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US10477460B2	Communication method and apparatus in wireless communication system supporting D2D communication A communication method in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication is provided. The communication method includes transmitting a first message including information for identifying a relay to discover a relay user equipment (UE) that performs a relay function in the D2D communication, and receiving a second message including information about the relay UE that performs the relay function, from the relay UE that has received the first message, the second message being transmitted in response to the first message.
US10477452B1	Spatial reuse in 60 GHZ wireless networks The present disclosure proposes systems and methods for performing spatial reuse using the following techniques at access points and stations. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to spatial reuse of medium with a spatial reuse opportunity announcement provided to STAs by an AP, opportunistic directional sensing performed by STAs, and a channel access method with a new backoff procedure performed by the STAs. An AP may provision a spatial reuse opportunity announcement in a beacon interval, and STAs may perform opportunistic directional sensing based on the announcement and perform channel access after performing opportunistic directional sensing.
US10477450B2	Communication system, terminal apparatus, and communication method A bi-directional communication method needs to be switched on the basis of cost of bi-directional communication. Provided is a communication system including a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus, in which the first terminal apparatus includes a radio unit that transmits a first signal by using a first communication path that is a direct communication path to the second terminal apparatus, the second terminal apparatus includes a radio unit that transmits a second signal by using a second communication path that is a communication path different from the first communication path, and the first terminal apparatus transmits the first signal on the basis of a feature amount of the second signal transmitted by the second terminal apparatus.
US10477448B2	Methods and apparatus for cell reselection with interference avoidance in mobile communications Various solutions for cell reselection with interference avoidance with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive frequency information of a target cell from a broadcast channel of a serving cell. The apparatus may determine an overlapped bandwidth region between the serving cell and the target cell according to the frequency information. The apparatus may compare a signal quality of the serving cell in the overlapped bandwidth region with a signal quality of the target cell in the overlapped bandwidth region. The apparatus may determine whether to perform a cell reselection according to a comparison result.
US10477443B2	Cell selection depending on MBMS capability A method of mobility management in a cellular system includes determining from a first received indication that at least one communication device intends to receive a multimedia broadcast multicast service or is receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service. The information is sent to the at least one communication device relating to at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service capable cell. The method further includes receiving from the at least one communication device a report including measurement information of the at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service capable cell. The method finally includes initiating selecting at least one cell on at least one carrier for the at least one communication device, the at least one carrier including one or more cells capable of providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service.
US10477441B2	Method and apparatus to enable multiple wireless connections In some examples, a source wireless access network node generates, for a user equipment (UE), a plurality of security configurations, wherein each security configuration of the plurality of security configurations is associated with a different respective candidate target wireless network node in a set of candidate target wireless access network nodes. The source wireless access network node sends each security configuration of the plurality of security configurations to the respective candidate target wireless network node, and sends security information of the plurality of security configurations to the UE.
US10477439B2	Base station and method thereof A secondary base station (2) is configured to receive an SeNB addition request message from a second master base station (3) while providing a radio terminal (1) with a secondary cell group (SCG) for DC in cooperation with a first master base station. The SeNB addition request message indicates whether each of at least one bearer that has already been configured in the secondary base station (2) for DC with the first master base station (1) is to be kept at the secondary base station (2). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to performing a procedure for changing a master base station in Dual Connectivity (DC) by using existing inter-base station interface procedures and inter-base station signaling messages.
US10477426B1	Identifying a cell site as a target for utilizing 5th generation (5G) network technologies and upgrading the cell site to implement the 5G network technologies A device identifies a subset of network performance indicator (NPI) values that measure network performance during peak usage time periods, selects particular NPI values associated with the peak usage time periods, based on one or more of the subset of NPI values satisfying particular threshold network performance values, and compares the particular NPI values with threshold upper and lower bound network performance values to determine weighted scores for the particular NPI values. The device determines, by processing the weighted scores, a weighted mean score that represents a mean of the weighted scores, and determines, based on an analysis of the particular NPI values and the weighted mean score, an overall site score that represents a viability level in upgrading the cell site. The device generates, based on the overall site score, a plan to upgrade one or more network technologies associated with the cell site.
US10477424B2	Device and method of handling aggregation of cellular network and wireless local area network A communication device of handling aggregation of cellular network and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) aggregation (CWA) comprises instructions of transmitting a message indicating support of the CWA to a base station (BS) via a cellular connection; receiving a configuration message configuring the CWA from the BS via the cellular connection; transmitting a cellular protocol data unit (PDU) to a WLAN configured by the configuration message via a WLAN connection; receiving a status report indicating that the cellular PDU is lost from the BS; transmitting the cellular PDU indicated by the status report, when the communication device has the cellular PDU in a memory device of the communication device; and transmitting a cellular message in response to the status report, when the communication device does not have the cellular PDU in the memory device.
US10477422B2	Network implementation of spectrum analysis Access devices may receive signals over a network and calculate a frequency spectrum of the received signals. An analyzer system may collect the frequency spectrum data from multiple access devices, and based on the collected data, detect, identify, and locate sources of anomalies in a communication network.
US10477414B2	Method and device for data decoding by terminal in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with 5G communication systems for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems and to a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g. smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The method for data decoding by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving subframes on the basis of a configuration; obtaining at least one channel phase value on the basis of available subframes, which are configured to transmit identical downlink data, among the received subframes; correcting the other channel phase value(s) with any one of said at least one obtained channel phase value as a reference value; and decoding the downlink data by means of the reference value and the corrected channel phase value(s).
US10477412B2	Determine channel plans An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to: determine a channel distribution vector based on a channel priority for a plurality of available wireless channels within a wireless network; receive a set of constraints on a channel plan; determine a channel plan meeting the set of user defined constraints based on the channel distribution vector; and transmit the channel plan to a plurality of radios on the wireless network, wherein the channel plan comprises a channel assigned to each radio of the plurality of radios.
US10477408B2	Image communication system, image reception apparatus, image transmission apparatus, image reception method, image transmission method, and recording medium An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use confirmation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
US10477402B2	One-way key fob and vehicle pairing Key fob and vehicle control unit identifiers (IDs) are used for entity authentication or trust transfer to achieve a secured initial pairing. The key fob is capable of transmitting only (not receiving) and is paired with a control unit in a vehicle or with any other control device. Use of the key fob and control unit IDs prevents unauthorized pairing and access to the operation key (OpKey) that is later used for communications between the devices. Elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) is used for strong security and efficient implementation. In the pairing process, device IDs are used for entity authentication and public key cryptography is used for easy key management. Symmetric encryption is used for fast normal operation and to accommodate key fob addition or revocation after key fob loss.
US10477399B2	Communication apparatus, method of controlling the same, program, and printing apparatus A communication apparatus determines whether or not a security function relating to communication of the communication apparatus is set when the information processing apparatus performs direct wireless communication; and controls to prohibit or permit wireless communication with the information processing apparatus in accordance with the determination result.
US10477396B2	Affiliation and disaffiliation of computing devices Techniques described herein may provide for affiliation and disaffiliation of devices, such as office communication devices, associated with a user. The affiliation/disaffiliation may be performed using a mobile device (e.g., a smart phone). In one implementation, a method may include receiving a request to affiliate a user with one or more office devices; and receiving context data, from a mobile device, relating to a current context of the mobile device. The method may further include determining, based on the context data, to authorize the affiliation of the user with the one or more office devices; and provisioning, based on the determination to authorize the affiliation, the one or more office devices to customize the one or more office devices for the user.
US10477391B1	Service-based security per user location in mobile networks Techniques for providing service-based security per user location in mobile networks (e.g., service provider networks for mobile subscribers) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for service-based security per user location in mobile networks in accordance with some embodiments includes monitoring network traffic on a service provider network at a security platform to identify a new session, wherein the service provider network includes a 5G network or a converged 5G network; extracting user location information for user traffic associated with the new session at the security platform; and determining a security policy to apply at the security platform to the new session based on the user location information.
US10477387B2	Method, a network node and a system for triggering a transmission of sensor data from a wireless device The invention relates to a method for triggering a transmission of sensor data from a wireless device comprising at least one accelerometer. The wireless device is arranged to an automatic door. The method comprises: receiving from the wireless device data processed from the sensor data; analyzing the received data processed from the sensor data; and generating a control signal to the wireless device in response to a detection of a predefined event, wherein the control signal comprises at least a request to the wireless device to trigger the transmission of sensor data. The invention also relates to a network node and a system performing at least partly the method.
US10477383B2	ESIM profile metadata provisioning A download order message is received from a business support function of a wireless communication carrier. The download order message is for initiating a preparation of an unpopulated eSIM profile for downloading to an EUICC on a user device. The unpopulated eSIM profile is an eSIM profile that lacks pre-populated profile metadata. A metadata provision value is extracted from the download order message. The metadata provision value is compared to a mapping table that maps profile metadata provision values to corresponding combinations of one or more metadata element values. Accordingly, a combination of one or more profile metadata element values for the unpopulated eSIM profile is identified based on the comparison of the metadata provision value to the mapping table. The combination of one or more profile metadata element values is then populated into the unpopulated eSIM profile to generate a populated eSIM profile.
US10477380B2	Base station and radio terminal A base station according to a present embodiment is a base station configured to manage a cell, and comprises: a controller configured to transmit, if a relay terminal configured to relay data by direct communication between a remote terminal and a network is not present in a vicinity of a radio terminal located within the cell, control information to the radio terminal. The control information is information for starting transmission of a discovery signal for discovering another radio terminal that can be the relay UE.
US10477378B2	Wireless network discovery using a MIMO transceiver In some examples, a wireless device includes a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver that has a plurality of antennas to perform MIMO wireless communication. At least one processor is configured to concurrently perform discovery of respective different wireless devices using at least two of the plurality of antennas.
US10477376B2	Systems and methods for formatting frames in neighborhood aware networks Systems and methods for formatting frames in neighborhood aware networks are described herein. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of communicating in a wireless neighborhood aware network (NAN). The method includes determining at least one connection setup information element indicating one or more connection parameters of the NAN. The method further includes determining at least one service identifier of the NAN. The method further includes generating a public action discovery frame comprising the at least one connection setup information element and the at least one service identifier. The method further includes transmitting, at a wireless device, the public action discovery frame.
US10477372B2	Inter-operable remote terminal unit In aspects, the present invention discloses a method for communicating with a plurality of field devices using a remote terminal unit. The plurality of field devices includes a first set of field devices and a second set of field devices capable of communicating using a first and second wireless communication protocols respectively. The method comprises scanning for a beacon message from a first field device, determining a corresponding wireless communication protocol associated from the first field device, identifying a first set of configuration blocks for communicating with the first field device based on a configuration schema file and the corresponding wireless communication protocol of the first field device, and building a protocol stack for use with a radio front end from the one or more radio front ends using the first set of configuration blocks, for communicating with the first field device from the plurality of field devices.
US10477367B2	Methods and apparatuses for scheduling for coexistence between NB-IoT and E-MTC A communication device identifies a subset of physical resource blocks, PRBs, within a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system bandwidth that are eligible for use as narrowband internet of things, NB-IoT, PRBs, wherein the eligibility of PRBs for use as NB-IoT PRBs is determined in relation to at least one machine-type-communication, MTC, narrowband within the LTE system bandwidth, and transmits or receives information via at least one of the eligible PRBs that has been allocated as a NB-IoT PRB, or via the at least one MTC narrowband.
US10477360B2	Mobile communication system, core network node, control station, base station, communication method and program A mobile communication system of the present invention is a mobile communication system including a mobile station, base stations each of which forms a cell and transmits MBMS data to the mobile station existing in the cell, control stations each of which controls a base station connected thereto, and further including a core network node that instructs each of the control stations connected thereto with respect to the frequency and timing for transmitting MBMS data in the cell, wherein each of the control stations establishes time synchronization with another control station and instructs the connected base station to set the cell to the frequency designated by the core network node and transmits, to the connected base station, the MBMS data in accordance with the transmission timing designated by the core network node and the mobile station then receives the MBMS data.
US10477359B2	Publishing messages based on geographic area Embodiments relate to methods, systems and computer program products for publishing messages within a geographic area. Aspects include receiving a location from each of a plurality of user devices and creating a geo-hash tree based on the location of each of a plurality of user devices. Aspects also include receiving a message with the geographic area, computing a geo-hash grid for a region that includes the geographic area and identifying one or more nodes of the geo-hash tree that corresponds to the geo-hash grid. Aspects further include transmitting the message to one or more of the plurality of user devices associated with the one or more identified nodes.
US10477358B1	Systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device is inside an environment experiencing adverse pressure variation conditions Determining whether a mobile device is inside an environment experiencing adverse pressure variation conditions. Particular systems and methods for determining whether a mobile device is inside an environment experiencing adverse pressure variation conditions detect a change in pressure measured by a mobile device that is caused by an HVAC effect of a building or a vehicle, determine a likelihood that the mobile device is inside a building based on an estimated position of the mobile device relative to the building, and determine that the mobile device is inside the building or inside a vehicle based on the likelihood that the mobile device is inside the building.
US10477354B2	Automated detection and configuration of wearable devices based on on-body status, location, and/or orientation An electronic device worn on a user includes one or more accelerometers. The one or more accelerometers generate acceleration information based on acceleration experienced by the electronic device. The electronic device further includes a processor and one or more associated memories, and the one or more associate memories include computer program code executable by the processor. The processor, configured by the computer program code, causes the electronic device to process the acceleration information to extract features from the acceleration information. The processor, configured by the computer program code, further causes the electronic device to process the features to determine the location of the electronic device on the user.
US10477352B2	Techniques for allocating positioning signal acquisition tasks among a plurality of co-located mobile devices Various techniques are provided that may be implemented at one or more of a plurality of co-located mobile devices. For example, a first mobile device may identify a plurality of location determination tasks, transmit a request indicative of a subset of the plurality of location determination tasks to be performed by a second mobile device, and receive a response to the request.
US10477346B2	Procedures for passive access control A method for passive access control including a mobile device serving as key and an interaction unit, the mobile device and the interaction unit having in each case at least one data communication facility for exchanging authorization information. Operations are provided for carrying out an electronic distance measurement between the mobile device and the interaction unit and for permitting an access and/or an interaction only if the distance of the mobile device from the interaction unit is within a permitted distance.
US10477341B2	Method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, device and system Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
US10477333B1	Audio placement algorithm for determining playback delay A system capable of synchronizing audio by determining a playback delay between when an audio sample is sent to and then output from a speaker. The system may generate a test signal configured to reach a saturation threshold and may send the test signal at a first time, followed by blank audio samples, from a first processor to a second processor to be output by the speaker. The second processor may detect that an audio sample exceeds a saturation threshold at a second time, generate a timestamp and send the timestamp to the first processor. The first processor may determine a playback delay between the first time and the second time and may also determine a number of blank audio samples sent between the first time and the second time. Using the playback delay and the number of blank audio samples, the system may generate audio using precise timing.
US10477322B2	MEMS device and process The application describes a MEMS transducer comprising:a substrate; a primary membrane supported in a fixed relation relative to the substrate and a secondary membrane provided in a plane overlying the primary membrane. The secondary membrane is mechanically coupled to the primary membrane by a substantially rigid coupling structure. A rigid support plate may be interposed between the primary and secondary membranes.
US10477319B2	Wearing state detection method for wearable device, and wearable device A wearing state detection method for a wearable device and a device. The detection method comprises: providing in the wearable device a sensor in an area capable of contacting the skin of a user, wherein the sensor outputs different measurement values when the user wears or takes off the wearable device; acquiring a base value indicating whether the wearable device is being worn; after wearing detection has been started up, collecting measurement values from the sensor at a preset sampling frequency; judging whether the wearable device is currently in a wearing state according to the measurement values and the base value; and controlling the wearable device to turn off a corresponding function that is running when the wearable device is in a non-wearing state. The method and the device can reduce the power consumption and simplify user operation.
US10477312B2	Earphone with active suppression of ambient noise An earphone is provided that can decrease a time delay between a microphone and a loudspeaker. The earphone includes a microphone incorporated with the membrane of loudspeaker. The loudspeaker and the microphone are connected by connection lines to an electronic circuit.
US10477311B2	Merging audio signals with spatial metadata Apparatus for mixing at least two audio signals, at least one audio signal associated with at least one parameter, and at least one second audio signal further associated with at least one second parameter, wherein the at least one audio signal and the at least one second audio signal are associated with a sound scene and wherein the at least one audio signal represent spatial audio capture microphone channels and the at least one second audio signal represents an external audio channel separate from the spatial audio capture microphone channels, the apparatus comprising: a processor configured to generate a combined parameter output based on the at least one second parameter and the at least one parameter; and a mixer configured to generate a combined audio signal with a same number or fewer number of channels as the at least one audio signal based on the at least one audio signal and the at least one second audio signal, wherein the combined audio signal is associated with the combined parameter.
US10477309B2	Sound field reproduction device, sound field reproduction method, and program The present technique relates to a sound field reproduction device, a sound field reproduction method, and a program that make it possible to further accurately reproduce a certain sound field.A feature amount extraction unit extracts a main sound source feature amount from a sound pickup signal obtained by picking up a sound from a main sound source. A main sound source separation unit separates the sound pickup signal obtained through the sound pickup with a microphone array that mainly picks up a sound from the main sound source into a main sound source component and an auxiliary sound source component using the main sound source feature amount. On the basis of the main sound source component and the auxiliary sound source component that have been separated, a main sound source emphasis unit generates a signal in which the main sound source components are emphasized. A drive signal for a speaker array is generated from the signal generated in this manner and supplied to the speaker array. The present technique can be applied to a sound field reproduction apparatus.
US10477303B1	Adjustable positioning head restraint speakers An adjustable positioning head restraint speaker system includes a head restraint unit mounted to a vehicle seat. A left-side speaker unit and a right-side speaker unit are each manually displaced with respect to the head restraint unit to independently position each of the left-side speaker unit and the right-side speaker unit in different temporarily fixed locations with respect to the head restraint unit. A member connects the left-side speaker unit and the right-side speaker unit to one of the head restraint unit and the vehicle seat. The different temporarily fixed locations include at least a first location creating a direct acoustic path into an ear of an occupant of the vehicle seat and a second location defining an indirect acoustic path toward the ear of the occupant.
US10477300B2	Air pulse generating element and sound producing device An air pulse generating element, disposed in a sound producing device, includes a membrane, disposed within a chamber; and a plurality of valves, disposed by the membrane within the chamber, configured to seal a plurality of openings of the chamber in response to a plurality of valve control signals; wherein the membrane and the plurality of valves are all fabricated at a first layer.
US10477298B2	Rendering haptics on headphones with non-audio data Rendering haptics in a haptically-enabled headphone system includes generating a haptic signal at the haptically-enabled headphone system based on non-audio data and rendering a haptic effect specified in the haptic signal using a haptic output device within the haptically-enabled headphone system.
US10477297B2	Circumaural earphone A circumaural earphone including a headband, an adjustment mechanism, a rod, and an earphone module assembled to the rod is provided. The adjustment mechanism disposed at an end of the headband includes a housing and a pivoting ring assembled in the housing to be rotatable about an axis relative to the housing. The rod is disposed rotatably through the pivoting ring and the housing along the axis, wherein the rod and the pivoting ring are adapted to each other structurally for the rod to drive the pivoting ring to rotate about the axis synchronously. The earphone module is disposed on the rod.
US10477291B2	Audio device An audio device with a structure such as an acoustic waveguide, and first and second spaced acoustic transducers that are carried by the structure. A controller is adapted to change the location of the dominant sound source produced by the transducers together in the far field. The device can also be used in a method of facilitating speech communication between two people who speak different languages.
US10477288B2	Data center interconnect as a switch An interconnect module (“ICAS module”) includes n optical data ports each comprising n optical interfaces, and an interconnecting network implementing a full mesh topology for interconnecting the optical interfaces of each port each to a respective one of the optical interfaces of each of the other ports. In one embodiment, each optical interface exchanges data signals over a communication medium with optical transceiver. The interconnecting module may implement the full mesh topology using optical fibers. The interconnecting module may be used to replace fabric switches as well as a building block for a spine switch.
US10477282B2	Method and system for monitoring video with single path of video and multiple paths of audio The present invention provides a method and system for video surveillance with a single channel of video and multiple channels of audio. The method comprises: a device end allocating a fixed initial SSRC value for each channel of audio; a client end and the device end establishing an RTSP interaction mode; the client end requesting, from the device end, a single channel of video and multiple channels of audio, the device end randomly generating, for each channel of audio, a corresponding modified SSRC value, and sending the same to the client end; the device end capturing the single channel of video and the multiple channels of audio and sending an RTP packet of the single channel of video to the client end, and after modifying the initial SSRC value in the RTP packet of each channel of audio to the corresponding modified SSRC value, sending the RTP packet of each channel of audio including the modified SSRC value to the client end; the client end distinguishing individual channels of audio according to the modified SSRC values in the RTP packets of the multiple channels of audio, and playing the video and/or the audio of a corresponding channel according to a user's demand. The present invention can implement audio-video capturing of multiple channels of audio and a single channel of video, and enable a user to select freely and play video and/or audio of a corresponding channel.
US10477278B2	Systems and methods for presenting targeted metadata in display constrained environments Systems and methods are described for presenting targeted metadata associated with media asset identifiers. For example, based on stored user preferences (e.g., the user likes a particular actor) and context (e.g., whether an actor is trending on social media near the user's location), the systems and methods may rank attributes associated with the media asset (e.g., title, actors, director, genre, etc.). The systems and methods may then determine a number of attributes that can be displayed based on a size of the media asset identifier (e.g., a cell in a grid-guide) and select the number of attributes that can be displayed (e.g., based on the number of characters, the top two ranked attributes are selected). The systems and methods then display the media asset identifier (e.g., the cell in the grid-guide) with the selected attributes.
US10477277B2	Electronic programming guide with expanding cells for video preview This document describes methodologies for an electronic programming guide with expanding cells for video preview. These techniques and apparatuses enable improved navigation for video and channel previewing based on gestures performed on a mobile device acting as a remote control to a remote display device. These techniques and apparatuses allow video preview of current program content over many channels with a simple and easy method to preview different channels. Further, these techniques and apparatuses can also be applied to view information regarding upcoming programs scheduled at a future time.
US10477276B2	Broadcasting signal transmission device, broadcasting signal reception device, broadcasting signal transmission method, and broadcasting signal reception method The present invention proposes a method of providing a broadcasting service. The method of providing the broadcasting service through a broadcasting receiver according to the present invention includes: a step of pairing a network interface unit and a companion device; and a step of receiving an electronic service guide (ESG) through a reception unit, wherein the method of providing the broadcasting service may include ESG data related to at least one broadcasting service.
US10477268B2	Information processing apparatus, communication system, information processing method and non-transitory computer readable medium Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes circuitry configured to receive a multiplexed image signal and sound signal from another information processing apparatus using a moving picture experts group (MPEG) 2-transport stream (TS); and perform control to cause reduction of data contained in a packetized elementary stream (PES) payload in a PES packet packed in a transport (TS) packet specified by a packet identifier (PID) specifying sound data transmission described in a program map table (PMT) and to extract a presentation time stamp (PTS) contained in a PES header portion of the PES packet after requesting the another information processing apparatus to reduce a sound data amount.
US10477259B2	System and method for making a content item, resident or accessible on one resource, available through another Systems and methods are provided to make content items, already available on one resource, also available through another, such as through a new location or resource. The content items may be, e.g., videos uploaded by a user or other content. The systems and methods employ a streamlined interface for convenience to the user. In one example, a user of a computer system views a video segment through a first website and re-posts the video segment to a second website by entering a single command or clicking a single button. The websites coordinate the re-posting using credentials previously or contemporaneously entered by the user. Moreover, a content item may be automatically prepared for re-posting on the target website using previously-entered user selections. Playback software from a source website may be posted to a target website to allow access of the content item at the source website.
US10477247B2	Method for decoding video using in-loop filter, and device therefor The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image and for adjusting a reconstructed pixel by scaling an offset of an in-loop filter having a scaled offset value. The method includes: obtaining information of a scale default value of a current block from a bitstream; obtaining offset parameter merge information of the current block from the bitstream; obtaining the offset parameter of the current block on the basis of the offset parameter merge information; determining whether a scale residual value of the current block is obtained from the bitstream on the basis of the offset parameter merge information; obtaining a scale value on the basis of the scale default value and the scale residual value; scaling an offset on the basis of the offset parameter and the scale value; and adjusting a pixel value of the current block on the basis of the scaled offset.
US10477233B2	Predictor candidates for motion estimation search systems and methods System and method for improving operational efficiency of a video encoding pipeline used to encode image data. The video encoding pipeline includes a mode decision block, which selects a first inter-frame prediction mode used to prediction encode a first prediction unit, and a motion estimation block, which receives the first inter-frame prediction mode as feedback from the mode decision block when processing a second prediction unit; determines an initial candidate inter-frame prediction mode of the second prediction unit based at least in part on the first inter-frame prediction mode; and determines a final candidate inter-frame prediction mode of the second prediction unit by performing a first motion estimation search based at least in part on the initial candidate inter-frame prediction mode. The mode decision block determines a rate-distortion cost associated with the final candidate inter-frame prediction mode and a prediction mode used to prediction encode the second prediction unit based at least in part on the rate-distortion cost.
US10477229B2	Filtering mode for intra prediction inferred from statistics of surrounding blocks The present invention relates to intra prediction which may be performed during encoding and/or decoding of an image signal. In particular, the present invention relates to intra prediction of a current block, during which filtering is applied to the prediction signal and/or to signal used for the prediction. The filtering is applied in accordance with a decision based on characteristics of image signal included in block(s) spatially adjacent to the current block.
US10477219B2	Image-processing apparatus and lossless image compression method using intra-frame prediction A lossless image compression method using intra-frame prediction is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving an input image; performing intra-frame prediction on sub-pixels in each color channel of each pixel in the input image to generate first prediction residues; performing inter-color-channel prediction on the first prediction residues to generate second prediction residues; performing remapping on the second prediction residues to obtain third prediction residues in each color channel; and performing Golomb coding and run-length coding on the third prediction residues to generate an image bitstream of the input image.
US10477208B2	Histogram segmentation based local adaptive filter for video encoding and decoding Reconstructed picture quality for a video codec system may be improved by categorizing reconstructed pixels into different histogram bins with histogram segmentation and then applying different filters on different bins. Histogram segmentation may be performed by averagely dividing the histogram into M bins or adaptively dividing the histogram into N bins based on the histogram characteristics. Here M and N may be a predefined, fixed, non-negative integer value or an adaptively generated value at encoder side and may be sent to decoder through the coded bitstream.
US10477206B2	Image processing device and image processing method A deblocking filter 24 performs filtering of decoded image data obtained by decoding image data encoded for each block, so as to remove block distortion. If at least one of block sizes on adjacent sides of two adjacent blocks is extended larger than a predetermined block size, a filter setting unit 41 sets the tap length to an extended length to increase the strength of distortion removal, or sets a filtering object pixel range to an extended range. When a macroblock having an extended size is used, the degree of smoothing is increased, and pixels including those distant from the block boundary are subjected to filtering. Consequently, even when various block sizes are employed or when blocks of extended sizes are used, images of high image quality can be achieved.
US10477205B1	Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal based on inter-component reference A method and apparatus for processing a video signal according to the present invention derives a first prediction value of a chrominance block using a sample of a luminance block, calculates a compensation parameter based on a predetermined reference area, derives a second prediction value of a chrominance block, and reconstructs a chrominance block based on a second prediction value of a chrominance block.
US10477203B2	Method and apparatus for palette table prediction A method for palette coding is disclosed. In an encoder side, the method determines whether a first block is coded using a palette coding mode or a non-palette coding. If the first block is coded using the non-palette coding mode, a first color table for the first block is derived based on one or more color tables associated with one or more previously processed blocks. If the first block is coded using the palette coding mode, the first color table is derived from the first block. A second block coded after the first block may use the first color table as a palette prediction. At the decoder side, if the current block is coded using the palette coding mode, a first color table based on a previous coded block is derived and the current block is decoded using a first color table as a palette predictor.
US10477197B2	Autostereoscopic 3D display device using holographic optical elements An autostereoscopic 3D display device is disclosed. The device includes a first light source and a second light source configured to alternately generate light and a light guide panel arranged to guide the light from the first light source in a first direction as a first light beam and the light from the second light source in a second direction as a second light beam. In the device, a stack of a plurality of holographic optical elements is configured to converge the first light beam and the second light beam from the light guide panel. The stack of the plurality of holographic optical elements may include at least one first holographic optical element and at least one second holographic optical element.
