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US10441233B2	Imaging control apparatus, X-ray imaging apparatus, imaging control method, and storage medium An imaging control apparatus for an X-ray imaging apparatus which performs X-ray imaging in accordance with a plurality of pieces of imaging information displayed in an information display area of a display unit includes a display control unit which controls the display position of prepared imaging information in the completed state of preparation for X-ray imaging and the display position of unprepared imaging information in the uncompleted state of preparation for X-ray imaging in accordance with a reference position set in the information display area.
US10441231B2	Radioabsorbent assemblies A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.
US10441222B2	Endoscopy band with sigmoid support apparatus An endoscopy sigmoid support apparatus that includes a primary wrap sized for placement around a subject's lower abdomen. A closing mechanism is provided at the end of the primary wrap to secure the primary wrap around the abdomen of the subject by attaching a first end of the primary wrap to a second portion of the primary wrap. A strap extends from the primary wrap and is configured to extend across at least a portion of the primary wrap and to fasten to a third portion of the primary wrap to adjust the amount of pressure applied by the endoscopy sigmoid support apparatus.
US10441214B2	Monitoring adherence to a medication regimen using a sensor A method and apparatus for monitoring and/or managing adherence to a medication regimen that involves use of a sensor. Dispensing medicine from a container commonly involves pressure being applied to the container, which results in expansion of the container. In some embodiments, pressure is applied by a user through an aperture of the apparatus. In some embodiments, a processor monitors pressure sensor data from a pressure sensor that is physically coupled to the container and arranged such that activation of the pressure sensor indicates the container has expanded in response to the user applying pressure. A processor analyzes the pressure sensor data to determine whether medicine has been dispensed from the container. A computer system can compare the dispensed medication to a planned medication regimen to determine a state of compliance with the medication regimen.
US10441212B2	Method to determine positions and states of an activity monitoring device A method to determine a position and a state of a personal activity monitor worn by a user, such personal activity monitor comprising a motion sensor formed as an at least 3-axis accelerometer and a processor unit, the method comprising the steps of determining a number of changes of predominant axis per time period, and comparing it with exceeds a first predetermined threshold in order to infer a wrist worn condition, the method comprising the steps of determining a current level of activity and a temperature criterion to infer that the personal activity monitor is actually worn by the user and that the user has entered a sleep phase, or to infer that the user has emerged from sleep.
US10441211B1	Method of detecting bone fractures using backscattered light The method of detecting bone fractures using backscattered light makes use of backscattered near infrared (NIR) light to determine if a body part of a patient is healthy, has a bone fracture, or has an edema. An incident beam of near infrared light is generated by a light source, and has both an incident amplitude and an incident phase. The incident beam of NIR light is directed toward the patient's body part, and a backscattered beam of NIR light is received from the body part. The backscattered beam of NIR light has a backscattered amplitude and a backscattered phase. The determination of whether the body part is healthy, has a bone fracture or has an edema is made based on the level of absorption of the incident beam of NIR light and/or based on the amount of scattering, based on the phase difference, of the incident beam of NIR light.
US10441189B2	High definition EEG A method, apparatus and system for measuring electrical activity generated within a brain is disclosed. A headpiece having a first transistor is placed in contact with a head that contains the brain to bring the first transistor into electrical contact with the head. An electronic signal is generated at the first transistor in response to the electrical activity generated within the brain. The electronic signal is processed at the headpiece in order to measure the electrical activity.
US10441183B2	Multi-channel stimulation threshold detection algorithm for use with neurophysiology monitoring systems The present invention relates generally to an algorithm aimed at neurophysiology monitoring, and more particularly to an algorithm capable of quickly finding stimulation thresholds over multiple channels of a neurophysiology monitoring system.
US10441170B2	Systems and methods for mobile status determination and delivery Embodiments are related to systems and methods for data determining information about a subject, and more particularly to systems and methods for utilizing and distributing information related to measurements of a human subject.
US10441168B2	Computer-implemented method for detecting a corneal vertex A computer-implemented method detects the position of a corneal vertex of an eye from a frontal image of a head and a lateral image of the head. The front and lateral images are calibrated to one another, and the position of the corneal vertex in space is determined from the frontal image and the lateral image with a geometric position determination.
US10441159B2	System and method for classifying and quantifying age-related macular degeneration The present disclosure describes a system and method to classify optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. The present system can classify OCT images without first segmenting the retina tissue. The system can generate one or more profiles from vertical transects through the OCT images. The system can identify image statistics based on the one or more profiles. The system's classifier can then classify the OCT images based on the identified image statistics.
US10441153B2	Endocranial endoscope An endoscope particularly suited for endocranial procedures and a method of using the endoscope. In some examples the endoscope is rigid except for a bend/tilt portion near a distal end of a rigid tube that is inserted in a patient's cranium, which distal end is controlled in a degree and direction of tilt with a finger operated controller at the endoscope's handle. Some examples use telescoping tubes that allow customizing the endoscope size for specific procedures. A distal portion of the endoscope can be disposable, supplied in a sterile package for a single procedure, thus taking into account contamination dangers that are particularly high for intracranial and certain other interventions and the fact that it can be difficult or impossible to effectively autoclave heat-sensitive components of certain endoscopes or effectively sterilize them using other techniques.
US10441143B2	Insertion assisting tool for endoscope Operability in inserting an insertion part of an endoscope into a body cavity using an insertion assisting tool is improved. In an insertion assisting tool 60, a sidewall portion of a tube main body 64 through which an insertion part 12 of an endoscope 10 is passed is provided with a sidewall opening part 68 having a size in which the insertion part 12 can pass through. A distal end side of the sidewall opening part 68 is provided with a guiding valve 82, and the insertion part 12 is guided by the guiding valve 82 to be easily fed from the sidewall opening part 68. The guiding valve 82 is swingably supported, and when the insertion part 12 is fed from a distal end opening part 67 of the tube main body 64, allowing the parallel state of being substantially parallel to an axial direction of the insertion part 12 and passing the insertion part 12 to a distal end opening part 67 side are enabled.
US10441131B2	Scrubber/scraper sponge The invention is directed to a scrubber/scraper sponge. The sponge is comprised of three layers. A lower sponge layer provides a soft, absorbent washing surface on the bottom surface of the sponge. An upper abrasive layer provides a scrubbing surface on the top surface of the sponge. The front peripheral edge of the sponge provides a scraping edge on a scraping layer, which extends partially from the front edge toward the rear edge of the sponge, between the sponge layer and the abrasive layer. Flexible barbs extend rearward from the rear edge of the scraping layer, such that the barbs become embedded in the sponge layer during the manufacturing process and firmly secure the scraping layer to the sponge layer.
US10441129B2	Cleaning device with a cleaning roller that is rotatable about an axis of rotation A cleaning device has a cleaning roller that is rotatable about an axis of rotation and serves for treating a surface to be cleaned. The cleaning roller is in the form of a hollow body with an internal liquid chamber, and at least one hollow body opening for releasing liquid from the liquid chamber. In order to develop a cleaning device, in which liquid is only released from the liquid chamber to the surface of the hollow body under certain conditions, a mechanically actuated valve element is assigned to the hollow body opening, wherein the valve element can be displaced into a closing position, in which the hollow body opening is closed, and/or into an opening position, in which the hollow body opening is released, depending on the magnitude of a centrifugal force that acts upon the valve element as a result of a rotation of the cleaning roller.
US10441127B2	Dust cup assembly and handheld cleaner having same The present disclosure relates to a dust cup assembly and a handheld cleaner having the same, the dust cup assembly includes a casing including a cup body with an open top, and a cleaner cover disposed at a top of the cup body and capable of being opened and closed; a negative pressure device provided in the cup body and used to suck airflow from an environment into the casing; and a dedusting device provided in the cup body, located above the negative pressure device and withdrawable from the top of the cup body when the cleaner cover is opened.
US10441121B2	Portable surface cleaning apparatus A hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus comprises a body housing a suction motor and comprising a handle. The handle has a handgrip portion that extends upwardly in an upward direction when the surface cleaning apparatus is disposed on a horizontal surface, wherein the handle and a rear surface of the body define a finger gap in which a user may place the user's fingers while gripping the handle. The suction motor is positioned adjacent the rear surface of the body.
US10441106B2	Cooking system and method of use An improved bacon cooking system and method of use is presented which includes a container that houses a rack having a pair of sidewalls with a curved member that extends between the sidewalls. The curved member includes a plurality of vanes and a plurality of perforations. A plurality of inserts are sized and shaped to be placed over the curved member in overlapping stacked relation to one another. Bacon slices are placed over the curved member and in-between the inserts. When the system is placed in an oven or a microwave oven, the bacon is generally held in place by the curved member and the inserts thereby producing crispy, generally flat and straight bacon without the mess or inconvenience of cooking bacon conventionally in a pan.
US10441102B1	Beverage container holder with cover for mouth of beverage container A portable, personal sized, beverage container holder or kouzie with cover to prevent entry of insects and spiders into open beverage container. The cover also prevents spillage of beverage from the container. The holder includes a sleeve to receive the container and a cover to fit over the mouth of the container. The cover is removable and detachable but allows drinking from the container without removal of the cover or the container from the holder.
US10441092B2	Product management display system A product management display system for merchandising product on a shelf includes using a trackless pusher mechanism that travels along a tray on which product is placed and one or more dividers for separating product into rows. The tray may include a notch for accessing the merchandising product from below and the product management display system may be thin to minimize vertical height. The trays may also be engaged with the shelf and may be, locked and unlocked.
US10441085B1	Bed with configurable headboard A bed having a headboard wherein the headboard includes an integrated sink so as to facilitate the execution of hygienic tasks for an individual disposed in the bed such as but not limited to washing of the individual's hair. The headboard includes a body that is planar in manner wherein the body includes a first end, a second end, a lower edge and an upper edge all combining to define the shape thereof. The body of the headboard is hingedly secured to the bed proximate the lower edge of the headboard. The headboard is movable between a first position and a second position. In the second position the headboard is horizontal in orientation. The sink is manufactured from a material and is formed in a shape that facilitates the moving of the sink between a first position and a second position.
US10441084B2	Lightweight modular bed A lightweight modular bed includes a bed frame unit, a first retaining unit, a second retaining unit, a supporting web unit, and at least one reinforcement insert. The supporting web unit can be fully stretched on the bed frame unit by virtue of the first and second retaining units, and has a plurality of through bores. The reinforcement insert is configured to be detachably inserted in each of the through bores for adjusting flexibility of the supporting web unit.
US10441083B2	Deployable and retractable writing surface A deployable armrest writing assembly comprises an armrest, a writing surface, and a bridging segment. The bridging segment is connected to the writing surface. The bridging segment is pivotable with respect to the armrest and the writing surface so as to pivot the writing surface 180° from a storage configuration to a deployed configuration over a top surface of the armrest.
US10441074B2	Shelf frame assembly system A shelf frame assembly system includes a first vertical post that includes a plurality of openings, a side beam comprising a receiving bore, an end piece having a coupling portion and a receiving portion that includes a plurality of protrusions, and an end connector configured to be inserted into one of the plurality of openings. The end connector includes a plurality of recesses configured to receive the plurality of protrusions and a stop configured to make contact with at least one edge of the one of the plurality of openings. The receiving bore of the side beam is configured to receive the coupling portion of the end piece. The receiving portion of the side beam connector is configured to receive the end connector. Further, the plurality of protrusions are configured to resist a horizontal withdrawal of the side beam connector from the end connector.
US10441072B2	Mobile structure for working with computer equipment couplable to slanting chairs The mobile structure for working with computer equipment or electronic devices, couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs that the invention proposes is therefore configured as a novelty within its field of application, because, when it is implemented, the said objectives are satisfactorily achieved, the characterizing details making it possible are suitably appearing in the final claims attached to this specification.Concretely, what the invention proposes, as it has been stated before, is a structure which aim is to allow the incorporation of computer equipment or electronic devices so that it is possible to work with them, or use them for leisure purpose, in a slanting chair or armchair and to be able to angularly move it, according to the tilt of the chair, at least in an upright position and a slanted position, being formed for it, by a mobile arm with a moving mechanism that is coupled to any slanting chair or armchair and that is provided with supporting means as a kind of desk to incorporate the computer equipment.
US10441068B2	Brush cleaner Methods and apparatus for cleaning brushes quickly, comfortably and efficiently are disclosed. The apparatus contains at least one cleaning chamber comprising a plurality of cleaning elements disposed within the chamber that contacts the brushes during cleaning, the cleaning chamber in contact with a) a drive and a motor that can deliver rapid reciprocating motions to the cleaning elements, b) a solvent flow system, and c) a removable brush holder connected to a motor that turns the brushes slowly over the cleaning elements. Rapid reciprocating motions of the cleaning elements, continuous flow of a solvent over the brushes to be cleaned and a slow rotation of the brush itself over the cleaning elements achieve rapid cleaning of brushes with little damage to the brush itself. A removable brush holder that can accommodate many different kinds of brushes in the same slot extends the functionality and comfort of using the brush cleaner.
US10441067B2	Brushes for delivering glutinous substance to workpiece from end-effector A brush for delivering a glutinous substance to a workpiece from an end-effector is disclosed. The brush comprises a body, having a rotational axis and comprising a first channel that comprises an inlet and a first outlet. The inlet is coaxial with the rotational axis and the first outlet is offset from the rotational axis. The brush also comprises tufts, extending from the body and each comprising at least one bristle and a tip. The brush further comprises a first tube, communicatively coupled with the first outlet of the first channel of the body.
US10441061B2	Multifunctional picnic box The invention relates to a multifunctional picnic box that includes a box body. The box body as described above has a cover which can be opened. At upper end in the box body as described above, there is at least a group of folding table with corresponding size of box body as described above. In the box body under the folding table as described above, it sets support for placing picnic appliance. It is able to take folding table, some simple cooking utensils in the box.
US10441050B2	Hand held appliance A mount for an electric motor, the mount comprising a sleeve for receiving a motor, the sleeve having a longitudinal axis extending between a first end and a second end, wherein the first end comprises a plurality of plurality of projections and the plurality of projections extend along the longitudinal axis. The sleeve may receive the motor via the first end or the second end. The plurality of projections may be spaced around a circumference of the sleeve. The plurality of projections may comprise a pattern of substantially constant frequency around the sleeve. The plurality of projections may be substantially V-shaped with the point extending along the longitudinal axis from the first end of the sleeve.
US10441040B2	Umbrella, umbrella frame and rib therefor An umbrella has a canopy, a main shaft and a plurality of ribs pivotally attached to the main shaft, each rib being of adjustable length and including a pair of outer rib elements, wherein the outer rib elements are flexible and normally adopt a straight configuration aligned with the main shaft in a closed position of the umbrella, and in an open position of the umbrella, flex so that outer ends of the outer rib elements extend generally circumferentially with respect to the canopy. The umbrella can have ribs that would normally be of one piece, in which case accommodation is made for an effective change in the radius of the ribs as the outer rib elements flex. The umbrella may be a folding umbrella with two part ribs. The outer ribs can have a non-uniform cross-section and may taper.
US10441034B2	Quick-release buckle with fire starter and methods of use A quick-release buckle has a male member and a female member configured to interlock, the female member having a body with a recessed receiving portion and one or more lips overhanging a portion of the recessed receiving portion; the male member having a keyed portion shaped complementary to the recessed receiving portion of the female member; wherein the keyed portion of the male member is receivable within the recessed receiving portion to interlock.
US10441031B2	Customizable footwear inserts and methods for using same Systems and methods for customizable footwear inserts having a plurality of removable sections. Removable sections may be permanently bonded to adjacent layers of the inserts to eliminate or minimize the tendency of removable sections surrounding the removed sections to fall out or migrate into the cavity created by the removed sections. In some aspects, multiple layers are provided to increase the comfort, support, and/or fit provided to the wearer of the insert. Further, some embodiments include a removable backing that, when removed, exposes an adhesive that may be utilized to, inter alia, adhere an original insole of footwear to the top of the footwear insert such that the user's foot is still in contact with the original insole when wearing the footwear.
US10441025B2	Protective garment having a thermally reflective layer Protective garment for environments having high radiant heat loads and/or high conductive heat loads is described. A protective footwear article and method of making includes an upper with an opaque outer layer; an inner layer; and a thermally reflective layer positioned between the outer layer and the inner layer, the thermally reflective layer having a reflective surface facing the outer layer.
US10441018B2	Helmet for communications A helmet for communications comprising: a helmet member for at least partially covering the user's head; a strap for extending around the user's lower jaw and thereby securing the helmet member to the user; wherein the strap comprises a transducer unit for contacting the user's lower jaw and thereby transmitting vibrations to the user.
US10441017B2	User head mounted protection apparatus and method of operating same Disclosed is a user head mounted protection apparatus. The user head mounted protection apparatus includes a warning element management device that identifies a warning element by using sensing information generated by sensing a nearby object to generate location information of the warning element, a sensor that detects a rotation of the user head mounted protection apparatus to generate rotation angle information, a corrector that corrects the location information of the warning element by using the rotation angle information, a sound source processor that binaurally renders a sound source by using the location information of the warning element or the corrected location information, and an output device that outputs the binaurally rendered sound source.
US10441016B2	Insert to hold articles in a cap An insert to hold an article, such as keys, credit cards, money, etc. in a cap is described. The cap may be worn by a user with the insert in place in the cap. The insert includes a head side surface generally opposite of a cap side surface. A first lateral side is generally opposite of a second lateral side. An upper edge is generally opposite of a lower edge. An extension extends from the upper edge. The extension defines a holding region.
US10441015B2	Hat with hanging element The present disclosure may relate to a hat. The hat may include a cavity with an opening configured to receive a head of a user. The hat may also include an adjustable band around the opening of the cavity that may adjust a volume of the cavity between a first volume and a second volume. The hat may also include a hanging element coupled to the cavity and configured to be substantially concealed within the cavity at either the first volume or the second volume, be substantially disposed outside of the cavity at either the first volume or the second volume, and transition back and forth between being substantially concealed within the cavity and being substantially disposed outside of the cavity at either the first volume or the second volume.
US10441008B2	Protection device The present invention provides body part protectors which comprise multiple discrete and optionally removable/replaceable shock absorbing elements. The body part protectors of this invention offer superior protection to body parts such as knees and elbows as compared to other devices and/or those devices which comprise single shock absorbing elements.
US10440998B2	Electric cartridge for an electronic cigarette and method for making the electric cartridge The electric cartridge for an electronic cigarette of this invention comprises a piece of flexible substrate material comprising at least a flexible film which mounts an electrically conductive network in the form of an array and defining a plurality of resistive zones (pixels) and a plurality of power supply pins for supplying one or more electric currents and connected to the resistive zones. The resistive zones define heating means and are grouped into distinct modules. Each module corresponds to an uninterrupted portion of the electrically conductive network and comprises at least one resistive zone and respective power supply pins. The electric cartridge includes a plurality of portions of aromatic substance positioned on at least one face of the piece of flexible material. Each portion is associated with a resistive zone and positioned in proximity to a heating surface of the respective resistive zone.
US10440995B2	Aerosol delivery device including substrate with improved absorbency properties The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides substrates for use in storing an aerosol precursor liquid and/or transporting the liquid to a heater for vaporization. The substrates can be formed form fibers that can provide improved absorbency and/or transport qualities. Multi-layer substrates are also disclosed and can include a high absorbency layer and a hydrophobic layer.
US10440994B2	Vaporizer assembly for e-vaping device A vaporizer assembly for an e-vaping device includes a heater coil structure, a set of electrical lead structures coupled to opposite ends of the heater coil structure, and a non-conductive connector structure connected to each of the electrical lead structures, such that the electrical lead structures are coupled together independently of the heater coil structure. The vaporizer assembly may contact a dispensing interface structure through the heater coil structure. The vaporizer assembly may heat pre-vapor formulation drawn from a reservoir by the dispensing interface. The heater coil structure may define a surface, and the vaporizer assembly may apply a mechanical force to the dispensing interface structure, such that the heater coil structure is in compression with the dispensing interface structure and the heater coil structure surface is substantially flush with a surface of the dispensing interface structure. The heater coil structure may define a three-dimensional surface.
US10440986B2	System utilizing compressed smokeable product The invention includes a device for smoking smokeable material. The device has a housing with a burning section and an inhalation section, a pusher in the housing for pushing the smokeable material through the burning section. The device also has a threaded rotatable shaft for driving smokeable material towards the first end of the housing as the smokeable material is smoked, and a connector for connecting the mouthpiece to the threaded rotatable shaft, where the connector is rotatable relative to the housing, so that rotation of the connector rotates the threaded rotatable shaft relative to the housing.
US10440983B2	Microcapsules comprising lutein or lutein ester The invention relates to a microcapsule comprising at least one active substance selected from lutein and lutein esters embedded in a matrix comprising fish gelatine and optionally one or more other matrix components, wherein the content of said at least one active substance calculated as free lutein is from 0.5 to 25% of total weight of the microcapsule, and which microcapsule does not comprise any added emulsifier.The invention further relates to a process of preparing the microcapsule as well as uses and products comprising the microcapsule.
US10440982B2	Cereal-based infant nutrition with fibre Cereal-based semi-liquid and/or semi-solid compositions suitable for supporting the transition period wherein the infant changes from a diet consisting of breast milk or liquid infant formula to solid adult foods, comprising uronic acid carbohydrates with a degree of polymerization (DP) between 10 and 300 and also uses thereof are disclosed.
US10440979B2	Apparatus and methods for at least semi-autonomous meal storage and cooking via fluid immersion A method of using a fluid-immersion storage and cooking device having a thermal container that defines a first volume and a second volume includes disposing a first food item in the first volume. A second food item and a third food item are disposed in the second volume in a first position and a second position, respectively. A volume of fluid having a first temperature is circulated through the first volume to transfer thermal energy to the first food item. After a predetermined time, at least a portion of the volume of fluid is heated to a second temperature. A portion of the volume of fluid is conveyed to the second volume such that (1) the second food item is substantially submerged in the portion of the volume of fluid and (2) the third food item is disposed substantially outside of the portion of the volume of fluid.
US10440976B2	Method for preparing coated, whole cottonseed from which germination function is removed The present invention relates to a method of preparing high-strength coated whole cottonseed for livestock feed, wherein the germination ability of whole cottonseed is removed using high-temperature and high-pressure steam, and the surface of whole cottonseed is coated with gelatinized starch with high viscosity, which is prepared by gelatinizing starch in a preparation process. According the method of the present invention, since the germination ability of whole cottonseed is removed, release of foreign genes into the domestic environment, which may occur when using whole cottonseed for livestock feed, may be fundamentally prevented, and thus the method of the present invention may contribute to protection of domestic plant genetic resources. In addition, the use of gelatinized starch with increased viscosity, which is prepared by gelatinizing starch in a preparation process, may dramatically increase the selection range of coating agents. Furthermore, since coated whole cottonseed can be prepared without a drying process, which consumes a large amount of energy, the method of the present invention may increase economic effect by resolving economic problems, such as high production costs, encountered when preparing whole cottonseed for livestock feed.
US10440973B2	Long-keep cream without preservatives A method is proposed for producing a milk product, preferably a cream product having an average particle size less than 3 μm, which has a shelf life of at least 4 weeks, but does not contain preservatives.
US10440970B2	Grain management based on nutrient characteristics A grain management system can condition a grain mass held in grain storage equipment using environmental inputs, varietal inputs, nutrient inputs, and/or characteristic inputs. The inputs can provide a customized grain conditioning strategy or program to maintain nutritional attributes of the grain mass and/or prevent overdrying, mold, decomposition, or other spoilage of the grain mass. The inputs can be entered by a user or automatically detected or entered based on present or historical data associated with the grain or grain conditioning equipment.
US10440959B2	Virus-based biopesticide The invention relates to synthetic combinations of two or more pure genotypes cloned from the Colombian wild-type Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus isolate (NPV003=SfCOL) and to biopesticidal compositions having an active ingredient comprising at least two synthetic combinations and, optionally, a S. frugiperda granulovirus. The compositions of the invention may contain ultraviolet protectants, diluents, coating polymers, surfactants and/or pH regulators and are effective for the biological control of insects in crops, such as corn, rice, cotton, sugarcane and grasses.
US10440954B2	Increased almond yields with brassinosteroid application Methods for increasing the yield of almond trees by the application of certain plant growth regulators are disclosed.In one embodiment, a brassinosteroid is applied to a variety of the species Prunus dulcis in the growth stage two weeks after full bloom. In another embodiment, the almond trees are treated at the time of petal fall with a brassinosteroid during the formation the ovaries and nutlets. Non-brassinosteroid plant growth regulators such as Forchlorfenuron and Gibberellic acid may be applied with a brassinosteroid to further promote growth.The inventors hypothesize that changes in reproductive physiology such as increasing pollen tube growth and pollen germination rates that ultimately result in greater crop yield are promoted by applications of brassinosteroids.
US10440951B2	Mixtures of sabadilla alkaloids and spinosyns and uses thereof The present invention is directed to pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and spinosyns and methods of controlling pests including insects and mites by application of pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and spinosyns.
US10440942B2	Sprayer systems with drop apparatuses having retractable arms A sprayer system is provided for a work machine that includes a boom, a fluid source, and an air source. The sprayer system includes a spray device configured to selectively apply a fluid from the fluid source to an agricultural crop. A retractable arm includes a first arm segment, a second arm segment, a first hinge joint positioned such that the first arm segment is selectively foldable relative to the boom, and a second hinge joint positioned such that the second arm segment is selectively foldable relative to the first arm segment. An actuation assembly coupled to the retractable arm selectively folds and unfolds the first arm segment relative to the boom at the first hinge joint and the second arm segment relative to the first arm segment at the second hinge joint based on air pressure from the air source.
US10440936B2	Livestock registration system and registration method for livestock A livestock registration system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image data acquisition unit, a signal acquisition unit, and a registration unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires image data obtained by capturing an image of a target livestock animal. The signal acquisition unit acquires an individual identification signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus attached to the target livestock animal, the individual identification signal including an identifier for identifying the target livestock animal. The registration unit registers the identifier of the individual identification signal and the image data in association with each other, the identifier of the individual identification signal being received at a reception timing corresponding to a timing at which the image of the target livestock animal is captured.
US10440932B2	Apparatus for maintaining a pet waste receptacle Described herein is an apparatus including a flexible sheet of material including a plurality of strips; and an adhesive system that releasably couples the flexible sheet of material to a surface of a pet waste receptacle.
US10440930B1	Hybrid mushroom strain J15987 and derivatives thereof A hybrid mushroom culture of Agaricus bisporus, designated as strain J15987, includes a representative culture of the strain, which has been deposited under NRRL Accession No. 67646.
US10440928B1	Soybean cultivar S170174 A soybean cultivar designated S170174 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S170174, to the plants of soybean cultivar S170174, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S170174, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S170174. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170174. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170174, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S170174 with another soybean cultivar.
US10440913B2	Celery cultivar TBG 29 A celery cultivar, designated TBG 29, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar TBG 29, to the plants of celery cultivar TBG 29 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar TBG 29 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a celery plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic celery plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to celery cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 29, to methods for producing other celery cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 29 and to the celery plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid celery seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar TBG 29 with another celery cultivar.
US10440908B2	Soybean variety 01064245 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064245. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064245. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064245 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064245 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10440905B2	System and method for irrigation management using VRI ray casting algorithms within irrigation machine workflows The present invention discloses a system and method for irrigation management using VRI ray casting algorithms within irrigation machine workflows. According to an exemplary preferred embodiment, the present invention may preferably include: a position sensor which determines a position of the irrigation system; a memory system storing a prescribed watering plan for a field; and a variable rate mapping program using VRI ray casting algorithms.
US10440898B2	Brush chipper assembly with counter-rotating feeder rollers and actuating chipping heads A brush chipper assembly has a housing and a feeder subassembly connected to the housing. The feeder subassembly includes opposed, first and second feeder rollers. When the feeder subassembly is actuated, the first feeder roller is operable to rotate in a first direction and the second feeder roller is operable to rotate in a second direction (opposite to the first direction) so as to draw the brush into the housing. Also provided is a chipping subassembly substantially contained within the housing behind the feeder subassembly. The chipping subassembly including first and second, opposed chipping heads, each of which carrying cutting teeth for chipping the brush. When the chipping subassembly is actuated, the first chipping head is operable to rotate in a third direction and the second chipping head is operable to rotate in a fourth direction (opposite to the second direction).
US10440897B2	Grafting method A grafting method includes: making a cut surface of a scion and a cut surface of a rootstock contact with each other, and disposing sheet-like thermoplastic resin films facing each other across a contact part; and covering a periphery of the contact part with the thermoplastic resin films by ultrasonically welding the thermoplastic resin films.
US10440895B2	Motor-drive for application of wrap material to crop packages A system and a method for moving wrap material in a baler are described. A motor can be secured to the baler and can be configured to rotate a wrap roller of the baler. The motor can be caused to rotate the wrap roller in a first direction, such that the wrap roller moves the wrap material towards a crop package contained by the baler. The motor can also be caused, during application of the wrap material to the crop package, to brake the wrap roller relative to the first roller direction or to rotate the wrap roller in a second direction that is opposite the first direction, in order to stretch the wrap material.
US10440886B2	Feedrate control with slip compensation A prescribed feedrate of material through the mobile harvesting machine and an actual feedrate of material through the mobile harvesting machine are detected, and a feedrate difference between the prescribed feedrate and the actual feedrate is identified. Wheel slippage of the mobile harvesting machine is also detected. Based on the feedrate difference between the prescribed feedrate and the actual feedrate and based on the detected wheel slippage, a speed control signal that controls speed of the mobile harvesting machine is generated.
US10440885B2	Mower blade Mower blade utilizes a blade portion formed on the blade main body and an air circulator portion formed on the blade main body and generating airflow via rotation centered around the vertically-oriented axis of the mower blade. The blade portion is arranged in a length-direction end portion of the blade main body and extends along a predetermined area in the length-direction. The air circulator portion is located opposite the blade portion in a width direction, has a rising upward portion, and extends along a predetermined area in the length-direction. A boundary portion is arranged between the blade main body and a rising upward portion of the air circulator portion has a portion inclined or angled with respect to the blade portion such that, beginning at the length-direction end portion, a distance between the boundary portion and the blade portion increases along the length-direction and moving toward the vertically-oriented axis. A height of an upper end portion of the air circulator portion measured from a surface of the blade main body is a substantially constant height.
US10448549B2	Component supply device, component mounting system, and component mounting method A component supply device of the disclosure includes: a loader being capable of accommodating a plurality of stick cases in a stacked state, each of the plurality of stick cases being capable of accommodating a plurality of electronic components, each of the plurality of stick cases having an opening in an end portion in a longitudinal direction; a component transporter moving one or more electronic components supplied from the plurality of stick cases to a predetermined component supply position; and a stick case detector detecting presence or absence of one or more stick cases in the loader.
US10448542B2	Server rack-dedicated vertical vortex airflow server cooling A vortex-producing fan controller uses a variable-speed vortex-producing fan to create a helical airflow within a server rack that couples with cooled air entering a data center through a floor opening situated near a bottom of the server rack and that draws the cooled air up through the server rack in a helical pattern. An input air temperature of air entering the variable-speed vortex-producing fan is measured using readings from a fan input air temperature sensor positioned above the server rack. A speed of the variable-speed vortex-producing fan and a flow rate of the cooled air coupled within the helical airflow up through the server rack are adjusted responsive to changes in the input air temperature of the air entering the variable-speed vortex-producing fan.
US10448540B2	Ultrathin heat dissipation structure An ultrathin heat dissipation structure includes a copper clad sheet, a cover, a number of bond blocks, and a phase-change material. The copper clad sheet is given containing grooves and a number of ribs round each containing groove. The containing grooves are formed by stamping. The copper clad sheet includes an insulation layer. The copper clad layer is inner surface of the containing groove. The bond blocks are arranged on the ribs and cover is pressed to the stamped copper clad sheet and secured using the bond blocks. The containing grooves form sealing cavities and the phase-change material in the sealed cavity gathers and transfers out any heat generated by components.
