within the shape defined by the model unit.
US10332422B2	Mannequin for practicing cardiopulmonary resuscitation A mannequin for practicing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a kit for assembling the mannequin for practicing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the mannequin comprising a head having an inlet, a chest portion, a plate pivotably coupled to the chest portion, and an air collecting portion comprising an air chamber, an end of the air collecting portion being coupled to the inlet and the air chamber being disposed between the plate and the chest portion such that the plate pivots away from the chest portion when air is blown into the air chamber through said inlet and the plate pivots towards the chest portion when air is released from the air chamber.
US10332415B2	System and method of teaching music A set of teaching methods and system for implementing such teaching methods is disclosed for helping a music student learn how become more familiar with a keyboard and music in general. A set of drills and exercises are presented which will increase a student's musical ability far faster than can be achieved by traditional teaching methods. In addition, a set of humorous characters Moreover, a system is presented which will allow implementation of these exercises.
US10332410B2	Healthcare system to change behavior of a user A method to change a behavior of a user includes receiving state data indicative of a current state of a user. The method includes receiving sensor data generated by one or more sensors, the sensor data indicative of one or more behaviors of the user. The method includes receiving payment from the user to purchase a virtual attribute, at least a portion of the payment to be returned to the user responsive to an improvement to the one or more behaviors over an earn-back time period. The method includes determining a behavior-based virtual attribute of the user based on the sensor data. The method includes estimating a future state of the user from the current state of the user, the behavior-based virtual attribute, and the purchased virtual attribute. The method includes generating graphical data including a visualization of the future state of the user to display to the user.
US10332405B2	Unmanned aircraft systems traffic management The present invention provides a traffic management system for managing unmanned aerial systems (UASs) operating at low-altitude. The system includes surveillance for locating and tracking UASs in uncontrolled airspace, for example, in airspace below 10,000 feet MSL. The system also includes flight rules for safe operation of UASs in uncontrolled airspace. The system further includes computers for processing said surveillance and for applying the flight rules to UASs. The traffic management system may be portable, persistent, or a hybrid thereof.
US10332388B1	System for providing acoustic signals Described are techniques for determining whether a received audio signal is corrupted or a product of noise, prior to decoding the entire signal. An emitted audio signal may include initialization data, which includes a predetermined sequence of symbols, and which precedes encoded payload data. Correspondence between the predetermined sequence of symbols and expected symbols stored as confirmation data may be determined. If the correspondence indicates a match, an audio receiver may continue decoding the audio signal to access the payload data. If the correspondence does not indicate a match, the audio receiver may cease decoding, which may conserve power, computing resources, and time, ensuring that subsequent audio signals are not missed while the audio receiver decodes a false or corrupted signal.
US10332387B1	Monitoring system control technology using multiple sensors, cameras, lighting devices, and a thermostat Techniques are described for providing control of a monitoring system (e.g., a home alarm or security system) using one or more mobile devices. In some implementations, a native mobile device application enables use of a mobile device as a security/automation system keypad and controller for a home security system. In these implementations, the mobile device, using the native mobile device application, checks real time status of system and sensors, arms/disarms system, turns lights on/off, looks in on live video of security cameras, reviews history of system events, reviews saved video clips, monitors/changes thermostat settings, and performs other features of a traditional security keypad in a home security system.
US10332385B2	Location based support request messages responsive to alert recommendation A set of condition monitoring sensors may provide signals indicative of current conditions local at a user device (e.g., a smartphone). An alert recommendation platform may automatically analyze the signals and decision logic to generate an alert recommendation and output an alert signal. Responsive to the alert signal, a notification platform may automatically determine a set of potential support communication devices (e.g., other smartphones) based at least in part on a location associated with the user device and locations of the potential support communication devices. The notification platform may then arrange for at least some of the potential support communication devices to receive a support request message (e.g., nearby smartphones may receive notifications requesting support).
US10332384B1	Actions and communications responsive to real-time events incorporating local, remote and learned information Systems and methods providing actions and communications responsive to real-time events incorporating local, remote and learned information are disclosed. The system includes a cloud application on a cloud server and a premises device at a premises. The premises device has a plurality of sensors coupled to and/or included in the premises device. The cloud application receives signals, status and other information from the premises device. The cloud application also obtains information from third party information sources. The cloud application obtains location and other pertinent information about key persons. The cloud application evaluates actions to take in response to signals, status and information received from the premises device taking into consideration information from the third party information sources and information about key persons.