US10477196B2	Method and system using refractive bam mapper to reduce moire interference in a display system including multiple displays A multi-display system (e.g., a display including multiple display panels) includes at least first and second displays (e.g., display panels or display layers) arranged substantially parallel to each other in order to display three-dimensional (3D) features to a viewer(s). An optical element(s) such as at least a refractive beam mapper (RBM) is utilized in order to reduce moiré interference.
US10477195B2	Viewing of different full-screen television content by different viewers at the same time using configured glasses and a related display Different full screen content is displayed on the same television at the same time from the perspective of the viewer by displaying as the content as two full screen sequential frames. The different full screen content may be provided as a single combined frame signal such as a side-by-side, top-bottom, or checkerboard signal which is then displayed as two sequential full screen frames. Configured glasses such as polarized or shutter are used to view the different content as full screen content where one pair of configured glasses views an initial one of the sequential frames but blocks the subsequent one and another pair of configured glasses blocks the initial one of the sequential frames and views the subsequent one. Shutter glasses have both lenses open during the initial frame and both closed during the subsequent one. For polarized glasses, the initial frame has a polarization matching both lenses of one pair of glasses while the subsequent frame has a polarization that differs from both lenses.
US10477194B2	Two imager projection device The present disclosure describes optical elements and optical devices that use the optical elements to allow the output of two imagers to be combined onto a single optical axis. Each of the two imagers can be based on alternate polarization directions, and the disclosed embodiments can enable high contrast 3D projectors without requiring either time or polarization sequencing. The present disclosure further describes projection systems that include the optical devices.
US10477191B2	Display device, and display control program A display device includes a display unit that displays an image including a stereoscopic image based on binocular parallax, a detection unit that detects an obstacle that blocks the stereoscopic image, and a control unit that determines at least one of a display state and a blocking state of the stereoscopic image by the obstacle based on a detection result of the detection unit, and controls a display of a related image based on the determination result, the related image being related to the stereoscopic image.
US10477186B2	Methods and apparatus for calibrating and/or adjusting the arrangement of cameras in a camera pair Methods and apparatus for checking the alignment and/or spacing of cameras of a camera pair, e.g., stereoscopic camera pair, are described. Images of a calibration target are captured by first and second cameras of a camera pair being calibrated The captured first and second images, which may correspond to all or a portion of the calibration target, are combined in accordance with the invention to generate a calibration image which is then displayed to an operator of the calibration apparatus including the calibration target. Given the position of at least some different color grid elements in the calibration target, when proper camera spacing and optical axis alignment of the cameras is achieved, the overlaid image will include an overlay of two different color image grid elements resulting in the generated calibration image including grid elements of a different color than that of the overlaid grid elements.
US10477172B2	Image projection apparatus capable of preventing image which would be hindrance to viewing printed material from being projected on printed material, control method therefor, and storage medium An image projection apparatus which is capable of preventing an image which would be a hindrance to viewing printed material from being projected on the printed material. Based on input image data, a projection unit projects a projected image. Whether or not the printed material is placed on a screen at a projection destination of light projected by the projection unit is determined. The projection unit is controlled based on a result of the determination.
US10477163B2	Video recording method for collision and apparatus thereof The present disclosure relates to a video recording method and a video recording apparatus using the same, and relates to a video recording method and a video recording apparatus using the same that detects an obstacle in scene information obtained, calculates a probability index for event occurrence (i.e., a collision) with the obstacle, and changes and stores a resolution of a video, a storing period, a storing location, and so on based on the probability for event occurrence.
US10477159B1	Augmented reality display for identifying vehicles to preserve user privacy Aspects of the application relate to protecting the privacy of a user of a dispatching service for driverless vehicles. For example, a client computing device may send a request for a vehicle, the request identifying a location of the client computing device. Location information identifying a current location of a vehicle dispatched to the location of the client computing device is received in response to the request. A camera view is displayed on a display of the client computing device, the camera view corresponding to information in a field of view of a camera of the client computing device. When current location of the vehicle is within the field of view of the camera and a threshold distance of the location of the client device, an indicator is displayed on the display at a location corresponding to the current location of the vehicle.
US10477145B2	Communication system for remote communication A communication system superimposes a mirror-image video obtained at another site and a document image on each other and projects the video and the document image on a screen. The direction and amount of movement of the projected document image are obtained upon detection of an instruction to move the display position of the document image. Then, both the projected video and document image are moved in the obtained direction of movement by an amount corresponding to the obtained amount of movement. Also, the obtained direction and amount of movement are transmitted to the other site.
US10477138B2	Methods and systems for presenting specific information in a virtual reality environment Methods and systems for presenting specific information in a virtual reality environment are provided. First, reality information including at least one specific object, regarding to an environment is provided. It is determined whether specific information corresponding to the specific object is received or not. When the specific information corresponding to the specific object is received, the specific information and the reality information are integrated to generate specific reality information regarding to the environment, in which the specific information is displayed at a position corresponding to the specific object in the environment when the specific reality information is viewed.
US10477137B2	Array camera imaging system having distributed memory An array-camera imaging system and method for producing a rendered image are presented, wherein the system includes a plurality of imagers, a plurality of image processors, and a plurality of memory modules that are networked with the image processors via a communications bus. Each image processor provides processed and processed image data from at least one imager to the memory modules. Preferably, the processed image data is distributed among the memory modules at multiple resolution scales. In response to a request from an image rendering system, image data is read out from the memory modules at the resolution scale of the request.
US10477117B2	Digital camera with audio, visual and motion analysis A digital camera with audio, visual and motion analysis includes a digital processor, an input processing system, and one or more imaging sensors, sound sensors, and motion sensors. In a non-limiting embodiment, the input processing system including non-transitory computer readable media including code segments, executable by the digital processor, for real-time audio, visual and motion analysis to develop a digital model of an ambient environment of the digital camera from data derived from the imaging sensor(s), sound sensor(s) and motion sensor(s).
US10477111B2	Image capturing and display apparatus and method with different color filters A display apparatus includes a sensor panel configured to sense a first incident light, which is incident to the sensor panel subsequent to passing through a display, and configured to at least partially block transmission of light through the sensor panel. The display apparatus further includes a controller configured to selectively control the display to pass the first incident light toward the sensor panel, and configured to control the display to pass light out of the display to display an image. The sensor panel includes a first sensor unit and a second sensor unit configured to sense the incident first light, and the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit include respective unit color filters having different color filters.
US10477102B2	Method and device for determining concealed regions in the vehicle environment of a vehicle A driver assistance system (1) for a vehicle includes environment sensors (2), which sense a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and a data processing unit (4), which evaluates sensor data of the environment sensors (2) to detect obstacles (H) in the vehicle environment. In accordance with detected obstacles (H), concealed regions (VB) in the vehicle environment of the vehicle are determined, which concealed regions are concealed by the obstacles (H) and restrict a field of view (FOV) of optical environment sensors (2) of the driver assistance system (1).
US10477095B2	Selecting optimal image from mobile device captures Device logic in a mobile device configures a processor to capture a series of images, such as a video, using a consumer-grade camera, and to analyze the images to determine the best-focused image, of the series of images, that captures a region of interest. The images may be of a textured surface, such as facial skin of a mobile device user. The processor sets a focal length of the camera to a fixed position for collecting the images. The processor may guide the user to position the mobile device for capturing the images, using audible cues. For each image, the processor crops the image to the region of interest, extracts luminance information, and determines one or more energy levels of the luminance via a Laplacian pyramid. The energy levels may be filtered, and then are compared to energy levels of the other images to determine the best-focused image.
US10477090B2	Wearable device, control method and non-transitory storage medium A wearable device mountable on a head, the wearable device comprising: at least one imager configured to capture scenery in front of a user; and at least one controller configured to detect a shield in a captured image by the imager, wherein the at least one controller is further configured to execute acquisition of the captured image upon movement of the shield from an inside to an outside of an imaging range of the imager.
US10477074B2	Color adjustment determination method and information processing apparatus A color adjustment determination method is provided that includes forming a color adjustment image on a recording medium by moving a plurality of heads including a plurality of nozzles relative to the recording medium in a relative moving direction and ejecting liquid from the plurality of heads that are arranged in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the relative moving direction, acquiring colorimetric values of a plurality of portions of the color adjustment image formed by the plurality of heads that are arranged at different positions in the orthogonal direction, calculating a color difference between at least two portions of the plurality of portions of the color adjustment image based on the colorimetric values of the plurality of portions, and determining whether at least one of the plurality of heads that have ejected the liquid requires adjustment based on the calculated color difference.
US10477055B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image reader, a controller, and an output section. The image reader reads a document at a highest resolution. The controller generates, from first image data obtained by reading of the document performed at the highest resolution, second image data having a resolution that is lower than the highest resolution, and sets a resolution of output image data based on a result of comparison between a first recognition result, which is a recognition result of character recognition processing performed on the first image data, and a second recognition result, which is a recognition result of character recognition processing performed on the second image data.
US10477050B2	Image scanner, method, and computer-readable medium for detecting document edge positions An image scanner includes a document detector configured to define a detection range on the basis of a reference position, select a target area from among a plurality of areas within the detection range, in ascending order of distance between an area to be selected as the target area and the reference position, determine whether the target area is a document outside area, a document inside area, or a document edge area, by comparing a black pixel density of the target area with a plurality of thresholds, when that the target area is the document outside area or the document inside area, select one or more new target areas from among the plurality of areas within the detection range, and when the target area is the document edge area, detect a specific position in the target area as a position of the lateral side.
US10477049B2	Media expansion compensated print content Examples analyze at least one of a plurality of planes of image data of print content to determine media expansion characteristics for the print content based at least in part on the at least one of the planes of image data. Examples adjust, prior to printing the print content, at least one plane of image data based at least in part on the media expansion characteristics to thereby compensate for media expansion during printing of the print content.
US10477048B2	Production installation and method for block books in parallel from digital print A production installation (21) produces book blocks (22) in parallel from digital prints on basic sheets (24). Each book block has “n” book sheets aligned through rows (46) and columns (44) and each basic sheet has “m” book sheets (43) equal to the number “m” of book blocks to be produced. Under the control of an electronic unit (56), a point bonding group (51) dispenses adhesive strokes (61) on the basic sheets across the rows and/or the columns, a stacking group (52) stacks the basic sheets and forms a basic block (62) stabilized by the point bonds, while a separation group (53) cuts and separates the book blocks from the basic block along the rows and the columns for following treatments. The basic sheets have machine-readable basic codes (68) and the electronic control unit actuates the point bonding group, the stacking group and the separation group on the basis of information derived from the basic codes.
US10477045B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method for connecting to a device that is specified after displaying a message relating to a status change A device that is in a state of preparing for connection with a network is searched for (first search), and a device that is already connected to the network is searched for (second search). A display unit is caused to display information regarding a device found in the first search and information regarding a device found in the second search, such that a distinction is made.
US10477042B2	Communication apparatus and communication system A communication apparatus includes: a first type communication unit configured to perform communication with a portable device in a near field communication mode; a display unit; and a control device configured to perform: a receiving process of receiving a radio wave for connection with the portable device in the near field communication mode, from the portable device through the first type communication unit; and a display process of controlling the display unit to display a notice for prompting a user to perform operation for permitting the portable device to transmit information to the communication apparatus in the near field communication mode, in response to receipt of the radio wave in the receiving process.
US10477034B2	Digital image-paper registration error correction through image shear A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for applying an image shear to correct a digital image-paper registration error are disclosed. For example, the method, performed by a processor of a printing device, includes detecting an amount of skew of a paper traveling through a registration system of a printing device, determining that the amount of skew is greater than a predefined threshold, applying an image shear to a digital image that will be printed on the paper, and controlling a plurality of printheads of the printing device to print the digital image on the paper with the image shear that is applied.
US10477033B2	Management of toll-free number misuse and fraud detection Methods and systems for providing a rating system that allow for customers to create a database of toll-free numbers that are abused by malicious consumers which may be cloud-based and allow for service providers to dip prior to completing or accepting calls.
US10477031B2	System and method for suppression of non-linear acoustic echoes A method for residual echo suppression is provided. Embodiments may include receiving an original reference signal and applying a distortion function to the original reference signal to generate a second signal. Embodiments may include generating a non-linear signal from the distortion function that does not include linear components of the original reference signal. Embodiments may also include calculating a residual echo power of a linear component and a non-linear component, wherein the linear component is based upon the original reference signal and the non-linear component is based upon the non-linear signal. Embodiments may further include applying a room model to each of the original reference signal and the non-linear signal and estimating a power associated with the original reference signal and the non-linear signal. Embodiments may include calculating a combined echo power estimate as a weighted sum of a weighted original reference signal power and a weighted non-linear signal power.
US10477027B1	Queueing multi-channel communications for a contact center Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for routing a communication in a contact center. Specifically, a treatment is selected for a communication from a plurality of treatments. Here, each treatment includes a plurality of agents to handle communications placed in the treatment and a set of queues in which each queue includes a value range. A determination is made as to whether the communication is using a chaining or non-chaining channel. If the communication is using a chaining channel, then a target agent designated to handle communications placed in the treatment using the chaining channel and corresponding queue are identified based on a value of the communication. If the communication is using a non-chaining channel, then a queue is selected from the set of queues for the treatment based on the value of the communication falling within the value range for the queue.
US10477014B1	Rapid data access A method includes in response to receiving identification information from a caller, selecting a virtual machine from a plurality of virtual machines, the virtual machine configured to generate a virtual user interface for an application executing on the virtual machine. The method includes populating the virtual user interface with information about the caller based on the received identification information. The method includes sharing the virtual user interface with an application executing on a computer of a customer service representative. The method includes connecting the caller with the customer service representative.
US10477008B2	Personal emergency triggering, notification and communication for smartwatches A wearable mobile device executes a personal safety service client application to detect a triggering event indicating an emergency, wherein the triggering event is detected from user input received by the wearable mobile device. The application determines a location of the wearable mobile device, the location of the wearable mobile device corresponding to a location of the emergency, and provides an indication of the emergency and the location of the emergency to a personal safety service server. The personal safety service server sends a notification message via a push notification displayed on user devices of a predefined group of emergency contacts indicating the occurrence of the emergency and periodically receives updates to the location of the wearable mobile device from the personal safety service client application.
US10477005B2	Portable electronic devices with integrated image/video compositing Digital imagery is composed or composited within a smartphone or other portable electronic device to merge foreground and background subject matter acquired simultaneously with different cameras or acquired at different times with the same camera. A processor stores the digital imagery along with information derived or used by an operation to differentiate the foreground subject matter from the background scene, which may be a digital matting operation, and/or may involve finding an edge or an outline of the foreground subject matter. The foreground subject matter and the background scene may be stored as different graphical layers in the memory. A user control such as a touchscreen may enable a user to select and resize or reposition the foreground subject matter on a background scene of a separately acquired image. The digital imagery may constitute a still image or a sequence of images representative of motion video.
US10477001B2	System and method for provision of a second line service to a telecommunications device A method and system for providing a second line service (“SLS”) feature to a subscriber using a telecommunications device (“TD”) which includes receiving at a switch on the network of the subscriber's primary service provider a communication made up of a trigger and a directory number. When the communication is received at the primary service provider's switch, the switch parses the communication and detects the trigger. Once the switch has received the communication, the switch additionally transmits a query message to a SLS platform that manages the SLS feature. As a result of the switch's query message transmission, the switch receives a reply to the query message from the SLS platform. Based at least in part on the reply to the query message, the switch can route the communication such that the switch connects one or multiple voice channel circuit between the subscriber's TD and the terminating TD.
US10476998B2	Reinforced list decoding Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for increasing decoding performance and/or reducing decoding complexity. A transmitter may divide data of a codeword into two or more sections and then calculate redundancy check information (e.g., a cyclic redundancy check or a parity check) for each section and attach the redundancy check information to the codeword. A decoder of a receiver may decode each section of the codeword and check the decoding against the corresponding redundancy check information. If decoding of a section fails, the decoder may use information regarding section(s) that the decoder successfully decoded in re-attempting to decode the section(s) that failed decoding. In addition, the decoder may use a different technique to decode the section(s) that failed decoding. If the decoder is still unsuccessful in decoding the section(s), then the receiver may request retransmission of the failed section(s) or of the entire codeword.
US10476994B2	Devices and methods for transmitting/receiving packet in multimedia communication system The present invention relates to a method whereby a transmission device transmits a packet in a multimedia communication system, the method comprising the steps of: generating a packet; and transmitting the packet to a reception device, wherein the packet comprises two or more data units which can be independently decoded by the reception device, and one of the two or more data units comprises control information related to the packet.
US10476984B2	Content request routing and load balancing for content distribution networks A content distribution mechanism that distributes content of a content provider at various sites across a network and selects the site that is nearest a content requestor using an anycast address that resides at each of the sites. The sites are configured as nodes (or clusters) and each node includes a content server and a DNS server. The DNS servers are so associated with the content servers at their respective nodes as to resolve the name of the content provider to the IP address of the content servers at the nodes. The DNS servers each are assigned the anycast address in addition to a unique address, and the anycast address is advertised to the network (in particular, the network routing infrastructure) using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Node selection occurs when the network routing infrastructure selects a shortest path to the anycast address during DNS name resolution.
US10476974B2	System for automatically establishing operative communication channel with third party computing systems for subscription regulation Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for operative communication channel linkage between a user and subscription services for effective and efficient communicate with the third parties associated with the subscriptions. The invention eliminates the storage and processing requirement of a user device and allows a user system to use a single communication channel for communication for a centralized subscription regulation interface for subscription management and communications. The system identifies subscriptions from resource management sources and correlates the subscriptions to the subscription regulation interface for monitoring and trigger analysis based on locational and transactional user extraction.
US10476967B2	Vehicle cabin mobile device detection system A vehicle includes at least one and/or one or more in-vehicle and/or onboard controller(s) that is/are coupled to spaced apart sensor groups that are arrayed within a headliner and/or seats of the vehicle cabin. Each sensor group generally corresponds to and/or with a plurality of and/or one or more seat positions, each having a single seat, and which include a driver zone seat position that has a driver seat. Each sensor group in the array includes at least one signal processor, and a plurality of transceivers, antennas, and/or sensors configured for and tuned to different electromagnetic frequencies and/or powers. Also included are electromagnetically active, directional waveguides that adjust, amplify, and/or attenuate the sensitivity of each of the respective antennas, to electromagnetic energy detected and received from mobile devices located in the vehicle cabin, such that the sensitivity is limited to electromagnetic emissions within a limited effective range for each antenna.
US10476959B2	Cloud resource provisioning using blueprint chaining A system and method including organizing blueprints into a blueprint chain, the blueprint chain connecting the blueprints in an order, wherein a blueprint in the blueprint chain includes resources connected to form a schematic of a portion of an application, wherein a first resource of the blueprint is associated with a first provider and a second resource of the blueprint is associated with a second provider, identifying at least one cloud account suitable for provisioning the blueprint chain, wherein the at least one cloud account includes the first provider and the second provider, and generating an orchestration to provision an instance of the application, the orchestration including a plurality of provisioning steps based on the blueprint chain and a selected one of the at least one cloud account, wherein an ordering of the plurality of provisioning steps depends on the order of the blueprints in the blueprint chain.
US10476957B2	Granular entry self-healing A processing device on a first server in a distributed file system detects that the first server has rebooted after being out of service for a period of time. The processing device sends a request to a second server to determine whether a file index stored on the second server comprises any entries corresponding to replicas of a directory in the distributed file system. Responsive to receiving an indication that the file index comprises a first entry corresponding to a first replica stored on the first server, the processing device requests a copy of a second replica stored on the second server, wherein the first replica and the second replica are both replicas of the directory, receives the copy of the second replica and modifies the first replica in view of the second replica so that the first replica matches the second replica.
US10476949B2	Predictive autoscaling in computing systems Techniques of predictive autoscaling in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data representing consumption of a computing resource by an application executing on one or more servers in the distributed computing system. The method also includes processing the received data into a time series having multiple resource consumption values by the application with corresponding time stamps and decomposing the time series into a regular component and an irregular component. The method further includes generating a predicted consumption value of the computing resource by the application at a future time point according to the trend, cyclic pattern, or seasonal pattern of the regular component of the time series and causing immediate adjustment of an amount of the computing resource provisioned in the distributed computing system for the application according to the generated predicted consumption value.
US10476941B2	Systems and methods for interacting with media devices Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive at least one request for performing one or more operations, the request originating from a media application running on a media device, the request being broadcasted by the media device over a network to which the computing device is also connected. Information describing the request can be provided through a software application running on the computing device. A determination is made when user operating the computing device has approved the request. The operations are performed by at least the software application running on the computing device.
US10476934B2	System and method for forwarding a file Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include, after receiving at least a portion of a file at a computing system, obtaining information about the file at a first time. First information is stored in a data structure, the first information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the first time. Then, information about the file at a second time after the first time is obtained. Second information is stored in a memory of the computing system, the second information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the second time. It is determined whether the second information matches the first information. In response to determining that the second information matches the first information, the file is sent from the computing system to a predetermined destination. In some embodiments, the file comprises a facsimile communication.
US10476928B2	Network video playback method and apparatus A network video playback method and an apparatus, where location information of an independently decoded frame in a media segment and location information of a non-independently decoded frame that is in the media segment and that references the independently decoded frame are added to a segment index in order to determine a video frame closest to an access time point from the independently decoded frame and the non-independently decoded frame. The independently decoded frame that is referenced by the video frame closest to the access time point is acquired when the video frame closest to the access time point is the non-independently decoded frame, and decoding starts from the video frame closest to the access time point according to the referenced independently decoded frame, and video playback is performed. Hence, access accuracy of network video playback can be improved.
US10476925B2	Media stream cue point creation with automated content recognition A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
US10476923B2	Filtering content for adaptive streaming Creating a filtered adaptive streaming playlist in a content delivery network. The playlist is for delivery of a plurality of chunks of stored video content to a streaming client device. The filtering is based on a determination of whether information associated with each chunk is in compliance with a personalized rule set associated with the streaming client device.
US10476921B2	System event notification The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for distributing notifications to a user. The method can include receiving data encapsulating notifications from a device connected to a network that provide information relating to the device's status. The device can provide a health related treatment. The method can associate each notification with one or more notification categories relating to a function performed by the device or a location of the device. A table of users having one or more subscriptions to these notification categories can be accessed. The subscriptions can be automatically assigned to users based on the users' role. A user can be identified from the table to distribute the one or more notifications to. The user can have a subscription that matches a notification category of the received notifications, and data comprising the notifications can be distributed to the user. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US10476914B2	Device and method for performing an internet protocol multimedia subsystem service A network for performing an IMS service with a communication device comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The storage device stores, and the processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of receiving a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) Session Establishment Request message requesting to establish a PDU Session for the IMS service, from the communication device; transmitting a PDU Session Establishment Accept message configuring the PDU Session to the communication device; configuring a plurality of data radio bearers (DRBs) associated to the PDU Session to the communication device; communicating a plurality of IMS signaling messages for the IMS service on a first DRB of the plurality of DRBs with the communication device; and communicating a plurality of IMS data packets for the IMS service on a second DRB of the plurality of DRBs with the communication device.
US10476909B1	System, apparatus and method for automatically verifying exploits within suspect objects and highlighting the display information associated with the verified exploits According to one embodiment, a threat detection system comprising an intrusion protection system (IPS) logic, a virtual execution logic and a reporting logic is shown. The IPS logic is configured to receive a first plurality of objects and analyze the first plurality of objects to identify a second plurality of objects as potential exploits, the second plurality of objects being a subset of the first plurality of objects and being lesser or equal in number to the first plurality of objects. The virtual execution logic including at least one virtual machine configured to process content within each of the second plurality of objects and monitor for anomalous behaviors during the processing that are indicative of exploits to classify that a first subset of the second plurality of objects includes one or more verified exploits. The reporting logic configured to provide a display of exploit information associated with the one or more verified exploits.
US10476906B1	System and method for managing formation and modification of a cluster within a malware detection system A method to ensure availability of a plurality of computing nodes operating within a cluster that analyzes suspicious objects received from geographically remote sensors for malware is described. Responsive to a change in operability of a cluster, a determination is made whether the change is directed to a broker computing node or an analytic computing node. Where the change is a failover experienced by a broker computing node, a determination is made whether the cluster includes a plurality of broker computing nodes, and if not, an analytic computing node is configured to operate as a second broker computing node. For a takeover event, however, a determination is made whether the cluster includes a plurality of broker computing nodes, and if not, the analytic computing node operates as the second broker computing node. The first broker computing node is subsequently placed into an off-line status until maintenance has completed.
US10476904B2	Non-transitory recording medium recording cyber-attack analysis supporting program, cyber-attack analysis supporting method, and cyber-attack analysis supporting apparatus A non-transitory recording medium recording a cyber-attack analysis supporting program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes: accepting registration of information of one or more items regarding a cyber-attack event in response to detection of malware in an information processing system of a monitoring target; and displaying the information registered regarding the cyber-attack event in a state in which each of the one or more items is coupled as a subordinate node to a representative node of the cyber-attack event.
US10476903B2	Systems and related methods for detection, tiered correlation, and notification of radio frequency (RF) anomalies An apparatus for distributed correlation of RF information includes a radio having an RF transceiver and sensor in communication with the radio. The sensor has a collector for extracting signal data from the radio and a correlator for correlating the extracted signal data with sensor correlation data stored within a database within the sensor to detect an anomaly in the extracted signal data. When an anomaly is detected in the extracted signal data, a computerized service processing device receives the correlated extracted signal data from the sensor and executes one or more of an alert process to alert a user of the detected anomalies and an updating process to a correlation sub-system within the computerized service processing device, where the detected anomaly is curated and transmitted to the database of the sensor device to update the sensor correlation data stored therein.
US10476898B2	Lateral movement detection for network security analysis A security platform employs a variety techniques and mechanisms to detect security related anomalies and threats in a computer network environment. The security platform is “big data” driven and employs machine learning to perform security analytics. The security platform performs user/entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) to detect the security related anomalies and threats, regardless of whether such anomalies/threats were previously known. The security platform can include both real-time and batch paths/modes for detecting anomalies and threats. By visually presenting analytical results scored with risk ratings and supporting evidence, the security platform enables network security administrators to respond to a detected anomaly or threat, and to take action promptly.
US10476893B2	Feature engineering for web-based anomaly detection The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for detecting anomalous network traffic. Network traffic corresponding to an application executed by a server can be received. Application characteristics of the application can be identified to select an anomaly detection profile. The anomaly detection profile can be selected based on the identified application characteristics. The anomaly detection profile can include a set of detection features for the anomaly and one or more predetermined threshold values of the detection features. One or more feature values of the set of one or more detection features can be determined. An anomaly in the network traffic can be detected responsive to comparing the feature values and the predetermined threshold values of the detection features.
US10476891B2	Monitoring access of network darkspace A system includes one or more “BotMagnet” modules that are exposed to infection by malicious code. The BotMagnets may include one or more virtual machines hosing operating systems in which malicious code may be installed and executed without exposing sensitive data or other parts of a network. In particular, outbound traffic may be transmitted to a Sinkhole module that implements a service requested by the outbound traffic and transmits responses to the malicious code executing within the BotMagnet. Dark space in a network (unused IP addresses, unused ports and absent applications, and invalid usernames and passwords) is consumed by a BotSink such that attempts to access Darkspace resources will be directed to the BotSink, which will engage the source host of such attempts.
US10476881B1	Systems for providing electronic items having customizable locking mechanism A method for providing a locked electronic item includes receiving a selection of an electronic lock and the electronic item from a first computing device associated with a sender. The electronic lock includes a lock clue and a lock solution. The method includes determining an answer input field configuration that includes a number of input boxes and spaces that may be arranged to correspond to the lock solution. The method includes transmitting the lock clue and the input field configuration to a second computing device associated with a recipient for display by the second computing device and receiving an attempted lock solution from the second computing device. The method further includes transmitting the electronic item to the second computing device for display or use by the second computing device in response to determining that the attempted lock solution matches the lock solution.
US10476876B2	Systems and methods for use in managing access to user profiles, and content blocks included therein Systems and methods are provided for use in implementing access controls to content blocks of a user profile associated with a user. One exemplary system includes an access engine configured to receive an access command from a user, via a communication device, to access the user profile. The access command includes a designation of at least one the content blocks for access by a provider, an identity of the provider, and a duration of the access. The access engine is configured to also modify a permission associated with the designated content block(s) in relation to the provider to permit the access by the provider, and to expose the content block(s) to the provider, thereby granting the access for the provider to the content block(s). The access engine is configured to further terminate the access of the provider to the content block(s) when the duration of the access expires.