US10448534B2	Cable retainer gate for retaining cable on wire basket and method of using same A cable retainer gate and associated methods. The cable retainer gate has an attachment portion for selectively and removably attaching to a cable basket. A retainer portion of the cable retainer gate is configured for retaining cables on the cable basket. The cable retainer gate is movable between open and closed positions to permit placement and removal of cables on the basket.
US10448531B2	Display device A novel foldable and highly portable display device is provided. Further, a novel display device capable of displaying information or the like on a seamless large screen is provided. The display device includes a flexible display panel, a first housing provided with a storage portion that includes a space in which pulled one end of the display panel is stored, a folding mechanism connected to the first housing, and a second housing connected to the folding mechanism. The other end of the display panel is connected to the second housing so that the display panel can be drawn in accordance with an opening operation of the folding mechanism and stored in accordance with a closing operation of the folding mechanism.
US10448527B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device includes a display panel having two flat portions and a bend portion between the two flat portions; a hinge substantially aligned with and beneath the bend portion of the display panel; a plurality of slidable platforms between the hinge and a bottom surface of the bend portion of the display panel; and a repeatable adhering component between one of the slidable platforms and the bottom surface of the bend portion of the display panel, wherein the repeatable adhering component comprises a self-adhesive pad or a weak adhesive.
US10448522B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device includes: a display panel including a folding portion that is foldable about a folding line; a metal plate on the display panel, the metal plate having substantially the same shape on a plane as the display panel; a jig supporting the display panel and the metal plate; and a magnetic member between the metal plate and the jig.
US10448521B2	Rollable display device A rollable display device includes: a rollable display including a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end; a first slider including a roller that supports the first end of the rollable display, the first slider being configured to roll the rollable display about the roller; and a second slider including a support that supports the second end of the rollable display while bending the second end of the rollable display, the second slider being slideable relative to the first slider.
US10448511B2	Component sheet and method of singulating A sheet of electronic components includes a plurality of electronic components. A plurality of connecting members mechanically connects the electronic components together. A first fiducial marker is located at a first predetermined location on the sheet and a second fiducial marker is located at a second predetermined location on the sheet.
US10448509B2	Electronic device assemblies including conductive vias having two or more conductive elements Electronic devices include a substrate with first and second pairs of conductive traces extending in or on the substrate. A first conductive interconnecting member extends through a hole in the substrate and communicates electrically with a first trace of each of the first and second pairs, while a second conductive interconnecting member extends through the hole and communicates electrically with the second trace of each of the first and second pairs. The first and second interconnecting members are separated from one another by a distance substantially equal to a distance separating the conductive traces in each pair. Electronic device assemblies include a transmitting device configured to transmit a differential signal through a conductive structure to a receiving device. The conductive structure includes first and second pair of conductive traces with first and second interconnecting members providing electrical communication therebetween.
US10448503B1	Coplaner LED array and driver assembly An LED array and driver design minimizes space requirements and simplifies assembly, while reducing costs. A printed circuit board with LED driver electronics has a central opening through which the LED array is mounted. In one form the LED array is a chip on board (COB) array, the array being circular and fitting closely within the central opening of the PCB. Four integral leaf springs are formed into the flat PCB, in position to push the LED array down when the PCB and LED array are attached against the heat sink. Two of the springs have electrical contacts that make contact with those of the LED array. With the LED array and driver circuit on the face of a light assembly, the space rear of the driver circuit is free to be open to air flow for cooling.
US10448484B1	Integrated digital lighting controller A luminaire includes: at least one digital sensor; an illumination element; a main power supply including driver functions configured to provide power to the illumination element; and an integrated digital lighting controller in communication with the main power supply and the at least one digital sensor. The integrated digital lighting controller configured to: receive digital signals corresponding to a sensed parameter from the at least one digital sensor; determine a lighting characteristic for the illumination element based at least in part on the digital signals from the at least one digital sensor; and generate one or more control signals to the main power supply to control the driver functions to provide power to the illumination element to produce the determined lighting characteristic.
US10448482B2	System and method for automatically creating and operating a functional association of lights A system and a method for automatically creating and operating a functional association of multiple luminaires is proposed. The system consists of two or more devices that each contain one or more sensors, logic processing circuitry and communication circuitry that is able to transmit messages between devices. The set of devices that constitute the members of a functional association is selected from a larger set of candidate devices. The selection process involves each device comparing the sensor data received from neighboring devices relating to occupancy and daylight sensors against the device's occupancy and daylight sensor data.
US10448477B2	Adjustable lighting system A light bulb or fixture design is presented which provides adjustability of color temperature, adjustability of brightness, and multiple location remote control in a scalable way that is thus ideal for retrofit installations, not requiring any rewiring, installation, or setup, other than insertion of light bulbs. Rather than using any Wifi, hand held remotes, or other RF communication links, operation is controlled using only the switch or switches that are part of the existing wiring. Operation is intuitive. It allows for unified dimming and/or color temperature control of extremely large numbers of bulbs of the invention without regard for heat dissipation limitations at the physical locations of control.
US10448475B2	Driving circuit and illumination device A driving circuit for driving a light emitting diode module includes: a control module; a driving module electrically connected to the control module and the light emitting diode module for providing a plurality of driving signals to drive the light emitting diode module; and a detecting module electrically connected to the light emitting diode and the control module, the detecting module detecting a voltage or a current of the light emitting diode module and transmitting a detecting signal corresponding to the voltage or the current of the light emitting diode module to the control module. The control module adjusts a waveform of at least one driving signal of the driving signals for driving the light emitting diode module to illuminate uniformly at a driving time interval of the at least one driving signal of the driving signals.
US10448470B2	Systems and methods for dimming control using triac dimmers System and method for dimming control of one or more light emitting diodes. An example system includes one or more signal processing components configured to receive a first signal associated with a TRIAC dimmer, process information associated with the first signal, determine whether the TRIAC dimmer is in a first condition or a second condition, generate a second signal based on at least information associated with the first signal, and send the second signal to a switch. The one or more signal processing components are further configured to, if the TRIAC dimmer is determined to be in the first condition, generate the second signal to cause the switch to be opened and closed corresponding to a modulation frequency.
US10448468B2	LED backlight driving circuit and liquid crystal display An LED backlight driving circuit includes a first and a second LED strings; a first and a second capacitors; a boosted circuit having an input connected to a power source and an output connected to the first and second capacitors and the first and second LED strings; an LED controller electrically connected to the boosted circuit so as to control, in a first period of an operation cycle, the boosted circuit to supply power to the first branch and to charge the first capacitor and also to supply power to the second branch and to charge the second capacitor; and in a second period, LED controllers controls the boosted circuit to cut off the first and second branches to make the first and second capacitors discharge to the first and second branches, respectively. Also provided is a liquid crystal display that includes the LED backlight driving circuit.
US10448465B2	Multi-line microwave heating system with optimized launcher configuration A microwave heating system configured to heat a plurality of articles and a process for using the same is provided. The heating system includes at least two laterally-spaced parallel convey lines and two or more groups of microwave launchers configured to heat articles transported along each convey line. The groups of microwave launchers can include pairs of oppositely disposed launchers that are spaced apart from one another along the axis of convey. When the system includes multiple convey lines, adjacent launcher groups are staggered relative to one another in the convey direction. Heating articles, such as foodstuffs or medical fluids or equipment in such a system, minimize undesirable interference between launchers of adjacent groups and provide a more uniform heating field.
US10448463B2	Induction heating method and system An induction heating system is disclosed. The system has an electrically conducting load and an inverter circuit with a switching section and a resonant section, wherein the switching section can generate an AC current from an AC input voltage incorporating a plurality of half-waves. The resonant section has an induction heating coil adapted to receive the AC current for generating a corresponding time-varying magnetic field in order to generate heat in the electrically conducting load by inductive coupling. The amount of heat generated in the load depends on the electric power delivered to the load through the induction heating coil, which depends on the frequency of the AC current. A method for managing an induction heating system also is disclosed.
US10448457B2	Reducing preheat time in an oven A system and method for preheating a cooking chamber of an oven appliance. The oven appliance may include a bake heating element, a broil heating element, and a convection heating assembly including a convection heating element and a fan. The heating elements are operated simultaneously and/or in different combinations in order to rapidly preheat the cooking chamber. For example, the preheat cycle may include alternating between a first heating routine for a first time period and a second heating routine for a second time period. Preheating the cooking chamber in this manner will reduce oven preheat time, ensure proper heat balance, and improve overall cooking performance.
US10448453B2	Virtual sensor system Embodiments are generally directed to a virtual sensor system. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a transmitter to transmit data and a receiver to receive data; and one or more sensors. Upon receiving a measurement request from a requestor, the measurement request including one or more measurement requirements including at least one type of sensor measurement, the mobile electronic device is to compare the one or more measurement requirements against at least sensor capabilities of the mobile electronic device. Upon determining that there is a match between the sensor capabilities and the one or more measurement requirements, the mobile electronic device is to perform a measurement with at least one of the one or more sensors to produce sensor data, and transmit a response including the sensor data to the requestor.
US10448445B2	Establishing simultaneous radio connection between a user equipment and two eNodeBs A first radio station (1) requests or instructs a second radio station (2) to prepare for communication with a radio terminal (3) on a second cell (20) while a first radio connection on a first cell (10) with the radio terminal (3) is established. Further, the first radio station (1) instructs the radio terminal (3) or the second radio station (2) to establish a second radio connection on the second cell (20) with the radio terminal (3) while maintaining the radio connection on the first cell (10) with the radio terminal (3). It is thus for example possible to enable a single radio terminal to establish radio connections with cells of a plurality of radio stations, in order to achieve carrier aggregation of cells operated by different radio stations.
US10448443B2	Efficient transition between a trusted WLAN and a WWAN Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may prevent rejected attachment requests when connecting to a trusted wireless local area network (WLAN) and from a wireless wide area network (WWAN). For example, an attachment packet data network (PDN) connection may be maintained with the WWAN while connected to the trusted WLAN. In some cases, the connection used to maintain the attachment may be an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) connection. Alternatively, the UE may determine that the WLAN connection is a trusted connection and deactivate the WWAN connection. Should the WLAN become unavailable the UE may reactivate the connection with the WWAN.
US10448436B2	Multi-egress backhaul A method for providing increased backhaul capacity in an ad-hoc mesh network is disclosed. The method involves attaching a mobile base station in an ad-hoc mesh network to a macro cell; measuring at least one of a backhaul signal quality with the macro cell and a throughput to the macro cell; reporting information, including a signal quality parameter, a physical position of the mobile base station, a cell identifier of the macro cell, and the measured throughput, to a coordinating node; determining if the connection between the mobile base station and the macro cell is currently in use by the ad-hoc mesh network, and whether the link exceeds a minimum quality threshold; and sending, to the mobile base station, an instruction to advertise a connection from the mobile base station to the macro cell to other nodes in the ad-hoc mesh network.
US10448434B1	Dedicated wireless network for security and automation system Techniques are described herein for establishing two wireless networks at a premises, a dedicated network configured to be used by devices of an automation and security system of the premises and a user network configured to be used by devices associated with users. The dedicated network may be more rigorously secured than the user network. The dedicated network may be secured in such a way that computing devices associated with users are not permitted to access the dedicated network. In this manner, the dedicated network may be prevented from becoming compromised. In some examples, a contention management entity may mediate network traffic scheduling between the dedicated network and the user network. The dedicated network may be configured to give deference to traffic being communicated across the user network to maintain a quality of service for end users of the user network.
US10448432B1	Frequency domain PRACH filter for PRACH signal recovery Systems and methods which provide for detection of a signal using resource elements in the frequency domain where the signal for which detection is provided is multiplexed with other signals having subcarrier spacing that is different than the signal for which detection is provided are disclosed. Embodiments may provide for detection of a physical random access channel (PRACH) signal in a cellular radio communication system using resource elements in the frequency domain, wherein the PRACH signal is multiplexed with signals of other channels (e.g., data and/or control channel signals) of the cellular radio communication system. A frequency domain filter, such as implementing inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) with down-sampling using indices for PRACH recovery, may be utilized to extract PRACH samples from frequency domain resource elements provided in a resource grid corresponding to a different subcarrier spacing than that of the PRACH.
US10448429B2	Method for performing, by terminal, random access procedure over network in which multiple communication systems interwork, and apparatus therefor The method for performing a random access procedure by a user equipment in a network in which a plurality of communication systems interwork may comprise: establishing an association with an access point (AP) of a neighboring wireless LAN communication system if it is impossible to perform a direct uplink transmission to a cellular communication system of the plurality of communication systems or that the UE is located in an area where direct uplink transmission is not possible; transmitting, to the AP, a first message including a random access preamble sequence; receiving a second message from a eNode B of the cellular communication system in response to the first message; transmitting, to the AP, a third message including the received second message and a radio resource control (RRC) connection request; and receiving, from the eNode B, a fourth message related to an RRC connection setup in response to the third message.
US10448426B2	Enabling time-overlapping communication using CSMA/CA and OFDMA A method for an access point of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The access point is adapted to use a communication channel resource to communicate with a plurality of first wireless communication devices using orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and to communicate with a plurality of second wireless communication devices using carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA). The communication channel resource comprises a bandwidth of frequencies, the bandwidth of frequencies being dividable into a plurality of sub-carriers for OFDMA and a part of the bandwidth of frequencies forming a primary channel for CSMA/CA. The method comprises transmitting a downlink packet over all frequencies of the bandwidth for triggering one or more of the first wireless communication devices to perform OFDMA based uplink transmission. The downlink packet comprises an indication of an allocation of one or more sub-carriers to each of the triggered first wireless communication devices for the OFDMA based uplink transmission, and the allocated sub-carriers for OFDMA and the primary channel for CSMA/CA are non-overlapping. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and access point are also disclosed.
US10448425B2	Systems and methods for traffic-aware medium access selection Diverse traffic types can be efficiently communicated in a simultaneous manner by dynamically selecting between contention-based and scheduling-based media access control (MAC) communication schemes. Such a mechanism may be particularly beneficial in networks having a contention-based access resources and scheduling based access resources. Contention-based resources and scheduling based resources may occur over a common period, and may be orthogonal in the frequency domain and/or in the code domain. The dynamic selection may be based on a traffic characteristic or a network characteristic, and may be performed on a packet-by-packet basis. The selection criteria may be updated dynamically to adapt to changing network conditions, and may be communicated to the various transmitters via control channels or higher layer signaling.
US10448424B2	Method and apparatus for use of simultaneous multiple channels in the dynamic frequency selection band in wireless networks The present invention relates to wireless networks and more specifically to systems and methods for selecting available channels free of radar signals from a plurality of 5 GHz radio frequency channels. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a standalone multi-channel DFS master that includes a switch and embedded processor that are programmed to switch a 5 GHz radio transceiver to a first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a beacon generator to generate a beacon in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a radar detector to scan for the radar signal in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channel, and then repeat these steps for each of the other channels of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels during a single beacon transmission duty cycle.
US10448418B2	Decreasing free-riding data traffic in uplink scheduling A method and node for uplink scheduling of a plurality of wireless devices in a communications network is provided. The method includes estimating, for each of a plurality of wireless devices, a buffer size corresponding to each of at least one radio bearer group (RBG), each of the at least one RBG being used by the wireless device to carry traffic via multiple bearers. The method further includes determining an uplink resource maximum allotment for each wireless device based, at least in part, on the estimated buffer sizes and a priority weight of each RBG used by the plurality of wireless devices. The priority weight of each RBG is based at least in part on quality of service (QoS) requirements of bearers carried by the RBG.
US10448404B2	MMW physical layer downlink channel scheduling and control signaling A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) (e.g., a millimeter WTRU (mWTRU)) may receive a first control channel using a first antenna pattern. The WTRU may receive a second control channel using a second antenna pattern. The WTRU tray demodulate and decode the first control channel. The WTRU may demodulate and decode the second control channel. The WTRU may determine, using at least one of: the decoded first control channel or the second control channel, beam scheduling information associated with the WTRU and whether the WTRU is scheduled for an mmW segment. The WTRU may form a receive beam using the determined beam scheduling information. The WTRU receive the second control channel using the receive beam. The WTRU determine, by demodulating and decoding the second control channel, dynamic per-TTI scheduling information related to a data channel associated with the second control channel.
US10448399B2	Method for transferring data in wireless communication system that supports device-to-device communication, and apparatus therefor Disclosed are a method for transferring data in a wireless communication system that supports device-to-device communication, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for performing, by a device, data transfer in a wireless communication system that supports device-to-device communication, comprises the steps of: broadcasting, at a first sub-carrier, a ready-to-forward (RTF) signal for advertising that the device holds data to transfer; receiving, at a second sub-carrier, a forward-request (FR) signal for requesting transfer of the data from another device; and broadcasting the data after a predetermined time, wherein the first sub-carrier and the second sub-carrier are determined on the basis of sequence numbers of the data, respectively.
US10448396B2	Methods and apparatus in a wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving user data on a non-legacy carrier A base station (20A) is configured to transmit user data to a wireless device (16A) upon a first carrier (22). The base station (20A) identifies, from a set of transmission resources that is nominally allocated for transmission of user data upon the first carrier (22), a subset of transmission resources that is also nominally allocated for transmission of a reference or control signal either by the base station (20A) upon a second carrier (24) or by a neighboring base station (20B) upon the first carrier (22). The base station (20A) selectively transmits user data to the wireless device (16A) upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of this identified subset of transmission resources. The device (16A) in some embodiments obtains information indicating that the base station (20A) is selectively transmitting user data upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of the subset in this way. Based on this information, the device (16A) recovers user data received upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of the subset of transmission resources.
US10448387B2	Mobile station device, radio communication method and integrated circuit A mobile station device transmits a transport block in an uplink subframe. The mobile station device delivers acknowledgement (ACK) for the transport block to higher layers in a case that the transport block was transmitted by the mobile station device to a base station device and the transport block is disabled based on a physical downlink control channel received in a downlink subframe.
US10448386B2	Method and apparatus for controlling redundant data transmission A method and apparatus for redundantly transmitting dual- or multi-connectivity based-data may be provided. In particular, the method of a user equipment configuring dual connectivity may be provided for redundantly transmitting data. The method may include receiving, from an base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including configuration information for configuring redundant transmission in a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity; configuring the redundant transmission in the PDCP entity for one or more radio bearers; receiving, from the base station, instruction information for instructing whether a redundant transmission operation of the configured PDCP entity is activated; and copying, when the instruction information instructs activation, a PDCP protocol data unit (PDU) in the PDCP entity and transmitting the copied PDCP PDU to different radio link control (RLC) entities to redundantly transmit the same data to a plurality of base stations.
US10448376B2	PUCCH configuration method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) configuration method and apparatus. A user equipment (UE) receives correspondence indication information sent by a base station. Additionally, the UE determines, according to a currently-used correspondence, a PUCCH used to send uplink feedback information of a second cell.
US10448371B2	Wireless base station and frequency allocation method A wireless base station extracts a connection base station which communicates user data with a wireless communication terminal from a plurality of other wireless base stations, and extracts an allocation candidate of a wireless frequency regarding communication of the user data between the connection base station and the wireless communication terminal based on information of an utilization result of a wireless frequency regarding communication of the user data of each of the other wireless base stations.
US10448370B2	System and method for virtual multi-point transceivers A method embodiment includes receiving, by a network device, a cooperation candidate set (CCS) and determining a cooperation active set (CAS). The CCS includes a plurality of potential cooperating user equipment (CUEs) for selection to the CAS, and the plurality of potential CUEs is selected from a plurality of user equipment (UEs) in the network. The CAS is a set of CUEs selected from the CCS. A target user equipment (TUE) and the set of CUEs form a virtual multipoint transceiver.
US10448369B2	Device and method of handling cyclic prefixes for wireless communication system A communication device of handling at least one cyclic prefix (CP) comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise performing a first communication operation with a BS according to at least one first CP which has at least one first format; receiving a control signal indicating at least one second CP which has at least one second format or indicating no CP from the BS, wherein the at least one first format is different from the at least one second format; and performing a second communication operation with the BS according to the at least one second CP or using no CP according to the control signal.
US10448367B2	Method for supporting flexible resource allocation in wireless communication system and device therefor The present document is for flexibly resource allocation in a wireless LAN system. To this end, an STA prepares resource allocation information in which data is to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs by using an orthogonal frequency divisional multiple access (OFDMA) scheme or a multiple user MIMO (MU-MIMO) scheme, and transmits the data to the plurality of STAs according to the resource allocation information. The resource allocation information preferably includes a group ID indicating the plurality of STAs, a resource allocation bitmap having a format in common with the plurality of STAs, resource allocation information for each of the plurality of STAs and resource allocation sequence information indicating a resource allocation order of the STAs in the group.
US10448363B2	Base station, user terminal, and communication control method A base station includes a controller configured to perform a process of transmitting configuration information for a user terminal having a group communication function specified in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The configuration information includes specific subframe information indicating a specific subframe capable of constituting a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for multicast.
US10448356B1	Mobile device location anomaly detection based on non-location information A location anomaly for a mobile device can be detected using non-location information from the mobile device. The non-location information does not include data from a location based device, such as a GPS. A probabilistic model is created using historical non-location information accumulated from the mobile device. Current non-location data is compared with the probabilistic model to determine a probability associated with the current non-location information. If the probability is less than a predetermined or configurable threshold, a location anomaly is detected. A notification of the location anomaly may be displayed and/or transmitted in response to detecting the location anomaly.
US10448349B2	Cell ID determination method and device in wireless communication system Provided are a cell ID determination method and apparatus for a receiving device in a wireless communication system. The cell ID determination method for a receiving device may include: receiving a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal; generating a first joint signal by concatenating the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal; calculating the correlation between the first joint signal and each of a preset number of cell IDs; and determining a cell ID using the calculated correlations.
US10448346B2	Synchronization signal design Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for the indication of communication information using a correlation between synchronization signals transmitted by a base station for cell acquisition. The communication information may include a physical channel timing parameter such as synchronization periodicity, a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) periodicity, a beam sweep periodicity, or a cyclic prefix (CP) type. Communication information may also indicate the presence of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission or a mobility reference signal (MRS) transmission. The correlation may be a phase shift between multiple signals or may be based on precoding matrices used during transmission processing of the synchronization signals across subcarriers and antenna ports.
US10448343B2	Transmission Power Management A transmission power management method is disclosed for a wireless communication device (WCD), wherein the WCD is configured to operate in a simultaneously connected mode in relation to a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) served by respective network nodes. The method comprises dynamically determining a transmission power distribution for the plurality of RATs subject to a maximum transmission power constraint of the WCD and causing application of the determined transmission power distribution for the WCD. Causing application of the determined transmission power distribution may comprise transmitting a respective sounding signal towards the respective network node, wherein a respective signal level of the sounding signal is indicative of the determined transmission power distribution. Alternatively or additionally, causing application of the determined transmission power distribution may comprise transmitting an or implicit explicit request for application of the determined transmission power distribution towards the respective network node. Yet alternatively or additionally, causing application of the determined transmission power distribution may comprise autonomously configuring the WCD to apply the determined transmission power distribution. Corresponding arrangement, wireless communication device and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10448341B2	Communication control apparatus and wireless communication apparatus [Object] To achieve both prevention of harmful interference and promptness of power allocation under conditions in which multiple secondary systems may be managed.[Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a calculation unit configured to calculate a transmit power to be allocated, including a nominal transmit power and a margin for interference avoidance, for one or more secondary systems that secondarily use frequency channels protected for a primary system; and a determination unit configured to determine a variation in a number of secondary systems, and cause the calculation unit to adjust the margin for interference avoidance on a basis of the determined variation.
US10448337B2	Digital signal receiver and method for controlling signal processing in such digital signal receiver A digital signal receiver comprises an iterative decoder configured to decode its input signal using an iterative decoding algorithm, a signal quality detector, configured to detect signal quality of the input signal of the iterative decoder; a power consumption monitor, configured to detect a parameter indicating power consumption of the iterative decoder; a voltage regulator, configured to adjust a supply voltage of the iterative decoder to maintain it within a preset supply voltage range, based on the detected parameter indicating the power consumption of the iterative decoder; and an iteration controller, configured to adjust a maximum iteration number of decoding based on the signal quality of the input signal of the iterative decoder.
US10448335B2	Communicating timing information for a next DIO transmission A network using a routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (“RPL”) can provide timing information for a next destination oriented directed acyclic graph (“DODAG”) information object (“DIO”) packet by including DIO timing information in an RPL packet or a beacon. When a low energy node receives the RPL packet, it may use the DIO timing information to determine a wake time which corresponds to the timing of the next DIO packet. The low energy node may enter a sleep state after determining the wake time and remain in the sleep state until the wake time when it enters an active state and listens for the next DIO packet. Alternatively, DIO slots in a DIO slot frame may be allocated for communicating DIO packets.
US10448333B2	Power saving mode operation method in wireless LAN system, and apparatus for same A method for a station (STA) to operate in a power saving (PS) mode in a wireless LAN system that supports a high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit (HE PPDU), in one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a trigger frame which assigns a resource for transmission of an uplink multi-user (UL MU) PPDU; and determining whether to perform transition to a doze state on the basis of the trigger frame, wherein when the resource is not assigned to the STA through the trigger frame, the STA determines to perform transition to a doze state during a time period determined on the basis of an indicator information value of the trigger frame.
US10448325B2	Device and method for transmitting and receiving data to and from terminal in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a device and method for transmitting and receiving data to and from a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method of operating the terminal in the wireless communication system may include the processes of comparing pre-stored domain name service (DNS) cache information with DNS inquiry information in a DNS inquiry if the DNS inquiry on a host is received from a uniform resource locator (URL) protocol handler, and transmitting internet protocol (IP) address information corresponding to the host to the URL protocol handler according to a compared result.
US10448323B2	Node unit of distributed antenna system A node unit of a distributed antenna system includes a power supply unit for supplying power for operating the node unit, a digital part operated by the power supplied from the power supply unit, the digital part performing digital processing on input relay signals and outputting the digital-processed relay signals, and a controller for disabling an output of the digital part in response to a first control command for instructing a reset of the power supply unit or a second control command for instructing a reset of the digital part.
US10448313B2	Identifying users via mobile hotspots A user device receives a service device identifier via a Wi-Fi scan at a location and transmits the received service device identifier to an management system via a network. If the management computing system receives multiple service device identifiers from the user computing device, the management computing system receives location data of the user computing device and signal strength data associated with each of the service device identifiers. The management system receives location data from the user computing device and determines a particular service device identifier from the multiple identified service device identifiers having a strongest signal strength where the user computing device location data also indicates the user computing device to be located within a geofence boundary associated with the service device. The management system transmits user account information to the selected service system computing device.
US10448312B2	Network awareness of device location Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise detecting a triggering event at a node. Location information of the node can be transmitted to a routing device in response to the triggering event. Location information of the node can be transmitted to a management device. The management device can be configured to control an operation of one or more of the node and the routing device in response to the location information.
US10448307B2	Systems and methods for managing network devices Methods and systems for pairing two or more devices, such as a remote control and a display device, are described. The controlling and managing can occur utilizing one or more network connections or communication paths. An example method can comprise a second device receiving a device identifier of a first device via a first network, receiving the device identifier of the first device via a second network, matching the device identifier received via the first network and via the second network, and establishing an association between the first device and the second device over the first network and the second network.
US10448304B2	Low power node which preferably allocates PCell on carrier in frequency band shared with macro node A low power network node (LPN) and a method performed thereby for providing a primary serving cell to a wireless device associated with the low power network node. The wireless communication network also comprises a neighboring network node, wherein the low power network node and the neighboring network node are configured with a first set of frequency bands B′ and the low power network node is configured with a second set of frequency bands B″. Since the neighboring network node does not use the second set of frequency bands B″, the neighboring network node may not cause interference on carriers of the second set of frequency bands B″.
US10448303B2	Beamforming triggering for wireless devices Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for triggering beamforming for a wireless device. For example, an apparatus for wireless communications generally includes a processing system configured to monitor one or more parameters associated with a link between the apparatus and a wireless device, and update a schedule for performing beamforming training with the wireless device based at least in part on the one or more parameters. The apparatus may further include at least one interface configured to exchange frames between the apparatus and the wireless device as part of the beamforming training performed according to the schedule that is updated.
US10448296B2	Coding of handover messages between nodes of different radio access technologies Techniques are provided for efficient handover of a user equipment (UE) between base stations that operate using different radio access technologies (RATs). A handover message to a UE may indicate that the UE is to be handed over from a source base station operating according to a first RAT to a target base station operating according to a second RAT. The handover message may be configured to be transmitted using the first RAT and include embedded information, that is transparent to the first RAT, for the handover to the target base station using the second RAT.
US10448292B2	Determining handover parameter for transmission by access point A parameter for transmission by an access point is determined in a manner that facilitates access terminal mobility. For example, a cell reselection parameter and/or a handover parameter may be determined based on the quality of a signal from one access point (e.g., a macro cell) at another access point (e.g., a femto cell). In addition, a cell reselection parameter and/or a handover parameter may be determined based on the proximity of one access point (e.g., a femto cell) to another access point (e.g., a macro cell). Through the use of these techniques, a parameter may be determined in a manner that mitigates access terminal ping-ponging between access points and that mitigates outages that may otherwise occur as a result of an access terminal remaining on an access point too long.
US10448288B2	Apparatus and method for communicating voice data in a wireless network An apparatus that uses a method for processing handover by a terminal linked to a wireless network included in heterogeneous wireless networks and conducting a voice call service is provided. The method includes determining whether the terminal is required to perform handover of another wireless network included in the heterogeneous wireless networks, and upon determining that the handover is required, performing handover to the another wireless network, wherein the handover is determined by applying at least one handover condition to each of predetermined operation modes in the terminal conducting the voice call service.
US10448285B2	Mobility handling in ultra dense networks User Equipment (UE) mobility in Ultra Dense Networks (UDNs) is based on communication signal layers, which could include respective data streams in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) domain, a code domain using respective codebooks, and/or a spatial domain, for example. A UE uses candidate layer decoding parameters in applying layer-based decoding to communication signals that it received from network nodes. Layers could be allocated to UEs and transition between network nodes as UEs move between different network service areas. Layers could instead be allocated to network nodes. Layer-based decoding provides for UE mobility without requiring explicit handover processing every time a UE moves between different service areas.
US10448273B2	Method for transmitting a queuing delay measurement report in a wireless communication system and a device therefor The present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a queuing delay measurement report in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a queuing delay measurement configuration including discard timer values and a measurement period from an eNB, wherein each of the discard timer values respectively corresponds to one radio bearer among a set of radio bearers associated with a QCI configured for the UE, determining a queuing delay for the QCI based on queuing delays for PDCP SDUs from the set of radio bearers during the measurement period, selecting a specific discard timer value among the discard timer values, calculating a queuing delay ratio for the QCI by dividing the queuing delay for the QCI by the specific discard timer value, and transmitting a queuing delay measurement report including the QCI and the queuing delay ratio for the QCI to the eNB.
US10448267B2	Incorporation of expert knowledge into machine learning based wireless optimization framework A polytope is generated, based on expert input, in an output parameter space. The polytope constrains network parameters to value ranges that are a subset of possible values represented in the output parameter space. Network traffic data associated with data requests to computer applications based on static policies is collected over a time block. Each static policy in the plurality of static policies comprises parameter values, for network parameters in the set of network parameters, that are constrained to be within the polytope. Machine learning is used to estimate best parameter values for the network parameters that are constrained to be within the polytope. The best parameter values are verified by comparing to parameter values determined from a black box optimization. The best parameter values are propagated to be used by user devices to make new data requests to the computer applications.
US10448266B2	Spatially-resolved quality of data transmission Spatial information associated with a terminal connected to a network via a radio link is monitored. Depending on the spatial information and further depending on spatially-resolved quality of a data transmission, it is selected between operation of the data transmission in the first mode and in a second mode.