US10332380B2	Garment tags for intelligent laundering alerts Aspects of the present disclosure involve an apparatus, systems, and methods for providing intelligent laundering alerts. Example embodiments involve an intelligent garment tag that may be affixed to garments, and may store and provide information about the garment to which it is affixed. The information stored thereon describes various aspects of the garment including color, fabric, and laundering information. The intelligent garment tags further include an alert component for providing laundering alerts (e.g., a flashing or colored light, a warning noise, or a vibration) based on, for example, garment color compatibility or laundering device (e.g., washing machine or clothes dryer) compatibility.
US10332379B2	Remote health monitoring system A data collection system collects and stores physiological data from an ambulatory patient at a high resolution and/or a high data rate (“more detailed data”) and sends a low-resolution and/or downsampled version of the data (“less detailed data”) to a remote server via a wireless network. The server automatically analyzes the less detailed data to detect an anomaly, such as an arrhythmia. A two-tiered analysis scheme is used, where the first tier is more sensitive and less specific than the second tier. If the more sensitive analysis detects or suspects the anomaly, the server signals the data collector to send more detailed data that corresponds to a time period associated with the anomaly. The more specific second tier analyzes the more detailed data to verify the anomaly. The server may also store the received data and make it available to a user, such as via a graphical or tabular display.
US10332365B2	Smart material for haptic feedback This disclosure relates to haptic actuators, and suitably haptic actuators based on repulsion and attraction between a coil and a magnet. Such haptic actuators are useful in structural materials, such as elements of wearables or accessories.
US10332363B2	Controller and interface for home security, monitoring and automation having customizable audio alerts for SMA events Methods and systems for managing a premises are described. A premises or devices at a premises may be associated with one or more premises zones. The one or more premises zones may be associated with corresponding content. If data is received from a device associated with a particular premises zone, then the content may be output. The content may be used to notify a user of an event, state change, or other indication associated with the particular premises zone.
US10332360B2	Device fraud indicator detection and reporting Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, devices and methods for detection of abnormal operation of a Self-Service Terminal (SST). One such embodiment, in the form of a method performed by a SST or remote system, includes receiving information relating to the operation of a SST. The method further includes evaluating the information to identify abnormal operation of the SST.
US10332359B2	System for triggering bank and equipment bill destruction devices and methodology for triggering bank equipment bill destruction devices A system for triggering bank equipment bill destruction devices and methodology for triggering bank equipment bill destruction devices. The system increases security of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and cash dispenser bank equipment by innovating a trigger rail which is a separate unit directly mounted to the cassette assembly of the bank equipment and is fixed through ignition nozzles which are attached and inserted in openings provided on a structure of the cassettes. The methodology comprises using pyrotechnic means to trigger the bill destruction devices placed inside the cassettes of a bank equipment unit.
US10332358B1	Systems and methods for distributed currency management This application relates to methods and systems for managing and distributing currency. One system includes modularized components and interacts with a user via the user's cell phone. The user may authenticate to the system via a password and biometrics, pre-stage interactions such as deposits or withdrawals, and then conduct a transaction. The system may also analyze the documents, such as currency and/or checks, that are deposited with the system, and determine whether they are valid.
US10332349B2	System and method wherein game players visit one or more communication-enabled locations to collect credit for losing primary lottery game tickets A system and method are provided for play of a game of chance wherein players in a primary game collect credit or value for losing primary game tickets. A plurality of physical locations are designated as authorized communication-enabled locations and are configured with a transmitter device that broadcasts an ID signal unique to the location or a receiver that receives an ID signal unique to a particular player. The identity and location of the locations is published to the players. The players are provided with capability to receive the unique ID signals emitted by the transmitter devices within the locations on a mobile smart device, or to broadcast the ID signal unique to the player for receipt by the receiver in locations. A game server automatically identifies the player and the particular location upon receipt of a transmission that includes the ID signal unique to the location or the ID signal unique to the player. The game server generates a personalized message to the player with instructions as to how the player can take action at the location to have the value assigned to a losing game ticket credited to a player's account.

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