US10476868B2	Data backup and transfer system, method and computer program product A backup system having a plurality of accounts for copying selected data between one or more account user computers and a system computer where an account user's computer connects to the system computer via the Internet. Selected data is copied between the account user's computer and the system computer including, documents, media files, and email in any file type or format. Additionally, the system is compatible with all types of computers, including personal data assistants and mobile telephones, and all types of operating systems. All of the software to operate the system is resident on the system computer with no hardware or to software required on the account user computer beyond a conventional web browser. The system also includes a scheduler, a contacts manager, a reminder generator and file transfer system for third-party users.
US10476863B1	Ownership maintenance of multi-tenant environment Approaches presented herein enable credentials to be revoked or otherwise modified while limiting the impact of inadvertent or unintended changes in access. In some embodiments, the revocation of a credential can occur over a period of time with the level of access being diminished over that period, in order to prevent an inadvertent denial of access while indicating to the requestor that there is an issue with the credential. When a new policy is created for a new credential, a prior policy can be retained for at least a period of time such that users with inadvertently revoked access can obtain a level of access per the previous policy. Various embodiments trace the calls for a credential throughout the system in order to determine which services, processes, or components might be affected by the revocation, such that an appropriate remedial action can be taken.
US10476862B2	Systems and methods for providing digital identity records to verify identities of users Systems and methods are provided for verifying identities of users. One exemplary method includes generating a unique identifier (ID) for a user, generating a public/private key pair associated with the unique ID for the user, and receiving at least two images. The images include a first image associated with a physical document indicative of an identity of the user and a second image comprising an image of at least part of the user. The exemplary method further includes validating an integrity of the first image, converting at least the first image to one-way hashed data, when the integrity of the first image is valid, and transmitting the hashed data signed with the private key, the unique ID and the public key to an identification provider, whereby a digital identity record for the user is stored in a ledger data structure.
US10476857B2	Method and apparatus for communication between heterogeneous platforms A communication method and apparatus between heterogeneous platforms. A communication method of an interaction server that enables an interaction between a first platform server and a second platform server providing different platforms includes receiving, from the first platform server, a token request that includes first user identification information registered to the first platform server; transmitting, to the first platform server, a token that is created based on integrated user identification information corresponding to the first user identification information; receiving, from the second platform server, a request for verifying a validity of the token transferred from the first platform server to the second platform server; and transferring, to the second platform server in response to the validity of the token, second user identification information that corresponds to the integrated user identification information and is registered to the second platform server.
US10476833B2	Warning method and apparatus, and processing server Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a warning method, apparatus and a processing server. The method may include: pushing an associated message event to a target official account when the associated message event of the target official account is detected; obtaining abnormal information if the associated message event is not successfully pushed to the target official account; obtaining a warning condition that corresponds to the target official account; generating a warning message according to the abnormal information if the abnormal information satisfies the warning condition, and outputting the warning message to the target official account. By means of the present disclosure, an abnormality in a service process of a target official account can be warned, thereby ensuring that a fault can be resolved in time, an information exchanging process of the target official account is smooth, and service quality of the target official account is improved.
US10476832B2	Content notification on online social networks for media-player devices In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a first client system of a first user of the online social network, an indication that a media-player device is proximate to the first client system. Content information associated with media-content items may be accessed. The media-content items may be accessible to the first user via the media-player device. Responsive to the received indication and content information, social-networking information of the first user may be accessed. A media-content item may be selected based on the content information and the social-networking information of the first user. A customized notification may be sent to the first client system. The customized notification may include a reference to the selected media-content item and a deep link to the media-player device. The deep link may be selectable by the first user and may include instructions for accessing the selected media-content item via the media-player device.
US10476823B2	Automatic identification and retrieval of message attachments in a message conversation The present disclosure provides for an end-user communication device of a messaging system configured to identify messages exchanged during a message conversation. Responsive to selection of one or more data files, the device retrieves the one or more selected data files from a local memory of the device or from a server of the messaging system. Optionally, the messages may be identified in response to a request to add one or more new recipients in a reply to a message of a message conversation and selected data files may be forwarded to the new recipients.
US10476822B2	MSRP/HTTP file transfer Systems and methods for transferring files between message session relay protocol (MSRP) and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) enabled devices. The system can use a rich communication services (RCS) server to receive messages, look up receiving device configurations, and convert, as necessary, messages between MSRP and HTTP. The system can include a file server to store and compile files during the transfer process. The RCS server can receive an HTTP message from an HTTP enabled sending device, divide the HTTP message into a plurality of discreet MSRP data packets, and send an MSRP request to an MSRP enabled receiving device. The RCS server can also receive an MSRP request, including a plurality of discreet MSRP data packets from an MSRP enabled sending device, combine the MSRP data packets into a single HTTP file, and send an HTTP message to an HTTP enabled receiving device.
US10476817B2	Transport LSP setup using selected fabric path between virtual nodes In some examples, a method includes selecting, by a first virtual routing node of a single-chassis network device having a plurality of forwarding components and a plurality of fabric links coupling respective pairs of the plurality of forwarding components at respective fabric interfaces of the plurality of forwarding components, a fabric interface of a forwarding component of the plurality of forwarding components that has an egress interface toward a network destination and that is associated with the first virtual routing node; advertising, to the second virtual routing node, the fabric interface as a next hop for the network destination and a label for use in establishing a transport label switched path (LSP); and computing, by the second virtual routing node, a path for the transport LSP to include the fabric interface, and establishing the transport LSP along the computed path.
US10476816B2	Lite network switch architecture Disclosed embodiments include a network switch having a first number of switch elements and a second number of switch elements cross-connected to the first switch elements to passively route network traffic through the network switch in accordance with a predefined configuration.
US10476805B2	Network communication method, device, and internet system A network communication method, a device, and an Internet system are presented. The method includes receiving, by a first primary node at a first network layer, first communication information sent, by a non-primary node that initiates communication, to a non-primary node that receives communication, where the non-primary node that initiates communication is in a domain to which the first primary node belongs, and the non-primary node that receives communication is in a different domain at the first network layer; determining, first label information, where the first label information is used to indicate a communication path, at a second network layer, from a node that receives the first communication information to a node that has a mapping relationship with a second primary node to which the non-primary node that receives communication belongs; and sending, first information to a node at the second network layer.
US10476804B2	Congestion level configuration for radio access network congestion handling Congestion level configuration for radio access network congestion handling A radio access network node (100) of a cellular network receives an indication of one or more criteria. The criteria which define one or more congestion levels. Further, the radio access network node (100) receives, for each of the one or more congestion levels, an indication of a congestion handling policy associated with this congestion level. Depending on the one or more criteria, the radio access network node (100) determines whether one of the one or more congestion levels is reached. In response to determining that one of the one or more congestion levels is reached, the radio access network node (100) applies the congestion handling policy associated with this congestion level.
US10476799B2	Systems and methods for load balancing in a distributed software defined network packet core system Systems and methods for balancing load in a distributed software defined network (SDN) packet core system include a stateless load balancer within a local SDN infrastructure instance of the distributed SDN packet core system receiving a data packet for processing by at least one of a plurality of SDN network function modules of local SDN infrastructure instance. The stateless load balancer can direct the data packet to a stateful load balancer residing on a first computing device, among the plurality of computing devices in the local SDN infrastructure instance. The stateful load balancer can determine a stateful data packet processing task to be applied to the data packet and determine a second computing device in the local SDN infrastructure instance for applying the determined stateful data packet processing task to the data packet. The stateful load balancer can then forward the data packet to the second computing device.
US10476787B1	Routing methods, systems, and computer program products In various embodiments, an apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable media, and computer-implemented method are provided to: detect, by a current node in a network path along which first data is transmitted from a transmitting node to a receiving node in the network path along which the first data is transmitted in a network, network path information that is based on a first policy and is positioned in a header of a first packet that is specified according to a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network protocol, the network path information in the header of the first packet being for use by the current node in transmitting the first data from the transmitting node to the receiving node in the network path along which the first data is transmitted, where the network path information in the header of the first packet includes: a region scoped node identifier that is in an identifier space having a scope that spans within a particular region of the network, and that globally identifies a particular node in a plurality of nodes in the particular region of the network, where the particular node is included in a network path segment that includes the current node and the receiving node in the network path along which the first data is transmitted, and a node scoped network interface identifier that identifies a network interface of a specific node for transmitting the first data that is communicatively coupled between the transmitting node and the receiving node in the network path along which the first data is transmitted; and perform additional processing.
US10476779B1	Configuring a topology of devices to support scaling of an exchange point A network device may receive, from client devices, route information for one or more sets of routes. The network device may provide, based on receiving the route information, a request for route distribution instructions, which may cause a server device to provide the network device with the route distribution instructions. The network device may process the route distribution instructions to identify the one or more subsets of the route information that are to be distributed amongst network devices that are configured with route reflection capabilities. The network device may provide, using route reflection capabilities, the one or more subsets of the route information to the network devices based on the route distribution instructions. The network devices may use the one or more subsets of the route information and route copy instructions to generate route copy information for the one or more subsets of route information.
US10476776B2	Methods, systems and computer readable media for wide bus pattern matching A method for wide bus pattern matching includes, receiving, in a first clock cycle, a bus width of data from a data bus. The method further includes using pattern compare blocks to compare each n-bit portion of data from the data bus to a plurality of different n-bit pattern portions, n being an integer equal to a smallest boundary in which a pattern can start on the data bus. The method further includes detecting, using a plurality of diagonal detectors, matching pattern portions across the pattern compare blocks that are arranged in a diagonal. The method further includes detecting, using a packet boundary detector, when the matching pattern portions arranged in a diagonal indicate a matching pattern that falls within a set of packet boundaries. The method further includes indicating a positive match when the packet boundary detector indicates that the matching.
US10476772B2	Soft constrained shortest-path tunneling In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a request to route traffic from a source to a destination in a network, where the request is associated with a setup bandwidth criterion. The method includes: identifying a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and, for each of the plurality of candidate tunnel paths, determining whether or not at least one of the candidate tunnel paths satisfies the setup bandwidth criterion. In response to determining that the plurality of candidate tunnel paths fail to satisfy the setup bandwidth criterion, the method includes: determining a congestion metric for each of a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and instantiating a tunnel from the source to the destination according to a candidate tunnel path with the lowest congestion metric.
US10476771B2	Layer 4 switching for persistent connections This disclosure provides for a Layer 4 switching approach wherein a set of L4 switches are organized into a cluster so as to act as a single (or “big”) Layer 4 switch. Connections between the L4 switches are carried out, e.g., using Layer 2 switches. To this end, an intra-cluster routing entity of the switch maintains mapping information (e.g., in a database, or set of data structures) about connections that have been established by the individual switches within the cluster. In this approach, each host (itself a switch) preferably acts like a group of ports of the larger (big) switch. This obviates having each member host from having to maintain connections to many possible destinations. Rather, the intra-cluster routing entity maintains the information about which hosts (and its ports) are connected to which destinations, and the connections are re-used as necessary, even if connections on one side of the “big” switch ceased being used.
US10476769B2	Selecting a packet loss concealment procedure In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus thereof for selecting a packet loss concealment procedure for a lost audio frame of a received audio signal. A method for selecting a packet loss concealment procedure comprises detecting an audio type of a received audio frame and determining a packet loss concealment procedure based on the audio type. In the method, detecting an audio type comprises determining a stability of a spectral envelope of signals of received audio frames.
US10476758B2	Systems and methods for providing notifications of changes in a cloud-based file system A cloud-based file system receives a subscription request associated with a networked device and identifying a set of one or more resources of the cloud-based file system and a set of one or more resource modifications. The cloud-based file system determines whether the networked device is authorized to access the resource, and, if so, records a subscription based on the subscription request. In response to a user, an application, or other suitable entity making a modification in the set of modifications to a resource in the set of resources, the cloud-based file system generates a notification to the networked device and to other networked devices with subscriptions that include the modification to the resource. The notification may identify the subscription with which the notification is associated, provide information identifying the modification, or provide other suitable information.
US10476757B1	Architecture for implementing centralized management for a computing environment The present disclosure provides an improved approach to implement a management infrastructure for computing environments. The user interfaces for local management nodes are cached at a central management node. The cached copies of the local node UIs can then be executed as if the user was actually operating from the local node.
US10476745B1	Infrastructure-agnostic network-level visibility and policy enforcement for containers An enforcement mechanism on an operating system instance enforces a segmentation policy on a container. A configuration generation module executing in a host namespace of the operating system instance receives management instructions from a segmentation server for enforcing the segmentation policy on a container. The configuration generation module executes in the host namespace to configure a traffic control and monitoring module in a container namespace associated with the container. The traffic control and monitoring module in the container namespace controls and monitors communications to and from the container in accordance with its configuration. By executing a configuration generation module in the host namespace to configure traffic control and monitoring module in the container namespace, the enforcement mechanism beneficially enables robust and lightweight enforcement in a manner that is agnostic to different containerization protocols.
US10476744B2	Coordinator in cluster membership management protocol A method is provided for a coordinator to manage cluster membership. In a stable state, the coordinator provides a member list to all the nodes in a node list. The member list includes nodes that are cluster members. The node list includes nodes that are or wish to be members of the cluster. When the node list differs from the member list, the coordinator advances to a reconfiguration state to change the membership of the cluster. In the reconfiguration state, the coordinator sends a reconfiguration request to all the nodes in the node list. When reconfiguration acknowledgements are received from all the nodes within a timeout period, the coordinator updates the member list to be equal to the node list, persists the updated member list, sends a reconfiguration confirmation including the updated member list to all the nodes in the node list, and returns to the stable state.
US10476740B1	Data generation for streaming networks in circuits Various aspects of the disclosed technology relate to generating streaming data and configuration data for streaming networks in circuits. Configuration information for transporting data in a first network to the plurality of circuit blocks in a circuit is determined based on information of the plurality of circuit blocks, information of the first network, the data, user-provided information, or any combination thereof. Sets of data packets are generated from the data based on the configuration information. Each set of the sets of data packets comprises equal-sized data packets to be transported consecutively in the first network. Configuration data to be transported in a second network in the circuit is also generated based on the configuration information. The configuration data comprises data for configuring first interface devices comprised in the first network.
US10476733B2	Single sign-on system and single sign-on method Even if a user ID of a target user is not stored in a cooperation destination Web site, it is possible to access the cooperation destination Web site by use of a user ID of a cooperation source Web site. According to a typical embodiment, a cooperation source application calls up a log-in API of a cooperation destination Web server, based on information including the user ID. The log-in API records the information including the user ID as redirect information, creates a redirect token, and adds the redirect token to a URL of a guide application to send the URL. Based on the sent URL, the cooperation source application redirects access to the guide application. When the redirect information identified by the redirect token included in the URL is recorded, the guide application creates a log-in cookie based on the user ID included in the redirect information, and redirects the access to a cooperation destination application.
US10476722B2	NR broadcast channel transmission The disclosure relates to a method performed by a wireless device, for receiving system information from a network node of a wireless communication system. The system information is received in a synchronization signal (SS) block of an SS burst set comprising at least one SS block. The system information is multiplexed with information providing a time index indicating which SS block of the SS burst set that is being received. The method comprises receiving the information providing the time index, and receiving the system information, which comprises descrambling the system information using a scrambling sequence generated based on the information providing the time index. The method also comprises determining an accuracy of the information providing the time index, based on an error-detection code related to the received system information. The disclosure also relates to corresponding network node method and apparatus.
US10476719B2	Pilot symbol patterns for transmission through a plurality of antennas A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred to as a pilot pattern. In some cases, the pilot pattern is a diagonal-shaped lattice, either regular or irregular. The method first interpolates in the direction of larger coherence (time or frequency). Using these measurements, the density of pilot symbols in the direction of faster change will be increased thereby improving channel estimation without increasing overhead. As such, the results of the first interpolating step can then be used to assist the interpolation in the dimension of smaller coherence (time or frequency).
US10476718B1	Systems and methods for dynamically selecting a sub-carrier spacing A system for selecting a sub-carrier spacing includes an access node configured to deploy a radio air interface to provide wireless services to a plurality of wireless devices. The access node includes a processor configured to determine a value of at least one parameter relating to at least one of radio frequency impairment, mobility, and service latency. The processor is also configured to compare the value of the at least one parameter with a predetermined threshold. The processor is further configured to select the sub-carrier spacing from a plurality of sub-carrier spacings based on a result of the comparison.
US10476717B1	Digital-controlled vector signal modulator A vector modulator includes a quadrature component generator, configured to generate an input in-phase signal and an input quadrature signal according to an input radio frequency (RF) signal; a switching circuit, receiving a plurality of bits, comprising a plurality of switches controlled by the plurality of bits, configured to generate an output in-phase signal and an output quadrature signal according to the plurality of bits, where the output in-phase signal and the output quadrature signal are related to input in-phase signal and the input quadrature signal; and a combining module, configured to generate an output RF signal according to the output in-phase signal and the output quadrature signal.
US10476712B2	Accelerating antenna ramp-down and related systems Various embodiments relate to accelerating ramp-down of a modulated signal. In one embodiment, an antenna driver signal is defined and asserted to accelerate ramp-down. The accelerating ramp-down driver signal may include a series of sinusoidal-like pulses asserted at a driver output. The sinusoidal-like pulse may be synchronized by phase to a declining antenna current. Signal properties—such as phase, amplitude, delay, shape and frequency—of the sinusoidal-like pulse may be adopted to affect the ramp-down of the modulated signal.
US10476705B2	Combined minimization of intersymbol interference (ISI) and adjacent channel interference (ACI) Adaptive windowing of insufficient cyclic prefix (CP) for joint minimization of intersymbol interference (ISI) and adjacent channel interference (ACI) is provided. The proposed subcarrier specific windowing scheme improves the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) even when the cyclic prefix (CP) is insufficient. Average optimal window lengths depend only on the power density profiles (PDPs), and although instantaneous optimal window lengths depend on users' channel impulse responses (CIRs), fluctuation is little. Therefore, subcarrier specific windowing outperforms fixed windowing, even with outdated window lengths in the case of powerful interferers.
US10476698B2	Redundent virtual link aggregation group One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a link aggregation module and a link management module. The link aggregation module establishes a virtual link aggregation group comprising a plurality of links coupled to the switch and one or more other switches. The plurality of links includes a first and a second sets of links coupling a first and a second end devices, respectively. The link management module determines a current mode which indicates which of the sets of links is currently active, and operates the first and the second sets of links as active and standby links, respectively, for the virtual link aggregation group based on the current mode and a port role for a port participating in the virtual link aggregation group. The port role indicates whether the port is coupled to an active link or a backup link.
US10476697B2	Network-on-chip, data transmission method, and first switching node A network-on-chip and a corresponding method are provided. The network-on-chip includes at least one bufferless ring network in at least one dimension of the network-on-chip. At least one bufferless ring network includes multiple routing nodes, and at least one of the multiple routing nodes is a switching node. Two bufferless ring networks in different dimensions may intersect. The two bufferless ring networks exchange data by using switching nodes. A dedicated slot and a public slot are configured in each bufferless ring network. Only one switching node has permission to use a dedicated slot at a same moment in each bufferless ring network, the permission to use the dedicated slot is transferred successively between switching nodes in each bufferless ring network. The permission to use the dedicated slot is transferred after transmission of data in the dedicated slot is completed.
US10476690B2	Method and device for transmitting a data stream in a multicast transmission mode In a communication network, a client has a plurality of network interfaces connecting it to a server able to deliver data streams on multicast groups. The client obtains a first request for subscription to a multicast group allowing to obtain a data stream. The client replaces the first subscription request with a plurality of second requests for subscription to a plurality of multicast subgroups able to supply data sub-streams which, once combined, allow to reconstruct the data stream. Each second subscription request is transmitted over a network interface with which the request was associated, so as to favour use of each available network interface. The client receives, over each network interface, a data sub-stream corresponding to the second subscription request transmitted over said network interface and reconstructs the data stream from the data sub-streams.
US10476688B1	URL replication for live broadcast streaming Several embodiments include a live stream system in a media distribution network. The live stream system can divide a broadcast stream from a broadcaster device into one or more media segments. The live stream system can generate an original manifest uniform resource locator (URL) and a duplicate manifest URL to associate with the media segments. The live stream system can generate a broadcast manifest that identifies the media segments via one or more segment identifiers. The live stream system can upload the broadcast manifest and the media segments to a cache system to make the broadcast manifest accessible via either the original manifest URL or the duplicate manifest URL.
US10476681B2	Semiconductor device generating security key, method of generating security key, and method of enrolling security key A semiconductor device includes a physical unclonable function (PUF) cell array that includes PUF cells outputting first bits; a non-volatile memory that stores marking bits indicating whether the first bits are valid, first mask bits generated by masking second bits depending on parity of the second bits, and second mask bits generated by masking helper bits of the second bits, the second bits are valid bits from the first bits; an extracting unit that extracts the second bits from the first bits using the marking bits; an unmasking unit that unmasks the second bits using the first mask bits while receiving the second bits to provide the third bits; a bit decoding unit that compresses the third bits to fourth bits while receiving the third bits; and a block decoding unit that generates a security key by decoding the fourth bits and the second mask bits.
US10476679B2	Systems, methods, and devices for multi-stage provisioning and multi-tenant operation for a security credential management system An example system for securely provisioning computerized devices of a plurality of tenants includes a Security Credential Management System (SCMS) host that is communicatively connected to the devices and is operable to receive provisioning requests from computerized devices needing certificates. Each provisioning request indicates a tenant identifier (ID) uniquely identifying a tenant of the plurality of tenants. The system also includes a virtual registration authority communicatively connected to the SCMS host and operable to transmit requests to SCMS backend components. The backend components include an enrollment certificate authority operable to generate enrollment certificates in response to receiving requests for enrollment certificates from the virtual registration authority; first and second linkage authorities operable to generate linkage values responsive to receiving requests for linkage values from the virtual registration authority; and a pseudonym certificate authority operable to generate pseudonym certificates responsive to receiving requests for pseudonym certificates from the virtual registration authority.
US10476673B2	Managing session secrets for continuous packet capture systems Embodiments are direct to monitoring communication between computers may be using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Network packets that are communicated between the computers may be captured and stored in a data store. If the NMCs identify a secure communication session established between two computers, the NMCs may obtain key information that corresponds to the secure communication session that includes a session key that may be provided by a key provider. Correlation information associated with the secure communication session may be captured by the NMCs. The correlation information may include tuple information associated with the secure communication session. And, the key information and the correlation information may be stored in a key escrow. The key information may be indexed in the key escrow using the correlation information.
US10476668B2	Citation and attribution management methods and systems A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing, at a client device, a first artifact and artifact metadata corresponding to the artifact; creating, at the client device, an artifact cryptographic digest corresponding to the artifact to certify existence of the artifact; transmitting, at the client device, the artifact cryptographic digest and artifact metadata to a server; adding, at the server device, the artifact cryptographic digest to a block chain; and adding, at the server device, the artifact cryptographic digest, the artifact metadata and the first artifact to a data storage device separate and distinct from the block chain to reference the artifact cryptographic digest on the block chain.
US10476658B1	Method and system for implementing high speed source synchronous clock alignment Disclosed is an improved approach to implement clock alignments between a test subject and its corresponding controller device. Phase locking is performed for the clocks between the test subject and controller device via a training sequence to obtain the appropriate alignment(s). Alignment logic is included on both the testchip and the controller device to implement alignment.
US10476657B2	Device and method for supporting clock transfer of multiple clock domains A device and a method for supporting clock transfer of multiple clock domains, where the device includes N phase frequency detectors, N filters, N clock reconstructors, and N clock domain interfaces, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two, the N clock domain interfaces are in a one-to-one correspondence with the N phase frequency detectors, the N filters, and the N clock reconstructors, the N phase frequency detectors are respectively connected to N clock sources, and at least two clock sources of the N clock sources are different. The foregoing device flexibly adapt to multiple different clock domains, implement that a single device simultaneously supports clock transfer of multiple clock domains, and flexibly satisfy user demands without adding or replacing devices.
US10476649B2	Method for reporting channel quality information in TDD type wireless communication system, and device therefor Disclosed is a method by which a terminal reports channel quality information (CQI) to a base station in a multi-antenna-based wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, through an upper layer, the reference signal configuration defined by P number of antenna ports; receiving, through M number of antenna ports, reference signals from the base station; grouping the P number of antenna ports into antenna port groups formed of the M number of antenna ports; calculating CQIs by using the reference signal corresponding to each of the antenna port groups on the basis of the assumption that predefined precoders are applied to the reference signals; and reporting, to the base station, N number of CQIs among the calculated CQIs.
US10476644B2	Method and apparatus for allocating sounding resources in a wireless network A computing apparatus for allocating sounding resources in an access node of a wireless network. The computing apparatus comprises a processor configured to determine a first device state based on a device state model and first device information, wherein the first device state model includes a finite number of states. The processor is configured to determine a first target sounding configuration for the first device information based on the first device state, and output the first target sounding configuration.
US10476640B2	Carrier configuration method and device The present invention discloses a carrier configuration method and a device, and relates to the field of communications, to resolve a problem that dividing multiple component carriers into primary and secondary component carriers only is not conducive to management of an important secondary component carrier. In a specific solution, a carrier aggregation model is configured for UE, so that the UE performs data transmission with a network device according to the carrier aggregation model. The carrier aggregation model includes multiple component carriers, the multiple component carriers include at least one core carrier, and the at least one core carrier includes at least one primary core carrier. The core carrier has an uplink transmission function and a downlink transmission function. The present invention is applied to a carrier configuration process.
US10476620B2	System and method of distributed interference cancelation based on delayed channel gain information The disclosure pertains to wireless communications and, more particularly, to the exploitation of channel gain information, advantageously where more than two transmitter/receiver pairs transmit information over a shared medium. The disclosure applies distributed interference compression (23) at the receivers (receiver 1 (8), . . . , receiver k (9), . . . , and receiver K (10)) and repetition coding (13) at the transmitters (transmitter 1 (1), . . . , transmitter k (2), . . . , transmitter K (3)). Repetition coding repeats the same symbol stream (11) several times and the distributed interference compression (23) reduces the number of interference retransmissions (15) required to obtain the interference free signal (26). The throughput achieved by previous solutions is limited to two symbols per time slot, whereas in the present disclosure throughput is enhanced and is proportional to the square root of the number of transmitter/receiver pairs considered.
US10476608B2	Network interface devices with upstream noise suppressors A network interface device includes an input-output port; an entry port; an upstream signal path configured to carry an upstream signal from the input-output port to the entry port; a noise suppressor, in the upstream signal path, that includes noise suppression paths between the input-output and entry ports; and a controller configured to: determine a first power level of the upstream signal in a first frequency band; determine a second power level of the upstream signal in a second frequency band; generate a control signal based on a first comparison of the first and second power levels, on a second comparison of the second power level with a threshold limit, or on the first comparison of the first and second power levels and on the second comparison of the second power level with the threshold limit; and select one of the noise suppression paths based on the control signal.
US10476601B2	Dynamic wavelength management using bi-directional communication for the prevention of optical beat interference Preventing optical beat interference includes dynamically managing an adjustable optical transmitter wavelength of each of a plurality of customer premises equipment, wherein each of the plurality of customer premises equipment is in bidirectional communication with a customer premises equipment controller. A bidirectional communication system includes a customer premises equipment controller; and a plurality of customer premises equipment coupled to the customer premises equipment controller, each of the plurality of customer premises equipment having an adjustable optical transmitter wavelength, wherein each of the plurality of customer premises equipment is in bidirectional communication with the customer premises equipment controller to prevent optical beat interference by dynamically managing the adjustable optical transmitter wavelength of each of the plurality of customer premises equipment.
US10476597B2	Data transfer facilitation across a distributed mesh network using light and optical based technology A transformer monitoring device for a smart grid network is provided, which is configured to transmit and receive optical signaling between other transformer monitoring devices and other devices in the smart grid network. The transformer monitoring device includes a receiver configured to receive optical signaling, a signal processor and a transmitter configured to transmit optical signaling. The signal processor is configured to receive optical signaling from the receiver, which contains information about collected data, including data related to electrical signaling being processed by a transformer located and arranged in a grid network or metered data related to associated signaling being provided from the transformer to a building or structure in the grid network and determine corresponding optical signaling containing information about the collected data for transmitting back to a central location or other connected device for further processing, based upon the signaling received.
US10476590B2	Artificial light source based messaging platform A processor receives data associated with a device. On the basis of the data associated with the device, the processor modulates a light from the artificial light source at a rate imperceptible to a human eye while detectable by a light sensor device. The modulated light is representative of the data associated with the device. The modulated light is detected, demodulated, and decoded by the light sensor device to retrieve the data associated with the device. Further, the data associated with the device is presented by the light sensor device to a user. In addition, the light sensor device is configured to receive input data from the user and communicate the input data to the processor via a wireless link. The processor is configured to receive the input data from the light sensor device and effect a change in a characteristic of the device based on the received input data.