US10448259B2	Wireless access point with wildcard SSID response enabling association by client device requesting any SSID and system and method thereof A wireless access point includes an antenna, a connection port providing wired communications with a network, one or more processors, and a storage device having software stored therein. When executed by the one or more processors the software causes the wireless access point to respond to a probe from a client device requesting a specific service set identifier according to a wildcard service set identifier response in order to facilitate wireless association of the client device with the wireless access point regardless of the specific service set identifier requested by the client device, and to provide the client device with wireless access to the network. In this way, the client device is enabled to associate with the wireless access point and receive access to the network without a specific service set identifier requested by the client device being preprogrammed into the wireless access point.
US10448258B2	System and method for virtual radio cell In particular, systems and methods according to present principles configure physical eNodeB to have multiple virtual eNodeBs, where each virtual eNodeBs corresponds to a particular PLMN. Thus, each PLMN has its own virtual eNodeB which is hosted on a common shared physical eNodeB.
US10448255B2	Resource allocation method, transmission method, and apparatuses Embodiments of the present invention disclose a resource allocation method, a transmission method, and apparatuses. The resource allocation method comprises: sending a scheduling instruction, wherein the scheduling instruction is used to instruct a user equipment to prepare for transmission; determining an available carrier in an unlicensed spectrum; and sending a resource allocation message in response to that an available carrier exists, wherein the resource allocation message is used to instruct to allocate the available carrier to the transmission of the user equipment. According to the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present invention, after an available carrier is determined, a resource allocation message is sent again to explicitly inform a user equipment of the available transmission resource, thereby avoiding the problem of resource unavailability and/or resource waste caused by the unpredictability of whether an unlicensed spectrum is available.
US10448252B2	Apparatus and method for controlling access to a telecommunications network A GSM, UMTS or LTE mobile telecommunications network includes a radio access network comprising base stations, and further includes one or more additional access points. An access point may be connected to the network core by an IP transport broadband connection. The access point is configured to appear to the mobile terminal as a base station. Arrangements are disclosed which allow the network to restrict access to the network via these access points whilst also minimizing signaling requirements. The access points may be excluded from traditional Tracking Areas, but associated therewith by a network controller in a mapping in order to notify authorized mobile terminals of the Access Point's existence.
US10448246B2	Network re-convergence point In an example, a re-convergence point is determined for a convergence point in a network. A host is currently connected to the convergence point for example to access the network. Authentication information and a policy for the host is sent to the re-convergence point prior to the host connecting to the re-convergence point to access the network.
US10448244B2	Deployment and configuration of access points Systems and methods for facilitating automated configuration and deployment of APs are provided. According to one embodiment, prior to deployment of a wireless access point (AP) within a private network, a cloud service receives a unique identifier associated with the AP and information regarding a network controller within the private network by which the AP will be managed. A mapping is stored by the cloud service between the unique identifier and the information regarding the network controller. Responsive to deployment within the private network, automated configuration processing is performing by the AP, including: (i) establishing a connection with the cloud service; (ii) querying the cloud service for the information regarding the network controller; (iii) configuring itself with the information regarding the network controller; and (iv) establishing a connection to the network controller.
US10448233B2	Emergency communication in a wireless system The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for enhancing emergency communications in a wireless system. Implementations can be realized with an end-user device, a base station, or a combination thereof. Described implementations facilitate the institution of emergency communications with a heightened level of reliability to increase the safety of an end-user that is relying on a wireless connection to make an emergency communication. Example implementations include local transmission priority elevation, automatic audio channel modification, transmission power boosting, end-user interaction control, modulation scheme adjustment, robust category selection, prioritized resource assignment, and so forth. In some aspects, an end-user device includes a transmission data buffer to store emergency communication data having a first priority level and other communication data having a second priority level. A transmission priority elevation module elevates the first priority level above the second priority level based on the first priority level being associated with the emergency communication data.
US10448220B2	Small cell and small-cell subscriber management method A small-cell subscriber management method includes receiving, by a terminal, a closed subscriber group (CSG) identity broadcast by a small cell, determining whether the CSG identity is in a CSG identity list stored by the terminal, sending, by the terminal, an access request to the small cell when the CSG identity is in the CSG identity list, requesting, by the terminal after successfully accessing the small cell, a current CSG subscriber list of the small cell from the small cell, managing, by the terminal after receiving the current CSG subscriber list of the small cell, the current CSG subscriber list of the small cell, where a management includes adding a subscriber to, removing a subscriber from, or changing a subscriber in the current CSG subscriber list. According to the foregoing method, a management terminal is used to manage the CSG subscriber list to implement convenient management of a small cell.
US10448217B2	Interactive channel A channel distribution system has a channel carrying content, and an interactive receiver which receives content and provides to a user. The interactive receiver has an interface to allow the user to interact with the content. The channel also includes a broadcast label superimposed on the content which invites the user to interact with the content. The label includes an interactive link with a digital instruction containing handling information for the interactive receiver device. The handling information tells the interactive receiver how to handle a user interaction coinciding with the label.
US10448211B1	Organizing groups of physical objects using wireless tags A method includes: receiving, by a first tag and from a second tag, a first message including an identifier of the second tag, the first and second tags configured for coupling to respective first and second physical objects to organize activities; identifying, by the first tag and based on a proximity measure, the second tag for a pairing process to register the second tag as a child tag of the first tag; and providing, by the first tag, a second message with the identifier to a processing device configured to register the second tag as the child tag of the first tag.
US10448202B2	Dynamic boundary setting A method, a system, and a computer program product provide for changing a boundary between zones. This includes setting a location of a boundary which defines a part of a zone; detecting that an object moves into the zone across the boundary; and in response to the detection, changing the location of the boundary in a direction away from the object, compared to the location of the boundary before the change.
US10448191B2	Audio signal processing apparatus and method An audio signal processing apparatus, comprising a memory configured to store a set of pairs of predefined left ear and right ear transfer functions, which are predefined for a plurality of reference positions relative to the listener, a processor configured to determine a pair of left ear and right ear transfer functions on the basis of the set of predefined pairs of predefined left ear and right ear transfer functions for the azimuth angle and the elevation angle of the virtual target position and an adjustment filter configured to filter the input audio signal on the basis of the determined pair of left ear and right ear transfer functions and an adjustment function configured to adjust a delay between the left ear transfer function and the right ear transfer function to obtain a left ear output audio signal and a right ear output audio signal.
US10448185B2	Multi-channel decorrelator, multi-channel audio decoder, multi-channel audio encoder, methods and computer program using a premix of decorrelator input signals A multi-channel decorrelator for providing a plurality of decorrelated signals on the basis of a plurality of decorrelator input signals is configured to premix a first set of N decorrelator input signals into a second set of K decorrelator input signals, wherein KK′. The multi-channel decorrelator can be used in a multi-channel audio decoder. A multi-channel audio encoder provides complexity control information for the multi-channel decorrelator.
US10448170B2	Sound generator and sound generation system A sound generator includes at least one piezoelectric vibrator including a piezoelectric element, a vibration unit in one of a non-contact state not contacting the at least one piezoelectric vibrator and a contact state contacting the at least one piezoelectric vibrator. While in the contact state, the at least one piezoelectric vibrator generates vibration in response to a signal, and causes a contact surface contacted by the vibration unit to vibrate and generate a sound to be emitted from the contact surface. The sound generator can detect driving allowed and driving denied states, and control application of a sound signal in accordance with the two states to the piezoelectric element.
US10448169B2	Sound producing device A sound producing device includes a diaphragm, an armature extending parallel to the diaphragm, a coil having a wire wound around the armature in multiple turns, multiple magnets facing the armature, a yoke supporting the multiple magnets, a transmitting body configured to transmit a vibration of the armature to the diaphragm, a driving-side frame on which the armature, the coil, and the yoke supporting the multiple magnets are mounted, and a vibration-side frame including an opening in which the diaphragm is vibratably supported. The driving-side frame and the vibration-side frame are placed one over the other.
US10448167B2	Acoustic device The present disclosure provides an acoustic device, including a frame and a vibration system fixed to the frame, where the vibration system includes a first vibrating diaphragm fixed to the frame, a voice coil driving the first vibrating diaphragm to vibrate and produce a sound, and a flexible circuit board, the flexible circuit board is fixed to an end of the voice coil which is away from the first vibrating diaphragm, the flexible circuit board includes a first fixing arm and a second fixing arm respectively fixed to the frame and the voice coil body, an elastic arm connecting the first fixing arm and the second fixing arm, and a pad respectively extending from two ends of the second fixing arm, the pad is at least partially located on an inner side of the voice coil body. The acoustic device in the present disclosure has better acoustic performance.
US10448161B2	Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for gestural manipulation of a sound field Gesture-responsive modification of a generated sound field is described.
US10448159B2	Playback device pairing Technology for grouping, consolidating, and pairing individual playback devices with network capability (players) to stimulate a multi-channel listening environment is disclosed. An example method includes receiving an audio signal containing a range of audio frequencies; amplifying, according to a gain parameter, the audio signal to be reproduced by at least one speaker. The example method includes automatically increasing the gain parameter to a higher gain parameter responsive to a determination that no more than a subset of the range of audio frequencies is to be reproduced by the at least one speaker. The example method includes amplifying, according to the higher gain parameter, the audio signal containing no more than the subset of the range of audio frequencies to be reproduced by the at least one speaker.
US10448156B2	Content delivery apparatus, content delivery system and content delivery method A content delivery apparatus includes an external input portion, a content reception portion and a delivery portion. To the external input portion, first content having at least a fundamental component is inputted. The content reception portion receives second content having a fundamental component and an extended component. When delivering the first content, the delivery portion delivers the fundamental component of the first content to a client apparatus more than once.
US10448147B2	Acoustic device having multiple diaphragms The inside of the housing of an acoustic device, such as an earphone, is divided into two or more spaces based on a driver. Diaphragms are disposed to cover a nozzle communicating with an ear of a user and a vent hole formed in the back of the housing. Optimum sound quality can be secured by adjusting the sizes of the spaces formed by the diaphragms and the housing and the locations where the diaphragms are disposed. When the housing is of a sealed type, low-band sound pressure can be effectively prevented from being lost.
US10448144B2	Magnetic field antenna A magnetic field antenna that provides high efficiency and a compact form factor. Electromagnetic shielding of electrical components used in the antenna is provided, and one embodiment of the invention is a wireless battery-free communications earplug.
US10448138B2	Power-saving earphone A power-saving earphone includes a casing, an audio member, a sensing member, and an elastic soft sheath. The casing has first and second grounding paths provided separately. The audio member is disposed in the casing and includes a processing unit electrically connected with the first grounding path. The sensing member includes a controlling unit electrically connected with the second grounding path. The elastic soft sheath is disposed on the casing and capable of being elastically deformed by an external force. When the elastic soft sheath is not deformed, the first and second grounding paths form an open circuit. When the elastic soft sheath is elastically deformed by the external force, the elastic soft sheath electrically connects the first and second grounding paths, enabling the sensing member to function.
US10448137B1	Dual zone discharge of rechargeable batteries The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method of using a silver-zinc rechargeable battery to power a device. The method includes drawing, in a first mode of operation of a power management circuit, a first current from the battery to power the device. The first current is selected such that a target percentage of a capacity of the battery is discharged in a predetermined time of use of the device. The method also includes switching to a second mode of operation after the target percentage of the capacity of the battery is discharged. In the second mode of operation, a second current is drawn from the battery, wherein the second current is less than the first current. The method further includes powering the device using the second current.
US10448134B1	Two-wire type microphone with ultrasonic identification The invention discloses a two-wire type microphone with ultrasonic identification, comprising: an acoustic transducer for capturing an acoustic signal; a signal processing chip, connected to a signal output terminal of the acoustic transducer, wherein the signal processing chip comprises a signal output terminal pin, a ground pin and an ultrasonic generator, wherein the ultrasonic generator is the configured for generating an ultrasonic signal, and a control terminal of the ultrasonic generator is connected to the signal processing chip. The beneficial effects of the present invention includes: the ultrasonic signal generated by the ultrasonic generator is utilized to match the ultrasonic signal with the encoding unit in the signal processing chip for identification, and a remote authentication by the client is useful for matching the electronic device with the microphone. Furthermore, the signal output terminal pin and the ground pin are introduced into the microphone in the prior art, and the signal output terminal pin is also used for a communication line and a power line, thereby further saving the cost.
US10448133B2	Wireless microphone or wireless in-ear monitoring system A wireless microphone or wireless in-ear monitoring system. The system has at least one transmitting and/or receiving unit, which comprises at least two antenna modules, each of the antenna modules having an output plug unit, as well as a combining unit with an input interface. Output signals of the at least two antenna modules are received via the input interface of the combining unit. This is done for those input plug units that are inserted into the input interface of the combining unit. This is carried out in order to execute diversity processing of the signals of the antenna modules.
US10448131B1	Sound output apparatus A sound output apparatus outputs sound from a side of the apparatus on which a display is located. The sound output apparatus includes: a display element that includes the display; a driven element that is driven in accordance with a drive signal; a transmission panel that transmits vibrations of the driven element to the side of the apparatus on which the display of the display element is located; and a cover panel that is placed on an opposite side of the display element than the driven element. The transmission panel is placed between the display element and the driven element, and is joined at least to a portion of a periphery region of the cover panel. The cover panel has the periphery region that extends around an outer periphery of the cover panel as viewed from the side of the apparatus on which the display is located.
US10448119B2	Methods and systems for unfolding video pre-roll Method and accompanying system for an unfolding video pre-roll. A primary video having a fixed play length is presented and, in temporal proximity to at least a portion of the primary video, an unfolding video having a variable play length is presented to the viewer. If an interaction is received from the viewer during the playback of the unfolding video, the play length of the unfolding video is extended by adding a seamlessly connected video segment to the unfolding video, which is continuously presented to the viewer without interruption.
US10448116B1	Methods and systems for digital data transmission through satellite TV channels A system for data transmission comprises an encoder for encoding a data file into a TS stream, and a broadcaster for broadcasting the TS stream, wherein a receiver receives the TS stream, and a decoder decodes the received TS stream and extracts the data file. A system for receiving data comprises a receiver for receiving a broadcast TS stream, wherein a data file is encoded and embedded into the TS stream, a storage device for storing the TS stream, and a decoder for decoding the TS stream and extracting the data file.
US10448114B2	Method and system for generating a media channel access list The present invention relates to a method and system for generating and/or modifying a media channel access list, comprising obtaining a channel list of a plurality of media channels, displaying a plurality of channel groups associated with the plurality of media channels, selecting one of the plurality of channel groups, and assigning at least one of the plurality of media channels of the selected channel group to the media channel access list.
US10448111B2	Content projection One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for content projection. For example, a communication connection may be established between a primary device (e.g., a smart phone) of a user and a secondary device (e.g., a television). The primary device may identify an interest of the user to view content on the secondary device (e.g., photos for a recently attended concert). The primary device may retrieve the content (e.g., local photos on the smart phone and/or photos remotely retrieved from a social network). The primary device may project a rendering of the content onto a secondary display of the secondary device (e.g., the smart phone may send the rendering over the communication connection to the television for display).
US10448108B2	Methods and apparatus to model on/off states of media presentation devices based on return path data Methods and apparatus to model on/off states of media presentation devices based on return path data are disclosed. An example method includes generating a modelled tuning segment distribution indicative of modelled durations of modelled tuning segments. The modelled tuning segments is based on panel tuning segments during which panelists were exposed to first media. The example method further includes obtaining return path data (RPD) tuning information reported from an RPD device. The RPD tuning information is indicative of a reported RPD tuning segment during which the RPD device was accessing second media. The example method also includes estimating a set-on time for a media set associated with the RPD device based on the RPD tuning information and the modelled tuning segment distribution. The set-on time is indicative of a period of time when the media set is powered on.
US10448106B2	Profile based channel navigation Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the generation and utilization of a profile based channel lineup. A multimedia device delivering video services to one or more users may monitor channel and content requests received by the individual one or more users, and the multimedia device may create a profile for each of the users, wherein the profile includes a channel list of only those channels that are frequently tuned to by the respective user. The multimedia device may create an association between a user, a frequently viewed channel, and a time at which the channel is typically viewed by the user. A profile based viewing session or feature may be enabled at the multimedia device, wherein tuning decisions, channel change responses, and program information displays are controlled by the multimedia device based on a profile associated with a selected user.
US10448097B2	Audience rating survey apparatus and audience rating survey system using the same A display device for audience rating survey is provided. The display device for audience rating survey includes: a power supply unit configured to be synchronized with a power supply unit of a surveying target equipment; a receiving unit configured to receive a signal for a viewing entity; a light emitting unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light according to the signal received; a storage unit configured to match the signal received and each of the plurality of light emitting elements and store the matched result; a control unit configured to allow a matched light emitting element to emit light according to the received signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for the light emitting element, which is emitting the light, to an external device.
US10448095B2	Systems, methods and computer-readable media for local content storage within a media network Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for storing or caching targeted content on a receiver device using existing bandwidth within a media network are described. For example, unused bandwidth within a transport stream may be detected and targeted content may be inserted into the transport stream within the unused bandwidth. The targeted content may include targeted advertisements for a household addressable media network. The transport stream may be transmitted to the receiver device which may access and store the targeted content responsive to various targeted content signals. For instance, the transport stream may include targeted content signals configured to trigger the receive device to access and store the targeted content. The transport stream may include a commercial feed transport stream.
US10448092B2	Set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of same A set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Content, such as the Internet, movies, music, or games, for example, may be imported from the programmable device and reformatted at the set-top box for display on a television via the television output, thereby creating an experience on the television parallel to the experience on the programmable device. Virtual remote control functionality may then be provided by a spoken sequence of words.
US10448085B2	User interface with video frame tiles Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the provisioning of a user interface with video frame tiles. Specific content sources or pieces of content may be identified according to various parameters, and media renderings of the associated content may be generated. The media renderings may be processed at a device receiving the content, and a user interface including one or more of the media renderings may be generated. The media renderings may be organized within the user interface as individual video frame tiles.
US10448084B2	System, method, and apparatus for determining presentation time for picture without presentation time stamp Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for determining the presentation time for a picture without a presentation time stamp. A first and second picture are decoded. The first picture is a reference picture for the second picture. The presentation time for the second pictures is computed as a function of a presentation time and a decode time for the first picture.
US10448082B2	Information exchanging method and device, audio terminal and computer-readable storage medium An information exchanging method, an information exchanging device, and a terminal are provided. The information exchanging method is applied to an audio terminal. The method includes: receiving an input instruction from a user; generating a content request message according to the input instruction and a connection state identifier of the audio terminal, and sending the content request message to a server, wherein the connection state identifier indicates whether the audio terminal is connected to the video display device; and receiving a content request response message returned by the server. Thus, voice instructions input by the user can be more accurately performed according to the connection state of the audio device.
US10448075B2	Content conditioning and distribution of conditioned media assets at a content platform Aspects of the disclosure relate to configuration of content and consumption thereof content in a networked environment. In certain aspects, the consumed content can be coordinated or otherwise synchronized between disparate consumption devices, which may be served content via different content platforms. In another aspect, the consumed content can be customized for a specific device and/or an end-user thereof. In yet another aspect, recommendations for content and/or products associated with at least a portion of the content can be provided.
US10448074B2	Assigning synthetic respondents to geographic locations for audience measurement Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to assign synthetic respondents to geographic locations for audience measurement are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a constraint identifier to determine a set of constraints based on aggregate values of demographic features associated with the geographic locations. Disclosed example apparatus also include a parameter evaluator to determine a set of parameters of a model that is to return probabilities that respective ones of the respondents are associated with respective ones of the geographic locations, respective ones of the parameters being associated with respective ones of the constraints. Disclosed example apparatus further include a location estimator to evaluate the model based on the set of parameters and values of the demographic features for a first respondent to determine a set of probabilities that the first respondent is to be assigned to respective ones of the geographic locations.
US10448069B2	PVR assist information for HEVC bitstreams Methods and systems for processing a video stream are disclosed. A first tier value may be assigned to each of a plurality of SHRAP pictures in a first video stream. A reference tier value may be assigned to pictures in the first video stream that may be used as reference pictures. A plurality of discard tier values may be assigned to pictures in the first video stream that may be discarded during trick mode operations and do not depend on other pictures assigned one of the plurality of discard tier values. A trick mode operation may then be performed, wherein the presentation of pictures in the first video stream is dependent upon assignment of tier values.
US10448068B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signaling information associated with multimedia content The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting multimedia content in a broadcast communication system, and comprises the steps of: identifying protocol information mapped for each service corresponding to multimedia content; transmitting service-related information including the identified protocol information mapped for each service; and transmitting multimedia content corresponding to related services to a receiving side by using the identified protocol.
US10448066B2	Retrieving media content A method and system for retrieving media data. The method comprises: receiving webpage data at an application running on a computing device; rendering a webpage based on the webpage data using a rendering engine native to the computing device; identifying a media element in the webpage, wherein the media element includes data identifying media data stored at a media server which is remote from the computing device; and replacing the media element in the webpage with a dummy element comprising code which, when executed, invokes a media handler provided by the application; retrieving, by the media handler, the media data from the media server; and providing the media data to a first media player component for playback.
US10448057B2	Image processing device and method The present invention relates to image processing device and method which can suppress block noise. A filter strength determination unit determines the filter strength for every four lines under the control of a control unit. In other words, if a block boundary determination unit has determined to perform filtering, the filter strength determination unit determines at which strength of the strong filter or the weak filter the filtering process is performed, and outputs the determination result to a filter calculation unit. On this occasion, the filter strength determination unit uses the Bs value in the determination formula of the strong filter. For example, in the case of using the Bs value, the threshold of the determination is set in accordance with a linear function of the Bs value from the control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device.
US10448048B2	Method of motion estimation and image processing apparatus using the same A method of motion estimation includes obtaining motion vectors of blocks in a plurality of frames corresponding to a block to be motion estimated, determining whether the obtained motion vectors of the blocks are converged by comparing the obtained motion vectors of the blocks, calculating motion vector dispersity of adjacent blocks of the block to be motion estimated in a state in which the motion vectors are converged, and setting a size of a search range so as to correspond to the calculated motion vector dispersity of the adjacent blocks.
US10448040B2	Signaling change in output layer sets A system for decoding a video bitstream includes receiving a bitstream and a plurality of enhancement bitstreams together with receiving a video parameter set and a video parameter set extension. The system also receives an output layer set change message including information indicating a change in at least one output layer set.
US10448036B2	Motion compensation matching for video coding The present disclosure relates to a motion compensation matching method and system for video coding. The method comprises: a CPU extracting a current frame image and a reference frame image from a video to be processed and sending the extracted frame images to a GPU; the GPU performing interpolation process at least once on the reference frame image to obtain a plurality of interpolation images; the GPU dividing the current frame image to obtain a plurality of prediction blocks; the GPU, according to each of the prediction blocks, performing block matching search in the reference frame image and each of the interpolation images; according to a result of the block matching search, determining a motion vector of a desired image block of the current frame image. The present disclosure uses GPU to execute large amounts of computation for interpolation and division of the frame images and block matching search, and uses CPU to process a small amount of computation. Since GPU is used to process search, which can be the most complicated and the most energy-consuming part of the coding process, the large-scale concurrency of the graphics card can be sufficiently utilized, and thus the video coding speed can be significantly increased.
US10448034B2	Video image encoding device, video image coding method, video image decoding device, video image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A video image decoding device executes a separation process for extracting, from encoded video image data including multiple images, first encoded data obtained by encoding reduced images of first images included in the multiple images, and second encoded data obtained by encoding second images included in the multiple images, executes a first decoding process for decoding the reduced images of the first images from the first encoded data, executes a second decoding process for decoding the second images from the second encoded data, executes a recording process that includes recording first region included in the reduced images, the first region including motions with respect to the second images immediately preceding the first images, and executes a synthesis process for reproducing the multiple images by modifying second region in the second images immediately preceding the first images in accordance with the first region.
US10448025B1	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a chroma coding unit in a segment (such as a slice, a tile, a group of tiles) of a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The segment lacks a temporal reference picture and having separate coding tree structures for luma and chroma components. Then, the processing circuitry detects a prediction mode flag associated with the chroma coding unit from the coded video bitstream, and determines, based on the prediction mode flag, a prediction mode from an intra prediction mode and an intra block copy mode for the chroma coding unit. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the chroma coding unit according to the determined prediction mode.
US10448020B2	Intelligent MSI-X interrupts for video analytics and encoding Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames may not be encoded, increasing bandwidth and speed in some embodiments.
US10448018B2	Method and device for encoding/decoding image A method and a device for encoding/decoding an image are disclosed. The method for decoding an image comprises the steps of: decoding information on a quantization matrix; and restoring the quantization matrix on the basis of the information on the quantization matrix, wherein the information on the quantization matrix includes information indicating a DC value of the quantization matrix and/or information indicating differential values of quantization matrix coefficients.
US10448008B1	Motion estimation based on block level bilateral filter and local motion model A method of estimating motion in video display data includes dividing a frame of the video display data into blocks, generating at least two motion models for a current block from motion models of neighboring blocks to the current block, and selecting one of the motion models based upon a similarity of the motion model that minimizes differences between corresponding blocks in reference frames to the current block.
US10448007B2	Discovery and identification of layer 2 coax problems in MoCA networks The operation of testing device for troubleshooting failures in a MoCA LAN system is disclosed that discovers devices on a MoCA LAN. These automatically discovered devices are then sent a large number of data packets that elicit a response from the recipient. The packets transmitted for which no corresponding response is received are counted as lost packets, and the packet loss results for each tested device enables identifying the source of a failure in the network.
US10448000B2	Handheld portable optical scanner and method of using A system and methods for real-time or near-real time processing and post-processing of RGB-D image data using a handheld portable device and using the results for a variety of applications. The disclosure is based on the combination of off-the-shelf equipment (e.g. an RGB-D camera and a smartphone/tablet computer) in a self-contained unit capable of performing complex spatial reasoning tasks using highly optimized computer vision algorithms. New applications are disclosed using the instantaneous results obtained and the wireless connectivity of the host device for remote collaboration. One method includes steps of projecting a dot pattern from a light source onto a plurality of points on a scene, measuring distances to the points, and digitally reconstructing an image or images of the scene, such as a 3D view of the scene. A plurality of images may also be stitched together to re-position an orientation of the view of the scene.
US10447994B2	Methods and apparatus including or for use with one or more cameras Camera related methods and apparatus which are well suited for use in capturing stereoscopic image data, e.g., pairs of left and right eye images, are described. Various features relate to a camera rig which can be used to mount multiple cameras at the same time. In some embodiments the camera rig includes 3 mounting locations corresponding to 3 different directions 120 degrees apart. One or more of the mounting locations may be used at a given time. When a single camera pair is used the rig can be rotated to capture images corresponding to the locations where a camera pair is not mounted. Static images from those locations can then be combined with images corresponding to the forward direction to generate a 360 degree view. Alternatively camera pairs or individual cameras can be included in each of the mounting locations to capture video in multiple directions.
US10447993B2	Stereoscopic 360 degree digital camera systems Stereoscopic 360° video recording devices are adapted to facilitate capture of stereoscopic 360° images. According to one example, a stereoscopic 360° video recording device may include an enclosure with three sides of equal length in a triangular configuration. Six digital camera slots may be included within the enclosure, with each of the three sides including two digital camera slots. A fan may be coupled to a surface of the enclosure to facilitate cooling of digital cameras retained within the enclosure. A digital video camera may be secured within each of the digital camera slots, wherein each digital video camera includes a predefined interaxial distance from a respective digital video camera on its left and a respective digital video camera on its right. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US10447985B2	Method, system and computer program product for adjusting a convergence plane of a stereoscopic image First and second views of a stereoscopic image are received. In response to determining that the stereoscopic image has a predominance of foreground features, a convergence plane of the stereoscopic image is adjusted to improve a depth resolution of at least one foreground feature within the stereoscopic image for display to a human by a display device. In response to determining that the stereoscopic image has a predominance of background features, the convergence plane is adjusted to position at least most of the stereoscopic image as background features for display to the human by the display device.
US10447983B2	Reciprocal approximation circuit A reciprocal approximation circuit has a first iteration circuit for generating an approximate reciprocal value of an operand. The operation of the first iteration circuit is controlled by two bits of the operand, which indicate a range in which the operand lies. The first iteration circuit uses hardware friendly initial values based on the two bits for generating the approximate reciprocal value. The reciprocal approximation circuit does not require any additional circuit for selecting an initial value for the first iteration circuit.
US10447980B2	Image display apparatus, control method for image display apparatus and storage medium for image quality adjustment An image display apparatus that enables easy setting of an adjustment parameter of an image quality setting item according to user preference includes an adjustment unit configured to adjust a display image based on an adjustment parameter, a display unit configured to generate a plurality of adjustment parameter candidates different from each other and display a list of a plurality of adjusted images adjusted by the adjustment unit based on the plurality of adjustment parameter candidates, and a selection unit configured to select an adjusted image from the displayed list. The adjustment parameter is set based on the adjusted image selected from the plurality of adjusted images and the plurality of adjustment parameter candidates when displaying an image.
US10447978B2	Image generation device and method for producing an array of image forming elements by superimposed pattern arrays An image generation device has at least one light source, a field lens array, an array of image-forming elements, and a projection lens array. The array of image-forming elements is formed by superimposing a first pattern array and a second pattern array, which is formed identically to the first pattern array and is rotated relative to the first pattern array. A method is provided for producing the array of image-forming elements.
US10447976B2	Solid state imaging device having a shared pixel structure and electronic apparatus A solid state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which color filters of a plurality of colors are arrayed with four pixels of vertical 2 pixels×horizontal 2 pixels as a same color unit that receives light of the same color, shared pixel transistors that are commonly used by a plurality of pixels are intensively arranged in one predetermined pixel in a unit of sharing, and a color of the color filter of a pixel where the shared pixel transistors are intensively arranged is a predetermined color among the plurality of colors. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a solid state imaging device such as a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor.
US10447975B2	CCTV automatic selection monitoring system, and CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server and management method Provided are a CCTV automatic selection monitoring system, and a CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server and management method. The CCTV automatic selection monitoring system includes: at least one CCTV camera for photographing at least one CCTV image; a CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server; and at least one controller monitor, wherein the CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server comprises: a server communication unit for receiving at least one piece of CCTV image data from the at least one CCTV camera; and a server control unit for analyzing the at least one piece of CCTV image data input from the server communication unit to calculate a selection score of the at least one piece of CCTV image data according to automatic selection elements corresponding to the at least one piece of CCTV image data, and classifying the at least one piece of CCTV image data according to the calculated selection score and then outputting the same to the at least one controller monitor.
US10447971B2	System for continuously monitoring movements in general A system for continuous monitoring in general, preferably for use in surveillance, which includes three electronic units operationally linked to one another, wherein the first is a permanent monitoring unit having at least one module for capturing and storing information that includes multiple security cameras connected to an Internet modem, a router, a video recorder associated with a power source; the second is a unit for data processing and communication with the public having at least one interactive management module that includes a wireless card, a microprocessor, a display, a camera associated with a power source; and the third is a remote operational base unit having an Internet modem with public static IP and IP telephony management server, both linked to at least one router for managing the virtual private network; and this is in turn connected to a set of personal computers, a primary computer and a secondary computer for supporting said primary computer, in which the primary computer observes the cameras close to the interactive communication module and the IP camera installed in said module manages the communications of the corresponding communication module, and can open or close the video-audio as required.
US10447967B2	Live teleporting system and apparatus A method of producing a Pepper's Ghost, includes projecting an image of a subject onto a reflective and transparent screen to create a virtual image of the subject alongside an object, the subject in the virtual image having a color temperature. The object is illuminated with light having a color and intensity that results in a color temperature of the object at least approximately matching the color temperature of the subject in the virtual image. The subject in the virtual image has a luminance and may be illuminated with light having a color and intensity that results in a luminance of the object at least approximately matching the luminance of the subject in the virtual image.
US10447965B2	Apparatus and method for processing image The image processing apparatus includes a shooting unit configured to capture a moving picture including video data and audio data of a subject at a certain location; a receiver configured to receive video data of a moving picture of the subject without audio data of the moving picture; a layer generator configured to generate a first layer and at least one second layer to reproduce and display on the screen a plurality of pieces of video data including the video data captured by the shooting unit and at least one piece of video data received by the receiver; a display controller configured to reproduce and display the first layer and the at least one second layer to be overlaid with each other on one screen through hierarchical combining.
US10447963B2	Sharing video footage from audio/video recording and communication devices Video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices may be readily uploaded to the cloud and shared with a requesting party, such as a law enforcement agency. When a request is received from a requesting party for video footage, a set of videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party may be determined. Consent requests may then be sent to users associated with each of the A/V recording and communication devices that recorded the videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party. When user consents to share the videos are received, the video footage may be provided to the requesting party.
US10447962B2	Audio-visual system and method for controlling the same An audio-visual system may include a housing comprising an open upper end and a storage space, an audio-visual device installed inside the housing and exposable through the open upper end, and a lifting device configured to expose or store the audio-visual device inside the housing through the open upper end. The audio-visual device may include a display, a speaker, and a processor configured to control the audio-visual system to operate in a first mode for outputting media art content while the display is stored in the housing according to a first event, operate in a second mode for outputting audio content through the speaker while part of the display is exposed through the open upper end according to a second event, and operate in a third mode for outputting a visual content while the entire display is exposed through the open upper end according to a third event.
US10447956B2	Analog-to-digital converter circuitry with offset distribution capabilities Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry may receive multiple analog signals and output corresponding digital signals. During the conversion process, comparators may receive the analog signals and a ramp waveform and compare the two inputs to generate logic signals. The logic signals correspond to digital signals that are outputted by ADC circuitry. To enable offset distribution capabilities, offset distribution circuitry may be selectively coupled to the inputs of the comparators. The offset distribution circuitry may include switches that couples a voltage supply providing reference voltages to the comparators. The reference voltages may be conveyed via a capacitor to the comparators as offset voltages. The offset voltages may provide may be different for different ADC units to offset power consumption of different ADC units and reduce power surges in power sources coupled to ADC circuitry.
US10447953B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and moving object An imaging apparatus includes first and second substrates respectively including first pixels and second pixels arranged thereon. The first pixels each includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a first transistor configured to output a first signal based on a charge generated in the first photoelectric conversion unit. The second pixels each includes a second photoelectric conversion unit and a second transistor configured to output a second signal based on a charge generated in the second photoelectric conversion unit. The first and second substrates are stacked via an insulation film.
US10447949B2	Endoscope apparatus, method of operating endoscope apparatus, and recording medium An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a video signal generating circuit, an illuminator, a light quantity detector, and one or more controllers. An imaging area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed includes a scanning area. The one or more controllers control the imaging element such that at least parts of exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than a predetermined quantity. The one or more controllers control the illuminator such that the light source is turned on in a period in which at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than the predetermined quantity.
US10447948B2	Imaging system and display system Imaging system (70) disposed at a rear part of moving body (100) includes imaging device (10) and image processing device (20). Imaging device (10) includes an imaging element and an optical system. The imaging element has a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner and generates image data. The optical system forms a subject image on an imaging surface of the imaging element. Image processing device (20) generates a captured image based on the image data. The imaging surface includes a first region corresponding to a first view angle and a second region corresponding to a second view angle that is larger than the first view angle. The optical system is configured so that resolution of the first region is higher than resolution of the second region excluding the first region. A center of the first region is disposed at a position deviated from a center of the imaging surface.
US10447946B2	Interactive artistic presentation system with thermographic imagery Disclosed is an interactive thermographic presentation system and associated methods. The exemplary thermographic presentation system captures residual heat from human touch and/or breath on a surface over time and generates a visual representation of the captured heat pattern. The visual representation may be generated in real time using a visual light projector or stored for subsequent presentation, which may include generating a physical print of the visual representation. In one embodiment the system may be deployed as an art or science exhibit. In general, the system may be deployed in any setting in which individuals gather, including, but not limited to, art galleries, schools, science fairs, trade shows, music venues, dance clubs, restaurants, homes, and public spaces.
US10447940B2	Photographing apparatus using multiple exposure sensor and photographing method thereof A photographing apparatus using a multiple exposure image sensor, and a photographing method thereof are provided. The photographing apparatus includes: an image sensor formed of a plurality of pixels comprising a plurality of colors; input circuitry configured to receive an input of a photographing command; and a processor configured to, in response to a photographing command being input while a photographing mode of the photographing apparatus is a multiple exposure mode, acquire a multiple exposure image by controlling exposure times of a plurality of pixel groups in which the plurality of pixels are grouped by color.
US10447937B2	Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium that perform image processing based on an image processing parameter set for a first object area, and information on a positional relationship between an object in a second object area and an object in the first object area An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors that set a first image processing parameter for each of a plurality of first object areas included in an input image, perform image processing for the input image with a second image processing parameter set based on a plurality of first image processing parameters corresponding to the plurality of first object areas, and select a second object area in the input image. The one or more processors also obtain information on a positional relationship between an object contained in the second object area and an object contained in the first object area, and set the second image processing parameter based on the plurality of first image processing parameters and the information on the positional relationship. The image processing is performed based on the first image processing parameter and the information on the positional relationship, which are stored in a memory.
US10447933B2	Camera-based side mirror function of a motor vehicle A motor vehicle includes a motor vehicle body having an interior forming a passenger compartment. At least one camera is arranged on the outside of the motor vehicle body for imaging an area to the side and behind of the motor vehicle. In the interior of the motor vehicle, particularly in the region of an instrument panel, a monitor or display is arranged in or on an air outlet. The monitor is connected to the camera for continuously displaying the imaged area to occupants, and in particular a driver, in the passenger compartment.
US10447931B2	Camera module having electromagnetic driving assembly A camera module is provided, including a frame, a holder, an image sensor, a plate, an electromagnetic driving assembly, and an elastic element. The frame connects the holder with the plate. The holder is configured to sustain an optical lens, and the image sensor is disposed on the plate. The elastic element connects the frame with the plate. The electromagnetic driving assembly is disposed on the frame and the plate, and is configured to drive the plate and the image sensor to move with respect to the frame and the holder.
US10447925B2	Image processing method and apparatus, electronic device and control method An image processing method and apparatus, a control method are provided. A part of the color-block image within the fixed region is converted into a first image using a first interpolation algorithm. The first image includes first simulation pixels arranged in an array. A part of the color-block image beyond the fixed region is converted into a second image using a second interpolation algorithm. The second image includes second simulation pixels arranged in an array, and a complexity of the second interpolation algorithm is less than that of the first interpolation algorithm. The first image and the second image are merged into a simulation image corresponding to the color-block image. With the image processing method, by processing different parts of the image respectively with the first interpolation algorithm and the second, the time for processing the image is reduced while the image quality is improved, thus improving the user satisfaction.
US10447923B2	Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and method of controlling image processing apparatus An imaging apparatus captures a first image with a first exposure time, captures a second image with a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time, and determines either the first image and the second image as an image to be used for the calculation of a motion vector depending on a result of the detection of flicker based on the first image and the second image. Then, the imaging apparatus calculates a motion vector based on the determined image.
US10447920B2	Micro-saccadic actuation for an event camera Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed relating to micro-saccadic actuation for an event camera. An example event-based imaging device includes a sensor including a pixel array and an optical pathway modulator to move, via a micro-saccadic movement, one or more components of an optical pathway including the sensor to shift incident light on the pixel array to cause a change in light intensity on the pixel in at least one pixel of the pixel array.
US10447917B2	Portable device and method for taking images therewith A portable device adapted to enable its user to manually adjust the focus and photometry locations during photography and a method for taking images with the device is disclosed. A GUI for indicating the focus or photometry location is provided on the screen so that the user can manually move the GUI on the screen with a keypad or a touch panel. In this manner, a desired object is taken at the focus or photometry location.
US10447915B2	Image sensor and imaging apparatus with first and second focus detection data at a top and bottom of captured image data An image sensor outputs captured image data by discriminating whether to add a result of an imaging plane phase difference AF calculation to a top of the captured image data or whether to add the result to an end of the captured image data, thus reducing a time lag between exposure and focus position movement.
US10447902B2	Camera with a housing for shielding electromagnetic radiation and motor vehicle The invention relates to a camera (2) for a motor vehicle (1) including a housing (5) configured to shield electromagnetic radiation at least in certain areas, including a circuit board (16) disposed in the housing (5), and including an interface device (11) for connecting the camera (2) to the motor vehicle (1), wherein the interface device (11) is electrically connected to the circuit board (16), wherein the interface device (11) includes a coaxial plug (12) with an inner conductor (13) and an outer conductor (14) and the camera (2) has a connecting device (17) for electrically connecting the outer conductor (14) to the housing (5).
US10447901B2	Modular motion camera Modular digital camera systems are disclosed. The modular digital camera system can include a brain module configured to be releasably coupled to one or more of a port extender module, power module, display module, and handle module. The brain module and other accessory modules can be structured according to some embodiments to increase an ease of coupling and decoupling the modules.
US10447888B2	Information coding and decoding in spectral differences Information is encoded in an image signal by exploiting spectral differences between colors that appear the same when rendered. These spectral differences are detected using image sensing that discerns the spectral differences. Spectral difference detection methods include using sensor-synchronized spectrally-structured-light imaging, 3D sensors, imaging spectrophotometers, and higher resolution Bayer pattern capture relative to resolution of patches used to convey a spectral difference signal.
US10447883B2	Optical flatbed scanner with document presser member A flatbed scanner includes a flatbed document scanner body accommodating a transparent plate for supporting a physical document and a document cover, which includes a sheet member with an expanse covering at least a substantial area of the transparent plate. The rectangular document cover has an underside and a movable carriage extending across the rectangular transparent plate in a transverse direction. The movable carriage carries a camera or an optical system for a camera. The sheet member of the rectangular document cover is magnetic or carries one or more magnetic plates, so as to be magnetically attracted towards the movable carriage and exert a pressing force on the physical document when supported on the rectangular transparent plate. A compressing force is thereby applied to an original document resting at an area at which the movable carriage currently is located while scanning a line of the original document.
US10447878B2	Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium An image forming apparatus includes a first reception unit configured to receive a first type job via a network, a second reception unit configured to receive a second type job generated based on a user's operation received by an operation unit of the image forming apparatus, a setting unit configured to set a time at which shutdown processing for turning off the image forming apparatus is to be performed, and a control unit configured to, in a case where there is the first type job when the time set by the setting unit is reached, perform the shutdown processing without executing the first type job, and to, in a case where there is the second type job when the time set by the setting unit is reached, perform the shutdown processing with executing the second type job.
US10447870B2	Information terminal configured to transmit data with use of wireless communication, image processing apparatus, image processing system, and storage medium An information terminal transmits information relating to user authentication to an image processing apparatus via short-range wireless communication. The image processing apparatus performs processing for the user authentication using the received information, and transitions to a status where a function of the image processing apparatus is used via an operation unit upon condition that the user authentication has succeeded. The information terminal transmits data to be used in any one of individual functions included in the image processing apparatus to the image processing apparatus based on receipt of information indicating successful user authentication from the image processing apparatus. After receiving the data from the information terminal, the image processing apparatus uses the received data as a setting of the function of the image processing apparatus that corresponds to the data.
US10447869B2	Optimization of sweeping correction in printing on continuous pages An image processing apparatus that outputs a plurality of page images on a transfer medium continuous in a conveying direction, the image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that performs data processing on the images on a page basis, wherein the hardware processor, upon the data processing, obtains a density change of each of the images with reference to a pixel of each of the images within a predetermined width in the conveying direction of the transfer medium, and, based on the density change, performs density correction of each of the images on a pixel basis within a page, and in a case where a pixel outside the page is included within the predetermined width in the conveying direction, data processing different from the density correction is performed.
US10447866B2	Method and apparatus for content presentation in association with a telephone call A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to or selected by another party participating in the call, or may be related to or selected by a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
US10447857B2	Method and apparatus for operating a contact center system One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a multimedia contact center. The method comprises providing multimedia communications session management support for a plurality of customers. Each customer maintains customer relationship management (CRM) data. The CRM data is uploaded from the plurality of customers into a multimedia database. The uploading includes transforming the CRM data from an original format maintained by the respective customer into a standardized format for the multimedia database. Communications sessions can then be handled using the transformed CRM data in the multimedia database.
US10447848B2	System and method for reliable call recording testing and proprietary customer information retrieval A system and methods for reliable call recording testing and proprietary customer information retrieval, wherein recording may be both active and passive in nature, recording call audio from the moment a call begins such as to include dial tones, IVR interactions, and other non-conversation call contents that may generally be omitted in traditional recordings. These recordings may then be compared to similar recordings collected by traditional systems to “align” the recordings, identifying portions of the call that may have been omitted from one recording by using audio fingerprinting to match recordings up for improved analysis.
US10447842B1	Push-to-talk to messaging application graphical interface A method and device for performing push-to-talk and text communications. The device includes a display and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the display. The electronic processor is configured to generate a graphical user interface, generate, on the display, a first push-to-talk button having a first dimension and located proximate to a conversation thread window including a historical view portion and a new-entry portion, and receive, on the display, a first user input selecting the new-entry portion. The electronic processor is further configured to generate on the display, in response to receiving the first user input, a text-entry portion, replace, in response to receiving the first user input, the first push-to-talk button with a second push-to-talk button at a same or different first location, receive, via the display, a second user input selecting the text-entry portion, and alter, in response to the second user input, the second push-to-talk button.
US10447841B2	Wireless pairing and control using spatial location and indication to aid pairing Aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communication, at least one processor configured to determine a spatial location for a discovered wireless device, a user interface configured to output an indication of the discovered device and its spatial location, a receiver configured to receive a user input, and a communication unit configured to interact with the selected device. The at least one processor is further configured to select the discovered wireless device for interaction based on a relationship between the user input and the outputted indication.
US10447840B2	Apparatus and method for managing operations for providing services automatically A method and system for rendering user intent across electronic devices are provided. The method includes extracting by a first electronic device, a user intent associated with a context of a second electronic device, on detecting a gesture performed in proximity with the second electronic device. The gesture detected by the first electronic device in proximity with the second electronic device can establish a communication with the second electronic device. The method includes rendering the user intent associated with the context of the second electronic device to continue the user intent on the first electronic device. The method includes invoking one or more actions associated with the user intent to extend usability of the user intent rendered from the second electronic device to the first electronic device. Thus, the various embodiments herein avoid manual intervention and thereby reduce the turnaround time for accessing applications across the electronic devices.
US10447839B2	Device locator disable authentication A device locator mode or find my device (FMD) mode can allow a lost, stolen, or misplaced mobile device to be located. The FMD mode can be enabled or disabled on a mobile device. Sometimes thieves or unauthorized parties attempt to disable the FMD mode. To prevent this, the mobile device can transmit a unique device identifier to a remote server. The remote server can link the device identifier to a cloud-based user account associated with the user of the mobile device. Before an FMD mode is disabled on the mobile device, before the content or settings can be erased, and/or before a mobile device is permitted to be activated/reactivated, a user of the mobile device can be challenged for the credentials of the cloud-based user account. If valid credentials are provided, FMD can be disabled, the content or settings can be reset, and/or the device can be activated/reactivated.
US10447834B2	Electronic device having a composite structure Embodiments are directed to an enclosure for an electronic device. In one aspect, an embodiment includes an enclosure having an enclosure component and an internal component that may be affixed along a bonding region. The enclosure component may be formed from an enclosure material and defines an exterior surface of the enclosure and an opening configured to receive a display. The internal component may be formed from a metal material different than the enclosure material. The bonding region may include an interstitial material that has a melting temperature that is less than a melting temperature of either one of the enclosure material or the metal material. The bonding region may also include one or more of the enclosure material or the metal material.
US10447829B2	Foldable mobile terminal A foldable mobile terminal is provided. The foldable mobile terminal includes a rotation mechanism, a first body, a second body, and a display panel assembly. The rotation mechanism includes: a rotation assembly having a position member, a first rotation shaft rotatably coupled to the position member, a second rotation shaft rotatably coupled to the position member, and a sliding member disposed between the first rotation shaft and the second rotation shaft; a base assembly having a base body coupled to the rotation assembly, a first slide base slidably coupled to the base body, and a second slide base slidably coupled to the base body; and a connection assembly coupled to the connection member. The first body is coupled to the first slide base. The second body is coupled to the second slide base. The display panel assembly is mounted on the first body, the second body.
US10447827B2	Methods and devices for implementing flexible ethernet within a physical coding sublayer Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field and disclose a data transmission method, apparatus, device, and system, so as to acquire attribution information of a PCSL, and decrease overheads and complexity of identifying a network link during data transmission. The method includes: inserting a feature code block into a physical coding sublayer PCS to form a physical coding sublayer lane PCSL, where the feature code block is used to represent an Ethernet link to which the PCSL belongs; and sending the PCSL. The present invention is used for PCSL attribution identification.
US10447821B1	Method and apparatus of providing thin client functionality An apparatus and method of adding thin client functionality are disclosed. One example method provides generating a call function directed to an electronic device and at least one peripheral device. The method also includes redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device, extracting payload data from information sent to the at least one peripheral device, discarding values outside a previously negotiated range from the extracted payload data, performing at least one of incrementing and decrementing the remaining values of the payload data to create a data subset, and redirecting the data subset to at least one other peripheral device resulting in output information being sent to the at least one other peripheral device.
US10447811B2	Cloud to on-premises debug service routing Described embodiments provide systems and methods for routing service requests. The system includes a first network of computing devices including a server hosting a service. The system includes a release router in the first network, the release router configured to receive a request for the service, the request forwarded to the release router responsive to resolving a hostname specified in the request using a DNS mapping the hostname to the release router, the hostname associated with the service hosted by the server. The release router is configured to identify a relay agent registered with the release router for debugging the service, the relay agent executed by a test platform in a second network, and to forward the request to the test platform in the second network, wherein the test platform resolves the hostname specified in the request using a local DNS mapping the hostname to a localhost address.
US10447807B1	Dynamic middleware source selection for optimizing data retrieval from network nodes A method for optimizing retrieval of node data from network nodes is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining, by a network server via a network, a node data set comprising node data from a plurality of middleware sources, where each of the plurality of middleware sources provides node data about the same network node. The network server is determining a fault in the node data received from one of the plurality of middleware sources, and identifying the middleware source associated with the fault. In response to determining the fault and middleware source, the network server is bypassing the middleware source associated with the fault and retrieving raw node data directly from an element management system associated with the network node.
US10447801B2	Location based access control for content delivery network resources Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.
US10447800B2	Network cache deduplication analytics based compute cluster load balancer A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a virtualized network environment cache control operation, comprising: analyzing network traffic of a plurality of virtual machines executing on a plurality of hosts within the virtualized network environment, each of the plurality of hosts comprising a network cache; identifying whether more than one virtual machine includes a similar network traffic pattern; and, configuring a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine to executing on a common host, the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine having the similar network pattern.
US10447791B2	Systems and methods for providing location-based cascading displays Systems and methods for facilitating user interaction such as within a social network are described. In one implementation, location-based display of images and/or other information associated with other users or entities may be provided. The information may be provided in association with mapping or other positional data or information such as personal interests.
US10447790B2	Information push An information push method comprises: receiving a distance parameter reported by a client terminal; determining whether a distance to the client terminal satisfies a preset distance condition according to the distance parameter; and when the distance to the terminal satisfies any preset distance condition locally, pushing information corresponding to the preset distance condition to the client terminal, wherein different distance conditions correspond to different information locally and respectively. The techniques of the present disclosure respectively push different information to a user based on different distances to client terminals, and adapt to different user application scenarios, thereby improving the user experience.
US10447783B2	Communication method A method of transmitting data from a first device. The method comprises: at the first device, establishing a connection with a first one of a plurality of second devices and establishing a first virtual connection, the first virtual connection being between the first device and a third device through the first one of a plurality of second devices; and receiving details of a second virtual connection, the second virtual connection being between a fourth device and the third device through a second one of the plurality of second devices, the fourth device being connected to the first device. The method further comprises selecting one of said first or second virtual connections for transmission of a data packet to said third device and transmitting data to said third device using said selected connection.
US10447780B2	Cross-file differential content synchronization Methods, systems and techniques for synchronizing content, such as a file, between one or more clients and one or more servers are provided. Example embodiments provide a Cross-File Differential Content Synchronization System (CDCSS) to synchronize files between remote systems in a nearly instantaneous manner without necessitating the transfer of the entire contents of a file. These components cooperate to transfer only the differences in data content wherever possible to a recipient system by providing a patch mechanism that instructs the recipient to build the modified or new data content based upon content it already has access to. In addition, in one embodiment the CDCSS synchronization solution provides a client-based index, rather than a server-based index, for tracking patches and files, which reduces the amount of computational and I/O overhead on the server and which does not require a negotiation between a client and a server to provide an update.
US10447773B2	Aggregating vehicle-related big data A private computer network associated with a vehicle data service center and a method of aggregating vehicle data using the private computer network. The method includes the steps of: receiving from a first subscriber vehicle one or more upload messages at a load balancing computer (LBC), wherein each of the one or more upload messages comprise unencrypted data; based on the unencrypted data, selecting at the LBC at least one telematics server of a telematics server farm to send the one or more upload messages; and providing the one or more upload messages to the at least one telematics server for upload message aggregation, wherein the LBC and the telematics server farm are associated with the private computer network.
US10447762B2	Remote localization platform A remote localization server enables application or website developers to revise and update presentation content for different target localities without having to reprogram an application for each locality. Such presentation content can include, for example, text, images, audio/video, and user interface (“UI”) elements. The updated content can then be synchronized (i.e., “pushed”) in real-time, in a remote fashion, to apps installed and running on end user devices, allowing app developers to be agile and responsive to the dynamic demands of a growing user base.
US10447759B2	Web page accelerations for web application hosted in native mobile application Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for accelerating loading, parsing, and rendering of a web page hosted by a native mobile application. In one aspect, a manifest file including at least resources for rendering the webpage hosted by the native mobile application may be stored in a local web cache. A request may be sent, via the native mobile application, to a website associated with the native mobile application for the webpage. While initial content of the webpage is loading, the resources stored in the local web cache may be loaded into a browser document object model (DOM). The webpage may be rendered within the native mobile application in a user interface.
US10447757B2	Self-service server change management A method is provided to eliminate many of the manual steps in a server change management process, creating a self-service experience for a change requester. The method may automatically retrieve the current state of a server; constrain the requested change to a valid, feasible specification; verify that the requested change is compliant with business policies; implement the changes automatically; and develop a knowledge base of automated change risk that is used to modify the change management business process by identifying safe changes that can be performed outside of change windows and/or during change freezes. The method can be applied to changes to physical servers, virtual servers, and servers in a cloud environment.
US10447748B2	Sharing media information between applications on client devices A media process may receive, from a client application, a request for media information about a range of media items in a queue of a media application, the request being sent while the media application is executing. The queue includes a previous set of media items that have been played by the media application, a current item (e.g., currently playing), and a future set of items that are to be played The request may specify the range to include the current item and at least one item from the previous set and/or future set. The daemon sends a request to the media application and receives media information from the application. The received media information may include an order of media items and an identifier for each item in the range of items. The received information may be sent to the client application for displaying information about the range of items.
US10447747B2	Video orientation negotiation Systems, devices, and methods for orientation negotiation are described. In one innovative aspect, a method includes receiving an orientation negotiation message at a video processing device from a first device associated with a communication session with the video processing device. The orientation negotiation message includes an indication of an orientation of the first device and at least one characteristic associated with the first device. The method also includes identifying either the video processing device or the first device perform orientation processing based at least in part on the received at least one characteristic of the first device. The method further includes transmitting a message is transmitted to said first device, said message including information indicating a result of said identifying. The identified device performs subsequent orientation processing such as rotation of images included in the communication session.
US10447737B2	Delegating administration rights using application containers A computer implemented method for delegating administration duties using application containers may include associating, by a database system, a custom object to a delegated administrator; associating, by the database system, an application container with a custom object; and enabling, by the database system, the delegated administrator to manage the custom object based on permissions included in the application container, wherein the application container includes a subset of permission included in an application permission.
US10447734B2	Monitoring scan attempts in a network Methods and devices for monitoring scan attempts in a network. Various embodiments provide enhancements to existing honeypot devices. These enhancements may include at least one of: (1) a port access module configured to make at least one honeypot port appear to be closed; (2) a mobility module configured to change the address of the honeypot within the network; (3) an emulation module configured to discover a network neighbor's profile and further configured to emulate the network neighbor's profile.
US10447733B2	Deception network system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing deception networks. One of the systems includes a threat information server configured to monitor and control security threats, a management process orchestration server configured to receive one or more identified security threats from the threat information server and develop a response process applicable to each identified security threat, a network switching controller in communication with one or more network switching devices, a target computing device connected to one of the network switching devices, and an indicator analytics processor configured to generate threat intelligence based on activity observed on the target device and provide the observed threat intelligence to the threat information server. The threat information server can receive threat intelligence information, identify key indicators, and generate identified security threats. The network switching controller can implement network topology changes in response to received instructions.
US10447729B2	Methods and systems for accessing a resource with multiple user identities Systems and methods for providing concurrent access to a resource via multiple user identities via a single client entity. The client entity is allowed access to the resource utilizing a first user identity. An attempt to access the resource with the client entity utilizing a second user identity is detected. The second user identity is a child identity of the first user identity. The attempt to access the resource is restructured as an attempt to access the resource with a third user identity that is not a child identity of the first user identity. The restructured request is forwarded to the resource using the third user entity to access the resource. A response from the resource is restructured as a response to the client entity accessing the resource utilizing the second user identity. The restructured response is sent to the client entity accessing the resource utilizing the second user identity.
US10447725B1	Secure ranging wireless communication This disclosure relates to techniques for performing secure ranging wireless communication. A first wireless device may receive a ranging packet from a second wireless device in a wireless manner. The ranging packet may include a first random sequence portion and a second random sequence portion. The first wireless device may perform one or more channel and noise estimations for the ranging packet. The first wireless device may perform one or more security checks for the ranging packet based on any or all of the first random sequence portion, the second random sequence portion, or the channel and noise estimation(s).
US10447708B2	Server drift monitoring Threat detection is improved by monitoring variations in observable events and correlating these variations to malicious activity. The disclosed techniques can be usefully employed with any attribute or other metric that can be instrumented on an endpoint and tracked over time including observable events such as changes to files, data, software configurations, operating systems, and so forth. Correlations may be based on historical data for a particular machine, or a group of machines such as similarly configured endpoints. Similar inferences of malicious activity can be based on the nature of a variation, including specific patterns of variation known to be associated with malware and any other unexpected patterns that deviate from normal behavior. Embodiments described herein use variations in, e.g., server software updates or URL cache hits on an endpoint, but the techniques are more generally applicable to any endpoint attribute that varies in a manner correlated with malicious activity.
US10447705B2	Cloud-based device information storage Device information for each of multiple devices associated with a user account is maintained by a cloud service. The device information can include credential information allowing the device to be accessed by other ones of the multiple devices, remote access information indicating how the device can be accessed by other ones of the multiple devices on other networks, and property information including settings and/or device drivers for the device. The device information for each of the multiple devices is made available to other ones of the multiple devices, and can be used by the multiple devices to access one another and provide a consistent user experience across the multiple devices.
US10447702B2	Digital credential tiers A method for selecting an alternative digital content item can include assigning a digital content license to access a first digital content item to a user account, the digital content license to access the first digital content item permitting a user of the user account to attend a scheduled presentation of the first digital content item at an exhibitor location; receiving, from a client device associated with the user account, a request to use the digital content license to attend a scheduled presentation of an alternate digital content item; determining that the digital content license to the first digital content item is eligible to secure a digital credential to attend a scheduled presentation of an alternate digital content item; identifying a set of alternate digital content items that can be accessed by the user; and providing, to the client device, data identifying the set of alternate digital content items.
US10447700B2	Method for controlling, charging, and positioning a UE in a small cell system A method for controlling, charging and positioning a UE is disclosed, which includes: a master base station sending closed subscriber group (CSG) member status of the UE in a secondary cell to a secondary base station; the master base station sending a CSG identity of the secondary cell and a PLMN identity selected for the UE that serves the UE in a cell of the secondary base station to a mobility management entity (MME); the MME validating CSG member status of the UE in the secondary cell; and the MME sending the validated CSG member status to the master base station with the present application, the UE is able to properly access to the secondary cell, and access control and member validation, charging, and positioning may be performed for the UE reasonably, which improves the user experience.
US10447695B2	Mobile terminal, network node server, method and computer program Methods of operating a network node in a wireless local area network, a mobile terminal and a server, respectively, are disclosed. Corresponding computer programs, as well as a network node, a mobile terminal and a server are also disclosed. The network node establishes connection with the mobile terminal; and sends at least one network name to the mobile terminal, wherein the at least one network names correspond to possible public land mobile networks, PLMNs, based on the determined AAA information. The mobile terminal can thus display the network name.
US10447692B2	Auto-creation of application passwords In one embodiment, an attempt to log in to a user account, by an application on a client device, is detected. It is determined whether the client device is a trusted device. An application password is generated and stored, by a server, in association with the client device and the user account based, at least in part, upon whether the client device is a trusted device.
US10447691B2	Method for generating an authenticating document A method for generating an authenticating document for verifying whether a password is inputted by a genuine holder of the password is to be implemented by a network server communicable with a mobile device. The method includes: receiving, by the network server from the mobile device, a password inputted by a user via an input unit of the mobile device, and a dynamic image that is captured by an image capture module of the mobile device and that is associated with a motion of the user during input of the password; and compiling, by the network server, the authenticating document based on the password and the dynamic image when the password is verified by the network server to be correct.
US10447688B1	System for secure communications A system and method provides security features for inter-computer communications. A user identifier of the user that cannot be used to log the user in to a data consolidating system is received by a matching system from the data consolidating system. The validity of the user is checked at the matching system and, in response to the checking, the user identifier is converted to a different user identifier and the different user identifier is provided to a data providing system by the matching system. The data providing system provides the data of the user in response, and the matching system forwards the data to the data consolidating system.
US10447687B2	Communication terminal, communication method, and communication system There is provided a communication terminal including a transmission controller configured to allow transmission of, to a verification target device, authentication information for authenticating the verification target device based on first information acquired from an information processing device, and a verification unit configured to verify validity of the verification target device based on a response to the authentication information and second information acquired from the information processing device, the second information being associated with the first information.
US10447685B2	Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media facilitating mobile device guest network access Mobile device access to a guest network is facilitated. A method comprises: detecting a home network having an associated access point based on the device being within a first defined proximity of the associated access point; and transmitting information indicative of a request to establish a guest network via the associated access point of the home network and providing authentication information for an entity associated with the device. The method also comprises establishing the guest network according to one or more assigned resources based on receipt of an acknowledgement message received from a cloud device, wherein receipt of the acknowledgment message from the cloud device is based on cloud device determination that the entity associated with the device is authenticated and based on receipt of an authorization by an entity associated with the home network.
US10447677B1	Mobile application authentication infrastructure Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to authentication. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for mobile application infrastructure and framework for application authentication. Currently, methods and systems for authentication are not flexible or dynamic and over-authentication has become a solution because it is cheap and easy. In contrast, in accordance with some embodiments of this application, the methods and systems can analyze authentication challenges and non-authentication challenges received from a server over a network in a client side infrastructure. The client side infrastructure can determine a customized, flexible, and dynamic plan for responding to authentication challenges in manner that avoids over-authentication on the client side.
US10447674B2	Key exchange through partially trusted third party A system may transmit, to a first entity, data to indicate an association between the first entity and a public key, wherein the public key is to be used to establish a cryptographically protected communications session between the first entity and a second entity, receive the data in response to a request to verify the association, and transmit, to the second entity, an indication that the data is valid. The system may be a cryptography service that is partially by the first and second entities. A partially trusted system can a computer system that is trusted in some respects but not trusted in other respects. A partially trusted cryptography service may be trusted to generate digital signatures and verify authenticity of digital signatures, but not trusted with access to a cryptographic key that can be used to access a cryptographically protected communications between a first entity and a second entity.