US10476588B2	Automatic bandwidth optimization for optical networks Techniques for automatic bandwidth optimization of an optical communication channel in an optical network are provided. In one embodiment, a method of automatically optimizing bandwidth includes receiving, at a first optical network element, a first signal transmission transmitted according to a first set of transmission parameters over an optical communication channel established between the first optical network element and a second optical network element. The method includes determining a first quality of signal parameter associated with the first signal transmission and determining whether the first quality of signal parameter is worse than a predetermined quality of signal value. Upon determining that the first quality of signal parameter is not worse than the predetermined value, the method further includes transmitting a second set of transmission parameters to the second optical network element to further optimize the bandwidth of the optical communication channel.
US10476585B1	Distributed network node locations in a mobile node network Various arrangements for establishing a bidirectional satellite communication session are presented. Initialization data may be accessed to tune an antenna to a geosynchronous satellite, wherein the initialization data is stored locally by the access node. The initialization data may be used to point and tune the antenna to the geosynchronous satellite. Ephemeris data may be received from the geosynchronous satellite. The ephemeris data may be indicative of orbital locations of satellites that are part of a non-geosynchronous satellite constellation. The ephemeris data may be used to point and tune the antenna to a satellite of the non-geosynchronous satellite constellation. The bidirectional satellite communication session may then be established with the satellite of the non-geosynchronous satellite constellation.
US10476584B1	Systems and methods for autonomous operations of ground station networks A mission planning system for scheduling the operations of one or more ground stations in order to optimize overall system communications with a plurality of satellites. The mission planning system comprises a digital processor in communication with each ground station, with the digital processor acting to assess the benefits and penalties acting in the system as a whole over a given time horizon. A system-wide cost function evaluated by the processor generally compares resultant SNR and slewing penalties for achievable communications, and provides a control vector uj(t) for each ground station determined through an optimization process, in order that various physical constraints and weighting factors pertinent to an individual ground station may be incorporated and accommodated as the digital processor optimizes overall system communications.
US10476578B2	Radio frequency extender device for extending an effective range of wireless radio frequency networks by a combination of wireless and wired connections A radio frequency extender device has a radio frequency transmitter, a receiver positioned at a location remote from said radio frequency transmitter, and a cable conductor extending between said radio frequency transmitter and said receiver. The cable conductor has one end spaced away from said radio frequency transmitter and an opposite end spaced away from the receiver. The cable conductor adapted to transmit the transmission from the radio frequency transmitter to the receiver. The receiver produces a humanly perceivable signal from the transmission from the radio frequency transmitter. The radio frequency transmitter can be an instrument or a vibration sensor with a Bluetooth™ device connected thereto.
US10476577B1	User equipment-initiated beam search for fifth generation new radio This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for user equipment-initiated beam search for fifth generation new radio. A user equipment (110) determines that a first beam being used for wireless communication between the user equipment (110) and a base station (121) is unsatisfactory for communication. The user equipment (110) transmits uplink beam-scan pilots that cause the base station (121) to select a second beam for wireless communication. The user equipment (110) receives a beam scan response message from the base station (121) and establishes wireless communication with the base station (121) on a second beam based on information included in the received beam scan response message.
US10476569B1	Antenna selection for interference avoidance Described herein are technologies for intelligent antenna selection for optimal performance in an electronic device. One electronic device includes a first radio, coupled to a first antenna and a second antenna, and a processing device coupled to the first radio. During a first period, the first radio transmits a sequence of data packets using the first antenna and the processing device receives a first metric value indicative of a first amount of power received on a third antenna of the second electronic device. During a second period, the first radio transmits the sequence using the second antenna and the processing device receives a second metric value indicative of a second mount of power received on the third antenna. The processing device selects one of the first antenna and the second antenna as a selected antenna based on which one of the first metric value and the second metric value is lower. The processing device causes the first radio to communicate data with a third device using the selected antenna.
US10476560B2	Spatial spreading in a multi-antenna communication system Spatial spreading is performed in a multi-antenna system to randomize an “effective” channel observed by a receiving entity for each transmitted data symbol block. For a MIMO system, at a transmitting entity, data is processed (e.g., encoded, interleaved, and modulated) to obtain ND data symbol blocks to be transmitted in NM transmission spans, where ND≥1 and NM>1. The ND blocks are partitioned into NM data symbol subblocks, one subblock for each transmission span. A steering matrix is selected (e.g., in a deterministic or pseudo-random manner from among a set of L steering matrices, where L>1) for each subblock. Each data symbol subblock is spatially processed with the steering matrix selected for that subblock to obtain transmit symbols, which are further processed and transmitted via NT transmit antennas in one transmission span. The ND data symbol blocks are thus spatially processed with NM steering matrices and observe an ensemble of channels.
US10476548B2	Electrically isolated push-to-talk devices Communications systems containing an electrically-isolated Push-To-Talk (EI-PTT) device are described in this application. The communication systems contain multiple radios, a microphone/headset, and a centralized power supply. The systems also contain an EI-PTT device which reduces or eliminates noise that can disrupt the audio transmission. The EI-PTT device allows an operator or user of the communication system to actuate a button which remotely switches the radio from receive mode to transmit mode. This allows multiple users to listen (receive) to communication traffic on the same frequency at all times, but only speak (transmit) on the frequency while activating the EI-PTT device. Unlike other PTT devices which electrically tie the ground signals inside the device, the EI-PTT devices electrically isolate the ground signals to reduce the problem of noise coupling. Other embodiments are described.
US10476542B1	Continuous time linear capacitive digital step attenuator A digital step attenuator (DSA) includes a switch control circuit which receives the attenuated signal output by the DSA from a buffer and generates a tracked control signal for switches within the DSA. Some switch control circuits include a capacitor coupled to receive the buffered signal, a supply voltage, and a switch control logic sub-circuit for each switch. Each switch control logic sub-circuit receives a control signal, for either the gate or the bulk terminal of the switch, and generates the tracked control signal. In other embodiments, switch control circuits include a complementary MOSFET switching device coupled to receive a control signal, and a capacitor coupled to receive the buffered signal, both of which are connected to an output terminal for the tracked control signal. In those embodiments, the DSA includes a switch control circuit for each switch connected to the DSA output.
US10476533B1	Transmit and receive switch and broadband power amplifier matching network for multi-band millimeter-wave 5G communication According to one embodiment, a transmit/receive (T/R) switch includes a transmit switch, between a transmit port and an antenna port, a receive switch, between a receive port and the antenna port, a transmit inductor, coupled in parallel between the transmit switch the transmit port, and a receive inductor, coupled in parallel between the transmit switch the transmit port. The T/R switch can be co-designed with a power amplifier (PA) output matching circuit.
US10476529B2	Error detection code generation circuits of semiconductor devices, memory controllers including the same and semiconductor memory devices including the same An error detection code generation circuit of a semiconductor device includes a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) engine, a second CRC engine and an output selection engine. The first CRC engine generates first error detection code bits using a first generation matrix, based on a plurality of first unit data and first DBI bits in response to a mode signal. The second CRC engine generates second error detection code bits using a second generation matrix, based on a plurality second unit data and second DBI bits, in response to the mode signal. The output selection engine generates final error detection code bits by merging the first error detection code bits and the second error detection code bits in response to the mode signal. The first generation matrix is the same as the second generation matrix.
US10476525B2	Low latency bit-reversed polar codes In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine indices associated with m consecutive elements. In an aspect, each of the m consecutive elements may be associated with a different index. In addition, the apparatus may bit reverse a binary sequence associated with each of the m consecutive elements. In an aspect, each of the m consecutive elements may include a different binary sequence. Further, the apparatus may determine a bit-reversed order of the indices based at least in part on the bit-reversed binary sequence associated with each of the m elements. In addition, the apparatus may write each of the m consecutive elements to a different memory bank in parallel based at least in part on the bit-reversed order of the indices.
US10476517B2	Modulator for a digital amplifier The present disclosure relates to a modulator for a digital amplifier and a device comprising such a modulator and a digital amplifier.The modulator includes a pulse shaper and a control unit for controlling the pulse shaper to convert an input signal into a bit stream configured for a digital amplifier which encodes an amplitude value per clock of a carrier signal. The pulse shaper can represent a respective amplitude value of the input signal with different bit patterns. The control unit includes an assignment of the control commands to associated amplitude values resulting from amplification of the associated bit patterns with the digital amplifier is stored or at least is provided in that the control unit selects a control command per clock by means of the assignment and the amplitude value of the input signal and drives the pulse shaper accordingly.
US10476513B1	SAR ADC with high linearity A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with high linearity for generating an n-bit converted output includes a first capacitor digital-to-analog (DAC) and a second capacitor DAC. One of the first capacitor DAC and the second capacitor DAC that has greater output signal is defined as a higher-voltage capacitor DAC, and the other as an un-switching capacitor DAC. In an m-th conversion phase, an (m−1)-th capacitor of the un-switching capacitor DAC is switched according to a comparison between output signals of the higher-voltage capacitor DAC and the un-switching capacitor DAC.
US10476510B2	Clock and data recovery device and method using current-controlled oscillator A clock and data recovery device associated with a data receiving apparatus, the clock and data recovery device including an oscillator configured to generate a clock signal; and a regulator configured to supply current to the oscillator, the regulator including, a first current source configured to supply a first current to the oscillator, and a second current source configured to supply a second current to the oscillator such that the second current is supplied to the oscillator, after a period of time, to de-emphasize the first current, the period of time being based on the first current.
US10476502B2	Control of switches in a variable impedance element In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a buffer and a switch coupled between the buffer and a voltage supply such that the switch controls a varying voltage at a varying voltage node coupled to the buffer.
US10476497B2	Safe switching device Method and device for safe switching of a signal between a first and second point. Device includes a first branch having a first switch and second switch arranged between the first and second point, and a parallel second branch having a third switch and fourth switch. A testing device instructs a control unit, in a test sequence, to open the first switch for a first period of time, open the second switch for a second period of time, open the third switch for a third period of time, and open the fourth switch for a fourth period of time. Neither the first nor second periods of time overlap with the third or fourth period of time. A testing unit tests functioning of the switches during respective period of time, and generates an error signal in the event of a malfunction of at least one switch.
US10476481B2	Acoustic filtering circuitry including capacitor Acoustic filtering circuitry includes a piezoelectric layer, a dielectric layer, a plurality of acoustic resonators, and a capacitor. The dielectric layer is over a surface of the piezoelectric layer. The plurality of acoustic resonators each includes a transducer on the surface of the piezoelectric layer such that the transducer is between the piezoelectric layer and the dielectric layer. The capacitor includes a first plate on the surface of the piezoelectric layer such that the first plate is between the piezoelectric layer and the dielectric layer and a second plate over the first plate such that the second plate and the first plate are separated by at least a portion of the dielectric layer.
US10476478B2	Tunable HF filter having series resonators The specification relates to an RF filter in which characteristic filter variables have a decreased dependency on tuning. A filter in this case comprises series-interconnected basic elements that each have an electroacoustic resonator and impedance converters interconnected in series between the basic elements.
US10476467B2	Method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.
US10476464B2	Common mode filter device and electrical equipment A common mode filter device (2) comprises two LC-filters (21, 22) which are serially connected, two transformers (23, 25) and an active current control circuit (24). The transformers are dedicated to sensing a common mode current and injecting compensation currents driven by the current control circuit. The transformers provide electric isolation between the current control circuit and power-transferring connections of the common mode filter device. Continuing operation of an electrical apparatus which is power-supplied through the common mode filter device is also ensured in case of failure of the current control circuit, with the LC-filters still producing partial common mode filter function.
US10476459B2	Methods and apparatus for adjusting a level of an audio signal The invention relates to methods and apparatus for adjusting a level of an audio signal. An audio signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands. Modification parameters are obtained for at least one of the plurality of frequency band. Gain factors are derived for at least one of the plurality of frequency bands, the gain factors determined based on the amplitude scale factors. The gain factors are smoothed. A level of noise from noise compensation factors is determined. The gain factors are applied to at least one of the frequency bands to generate gain adjusted frequency bands. The level of noise is adjusted based on the gain adjusted frequency bands. At least one of the frequency bands is filtered with a filter generated with the filter coefficients. The plurality of frequency bands is synthesized to generate an output audio signal.
US10476456B2	Comparator having a high-speed amplifier and a low-noise amplifier A comparator is described. The comparator may be used in several applications, including in digital-to-analog converters (ADC). The comparator may comprise a high-speed amplifier, a low-noise amplifier, a controller and a bi-stable circuit. The high-speed amplifier may be activated during a first period, for example when the comparator tends to exhibit a slow response. During this period, the comparator may sacrifice the noise performance. The low-noise amplifier may be activated during a second period, for example when the difference between the signals appearing as inputs to the comparator is small. The low-noise amplifier may have a gain that is large enough to limit decision errors. The bi-stable circuit, which may be implemented using a latch, may be configured to output a signal equal to one of the supply voltages, in response to receiving the input signal from one of the stages.
US10476452B2	Adjustable load line power amplifier circuits and methods Adjustable load line amplifier circuits may comprise a power amplifier that has a signal input terminal to receive an input signal, a powered signal output terminal to be coupled to a load that has changing impedances, and a transistor array of transistor cells operatively coupled in parallel between the signal input terminal and the powered signal output terminal such that the transistor cells are independently configured to amplify the input signal present at the signal input terminal and effect a selected load line impedance of the transistor array that corresponds to at least one of the changing impedances of the load. The transistor array controller may be configured to effect the selected load line impedance by selectively activating one or more of the transistor cells and/or providing the transistor cells with a selectable operating voltage.
US10476451B2	Class-F power amplifier matching network A class-F power amplifier (PA) with a matching network is disclosed herein. The class-F PA comprises a first switch and a second switch operating in differential mode, with a second harmonic trap circuitry selectively terminating the drain terminals to ground at a second harmonic frequency. The second harmonic trap circuitry comprises a plurality of lumped inductive and capacitive components. The PA further comprises a common mode trap and a matching network to reduce the imbalance of the drain terminal impedance between first harmonics and third harmonics.
US10476449B2	Switched capacitor circuit to make amount of change in reference voltage even regardless of input level A switched capacitor circuit includes a first main sampler circuit, a second main sampler circuit, a first replica sampler circuit, and a second replica sampler circuit. The first main sampler circuit samples a first input of a differential input, and generates a first output corresponding to the sampled first input based on a first reference voltage. The second main sampler circuit samples a second input of the differential input, and generates a second output corresponding to the sampled second input based on a second reference voltage. The first replica sampler circuit receives the first input, and holds the received first input based on the second reference voltage. The second replica sampler circuit receives the second input, and holds the received second input based on the first reference voltage.
US10476447B2	Source follower A source follower with an input node and an output node includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a DC (Direct Current) tracking circuit. The first transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal coupled to a first node, and a second terminal coupled to a second node. The second transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal coupled to a ground voltage, and a second terminal coupled to the first node. The DC tracking circuit sets the second DC voltage at the second node to a specific level. The specific level is determined according to the first DC voltage at the first node. The output node of the source follower is coupled to the first node.
US10476444B1	Cross-fading in dual-path pulse width modulation system A system may include a plurality of playback paths comprising an open-loop playback path configured to drive an output load and a closed-loop playback path. The closed-loop playback path may include an outer feedback loop comprising one or more integrators, a quantizer, and an output driver for driving the output load, the outer feedback loop having an outer loop feedback gain and an inner feedback loop comprising the one or more integrators and the quantizer and excluding the output driver, wherein the inner feedback loop has a variable inner loop feedback gain which is adjustable to match the outer loop feedback gain.
US10476443B2	Dynamic amplification circuit The present disclosure discloses a dynamic amplification circuit, including: a first drive circuit, receives a first control signal to generate a first and a second voltage signal; a second drive circuit, receives the first and the second voltage signal to generate a first drive signal; a third drive circuit, receives the first control signal and the first drive signal to generate a second control signal; and a dynamic amplifier DA, controls a first and a second control switch according to the control signals; in a first time period, the first control signal is high level, the second control signal is low level; in a second time period, the opposite is the case; in a third time period, the first and the second control signal are both at low level, a duration of the second time period is inversely proportional to a transconductance of a transistor in a saturation region.
US10476436B2	Resonant unit, voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) implementing the same, and push-push oscillator implementing a pair of VCOs A resonant circuit to be connected to a negative resistance unit is disclosed. The resonant circuit includes a pair of resonant transmission lines electrically coupled to each other and a coupling transmission line connecting the resonant transmission lines. The resonant transmission lines and the coupling transmission line are formed on a semiconductor substrate. The resonant transmission lines have a length corresponding to a quarter wavelength (λ/4) of twice of the resonant frequency attributed to the resonant circuit.
US10476434B1	Quadrature clock generation with injection locking Aspects of the disclosure are directed to quadrature clock generation with injection locking. In accordance with one aspect, quadrature clock generation with injection locking uses a digital calibration circuit having a coarse calibration circuit and a fine calibration circuit to perform a coarse frequency calibration of a controlled oscillator, wherein the controlled oscillator is coupled to the digital calibration circuit; characterize a replica oscillator signal path associated with an oscillator replica circuit, wherein the oscillator replica circuit is coupled to the controlled oscillator; perform a fine frequency calibration of the controlled oscillator by measuring a phase difference between the controlled oscillator and the oscillator replica circuit; and generate a calibrated set of quadrature clock signals after performing the fine frequency calibration of the controlled oscillator.
US10476428B1	DC voltage control in renewable energy based multilevel power converter According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a renewable energy-based power converter comprising an input, a high-side DC bus, a low-side DC bus, a first output, an inverter portion configured to convert DC power from the high-side DC bus and the low-side DC bus into output AC power, an interface converter coupled to the high-side DC bus and the low-side DC bus, a first auxiliary DC-DC converter, and a controller, wherein, in a first mode of operation, the DC busses are configured to receive input DC power from the input, and the controller is configured to operate the interface converter to convert DC power from the DC busses into regulated DC power, to operate the interface converter to balance voltage levels of the DC busses, and to operate the first auxiliary DC-DC converter to convert the regulated DC power into first output DC power provided to a DC load.
US10476423B2	Synchronous motor control device, compressor drive system, and air conditioner A synchronous motor control device includes a voltage detector, a current detector, an inverter main circuit, and an inverter control unit. The inverter control unit includes: a phase current reproduction unit that reproduces a direct current into phase currents flowing to a permanent magnet synchronous motor; a current coordinate transformation unit that transforms the reproduced phase current into current on a control coordinate axis of a rotating coordinate system; a current control unit that calculates a voltage command value of the permanent magnet synchronous motor in such a manner that the current on the control coordinate axis equals a specific value; and a limiter unit that limits the value of the voltage command value.
US10476417B2	Gas turbine generator torque DC to DC converter control system A system includes a first controller configured to control a gas turbine to operate at a constant speed set point and a variable torque output to drive a generator. A DC to DC converter may operate as a load on a power source bus supplied by the generator. A second controller may limit a rate of change of the DC output power of the DC to DC converter during intermittent supply of a transient step change load subsequent to receipt of a transient load control signal. The transient load control signal is anticipatory of application of the transient step change load to the load bus. The rate of change is limited by the second controller to maintain the variable torque of the gas turbine below a predetermined threshold as a load ramp rate of the DC to DC converter changes on the power source bus.
US10476407B2	Movable type magnetic suspension apparatus Disclosed is a movable type magnetic suspension apparatus, comprising: a suspension body (1) having a magnet (2); and a magnetic suspension base (3), the magnetic suspension base comprising: a magnetic suspension mechanism (4) for suspending the suspension body at a predetermined distance thereabove; and a displacement mechanism for displacing the magnetic suspension mechanism to cause the suspension body in a suspended state to displace. The movable type magnetic suspension apparatus enables the suspension body to move in air along a predetermined trajectory and can substantially expand application fields of the magnetic suspension apparatus.
US10476404B2	Row and column actuator control In one embodiment, a device is provided that includes: a plurality of actuators arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of row conductors corresponding to the plurality of rows; a plurality of column conductors corresponding to the plurality of columns; and a controller configured to select at least one of the actuators in a row by raising a voltage on the corresponding row conductor to couple each selected actuator to its corresponding column conductor.
US10476402B2	Power converter In a multilevel converter, three switches are connected between three arms and three reactors, and three resistive elements are connected to the respective three switches in parallel. The three switches are configured to be in a conductive state during a normal operation. The three switches are configured to come into a non-conductive state when a short circuit accident occurs between two DC power transmission lines, whereby an inter-arm direct current flowing in four arms and the like is quickly attenuated by the three resistive elements.
US10476399B1	Frequency control method for self-oscillating circuit A DC-to-AC inverter provides an AC voltage to the primary winding of an output isolation transformer having at least one secondary winding. An AC output voltage from the secondary winding is rectified to generate a DC voltage, which is applied to a load. The magnitude of a current flowing through the load is sensed and compared to a reference magnitude to produce a feedback signal. The feedback signal controls a voltage superposition circuit, which produces a superposition voltage. The superposition voltage is applied to an input node of a current control circuit. The current control circuit responds to the superposition voltage to vary a magnitude of a control current to a switching controller in the DC to-AC inverter. The switching controller is responsive to the control current magnitude to vary the frequency of the AC voltage and to thereby vary the load current.
US10476398B1	Power conversion circuit for photovoltaic power generation with high efficiency over wide input voltage range The present invention relates to a technique for expanding an input voltage range of a power conversion circuit for photovoltaic power generation, and improving the efficiency of the power conversion circuit.The power conversion circuit for photovoltaic power generation with high efficiency over a wide input voltage range may include: a full-bridge converter unit including a full-bridge converter constituted by first to fourth switches, and configured to operate in a resonant boost mode or phase-shift full-bridge series-resonant converter mode, and convert an input DC voltage into a DC voltage having a level equal to or lower than the input DC voltage; an active voltage-doubler rectifier circuit including a half-bridge converter constituted by fifth and sixth switches, a resonance inductor and a resonance capacitor, and configured to boost an input voltage to a target-level DC voltage, and output the DC voltage to a load; and a transformer configured to connect the full-bridge converter and the active voltage-doubler rectifier to each other in their insulation.
US10476396B2	Electric power conversion device An electric power conversion device includes an element-side first electrode conductor and an element-side second electrode conductor extending from a semiconductor element section toward one side in a first direction, and a capacitor-side first electrode conductor and a capacitor-side second electrode conductor extending from the capacitors toward the other side in the first direction, wherein a connecting surface of the element-side first electrode conductor and a connecting surface of the capacitor-side first electrode conductor overlap with each other and are electrically connected to each other, and a connecting surface of the element-side second electrode conductor and a connecting surface of the capacitor-side second electrode conductor overlap with each other and are electrically connected to each other.
US10476394B2	Dynamic learning of voltage source capabilities A system may include a power supply configurable to generate any of a plurality of output voltages on a power supply output node. The system also may include a voltage auto-detection power distribution (PD) controller coupled to the power supply. The voltage auto-detection PD controller is configured to monitor an input signal for detection of presence of a device coupled to the system via a cable and assert combinations of a plurality of control signals. For each combination of control signals, the voltage auto-detection PD controller measures a value of an output voltage from the power supply, stores the measured value, and generates a plurality of packets for transmission to the device. Each packet contains a parameter indicative of a measured output voltage.
US10476387B1	Switching frequency control apparatus and control method thereof A switch frequency control apparatus comprises a timer coupled between a bias voltage and ground, wherein the timer comprises a first input configured to receive a ramp, a second input configured to receive a threshold voltage and an output configured to be connected to an input of a PWM circuit, wherein the output of the timer is used for setting either a constant on-time or a constant off-time of a power converter and a threshold generator coupled between the bias voltage and ground, wherein the threshold generator is configured to receive a plurality of control signals of the power converter and generate the threshold voltage based upon a duty cycle of the power converter.
US10476383B2	Negative charge pump circuit The disclosure relates to a negative charge pump circuit including a first capacitor; a first selector switch; a second selector switch; and a control circuit designed to, in a first phase of operation, alternately control the first and second selector switches in a first configuration in which the first and second electrodes of the first capacitor are respectively linked to the first and second nodes and in a second configuration in which the first and second electrodes of the first capacitor are respectively linked to the second and third nodes. In a second phase of operation, the control circuit forces the first selector switch to link the first electrode of the first capacitor to the second node and control the second selector switch so as to alternately link the second electrode of the first capacitor to the second and to the third node.
US10476375B2	Multiple output integrated power factor correction A multiple-output integrated power factor correction system includes, for example, a processor that is formed in a substrate and is arranged to monitor each voltage output of two or more output stages of a power supply and in response to generate an individual voltage error signal for each monitored output stage. A combined output voltage error signal is generated in response to each of the individual voltage error signals. The voltage input to the power supply and the total inductor current of the power supply are monitored and used to generate a combined output voltage control signal in response to the monitored input voltage total inductor current as well as the combined output voltage error control signal. Each individual output voltage control signal for each monitored output stage is generated in response to each of the respective generated individual voltage error signals.
US10476371B2	Method for controlling at least two three-phase power converters with asynchronous pulse-width modulation A method for controlling at least two three-phase power converters with asynchronous pulse-width modulation. The method further comprises the following steps: for each phase of each converter, the characteristics of the signals used to generate the modulating signal and carrier signal of each control signal of each phase of each converter are determined, for each converter, a phase shift is inserted between the carrier signals used to generate the phase control signals of the converter, for each phase, a phase shift is inserted between the carrier signals used to generate the control signals of the converters, for each phase of each converter, a pulse-width modulation control signal by intersection is determined resulting from the intersection of a modulating signal and a carrier signal, and the control signals are transmitted to the converters.
US10476364B2	Magnet assembly mounting arrangement for an electromagnetic motor A magnet assembly for a linear motor, the magnet assembly including one or more permanent magnets, a mounting plate having a mounting portion that is configured for arranging and mounting the one or more permanent magnets along a direction of elongation of the mounting plate, and at least one elongate member that extends at least partially through the mounting plate between a first end and second end thereof, the at least one elongate member extending at least partially through the or each magnet for fixing the or each magnet with respect to the mounting plate.
US10476363B2	Hybrid electric motor with self aligning permanent magnet and squirrel cage dual rotors magnetically coupled with permeant magnets and bars at synchronous speed A hybrid induction motor includes a fixed stator, an independently rotating outer rotor, and an inner rotor fixed to a motor shaft. The outer rotor is designed to have a low moment of inertia and includes angularly spaced apart first bars and permanent magnets on an inner surface of the outer rotor. The inner rotor includes angularly spaced apart second bars and interior flux barriers aligned with the second bars. The outer rotor is initially accelerated by cooperation of a rotating stator magnetic field with the first bars. As the outer rotor accelerates towards synchronous RPM, a rotating magnetic field of the permanent magnets cooperate with the second bars of the inner rotor to accelerate the inner rotor. At near synchronous speed the rotating stator magnetic field reaches through the outer rotor and into the inner rotor coupling the two rotors for efficient permanent magnet operation.
US10476355B2	Method of controlling a converter connected to an electric machine The invention relates to a method for controlling a converter connected to an electric machine by a cable (Cx) via a filter (F), said method consisting in determining at least one sequence of a plurality of voltage pulses forming a square wave signal to be applied to each conductor so as to minimize an overvoltage level, said sequence comprising a number 2N of successive pulses, N being greater than or equal to 1, each pulse being defined by a distinct rank n, said sequence being generated such that each increasing voltage pulse of rank n exhibits a pulse width that is identical to that of a decreasing voltage pulse of rank equal to 2N+1−n, and the method includes the following steps in particular: determining the number of successive pulses of said sequence; determining the width of each pulse of the sequence made suitable for minimizing the overvoltage level across the terminals of the electric machine (M).
US10476354B2	Robot drive with isolated optical encoder An apparatus including a frame, an optical sensor connected to the frame, and an environment separation barrier. The frame is configured to be attached to a housing of a motor assembly proximate an aperture which extends through the housing. The optical sensor comprises a camera. The environment separation barrier is configured to be connected to the housing at the aperture, where the environment separation barrier is at least partially transparent and located relative to the camera to allow the camera to view an image inside the housing through the environment separation barrier and the aperture.
US10476351B2	Electric drive module with a housing having an exterior wall into which a filter pickup and a suction tube are integrally formed A drive module with a housing, an electric motor coupled to the housing, a differential assembly, a transmission, and a filter-strainer assembly. The housing has an exterior wall member that defines an internal cavity and a suction tube. The internal cavity at least partly forms a lubricant sump with a sump outlet. The suction tube is spaced apart from and does not intersect the internal cavity such that the suction tube is not in direct fluid communication with the internal cavity. The differential assembly and transmission are received in the internal cavity and the transmission transmits rotary power between the electric motor and the differential assembly. The filter-strainer assembly is coupled to the housing and has a filter-strainer inlet, which is coupled in fluid communication to the sump outlet, and a filter-strainer outlet, which is directly coupled in fluid communication to a suction tube inlet of the suction tube.
US10476349B2	Method and apparatus for compact axial flux magnetically geared machines An axial flux magnetic geared machine includes a high speed magnetic rotor and a low speed magnetic rotor maintained in a spaced relationship from the high speed magnetic rotor. A modulating structure is disposed between the high speed magnetic rotor and the low speed magnetic rotor. A stator is disposed in a radially central bore of one or more of the high speed magnetic rotor, the low speed magnetic rotor, and the modulating structure.
US10476345B2	Rotary electric machine A rotary electric machine having a stator and a rotor, in addition to an electric control device and a connection device which comprises at least one coupling element for electrically connecting the control device to one or several electrical lines and a mass element provided to connect to an electric mass potential. In order to improve the machine with respect to electromagnetic interference, the stator is connected to the mass element by a contact bridge which has a first securing section and a second securing section in addition to a bridge element arranged between the securing sections and includes a single-piece spring steel sheet which is at least partially sinuous.
US10476338B2	Stator for electric rotary machine A stator for an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core which has plural slots; and segmented coils of a plurality of phases, wherein: the stator core is provided with a base plate at least one side thereof in an axial direction; the segmented coils of the plurality of phases include plural slot coils which are individually disposed in the plural slots of the stator core and which extend substantially linearly, and plural connection coils which are individually disposed in the base plate and which make up bridge portions by connecting the slot coils of a same phase together; the connection coil is accommodated in a connection coil accommodating groove formed on a front surface of the base plate; and the base plate is provided with a communication portion on an outer circumferential surface thereof for communicating with the connection coil accommodating groove.
US10476337B2	Stator A stator that includes an annular stator core having a plurality of slots and a plurality of coils attached to the stator core, the plurality of coils each including a main body that is inserted in the plurality of slots and includes two slot housed portions and coil end portions including oblique portions extending obliquely with respect to the axial direction, a radially first side end portion formed from one of the slot housed portions, and a radially second side end portion formed from the other one of the slot housed portions.
US10476335B2	Electric machine The invention belongs to the category of electric motors and power generators, and may expand the area of application, reduce costs, and increase the specific power and efficiency of electric machines. These electric machine comprise a rotor and a stator with winding coils and a control device. Stator winding coils are made as a system of radial and/or tangential coils connected in series and/or back-to-back; each coil has its own electric terminals. The control device connects its electric contacts with terminals of corresponding stator winding coils in order to provide a chain control of electric current supply to the corresponding stator coils and to create, at each point in time, a pre-determined stator magnetic field including a rotating or a reciprocating stator magnetic field, depending on the spatial position and the magnetic condition of the rotor. The invention can be applied to various fields of technology.
US10476329B2	Motor including a seal covering a high reflectivity metallic surface of a rotor hub This motor includes a stationary portion including a stator; and a rotating portion supported to be rotatable about a central axis extending in a vertical direction with respect to the stationary portion, and including a shaft arranged to extend along the central axis. The stationary portion includes a bearing arranged to rotatably support the shaft, and a base portion arranged to hold the stator. The rotating portion includes a rotor hub portion arranged to extend in an annular shape around the shaft; a magnet directly or indirectly fixed to the rotor hub portion, and arranged opposite to the stator; a flywheel arranged axially above the rotor hub portion; and a seal portion arranged to have a thickness smaller than the thickness of the magnet. At least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the rotor hub portion is a metal surface. The metal surface has a reflectivity higher than the reflectivity of an outer circumferential surface of the flywheel and the reflectivity of a surface of the seal portion. The metal surface is covered with the seal portion.
US10476327B2	Rotary electrical machine This disclosure discloses a rotary electrical machine of a variable field type configured to change a field magnetic flux. The rotary electrical machine includes a stator including stator windings and a stator core, and a rotor including a shaft rotatably supported, a rotor core relatively rotatably mounted on the shaft, and a plurality of first permanent magnets disposed on the rotor core. The rotor core is configured to be held at a predetermined angular position with respect to the shaft with a magnetic suction force of the first permanent magnet, and to increase a relative angle with the shaft in response to an increase of a load torque against the magnetic suction force. The rotor core has an approximately same axial length as the stator core.
US10476322B2	Electrical machine An electrical machine has a nonmetallic housing having a stator band and an endplate, wherein the laminated stator core is in self-locked engagement with the housing. Another electrical machine has a unitary nonmetallic housing with an integral stator band and an integral endplate, wherein the laminated stator core is over-molded with the housing. Yet another electrical machine has a unitary nonmetallic housing with an integral stator band and an integral endplate, wherein the laminated stator core is in engagement with the stator band with an interference fit.
US10476319B2	Magnetic resonance power supply apparatus A communication circuit receives information enabling computation of a power supply efficiency of the highest-priority power receiving device when supplying power to the power receiving devices as the power supply targets. A power supply circuit is capable of supplying power to a plurality of power receiving devices. A processor computes the power supply efficiency of the highest-priority power receiving device when supplying power to the power receiving devices as the power supply targets, decides the power receiving devices as the power supply targets so that an estimated supplied power is within a power supply capacity of the power supply circuit when supplying power to the power receiving devices as the power supply targets, and controls power supply so as to supply power to the decided the power receiving devices as the power supply targets.
US10476318B2	Battery-embedded device A battery-embedded device includes a substrate having a wiring, a coil fixed to the substrate, a battery fixed to the substrate, and a first temperature detecting element that is disposed on the substrate and configured to detect a temperature of the battery. An occupancy rate of the wiring in a first region of the substrate which is immediately below the first temperature detecting element is lower than an occupancy rate of the wiring in a second region of the substrate other than the first region.
US10476304B2	Wireless power receive coil for metal backed device An apparatus for wirelessly coupling power via a first magnetic field may include an electrically conductive casing portion configured to generate a second magnetic field in response to eddy currents induced in the electrically conductive casing portion by the first magnetic field. The electrically conductive casing portion may include a non-conductive area and a first slot. A power receiving element wound around the non-conductive area and crossing over the first slots can couple to the second magnetic field to output electrical current to wirelessly power or charge a load.
US10476294B2	Particle counter system and detecting apparatus A detecting apparatus includes a detecting carrier and a detecting device. The detecting carrier can be moved into a charging frame or anyone of storing frames of a stock room. The detecting device is installed in the detecting carrier and includes a power module and a detecting module. The detecting module is configured to detect environment information corresponding in position to the detecting carrier. The power module is configured to supply power for operating the detecting apparatus. When the detecting carrier is arranged in the charging frame, the power module is spaced away from the charging frame and is charged without contacting the charging frame.
US10476292B2	Transport and/or storage container for rechargeable wireless earphones The invention concerns a transport and/or storage container with integrated charging function for rechargeable wireless earphones comprising a container housing, at least one receiving unit for at least partially receiving a rechargeable wireless earphone, and an electrical container charging contact for connecting the transport and/or storage container to an electrical energy source, wherein the receiving unit has an electrical coupling contact cooperating with an electrical earphone charging contact of a rechargeable wireless earphone when it is placed in the receiving unit for recharging and wherein the electrical container charging contact and the electrical coupling contact are in the form of mutually complementary electrical contacts.
US10476290B2	Charging two-terminal portable electronic devices Systems, methods and apparatus for charging a two-terminal portable electronic device. In one example, the system, method, and apparatus include detecting, with a detection circuit, the two-terminal portable electronic device and electrically coupling the two-terminal portable electronic device to a multi-pin universal serial bus connector when the two-terminal portable electronic device is coupled to a receptacle provided by a charger; and charging, with an activation circuit, the two-terminal portable electronic device using a configuration channel terminal of the multi-pin universal serial bus connector upon detection of the two-terminal portable electronic device.
US10476280B2	Energy storage management device deciding charge voltage based on difference in charge amount or voltage difference between energy storage devices Provided is an energy storage device management device which includes a controller configured to decide a charge voltage to be applied to a plurality of energy storage devices connected in series, wherein the controller is configured to perform deciding the charge voltage based on a difference in charge amount or a voltage difference between the energy storage devices.
US10476277B2	Transmission arrangement such as for energy and/or signal transmission A transmission arrangement such as for energy and/or signal transmission, optionally for use in a machining center, respectively a turning and/or milling center, comprising a clamping unit comprising an outer housing of a preferably cylindrical basic shape, an inner housing received within the outer housing, as well as an inner cylinder held within the inner housing to be adjustable in an actuating direction A, said inner cylinder being configured to transmit a compressive or tensile force for clamping purposes, wherein the inner housing is supported against the outer housing via springs, and is displaceably mounted in the actuating direction A with respect to the outer housing and thus forms a spring force storage, wherein an electric motor is arranged integrated within the clamping unit to apply force in the actuating direction A to the inner cylinder via intermediate gear means, a console having a rotary table mounted therein to be rotatable, at least one first transmission device connected to the console and at least one second transmission device connected to the clamping unit, wherein the clamping unit is releasably fastened on the rotary table, and first and second transmission devices are configured to transmit electrical energy for driving the electric motor in a non-contact, preferably inductive manner between a first transmission device and a second transmission device.
US10476263B2	Device and operation method for electrostatic discharge protection An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device and an operation method of the ESD protection device are provided. The ESD protection device includes an ESD current rail, an ESD protection element string, and a bias circuit. A first end and a second end of the ESD protection element string are electrically connected to the ESD current rail and a signal pad, respectively. The ESD protection element string includes a first ESD protection element and a second ESD protection element that are serially connected. The bias circuit is electrically connected to the ESD protection element string to provide a bias voltage to a common connection node between the first ESD protection element and the second ESD protection element.
US10476248B2	Electrical device cover with keyhole inserts A base for an electrical outlet having a front surface and a back surface, at least one opening extending there through, the at least one opening having a size large enough to receive a socket face, at least one mounting screw aperture opening extending through the base, the mounting screw aperture having a first portion sized large enough to receive a mounting screw head, and at least a second portion extending into the first portion and through the base, the second portion sized large enough to allow a mounting screw shaft to extend through the base but small enough to disallow the mounting screw head from passing through the base, at least one keyhole cover removably secured within the first portion, and wherein the base is configured with the second portion of the mounting screw aperture accessible after the base is installed on the electrical outlet.
US10476245B2	Removing a metal shield from electrical cable A system and method for removing a metal foil shield from electrical wires and/or cable, using ablation process, shear stress generation and video camera feedback is disclosed. The metal foil shield is removed using ablation process, shear stress generation and video camera feedback. The system includes a holder configured to hold an electrical cable, a laser configured to provide a laser radiation beam and an optical system configured to shape the laser radiation beam and concentrate the laser radiation beam on surface of the metal foil shield with power sufficient to ablate a groove on the surface of the metal shield and a gripper configured to grip a segment of the electrical cable that protrudes from the holder twist it such as to generate a shear stress in the groove and separate the segment of the electrical cable from the rest of the cable.
US10476237B2	Quantum cascade laser A quantum cascade laser includes: a substrate having a principal surface, a back surface, and a substrate end face, the substrate end face extending along a reference plane intersecting a second direction which intersects the first direction; a semiconductor laminate having a laminate end face extending along the reference plane; a first electrode disposed on the semiconductor laminate; a second electrode disposed on the substrate; a first insulating film disposed on the laminate end face and the first electrode; a metal film disposed on the first insulating film, the laminate end face, the substrate end face, and the second electrode; and a second insulating film disposed on the first electrode, the second insulating film having a part on the first electrode between the metal film and the semiconductor laminate. On the first electrode, the second insulating film has a thickness larger than that of the first insulating film.
US10476235B2	Quantum cascade laser A quantum cascade laser includes: a semiconductor substrate including principal and back surfaces; a semiconductor laminate having a laminate end face, the laminate end face and, the substrate end face extending along a reference plane intersecting a second direction that intersects the first direction; a first electrode disposed on the semiconductor laminate, the semiconductor laminate being disposed between the first electrode and the semiconductor substrate; a second electrode disposed on the back surface; a first insulating film disposed on the laminate end face, the substrate end face, and the first electrode; a metal film disposed on the first insulating film and the laminate end face, the substrate end face, and the first electrode; and a second insulating film disposed on the second electrode, and on the substrate end face, the metal film being disposed between the first insulating film and the second insulating film.
US10476224B2	Optical apparatus An optical apparatus comprises an optical resonator defining an optical resonator path for an optical resonator beam and an optical beam expander optically coupled to the optical resonator, the optical beam expander defining an optical beam expander path for an optical beam expander beam. The optical resonator path and the optical beam expander path may be configured such that the optical resonator beam and the optical beam expander beam at least partially intersect. Such an optical apparatus may be configured for use as a laser target designator or a laser range finder.
US10476221B2	Power supply socket for halogen lamp, and halogen lamp To provide a socket for a halogen lamp, which allows easy attachment and removal operations, as well as enables stable contact between a lamp terminal and an external electrode terminal when the lamp is attached. The socket includes a first holder part having a first hole, a second holder part having a second hole, and a spring member accommodated at a position between the first hole and the second hole and having a third hole. The first hole, second hole, and third hole have a shape extending in a direction that is different from a direction in which the terminal is passed through. The terminal is turned after being passed through the holes, whereby the terminal moves inside the first hole, second hole, and third hole, and is fixed when the terminal reaches an outer edge portion of the third hole of the spring member.
US10476212B2	Electrical connector with shield cap and shielded terminals A shield cap is mounted to an electrical connector for reducing crosstalk between adjoining electrical connectors. The shield cap includes a body portion and opposite shield plates. The body portion is configured to engage the electrical connector and is formed from a non-conductive material. The opposite shield plates are connected to opposite sides of the body portion and configured to at least partially cover one or more insulation displacement contacts exposed from the electrical connector. The electrical connector includes a wire termination conductor configured to be connected to a wire conductor of a cable. The wire termination conductor is at least partially coated with a shielding layer.
US10476207B2	Electrical distribution assembly An electrical distribution assembly comprising a junction box having a box housing. The box housing comprises a plug portion to receive an electrical connector. The electrical connector has a connector housing comprising a plurality of cavities to receive and hold a terminal. The plug portion comprises a plurality of first blocking devices protruding along a mating axis. Each cavity comprises a second blocking device extending along the mating axis. Each of the first blocking devices blocks the corresponding second blocking device in a blocked position when the corresponding cavity is empty, thereby preventing movement of the connector housing towards the box housing. The assembly further comprises a terminal movable from an outward position to an inserted position. When inserted in the cavity, the terminal relocates the corresponding first or second blocking device to release the blocking, thereby allowing movement of the connector housing towards the box housing.
US10476200B1	Screw-on female connector for a multi-pin switch A screw-on female connector for a multi-pin switch having a housing with a retaining flange around the front end of the housing. A screw-on nut is mounted rotatably on the front end of the housing and the retaining flange retains the screw-on nut at the front end of the housing while allowing it to be screwed onto the mounting threads of a male switch. The screw-on female connector has a front seal positioned in an interior of the housing near the front end of the housing. The front seal is constructed to form a water tight connection between the screw-on female connector and a male connector when the screw-on nut is tightened onto the male connector. The screw-on nut also prevents the two connectors from being pulled apart. A rear seal at a rear end of the housing, in combination with the front seal, completely seals the screw-on female connector.
US10476199B2	Waterproof cable connector A waterproof cable connector may include a body having a substantially cylindrical shape and including a first upper surface, a first lower surface, and a first lateral surface, the body having a first hollow, a sealing member including a second upper surface, a second lower surface, and a second lateral surface and having a hole, the sealing member being inserted into the body, and a cap including a third upper surface, a third lower surface, and a third lateral surface and having a second hollow interior. The body may have a tapered surface formed on a portion of the inside of the first lateral surface. The sealing member may have a tapered surface formed on a portion of the outside of the second lateral surface. And at least one recess is formed in at least one of the second upper surface and the second lower surface.
US10476197B2	Coupler connector and cable terminator with side contacts An assembly comprising a cable terminator comprising a wire guide, a cube shaped securing cap comprising an open end for installation over the wire guide, and pairs of piercing contacts for piercing respective conductors of the cable. When assembled, an outer end of each of the piercing contacts is exposed on an outer surface of a respective securing cap sidewall. The assembly also comprises a coupler connector comprising one of a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) socket or a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) plug, a rearward surface comprising a cable terminator receiving socket, wherein pairs of contacts are exposed along at least one side wall of the socket, and further wherein each of a plurality of the tines in the modular socket or the terminal contacts of the plug is interconnected with a respective one of the contacts.
US10476194B2	Connector A connector includes a housing (10) formed with a terminal accommodating portion (11), terminal fittings (15) to be inserted into the terminal accommodating portion (11) from behind, a front retainer (30) to be assembled with the housing (10) from front, and locking surfaces (29) formed in the terminal accommodating portion (11) and configured to hold the front retainer (30) and the housing (10) in an assembled state by having locking projections (37) of the front retainer (30) locked thereto from behind. The locking surfaces (29) are inclined with respect to an assembling direction of the front retainer 30 with the housing (10).
US10476189B2	Connector and manufacturing method of the same A connector includes: a housing with a fitting portion; a terminal accommodated in the housing, one end side of the terminal being arranged in the fitting portion; a flat cable drawn out of a drawing-out portion of the housing, provided with conductors connected to the other end of the terminal; and a holder integrally provided with the terminal on the other end side of the terminal, accommodated in the drawing-out portion, in which a connection portion of the terminal and the flat cable is arranged. The flat cable is draw out of the drawing-out portion in a direction orthogonal to a fitting direction of the housing. The terminal is placed across the conductors at the connection portion. The drawing-out portion is closed with a sealing material. The sealing material is integrally provided with an inner periphery of the drawing-out portion and an outer periphery of the flat cable.
US10476188B2	Printed circuit board with embedded lateral connector Printed circuit boards (PCBs) may include embedded lateral connectors. The embedded lateral connectors may be configured to enable components to quickly couple to or plug into a PCB, thus saving time to form connections. The embedded lateral connectors may also reduce weight and/or size by avoiding need for bulky tradition collections with conventional components (e.g., solders, external pin connectors, etc.). The connectors may include male connectors, female connectors, and/or mounting connectors. The connectors may be configured to connect multiple PCBs together, such as using a stacked configuration, which may enable reducing a volume of space needed in a housing for the PCBs.
US10476186B2	Press fit terminal The present invention is to provide a press fit terminal which can suppress deterioration of the substrate when pressing and can ensure a holding force in a press-fit completion state. In elastic pieces, a portion around a top circular arc portion is formed to be thinner than a portion around a base end circular portion. Therefore, the elastic pieces can be easily deformed in the top side, and deterioration of a substrate can be prevented when pressing the press fit terminal into a through hole. Further, the elastic pieces around the base end circular portion are formed to be relatively thicker. Therefore, in the press-fit completion state, the elastic pieces can be pressed to the inner peripheral surface of the through hole with an appropriate pressure.
US10476178B2	Cable mounting member, cable mounting member with cable and connector A cable mounting member (30) to be mounted on a cable (21) including cores (23) and an insulation coating (24) surrounding the cores (23) includes a first holding portion (34) for holding the cable (21) by being held in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the insulation coating (24), a second holding portion (35) provided at a position different from the first holding portion (34) in a direction along an axial direction of the cable (21) via a first slit (33) for holding the cable (21) by being held in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the insulation coating (24), and deflectable and deformable first couplings (37) provided in parts between the first and second holding portions (34, 35) where the first slit (33) is absent and coupling the first and second holding portions (34, 35).
US10476177B2	Electric wire with terminal and terminal crimping apparatus An electric wire with a terminal includes: an electric wire; and a crimp terminal including a terminal connection part on a front side and an electric wire connection part on a rear side, the terminal connection part configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal, the electric wire connection part being wound around and crimped onto the electric wire, in which a bent part is formed on a bottom face of the electric wire connection part, the bent part being bent toward a side for causing a rear end of the bottom face to be closer to a center axis of the electric wire connection part.
US10476175B2	Terminal-equipped electric wire, and terminal A terminal-equipped electric wire includes: an electric wire including a core wire and an insulating coating; and a terminal connected to the core wire exposed from an end portion of the electric wire. The terminal includes: a flat-plate-shaped weld portion; a bottom plate portion; and a crimping piece. In a state where the crimping piece is crimped so as to be wound around an outer periphery of the insulating coating, a leading edge of the crimping piece is located on a bottom plate portion side with respect to a first virtual plane that passes through the center of the electric wire and is perpendicular to the bottom plate portion, and the leading edge of the crimping piece is in proximity to a side edge of the bottom plate portion on a side opposite to a side on which the crimping piece is provided.
US10476172B2	Antenna, antenna array, and wireless communication device Provided are an antenna, an antenna array, and a wireless communication device with which it is possible to achieve size reduction while suppressing degradation in radiation efficiency. This antenna comprises two antenna elements and a conductor reflection plate. The antenna element includes: a C-shaped conductor which is a substantially C-shaped conductor in which a split part is formed such that a portion of an annular conductor is made discontinuous; and a conductor power feed line that is electrically connected to one of the two parts of the C-shaped conductor that oppose one another across the split part, the conductor power feed line constituting an electric circuit for feeding power to the C-shaped conductor. The two antenna elements are arranged substantially orthogonal to one another such that, when the elements are projected onto the conductor reflection plate, one antenna element and a portion of the other antenna element overlap one another.
US10476167B2	Adjustable multiple-input and multiple-output antenna structures An electronic device may include antennas, a ground, and a housing. First and second gaps in the housing may define a segment that forms a resonating element for a first antenna. First, second, third, and fourth antenna feeds may be coupled between the segment and ground. Control circuitry may control adjustable components to place the device in first, second, third, or fourth modes. In the first and second modes, the first and fourth feeds convey signals at the same frequency using a multiple-input and multiple-output scheme while the second and third feeds are inactive. In the third mode, the second feed is active and the first, third, and fourth feeds are inactive. In the fourth mode, the third feed is active and the first, second, and fourth antenna feeds are inactive. Isolating return paths may be coupled between the segment and ground in the first and second modes.
US10476161B2	Loop antenna and electronic apparatus A loop antenna includes: a substrate; a feeding element including a first portion and a second portion which are provided on a first surface of the substrate, have electrical conductivity, are fed with electric power from a feeding point, the first portion extending from the feeding point in a first direction, the second portion extending from the feeding point in a second direction; and an emitting element which has electrical conductivity, is formed in a loop shape in such a manner that the emitting element surrounds the substrate along a surface perpendicular to the first surface, and includes a first end provided so as to electromagnetically couple to the first portion on the first surface and a second end provided so as to electromagnetically couple to the second portion on the first surface, a gap being disposed between the first end and the second end.
US10476153B2	Directional antenna with signal strength feedback and methods Disclosed are systems and methods for improving the quality and strength of a wireless signal connecting a mobile station and a base station, in situations where the mobile station is able to utilize a directional antenna. The system for improving system quality comprise, for example, a directional antenna; an antenna power level detector which detects a signal strength; a signal inverter wherein the signal inverter generates a conditioned signal from the detected signal strength; an indicator wherein the indicator provides an indicator of a signal quality level from the detected signal strength; a reorientation decision logic wherein the reorientation decision logic communicates an instruction for movement of the directional antenna, wherein the detected signal strength is correlated to a projected orientation of the directional antenna at a time the signal strength is detected, and further wherein an antenna orientation control loop communicates a reorientation instruction for the directional antenna.
US10476145B2	Radio frequency sensor module with mounting ears A radio frequency sensor module adapted for mounting a vehicle exhaust system structure. A bracket on the module includes a first mounting ear defining a first through aperture. A printed circuit board is coupled to the bracket. A cover defines an opening and an interior cavity in communication with the opening. The bracket and the cover are coupled together in a relationship with the printed circuit board extending through the opening in the cover and into the interior cavity of the cover and the first and second mounting ears in an abutting and overlying relationship. A mounting bolt extends through the respective first and second through apertures in the respective first and second mounting ears for securing the radio frequency module to the housing of a vehicle exhaust system.
US10476144B2	Car and car antenna device A vehicle includes a roof panel and a vehicle antenna device. The roof panel includes a roof portion and an antenna cover portion that protrudes from the roof portion and has an internal space. The vehicle antenna device includes a base portion and an upright portion that extends from the base portion into the internal space in the antenna cover portion. An outer imaginary plane is assumed to extend along a boundary line on a boundary portion between an outer surface of the roof portion and an outer surface of the antenna cover portion. In a state where the vehicle antenna device is mounted on the vehicle, at least part of the base portion is located below the outer imaginary plane.
US10476143B1	Antenna for base station of wireless remote-control system An antenna for a receiver, a transmitter, and/or a transceiver of a base station of a wireless remote-control system is provided. The antenna includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and a metallic stamped antenna structure. The antenna structure is directly mounted on the PCB. The antenna structure includes a lineal antenna body and legs. The antenna body and the legs are unitary with one another. The legs extend from the antenna body and are mechanically mounted to the PCB to support the antenna body over the PCB with the antenna body lying above the PCB within a plane.
US10476141B2	Ka-band high-gain earth cover antenna An antenna system includes a reflector, an offset feed horn and a support platform. The reflector has a reflector surface. The reflector and offset feed horn are attached to the support platform. The offset feed horn transmits RF microwave energy toward the reflector surface. The antenna system further includes a turntable which has a single rotation axis. The turntable rotates about the antenna rotation axis. The support platform is attached to the turntable such that the turntable rotates the support platform. The reflector surface has a perturbed paraboloid geometrical shape that reflects most RF microwave energy along a beam peak pointing direction. The reflector surface reflects RF microwave energy towards the earth's surface in such a manner that the reflected RF microwave energy illuminates a narrow strip of the earth's surface from nadir to a point near the earth's horizon with substantially constant intensity. The offset feed horn is oriented and positioned such that it points away from the beam peak pointing direction.
US10476138B2	Cellular radio shroud A shroud for a small cell antenna system is designed to house cellular telephone equipment, including a plurality of transceivers, RF conditioning equipment, and a network interface, which includes an interface to a optical fiber network. The housing has walls that define an interior region. The housing has at least one movable door that can be opened and closed to respectively permit and prevent access to the interior region. A generally planar backbone is situated in the interior region. The backbone has a plurality of apertures. A plurality of elongated brackets can be mounted to the backbone. Each bracket has a plurality of hooks and is attached to the backbone by insertion of the hooks into the apertures of the backbone. RF conditioning equipment (e.g., diplexer, triplexer, multiplexer, etc.) is mounted on one of the brackets within the housing. A network interface is mounted on another one of the brackets within the housing. Furthermore, one or more transceivers are mounted on one or more other brackets within the housing. The transceivers can be of different types, if desired.
US10476134B2	Wireless device including a multiband antenna system A wireless handheld or portable device includes an antenna system operable in a first frequency region and a higher, second frequency region. The antenna system comprises an antenna structure, a matching and tuning system, and an external input/output (I/O) port. The antenna structure comprises at least one radiating element including a connection point, a ground plane layer including at least one connection point, and at least one internal I/O port. At least one radiating element of the antenna structure protrudes beyond the ground plane layer. The antenna structure features at any of its internal I/O ports when disconnected from the matching and tuning system an input return loss curve having a minimum at a frequency outside the first frequency region of the antenna system. The matching and tuning system modifies the impedance of the antenna structure and provides impedance matching to the antenna system in the first and second regions.
US10476129B2	Rotatable antenna mount A rotatable antenna mount for mounting an antenna to a structure includes a mounting bracket, an antenna rotation assembly and an antenna mounting pole. The mounting bracket includes a base and two sidewalls that together define an opening into which the structure is received. An adjustment clamp is inserted through one of the sidewalls of the base and mounts the mounting bracket to the structure situated within the space. The antenna mounting pole is mounted to the rotation assembly. The antenna rotation assembly is situated on the mounting bracket and includes at least two rotation brackets that are hingedly joined to one another so that the antenna mounting pole to which an antenna is mounted may be selectively moved in at least two dimensions.
US10476122B2	Cryogenic-stripline microwave attenuator The technology described herein is directed towards a cryogenic-stripline microwave attenuator. A first high thermal conductivity substrate such as sapphire and a second high thermal conductivity substrate such as sapphire, along with a signal conductor comprising one or more attenuator lines between the substrates form a stripline. A compression component such as one or more screws, vias (plus clamps) and/or clamps presses the first high thermal conductivity substrate against one side of the signal conductor and presses the second high thermal conductivity substrate against another side of the signal conductor. The high thermal conductivity of the substrates facilitates improved thermalization, while the pressing of the substrates against the conductor reduces the thermal boundary (Kapitza) resistance and thereby, for example, improves thermalization and reduces thermal noise.