US10447670B2	Secret keys management in a virtualized data-center Implementations of the disclosure provide for secret keys management in a virtualized data-center. In one implementation, a system is provided. The system comprising a memory to store secret key data and a processing device coupled to the memory. The processing device is to detect activation of a hypervisor on a host system. A request is received from a virtual machine (VM) associated with the hypervisor to access a data storage domain. A secret key providing authenticated access to a data storage device domain is registered to the hypervisor. The secret key includes a universally unique identifier (UUID). To register the secret key, the processing device is to store a data structure indicating an association between the UUID of the secret key and the hypervisor in a volatile memory associated with the processing device. Thereupon, the UUID of the secret key is transmitted to the hypervisor associated with the VM.
US10447668B1	Virtual cryptographic module with load balancer and cryptographic module fleet A virtual cryptographic module is used to perform cryptographic operations. The virtual cryptographic module may include a fleet of cryptographic modules and a load balancer that determines when a cryptographic module should be added to or removed from the fleet. The fleet size may be adjusted based on detecting a set of conditions that includes the utilization level of the fleet. One or more cryptographic modules of the fleet may be used to fulfill requests to perform cryptographic operations. A cryptographic module may be a hardware security module (“HSM”).
US10447665B2	IPv6 link local secure network with biometric security to secure IOT devices A method, a computer program product, and a multi-function peripheral are disclosed, which secures a device using a link local network for transmission of data. The method includes starting an Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) network initialization from an Internet of Things (IOT) device in an IPv6 link local network; deriving an identifier for a link local IPv6 address for the IOT device from a first public key of the IOT device; sending the link local IPv6 address with the identifier from the IOT device to the first host device for double address detection (dad) in the link local IPv6 network; and authenticating the link local IPv6 address on the first host device with a private key.
US10447660B2	Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium An apparatus includes a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to perform control to cause a storage unit to store a digital certificate issued by a certification authority, release a public key whose validity is certified by the digital certificate and perform encrypted communication with an external apparatus using the public key, and transmit, to the certification authority, an acquisition request for revocation information about digital certificates in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US10447650B2	Method of dynamic updating of information obtained from a DNS server A method of dynamically updating DNS information in an IP network. A first entity of the IP network, distinct from DNS servers of the IP network, receives a request from a second entity of the network, likewise distinct from the DNS servers but possessing a copy of DNS information, constituting a record in at least one DNS server of the IP network. The first entity responds to the request by sending a message to the second entity, including an indication about the need to modify the copy. On receiving the message, the second entity determines whether the indication includes at least one additional instruction. If so, the second entity: performs a DNS interrogation, and on receiving a response, modifies its copy of the DNS information based the response and the additional instruction; or modifies its copy of the DNS information based on the additional instruction without performing a DNS interrogation.
US10447645B2	Computerized system and method for automatically creating and communicating media streams of digital content Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically identify and communicate media content to users as the media content is uploaded to the internet. The disclosed systems and methods leverage an internet hosted data firehose in order to build and communicate streams of content that are relevant to users' determined interests. Real-time analysis of the continuous stream of content results in curated media streams being created and communicated to users thereby stimulating social interactivity between users and automating the discovery of other users on a network.
US10447644B2	Sending notifications as a service In one embodiment, a method includes one or more computing devices accessing a notification to be sent to a user, where the notification has a context. The method also includes one or more computing devices sending a request to a history service for historical notification data associated with the user with respect to the context of the notification and a ranking of the notification where the ranking indicates a probability of the user interacting with the notification. The method also includes one or more computing devices receiving the historical notification data and the ranking from the history service. Moreover, the method also includes one or more computing devices determining a delivery policy to apply to the notification based at least in part on the context of the notification, the historical notification data, and the ranking. Furthermore, the method also includes one or more computing devices applying the delivery policy to the notification to be sent to the user.
US10447643B2	Presenting previously presented content items stored by users of a social networking system based on user-specified criteria A social networking system permits users to store content presented by the social networking system and subsequently access the stored content associated with the users. A content item is stored in association with a user profile of a user that stored the content item and with one or more criteria specified by the user that cause presentation of the stored content item to the user when satisfied. When attributes associated with a user satisfy at least a threshold number of criteria associated with a stored content item, the stored content item is included in a selection process used by the social networking system to determine content that is presented to the user.
US10447639B2	Modification of delivered email content Various parts of email content or entire emails may be recalled or modified after delivery through the use of links to cloud-storage, where the various parts of the email content may be stored. Different notification and modification methods may be employed to modify delivered content even after it is rendered for a recipient. While recipients may have a latest version of the email content, senders may be enabled to see a version history of changes in delivered email content.
US10447633B2	Method and system for optimizing and preventing failure of sender policy framework (SPF) lookups The present invention circumvents the standard SPF lookup limit by allowing an administrator to create a secondary SPF record that includes all the desired SPF records even if it exceeds the 10 recursive lookups that would result in a standard failure. The administrator would then then create or modify their main SPF record to include an entry that points to the SPF Proxy that is the subject of this invention.
US10447632B2	Filtering notifications from a third party application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user A method for filtering a notification being provided from an application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user is described. The method starts by receiving the notification from the application to the user. If the notification is a first notification sent from the application to the user, the notification is displayed to the user with (i) a prompting message that includes a selectable opt in image, and (ii) a selectable opt out image. The prompting message includes a request to opt in to receiving notifications from the application. If the notification is not the first notification sent from the application to the user, the method determines whether to display the notification to the user by determining whether the user previously opted in to notifications from the application and whether click-through rate (CTR) of notifications from the application is greater than CTR threshold.
US10447629B2	Method of constructing a message by means of a terminal One embodiment comprises obtaining an identification of at least one multimedia content and at least one destination user; constructing a message by a challenge definition module installed on a terminal on the basis of at least one interaction with a sender user. The construction may comprise (a) producing metadata defining, in association with the multimedia content, both a challenge for presenting to the destination user and also an expected response to the challenge, the metadata combining the information required for executing the challenge on at least one terminal of the destination user; (b) inserting the metadata and an identifier in the message, the identifier identifying the terminal of the destination user of the message; and (c) using a telecommunications network to send the message and data giving access to the multimedia content to a server for relaying the metadata and the multimedia content to the terminal of the destination user.
US10447626B2	Control of messages in publish/subscribe system Control of messages in a publish/subscribe system is described. A publishing system creates a message for publishing to multiple subscribers via a broker system. The message and associated metadata are provided. The metadata defines control of the message and relates to control of publishing of the message, by the broker system, and/or control of use of the message, by a subscribing system. The message is published with the metadata. A broker system receives the message and analyzes the metadata with respect to a subscriber. Based on the analysis, restrictions are applied to delivery of the message to the subscriber. A subscribing system receives the message and analyzes the metadata with respect to the subscriber. Based on this second analysis, restrictions are applied to use of the message by the subscriber.
US10447622B2	Identifying trending issues in organizational messaging A method may include receiving a chat conversation between a first user and second user pertaining to a customer service issue, determining a tagged term associated with the chat conversation based upon a tag indicator, and determining whether the tagged term relates to an existing tagged term in a set of tagged terms. When the tagged term relates to the existing tagged term, the chat conversation may be associated with the existing tagged term and a counter incremented for the existing tagged term. The method may then present a subset of the set of tagged terms.
US10447621B2	App powered extensibility of messages on an existing messaging service An instant messaging (IM) service interacts with IM clients operating on computing devices to implement an extensible platform with which individual composer applications (“apps”) may interact to support a variety of different messaging user experiences for users of respective local and remote devices. Each IM client exposes an application programming interface for utilization by a local composer app to package content that the IM service then transparently transports to a remote device. An IM client on the remote device provides the package to an identified associated remote composer app that can unpack the content and use it to support the app's customized messaging experience for the remote user. The composer app also provides a preview of the experience supported by the packaged content that the clients on the respective local and remote devices may utilize in a messaging history and/or as a launching point to the composer app's user experience.
US10447609B2	Preemptive packet transmission Disclosed herein is technology to reduce latency of frames through a network device supporting various priorities. In an implementation, a method comprises configuring one or more priorities with a preemptive right over other one or more of said plurality of priorities; receiving frames in a sequence, each of the frames having a frame priority comprising of one of said plurality of priorities; queuing the received frames in a predetermined order based on a frame arrival time and the frame priority; transmitting a current frame based on a current frame priority and current frame arrival time; stopping transmission of the current frame when a later frame in the sequence is received that has a later frame priority with preemptive right over the current frame priority; transmitting an invalid frame check sequence; transmitting the later frame; and restarting the transmission of the current frame after transmitting the later frame.
US10447598B2	User datagram protocol (UDP) receive offloading Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for providing UDP receive offloading using the communications systems. For example, a method generally includes grouping, into a container, the datasets from the same source and destination arriving at a receiver based on datasets metadata, and ungrouping the datasets from the container once network layer processing on the container is completed and datasets are ready to traverse to a next destination.
US10447596B2	Congestion control for LTE-V2V Improvements may be made for the congestion control considering different technologies, types of radio resources, and priorities of different packets. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines a channel busy ratio (CBR). The UE determines one or more channel resource utilization limits based on the CBR, wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limits corresponds to a respective packet priority. The UE controls transmission of a plurality of packets based on the one or more channel resource utilization limits, each packet of the plurality of packets being associated with a respective packet priority.
US10447592B2	Output device discovery using network switches A network device managing system is provided for determining network addresses of network devices using network switches. The system comprises a server that determines network switches that communicate with the server, and receives network addresses of devices that are to be excluded from an address search. For each network switch: one or more first addresses of one or more devices that are configured on a switch are received from the switch. For each device, from the one or more devices configured on the switch, in response to determining that a first address of a device does not match any of the addresses of devices that are to be excluded from the address search, the server determines whether an association between the first address and a second address is stored in a server data repository, and if it is, the server transmits the second address to a global data repository.
US10447590B2	Systems and methods for dynamic connection paths for devices connected to computer networks Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically selecting a connection path between a client device and a server. One method includes receiving, over a network at a server, a connection request from a client device; authenticating, by the server, the connection request from the client device; determining, by the server, a connection path for the authenticated client device based on the connection request; determining, by the server, whether the connection path for the authenticated client device is a new connection path based on the connection request; and storing, by the server, the connection path to a connection database in association with the authenticated client device when the connection path is determined to be new, the connection database including a plurality of connection paths between the client device and the server.
US10447580B2	Financial network A network system that facilitates financial transactions. A software defined network may operate to provide a variety of trading related services to a variety of customers with a low latency. Core or processor affinity for routing processes may improve speeds of routing. Data capture through a shared memory space may allow for a variety of analytics without introducing unacceptable delay.
US10447574B2	Method, apparatus and system of selecting routing in asymmetric link A method, apparatus and/or system of selecting a routing in an asymmetric link, in which an arbitrary intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node receives routing request information including a first link quality for a path from the source node to the arbitrary neighbor node from an arbitrary neighbor node of the arbitrary intermediate node, acquires a second link quality for a path between the arbitrary intermediate node and the arbitrary neighbor node, acquires a third link quality based on the first and second link qualities, updates the first link quality in the routing request information with the third link quality, and broadcasts an updated routing request information to other neighbor node for the destination node to determine at least one of a desirable forward path or a desirable backward path from the source node to the destination node, may be provided.
US10447572B2	Auditing of content related events At times, it may be desirable to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. One manner of making the determination may include accessing presentation time information that indicates the time(s) at which one or more client systems present particular dynamic content and accessing event time information indicating the time(s) at which one or more auditable events occur in the dynamic particular content. Based on the presentation time information and the event time information, it may be possible to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content.
US10447565B2	Mechanism for analyzing correlation during performance degradation of an application chain The present invention relates to a device comprising at least one computer machine and a software for executing a correlation analysis mechanism during performance degradation of an application chain comprising a hardware and software arrangement for storing a measuring repository, said measuring repository comprising a hardware and software arrangement for measuring, by consumption probes, the level of use of each resource on the set of servers constituting the application chain during periods of performance degradation, then storage in a memory of these levels in the measuring repository, in association with the period, said device being characterized in that it further comprises an editing hardware and software arrangement of a configuration repository, a categorization module of the performance problems as a function of the measuring and configuration repositories.
US10447564B2	Systems for and methods of user demographic reporting usable for identifiying users and collecting usage data Several ways of identifying users and collecting demographic information and market information are disclosed, including branding a browser with a unique identification in each user request, identifying a user by his key strokes or mouse clicks, gathering demographic information using multiple data sets and by monitoring network traffic. Additionally, user requested content is distinguished from other, non-user content, and the performance of a server can be monitor and analyzed from a client a client perspective. Further, an Internet user's Internet data is routed to a known domain on the Internet, from which it is routed on to the intended recipient. The domain includes proxy servers which proxy the user's data requests to the domain, and database servers, which filter and build a database of the user's Internet usage. Particular data concerning certain behaviors of interest, such as purchasing data, is filtered into the database, and can form the basis for numerous market measures.
US10447562B2	System and method for detecting screen connectivity monitoring application malfunctions A system and method for detecting and monitoring screen connectivity malfunctions, and generating alerts regarding presence of connectivity malfunctions, while identifying the user interface element that caused the connectivity malfunction.
US10447561B2	BFD method and apparatus A bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) method, apparatus, and system, where when a first virtual machine receives BFD packets from a second virtual machine, prediction duration and a predetermined quantity of sample time intervals are obtained. An eigenvalue is obtained according to the prediction duration and the predetermined quantity of sample time intervals, where the eigenvalue indicates a possibility of fault occurrence on an application in the second virtual machine. For an application that is running on the second virtual machine, the eigenvalue is compared with a preset fault determining criterion of the application, and whether the application is faulty is determined according to a comparison result.
US10447559B1	Utilizing machine learning with self-support actions to determine support queue positions for support calls A device receives a communication associated with a support issue encountered by a user, and receives information identifying one or more self-support actions performed by the user in relation to the support issue. The device assigns the communication to a position in a support queue. The support queue includes information identifying positions of other communications received from other users, when the other communications are received, and self-support actions performed by the other users. The device associates the information identifying the one or more self-support actions with information identifying the position of the communication, and applies respective weights to the one or more self-support actions. The device generates a score for the communication based on applying the respective weights, and modifies the position of the communication based on the score. The device performs one or more actions based on modifying the position of the communication.
US10447556B2	End user on demand network resource instantiation End user on demand network resource instantiation in software-defined networks (SDN) may be provided by an SDN controller that receives an indication from a physical boost device operated by a network user. The boost device may indicate to the SDN controller that an improvement in network performance is desired by the network user. Once the indication is received, the SDN controller may implement network configuration changes for the improvement and cause the network user to be billed for the improvement.
US10447554B2	User presence based control of remote communication with Internet of Things (IoT) devices Disclosed systems and methods include an Internet of Things (IoT) SuperAgent/Gateway for controlling remote communication with an IoT proximal network comprising one or more IoT devices. The presence of an IoT user device in the IoT proximal network is detected. The remote communication is disabled if the IoT user device is present in the IoT proximal network and if the remote communication criteria for disabling the remote communication are met. The remote communication is enabled if the IoT user device is not present in the IoT proximal network and if the remote communication criteria for enabling the remote communication are met. The remote communication includes remote access of the one or more of the IoT devices by the IoT user device, as well as, remoting notifications from the one or more the IoT devices to the IoT user device.
US10447544B2	Multiplexing and congestion control Methods, systems and devices for network congestion control exploit the inherent burstiness of network traffic, using a wave-based characterization of network traffic and corresponding multiplexing methods and approaches.
US10447539B2	System for provisioning racks autonomously in data centers A provisioning system autonomously and asynchronously brings up data center racks. In an embodiment, the provisioning system determines presence of a first and second device connected to a network. The provisioning system generates a first and second thread for validation of the first and second devices, respectively. Responsive to determining by the first thread that the first device is not validated, the provisioning system notifies a detection system that the validation of the first device has not passed. Responsive to determining by the second thread that the second device is validated, the provisioning system provisions the second device for integration with one or more provisioned devices on the network.
US10447533B2	System and method for managing access point functionality and configuration A system for managing access point functionally and configuration includes a server that is coupled to a computer network and configured to communicate with an access point via the computer network. The access point is configured to couple a mobile device to the computer network by providing a wireless link between the mobile device and the access point. The access point is further configured to produce a status point regarding the access point and the server is configured to receive the status report from the access point following a trigger event at the access point. In other examples, the server is further configured to transmit a response message and/or a configuration file to the access point in response to the status report that is received at the server. Other features and systems are also disclosed.
US10447526B2	Network event grouping Systems and methods are disclosed for network event grouping. For example, methods may include generating a graph including vertices and edges, wherein at least one of the vertices is associated with an event type from a set of event types and wherein at least one of the edges is associated with a weight; removing, based on an associated weight and a first threshold, one or more edges from the graph; determining, after removing the one or more edges from the graph, whether the graph is chordal; responsive to determining that the graph is chordal, identifying a connected subgraph within the graph; determining a group of event types to include event types that are associated with vertices in the identified connected subgraph; and transmitting, storing, or displaying data specifying the group of event types.
US10447524B1	Unified datapath processing with virtualized storage processors A technique for managing host data in a data storage apparatus having a storage processor (SP) provides virtualized storage processors (VSPs) as substantially self-describing and independent entities. Each VSP has its own namespace, independent of the namespace of any other VSP. Each VSP also has its own network address. Hosts may thus access VSPs directly, without having to include path information relative to the SP on which the VSP is operated. VSPs can thus be moved from one physical SP to another with little or no disruption to hosts, which may continue to access the VSPs on the new SPs using the same paths as were used when the VSPs were running on the original SPs.
US10447520B1	Efficient peak-to-average-power reduction for OFDM and MIMO-OFDM Low-complexity computational processing provides a set of selective mapping weights for reducing peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) in transmitted Multiple Input, Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) signals. A MIMO precoder and invertible transform generates a base discrete-time MIMO-OFDM signal from a set of data symbols and MIMO precoding weights. A matrix multiplier multiplies the set of data symbols with a sparse update weight matrix, and the resulting product is MIMO-precoded and modulated onto an OFDM signal to produce a discrete-time update signal. A linear combiner sums the discrete-time update signal and the base discrete-time MIMO-OFDM signal to produce an updated discrete-time MIMO-OFDM signal from which the PAPR can be measured.
US10447518B2	Methods for configurable non-orthogonal multiple access transmission Aspects of the present disclosure provide a scheme for generating a multiple access (MA) signal that include mapping each of at least one stream of bits to generate a set of modulated symbols and transmitting the set of modulated symbols. The spreading signatures that are selected to map the at least one stream of bits are selected, at least in part, based on a set of compatibility rules. The spreading involves mapping each stream of bits using a respective spreading signature from a set of spreading signatures to generate a respective set of modulated symbols, wherein real spreading signature components of the spreading signatures are orthogonal to each other and imaginary spreading signature components of the spreading signatures are orthogonal to each other.
US10447514B2	Wireless transmission system, wireless communication device, and wireless communication method A wireless transmission system includes: a communication unit for transmission; and a communication unit for reception. The communication units for transmission and reception are housed in a housing of the same electronic apparatus, or the communication unit for transmission is housed in a housing of first electronic apparatus and the communication unit for reception is housed in a housing of second electronic apparatus and a wireless signal transmission path enabling wireless information transmission between the communication units is formed between the communication units when the first and the second electronic apparatus are disposed at given positions to be integrated with each other. The communication unit for transmission includes a first carrier signal generating unit and a first frequency converter, and the communication unit for reception includes a second carrier signal generating unit, and a second frequency converter.
US10447508B2	Multi-bias level generation and interpolation A device includes a first bias level generator to generate a first bias level of a plurality of bias levels and transmit the bias level having a first voltage value, a second bias level generator to generate a second bias level of the plurality of bias levels and transmit the second bias level having a second voltage value. The device also includes a voltage divider that interpolates a subset of bias levels of the plurality of bias levels between the first bias level and the second bias level and supplies a selected bias level of the plurality of bias levels a control signal to an adjustment circuit of a decision feedback equalizer to compensate for inter-symbol interference of a bit due to a previously received bit of a bit stream.
US10447505B2	Method for performing self-interference cancellation in FDR environment and device for same A method for performing self-interference cancellation by a device using an FDR mode comprises a step for performing nonlinear digital self-interference cancellation on the basis of a condition defined for the nonlinear digital self-interference cancellation, wherein the defined condition can comprise information about the order of a self-interference component to be considered for the nonlinear digital self-interference cancellation in correspondence with transmission power of the device.
US10447504B1	Quantized detection in uplink MIMO with oversampling The invention relates to a quantized detection in uplink mimo with oversampling that is a temporal oversampling in quantized uplink MIMO systems.
US10447503B2	Method and system for data flow management of user equipment in a tunneling packet data network A data replication system of a communication network is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the data replication system includes a replication gateway node and a replication control system located in one or more of a visited network and a home network. The replication gateway node is configured to create a first replication tunnel between a first gateway node and the replication gateway node and a second replication tunnel between the replication gateway node and a second gateway node. The replication gateway node replicates data streams between the first gateway node and the second gateway and delivers the replicated data stream to a management node for further analysis.
US10447498B2	Facilitating communications between virtual private clouds hosted by different cloud providers The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that facilitates communication between virtual private clouds (VPCs) hosted by different cloud service providers. During operation, the system receives a packet from a source at a first router in a first VPC, wherein the first VPC is hosted by a first cloud service provider, and wherein the packet is directed to a destination in a second VPC, which is hosted by a second cloud service provider. If no direct tunnel exists between the first VPC and the second VPC, the system forwards the packet through an intermediate hub to the second VPC, and automatically builds a direct tunnel from the first router in the first VPC to a second router in the second VPC to facilitate subsequent communications between the first and second VPCs.
US10447497B2	Lighting network A lighting device comprising: a first radio transceiver for connection to at least one further lighting device via a first wireless network; a second radio transceiver for connection to a network device via a second wireless network; a memory storing credentials assigned for use by the second transceiver for communication with the network device; and a control module configured to: detect that the lighting device is to operate as a bridge, instead of a further lighting device, to allow data to be exchanged between the at least one further lighting device and the network device; obtain credentials that have been established for use by the further lighting device to communicate with the second network; and modify the credentials stored in memory such that the credentials associated with the further lighting device are assigned for use by the second transceiver, thereby configuring the lighting device to operate as the bridge.
US10447495B2	System and method for full-duplex media access control using request-to-send signaling A system and method for full-duplex communications provided by modifying the Media Access Control sub-layer of communication node protocols. The modification allows communication nodes to communicate with one another in full-duplex, where each node transmits and receives data simultaneously with other nodes in a single frequency. A timing of the simultaneous data transmissions, acknowledgments, and short-interframe-space waiting periods can be determined based on network-allocation-vector data transmitted in association with request-to-send or clear-to-send signals.
US10447494B2	System and method for a federated evolved packet core service bus A system and method of provides services including a federated service bus between distributed and evolved packet core (EPC) and a radio access network (RAN), wherein the federated service bus provides information based on a parent-child relationship between the EPC and RAN on a per-federated service basis. The information can include loading and location information.
US10447484B2	Multi-user strong authentication token Apparatus, methods and systems to secure remotely accessible applications using authentication devices are disclosed. More in particular apparatus, methods and systems are disclosed for thwarting overlay attacks against authentication applications for displaying transaction data and for generating signatures over these transaction data.
US10447471B2	Systematic secret sharing A method includes obtaining an encoding matrix that includes a first matrix section and a second matrix section. The first matrix section includes “D−1” rows of a unity matrix, (“D” is a decode threshold number), and the second matrix section includes “T−D+1” rows of encoding terms (“T” is a pillar width number). The method further includes dividing a data element into “Z” data element blocks (“Z” is a function of “D” and a total number of data blocks of a data segment). The method further includes placing “Z” data element blocks in a first row of a data matrix that corresponds to a missing row of the unity matrix. The method further includes dividing “D−1” random elements into random element blocks and placing them in other rows of the data matrix. The method further includes matrix multiplying the encoding matrix with the data matrix to produce encoded data slices.
US10447470B2	Secure and disruption-tolerant communications for unmanned underwater vehicles An underwater communications system includes a network communication interface, one or more computer processors, and a memory containing computer program code that, when executed by operation of the one or more computer processors, performs an operation. The operation includes storing a plurality of data packets to be transmitted to a destination device, determining that data communications over the network communication interface have become available for a first network node, and determining that the first network node has a valid security credential that has not been revoked by an access granting authority. Additionally, the operation includes, upon determining that the first network node has the valid security credential, transmitting the stored plurality of data packets over the network communication interface to the first network node. The first network node is configured to employ store-carry-and-forward data messaging techniques to transmit the plurality of data packets towards the destination device.
US10447460B2	Communication method using carrier aggregation and device for same The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. A method for transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal can comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information about component carrier aggregation; on the basis of the configuration information, configuring a primary component carrier in a licensed band and configuring a secondary component carrier in an unlicensed band; transmitting data in a first subframe of the secondary component carrier; and receiving in a second subframe a response to the data. If the primary component carrier in the licensed band is configured as a component carrier on a TDD mode, the second subframe can be configured on the basis of a HARQ-ACK timing in a first condition.
US10447457B2	Reference signal pattern and pilot sharing for shortened transmission time interval wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for identifying uplink transmissions that are to be made using shortened transmission time intervals (sTTIs), and allocating uplink resources for such transmissions. A portion of the uplink resources may be reserved for reference signal transmissions, such as demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmissions. Resources for a number of sTTIs may be aligned within a slot that comprises a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and one of the OFDM symbols may have resources reserved that are to be shared by two or more sTTIs within the slot for DMRS transmission. The reserved OFDM symbol may be shared by two overlapping sTTIs in which the reserved OFDM symbol is common between the two sTTIs. A DMRS sequence for each sTTI may be selected based on the allocated uplink resources for the sTTIs.
US10447448B2	Multiuser transreceiving method in wireless communication system and device for same A method for transmitting data from a station (STA) device in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including a physical preamble, which includes a legacy preamble and a high efficiency-long training field (HE-LTF), and a data field; and transmitting the PPDU, wherein the data field is transmitted at four times (4×) the inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT)/discrete Fourier transform (DFT) cycle of the legacy preamble, the HE-LTF is a 4×HE-LTF or a 2×HE-LTF which is respectively transmitted at the four times or two times (2×) the IDFT/DFT cycle of the legacy preamble, and wherein pilot tones of the HE-LTF may be inserted only into subcarriers having an even number of indexes from among subcarriers to which the 4×HE-LTF is mapped.
US10447447B2	Methods and apparatus for multiplexing reference signals for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) layers Methods and apparatus for multiplexing reference signals for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers are provided. Resources for Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRS) corresponding to each of two or more data streams are assigned, wherein the resources assigned to each of the data streams are staggered in frequency and span two or more OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplexing) symbols. The DMRS is transmitted using the assigned resources.
US10447438B2	Method for transmitting and receiving downlink data in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor A method for transmitting and receiving downlink (DL) data performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a first DL grant from a base station (BS); receiving first DL data based on the first DL grant from the BS; transmitting a HARQ response in response to the first DL data to the BS; and receiving one or more second DL data from the BS, and a specific frequency shift pattern is set in a frequency region between a resource in which the second DL data is received and a resource in which the first DL data is received, or between resources in which the second DL data are received.
US10447437B2	Method for assigning channels based on spatial division multiplexing in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with multiple antennas A method for assigning a single frequency sub-channel to a plurality of MSs (Mobile Stations) in an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system utilizing SDM (Spatial Division Multiplexing) with multiple transmit/receive antennas. In the method, a BS (Base Station) can effectively assign a pilot channel to estimate a downlink channel. The BS divides the single frequency sub-channel into a plurality of spatial channels, and sequentially assigns the plurality of spatial channels to the MSs having the maximum communication capacity, thereby transmitting signals of the MSs through the single frequency sub-channel.
US10447428B2	Transmitting apparatus and interleaving method thereof A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword by LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US10447427B2	Baseline wander correction A receiver frontend having a high-frequency AC-coupled path in parallel to a low-frequency feed-forward path for baseline correction. The low-frequency path blocks the DC common-mode voltage of the input differential signal pair, but passes low-frequency differential signal components (e.g., long strings of a single value, or disparities in the number of 1's and 0's over a long period of time.) The low-frequency path can include a passive network for level shifting and extending the range of acceptable common-mode input voltages. The low-frequency path can also include a differential (e.g., transconductance) amplifier to isolate the common-mode input voltage from the output of the baseline wander correction circuit.
US10447425B2	Method and apparatus for determining transport block size In the field of wireless communication technologies, method and apparatus for determining a transport block size (TBS) of a data channel are provided. In a communication network, a terminal device receives control information from a network device. The control information includes modulation indication information and resource information of the data channel. The terminal device determines a modulation order and a code rate according to the modulation indication information, and determines number of time-frequency resources according to the resource indication information of the data channel. The terminal device determines the TBS according to the modulation order, the code rate, and the number of time-frequency resources. Based on the determined TBS, the terminal device decodes the data channel carried on the time-frequency resources or sends the data channel on the time-frequency resources.
US10447424B2	Spatial multiplexing scheme An optoelectronic apparatus includes an enclosure having mutually-opposing first and second faces. An array of emitters contained in the enclosure is configured to emit beams of optical radiation. Projection optics contained in the enclosure have an entrance face and an exit face and are configured to receive the beams of optical radiation through the entrance face and to project the beams through the exit face. A polarization-based spatial multiplexer is contained in the enclosure and positioned to intercept and direct the projected beams such that the optical radiation having a first polarization is transmitted through the first face, while the optical radiation having a second polarization, orthogonal to the first polarization, is emitted through the second face. A controller is coupled to control a polarization of the optical radiation and thereby control a direction in which the optical radiation is emitted from the enclosure.
US10447422B2	Methods and apparatus for remote management of an optical transceiver system In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first optical transceiver. The first optical transceiver includes a set of optical transmitters, an optical multiplexer operatively coupled to the set of optical transmitters, and a variable optical attenuator operatively coupled to the optical multiplexer. The variable optical attenuator is configured to receive a control signal from a controller of the first optical transceiver and modulate a signal representing control information with an output from the optical multiplexer. The control information is associated with the control signal and for a second optical transceiver operatively coupled to the first optical transceiver.
US10447412B2	Communications device and method A device comprises a coupling configured to couple signals to and from a communications path including at least a part of a human or animal body; a data transmitter coupled to the coupling and configured to transmit, from time to time, a data signal of at least a predetermined temporal duration via the communications path; and a data receiver coupled to the coupling and configured to detect the presence of a signal on the communications path at sets of one or more successive detection instances disposed between successive transmissions of the data signal by the data transmitter, the data receiver being configured so that the successive detection instances of a set are temporally separated by no more than the predetermined temporal duration; the device being configured to initiate a processing operation in response to a detection by the data receiver of the presence of a signal on the communications path.
US10447405B2	Optical receiver with optical demultiplexer An optical receiver includes: an optical demultiplexer to demultiplex an optical signal in which a plurality of wavelengths is multiplexed and divide the optical signal into optical signals corresponding to the plurality of wavelengths, respectively; a reflector to change a progress direction of the divided optical signals; an optical coupling lens including, in an array form, light transmission lenses through which the divided optical signals are transmitted, respectively; a plurality of photodetectors to mount on a photodiode (PD) substrate provided on the optical coupling lens, receive the divided optical signals that are transmitted through the light transmission lenses of the optical coupling lens, respectively, and convert the received optical signals to electrical signals; and a plurality of trans impedance amplifiers provided at desired intervals to electrically connect to the plurality of photodetectors through wire bonding and amplify the received plurality of electrical signals to be a desired magnitude.
US10447402B2	Optical transceiver An optical transceiver includes an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The optical transmitter includes a laser diode configured to convert a current signal into an optical signal; a main driver comprising first and second output terminals that have a differential structure, the main driver configured to drive the first and second output terminals in response to differential input signals and to provide the current signal to the laser diode through the first output terminal; and an impedance balancer configured to match impedances of the first and second output terminals by adjusting the impedance of the second output terminal according to signal states of the first and second output terminals.