US10476120B2	Multi-port phase shifter with multiple lines formed on opposite surfaces of a ground A multi-port phase shifter includes a ground, a first line on one surface of the ground, a second line on the other surface of the ground, a third line spaced at a predetermined distance from the upper surface of the first line and facing a part of the first line, and a fourth line spaced at a predetermined distance from the upper surface of the second line and facing a part of the second line. A via hole penetrates the ground. A power supply line on the one surface of the ground includes a region having the via hole. Multiple ports make the phase shifter applicable to a sector antenna for obtaining a high gain. Phase shifter volume can be reduced by implementing multiple ports in one phase shifter without coupling two or more phase shifters, thereby eliminating an additional component such as a fixing pole or a connecting pole.
US10476115B2	Battery cell cooling plate with cell vents Methods and systems for creating a battery module. A battery cell can include a vent in the bottom of the battery. To allow the battery to be attached to a cooling plate and allow the vent to function properly, an opening is formed in the cooling plate under the battery. The opening can vent gasses from the vent in the battery to atmosphere through a chamber in the cooling plate or a conduit in the cooling plate.
US10476102B2	Battery A battery includes a case, at least one of a first battery cell and a second battery cell disposed in the case, and a graphite sheet disposed at at least one of a position between the case and the first battery cell and a position between the first battery cell and the second battery cell. The graphite sheet has a terminal portion for taking out an electrical signal.
US10476101B2	Electrical device To improve cycle durability in an electrical device such as a lithium ion secondary battery including a negative electrode containing a silicon-containing negative electrode active material, an electrical device includes a power generating element containing a unit cell layer. The unit cell contains a positive electrode in which a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material is formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode active material layer containing a silicon-containing negative electrode active material is formed on a surface of a negative electrode current collector, and a separator. In the unit cell layer, the electrical device satisfies formula (1): 0.91≤C/A<0.99 where the area of the negative electrode active material layer is A [m2] and the area of the positive electrode active material layer is C [m2].
US10476097B2	Method of manufacturing secondary battery and apparatus for the same The present invention has an object to provide a secondary battery manufacturing method and apparatus capable of impregnating a sufficient amount of electrolyte in an electrode laminated body with simplified work effort while reducing working time and a manufacturing cost. The method of manufacturing a secondary battery according to the present invention comprises the steps of: inserting, into an outer container, an electrode laminated body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are laminated with a separator interposed therebetween; sealing an outer peripheral portion of the outer container except for a part thereof before or after the electrode laminated body is inserted; and injecting electrolyte (5) into the outer container having the electrode laminated body inserted therein, from non-sealed part as an injection port (6a). In the step of injecting the electrolyte (5), injection of the electrolyte (5) is started in an atmospheric pressure environment, and then the injection of the electrolyte (5) and pressure reduction of an environmental pressure are performed.
US10476092B2	Fuel cell system, fuel cell mountable vehicle and method of controlling fuel cell system A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell; a cooling liquid supply flow path for supplying cooling liquid to the fuel cell; a radiator for cooling the cooling liquid; a first temperature sensor, provided at an outlet of the radiator, for measuring a temperature of the cooling liquid; an ambient temperature sensor; and a controller. The controller executes: estimating a temperature of the cooling liquid inside the cooling liquid supply flow path based on an ambient temperature measured by the ambient temperature sensor; acquiring a temperature of the cooling liquid inside the cooling liquid supply flow path based on the temperature measured by the first temperature sensor after it is determined that the cooling liquid within the radiator has reached the first temperature sensor; and adjusting a flow rate of the cooling liquid based on the estimated temperature or the acquired temperature of the cooling liquid.
US10476066B2	Laminated body A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator having a laminated body which is not easily curled is provided. The laminated body includes a porous base material containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component and a porous layer which is disposed on at least one surface of the porous base material and which contains a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin. The porous base material has a piercing strength of not less than 26.0 gf/g/m2. The polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin contains crystal form α in an amount of not less than 36 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of a total amount of the crystal form α and crystal form β contained in the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin.
US10476056B2	Battery pack housing structure, and electronic apparatus A battery pack housing structure is used for an electronic apparatus including a housing portion for housing a battery pack and a battery cover for covering the housing portion. The battery pack, the housing portion, and the battery cover comprise battery-pack side-surface protruding portions, housing-portion side-surface protruding portions, and cover lower-surface protruding portions, respectively. Before the battery pack is positioned at a mounting position in the electronic apparatus, the battery pack is positioned at a pre-mounting position. When the battery cover is mounted, the battery pack is pushed from the pre-mounting position to the mounting position. The battery-pack side-surface protruding portions, the housing-portion side-surface protruding portions, and the cover lower-surface protruding portions are engaged, and movement of the battery pack in a terminal connection direction and movement of the battery pack from the lower surface toward the upper surface are thereby restricted.
US10476045B2	Extruded battery case An exemplary battery cell assembly includes, among other things, an extruded case that provides an open area, and an electrode of a battery pack of an electrified vehicle. The electrode is held within the open area. An exemplary electrode housing method includes, among other things, positioning an electrode of an electrified vehicle battery pack within an open area of an extruded case.
US10476039B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device and a method for manufacturing the same capable of preventing a defective drive of a gate-in-panel (GIP) driver by dissipating high heat generated in a large-sized thin film transistor of the GIP driver are disclosed. The display device includes a flexible substrate, a GIP driver and a display unit disposed on the flexible substrate, a protective member disposed under the flexible substrate, and a heat pad disposed between the flexible substrate and the protective member and overlapping the GIP driver.
US10476037B2	Flexible display apparatus Disclosed is a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display apparatus includes a display part, a first adhesive film, an optical film, a second adhesive film, and a window film sequentially stacked, and the second adhesive film has a water-vapor permeability of about 200 g/m2·24 hr or less, and the first adhesive film has a lower restoration force than the second adhesive film, as calculated by the Equation B set forth herein.
US10476025B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting display (OLED) apparatus includes: a first electrode; a first organic functional layer disposed on the first electrode, the first organic functional layer including a first emission layer; a first opposing electrode covering a top surface and side surfaces of the first organic functional layer; a second electrode disposed separate from the first electrode; a second organic functional layer disposed on the second electrode, the second organic functional layer including a second emission layer; and a second opposing electrode covering a top surface and side surfaces of the second organic functional layer, wherein a lateral thickness of the first opposing electrode covering the side surfaces of the first organic functional layer is greater than a lateral thickness of the second opposing electrode covering the side surfaces of the second organic functional layer.
US10476023B2	Display element, organic light emitting display device and data driver The present disclosure relates to a display element comprising an organic light emitting diode including a first electrode and a second electrode, a driving transistor including a first node to be supplied with a data voltage, a second node connected to the first electrode of the organic light emitting diode, and a third node electrically connected to a driving voltage line, a first transistor electrically connected between a data line configured to supply the data voltage and the first node of the driving transistor, a second transistor electrically connected between an initialization voltage line configured to supply an initialization voltage and the second node of the driving transistor, and a capacitor electrically connected between the first node and the second node of the driving transistor.
US10476019B2	Organic optoelectronic device and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides an organic optoelectronic device and method for manufacturing the same. The method deposits the organic layer and the second electrode layer in the same range, and laser scans the second electrode layer at a plurality of first predetermined locations to form electrical connections between the second electrode layer and the contact electrodes. The present invention can effectively reduce the number of times for metal mask positioning and replacement to significantly reduce the manufacturing time and decrease the contamination resulted from the replacement of the metal mask. Besides, the electrical connection formed by laser scanning can connect a plurality of organic optoelectronic components in series and arrange them side by side. The present invention can be applied to organic optoelectronic device, such as OLED devices and OPV devices.
US10476008B2	Compound for organic optoelectric device and organic optoelectric device and display device A compound for an organic optoelectric device represented by Chemical Formula 1, a composition for an organic optoelectric device, and an organic optoelectric device and display device including the same are disclosed. Chemical Formula 1 is the same as defined in the specification.
US10476005B2	Composition, laminate, method of manufacturing laminate, transistor, and method of manufacturing transistor Laminate, method of manufacturing laminate, transistor, and method of manufacturing transistor using a composition having the following (a) to (c): (a) a first organic compound represented by Formula (1) below (R represents a hydrogen atom or a glycidyl group. A plurality of Rs may be identical to or different from each other, but each of at least two Rs is a glycidyl group), (b) a second organic compound represented by Formula (2) below, and (c) a photocationic polymerization initiator
US10476004B2	Method of manufacturing flexible display panel A method for manufacturing a flexible display panel includes the steps of: step S1, providing a carrier substrate on which a groove conforming to a size of a flexible display panel is formed on one side of the carrier substrate; step S2, formed a flexible substrate in the groove; step S3, forming a thin film transistor, an organic light emitting diode layer, and an encapsulation layer on the flexible substrate to form the flexible display panel; and step S4, directly remove the flexible display panel from the carrier substrate.
US10475997B1	Forming resistive memory crossbar array employing selective barrier layer growth A method is presented for protecting resistive random access memory (RRAM) stacks within a resistive memory crossbar array. The method includes forming a plurality of conductive lines within an interlayer dielectric (ILD), forming a barrier layer over at least one conductive line of the plurality of conductive lines, the barrier layer directly contacting an entire upper surface of the at least one conductive line, and forming a RRAM stack including a bottom electrode, a high-k dielectric layer, and a top electrode over the barrier layer.
US10475995B2	Tip-contact controlled three dimensional (3D) vertical self select memory A variable resistance memory cell with a wide difference (“window”) between threshold voltages is provided. The window between threshold voltages is increased by amplifying the stoichiometry gradient by means of an asymmetry in the memory cell architecture to provide a greater margin for detecting different logic states of the memory cell.
US10475985B2	MRAM magnetic shielding with fan-out wafer level packaging Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) fan-out wafer level packages with package level and chip level magnetic shielding and methods of forming these magnetic shields processed at the wafer-level are disclosed. The method includes providing a MRAM wafer prepared with a plurality of MRAM dies. The MRAM wafer is processed to form a magnetic shield layer over the front side of the MRAM wafer, and the wafer is separated into a plurality of individual dies. An individual MRAM die includes front, back and lateral surfaces and the magnetic shield layer is disposed over the front surface of the MRAM die. Magnetic shield structures are provided over the individual MRAM dies. The magnetic shield structure encapsulates and surrounds back and lateral surfaces of the MRAM die. An encapsulation layer is formed to cover the individual MRAM dies which are provided with magnetic shield structures. A redistribution layer (RDL) is formed over and lines exposed front surfaces of the encapsulated MRAM dies and the encapsulated MRAM dies are separated into individual MRAM fan-out wafer level packages.
US10475976B2	Vertical solid-state transducers and high voltage solid-state transducers having buried contacts and associated systems and methods Solid-state transducers (“SSTs”) and vertical high voltage SSTs having buried contacts are disclosed herein. An SST die in accordance with a particular embodiment can include a transducer structure having a first semiconductor material at a first side of the transducer structure, and a second semiconductor material at a second side of the transducer structure. The SST can further include a plurality of first contacts at the first side and electrically coupled to the first semiconductor material, and a plurality of second contacts extending from the first side to the second semiconductor material and electrically coupled to the second semiconductor material. An interconnect can be formed between at least one first contact and one second contact. The interconnects can be covered with a plurality of package materials.
US10475963B2	Light emitting diode A light-emitting diode with a stacked structure, having a first region and a second region and a third region, wherein all three regions have a substrate and an n-doped lower cladding layer and an active layer generating electromagnetic radiation, wherein the active layer includes a quantum well structure, and a p-doped upper cladding layer, and the first region additionally has a tunnel diode formed on the upper cladding layer and composed of a p+ layer and an n+ layer, and an n-doped current distribution layer. The current distribution layer and the n-doped contact layer are covered with a conductive trace. At least the lower cladding layer, the active layer, the upper cladding layer, the tunnel diode, and the current distribution layer are monolithic in design. The second region has a contact hole with a bottom region.
US10475957B2	LED light source module and display device An LED light source module includes a light emitting stacked body, and a first through electrode structure and a second through electrode structure passing through a portion of the light emitting stacked body. The light emitting stacked body includes a base insulating layer, light emitting layers sequentially stacked on the base insulating layer, each of the light emitting layers including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and an interlayer insulating layer disposed between the light emitting layers. The first through electrode structure is connected to the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer of each of the light emitting layers, and the second through electrode structure is connected to any one or any combination of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer of each of the light emitting layers.
US10475955B2	Method for producing a plurality of components, and component A method for producing a plurality of components and a component are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes providing a carrier composite comprising a base body and a planar connecting surface, providing a wafer composite comprising a semiconductor body composite and a planar contact surface, connecting the wafer composite to the carrier composite thereby forming a joint composite so that the planar contact surface and the planar connecting surface are joined forming a joint boundary surface. The method further includes reducing inner mechanical stress in the joint composite so that a material of the carrier composite is removed in places, wherein the joint composite is thermally treated in order to form a permanent mechanically-stable connection between the wafer composite and the carrier composite, and wherein reducing inner stress is effected prior to the thermal treatment.
US10475950B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes an active structure, wherein the active structure includes a well layer and a barrier layer. A first semiconductor layer of first conductivity type and a second semiconductor layer of second conductivity type sandwich the active structure. A first intermediate layer is between the first semiconductor layer and the active structure, wherein the first semiconductor layer has a first band gap, the second semiconductor layer has a second band gap, the well layer has a third band gap, and the first intermediate layer has a fourth band gap, wherein the first band gap and the second band gap are both larger than the fourth band gap, and the fourth band gap is larger than the third band gap. A first window layer is on the first semiconductor layer, wherein the first intermediate layer includes Alz1Ga1−z1As, the first window layer includes Alz2Ga1−z2As, and z1>z2.
US10475948B1	Transparent ultraviolet photodetector A method of fabricating a visibly transparent, ultraviolet (UV) photodetector is provided. The method includes laying a first electrode onto a substrate surface, the first electrode being formed of a carbon-based, single-layer material. A block is patterned over an end of the first electrode and portions of the substrate surface. The block is formed of a visibly transparent material that is able to be deposited into the block at 75° C.-125° C. In addition, the method includes masking a section of the block and exposed sections of the first electrode. A second electrode is laid onto an unmasked section of the block with an end of the second electrode laid onto the substrate surface. The second electrode is formed of the carbon-based, single-layer material.
US10475946B2	Method of manufacturing back surface junction type solar cell A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes: forming a conductive thin film layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming an insulating film on the conductive thin film layer; forming a conductive thin film layer exposed portion by removing a part of the insulating film; forming a plating film in the conductive thin film layer exposed portion; and removing the insulating film and the conductive thin film layer in an area not overlapping the plating film, wherein the plating film formed in the forming of a plating film is formed to cover the insulating film.
US10475941B2	Photodetector with conductive channel made from two dimensional material A photodetector has a two dimensional conductive channel and a quantum dot layer configured to generate charge on exposure to incident electromagnetic radiation. The surface texture of the quantum dot layer has texturing to provide surface roughness which increases the amount of electromagnetic radiation absorbed in the quantum dot layer in comparison to a photodetector having a flat (non-textured) incident electromagnetic radiation surface.
US10475938B2	Process for producing conductive pastes for forming solar cell electrodes A process for producing conductive pastes for forming solar cell electrodes, including a step of measuring binding energies of oxygen in a glass frit by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, a step of selecting a glass frit providing an X-ray photoelectron spectrum representing binding energies of oxygen in which the signal intensity of a peak with a peak top at a range from 529 eV to less than 531 eV has a proportion of 40% or more relative to the total of signal intensities from 526 eV to 536 eV, and a step of mixing together a conductive powder, the glass frit and an organic vehicle.
US10475937B1	Optical sensor packages employing cloaking layers An optical sensor package includes a substrate, a wall disposed upon the substrate, and a cover layer disposed on the wall. The substrate, the wall, and the cover layer at least partially define a cavity. The optical sensor package also includes a sensor disposed upon the substrate within the cavity. A cloaking layer is disposed upon to the cover layer. The cloaking layer is transmissive to at least a portion of a light spectrum and is configured to at least partially conceal the sensor. In some examples, the optical sensor package also includes a light source disposed upon the substrate within another cavity at least partially defined by the wall and the cover layer.
US10475933B1	Method for preparing layered metal oxide field effect material A method for preparing a layered metal oxide field effect material includes depositing a first metal oxide, a core-layer metal, and a second metal oxide sequentially on the substrate by vacuum vapor deposition, the first metal oxide and the core-layer metal undergoing a redox reaction to form a first surface layer and a core-layer precursor on the substrate, and the core-layer precursor and the second metal oxide undergoing a redox reaction to form a core layer and a second surface layer; and the band gap of the metal oxide in the core layer is ≥3 eV, the band gaps of the metal oxide in the first surface layer and the second surface layer are independently ≤3 eV, and the difference between the band gap of the metal oxide in the core layer and the band gap of the metal oxide in the first surface layer is ≥1 eV. The present preparation method has advantages of simple operation, a low production cost, a good film forming property, and the high carrier mobility of the product.
US10475931B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator over a substrate; a first oxide over the first insulator; a second oxide in contact with at least a portion of the top surface of the first oxide; a second insulator over the second oxide; a first conductor over the second insulator; a second conductor over the first conductor; a third insulator over the second conductor; a fourth insulator in contact with side surfaces of the second insulator, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the third insulator; and a fifth insulator in contact with the top surface of the second oxide and a side surface of the fourth insulator. The top surface of the fourth insulator is substantially aligned with the top surface of the third insulator.
US10475925B2	Complementary metal oxide semiconductor device and method of forming the same A method for forming a complementary metal oxide semiconductor device is disclosed. First, a substrate having a first device region and a second device region is provided. A first trench is formed in the first device region and filled with a first material. A second trench is formed in the second device region and filled with a second material. The first material and the second material comprise different stresses. After that, a first gate structure and a second gate structure are formed on the first material and the second material and completely covering the first trench and the second trench, respectively.
US10475924B2	Ferroelectric memory devices A ferroelectric memory device includes a substrate, a ferroelectric layer, a variable resistive memory layer and a gate electrode which are sequentially stacked on a surface of the substrate. The ferroelectric layer has any one of a plurality of different remanent polarization values depending on a resistive state of the variable resistive memory layer.
US10475917B2	MOSFET A MOSFET includes a semiconductor base substrate where a super junction structure is formed of an n-type column region and a p-type column region. A total amount of a dopant in the n-type column region is set to a value greater than a total amount of a dopant in the p-type column region. The MOSFET is configured to be operated during a period from a point of time when a drain current starts to decrease to a point of time when the drain current becomes 0 for the first time in response to turning off of the MOSFET such that a first period during which the drain current is decreased, a second period during which the drain current is increased or the drain current becomes constant, and a third period during which the drain current is decreased again occur in this order.
US10475912B2	Gate arrangements in quantum dot devices Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack; a layer of gate dielectric above the quantum well stack; a first gate metal and a second gate metal above the layer of gate dielectric; and a gate wall between the first gate metal and the second gate metal, wherein the gate wall is above the layer of gate dielectric, and the gate wall includes a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.
US10475911B2	Semiconductor device having a source region with chalcogen atoms Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor device that includes a body region of a field effect transistor structure formed in a semiconductor substrate between a drift region of the field effect transistor structure and a source region of the field effect transistor structure. The semiconductor substrate includes chalcogen atoms at an atom concentration of less than 1×1013 cm−3 at a p-n junction between the body region and the drift region, and at least part of the source region includes chalcogen atoms at an atom concentration of greater than 1×1014 cm−3. Additional semiconductor device embodiments and corresponding methods of manufacture are described.
US10475907B2	Vertical tunnel field effect transistor (FET) Among other things, one or more techniques for forming a vertical tunnel field effect transistor (FET), and a resulting vertical tunnel FET are provided herein. In an embodiment, the vertical tunnel FET is formed by forming a core over a first type substrate region, forming a second type channel shell around a circumference greater than a core circumference, forming a gate dielectric around a circumference greater than the core circumference, forming a gate electrode around a circumference greater than the core circumference, and forming a second type region over a portion of the second type channel shell, where the second type has a doping opposite a doping of the first type. In this manner, line tunneling is enabled, thus providing enhanced tunneling efficiency for a vertical tunnel FET.
US10475905B2	Techniques for vertical FET gate length control Techniques for VFET gate length control are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: patterning fins in a substrate; forming first polymer spacers alongside opposite sidewalls of the fins; forming second polymer spacers offset from the fins by the first polymer spacers; removing the first polymer spacers selective to the second polymer spacers; reflowing the second polymer spacers to close a gap to the fins; forming a cladding layer above the second polymer spacers; removing the second polymer spacers; forming gates along opposite sidewalls of the fins exposed in between the bottom spacers and the cladding layer, wherein the gates have a gate length Lg set by removal of the second polymer spacers; forming top spacers above the cladding layer; and forming top source and drains above the top spacers. A VFET device is also provided.
US10475894B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor region made of a material to which conductive impurities are added, an insulating film formed on a surface of the semiconductor region, and an electroconductive gate electrode formed on the insulating film. The gate electrode is made of a material whose Fermi level is closer to a Fermi level of the semiconductor region than a Fermi level of Si in at least a portion contiguous to the insulating film.
US10475886B2	Modified fin cut after epitaxial growth A method of forming a gate located above multiple fin regions of a semiconductor device. The method may include removing unwanted fin structures after epitaxially growing junctions.
US10475870B2	Display device Provided is a display device including a plurality of pixels at least one of which has a first transistor and a light-emitting element. The first transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating film, and a first terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to the semiconductor film. The second terminal is electrically connected to the light-emitting element. A region in which the first terminal overlaps with the gate electrode can be smaller than a region in which the second terminal overlaps with the gate electrode.
US10475867B2	Organic light-emitting display panel and display apparatus thereof An organic light-emitting display panel and a display apparatus are provided. An exemplary organic light-emitting display panel includes a base substrate; a pixel definition layer including a plurality of openings and disposed on the base substrate; and a plurality of sub-pixels. A sub-pixel includes an organic light-emitting diode; and at least a portion of the organic light-emitting diode is in an opening. The plurality of sub-pixels include at least one first sub-pixel; and at least one isolation element is disposed in the opening corresponding to the at least one first sub-pixel.
US10475864B2	Display component A display component is provided. The display component has a flexible display panel, a first glass substrate, and a second glass substrate. The flexible display panel includes a first display portion, a second display portion, and a bending portion. The bending portion connects the first display portion and the second display portion. The first glass substrate covers a first light emitting surface of the first display portion, and the second glass substrate covers a second light emitting surface of the second display portion.
US10475862B2	Display device having an input sensing unit A display device includes a display panel and an input-sensing unit located on the display panel. The input-sensing unit includes a plurality of sensor portions. At least one of the sensor portions is different from the others in terms of area or distance.
US10475861B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting display device realizes slimness, having flexibility, and effectively reducing or preventing visibility of reflected external light, which includes an organic light emitting panel, a first adhesive layer on the organic light emitting panel, a touch electrode array being in contact with the first adhesive layer, a separation layer on the touch electrode array, and a cover film on the separation layer.
US10475853B2	Replacement materials processes for forming cross point memory Methods of forming memory cells comprising phase change and/or chalcogenide materials are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes providing a lower line stack extending in a first direction, the lower line stack comprising a sacrificial line over a lower conductive line. The method further includes forming a chalcogenide line extending in the first direction by selectively removing the sacrificial material of the sacrificial line and replacing the sacrificial line with a chalcogenide material.
US10475852B2	Resistive switching random access memory with asymmetric source and drain A resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure includes a resistive memory element formed on a semiconductor substrate. The resistive element includes a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a resistive material layer positioned between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The RRAM structure further includes a field effect transistor (FET) formed on the semiconductor substrate, the FET having a source and a drain. The drain of the FET has a higher doping concentration than the source of the FET. The resistive memory element is coupled with the drain via a portion of an interconnect structure.
US10475847B2	Semiconductor device having stress-neutralized film stack and method of fabricating same A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first film having a first film stress type and a first film stress intensity over a substrate and forming a second film having a second film stress type and a second film stress intensity over the first film. The second film stress type is different than the first film stress type. The second film stress intensity is about same as the first film stress intensity. The second film compensates stress induced effect of non-flatness of the substrate by the first film.
US10475846B2	Media security validation A residual Infrared (IR) image is calculated from IR images of valuable media having embedded IR security features and visible light images of the valuable media. Features of the IR residual image are extracted as a template for authenticating valuable media items. The template is applied against a presented valuable media item having an embedded IR security feature for assisting in determining whether the presented valuable media item is genuine and fit for further processing within a valuable media depository.
US10475845B2	Semiconductor device, solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus A semiconductor device including a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof, the first semiconductor section further including a photodiode, a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being secured together, a third semiconductor section including a third wiring layer at one side thereof, the second and the third semiconductor sections being secured together such the first semiconductor section, second semiconductor section, and the third semiconductor section are stacked together, and a first conductive material electrically connecting at least two of (i) the first wiring layer, (ii) the second wiring layer, and (iii) the third wiring layer such that the electrically connected wiring layers are in electrical communication.
US10475844B2	Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion method, and image forming apparatus A photoelectric conversion device includes a generation circuit and a controller. The generation circuit generates an image signal according to an intensity of light being input. The controller controls the generation circuit to generate a dark-time image signal equivalent to an image signal generated by the generation circuit without exposure to external light.
US10475843B2	Method and apparatus for image sensor packaging A backside illuminated image sensor having a photodiode and a first transistor in a sensor region and located in a first substrate, with the first transistor electrically coupled to the photodiode. The image sensor has logic circuits formed in a second substrate. The second substrate is stacked on the first substrate and the logic circuits are coupled to the first transistor through bonding pads, the bonding pads disposed outside of the sensor region.
US10475842B2	Fan-out sensor package and camera module The fan-out sensor package includes: a core member having a through-hole; an integrated circuit (IC) for a sensor disposed in the through-hole and having a first surface having a sensor region and first connection pads disposed thereon, a second surface opposing the first surface and having second connection pads disposed thereon, and through-silicon vias (TSVs) penetrating between the first and second surfaces and electrically connecting the first and second connection pads to each other; an encapsulant covering the core member and the second surface of the IC for a sensor and filling at least portions of the through-hole; a redistribution layer disposed on the encapsulant; and vias penetrating through at least portions of the encapsulant and electrically connecting the redistribution layer and the second connection pads to each other.
US10475841B2	Method of manufacturing solid-state image sensor, solid-state image sensor, and camera A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor comprising a pixel part including a photoelectric conversion element and a MOS transistor, comprising steps of forming a first insulating film made of a nitrogen-containing silicon compound on the photoelectric conversion element and the MOS transistor, forming an opening in at least a portion of the first insulating film, which is positioned above a channel of the MOS transistor, forming a second insulating film on the first insulating film, forming a contact hole extending through the second insulating film and the first insulating film, and forming, in the contact hole, a contact plug to be connected to the MOS transistor.
US10475840B1	Imaging array having improved surface-to-detector light transmission A pixel sensor array includes a plurality of surface pixel sensors disposed in a substrate, a layer of dielectric material formed over the surface of the pixel sensors, a plurality of apertures formed in the dielectric layer each aligned with one of the surface pixel sensors and having an inner side wall. A lining layer is formed on the inner side wall of each aperture and is substantially fully reflective to visible light. The lining layer is spaced apart from the surface of the substrate and has a smaller cross-sectional area than a cross-sectional area of each surface pixel sensor. A filler material substantially transparent to visible light is disposed inside of the reflective lining layer and has a top surface lying in the plane with the top surface of the layer of dielectric material. A microlens is disposed over the top surface of each aperture.
US10475836B2	Image sensor with improved quantum efficiency for infrared radiation An integrated image sensor with backside illumination includes a pixel. The pixel is formed by a photodiode within an active semiconductor region having a first face and a second face. A converging lens, lying in front of the first face of the active region, directs received light rays towards a central zone of the active region. At least one diffracting element, having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the active region, is provided at least partly aligned with the central zone at one of the first and second faces.
US10475826B2	Thin film transistor and photoelectric device thereof A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a gate dielectric layer, a first dielectric layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The gate electrode is disposed on a substrate. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate and overlaps with the gate electrode. The gate dielectric layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate and covers two sides of the gate electrode or the semiconductor layer. The dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer is less than the dielectric constant of the gate dielectric layer, and the dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer is less than 4. The source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed on the substrate. The source electrode is separated from the drain electrode, and the source electrode and the drain electrode separately contact the semiconductor layer.