US10447396B1	Low-speed signal photoelectric conversion module of universal multimedia interface A photo-electric conversion module for low-speed signals of universal multimedia interface. A protocol analysis module configured to analyze directions of half duplex signals and perform conversion to full duplex signals; a packing and encoding module configured to pack received full duplex signal in a frame format and send the encapsulated signals to an electric-photo conversion module; the electric-photo conversion module configured to convert an electric signal to an optical signal and send the optical signal via an optical fiber; an unpacking and decoding module configured to perform frame unpacking and decoding on a received high-speed electric signal and send a full duplex signal obtained through protocol analysis to the protocol analysis module for protocol analysis again; and a photo-electric conversion module.
US10447390B2	Luminance change information communication method A recoding medium storing a computer program, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: determining a pattern of a change in luminance, by modulating the signal to be transmitted; and transmitting the signal, by at least one light emitter changing in luminance according to the determined pattern of the change in luminance. The signal has a plurality of blocks, each block of the plurality of blocks includes (i) address information that indicates a position of a data segment in the signal and (ii) the data segment. In the transmitting, the signal is transmitted repeatedly at different times. The address information is used to identify a same location of the block data segment in the signal transmitted at a first time and in the signal transmitted at a second time, which is different from the first time. The signal has a check signal.
US10447383B1	Collaborative small satellites The system and method of using at least one constellation of small satellites to provide collaborative, tactical intelligence in a space-based system. The low latency of the system provides for actions to be taken within an adversary's decision window. The multi-domain system provides for the use of various sensors and payloads to provide real-time, multi-INT information to users, whether commercial or military in nature.
US10447378B1	Wireless mesh network for broadband connectivity Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which a home access node (HAN) device that includes a first set of radios, each of the first set of radios being coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the first set of radios establishing a first point-to-point (PtP) wireless connection over which the HAN relay device communicates with a second HAN relay device in a first sub-mesh network of HAN relay devices. The HAN device also includes a second set of radios, each of the second set of radios being coupled to a beam-steering antenna and each of the second set of radios establishing a second PtP wireless connection over which the HAN relay device communicates with at least one of a plurality of HAN devices in a second sub-mesh network in the WMN.
US10447372B2	Amplitude and phase calibration at a transmitter chip in an antenna array Select, from transmit paths within the transmitter chip, a first transmit path for a first transmit signal and a second transmit path for a second transmit signal. The transmit paths are associated with a plurality of antenna elements of an antenna array. Determine of an added signal and/or a subtracted signal associated with the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal. Determine at least one of a first signal strength value of the added signal or a second signal strength value of the subtracted signal. Adjust a first signal parameter of the second transmit signal relative to a corresponding first signal parameter of the first transmit signal until the first signal strength value is a first value or the second signal strength value is a second value. Calibrate an offset of the corresponding first signal parameter based on the adjusted first signal parameter in the second transmit path.
US10447366B2	Techniques for reception beam refinement Techniques for synchronized reception beam refinement are described herein. A base station may indicate to a user equipment (UE) a time when a reception beam refinement event may occur. The UE may initiate a synchronized reception beam refinement procedure based on receiving the indication from the base station. The UE may identify a new reception beam configuration based on data stored locally by the UE and ongoing background calculations that the UE carries out based on periodic beam reference signals. At the time indicated, the UE may adjust the reception beam configuration of a reception beam. The base station may initiate one or more link maintenance procedures based on a reception beam refinement event occurring. Such techniques may reduce the loss of data due to link degradation related to channel state feedback inconsistency (CSF) after a reception beam refinement event.
US10447365B2	Estimation of channel conditions There is provided mechanisms for obtaining channel conditions per antenna element of an antenna array comprising N antenna elements. The antenna array is configured for communications using orthogonal sub-carriers. A method is performed by a radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining channel conditions of a radio propagation channel per sub-carrier for signals received on the sub-carriers by the antenna array. A set of receiving entities are associated with the sub-carriers in an interleaved manner such that each receiving entity is interleaved over a respective disjoint subset of sub-carriers. The method comprises transforming the channel conditions at least for those sub-carriers located within a coherence bandwidth of the radio propagation channel to channel conditions for the N antenna elements by using a relation that maps the receiving entities to the N antenna elements.
US10447364B2	Device, system and method of simultaneously communicating with a group of wireless communication devices Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of simultaneously communicating with a group of wireless communication devices. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to communicate with at least one group of a plurality of wireless communication devices over a wireless communication medium, wherein the wireless communication unit is to reserve the wireless communication medium for a time period, during which the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit two or more different wireless communication transmissions to two or more wireless communication devices of the group, respectively. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10447355B2	Wireless communication system, and device and method in wireless communication system Disclosed are a device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises: a first generating unit configured to generate a first pre-coding matrix according to first channel information on a channel between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus; a second generating unit configured to generate a second pre-coding matrix according to the first pre-coding matrix and second channel information on the channel; and a pre-coding unit configured to pre-code a data signal according to the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix. According to the embodiments of the present invention, interference between user equipment can be effectively removed, the operation complexity is reduced, and the whole performance of the system is optimized.
US10447350B2	High-speed circuits for active load modulation and related methods Circuits and methods for active load modulation is described. These circuits and methods may be employed in connection with near field communication (NFC) systems, for example in the proximity inductive coupling card (PICC). The methods described herein may be used to synchronize the operations of the system to the carrier clock provided by a reader with typical operation frequency of 13.56 MHz±7 KHz. The synchronization may be performed by locking an internal clock to the carrier clock when the transmission of data is disabled, by locking the internal clock to a local clock when data transmission is enabled, and by compensating the phase or frequency of the active load modulation clock to track the carrier clock.
US10447346B2	Inverter and wireless power transmitter using the same An inverter includes a pulse generator configured to generate a reference pulse signal having a first frequency; and a gate signal generator configured to apply a pulse width modulation control having a variable duty rate, based on a second frequency, to the reference pulse signal to generate a gate signal.
US10447345B2	Circuit and method for activating an NFC device An embodiment near-field communication (NFC) router, includes a first switch coupled between a first terminal of the NFC router and a second terminal of the NFC router; and a rectifier bridge having an output terminal coupled to a control terminal of the first switch, the rectifier bridge being configured to rectify a signal detected by an antenna external to the NFC router.
US10447344B2	RF branch with accelerated turn-on and high Q value Improved Radio Frequency (RF) switches are provided herein. According to one aspect, an RF switch comprises one or more stages. In one embodiment, each stage comprises a signal input terminal, a signal output terminal, a control input terminal, and a switching device having a first terminal connected to the signal input terminal, a second terminal connected to the signal output terminal, and a third terminal for controlling the on/off state of the switching device. Each stage includes a first resistor connected in series between the control input terminal and the third terminal, a first bypass switch for electrically bypassing the first resistor, and a second resistor connected in series between the signal input terminal and the signal output terminal. The first resistors form a first bias network, the second resistors form a second bias network, and the switching devices are connected in series.
US10447342B1	Arrangements for coupling the primary coil to the secondary coil Disclosed is a guided surface waveguide probe with a charge terminal that is elevated over a lossy conducting medium. A primary coil can be coupled to an excitation source within a substructure. A secondary coil can provide a voltage to the charge terminal with a phase delay (Φ) that matches a wave tilt angle (Ψ) associated with a complex Brewster angle of incidence (θi,B) associated with the lossy conducting medium. The primary coil can be configured to inductively couple to the secondary coil.
US10447341B2	Systems and methods for wireless coexistence in an unlicensed spectrum A base station for a wireless communications system operating in an unlicensed target band of a wireless medium includes a receiver configured to wirelessly (i) receive non-cooperative carrier data within the target band from a user equipment, and (ii) detect an operation of at least one spread spectrum channel within the target band. The station further includes a transmitter configured to wirelessly send non-cooperative carrier data within the target band to the user equipment, a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor configured to (i) execute the computer-executable instructions, (ii) determine, based on the detection operation of the receiver, at least one sequence of the at least one spread spectrum channel, and (iii) perform at least one corrective action to mitigate interference between the transmitter and an operation of the at least one spread spectrum channel based on the determination of the at least one sequence.
US10447335B2	Methods for operating radio frequency devices having transmit loopback functionality A front end module having transmit loopback functionality may be operated by conducting a loopback signal from an output of a power amplifier to a receive port on a transmit loopback path and conducting a radio frequency receive signal from an antenna port to the receive port on a receive path. The transmit loopback path includes a first switch coupled between the output of the power amplifier and the receive port. The receive path includes a second switch coupled between the antenna port, where the receive port and is without the first switch.
US10447333B2	Method and apparatus for radio antenna frequency tuning A matching network of a communication device that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller that executes instructions facilitating an identifying a subset of usage scenarios based on a usage condition of the communication device and adjusting the matching network device based on a subset of different tuning scenarios corresponding to the subset of usage scenarios. A group of operational parameters is obtained via parametric measurements for each tuning scenario change between the tuning scenarios corresponding to each of the subset of usage scenarios. Multiple operational parameters are averaged corresponding to each of the tuning scenarios to identify an average operational parameter for each tuning scenario, and a tuning scenario is selected from among the subset of different tuning scenarios based on a determination as to which of the average operational parameters correlates with a desired performance goal. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10447332B2	Sharing an antenna for wireless communication In a particular aspect, a method includes performing a first communication operation associated with a first frequency band using an antenna of a wireless device. The first communication operation is initiated by first communication circuitry of the wireless device. The first communication circuitry is associated with a first communication protocol. The method further includes, based on a duration of a second communication operation, performing the second communication operation associated with a second frequency band using the antenna of the wireless device. The second communication operation is initiated by second communication circuitry of the wireless device. The second communication circuitry is associated with a second communication protocol that is different than the first communication protocol. The first frequency band at least partially overlaps the second frequency band.
US10447326B2	Mobile terminal with an antenna having a feeding portion disposed in terminal body A mobile terminal includes: a terminal body; an antenna portion having a feeding portion disposed in the terminal body; a metal case which forms appearance of the terminal body, and configured to support inside of the terminal body; and a molding portion formed at a region of the metal case, wherein the metal case includes a side region which forms a side surface of the terminal body and including a radiation region implemented as a radiator of the antenna portion; and a connection protrusion extended from the radiation region and connected to the feeding portion, and wherein the side region is provided with a plurality of slits, and the molding portion is formed at the plurality of slits so as to divide the radiation region.
US10447324B2	Compact ejectable component assemblies in electronic devices Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies. The ejectable component assembly may include a tray that can be loaded with one or more removable modules, wafers coupled to circuit boards, cages and retaining plates to assist in retaining the tray within the assembly. The ejectable component assembly may include springs operative to engage detents in the tray to retain the tray in the assembly. The ejectable component assembly may include a tray ejector mechanism for ejecting the tray from the assembly.
US10447321B2	Spectrum scrubber A method of enhancing wireless communication performance includes receiving information indicative of a local interferer where the local interferer is identified based on dynamic position information indicative of a position of at least one mobile communication node, performing noise cancellation relative to a received signal by removing an interference signal associated with the local interferer to generate a scrubbed signal, and providing the scrubbed signal for additional signal processing.
US10447312B2	Method of performing interleaving using LDPC and communication apparatus therefor A method of performing interleaving, which is performed by a communication apparatus using a low-density parity-check code (LDPC), includes outputting LDPC encoded bits to a block interleaver, and performing block interleaving on the LDPC encoded bits inputted to the block interleaver in a unit of a size of one time transport block based on the a position of redundancy version.
US10447310B2	Bit interleaver for low-density parity check codeword having length of 64800 and code rate of 2/15 and 256-symbol mapping, and bit interleaving method using same A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping.
US10447301B2	Optimal LDPC bit flip decision A solid state storage device comprises a non-volatile memory controller configured to store data in a non-volatile memory, wherein the stored data is encoded using a first error-correcting code and a second Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The non-volatile memory controller includes a hard-decision LDPC decoder to decode encoded data received from the non-volatile memory and provide a decoded data output. The hard-decision LDPC decoder selects a voting scheme at each iteration in a sequence of iterations of decoding to determine when to implement bit flipping at a variable node amongst a plurality of check nodes, each of the plurality of check nodes connected to a plurality of variable nodes.
US10447299B2	Press-button circuit and driving method thereof, keypad, and display device Press-button circuit and a driving method thereof are provided. A press-button circuit includes a first sampling port; a second sampling port; a common terminal; a first control device, coupled to the first sampling port and the second sampling port; at least one first press-button sub-circuit, coupled to the first sampling port and the common terminal; and at least one second press-button sub-circuit, coupled to the second sampling port and the common terminal.
US10447295B2	Coding method, coding device, decoding method, and decoding device A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a coding program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes coding a numerical value to be coded, into a numeric code of base-2n representation; and generating code data that have been added with an instantaneous code indicating the number of digits of the base-2n representation of the numerical value to be coded, wherein “n” is a natural number equal to or greater than 1.
US10447294B2	System and method for an oversampled data converter In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes a first oscillator having an oscillation frequency dependent on an input signal at a first input, where the first oscillator is configured to oscillate when an enable input is in a first state and freeze its phase or reduce its frequency when the enable input is in a second state. The circuit also includes a first time-to-digital converter having an input coupled to an output of the first oscillator, and a pulse generator having an input coupled to a first clock input of the circuit and an output coupled to the enable input of the first oscillator, where the pulse generator is configured to produce a pulse having pulse width less than a period of a clock signal at the first clock input.
US10447291B1	High dynamic range analog-to-digital converter Techniques to provide automatic-gain ranging for high dynamic range by including a separate S/H capacitor, segmenting the S/H capacitor into a plurality of capacitors, and determining the number of segments to use for a sample. In this manner, the size of the S/H capacitor can be changed (by adjusting the number of capacitors), which can change the amount of input voltage that produces an amount of charge. Using these techniques, the full-scale input range for a sample of the analog input signal can be adjusted automatically based on the magnitude of the sample, which can provide better resolution and/or better noise performance for that particular sample then would otherwise be possible.
US10447280B2	Delay-locked loop (DLL) with differential delay lines An integrated circuit is disclosed that implements a delay-locked loop with differential delay lines. In an example aspect, the integrated circuit includes a first delay line, a second delay line, and control circuitry. The first and second delay lines are coupled to a reference clock source to receive a reference clock. The first delay line produces a first delayed signal that is delayed relative to the reference clock by a first delay amount. The second delay line produces a second delayed signal that is delayed relative to the reference clock by a second delay amount. The control circuitry is coupled to the first and second delay lines. The control circuitry is configured to receive the first delayed signal, to receive the second delayed signal, and to adjust the first delay amount or the second delay amount based on the first delayed signal and the second delayed signal.
US10447275B2	Integrated circuits with programmable non-volatile resistive switch elements Integrated circuits with programmable resistive switch elements are provided. A programmable resistive switch element may include two non-volatile resistive elements connected in series and a programming transistor. The programmable resistive switch elements may be configured in a crossbar array and may be interposed within the user data path. Driver circuits may also be included for selectively turning on or turning off the switches by applying positive and optionally negative voltages.
US10447270B2	Low power logic circuitry A combinational logic circuit includes input circuitry to receive a first input signal that transitions between upper and lower voltages of a first voltage domain, and to generate, in response to the transitions of the first input signal, a first localized signal that transitions between upper and lower voltages of a second voltage domain. The combinational logic circuit additionally includes output circuitry to generate a first output signal that transitions between the upper and lower supply voltages of the first voltage domain based at least in part on the transitions of the first localized signal.
US10447265B1	Hand-held controllers including electrically conductive springs for head-mounted-display systems A hand-held controller for a head-mounted-display system may include (1) a printed circuit board, (2) an electronic component that is separate from the printed circuit board, and (3) at least one conductive spring. The at least one conductive spring may include (1) a circuit-board connection portion electrically coupled to the printed circuit board and (2) a component connection portion electrically coupled to the electronic component. The at least one conductive spring may include an electrically conductive material that electrically couples the electronic component to the printed circuit board. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10447264B2	Operating element and appliance provided therewith A domestic appliance has an operating element, the operating element comprising a carrier, at least one pressure sensor configured for detection of an operation of the operating element, and at least one light source. A control is configured to switch the light source on or off subject to a sensor signal coming from the pressure sensor. At least one light conductor is arranged close to the light source and is configured to conduct light from the light source to at least a side of the light conductor remote from the carrier. Provided on or close to the side of the light conductor remote from the carrier is a screen comprising at least one opaque part and at least one translucent part, which together form a symbol.
US10447258B2	Circuit and system for driving switching modules A circuit and a system may drive switching modules. The driving circuit and system are capable of controlling a detection level of a protection voltage of a switching module, by controlling a voltage of a detection circuit for detecting the protection voltage. This may be done based on control of a variable resistance.
US10447253B2	High performance PLL based on PVT independent stable oscillator A high performance phase-locked loop, the device includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, a first oscillator having inverters, configured to generate a first current, a second oscillator having a scaled version of the inverters of the first oscillator, a digital to analog converter, configured to generate a second current by multiplying the first current and a frequency code, a voltage to current converter, configured to generate a third current by converting voltage output of the loop filter to current, wherein input current to the second oscillator is sum of the second current and the third current.
US10447237B2	Piezoelectric blank, piezoelectric vibration element and piezoelectric vibration device A crystal blank includes a vibrating arm which extends in a direction intersecting the polarization direction. In at least one of the upper surface and lower surface which are parallel to the direction of extension of the vibrating arm and run along polarization direction, the vibrating arm is provided with two recesses (grooves) in the width direction of the surface thereby having a pair of outer walls which are positioned on the two sides of the two recesses and a middle wall which is positioned between the two recesses. In the middle wall, the apex part is located at a position lower than the apex part of each of the pair of outer walls and is thinner than each of the pair of outer walls at the same heights.
US10447236B2	Ultrasonic probe According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe, in which a plurality of piezoelectric vibrators are arrayed in both of an azimuth direction and an elevation direction, includes a piezoelectric body configured to have a piezoelectric effect; and a matching layer configured to be laminated in an ultrasonic radiation direction of the piezoelectric body. The matching layer is divided in the azimuth direction without being divided in the elevation direction. The piezoelectric body is divided into plural parts in both of the azimuth direction and the elevation direction in such a manner that each of the plural parts of the piezoelectric body forms each of the plurality of piezoelectric vibrators.
US10447235B2	Elastic wave device and method for manufacturing the same An elastic wave device includes a first band-pass filter on a piezoelectric substrate and including first IDT electrodes and a first dielectric film, and a second band-pass filter on the piezoelectric substrate and including second IDT electrodes and a second dielectric film. At least one pair among a pair of the first and second IDT electrodes and a pair of the first and second dielectric films has the same or substantially the same film thickness and is made of the same material. A relationship \|Tx1−Rx1\|/f1>\|Tx2−Rx2\|/f2 is satisfied. A weighted average of duty ratios of the first IDT electrodes is larger than a weighted average of duty ratios of the second IDT electrodes.
US10447227B2	Radio frequency transceiver circuit with distributed inductor and method thereof A radio-frequency transceiver circuit, comprising: a first port and a second port, configured to receive, together, a pair of differential signals; a radio-frequency matching circuit communicatively coupled to the first port and the second port, and configured to process the pair of differential signals to obtain a radio-frequency signal and configured to increase transmission power for the radio-frequency signal, wherein the radio-frequency matching circuit includes at least one capacitor, at least one distributed inductor; a band pass filter circuit, communicatively coupled to the radio-frequency matching circuit and configured to filter the radio-frequency signal, wherein the band pass filter circuit includes at least one capacitor and at least one distributed inductor; and a third port, communicatively coupled to the band pass filter circuit and configured to output the filtered radio-frequency signal, wherein both of the at least one distributed inductors have a length of microstrip line.
US10447226B2	Three dimensional inductor-capacitor apparatus and method of fabricating Some aspects pertain to an apparatus that includes a plurality of stacked metal layers configured in a spiral shape. The plurality of stacked metal layers include a first metal layer including a first inductor, a second metal layer including a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads, a third metal layer including a plurality of third pads and a plurality of fourth pads, a fourth metal layer including a second inductor, a plurality of first vias configured to couple the first metal layer to the second metal layer, a plurality of second vias configured to couple the second metal layer to the third metal layer, a plurality of third vias configured to couple the third metal layer to the fourth metal layer; and a dielectric layer at least partially surrounding the apparatus.
US10447218B1	Hybrid differential amplifier and method thereof An apparatus includes a first common-source amplifier having a first PMOS (p-channel metal oxide semiconductor) transistor configured to receive a first voltage and output a first current; a second common-source amplifier having a first NMOS (n-channel metal oxide semiconductor) transistor configured to receive a second voltage and output a second current, wherein the first common-source amplifier and the second common-source amplifier share a common source node, and an AC (alternating current) component of the first voltage is an inversion of an AC component of the second voltage; a first common-gate amplifier having a second PMOS transistor configured to receive the first current and output a third current; a second common-gate amplifier having a second NMOS transistor configured to receive the second current and output a fourth current; and a load configured to terminate the third current and the fourth current.
US10447217B2	Amplifier with configurable final output stage An amplifier may include a first stage configured to receive an input signal at an amplifier input and generate an intermediate signal which is a function of the input signal, and a final output stage configured to generate an output signal which is a function of the intermediate signal at an amplifier output, and a signal feedback network coupled between the amplifier output and input. The final output stage may be switchable among a plurality of modes including at least a first mode in which the final output stage generates the output signal as a modulated output signal which is a function of the intermediate signal, and a second mode in which the final output stage generates the output signal as an unmodulated output signal which is a function of the intermediate signal. Structure of the feedback network and the first stage may remain static when switching between modes.
US10447214B2	Amplifier circuit and method The present invention provides an amplifier circuit for amplifying an incoming signal, the amplifier circuit comprising at least two signal paths configured to amplify signals of different overlapping frequency bands, a signal splitter comprising an input port configured to receive the incoming signal, the signal splitter being coupled to an input side of the signal paths and configured to split the incoming signal into split signals for the signal paths, and a diplexer coupled to an output side of the signal paths and configured to combine the amplified signals and provide a combined amplified signal. Further, the present invention provides a respective method.
US10447211B2	Least mean squares adaptation of a concurrent multi-band pre-distorter using overlapping spines A method and system for digital pre-distortion of an input signal to compensate for non-linear operation of a power amplifier. According to one aspect, some embodiments provide overlapping spline functions that are defined for two adjacent bins, where any two spline functions overlap in only one bin. Each spline function is computed as a function of one of an input signal envelope and a delayed signal envelope. According to another aspect, a tap weight evaluator includes a least mean squares, LMS, tap correlator updater configured to modulate a step size of an adaptation process to update each tap weight, the step size being modulated based on an approximate logarithm of the average power of the input to a tap weight computation.
US10447210B2	Flip chip amplifier for wireless device Metal pillars are placed adjacent to transistor arrays in the power amplifiers that can be used in wireless devices. By placing the metal pillars in intimate contact with the silicon substrate and not over a substantial portion of the transistor arrays, the heat generated by the transistor arrays flows down into the silicon substrate and out the metal pillar. The metal pillar forms a solder bump of a flip chip power amplifier die, which when soldered to a module, further conducts the heat away from the transistor array.
US10447208B2	Amplifier having a switchable current bias circuit A circuit having (A) a transistor; (B) a bias circuit for providing setting a bias current for the transistor, the bias current having a current level in accordance with a reference current fed to the bias circuit; and (C) a bias current level controller, comprising: (i) a plurality of switches, each one of the switches comprises: a MOS FET and a GaN FET connected in a cascode configuration; and (ii) current source circuitry, comprising a plurality of current sources, each one of the current sources being connected between a voltage source and a corresponding one of the plurality of switches, the current source circuit combining currents produced by the current source in response a binary control signal fed to a gate of the MOS FET, the combined current providing the reference current fed to the bias circuit.
US10447205B2	Oscillation device and method for manufacturing the oscillation device In an OCXO, which outputs an oscillation frequency by oscillating a crystal resonator, a correspondence relationship between an oscillation frequency and an elapsed time at a beginning after a start of oscillation of a first crystal resonator is acquired. Based on the acquired result, data after the beginning and corresponding to a correspondence relationship between an accumulated elapsed time of the oscillation and the oscillation frequency after the start of the oscillation is obtained. Based on the accumulated elapsed time of the oscillation and this data, a frequency setting value is corrected. While an output frequency of the first crystal resonator fluctuates in association with the elapsed time, the output frequency is corrected by the frequency correction value corresponding to the accumulated elapsed time, thereby stabilizing the oscillation frequency.
US10447201B1	Device and method for measuring effect of soiling on photovoltaic device The device and method for measuring the effect of soiling on a photovoltaic device includes a device in which a photovoltaic device (reference solar cell, solar cells, PV module, etc.) may be shifted between partially and fully enclosed compartments in quick succession for measurements of the same device (1) when directly exposed to illumination or solar radiation; (2) when placed under a glass or transparent cover maintained cleared or cleaned of soil; and (3) when placed under glass or transparent cover left exposed to natural outdoor soiling, or attenuated using simulated soil that is not periodically cleaned. The measurements may be of short circuit current (Isc), maximum power (Pmax), or other electrical parameter conventionally used to evaluate performance of the photovoltaic device. A soiling ratio calculated as: SR Pmax = 1 - P max ⁢ ⁢ 2 - P max ⁢ ⁢ 3 P max ⁢ ⁢ 1 or calculated as: SR Isc = 1 - I sc ⁢ ⁢ 2 - I sc ⁢ ⁢ 3 I sc ⁢ ⁢ 1 may be used to compare or monitor performance of the photovoltaic device between measurement cycles.
US10447185B2	Starting method and apparatus for permanent magnet synchronous motor, power system, and unmanned aerial vehicle Implementations of the present application relate to a starting method and apparatus for a permanent magnet synchronous motor, a power system, and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method includes: obtaining a current motor rotational speed and motor position information of the permanent magnet synchronous motor; determining whether the current motor rotational speed is less than a preset minimum rotational speed, and if the current motor rotational speed is less than the preset minimum rotational speed, using the preset minimum rotational speed as a feedback rotational speed; otherwise, using the current motor rotational speed as a feedback rotational speed; and performing closed-loop control on the permanent magnet synchronous motor according to the feedback rotational speed and the motor position information. In this way, the starting method is simplified and simpler. Potential failure risks in various states in the prior art are avoided, thereby effectively improving reliability of a starting process.
US10447183B2	Motor drive device A motor is driven while suppressing drive torque ripple generated by the motor, when any of the phases is opened during the driving of the motor. A motor drive device controls the driving of a motor in which the armature windings of respective phases are independently provided. The motor drive device is equipped with: an inverter circuit for converting the DC power supplied through DC bus lines to three-phase AC powers and respectively outputting the three-phase AC powers to the armature windings of the respective phases; and a controller for controlling the inverter circuit. When any of the phases is opened in the AC powers output from the inverter circuit, the controller adjusts the difference between the phases of the respective currents flowing through the armature windings of normal phases so that the AC powers of the other normal phases except the opened phase are compensated each other.
US10447181B2	Motor control device, motor unit including said motor control device, automobile including motor unit, and motor control method Motor controller of the present invention is used in an automobile including wheel drive motor, wheel drive inverter, and cooling fan being an accessory. Wheel drive inverter drives wheel drive motor by PWM control at a primary carrier frequency. Cooling fan has fan motor being an accessory drive motor. Motor controller includes accessory drive inverter and frequency switch. Accessory drive inverter drives fan motor by PWM control at a secondary carrier frequency. Frequency switch switches a frequency of the secondary carrier frequency based on the primary carrier frequency.
US10447179B2	Inertially operated piezoelectric energy harvesting electronic circuitry A device responsive to an acceleration pulse event, the device including: a piezoelectric device configured to generate a voltage over a duration responsive to one or more acceleration pulse events; an electrical storage device configured to receive a portion of the generated voltage to accumulate a charge; an energy dissipating device coupled to the electrical storage device and configured to dissipate the accumulated charge following the one or more acceleration pulse events and not to substantially dissipate the accumulated charge during the one or more acceleration pulse events; and a voltage limiting device coupled to the electrical storage device and configured to limit the portion of the generated voltage applied to the electrical storage device to a predetermined limit.
US10447171B2	Load control device for high-efficiency loads A load control device (such as, a dimmer switch) for controlling the amount of power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load (such as, a high-efficiency lighting load) includes a thyristor (such as, a triac) coupled between the source and the load, a gate coupling circuit coupled to conduct current through a gate terminal of the thyristor, a controllable switching circuit coupled between the gate coupling circuit and the gate terminal of the thyristor, and a control circuit configured to control the gate coupling circuit and the controllable switching circuit. The control circuit may cause the gate coupling circuit to conduct a pulse of current through the gate terminal to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a present half cycle of the AC power source, and allow the gate coupling circuit to conduct at least one other pulse of current after the firing time during the present half cycle.
US10447155B2	Power source device A power source device has: a storage unit configured to receive a generated power and store as a storage power; a boost unit configured to generate, from a storage power supplied from the storage unit, a boosted power having a higher voltage than a voltage of the storage power, and supply the boosted power to a load; and a voltage detection unit configured to output a boost operation permission signal permitting a boost operation of the boost unit to the boost unit when the storage voltage of the boost unit increases to become a voltage equal to or higher than a minimum operation voltage of the boost unit. The boost unit is configured to start the boost operation by the storage power supplied from the storage unit and operates on the boosted power generated by the boost operation as an operation power source when the boost operation permission signal is output from the voltage detection unit.
US10447147B2	DC/DC resonant converters and power factor correction using resonant converters, and corresponding control methods Various improvements are provided to resonant DC/DC and AC/DC converter circuit. The improvements are of particular interest for LLC circuits. Some examples relate to self-oscillating circuit and others relate to converter circuits with frequency control, for example for power factor correction, driven by an oscillator.
US10447142B1	Load current measurement A switch-mode power supply includes a DC-DC converter and metering circuitry that is coupled to the DC-DC converter. The metering circuitry includes scaling circuitry, a current source, a capacitor, switching circuitry, and a comparator. The scaling circuitry is configured to generate a reference current scaled to be a predetermined fraction of a peak current flowing in an inductor of the DC-DC converter. The current source is configured to output a first current that is one-half of the reference current. The capacitor is coupled to the current source. The switching circuitry is configured to switchably connect the current source to the capacitor. The comparator is coupled to the capacitor. The comparator is configured to generate a signal indicating that a voltage across the capacitor exceeds a threshold voltage.
US10447141B2	Waveform shaping circuit, semiconductor device, and switching power supply device A waveform shaping circuit includes a first parallel circuit including a first capacitance element and a first resistance element coupled in parallel with each other, a positive pulse voltage being applied to a first terminal of the first capacitance element and a second terminal of the first resistance element, a first rectifier circuit disposed between a point of coupling between a third terminal of the first capacitance element and a fourth terminal of the first resistance element and an output terminal.
US10447137B2	Energy storage, hydrogen and oxygen production using ion separators An ion separating device comprising a stator cylinder with input and output ports, end caps, a rotor core, homopolar north poles, and homopolar south poles, is used to separate positive and negative ions in electrolyte introduced into the device. The resulting charged ionic solutions are stored in separate tanks. Energy recovery from the charged ionic solutions is accompanied by the release of gases thereby providing another process of producing hydrogen and oxygen.
US10447136B2	Driving apparatus and device fabrication method A driving apparatus comprises a stator (21), a rotor (22) and a deformation connector (23). The rotor is connected to the stator through the deformation connector. An external driving force drives the deformation connector to have deformation so that the rotor changes its position with respect to the stator. Under the condition that no external driving force is applied, the deformation connector remains at a force balanced position (x0). The force on the deformation connector comprises a deformation force (F1) of the deformation connector and a first primitive force (F2) in opposite direction to the deformation force (F1). Also provided is a device fabrication method. Because the deformation connector keeps balance under the effect of the deformation force and the first primitive force, a small external driving force is required when the driving apparatus operates near the balance point, hereby reducing power consumption.
US10447128B2	Stator and multiphase brushless motor having the same A stator and a multiphase brushless electric motor utilizing the stator are provided. The stator which includes a stator core having a ring portion and a plurality of stator poles; a plurality of stator coils wound on the stator poles and having coil terminals; and a wiring frame fixed to the stator core, and comprising a plurality of conducting electrically insulated from each other. The conductor elements are electrically coupled to corresponding coils terminals to form multiphase windings. At least three coil terminals of the stator coils electrically coupled to respective conducting members are directly electrically coupled to a multi-phase power supply. The above stator can provide a simple, economic and reliable connection between the coil terminals and the multiphase power supply.