US10475825B2	TFT backplane and manufacturing method thereof The invention provides a TFT backplane and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the TFT backplane comprises a substrate (1); a gate (11) and a first metal electrode (21) formed on the substrate (1); a gate insulating layer (31) formed on the substrate (1) and covering the gate (11) and the first metal electrode (21), the gate insulating layer (31) on the first metal electrode (21) having a thickness less than thickness of the gate insulating layer (32) on the gate (11); an etch stop layer (ESL) (5) on the gate insulating layer (31) and a second metal electrode (22) on the ESL (5). Only a portion of the gate insulating layer deposited on the first metal electrode is etched away, and the first metal electrode always protects the gate insulating layer, so that the first metal electrode is not damaged by the etching gas, favorable for the final storage capacitor.
US10475816B2	Body current bypass resistor A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) is described. The RFIC includes a switch field effect transistor (FET), including a source region, a drain region, a body region, and a gate. The RFIC also includes a body bypass resistor coupled between the gate and the body region. The RFIC further includes a gate isolation resistor coupled between the gate and the body region. The RFIC also includes a diode coupled between the body bypass resistor and the gate isolation resistor.
US10475805B2	Nitride-free spacer or oxide spacer for embedded flash memory In some embodiments, a semiconductor substrate includes first and second source/drain regions which are separated from one another by a channel region. The channel region includes a first portion adjacent to the first source/drain region and a second portion adjacent the second source/drain region. A select gate is spaced over the first portion of the channel region and is separated from the first portion of the channel region by a select gate dielectric. A memory gate is spaced over the second portion of the channel region and is separated from the second portion of the channel region by a charge-trapping dielectric structure. The charge-trapping dielectric structure extends upwardly alongside the memory gate to separate neighboring sidewalls of the select gate and memory gate from one another. An oxide spacer or nitride-free spacer is arranged in a sidewall recess of the charge-trapping dielectric structure nearest the second source/drain region.
US10475804B1	Three-dimensional memory device containing multilevel drain select gate isolation and methods of making the same A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and word-line-level electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and a drain-select-level electrically conductive layer located over the alternating stack. Memory stack structures extend through the alternating stack and the drain-select-level electrically conductive layer. Dielectric divider structures including a respective pair of straight sidewalls and drain-select-level isolation structures including a respective pair of sidewalls that include a respective set of concave vertical sidewall segments divide the drain-select-level electrically conductive layer into multiple strips. The drain-select-level electrically conductive layer and the drain-select-level isolation structures are formed by replacement of a drain-select-level sacrificial material layer with a conductive material and by replacement of drain-select-level sacrificial line structures with dielectric material portions.
US10475803B2	Method for making non-volatile memory device Method for forming a memory device are disclosed. Embodiments include forming memory cells over a substrate, each memory cell includes a control gate (CG) formed over a floating gate (FG) and a select gate (SG) formed adjacent to a first side of the CG and FG, wherein a vertical oxide layer is formed between the SG and the CG and FG, forming an implant mask layer over a portion of the SG, CG and vertical oxide of each memory cell; and implanting dopants into the substrate using the implant mask to form source drain (S/D) regions between the memory cells.
US10475802B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer and a second nitride semiconductor layer having a band gap wider than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor layer; a first active region which includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode, and has a first carrier layer located in the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a second active region which is on an extension of a long-side direction of the drain electrode and has a second carrier layer located in the first nitride semiconductor layer via an element isolation region, and a potential of the second carrier layer is substantially same as a potential of a source extraction electrode in the second active region or is an intermediate potential between a potential of a gate extraction electrode and the potential of the source extraction electrode opposite a short side of the drain electrode.
US10475800B2	IC including standard cells and SRAM cells An IC is provided. The IC includes a plurality of P-type fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs). At least one first P-type FinFET includes a silicon germanium (SiGe) channel region. At least one second P-type FinFET includes a Si channel region. Source and drain regions of the plurality of P-type FinFETs include SiGe and a p-type impurity.
US10475782B2	ESD protection diode and electronic device including the same Provided are an ESD protection diode and an electronic device including the same. An ESD protection diode and an electronic device including the same according to an embodiment of the inventive concept include first to fifth wells. The first well is connected to a first voltage terminal. The second well is connected to a second voltage terminal. The third well is connected to the input/output terminal. The fourth well is disposed between the first well and the third well, and the fifth well is disposed between the second well and the third well. The first to third wells are N-type wells, and the fourth and fifth wells are P-type wells. The first well includes a first N+ diffusion region and the second well includes a second N+ diffusion region. The fourth well includes a first P+ diffusion region and the fifth well includes a second P+ diffusion region. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, an internal circuit is protected fro an ESD pulse applied to a plurality of terminals and holding voltage is increased.
US10475781B2	Electrostatic discharge protection device capable of adjusting holding voltage An electrostatic discharge protection device includes: a substrate of a second conductivity type, the substrate including a well of a first conductivity type; a cathode electrode connected to the substrate; a first diffusion region of the second conductivity type and a second diffusion region of the first conductivity type, formed in the substrate and connected to the cathode electrode; an anode electrode connected to the substrate; a third diffusion region of the second conductivity type and a fourth diffusion region of the first conductivity type, formed in the well and connected to the anode electrode; a fifth diffusion region of the first conductivity type, formed on a border of the substrate and the well; and a sixth diffusion region of the first conductivity type, formed in the substrate between the first and second diffusion regions and the fifth diffusion region and configured to receive a bias voltage from outside.
US10475776B2	Fan-out semiconductor package module A fan-out semiconductor package module includes a core member having first and second through-holes. A semiconductor chip is in the first through-hole and has an active surface with a connection pad and an inactive surface opposing the active surface. Another passive component is in the second through-hole. An first encapsulant covers at least portions of the core member and the passive component, and fills at least a portion of the second through-hole. A reinforcing member is on the first encapsulant. A second encapsulant covers at least a portion of the semiconductor chip, and fills at least a portion of the first through-hole. A connection member is on the core member, the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and the passive component, and includes a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad and the passive component.
US10475771B2	Semiconductor device with an electrically-coupled protection mechanism and associated systems, devices, and methods A semiconductor device includes a first die; a first metal enclosure directly contacting and vertically extending below the first die, wherein the first metal enclosure peripherally encircles a first enclosed space; a second die directly contacting the first metal enclosure opposite the first die; a second metal enclosure directly contacting and vertically extending below the second die, wherein the second metal enclosure peripherally encircles a second enclosed space; and an enclosure connection mechanism directly contacting the first metal enclosure and the second metal enclosure for electrically coupling the first metal enclosure and the second metal enclosure.
US10475770B2	Semiconductor device having stacked dies and stacked pillars and method of manufacturing thereof Various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor device comprising a stacked die structure and a method of manufacturing thereof.
US10475767B2	Electronic device According to one embodiment, the interconnect layer includes a fourth conductive member and a fifth conductive member. The fourth conductive member is provided between the first region of the first chip and the third region of the second chip. The fourth conductive member connects the first conductive member of the first chip and the second conductive member of the second chip. The fifth conductive member is provided between the second region of the first chip and the fifth region of the third chip. The fifth conductive member connects the first conductive member of the first chip and the third conductive member of the third chip. The first chip is provided between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US10475762B1	3DIC structure and method of manufacturing the same A 3DIC structure includes a die, a conductive terminal, and a dielectric structure. The die is bonded to a carrier through a bonding film. The conductive terminal is disposed over and electrically connected to the die. The dielectric structure comprises a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed laterally aside the die. The second dielectric layer is disposed between the first dielectric layer and the bonding film, and between the die and the boding film. A second edge of the second dielectric layer is more flat than a first edge of the first dielectric layer.
US10475759B2	Integrated circuit structure having dies with connectors of different sizes An embodiment is a structure comprising a substrate, a first die, and a second die. The substrate has a first surface. The first die is attached to the first surface of the substrate by first electrical connectors. The second die is attached to the first surface of the substrate by second electrical connectors. A size of one of the second electrical connectors is smaller than a size of one of the first electrical connectors.
US10475754B2	System and method for physically detecting counterfeit electronics A system for inspecting or screening electrically powered device includes a signal generator inputting a preselected signal into the electrically powered device. There is also an antenna array positioned at a pre-determined distance above the electrically powered device. Apparatus collects RF energy emitted by the electrically powered device in response to input of said preselected signal. The signature of the collected RF energy is compared with an RF energy signature of a genuine part. The comparison determines one of a genuine or a counterfeit condition of the electrically powered device.
US10475752B2	Semiconductor package structure and method of making the same A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, a chip, bumps, an encapsulation layer and a thermal expansion-matching layer. The chip is located on a top surface of the substrate. The bumps electrically connect the chip and the inner connection pads of the substrate. The encapsulation layer covers the bumps, the chip and the top surface of the substrate. The thermal expansion-matching layer covers the whole top surface of the encapsulation layer, and exposes the side surfaces of the encapsulation layer. The thermal expansion coefficient of the thermal expansion-matching layer is different from that of the encapsulation layer. The side surface of the thermal expansion-matching layer is flush with that of the encapsulation layer. The thermal expansion-matching layer balances the inner stresses caused by the difference of the thermal expansion. Thus, the invention reduces the warpage problem of the formed package.
US10475751B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a core member having at least one through-hole formed therein and having a metal layer disposed on an internal surface thereof; an electronic component disposed in the through-hole; an encapsulant encapsulating the core member and the electronic component; a metal plate disposed on an upper surface of the encapsulant; and a wall penetrating the encapsulant to connect the metal layer and the metal plate to each other. The wall includes sections spaced apart from each other.
US10475746B2	Through-holes of a semiconductor chip One semiconductor chip includes a substrate having insulation properties, a plurality of bump electrodes provided on one surface of the substrate, a plurality of recesses provided in the other surface of the substrate, and a solder layer disposed within the recesses. The recesses are formed such that the area of the opening decreases from the other surface side toward the one surface side of the substrate.
US10475742B2	Method for forming semiconductor device structure having conductive structure with twin boundaries A method of forming a semiconductor device structure includes: forming a first conductive structure over a substrate, the first conductive structure including twin boundaries; and wherein the forming the first conductive structure includes manipulating process conditions so as to promote formation of the twin boundaries resulting in a promoted density of twin boundaries such that the first conductive structure has an increased failure current density (FCD) relative to a baseline FCD of an otherwise substantially corresponding second conductive structure which has an unpromoted density of twin boundaries, the unpromoted density being less than the promoted density and such that the first conductive structure has a resistance which is substantially the same as the second conductive structure.
US10475741B2	Chip The present embodiments provides a chip, including a carrier, a redistribution structure, and multiple packaging function modules, where the multiple packaging function modules each have at least a part wrapped by a colloid, and are fastened to the redistribution structure side by side; the redistribution structure is fastened to the carrier, and the redistribution structure includes one or more redistribution metal layers; the redistribution metal layer communicatively connects the multiple packaging function modules and the carrier. The redistribution structure further includes one or more interconnect metal layers, and the interconnect metal layer is communicatively connected to at least two packaging function modules so as to provide a signal path between the at least two packaging function modules. In the chip, two packaging function modules are placed on the carrier side by side, and a signal path is established between the two packaging function modules by using the redistribution structure.
US10475740B2	Fuse structure of dynamic random access memory A fuse structure for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes: a shallow trench isolation (STI) in a substrate; a first select gate in the substrate and adjacent to one side of the STI; a second select gate in the substrate and adjacent to another side of the STI; and a gate structure on the STI, the first select gate, and the second select gate.
US10475739B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a lower wire, an etch stop layer on the substrate, an interlayer insulating layer on the etch stop layer, an upper wire disposed in the interlayer insulating layer and separated from the lower wire and a via formed in the interlayer insulating layer and the etch stop layer and connecting the lower wire with the upper wire, wherein the via comprises a first portion in the etch stop layer and a second portion in the interlayer insulating layer, and wherein a sidewall of the first portion of the via increases stepwise.
US10475738B2	Multi-threshold voltage semiconductor device A semiconductor device preferably includes: a first metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor on a substrate; a first ferroelectric (FE) layer connected to the first MOS transistor; a second MOS transistor on the substrate; and a second FE layer connected to the second MOS transistor. Preferably, the first FE layer and the second FE layer include different capacitance.
US10475716B2	Sensor semiconductor device and method of producing a sensor semiconductor device The sensor semiconductor device comprises a substrate (1) with a main surface (2), a sensor region (3) on or above the main surface, a coating layer (4) above the main surface, and a trench (5) formed in the coating layer around the sensor region. The trench provides drainage of a liquid from the coating layer.
US10475706B2	Making a defect free fin based device in lateral epitaxy overgrowth region Electronic device fins may be formed by epitaxially growing a first layer of material on a substrate surface at a bottom of a trench formed between sidewalls of shallow trench isolation (STI) regions. The trench height may be at least 1.5 times its width, and the first layer may fill less than the trench height. Then a second layer of material may be epitaxially grown on the first layer in the trench and over top surfaces of the STI regions. The second layer may have a second width extending over the trench and over portions of top surfaces of the STI regions. The second layer may then be patterned and etched to form a pair of electronic device fins over portions of the top surfaces of the STI regions, proximate to the trench. This process may avoid crystaline defects in the fins due to lattice mismatch in the layer interfaces.
US10475700B2	Etching to reduce line wiggling A method for reducing wiggling in a line includes forming a first patterning layer over a metal feature and depositing a first mask layer over the first patterning layer. The first mask layer is patterned to form a first set of one or more openings therein and then thinned. The pattern of the first mask layer is transferred to the first patterning layer to form a second set of one or more openings therein. The first patterning layer is etched to widen the second set of one or more openings. The first patterning layer may be comprised of silicon or an oxide material. The openings in the first patterning layer may be widened while a mask layer is over the first patterning layer.
US10475693B1	Method for forming single diffusion breaks between finFET devices and the resulting devices A method includes forming a first hard mask layer above a substrate. The first hard mask layer is patterned to define a plurality of fin openings and at least a first diffusion break opening. A first etch process is performed to define a plurality of fins in the substrate and a first diffusion break recess in a selected fin. A first dielectric layer is formed between the fins and in the first diffusion break recess to define a first diffusion break. A second hard mask layer having a second opening positioned above the first diffusion break is formed above the first hard mask layer and the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed in the second opening. The second hard mask layer is removed. A second etch process is performed to recess the first dielectric layer to expose upper portions of the plurality of fins.
US10475692B2	Self aligned buried power rail The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to self-aligned buried power rail structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming at least one fin structure of a first dimension in a substrate; forming at least one fin structure of a second dimension in the substrate; removing at least a portion of the at least one fin structure of the second dimension to form a trench; filling the trench with conductive metal to form a buried power rail structure within the trench; and forming a contact to the buried power rail structure.
US10475691B2	Substrate transfer hand A substrate transfer hand is configured to sandwich a substrate between a plurality of receiving members and a gripping member and to fix the substrate by moving the gripping member with an actuator. The plurality of receiving members each have a flat plate-shaped support portion mounted on the main hand body, a substrate outer periphery holding portion supported on the support portion and configured to hold an outer periphery of the substrate, and a substrate lower surface holding portion supported on the support portion and configured to hold a lower surface of the substrate. The substrate outer periphery holding portion has a portion provided vertically from the support portion and configured to hold the substrate in contact with the outer periphery of the substrate. The substrate lower surface holding portion has a portion inclined from an outer peripheral side toward an inner side of the substrate to be held. The substrate outer periphery holding portion and the substrate lower surface holding portion are spaced from each other by a gap or a groove.
US10475688B2	Electrostatic chuck device, and semiconductor manufacturing device An electrostatic chuck part of an electrostatic chuck device has an electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface surrounding an opening of a chuck part through-hole, and an electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface surrounding the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface. An insulator has an insulator main body in which an insulator through-hole having an opening on the electrostatic chuck part side is formed, an insulator inner end face, and an insulator outer end face which faces the electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface. The insulator inner end face and the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface are in contact with each other, or an adhesion layer or a plasma-resistant adhesive layer extends in a gap between the insulator inner end face and the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface. The plasma-resistant adhesive layer is formed between the electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface and the insulator outer end face.
US10475687B2	Electrostatic chuck device An aspect of the present invention has an object to provide an electrostatic chuck device which is provided with a plurality of divided heaters and in which uniform temperature control of a zone which is heated by each heater can be performed with a simple configuration. An electrostatic chuck device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an electrostatic chuck part which has a mounting surface on one principal surface thereof to mount a plate-shaped sample and has an electrode for electrostatic attraction; a temperature controlling base part which is provided at a side opposite to the mounting surface of the electrostatic chuck part and is configured to cool the electrostatic chuck part; a high frequency generating electrode which is provided in a layer between the electrostatic chuck part and the temperature controlling base part; a high frequency power source which is connected to the high frequency generating electrode; a first heater element which is configured with a plurality of main heaters which are provided in a layer between the high frequency generating electrode and the temperature controlling base part; and a guard electrode which is provided in a layer between the high frequency generating electrode and the first heater element.
US10475680B2	Wafer shipping box and a lower retaining member thereof A wafer shipping box includes a case and a positioning unit. The case includes a base, a cover, and a receiving space defined by the base and the cover. The positioning unit is disposed in the receiving space and includes a lower retaining member connected to the base, an upper retaining member connected to the cover, and a cassette disposed therebetween. The cassette includes two upright holding walls spaced apart from each other, each of which has a plurality of lateral confining slots aligned in a front-rear direction. The lower retaining member is formed with a plurality of lower confining slots, each of which is defined by two slot walls interconnected at bottom ends thereof to form a slot bottom. The slot bottoms are respectively misaligned from central positions of the lateral confining slots along the front-rear direction.
US10475670B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method In parallel with a substrate heating step, a liquid surface sensor is used to monitor the raising of an IPA liquid film. An organic solvent removing step is started in response to the raising of the IPA liquid film over the upper surface of the substrate. At the end of the organic solvent removing step, a visual sensor is used to determine whether or not IPA droplets remain on the upper surface of the substrate.
US10475664B2	Wafer stacking to form a multi-wafer-bonded structure In one aspect, a method includes heating a wafer chuck, heating a first wafer, depositing a first epoxy along at least a portion of a surface of the first wafer disposed on the wafer chuck, spinning the wafer chuck to spread the first epoxy at least partially across the first wafer, placing a second wafer on the first epoxy disposed on the first wafer and bonding the second wafer to the first epoxy under vacuum to form a two-wafer-bonded structure.
US10475661B2	Semiconductor device including a capacitor structure and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure. The method includes forming a lower sacrificial layer, a lower supporter layer, an upper sacrificial layer, and an upper supporter layer which are sequentially stacked on the substrate structure. The method includes forming a mask pattern on the upper supporter layer; forming an upper supporter pattern by etching the upper supporter layer using the mask pattern as an etch mask. The method includes forming a recess region penetrating the upper supporter pattern, the upper sacrificial layer, the lower supporter layer, and the lower sacrificial layer, and removing the lower sacrificial layer and the upper sacrificial layer. The mask pattern is removed during the process of forming the upper supporter pattern. And, when the process of forming the recess region ends, the upper supporter pattern remains.
US10475658B2	Formulations to selectively etch silicon and germanium Compositions useful for the selective removal of silicon-containing materials relative to germanium-containing materials, and vice versa, from a microelectronic device having same thereon. The removal compositions include at least one diol and are tunable to achieve the required Si:Ge removal selectivity and etch rates.
US10475629B2	Charged-particle microscope with in situ deposition functionality A charged-particle microscope, comprising a vacuum chamber in which are provided: A specimen holder for holding a specimen in an irradiation position; A particle-optical column, for producing a charged particle beam and directing it so as to irradiate the specimen; A detector, for detecting a flux of radiation emanating from the specimen in response to irradiation by said beam, wherein: Said vacuum chamber comprises an in situ magnetron sputter deposition module, comprising a magnetron sputter source for producing a vapor stream of target material; A stage is configured to move a sample comprising at least part of said specimen between said irradiation position and a separate deposition position at said deposition module; Said deposition module is configured to deposit a layer of said target material onto said sample when held at said deposition position.
US10475628B2	Plasma beam penetration of millimeter scale holes with high aspect ratios An aluminum gas distribution plate refurbishment system combines a multi-beam inductively coupled plasma (AP-ICP) torch and vacuum discharge chuck. Plasma beams are employed to clean and restore to service the many gas flow passages in aluminum type gas distribution plates. Several parallel supersonic plasma beams of uniform density are produced from a single upper and lower AP-ICP plasma reactor arranged in totem pole that are driven by two pairs of opposing spiral planar RF induction RF antennas. These plasma beams are focused inside the gas flow passages to etch, heat, and deposit nanoparticles within. The vacuum discharge chuck includes a capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) reactor to generate a positive species discharge immediately beneath the gas distribution plates. This overcomes and undoes a Debye Sheathing effect, a electron-fed negative space charge blocking occurring above, and unknots any congested plasma beams in the gas flow passages.
US10475622B2	System and method for plasma ignition This disclosure is generally directed to controlling energy distribution to a load, especially when anomalous events are detected. Benefits of the present disclosure include minimizing the length of a discharge event, mitigating the effects of an electrical discharge, and to improvements in inducing the ignition of a plasma. Methods and systems consistent with the present disclosure improve the control of operating conditions within a chamber and improve the ability for more rapidly initiating plasma ignition in a chamber.
US10475617B2	Internal load for a travelling wave tube using a folded-waveguide slow-wave structure A folded-waveguide slow-wave structure equipped with an internal load, includes a central plate comprising a rectilinear beam tunnel of same direction as the longitudinal axis of the central plate, and a serpentine-shaped folded slit having its folds in the direction of the width of the waveguide; a lower plate and an upper plate closing the waveguide, the plates being placed on and under the central plate, respectively; at least one groove of cross section that may be variable, produced along the longitudinal axis of the waveguide, in at least one face internal to the waveguide of the lower plate, the upper plate or the central plate, and at least partially comprising a lossy material; in order to form a closed slow-wave structure through which propagates a hybrid slow wave the amplitude of which is attenuated by at least 20 dB between the start and the end of the portion of the one or more grooves containing a lossy material.
US10475616B2	Method for manufacturing nanostructures for a field emission cathode The present invention relates to the field of field emission lighting, and specifically to a method for forming a field emission cathode. The method comprises arranging a growth substrate in a growth solution comprising a Zn-based growth agent, the growth solution having a pre-defined pH-value at room temperature; increasing the pH value of the growth solution to reach a nucleation phase; upon increasing the pH of the solution nucleation starts. The growth phase is then entered by decreasing the pH. The length of the nanorods is determined by the growth time. The process is terminated by increasing the pH to form sharp tips. The invention also relates to a structure for such a field emission cathode and to a lighting arrangement comprising the field emission cathode.
US10475613B2	Trip for electrical switching device and electrical switching device comprising such a trip A trip for electrical switching device including a protective housing, first electrical connection terminals, and a supply module including at least one transformer and second input and output terminals able to be connected to the first connection terminals according to a direction of connection. The supply module is able to generate a supply voltage on the basis of an input voltage received between the second input terminals and to deliver the supply voltage between the second output terminals. The supply module is movable with respect to the protective housing.
US10475610B2	Electric circuit breaker device An electric circuit breaker device includes a cylindrical space penetrating from a first end to a second end of a housing made of a synthetic resin, an igniter, a projectile made of a synthetic resin, and a conductor piece forming part of an electric circuit, which are arranged axially in this order from the first end of the housing. The conductor piece is a plate piece comprising of connection sections at both ends thereof and a cutting section as an intermediate portion. The projectile is disposed to face the surface of the cutting section of the conductor piece in the axial direction of the housing. A cylinder made of a metal for reinforcing the housing is disposed between the projectile and an inner wall surface of the housing; the projectile has a constricted part fitted with an O-ring abutting against an inner periphery of the cylinder.
US10475608B2	Slidable magnetic switch for actuating a magnetic sensor A slidable magnetic switch for controlling the electronic functions of an appliance on the Jewish Sabbath is disclosed herein. A housing with an integrated magnetic slider is permanently attached to the appliance surface directly adjacent to and above its embedded magnetic sensor, whereupon the magnetic force of the extended slider opens the sensor's electrical circuit and disables various auxiliary electronic functions whose operation is prohibited on the Sabbath. The slider is pushed back inside the housing after the Sabbath ends, allowing the sensor's electrical circuit to return to its regularly closed position, enabling the appliance's electronic functions for normal weekday operation. A timer alarm switch mounted within the housing provides an audible reminder to manually activate the magnetic switch each week before the Sabbath begins, or alternatively, to automatically extract the slider from the housing before the Sabbath commences, and retract the slider into the housing after the Sabbath concludes.
US10475600B2	Breaker device for interrupting current on a transmission line A breaker device for interrupting current flowing on a transmission line, the device comprising three electrical branches (B1, B2, B3) connected in parallel, including a main branch (B1) in which the current to be interrupted flows and an auxiliary branch (B2), the main branch comprising at least one semi-conductor breaker cell (CEL1) connected in series with at least one mechanical interrupter/disconnector (Sm), the auxiliary branch (B2) comprising at least one thyristor, the breaker device further comprising a control circuit (CM) suitable for interrupting a current that flows in the main branch. Once the current is interrupted in the semi-conductor element of the breaker cell of the main branch, the control circuit acts to command the thyristor of the auxiliary branch (B2) to be put into a conductive state whenever a current flowing in the voltage limiter(s) reaches the value of the current that is flowing in the transmission line.
US10475598B2	Keyswitch structure A keyswitch structure includes a keycap, a base plate, a first support, and a second support. The first support and the second support are pivotally connected with each other and are connected to and between the keycap and the base plate. The first support includes a shaft socket, a shaft portion, and a protruding interference portion which are adjacently arranged. Correspondingly, the second support includes a shaft portion, a shaft socket, and a recess interference portion which are adjacently arranged. The recess interference portion has a relief space and a block beside the relief space. The first support and the second support are pivotally connected by engaging the shaft sockets with the corresponding shaft portions; therein, the protruding interference portion is located in the relief space, and the block obstructs the protruding interference portion moving out of the relief space.
US10475594B2	Electronic device comprising nanogap electrodes and nanoparticle An electronic device includes a substrate and at least two electrodes spaced by a nanogap, wherein the at least two electrodes are bridged by at least one nanoparticle and wherein the at least one nanoparticle has an overlap area with the at least two electrodes higher than 2% of the area of the at least one nanoparticle. A method of manufacturing of the electronic device and the use of the electronic device in photodetector, transistor, phototransistor, optical modulator, electrical diode, photovoltaic cell or electroluminescent component are also described.
US10475593B2	Use of halogen derivatives of histidine as electrolytic salt in a photovoltaic dye cell The invention relates to the use of halogenated histidine derivatives as electrolyte salts in the preparation of an electrolyte composition in a photoelectrochemical cell based on the sensitization to light of photoactive molecules, and also to a photoelectrochemical cell based on the sensitization to light of photoactive molecules comprising an electrolyte composition comprising at least one halogenated histidine derivative as electrolyte salt.
US10475590B2	Electrolytic capacitor and method for producing same An electrolytic capacitor includes: an anode body; a dielectric layer formed on the anode body; a first conductive polymer layer which covers at least a portion of the dielectric layer; and a second conductive polymer layer which covers at least a portion of the first conductive polymer layer. The first conductive polymer layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer contains a first conductive polymer and a first dopant, and covers at least a portion of the dielectric layer. The second layer is formed on the first layer, and contains a first silane compound. The second conductive polymer layer contains a second conductive polymer, a second dopant, and a basic compound.
US10475589B2	Tantalum capacitor including an anode lead frame having a bent portion and method of manufacturing the same A tantalum capacitor includes a capacitor body; a tantalum wire protruding from one surface of the capacitor body; a molded part enclosing the capacitor body and the tantalum wire; an anode lead frame connected to the tantalum wire and exposed to an outer surface of the molded part; and a cathode lead frame disposed on an outer surface of the capacitor body and exposed to the outer surface of the molded part. The anode lead frame includes a bend portion.
US10475588B2	Capacitor with multiple elements for multiple replacement applications A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end of case for the elements and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitor section to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals. Deformation of the cover caused by failure of the capacitor element breaks at least some of the frangible connections sufficient to disconnect the capacitive element from an electric circuit in which it is connected. A cover insulation barrier mounted on the deformable cover, has a barrier cup substantially surrounding the common cover terminal and a plurality of barrier fins each extending radially outwardly from the barrier cup, and deployed between adjacent section cover terminals.
US10475572B2	Method of manufacturing magnetic body A magnetic material is pressure-molded using dies into a compact having an H-shaped cross section, constituted by a pair of flange parts that are facing each other and a web part connecting the pair of flange parts. Next, a cured product of the compact is turned around a rotational shaft passing through the center parts of the principal faces of the flange parts, and the web part is ground, to form a drum-type ground product having a pair of flange parts on both ends of a shaft part in a manner facing each other. Then, the ground product is heat-treated to obtain a drum core of a magnetic body. On the drum core, terminal electrodes are provided and a conductive wire with sheath is wound around the shaft part, after which an exterior part is given, to obtain a coil component.