US10447123B2	Apparatus for inserting magnet into rotor iron core An apparatus for inserting a magnet into a rotor iron core includes a magnet inserting unit configured to insert a permanent magnet into a magnet-insert hole formed along a lamination direction of a rotor iron core body in which a plurality of iron core pieces are laminated, and a guide member to be attached to the magnet inserting unit, and arranged in a space formed between the magnet inserting unit and the rotor iron core body and configured to communicate the magnet-insert hole of the rotor iron core body to a supply part for the permanent magnet formed in the magnet inserting unit.
US10447120B2	Motor, gimbal and mechanical arm having same The present invention relates to the field of motor technologies, and provides a motor, a gimbal and a mechanical arm having same. The motor includes a rotary shaft, a first magnetic element, a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The first magnetic element is mounted on the rotary shaft and is capable of rotating with the rotary shaft. The first circuit board is mounted on the rotary shaft and disposed opposite to the first magnetic element. The first circuit board includes a coil circuit and the coil circuit faces toward the first magnetic element. The second circuit board is mounted on the rotary shaft, the second circuit board including an electronic speed control circuit, the second circuit board being electrically connected to the first circuit board. In the motor in the present invention, the second circuit board including the electronic speed control circuit is mounted on the rotary shaft, so that space of the motor can be properly used, thereby making a structure of the motor compact.
US10447118B2	Motor apparatus A motor apparatus includes a sensor magnet configured to rotate integrally with a drive shaft of a motor; a housing including a sensor housing section in which the sensor magnet is located; a pulse output board including a magnetically permeable base and a rotation detection element mounted on a mounting surface of the base and adapted to detect rotation of the sensor magnet and output a pulse; and a terminal electrically connected with the pulse output board, wherein the terminal includes an insertion slot into which the pulse output board is inserted, and the insertion slot opens to the sensor housing section, and when the pulse output board is inserted, the insertion slot supports the pulse output board in a neighborhood of the sensor magnet with a reverse surface on a side opposite the mounting surface of the base facing the sensor magnet and electrically connects the pulse output board.
US10447117B2	Electromagnetic interference suppression component and protection component assembly for a motor An electromagnetic interference (EMI) circuit assembly includes a first, second, and third conductive layer. A protection component disposed between the first and second conductive layers. A dielectric layer is disposed between the second and the third conductive layers. The protection component is configured to protect a load from one or both of an overcurrent condition and an over temperature condition, and the third layer define a capacitor configured to suppress EMI signals.
US10447115B2	Rotary electric machine and driving system A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, stator and a motor case. The rotor includes a rotor core, plural magnets disposed in the rotor core, and an end face plate disposed such that an inside surface thereof is in contact with an end face of the rotor core. The stator includes a stator core and a coil. The stator is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor to face the rotor. The motor case accommodates the rotor and the stator and has a storage portion for storing liquid therein. A lower part of the rotor is immersed in the storage portion, and the motor case has an inclined wall extending from an upper side toward the permanent magnet or a peripheral part of the permanent magnet and guiding liquid scraped upward by the rotor to the magnet or the peripheral part of the magnet.
US10447111B2	Active magnetic bearing control for downhole-type system A downhole-type system includes a rotatable shaft, a downhole-type magnetic bearing coupled to the rotatable shaft, a downhole-type sensor, a surface-type controller, and a surface-type amplifier coupled to the magnetic bearing. The magnetic bearing can control levitation of the rotatable shaft. The downhole-type sensor can detect a position of the rotatable shaft in a downhole location and generate a first signal based on the detected position. The surface-type controller can receive the first signal, determine an amount of force to apply to the shaft, and generate a second signal corresponding to the determined amount of force. The surface-type amplifier can receive the second signal, amplify the second signal to a sufficient level to drive the magnetic bearing to apply force to the rotatable shaft to control the levitation of the rotatable shaft at the downhole location, and transmit the amplified second signal to the magnetic bearing.
US10447108B2	Distributed connection ring assembly for stator assembly A distributed connection ring assembly can be used in a stator assembly and can integrate a neutral connector and jumping winding connections in an overmolded assembly for insulation. The stator assembly including a stator core defining a plurality of slots spaced apart from each other, a plurality of bar conductors disposed in each of the slots, and a distributed connection ring assembly secured to the jumping winding connections. The distributed connection ring assembly includes an overmolded neutral connector. The distributed connection ring assembly also includes a plurality of overmolded couplers circumferentially spaced apart from one another. The overmolded couplers are coupled to the overmolded neutral connector. Each of the plurality of overmolded couplers includes a support body and a plurality of stator conductors partially disposed inside the support body. The stator conductors are electrically connected to the jumping winding connections.
US10447107B2	Motor drive cover for protection against contaminants A cover for a motor drive is provided. The cover includes an opening (often at the bottom of the cover) to allow air to pass to an air inlet of the motor drive and an opening (often near the top of the cover) to allow air from an air outlet of the motor drive to exit the cover. A hood provides rain protection for the drive and a separator (such as a baffle) within the enclosure prevents air flowing within the enclosure from the air outlet to the air inlet of the drive. The hood and/or the separator are shaped to direct air from the air outlet away from the enclosure in order to substantially reduce the re-circulation of air from the air outlet to the air inlet of the drive.
US10447097B2	Method for producing an electric metal sheet for an electric machine In a method for producing an electric metal sheet for an electric machine, an individual sheet is punched out from a magnetizable sheet blank. A plurality of cut-outs are formed in the individual sheet; and a web is applied in each of the cut-outs by a 3-D printing process from a non-magnetizable material, such that the webs are arranged either in parallel relation to a first q-axis at a pre-determined spacing from the first g-axis, or a first plurality of the webs is arranged exclusively on a first circular segment defined by a first radius and a second plurality of the webs is arranged exclusively on a second circular segment defined by a second radius which is different in relation to the first radius.
US10447096B2	Permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine Given a first intersection point of the surface of a rotor and a straight line that joins a central point of a permanent magnet on a stator side and a tooth tip section closest to the central point of the permanent magnet on the stator side, a flange is formed outward of an arc having, as the radius thereof, a distance from a second intersection point of the inner peripheral face of the stator and a straight line that joins the rotation axis of the rotor and the first intersection point, up to the tooth tip section.
US10447090B1	Inductive power receiver An inductive power receiver, comprising: a receiving coil; a bridge circuit configured to connect to the receiving coil comprising: a first branch including a first semiconductor device; a second branch including a second semiconductor device; a third branch including a first capacitor; and a forth branch including a second capacitor, and a controller configured to control at least one of the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device to regulate power provided to a load.
US10447089B2	Wireless power transfer systems, methods and transmitters therefor A transmitter comprises a power source; a transmit resonator electrically connected to the power source via an electrically small transmission line; and a metamaterial transmission line (MMTL) electrically connected between the power source and the electrically small transmission line. The transmit resonator comprises at least two electrodes; and at least one inductive coil electrically connected to the electrodes. The transmit resonator is configured to generate an electric field when excited by the power source. The electrically small transmission line is shorter in length than a wavelength of excitation of a power signal generated by the power source. The MMTL is configured to counteract an effect of the electrically small transmission line. The MMTL has a negative phase velocity (NPV).
US10447087B2	Wireless power transmission apparatus for high efficiency energy charging A wireless power transmission apparatus for high efficiency energy charging, includes a resonator configured to transmit power, and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the resonator. The apparatus further includes a first switching unit configured to connect the resonator to the power supply unit, and disconnect the resonator from the power supply unit, and a controller configured to control the first switching unit based on an amount of current flowing into the resonator.
US10447073B2	Power supply control An uninterruptible power supply includes an input to receive an input AC voltage from a power source, an input circuit coupled to the input and configured to provide power factor correction, and a controller coupled to the input circuit. The controller is configured to detect that a reactive current is generated by one or more loads coupled to the power source and the input, and based, at least in part, on the detected reactive current, adjust an operating characteristic of the input circuit.
US10447071B2	Backup power source assembly, lamp assembly, lighting system and installing method thereof The present invention discloses a lighting system, comprising: an emergency power supply assembly, a lighting assembly, at least one first electrical connection for connecting the emergency power supply assembly, and at least one second electrical connection for connecting the lighting assembly, wherein the at least one first electrical connector and the at least one second electrical connector work with each other to form a quick connection between the emergency power supply assembly and the lighting assembly. The present invention also discloses an emergency power supply assembly. The present invention further discloses a lighting assembly. The present invention also discloses a lighting system installation method.
US10447070B2	Solar energy system with built-in battery charger and its method A solar energy system utilizing a Multi-Function Power Converter System (MFPCS) with a solar energy extension control method can be operated as both solar energy converter system and high power battery charger/discharger system, such as an interleaved multi-phase DC/DC converter, or a three-phase grid-tied inverter plus direct battery charger, or a three-phase grid-tied inverter, or a three-phase solar/battery power discharger, or a three-phase PWM rectifier battery charger.
US10447065B2	Wireless power transmission module A wireless power transmission module is provided. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a wireless power transmission module includes an antenna unit, a magnetic field shielding sheet, and a planar heat radiating plate. The antenna unit includes at least one wireless power transfer antenna. The magnetic field shielding sheet shields a magnetic field generated by the antenna unit to suppress external leakage of the magnetic field and concentrate the magnetic field in a desired direction. The planar heat radiating plate which is disposed on one surface of the magnetic field shielding sheet to release heat generated by the antenna unit. The wireless power transmission module is equipped or embedded in a vehicle to be used to charge a main battery of a portable terminal.
US10447064B2	Wireless charging system and wireless charging method The invention provides a wireless charging system and a wireless charging method. The method includes: sending a first control signal by a processor; moving a wireless charging apparatus to a first position near an electronic apparatus according to a first control signal by a moving platform; and wirelessly charging the electronic apparatus by the wireless charging apparatus.
US10447059B2	Electronic apparatus, method of controlling electronic apparatus, power reception device, electric device, and system There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
US10447058B2	Charging method and system The present disclosure provides a charging method and a charging system. The charging system includes a charging device and a mobile terminal, the charging device includes a second controller and an adjusting circuit, and the mobile terminal includes a cell detection circuit and a cell. The cell detection circuit acquires a voltage value of the cell, and sends the voltage value of the cell to the second controller, the second controller searches a threshold range table for a current adjusting instruction matched with a threshold range containing the voltage value of the cell, and sends the current adjusting instruction to the adjusting circuit, and the adjusting circuit performs a current adjustment according to the current adjusting instruction and outputs a power signal after the current adjustment, in which the threshold range table records threshold ranges and current adjusting instructions having a one-to-one mapping relation with threshold ranges.
US10447056B2	Extending shelf life of rechargeable batteries A hybrid battery system is provided for extending the shelf-life of rechargeable batteries. The hybrid battery system may contain sets of non-rechargeable and rechargeable batteries respectively. As the rechargeable batteries are discharged (e.g., from self-discharge), the hybrid battery system may utilize the non-rechargeable batteries to maintain the rechargeable batteries at a preferred state of charge. A preferred state of charge may be selected to extend the shelf-life of the rechargeable batteries. Alternatively, a signal may change the preferred state of charge to prepare the rechargeable batteries for use or for other reasons. The hybrid battery system may contain modular components, thereby allowing for easy replacement of defective or otherwise unsuitable non-rechargeable batteries, rechargeable batteries, or supporting electronics.
US10447039B2	Control system for power transmission within a structure A system of electrical distribution within a building, which selectively energizes power sockets only when an appliance is connected to the socket and in need of power.
US10447037B2	Portable transfer switch A portable transfer switch assembly for selecting power from a plurality of sources to supply to a load. The assembly contains a controller comprising logic that is defined by a user. The user defined switch controller allows an optimal power source to supply power to selected loads based on user input, sensors and pre-defined data. The assembly further provides load shedding of loads connected via one or more receptacles based on user input, sensors and pre-defined data.
US10447033B2	High holding voltage clamp An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with a high holding voltage is disclosed including at least an ESD clamp coupled to a holding voltage tuning circuit. The ESD clamp may be coupled to the holding voltage tuning circuit through a connection circuit such as a diode. The ESD clamp may be implemented by a first silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) and the holding voltage tuning circuit may be implemented as a second SCR.
US10447029B2	Connection circuit of interconnect device Disclosed is a connection circuit capable of detecting erroneous wiring of an interconnect device in order to prevent a safety fuse from being melted and quickly perform an overcurrent protection in the event of erroneous wiring or the like. In this connection circuit of the interconnect device, a preliminary wiring check operation is performed when a power control unit receives a power-on signal. It is detected whether or not a power line and a ground line are short-circuited in the preliminary wiring check operation. When the power line and the ground line are not short-circuited, an operation instruction is output from the power control unit to a power unit. As a result, power is turned on after it is checked whether or not the power line and the ground line are short-circuited in advance. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the safety fuse from being melted.
US10447025B2	Device for distributing hybrid cable and transitioning from trunk cable to jumper cable with overvoltage protection An OVP module that connects with a hybrid trunk cable includes: a mounting frame; an overvoltage unit mounted in the mounting frame and configured to create an open electrical circuit when experiencing a voltage higher than a predetermined threshold; a first contact configured to receive a first set of power conductors from a hybrid trunk cable; a second contact configured to receive a second set of power conductors from the hybrid trunk cable; a first OVP conductor connected between the first contact and the overvoltage unit; a second OVP conductor connected between the second contact and the overvoltage unit; a third contact configured to receive a first set of power cords; a fourth contact configured to receive a second set of power cords; a third OVP conductor connected between the overvoltage unit and the third contact; and a fourth OVP conductor connected between the overvoltage unit and the fourth contact.
US10447018B2	Terminal box apparatus with side wall entrance and curved wiring guide A terminal box including a housing having a base, a side wall extending from the base, and a first opening opposite the base to provide access to wiring terminals to be mounted adjacent an inner surface of the side wall. The terminal box further includes a second opening in the side wall, the second opening providing access to a curved wiring guide within the housing. The curved wiring guide is shaped to guide electrical wires away from the base and toward a central portion of the first opening.
US10447016B2	Safety device for the locking and actuation of electrical connectors provided in extractable drawer for MCC cabinet A safety device developed to promote more security and better efficiency in its use is provided to operate in the locking and actuation of electrical connectors positioned in extractable drawers for MCC cabinets, thereby setting a safety device capable of connecting or disconnecting the internal connectors, both principal and test connector, provided in the extractable drawer for MCC cabinet, the procedure is executed mechanically through an assembly of elements that interconnect two thin laminar plates and, these in turn, interconnected to each other, positioned inferiorly and of conformations corresponding to promote a perfect fit.
US10447014B1	Spark plug and manufacturing method therefor A spark plug comprising: a first electrode including a tip containing 1r as a main material, and a base member to which the tip is joined; and a second electrode opposed to the tip with a spark gap therebetween. The number of crystal grains appearing in a range of 0.25 mm2 on an arbitrary cross-section of the tip in a first direction connecting the tip and the second electrode within the spark gap, is not less than 20. When a length of each of the crystal grains in the first direction is denoted by Y, and a length of each of the crystal grains in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is denoted by X, 5 μm≤X≤100 μm and Y/X≥1.5 are satisfied.
US10447013B2	High-power packaged laser array A high-power packaged laser array that is thermal reflow compatible is described. Notably, a high-power III-V laser array is integrated on a silicon substrate with a matching array of ball lenses, an isolator and a coupler (such as a reflective layer) to achieve an edge-coupled or a surface-normal output laser array. In some embodiments, an isolator with a permanent magnet is used to preserve the magnetic domain or state of the isolator during the thermal reflow(s), which can involve temperatures up to 250 C. In order to relax the misalignment tolerance when integrating with the silicon chip, a laser array with a larger optical mode may be used to increase the output beam size. Moreover, a III-V laser array with an angled output optical waveguide can be used to improve the stability of the lasers at high power.
US10447012B2	Surface-emitting quantum cascade laser A surface-emitting quantum cascade laser of an embodiment includes a semiconductor stacked body, an upper electrode, and a lower electrode. The semiconductor stacked body includes an active layer that includes a quantum well layer and emits infrared laser light, a first semiconductor layer that includes a photonic crystal layer in which pit parts constitute a rectangular grating, and a second semiconductor layer. The upper electrode is provided on the first semiconductor layer. The lower electrode is provided on a lower surface of a region of the second semiconductor layer overlapping at least the upper electrode. The photonic crystal layer is provided on the upper surface side of the first semiconductor layer. In plan view, the semiconductor stacked body includes a surface-emitting region including the photonic crystal layer and a current injection region. The upper electrode is provided on the current injection region.
US10447011B2	Single mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) includes a first reflector having a first reflectivity; a second reflector having a second reflectivity, where the second reflectivity is less than the first reflectivity; a gain region between the first and second reflectors; and a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, where the first surface is coupled to the second reflector, and where the second surface is formed into a lens to act upon light emitted by the VCSEL through the substrate. The VCSEL lases in a single transverse mode.
US10447002B2	Monomode optical fiber designed to compensate for a refractive index variation related to thermal effects and laser using such an optical fiber as a gain medium A monomode optical fiber, and a process for manufacturing such a fiber, that comprises a monomode core and at least one cladding encircling the core. The monomode core comprises at least two zones, a first zone with at least one first refractive index and a second zone with at least one second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The difference between the first refractive index and the second refractive index is of the same order of magnitude as the variation in the refractive index of the second zone between the inactive state and the active state of the fiber.
US10447000B2	Spring connectors with adjustable grooves and related methods A connector assembly having a housing and a shaft; at least a groove in the housing or on the shaft; one of the housing and the shaft has a first component and a second component; there being at least a first groove configuration and a second groove configuration resulting from two different relative positions of the first and second components; the first and second groove configurations resulting in a first insertion force and a first removal force of the shaft into and from the housing and a second insertion force and a second removal force of the shaft into and from the housing, respectively.
US10446999B2	Molding method using mold structure A molding method includes: setting a bus bar at a first mold main body portion of a fixed mold by supporting a terminal base of a tuning-fork terminal with a terminal base receiving portion of the fixed mold in a state where the tuning-fork terminal is protruded outside a cavity formed by the first mold main body portion of the fixed mold and a second mold main body portion of a movable mold being joined together; joining the movable mold together with the fixed mold by abutting an abut step portion of the movable mold to a receiving abut step portion of the fixed mold and nipping the terminal base of the tuning-fork terminal with the terminal base receiving portion and a terminal base abut portion of the movable mold; and injecting resin into the cavity in the nipped state.
US10446994B1	Lighting system with ceramic socket arrangement A lighting system includes an electrical arrangement, a reflector housing and a ceramic socket arrangement. The ceramic socket arrangement includes at least one socket housing and at least one sliding connector received in the socket housing. The sliding connector includes a resilient terminal, a base configured from ceramic material and having an engagement track adapted for accommodating the electrical terminal of the illuminating element, and a sliding member configured from ceramic material and connected to the base in a slidably movable manner. The sliding member is arranged to slide between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the unlocked position, the sliding member is slid to expose the engagement track to an exterior of the sliding connector. In the locked position, the sliding member is slid and retained to cover the engagement track and to electrically connect the resilient terminal to the electrical terminal of the illuminating element.
US10446986B2	Electrical connector with additional shielding A electrical connector includes an insulative elongated housing and first and second metallic shells covering the housing. The housing includes a top surface, a bottom surface, two sides surfaces and a middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface so as to form a step structure thereof. The primary shell covers the top surface, the bottom surface and two side surfaces, and the secondary shell covers the middle surface and the rear surface which is roughly joined with the middle surface, and further the primary shell on the bottom surface in an overlapped manner so as to avoid any electrical leaking along the front-to-back direction between the primary shell and the secondary shell.
US10446984B2	Electrical connector with transverse linkage behind neighboring mating tongues An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts embedded within the housing. The housing includes a base and at least two mating tongues extending forwardly from the base in a same front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction. Each mating tongue includes two mating surfaces. The housing includes an inner insulator which is integrally formed with the contacts via an insert-molding process, and an outer insulator which is further applied upon the inner insulator via another/successive insert-molding process. The inner insulator includes the two inner mating tongues and the bridge therebetween, and the outer insulator covers all the two inner mating tongues and the bridge.
US10446980B2	Electrical plug connection A plug includes: a housing with a plurality of electrical plug contacts that electrically contact complementary plug contacts of a plugging module in a completely plugged-on position; and a slider movably attached to the housing, including first and second gear rack segments, and configured to engage with the plugging module such that, in response to a movement of the slider relative to the housing, a force is transmitted by the slider to the plugging module by which the plug and plugging module move towards each other or away from each other. A lever is rotationally mounted to the housing so that, responsive to a movement of the lever in one direction, the gear meshes with the first gear rack segment moving the slider in a first movement direction, and subsequently meshes with the second gear rack segment moving the slider in a second opposite movement direction.
US10446974B2	Electrical connector having an arc suppression element An electrical connector matable to and unmatable from a separable mating electrical connector includes a housing having a terminal channel and a secondary channel. The electrical connector also includes a female terminal received in the terminal channel. The female terminal is matable with and unmatable from a mating male terminal of the mating electrical connector. An arc suppression element is received in the secondary channel. The arc suppression element configured to electrically couple between the female terminal and the male terminal immediately after the female terminal is disengaged from the male terminal, the arc suppression element providing a bypass between the female terminal and the male terminal so that arcing does not occur when the female terminal is disconnected from the male terminal of the mating electrical connector.
US10446965B2	Spring contact in a testing apparatus for integrated circuits A vertical spring contact is constructed of a single piece of electrical conductor, having a central spine that acts as a spring and does not bulge horizontally during compression. This contact is also provided with a pair of arms extending downwards from a top member, flanking both sides of the central spine without being in contact with the central spine. The lower tips of the arms are bent inwards. The central spine structurally connects the top member to a bottom member. The bottom member is provided with recesses that are adapted to loosely receive the lower tips of the arms. In this way, when the contact is compressed, the lower tips of the arms are pressed into the recesses, thus establishing more contact points for a current to pass through.
US10446962B2	Female terminal fitting A female terminal fitting (1) includes a tubular portion (14) to receive a rod-like mating terminal (30). Three contact points are on an inner surface of the tubular portion and achieve point contact with an outer surface of the mating terminal (30). One or more resilient contact pieces (18) resiliently contact the mating terminal (30). The contact points (15) are disposed side by side in an outer circumferential direction of the mating terminal (30) when viewed along a center axis (31) of the mating terminal (30). The contact point in the middle is shifted along the center axis (31) with respect to the contact points on both sides in the outer circumferential direction. The resilient contact pieces (18) resiliently contact the mating terminal (30) between the contact points on both sides and the contact point in the middle in the direction of the center axis (31).
US10446951B2	Connector arrangement The present invention relates to a connector arrangement having a connector and a cable connected to the connector, wherein the cable has a sheath which extends as far as a stripped region, and a sleeve which is formed in the stripped region and is spaced apart from the sheath, such that the sheath and the sleeve form an annular groove, wherein the connector arrangement has an outer conductor contact which extends from the connector to the sheath of the cable and has a radial indentation at the location of the annular groove. The present invention also relates to a method for the assembly thereof.
US10446946B2	Conductive component structure for wire connection terminal A conductive component structure for wire connection terminal has higher electro-conductive performance and is more securely assembled with the conductive wire. The conductive component includes a main body in the form of a plate body and a restriction body connected on the main body. The restriction body has a base section, a bow section connected with the base section and a free section connected with the bow section, which together provide elastic effect for the restriction body. When the conductive wire is plugged in to contact the conductive component, the restriction body guides the conductive wire and the rear end of the conductive wire is securely pressed and restricted between the main body and the restriction body.
US10446943B2	Crimping terminal A crimping terminal comprises: a conductor crimping portion including a bottom plate and a pair of conductor crimping tabs, the conductor crimping tabs being extending from both sides of the bottom plate in a widthwise direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the crimping terminal and being configured to crimp a conductor of an electrical cable so as to wrap the conductor, the conductor being formed by a bundle of wires and serving as a crimping subject disposed on the bottom plate along the lengthwise direction, the inner surface of the conductor crimping portion being provided with serrations including a plurality of uniformly cylindrical recesses with a diameter smaller than the diameter of the wire of the conductor, and wherein, in the plurality of recesses, the adjacent recesses deviated from each other in the widthwise direction of the crimping terminal partly overlap each other when seen from the lengthwise direction.
US10446939B2	Liquid-crystal antenna apparatus and electronic communication device A liquid-crystal antenna apparatus includes a liquid-crystal antenna unit. The liquid-crystal unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first radiator, a second radiator, a main radiator, a liquid-crystal layer, and a temperature sensor. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface. The second substrate includes a third surface and a fourth surface, wherein the first surface and the third surface face each other. The first radiator is disposed on the first surface. The second radiator is disposed on the third surface. The main radiator is disposed on the fourth surface and used for emitting wireless signals. The liquid-crystal layer is located between the first radiator and the second radiator. The temperature sensor is disposed on at least one of the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, and the fourth surface.
US10446936B2	Multi-feed dielectric antenna system and methods for use therewith In accordance with one or more embodiments, an antenna system includes a dielectric antenna having a feed point, wherein the dielectric antenna is a single antenna. At least one cable having a plurality of conductorless dielectric cores is coupled to the feed point of the dielectric antenna, wherein electromagnetic waves that are guided by differing ones of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores to the dielectric antenna result in differing ones of a plurality of antenna beam patterns.
US10446935B1	System and method for launching guided electromagnetic waves with impedance matching In accordance with one or more embodiments, a system includes an impedance matching circuit that includes one or more adjustable circuit elements, wherein the impedance matching circuit receives an input signal and generates an output signal in response to the input signal. A guided wave launcher is configured to generate, in response to the output signal, a first guided electromagnetic wave along a surface of a transmission medium, wherein the first guided electromagnetic wave propagates along the surface of the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A controller is configured to generate one or more control signals in response to a channel quality indicator, wherein the one or more control signals adjust the one or more adjustable circuit elements of the impedance matching circuit, wherein adjustment of the one or more adjustable circuit elements facilitates reducing an impedance mismatch of the guided wave launcher.
US10446930B1	Antenna combination device One example discloses an antenna combination device, comprising: a modulation unit; wherein the modulation unit is configured to be coupled to: a first antenna, having a first set of electromagnetic field lobes and configured to pass a first signal; a second antenna, having a second set of electromagnetic field lobes and configured to pass a second signal; wherein the modulation unit is configured to vary the first signal and the second signal, resulting in a third set of electromagnetic field lobes from a combination of the first and second sets of electromagnetic field lobes; wherein the first, second and third electromagnetic field lobes are in a same plane; and wherein a number of the third set of lobes is less than or equal to either a number of the first set of lobes or a number of the second set of lobes.
US10446929B2	Antenna efficiency enhancement by active detuning of diversity antenna The present invention generally relates to cellular phones having multiple antennas. The invention relates to how two antennas in a diversity or MIMO antenna system interact through mutual coupling. The mutual coupling is due to proximity of the two antennas, their antenna pattern and efficiency. The performance of the system can be optimized by adjusting the mutual coupling between the antennas. The primary and secondary antennas can be “tuned” and “de-tuned” respectively to enhance system performance. In this invention, the primary and secondary antennas are tuned independently using MEMS capacitor configured in the antenna aperture for frequency tuning.
US10446915B2	Mobile device A mobile device includes a ground element, a metal frame, a feeding connection element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a capacitive element, a first shorting element, a second shorting element, and a third shorting element. The first radiation element is coupled to the feeding connection element. The second radiation element includes a first portion and a second portion. The feeding connection element is coupled through the second radiation element to the metal frame. The capacitive element is coupled between the first portion and the second portion. The first shorting element, the second shorting element, and the third shorting element are coupled between the metal frame and the ground element. An antenna structure is formed by the ground element, the metal frame, the feeding connection element, the first radiation element, the second radiation element, the capacitive element, the first shorting element, and the second shorting element.
US10446909B2	Small form factor pluggable unit with wireless capabilities The present subject matter relates to one or more devices, systems and/or methods for providing wireless telecommunication services. A Small Form Factor Pluggable Unit (SFP) incorporates wireless capabilities, and includes an integrated or an external antenna. The SFP comprises wireless circuitry for transmitting and receive multiple and distinct wireless signals, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for communicating with various equipment and/or devices.
US10446906B2	Dynamic antenna platform offset calibration Systems and methods are described for supporting dynamic antenna platform offset calibration for an antenna system mounted to a mobile vehicle. In particular, dynamic antenna platform offset calibration can be performed while communicating user data associated with the mobile vehicle (e.g., based at least in part on alignment calibration procedures including measurements of user data signals), with an antenna platform offset being updated when alignment calibration procedures have been performed at suitably separated spatial conditions. Accordingly, antenna platform offset calibration may be performed throughout the operation of the mobile vehicle without requiring that the vehicle be proactively aligned in a particular orientation for a dedicated calibration routine prior to using the antenna for communicating user data during normal operation of the mobile vehicle.
US10446903B2	Curved surface scattering antennas Surface scattering antennas on curved manifolds provide adjustable radiation fields by adjustably coupling scattering elements along a wave-propagating structure.
US10446902B2	Transmission and emission assembly for multibeam antenna and multibeam antenna A transmission and emission assembly for a multibeam antenna and a multibeam antenna are disclosed. In one aspect, the assembly includes a plurality of radiating elements forming a radiating surface, an emission distribution network arranged upstream from the radiating surface and including a plurality of emission ports, a receiving distribution network arranged upstream from the radiating surface and including a plurality of receiving ports, a plurality of low-noise amplifiers and a capability for interconnecting each receiving port to at least one low-noise amplifier. The emission distribution network and the receiving distribution network are separate from one another and are arranged in a same unit separate from the communication module. The receiving distribution network and the radiating elements are thermally separated.
US10446901B1	System and method for guarding an antenna from interfering physical objects A passive antenna guard system includes an antenna guard at a location of the antenna and mounted on a common mount therewith which facilitates movement of the antenna from the path of an object responsive to the object contacting the antenna guard. The system may include a balance system which allows the antenna and antenna guard to spring back into place after the object clears the antenna guard.
US10446898B2	On-chip coplanar waveguide having a shielding layer comprising a capacitor formed by sets of interdigitated fingers A coplanar waveguide may include a first transmission line extending between a first ground plane and a second ground plane at a first interconnect level. The coplanar waveguide may further include a shielding layer at a second interconnect level. The shielding layer may include a first set of conductive fingers coupled to the first ground plane. The first set of conductive fingers may be interdigitated with a second set of conductive fingers that are coupled to the second ground plane. Only a dielectric layer may be between the first set of conductive interdigitated fingers and the second set of conductive interdigitated fingers. The first ground plane, the second ground plane, the dielectric layer, and the shielding layer may form a capacitor.
US10446897B2	Multiplexer and low pass filter for multiplexer Disclosed is a low-pass filter connected to a capacitor by a T-junction and used for a multiplexer. The low-pass filter includes: a plurality of capacitor elements which is formed of a capacitive conductor of a disk shape; and a plurality of inductor elements which connects the capacitor elements to each other and is formed in a rod shape. The plurality of capacitor elements and the plurality of inductor elements are alternately arranged, and the capacitor element which is connected to the capacitor has a capacitance value smaller than a capacitance value which is determined by a cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter.
US10446894B2	Array plate assemblies for applying compressive spring forces against battery cell stacks A battery assembly includes a grouping of battery cells and an array plate assembly contacting at least one cell of the grouping of battery cells. The array plate assembly including a spring plate adapted to exert a compressive spring force against the at least one cell. The compressive spring force may be based on a dimensional profile of the grouping of battery cells.
US10446886B2	Embedded fiber optic cables for battery management A battery includes a folded bicell battery stack with an embedded fiber optic cable and sensor. A cell casing encloses the bicell stack with at least one fiber optic cable is embedded within the battery. The fiber optic cable includes an internal portion disposed within the cell casing and having at least one optical sensor disposed thereon. An external portion of the fiber optic cable protrudes from the casing. A sealing gasket is disposed at least partially around the fiber optic cable and between the cell sealing edges at a point of entry of the fiber optic cable into the battery.
US10446872B2	Solid electrolyte and lithium battery including the same A solid electrolyte material represented by Formula 1: L1+2x(M1)1−x(M2)(M3)4 Formula 1 wherein 0.25
US10446858B2	SOFC-conduction A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system included high thermal conductivity materials such as copper to increase thermal energy transfer by thermal conduction. The copper is protected from oxidation by nickel electroplating and protected from thermal damage by providing Hastelloy liners inside combustion chambers. Monel elements are used in the incoming air conduits to prevent cathode poisoning.
US10446857B2	Fuel cell and manufacturing method of fuel cell A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly; a porous member arranged on a cathode side of the membrane electrode assembly and having a first surface, a second surface, and an end surface portion, the end surface portion being between an end side portion of the first surface and the second surface; a sealing plate arranged along the end side portion of the first surface; and a separator plate arranged on the second surface. The porous member supplies oxidant gas to the membrane electrode assembly through the first surface, and discharges oxidant off-gas to a discharge portion of the fuel ceil via the end surface portion. The first surface has a first region facing the sealing plate and being between the sealing plate and the second region, the second surface has a second region. A hydrophilicity of the first region is different from that of the second region.
US10446852B2	Fuel-cell system and method of generating energy from crude fuel The present invention relates to a fuel-cell system. This system includes an anode electrode; a cathode electrode; a separator positioned between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, wherein the separator is not an ion exchange membrane; an anode catalyst; and a cathode catalyst, wherein the cathode catalyst is a non-precious metal catalyst or metal-free catalyst. The present invention also relates to a method of generating energy from crude fuel. This method involves providing a fuel-cell system and contacting the fuel-cell system with a crude fuel under conditions effective to generate energy from the crude fuel.
US10446835B2	Complexometric precursor formulation methodology for industrial production of fine and ultrafine powders and nanopowders of lithium metal oxides for battery applications A compound MjXp which is particularly suitable for use in a battery prepared by the complexometric precursor formulation methodology wherein: Mj is at least one positive ion selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and transition metals and j is an integer representing the moles of said positive ion per moles of said MjXp; and Xp, a negative anion or polyanion from Groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA and VIIA and may be one or more anion or polyanion and p is an integer representing the moles of said negative ion per moles of said MjXp.
US10446828B2	Recessed tab for higher energy density and thinner batteries Various embodiments are described herein for an electrode assembly for a battery and a method of making the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly comprises an active material layer having a recess formed therein at an outer surface of the active material layer, the recess extending from a side facet of the active material layer toward an interior portion of the active material layer; a current collector layer supported on and in electrical contact with the outer surface of the active material layer; and a tab element supported partially within the recess and in electrical contact with at least one of the active material layer and the current collector layer, the tab element being adapted to provide an electrical connection for the electrode assembly.
US10446822B2	Bipolar battery assembly A bipolar battery including a) one or more stacks of battery plates assembled into electrochemical cells having i) one or more bipolar plates and ii) a first and second monopolar plate; b) a liquid electrolyte disposed between each pair of battery plates, wherein the liquid electrolyte functions with an anode and cathode pair to form an electrochemical cell; c) a separator located between the anode and the cathode of the electrochemical cell; and d) a membrane comprising a polymeric material disposed about an entire periphery of edges of the one or more stacks of battery plates so as to form a seal about the periphery of the edge of the battery plates, and wherein the seal prevents the liquid electrolyte from flowing outside of the one or more stacks of battery plates.
US10446814B2	High voltage test and service module with an interlock A high voltage test and service module configured to electrically couple to a high voltage circuit of a vehicle is provided. The module includes a module housing, a fuse disposed in the module housing, a positive high voltage test point disposed in the module housing, and a negative high voltage test point disposed in the module housing. A first high voltage interlock (HVIL) connector is disposed in the module housing and configured to electrically couple to a high voltage interlock. A second HVIL connector is removably disconnected from the first HVIL connector to break the high voltage interlock. The positive and negative high voltage test points enable testing and monitoring of the high voltage circuit to determine if a voltage or current resides on the high voltage circuit before servicing thereof.
US10446813B2	Battery module, and battery pack and vehicle including the same Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a plurality of battery cells, a case frame configured to accommodate the plurality of battery cells, and a case cover mounted to a front side and a rear side of the case frame to package the plurality of battery cells together with the case frame, the case cover having an anti-exposure channel provided therein to prevent a flame generated when the battery cells are ignited from being exposed to the outside.
US10446808B2	Systems and methods for a flexible battery handle assembly for lead-acid batteries A lead-acid battery includes a handle assembly coupled to a polymer packaging of the battery. The handle assembly includes a woven fabric strap capable of laying substantially flat over a cover of the battery when the handle assembly is not in use. The handle assembly includes a first tab overmolded about a first end of the woven fabric strap, wherein the first tab is loaded into a first slot inset into a first end portion of the polymer packaging of the battery. The handle assembly also includes a second tab overmolded about a second end of the woven fabric strap, wherein the second tab is loaded into a second slot inset into a second end portion of the polymer packaging of the battery, and wherein a length of the first and second tabs is at least twice a width of the woven fabric strap.
US10446802B2	Curved secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same A curved secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the same, the curved secondary battery including an electrode assembly having a curved shape; and a pouch that accommodates the electrode assembly, wherein the pouch includes a first encapsulation sheet on a curved first surface of the electrode assembly, the first encapsulation sheet having a portion with a same curvature as the first surface; a second encapsulation sheet on a curved second surface of the electrode assembly, the second encapsulation sheet having a portion with a same curvature as the second surface; and an attaching portion that has a planar shape, the attaching portion being formed when a first boundary portion of the first encapsulation sheet and a second boundary portion of the second encapsulation sheet are attached to each other.
US10446799B2	Organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display device can include a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate in the non-display area; an electroluminescent device disposed in the display area; and an overcoat layer disposed on the substrate and including two or more concave portions and two or more convex portions in the display area, in which the two or more concave portions and the two or more convex portions form a plan-view pattern including one of a polygonal pattern having same centers, a polygonal pattern having different centers, a circular pattern having same centers, a circular pattern having different centers, an oval pattern having same centers, an oval pattern having different centers, a spiral pattern, and combinations thereof, and the electroluminescent device includes: a first electrode disposed on the overcoat layer and connecting the electroluminescent device to the thin film transistor; an organic light-emitting layer disposed on the first electrode and configured to emit light; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light-emitting layer.
US10446797B2	Polymer dispersed liquid crystal film comprising an optical lens having a first lens area and a second lens area and flat panel display device having the same There is provided a polymer dispersed liquid crystal film including a resin base, an optical lens on the resin base and including polymer dispersed liquid crystal particles within the resin base, and having a first lens area having a higher refractive index at an edge of the first lens area than at a center of the first lens area, and a second lens area surrounding the first lens area and having a lower refractive index at an outer edge of the second lens area than at an inner edge of the second lens area.
US10446794B2	Top-emitting organic light-emitting device and component thereof A component of top-emitting organic light-emitting device includes an anode, a light-emitting layer, a cathode, a light extraction layer, and an encapsulation layer. The light-emitting layer is arranged over the anode. The cathode is arranged over the light-emitting layer. The light extraction layer is arranged over the cathode. The encapsulation layer is arranged over the light extraction layer. A material of the light extraction layer includes an inorganic material.
US10446792B2	Packaging structure, display device, and fabrication method thereof A packaging structure includes at least one inorganic layer and at least one passivation layer. The at least one passivation layer includes a halogen-containing amorphous solid oxide thin film. The amorphous solid oxide thin film in the at least one passivation layer has a crosslinked-polyhedra-network structure. A display device includes a substrate, a display layer, and a packaging structure. The packaging structure further includes at least one inorganic layer and at least one passivation layer. The at least one passivation layer includes a halogen-containing amorphous solid oxide thin film. The amorphous solid oxide thin film in the at least one passivation layer has a crosslinked-polyhedra-network structure. A method for fabricating a display device includes providing a substrate, forming a display layer over the substrate, and forming a packaging structure over the display layer with the packaging structure including at least one inorganic layer and at least one passivation layer.
US10446790B2	OLED encapsulating structure and manufacturing method thereof The present application provides an encapsulation method for an OLED and an encapsulation structure of an OLED. In the encapsulation method for an OLED of the present application, by disposing the UV light absorbing layer on the surface of the OLED device, in one aspect, the UV light absorbing layer has a low UV transmittance. Therefore, UV light can be blocked from being directed to the TFT during UV curing of the encapsulation material and the sealant to reduce or eliminate the influence of UV light on the TFT; on the other hand, the UV light absorbing layer has high visible light transmittance and therefore does not reduce the light intensity of the OLED device. The encapsulation structure of the OLED of the present application is fabricated by the above encapsulation method. The TFT has excellent electrical performance and the OLED device thereof has strong light intensity.
US10446789B2	Display device A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A display device includes a substrate; a display area on the substrate and configured to display an image; a pad portion on at least one edge of the substrate, the pad portion including at least one sink portion; an anisotropic conductive film on the pad portion and filling the at least one sink portion, the anisotropic conductive film spaced apart from an end of the substrate; and a flexible printed circuit board on the anisotropic conductive film and electrically connected to the pad portion.
US10446782B1	Quantum dot device and electronic device A quantum dot device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, a quantum dot layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising a plurality of quantum dots, a first charge auxiliary layer disposed between the first electrode and the quantum dot layer and contacting the quantum dot layer, and a second charge auxiliary layer disposed between the second electrode and the quantum dot layer and contacting the quantum dot layer, wherein the plurality of quantum dots includes a quantum dot including an organic ligand on a surface thereof, the organic ligand including a hydrophilic functional group at a terminal end.
US10446773B2	Substrate, optical element, mold, organic light-emitting element, organic thin-film solar cell, and method for producing substrate Provided is an optical element substrate with which it is possible to increase the efficiency of use of light energy. An uneven structure on one substrate surface for an optical element is provided with a plurality of projections. The contour shape of the projections has an arc shape in plan view facing the one surface. The contour shape is formed by a first arc section and second arc section having different center points. The first arc section and second arc section bulge in mutually opposite directions.
US10446772B2	Organic solar cell and method of manufacturing the same The present specification provides an organic solar cell and a method of manufacturing the same.
US10446769B2	Display device having bending area A display device includes: a flexible substrate including a bending area bent in one direction; an insulating layer on the flexible substrate and comprising a plurality of opening patterns spaced apart from each other at the bending area; and a wavy line extending through the plurality of opening patterns.
US10446767B2	Organic-electroluminescent-element material and organic electroluminescent element using same Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple construction. The device is an organic electroluminescent device having organic layers including a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, in which a carborane compound is incorporated into at least one layer of the organic layers, or is incorporated as a host material into a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and the host material. The carborane compound has a structure in which a N-containing fused aromatic ring is bonded to a carborane ring. The N-containing fused aromatic ring is a quinoline ring or has a structure obtained by substituting 1 to 3 ring-forming carbon atoms in a quinoline ring with N atoms.
US10446748B2	Diffused resistive memory cell with buried active zone An apparatus for non-volatile memory, and more specifically a ReRAM device with a buried resistive memory cell. The memory cell includes a first contact disposed on a substrate, an active layer, a second contact, a first diffused zone disposed within the active layer, a second diffused zone disposed within the active layer, and an active switching zone disposed within the active layer in between the first diffused zone and the second diffused zone. In one embodiment, the active zone may be doped by diffusion or ion implantation and/or may be fabricated utilizing a self-aligned process. In another embodiment, the memory cell may combine a deep implant and shallow diffusion well to create the active zone. The vertically and laterally isolated buried resistive memory cell concentrates the electric field away from the edges of the device and eliminates the effects of interface impurities and contaminants.
US10446747B1	Methods of operating integrated circuit devices having volatile and nonvolatile memory portions A method can include, by operation of a controller circuit, writing data into a volatile memory portion formed in an integrated circuit substrate of a memory device. In response to first conditions, date can be written from the volatile memory portion into a nonvolatile memory portion formed in the same integrated circuit substrate as the volatile memory portion. The nonvolatile memory portion can store the data in two terminal memory elements re-programmable between at least two different resistance states.
US10446746B1	ReRAM structure formed by a single process A method of forming a resistive random access memory device which contains uniform layer composition is provided. The method enables the in-situ deposition of a bottom electrode layer (i.e., a metal layer), a resistive switching element (i.e., at least one metal oxide layer), and a top electrode layer (i.e., a metal nitride layer and/or a metal layer) with compositional control. Resistive random access memory devices which contain uniform layer composition enabled by the in-situ deposition of the bottom electrode layer, the resistive switching element, and the top electrode layer provide significant benefits for advanced memory technologies.
US10446740B2	Magnetoresistance effect element A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, and the tunnel barrier layer has a spinel structure represented by a composition formula of AIn2Ox (0
US10446735B2	Techniques for transferring thermal energy stored in phase change material Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to receive thermal energy from a source, convert phase change material (102) from an initial state to a secondary state in response to absorption of the thermal energy, and transfer the thermal energy from the phase change material (102) to a thermoelectric component (106). In addition, various embodiments may include collecting, conducting and converting the thermal energy into electrical energy for use in powering one or more electronic components.
US10446732B2	NbFeSb-based half-heusler thermoelectric materials and methods of making A thermoelectric half-Heusler material comprising niobium (Nb), iron (Fe) and antimony (Sb) wherein the material comprises grains having a mean grain size less than one micron. A method of making a nanocomposite half-Heusler thermoelectric material includes melting constituent elements of the thermoelectric material to form an alloy of the thermoelectric material, comminuting (e.g., ball milling) the alloy of the thermoelectric material into nanometer scale mean size particles, and consolidating the nanometer size particles to form the half-Heusler thermoelectric material comprising at least niobium (Nb), iron (Fe) and antimony (Sb) and having grains with a mean grain size less than one micron.
US10446731B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a heat sinking substrate, an electrically insulating layer partially formed on the heat sinking substrate, a circuit pattern layer formed on the electrically insulating layer, a light emitting diode (LED) chip, and an electrically insulating and thermally conductive interlayer. The LED chip is indirectly and non-electrically mounted to the heat sinking substrate. The electrically insulating and thermally conductive interlayer is interposed between the bottom portion of the LED chip and a portion of the heat sinking substrate exposed from the electrically insulating layer. A bottom portion of the LED chip bridges the electrically insulating and thermally conductive interlayer and the circuit pattern layer.
US10446724B2	Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A display apparatus includes a substrate; a light-emitting diode on the substrate; a pixel separating layer surrounding the light-emitting diode; and a light dispersion layer on the light-emitting diode and the pixel separating layer.
US10446719B2	Micro assembled LED displays and lighting elements The disclosed technology provides micro-assembled micro-LED displays and lighting elements using arrays of micro-LEDs that are too small (e.g., micro-LEDs with a width or diameter of 10 μm to 50 μm), numerous, or fragile to assemble by conventional means. The disclosed technology provides for micro-LED displays and lighting elements assembled using micro-transfer printing technology. The micro-LEDs can be prepared on a native substrate and printed to a display substrate (e.g., plastic, metal, glass, or other materials), thereby obviating the manufacture of the micro-LEDs on the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the display substrate is transparent and/or flexible.
US10446704B2	Formation of Ohmic back contact for Ag2ZnSn(S,Se)4 photovoltaic devices Techniques for forming an ohmic back contact for Ag2ZnSn(S,Se)4 photovoltaic devices. In one aspect, a method for forming a photovoltaic device includes the steps of: depositing a refractory electrode material onto a substrate; depositing a contact material onto the refractory electrode material, wherein the contact material includes a transition metal oxide; forming an absorber layer on the contact material, wherein the absorber layer includes Ag, Zn, Sn, and at least one of S and Se; annealing the absorber layer; forming a buffer layer on the absorber layer; and forming a top electrode on the buffer layer. The refractory electrode material may be Mo, W, Pt, Ti, TiN, FTO, and combinations thereof. The transition metal oxide may be TiO2, ZnO, SnO, ZnSnO, Ga2O3, and combinations thereof. A photovoltaic device is also provided.
US10446698B2	Photoelectric conversion device and method for manufacturing same A photoelectric conversion device includes, on one principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, a first conductivity-type region, a second conductivity-type region, and a boundary region which is in contact with each of the first conductivity-type region and the second conductivity-type region to separate these two regions. A first conductivity-type semiconductor layer is disposed over the entire first conductivity-type region and extending over the boundary region. A second conductivity-type semiconductor layer is disposed over the entire second conductivity-type region and extending over the boundary region. An insulating layer is disposed over the entire boundary region. A first electrode is disposed over the entire first conductivity-type region and extending over the boundary region, and a second electrode is disposed over the second conductivity-type region. The second electrode is not disposed over a region where the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer is formed, and thus is separated from the first electrode.
US10446697B2	Solar cell A bifacial solar cell includes a substrate of an n-type; an emitter layer positioned on a first surface of the substrate; a plurality of first electrodes locally positioned on the emitter layer and electrically connected to the emitter layer; a first passivation layer positioned on the emitter layer; a silicon oxide layer formed at an interface between the first passivation layer and the emitter layer, the silicon oxide layer having a thickness of about 1 nm to 3 nm; a first anti-reflection layer positioned on the first passivation layer; a plurality of back surface field layers locally positioned on a second surface of the substrate; a plurality of second electrodes respectively positioned on the plurality of back surface field layers and electrically connected to the plurality of back surface field layers; and a second passivation layer positioned on the second surface of the substrate.
US10446691B2	Semiconductor structure and methods for crystallizing metal oxide semiconductor layer The present invention provides two methods for crystallizing a metal oxide semiconductor layer and a semiconductor structure. The first crystallization method is treating an amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer including indium with oxygen at a pressure of about 550 mtorr to about 5000 mtorr and at a temperature of about 200° C. to about 750° C. The second crystallization method is, firstly, sequentially forming a first amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer, an aluminum layer, and a second amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer on a substrate, and, secondly, treating the first amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer, the aluminum layer, and the second amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer with an inert gas at a temperature of about 350° C. to about 650° C.
US10446690B2	Method of production of semiconductor device A method of production of a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor layer forming step of forming a semiconductor layer including an inorganic oxide semiconductor on a board, a passivation film forming step of forming a passivation film comprising an organic material so as to cover the semiconductor layer, a baking step of baking the passivation film, and a cooling step of cooling the passivation film after baking, herein, in the cooling step, a cooling speed from a baking temperature at the time of baking in the baking step to a temperature 50° C. lower than the baking temperature is substantially controlled to 0.5 to 5° C./min in range is provided.
US10446687B2	Integrated circuit connection arrangement for minimizing crosstalk A semiconductor package includes a leadframe, having perimeter package leads and a ground voltage lead, a bottom semiconductor die flip-chip mounted to the leadframe, and a top semiconductor die. The bottom semiconductor die has a first frontside active layer with first frontside electrical contacts electrically connected to the leadframe, a first backside portion, and a buried oxide layer situated between the first frontside active layer and the first backside portion. The top semiconductor die is mounted to the first backside portion. The first frontside active layer includes a circuit electrically connected to the first backside portion by a backside electrical connection through the buried oxide layer. The first backside portion of the bottom semiconductor die is electrically connected to the ground voltage lead through a first electrical contact of the first frontside electrical contacts to minimize crosstalk.
US10446675B2	Noff III-nitride high electron mobility transistor A High Electron Mobility Transistor comprising a source and a drain, a III-N buffer layer and a III-N barrier layer jointly forming a 2DEG in the buffer layer between the source and the drain, a first gate electrode configured to receive a gate bias voltage and a second gate electrode located between the drain and the first gate and conductively connected to the source via the 2DEG.
US10446670B2	Integration of strained silicon germanium PFET device and silicon NFET device for FINFET structures A method of forming a finFET transistor device includes forming a crystalline, compressive strained silicon germanium (cSiGe) layer over a substrate; masking a first region of the cSiGe layer so as to expose a second region of the cSiGe layer; subjecting the exposed second region of the cSiGe layer to an implant process so as to amorphize a bottom portion thereof and transform the cSiGe layer in the second region to a relaxed SiGe (rSiGe) layer; performing an annealing process so as to recrystallize the rSiGe layer; epitaxially growing a tensile strained silicon layer on the rSiGe layer; and patterning fin structures in the tensile strained silicon layer and in the first region of the cSiGe layer.
US10446667B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first gate structure on a substrate; performing a first etching process to form a recess adjacent to the first gate structure; performing an ion implantation process to form an amorphous layer directly under the recess; performing a second etching process to remove the amorphous layer; and forming an epitaxial layer in the recess.
US10446664B1	Inner spacer formation and contact resistance reduction in nanosheet transistors Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. A non-limiting example of the method includes performing fabrication operations to form a nanosheet field effect transistor device, wherein the fabrication operations include forming a stack over a substrate. The stack includes alternating layers of sacrificial nanosheets and channel nanosheets over a substrate. The stack further includes lateral sidewalls having a length (L) and end sidewalls having a width (W), wherein L is greater than W. Source or drain (S/D) regions are formed along the length (L) of the lateral sidewalls.
US10446656B2	Memory transistor with multiple charge storing layers and a high work function gate electrode Semiconductor devices including non-volatile memory transistors and methods of fabricating the same to improve performance thereof are provided. In one embodiment, the memory transistor comprises an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) stack on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a high work function gate electrode formed over a surface of the ONO stack. Preferably, the gate electrode comprises a doped polysilicon layer, and the ONO stack comprises multi-layer charge storing layer including at least a substantially trap free bottom oxynitride layer and a charge trapping top oxynitride layer. More preferably, the device also includes a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) logic transistor formed on the same substrate, the logic transistor including a gate oxide and a high work function gate electrode. In certain embodiments, the dopant is a P+ dopant and the memory transistor comprises N-type (NMOS) silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) transistor while the logic transistor a P-type (PMOS) transistor. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10446655B2	Semiconductor device The semiconductor device including: two fins having rectangular parallelepiped shapes arranged in parallel in X-direction; and a gate electrode arranged thereon via a gate insulating film and extending in Y-direction is configured as follows. First, a drain plug is provided over a drain region located on one side of the gate electrode and extending in Y-direction. Then, two source plugs are provided over a source region located on the other side of the gate electrode and extending in Y-direction. Also, the drain plug is arranged in a displaced manner so that its position in Y-direction may not overlap with the two source plugs. According to such a configuration, the gate-drain capacitance can be made smaller than the gate-source capacitance and a Miller effect-based circuit delay can be suppressed. Further, as compared with capacitance on the drain side, capacitance on the source side increases, thereby improving stability of circuit operation.
US10446651B2	Oxide semiconductor, semiconductor device, semiconductor memory device, and solid-state imaging device According to one embodiment, an oxide semiconductor includes indium (In), gallium (Ga), and silicon (Si). A composition ratio of Si to In (Si/In) in the oxide semiconductor is larger than 0.2, and a composition ratio of Si to Ga (Si/Ga) in the oxide semiconductor is larger than 0.2.
US10446650B2	FinFET with a silicon germanium alloy channel and method of fabrication thereof A gate cavity is formed exposing a portion of a silicon fin by removing a sacrificial gate structure that straddles the silicon fin. An epitaxial silicon germanium alloy layer is formed within the gate cavity and on the exposed portion of the silicon fin. Thermal mixing or thermal condensation is performed to convert the exposed portion of the silicon fin into a silicon germanium alloy channel portion which is laterally surrounded by silicon fin portions. A functional gate structure is formed within the gate cavity providing a finFET structure having a silicon germanium alloy channel portion which is laterally surrounded by silicon fin portions.
US10446640B2	Termination implant enrichment for shielded gate MOSFETS In a general aspect, a power semiconductor device can include a first trench shield electrode and a second trench shield electrode defined in a semiconductor region, the first and second trench shield electrodes each having a first portion disposed in an active region and a second portion disposed in a termination region. A trench of the first trench shield electrode and a trench of the second trench shield electrode can define a mesa of the semiconductor region therebetween. The device can further include an implant enrichment region disposed in the termination region, the implant enrichment region can have a plurality of segments, at least one of the segments being disposed in the mesa. The trench shield electrodes can be disposed between segments of the implant enrichment region.
US10446635B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate which includes a display area and a non-display area, a pixel unit which is provided in the display area and includes a plurality of pixel columns, and data lines which are respectively connected to the pixel columns and apply data signals to the pixel columns. The non-display area includes a fanout area, a bent area, and a pad area which are sequentially arranged. The respective data lines are disposed on different layers in the fanout area and the pad area. A resulting display device can reduce resistance deviation between data signals in a first data line and a second data line, thereby reducing vertical line defects.
US10446630B2	Thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) substrate The present disclosure relates to a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and an organic light-emitting (OLED) substrate. The interlayer dielectric layer manufactured by the manufacturing method may be configured in the structure of two silicon oxide layers sandwiching one silicon nitride layer. As such, the bonding force between the interlayer dielectric layer and the gate, and the bonding force between the interlayer dielectric layer, and the source and the drain may be improved. The source and the drain may be prevented from falling off from the interlayer dielectric layer during the annealing process. Production yield of the TFT substrate may be improved. The OLED substrate adopting the manufactured of the OLED substrate of the present disclosure may have a better production yield and quality.
US10446627B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display device can include providing a source electrode, a drain electrode and a signal pad on a substrate; providing a passivation layer on the source electrode, the drain electrode and the signal pad, providing a planarization layer on the passivation layer; providing a anode electrode connected with the source electrode or drain electrode, and providing an auxiliary electrode spaced apart from the anode electrode; providing a contact hole for exposing the signal pad by removing a predetermined portion of the passivation layer; providing a bank on one side and the other side of the anode electrode and one side and the other side of the auxiliary electrode; providing an organic emitting layer on the anode electrode; and providing a cathode electrode connected with the auxiliary electrode and provided on the organic emitting layer, in which the signal pad includes a lower signal pad, a central signal pad and an upper signal pad, and the central signal pad is surrounded by the lower signal pad, the upper signal pad and the passivation layer.
US10446614B2	Organic light-emitting display device The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting display device capable of improving the aperture ratio thereof, and the organic light-emitting display device according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of sub-pixels respectively including organic emission layers arranged on a substrate, wherein a sub-pixel in which the organic emission layer is spaced a first vertical distance from the substrate and a sub-pixel in which the organic emission layer is spaced a second vertical distance from the substrate are alternatively arranged, thereby improving the aperture ratio.
US10446613B2	Method of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode display having an auxiliary member in contact with an upper surface of an auxiliary electrode An organic light emitting diode display according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a pixel formed on the substrate and including a pixel area displaying an image and a peripheral area adjacent to the pixel area; an insulating layer at the pixel area and the peripheral area on the substrate; a first electrode at the pixel area on the insulating layer; an organic emission layer on the first electrode and extending to the peripheral area; a second electrode on the organic emission layer and disposed in the pixel area and the peripheral area; an auxiliary electrode in the peripheral area on the substrate and partially exposed by a first opening formed in the insulating layer; and an auxiliary member disposed on the auxiliary electrode and in contact with an upper surface of the auxiliary electrode exposed by the first opening.
US10446602B2	Sensor device A sensor device is provided and includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a photosensor. The first transistor has a first gate, a first drain, and a first source. The first drain is coupled to a first power line and has a concave surface, and the first source is disposed corresponding to the concave surface. The second transistor has a second source, coupled to the first gate. The third transistor has a third gate, a third drain, and a third source, the third drain is coupled to the first source, the third source is coupled to the data line, and the third gate is coupled to the readout line. The photosensor is coupled to the first gate.
US10446601B2	Photodetector A sensor includes a first substrate including at least a first pixel. The first pixel includes an avalanche photodiode to convert incident light into electric charge and includes an anode (105) and a cathode (101). The cathode is in a well region (103) of the first substrate. The first pixel includes an isolation region (108) that isolates the well region from at least a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixel. The first pixel includes a hole accumulation region (107a) between the isolation region and the well region. The hole accumulation region is electrically connected to the anode.
US10446600B2	Imaging system and imaging device having a random optical filter array An imaging system serving as an image generation device is provided with: a random color filter array that has a plurality of concave lenses and a plurality of color filters having different transmission characteristics; a photodiode that receives light that has passed through the random color filter array; an AD converter that converts the light received by the photodiode into digital data; and a color image generation circuit that generates an image using the digital data and modulation information of the random color filter array, in which the plurality of concave lenses are located between the plurality of color filters and the photodiode, or the plurality of color filters are located between the plurality of concave lenses and the photodiode.
US10446597B2	Hermetic electronic-component package, in particular for an image sensor In a hermetic integrated-circuit package, the peripheral wall that bounds the cavity 2 containing the integrated circuit has, all the length of the peripheral wall, a surface containing a relief, which is defined by a raised planar zone z1, on the side inside the package of the cavity, and a recessed zone z2, on the exterior of the raised planar zone. The planar zone makes direct contact with the closing plate 6 of the package, without interposition of adhesive, over the entire length of the peripheral wall, except where planarity defects prevent the contact. The recessed zone does not make direct contact with the closing plate, and contains an adhesive bead that joins the closing plate and the upper portion of the peripheral wall over all the peripheral length of the latter. The adhesive bead 9 has a surface Se in open air between the closing plate and the recessed zone, on the exterior side of the package. This surface serves as an exchange surface with the exterior atmosphere of the package, in case of adhesive degassing.
US10446595B2	Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric converter including a plurality of light receiving elements arranged along one direction in correspondence with each color of received light, each light receiving element generating an electric charge corresponding to an amount of received light, an electric charge storage unit including a plurality of capacitors storing the electric charges generated by the respective light receiving elements, and a signal processing unit configured to process each of the electric charges stored by the plurality of capacitors as a signal. The electric charge storage unit is disposed so as to oppose the signal processing unit across the photoelectric converter.
US10446589B2	Array substrate, display panel, display apparatus, and method for manufacturing array substrate An array substrate, display panel, display apparatus, and method for manufacturing the array substrate are provided. Array substrate includes pixel driving circuit and peripheral driving circuit. Array substrate further includes a plurality of thin film transistors including first type of thin film transistor electrically connected into peripheral driving circuit for outputting driving signal and second type of thin film transistor connected to peripheral driving circuit for outputting scanning signal. The thin film transistor includes an active layer of oxide semiconductor including at least one sub-layer. Compared with second type of thin film transistor, active layer of first type of thin film transistor has more sub-layers, and thickness of active layer of first type of thin film transistor is larger. Each sub-layer of the active layer of the second type of thin film transistor is in a same layer as the active layer of the first type of thin film transistor.
US10446587B2	Display substrate comprising a plurality of conductive patterns A display substrate includes a switching element disposed in a display region that is electrically connected to a gate line, a data line, and a first electrode in a peripheral region adjacent to the display region that includes a first conductive pattern formed from a first conductive layer that includes a same material as the gate line, a first line connecting part disposed in the peripheral region that includes the first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern that overlaps the first conductive pattern and formed, an organic layer that partially exposes the second conductive pattern, and a third conductive pattern electrically connected to the second conductive pattern that contacts the partially exposed second conductive pattern, and a fourth conductive pattern that electrically connects the first conductive pattern of the pad part and the third conductive pattern of the first line connecting part.
US10446579B2	Three-dimensional memory devices, and related methods and electronic systems A method of forming a semiconductor device structure comprises forming a stack structure comprising stacked tiers. Each of the stacked tiers comprises a first structure comprising a first material and a second structure comprising a second, different material longitudinally adjacent the first structure. A patterned hard mask structure is formed over the stack structure. Dielectric structures are formed within openings in the patterned hard mask structure. A photoresist structure is formed over the dielectric structures and the patterned hard mask structure. The photoresist structure, the dielectric structures, and the stack structure are subjected to a series of material removal processes to form apertures extending to different depths within the stack structure. Dielectric structures are formed over side surfaces of the stack structure within the apertures. Conductive contact structures are formed to longitudinally extend to bottoms of the apertures. Semiconductor device structures, semiconductor devices, and electronic systems are also described.

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