US10475564B2	Perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic layers having an oxide interface allowing for improved control of oxidation An improved magnetic tunnel junction with two oxide interfaces on each side of a ferromagnetic layer (FML) leads to higher PMA in the FML. The novel stack structure allows improved control during oxidation of the top oxide layer. This is achieved by the use of a FML with a multiplicity of ferromagnetic sub-layers deposited in alternating sequence with one or more non-magnetic layers. The use of non-magnetic layers each with a thickness of 0.5 to 10 Angstroms and with a high resputtering rate provides a smoother FML top surface, inhibits crystallization of the FML sub-layers, and reacts with oxygen to prevent detrimental oxidation of the adjoining ferromagnetic sub-layers. The FML can function as a free or reference layer in an MTJ. In an alternative embodiment, the non-magnetic material such as Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Sr, Ba, and B is embedded by co-deposition or doped in the FML layer.
US10475559B1	Controlling the morphology in metal loaded paste material A process for producing a magnetic core material is disclosed. The process includes distributing particles within a solution medium to form a colloidal solution. The process further includes modifying a surface chemistry of the particles by adding one or more additives to the colloidal solution. The process further includes gelating the colloidal solution to form the magnetic core material.
US10475557B2	Spiraling electric wire bundles for loss reduction The electric wire bundles includes a first reference axial line and a second reference axial line which are spaced apart from each other and fixed and arranged in parallel with each other, and a first wire and a second wire which are wound in a spiral pattern on the first and second reference axial lines in the first rotating direction or the second rotating direction, wherein the first wire and the second wire intersect at a central axis between the first reference axial line and the second reference axial line.
US10475556B2	Self-supporting overhead telecommunication/power cable A self-supporting overhead telecommunication/power cable includes a supporting portion and a transmission portion mutually arranged according to a figure-8 configuration. The transmission portion includes at a central position thereof, an optical fibre conductor and, at a radially outer position with respect to the optical fiber conductor, electrical conductors stranded around the optical fiber conductor. Preferably, the electrical conductors are grouped into sub-units which are stranded around the optical fiber conductor to provide a mechanical protection thereto.
US10475554B2	Coaxial cable and method of construction thereof A coaxial cable and method of construction thereof are provided. The coaxial cable includes an elongate central conductive member; a dielectric insulative layer encasing the central conductive member; an outer protective sheath, and a braided EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn sandwiched between the dielectric insulative layer and the outer protective sheath. The hybrid yarn includes an elongate nonconductive filament and an elongate continuous conductive wire filament. The wire filament is interlaced in electrical communication with itself or other wire filaments along a length of the EMI shield layer to provide protection to the central conductive member against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD. The method includes providing a central conductive member; forming a dielectric insulative layer surrounding the central conductive member; braiding an EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn about the insulative layer, and forming an outer protective sheath about the braided EMI shield layer.
US10475544B2	Method for oxidative degradation of ion exchange resin A method of oxidative degradation is provided for waste of ion exchange resin. Therein, oxidative deactivation is processed through a fluidized bed. A column-type reactor is used to fluidize solid of the ion exchange resin. The reactor schematizes the input and output of an ion exchange resin, an oxidant, a catalyst and a fluid. The reactor controls the reaction temperature. The reactor separates solid and liquid, and uniformly distributes fluid. The present invention fluidizes the ion exchange resin in the reactor. The present invention processes oxidation within a controlled temperature range with the oxidant and catalyst added. The oxidation is maintained at high efficiency with easy control. The original structure and the characteristic of ion exchange of the ion exchange resin are destroyed.
US10475534B2	Variable dose dispensing system A variable dose dispensing system may include a processor and memory. The processor may receive a request for a variable dose order of a medication, such as from a user. The processor may request an amount of the medication to be administered, and receive, in response to the request, an indication of the amount to be administered. The processor may verify that the amount to be administered is within a range of the variable dose order. The processor may determine an item in a local inventory that contains at least the amount of the medication to be administered, and may dispense the item. If an amount of the dispensed item exceeds the amount to be administered, such as by a waste amount, the processor may display an indication of the waste amount to the user, and may transmit a notification of the waste amount, such as to a management server.
US10475533B2	Medication adherence monitoring system and method A medication management system is described that is operable to determine whether a user is actually following a protocol, provide additional assistance to a user, starting with instructions, video instructions, and the like, and moving up to contact from a medication administrator if it is determined that the user would need such assistance in any medical adherence situation, including clinical trial settings, home care settings, healthcare administration locations, such as nursing homes, clinics, hospitals and the like. Suspicious activity on the part of a patient or other user of the system is identified and can be noted to a healthcare provider or other service provider where appropriate.
US10475525B2	Methods and systems for predicting misfolded protein epitopes A method and system to identify an epitope unique to a misfolded form of a protein is provided. Sets of one or more amino acid residues are selected from a model representing the structure of the protein; the free energy of unfolding of each set is determined; and the epitope is identified from the sets having a total probability of unfolding above a minimum probability or a free energy of unfolding below a minimum energy. In other aspects, the invention provides for the use of epitopes identified by the epitope prediction methods, and related antibodies, to diagnose and treat disease and to screen samples for the presence of such epitopes.
US10475520B2	Memory circuit including at least one marking cell and method of operating said memory circuit A memory circuit includes electrically programmable memory cells arranged in a non-volatile memory cell array along rows and columns, word lines, each word line coupled with one or more memory cells, non-volatile marking memory cells, wherein at least one word line of the word lines is associated with one or more marking memory cells, and marking bit lines, each associated with marking memory cells, marking source lines, each associated with marking memory cells, wherein, for marking memory cells, a physical connection from an associated marking source line and/or from an associated marking bit line to the marking memory cells defines those marking memory cells to a non-changeable state, wherein the marking memory cells are configured to identify the associated word line of respective marking memory cells in the non-changeable memory state.
US10475513B2	Resistive memory and resistance window recovery method of resistive memory cell thereof A resistive memory and a resistance window recovery method for a resistive memory cell thereof are provided. During a first period, an over reset voltage difference is applied between a top electrode and a bottom electrode of the resistive memory cell, wherein the over reset voltage difference falls in a reset complementary switching (reset-CS) voltage range of the resistive memory cell. During a second period, a set voltage difference is applied between the top electrode and the bottom electrode of the resistive memory cell to increase a compliance current of the resistive memory cell. During a third period, a reset operation is performed on the resistive memory cell.
US10475512B2	Operation method of resistive random access memory and resistive random access memory device An operation method of a resistance random access memory and a resistance random access memory apparatus are provided. The method includes: applying an initial reset voltage to a storage unit; carrying out a read check operation to acquire a resistance value of the storage unit; judging whether the resistance value of the storage unit reaches a preset target resistance value in a high resistance state; if the resistance value of the storage unit is less than the preset target resistance value in the high resistance state, applying a set voltage to the storage unit to set the storage unit to a preset target resistance value in a low resistance state, then applying a reset voltage of which an amount is increased to the storage unit, and repeating the read check operation and the subsequent steps until the storage unit reaches the preset target resistance value in the high resistance state.
US10475506B1	Low power delay buffer between equalizer and high sensitivity slicer An apparatus includes a continuous-time linear equalizer circuit, a buffer and at least one slicer. The continuous-time linear equalizer circuit may be configured to generate a first intermediate signal by equalizing an input signal relative to a reference voltage. The input signal may be single-ended. The first intermediate signal may be differential. The buffer may be configured to generate a second intermediate signal by delaying the first intermediate signal. The second intermediate signal may be differential. The slicer may be configured to generate an output signal by slicing the second intermediate signal. The output signal may be single-ended.
US10475502B2	Word-line driver and method of operating a word-line driver Word-line drivers, memories, and methods of operating word-line drivers are provided. A word-line driver coupled to an array of memory cells includes a decoder powered by a first power supply. The decoder is configured to decode an address to provide a plurality of word-line signals. The word-line driver also includes a plurality of output stages powered by a second power supply that is different than the first power supply. Each of the output stages includes a first transistor having a gate controlled by a first control signal and an inverter. The inverter is coupled between the first transistor and a ground and has an input coupled to the decoder to receive one of the word-line signals. The word-line driver also includes pull-down circuitry coupled between the gates of the first transistors and the ground and activated by a second control signal.
US10475496B1	Reduced shorts in magnetic tunnel junctions A technique relates to a magnetic device. A stack is formed including a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), the MTJ including a reference magnetic layer and a free magnetic layer sandwiching a tunnel barrier layer. A protective film is formed on a bottom portion of the MTJ such that an upper portion of the MTJ is exposed. A cleaning is performed on the upper portion of the MTJ that is exposed such that any residual material is removed.
US10475492B1	Circuit and method for read latency control A memory device comprises an array of memory cells, and a plurality of sense amplifiers coupled with the memory cells. A controller is configured to execute a read operation in response to a command and address, including a read cycle in which the memory cells at the address are electrically coupled to the sense amplifiers, and in which the memory cells at the address are electrically decoupled from the sense amplifiers in response to a timing signal.
US10475486B2	Electronic devices An electronic device includes a pulse generator, a signal synthesizer, and a first storage circuit. The pulse generator generates a mode active pulse and a mode pre-charge pulse in response to an operation mode signal. The signal synthesizer synthesizes an active signal and the mode active pulse to generate a synthesized active signal. The signal synthesizer synthesizes a pre-charge signal and the mode pre-charge pulse to generate a synthesized pre-charge signal. The first storage circuit performs an active operation, a read operation, or a pre-charge operation in response to the synthesized active signal, a read signal, and the synthesized pre-charge signal in each of a first read mode and a second read mode.
US10475473B2	Recording head with multiple magnetic writers simultaneously writing to adjacent tracks A recording head has a first magnetic writer and a second magnetic writer offset from the first magnetic writer in a downtrack and crosstrack direction. The recording head has leads configured to deliver respective first and second write and/or laser currents to the first and second writers. The first and second write and/or laser currents enable the first and second writers to simultaneously write to adjacent tracks of a magnetic disk.
US10475470B2	Processing result error detection device, processing result error detection program, processing result error detection method, and moving entity A processing result error detection device includes: a behavior recognition unit which recognizes behavior of a user; a processing unit which executes a process dependent on the behavior of the user; an emotion presumption unit which presumes an intensity of emotion of the user based on reaction of the user to a processing result; and a judgment unit which judges that the processing result includes an error when the presumed intensity of emotion of the user is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
US10475468B1	Monitoring industrial equipment using audio Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring industrial equipment using audio are described herein. One system includes two computing devices. The first computing device can receive, from an audio sensor, audio sensed during operation of industrial equipment, extract a plurality of features from the audio, determine whether any portion of the audio is anomalous, and send, upon determining a portion of the audio is anomalous, the anomalous portion of the audio to the second, remotely located, computing device. The second computing device can provide the anomalous portion of the audio to a user to determine whether the anomalous portion of the audio corresponds to a fault occurring in the equipment, and receive, from the user upon determining the anomalous portion of the audio corresponds to a fault occurring in the equipment, input indicating the anomalous portion of the audio corresponds to the fault to learn fault patterns in the equipment.
US10475460B2	Audio downmixer operable in prediction or non-prediction mode The invention provides methods and apparatuses for encoding a stereo audio signal having a left channel and a right channel. The apparatus includes a prediction coefficient estimator, downmixer, and multiplexer. The downmixer is configured operate either in a prediction mode or a non-prediction mode.
US10475453B2	Event-based speech interactive media player Interactive content containing audio or video may be provided in conjunction with non-interactive content containing audio or video to enhance user engagement and interest with the contents and to increase the effectiveness of the distributed information. Interactive content may be directly inserted into the existing, non-interactive content. Additionally or alternatively, interactive content may be streamed in parallel to the existing content, with only minimal modification to the existing content. For example, the server may monitor content from a content provider; detect an event (e.g., detecting a marker embedded in the content stream, or in a data source external to the content stream); upon detection of the event, play interactive content at one or more designated times while silencing the content stream of the content provider (e.g., by muting, pausing, playing silence.) The marker may be a sub-audible tone or metadata associated with the content stream. The user may respond to the interactive content by voice, touch or gesture.
US10475448B2	Speech recognition system A speech recognition system, which continuously recognizes speech uttered by at least one user and controls a navigation system on the basis of a recognition result, includes: a speech-operation-intention determination unit for determining whether or not the user has made a recognized speech with the intention of operating the navigation system through speech; and a control mode altering unit for changing, when the speech-operation-intention determination unit determines that the user has no operation intention, the control mode of the navigation system in such a manner that the user is less aware of or pays less attention to the control mode than the case in which the speech-operation-intention determination unit determines that the user has an intention of operating the navigation system.
US10475447B2	Acoustic and domain based speech recognition for vehicles A processor of a vehicle speech recognition system recognizes speech via domain-specific language and acoustic models. The processor further, in response to the acoustic model having a confidence score for recognized speech falling within a predetermined range defined relative to a confidence score for the domain-specific language model, recognizes speech via the acoustic model only.
US10475439B2	Information processing system and information processing method There is provided an information processing system enabling a user to provide easily an instruction on whether to continue speech recognition processing on sound information, the information processing system including: a recognition control portion configured to control a speech recognition portion so that the speech recognition portion performs speech recognition processing on sound information input from a sound collection portion. The recognition control portion controls whether to continue the speech recognition processing on the basis of a gesture of a user detected at predetermined timing.
US10475438B1	Contextual text-to-speech processing A text-to-speech (TTS) system that is capable of considering characteristics of various portions of text data in order to create continuity between segments of synthesized speech. The system can analyze text portions of a work and create feature vectors including data corresponding to characteristics of the individual portions and/or the overall work. A TTS processing component can then consider feature vector(s) from other portions when performing TTS processing on text of a first portion, thus giving the TTS component some intelligence regarding other portions of the work, which can then result in more continuity between synthesized speech segments.
US10475433B2	Electrical power generator with active noise cancellation in ventilation ducts A method to suppress noise emanating from an electrical power generator including the steps of: receiving sound emanating from the electrical power generator, wherein the sound is received in a duct for cooling air having passed through the generator; analyzing the received sound and, based on the analysis, generating a sound signal which represents a destructive sound to the received sound, and broadcasting a destructive sound into the duct, wherein the destructive sound corresponds to the sound signal.
US10475432B2	Process for manufacturing an acoustic panel reinforced by at least one thermoplastic composite layer A process for manufacturing an acoustic panel including at least one acoustically resistive layer, at least one cellular structure and a reflective wall. The process includes steps of depositing the parts of the acoustic panel made of thermosetting composite, depositing a film made of thermoplastic resin that is miscible with the thermosetting composite at the polymerization temperature of the thermosetting composite, polymerizing the parts of the acoustic panel made of thermosetting composite, and depositing and consolidating at least one layer made of thermoplastic composite against the film made of thermoplastic resin in order to form the reflective wall.
US10475428B2	Electronic measuring device An electronic measuring device captures a plurality of audio samples, wherein each audio sample corresponds to a different string of a musical instrument. The device further identifies a plurality of frequency components of each of the plurality of audio samples, calculates an optimal tuning curve based on the plurality of frequency components of each of the plurality of audio samples, and determines a deviation of the plurality of frequency components of each of the plurality of audio samples from the optimal tuning curve.
US10475427B2	Operation state detecting apparatus, operation state detecting sheet, and electronic instrument An operation state detecting apparatus includes the following. An electronic device includes an operation surface and can detect whether there is contact in a plurality of positions. A sheet material can be attached to and detached from the operation surface. The sheet material includes a projecting portion which deforms to change a contact state on the operation surface according to strength of external force. A processor of the electronic device detects whether there is contact in a plurality of positions in an individual detecting region on the operation surface on which a contact state changes by the projecting portion deforming in a state with the sheet material attached to the operation surface. The processor performs a specific process according to strength or speed of an operation applied to the projecting portion judged based on a detected result of whether contact is detected in the plurality of positions.
US10475422B1	Intonation tool for fine tuning bridge The angle adjustment structure of intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners. There are intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners like U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,236, but these bridges have some patterns of baseplate portion, so it is difficult to match to some patterns of baseplate portion by one intonation tool. This invention makes the intonation tool capable of matching to some patterns of baseplate portion by giving angle adjustment structure.
US10475421B1	Adjusting member and sound post applied thereto An adjusting member is pivoted on a sound post to adjust a length of the sound post from the outside of the sound box of a musical instrument. The adjusting member comprises a main body and at least one adjusting arm arranged on the main body. Through the sound post provided with the adjusting member, a user can easily adjust the tightness of the sound post against the upper and lower plates of the sound box through a hole of the sound box, such as F sound hole, connected with the outside to achieve the effect of adjusting timbre of the musical instrument.
US10475419B2	Data compression method and apparatus A method of compressing image data involves determining an active area of an image to be displayed, at least part of which changes from frame to frame to provide a moving image. Color values for each pixel in at least part of the active area that has changed are determined (S73) and a resolution of a blue component of the color values is dynamically reduced (S75) relative to resolutions of green and red components of the color values. The image data is then transmitted, together with error correction information indicating how to correct the blue component when the image data is displayed. The active area may be a particularly fast changing part of the image or an area on which a user is focused.
US10475413B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting backlight brightness of screen, and mobile terminal A method and an apparatus for adjusting a backlight brightness of a screen, and a mobile terminal are provided. At least one of a display frame characteristic of the screen, a user behavior characteristic, a camera status and a scene characteristic of the screen is obtained when a backlight control function is enabled. A target backlight control level is determined according to the at least one of the display frame characteristic of the screen, the user behavior characteristic, the camera status and the scene characteristic of the screen. The backlight brightness of the screen is adjusted dynamically based on the target backlight control level.
US10475412B2	Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a touch panel function, power consumption is reduced in the standby state. The display section is divided into blocks each of which is formed of a plurality of display lines. The counter electrode is disposed for each block. A driving circuit selectively supplies, to the counter electrode of each block, the voltage used for the liquid crystal display and the voltage used for the touch panel scanning. The driving circuit has a source amplifier that supplies the video voltages to the video lines. The driving circuit reduces the current in the source amplifier, such that the current is lower than current at the time of a normal operation, to lower the power consumption, and stops the operation of the source amplifier and supplies the GND voltage to the video lines to further lower the power consumption.
US10475407B2	GOA circuit and display device A GOA circuit and a display device are provided. The GOA unit includes multiple GOA units, and each GOA unit includes a pull-up circuit for outputting a scanning driving signal of a current stage, a pull-down circuit including a first pull-down switch for pulling down the scanning driving signal of the current stage to a low voltage level, and a pull-down holding circuit including a first pull-down holding switch for holding the scanning driving signal of the current stage at a low voltage level. Each of the first pull-down switch and the first pull-down holding switch is a dual-gate TFT switch, a top gate electrode of each of the first pull-down switch and the first pull-down holding switch receives the first direct-current voltage. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce the current leakage, and increase the reliability of the entire GOA circuit.
US10475405B2	Dynamic control of display refresh rate based on user interface activity Techniques are described for controlling the display refresh rate of a display panel. A display driver may determine a display refresh rate based on user activity. One example of user activity is a rate at which a user is scrolling image content being displayed on the display panel. One example of user activity is a duration or pressure of a user interaction with a display panel or a pressure sensor.
US10475402B2	Liquid crystal driving apparatus, image display apparatus, liquid crystal driving method, and liquid crystal driving program A liquid crystal driving apparatus includes a driver configured to form a gradation in the pixel based on each gradation value in the plurality of sub-frame image data by sequentially controlling an application of a first voltage and an application of a second voltage lower than the first voltage for the plurality of pixels in each of a plurality of sub-field periods contained in one frame period. Where an input gradation value is defined as the gradation value of the input frame image data, the image data generator generates a first sub-frame image data having a first gradation value higher than the input gradation value and a second sub-frame image data having a second gradation value lower than the input gradation value as at least the plurality of sub-frame image data.
US10475399B2	Color electrophoretic displays using same polarity reversing address pulse An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.
US10475392B2	Media item relighting technique The present invention concerns a method of method of relighting a media item comprising media elements. The method comprises, for at least some of the media elements: determining, in a first signal domain, a light transport function describing the appearance of a particular media element under different illumination conditions at least partly defined by positions of a light source used to illuminate the particular media element; sampling, in the first signal domain, the light transport function of the particular media element to obtain discrete data samples of the light transport function; projecting the data samples in the first signal domain into a sampling grid to obtain spatially sparsely and non-uniformly sampled light transport function; interpolating, in a second signal domain, the sparsely and non-uniformly sampled light transport function to obtain an approximate light transport matrix in the second signal domain; converting the approximate light transport matrix into the first signal domain to obtain an approximate substantially uniformly sampled light transport function in the first signal domain; and using, in the first signal domain, the approximate substantially uniformly light transport function to relight the media item.
US10475391B2	TFT pixel threshold voltage compensation circuit with data voltage applied at light-emitting device A pixel circuit for a display device includes a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current to a light-emitting device depending upon a voltage applied to a gate of the drive transistor; a second transistor connected to the gate of the drive transistor and a second terminal of the drive transistor, such that when the second transistor is in an on state the drive transistor becomes diode-connected such that the gate and the second terminal of the drive transistor are connected through the second transistor; a light-emitting device that is connected at a first node to a third terminal of the drive transistor and at a second node to a first voltage supply; a third transistor connected to the first node of the light-emitting device, which connects a data voltage to the first node of the light-emitting device; a fourth transistor that is connected between the second terminal of the drive transistor and a second voltage supply; and at least one capacitor having a first plate that is connected to the gate of the drive transistor and a second plate that is connectable to a reference signal. The pixel circuit is operable during a phase preceding the emission phase including applying a data voltage to the first node of the light-emitting device and the third terminal of the drive transistor, the data voltage being set so that a voltage across the light-emitting device is lower than a threshold voltage of the light emitting device.
US10475386B2	Display panel and electroluminescence display using the same The disclosure relates to display panel and electroluminescence display using the same. The display panel includes: a sub-pixel, which comprises a light-emitting element and a driving element for driving the light-emitting element, the light-emitting element emitting light by a current in the driving element during a driving phase; and a power switching circuit configured to supply a first driving voltage to the sub-pixel during the driving phase in an active period and a blanking interval, and supply a second driving voltage to the sub-pixel during a data writing phase of the active period and during resetting, sensing, and data writing phases of the blanking interval.
US10475385B2	AMOLED pixel driving circuit and driving method capable of ensuring uniform brightness of the organic light emitting diode and improving the display effect of the pictures An AMOLED pixel driving circuit includes: first to third thin film transistors, a capacitor and an organic light emitting diode; a gate of the first thin film transistor receives a first scan signal, a source receives a data signal, and a drain is coupled to a first end of the capacitor; a gate of the second thin film transistor receives a second scan control signal, and a source is coupled to a second end of the capacitor, and a drain is coupled to an anode of the organic light emitting diode; a gate of the third thin film transistor is coupled to the second end of the capacitor, a source receives a first power source signal, and a drain is coupled to the anode of the organic light emitting diode; a cathode of the organic light emitting diode receives a second power source signal.
US10475384B2	Display device comprising a lighting part A display device includes a display panel having a data display area in which pixels are arranged and a lighting part outside the data display area; a display panel driver driving an organic light-emitting diodes in the pixels; and a lighting driver driving an organic light-emitting diodes in the lighting part; and a power supply part generating the high-potential power supply voltage and the low-potential power supply voltage, wherein the lighting part includes: one or more second high-potential power supply lines connected between the power supply part and the organic light-emitting diodes in the lighting part; and a switch connected to the second high-potential power supply lines, and wherein the lighting driver turns on the switch to supply the high-potential power supply voltage to the organic light-emitting diodes in the lighting part when there is an user input or a system power is turned off.
US10475380B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus having sub-dummy pixels An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a plurality of emitting pixels coupled to a plurality of scan lines extending in a row direction and a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction; a plurality of dummy pixels arranged in the row direction; a plurality of first repair lines extending in the column direction, that are coupled to the plurality of dummy pixels, and that are adapted to be coupled to the plurality of emitting pixels; a plurality of second repair lines extending in the column direction, and that are coupled to the plurality of dummy pixels; and a plurality of repair switching devices arranged in a matrix array and adapted to be coupled to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of second repair lines and adapted to be coupled to the plurality of data lines.
US10475377B2	Display device and method of driving the same The present invention provides a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a light-emitting device; a first capacitor connected between a first contact point and a second contact point; a driving transistor including an input terminal connected to a first voltage, an output terminal, and a control terminal connected to the second contact point; a first switching transistor controlled by a first control signal and connected between a data voltage and the first contact point; a second switching transistor controlled by a second control signal and connected between a second voltage and the first contact point; a third switching transistor controlled by a third control signal and connected between the second contact point and the second voltage; a fourth switching transistor controlled by the first control signal and connected between the second contact point and the output terminal of the driving transistor; and a fifth switching transistor controlled by the second control signal and connected between the light-emitting device and the output terminal of the driving transistor.
US10475376B2	Systems and methods of pixel calibration based on improved reference values What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. The electrical output of a pixel is compared with a reference value to adjust an input for the pixel. In some embodiments an integrator is used to integrate a pixel current and a reference current using controlled integration times to generate values for comparison.
US10475374B2	Display device A display device includes at least one pixel circuit. A pixel circuit of the at least one pixel circuit includes a light emitting diode, a thin film transistor, a capacitor, and an adaptive voltage source. The light emitting diode has a first electrode, and a second electrode. The thin film transistor is coupled to the light emitting diode. The thin film transistor has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal for receiving a data voltage. The capacitor is coupled between the first terminal and the control terminal of the thin film transistor. The adaptive voltage source is coupled to the thin film transistor and fixes a voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal of the thin film transistor.
US10475371B2	Pixel circuit in an electroluminescent display A circuit includes an electroluminescent (EL) device, a transistor, a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The transistor includes a gate coupled to a first node and a first terminal coupled to a second node. The first capacitor is coupled between a supply voltage and the first node. The second capacitor is coupled between the first node and the second node. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are configured to establish a compensation voltage associated with a threshold voltage of the transistor at the gate of the transistor in response to a first control signal, and establish the compensation voltage at the first terminal of the transistor in response to a second control signal. The transistor is configured to pass a current through the EL device. Moreover, the current has a magnitude independent of the threshold voltage of the transistor.
US10475368B2	Display device and method for controlling the same A display device is provided, which includes a display, a ditherer configured to perform dithering of video data displayed on the display, an illumination sensor configured to sense illumination around the display device, and a processor configured to control driving of the ditherer on the basis of a grayscale level of the video data if or when the sensed illumination is lower than a predetermined value.
US10475364B2	Color film substrate, display panel and display device thereof A color film substrate, a display panel and a display panel are provided. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a plurality of second pixels. The first sub-pixel has a white color, and the plurality of second pixels has a plurality of colors different from the white color. The first sub-pixel having the white color has a reduced effective aperture area compared with the plurality of sub-pixels having the plurality of colors different from the white color.
US10475361B2	Adjustable display illumination A device which includes a display can provide adjustable light output, based in part on the color of the display screen output, to control the light output of the display screen. An illumination processor can adjustably control light output based on the colors of portions of the display screen. The light output can be adjusted to maintain the light output of the display screen across a range of colors of display screen light output. Controlling the light output of the display screen results in controlling the illuminance of a subject. The device can include a camera which captures an image of the subject and displays the image on a portion of the display screen, where the light output of a portion of the display screen can illuminate the subject such that the captured image has at least a certain level of image quality.
US10475350B1	System and method for a driving simulator on a mobile device A system and method facilitates a driving simulator on a mobile device. A driver may input data related to the desired simulation. A simulation may be determined based on the received data. The simulation may include a particular vehicle, road, driving condition, etc. The determined simulation may then be transmitted to a client devices. The client device may then render the simulation and collect driving data during the simulation. The collected driving data may be received and analyzed to determine a driving competency score.
US10475347B2	Method and device for generating an optimum flight path intended to be followed by an aircraft A device includes a database including data related to obstacles, a first determination module for determining at least one obstacle intercepted by a direct flight path connecting an initial point to the target point, a second determination module for determining at least one lateral extreme apex of at least one intercepted obstacle, an evaluation module for assigning a rating to each section corresponding to a segment between a lateral extreme apex and the initial point, a storage module for storing in a memory the section corresponding to the optimum extreme apex having the best rating, the optimum flight path corresponding to all of the sections stored in the memory, the preceding modules being used iteratively, the device further including a transmission module for transmitting the optimum flight path to a user device.
US10475340B2	Traffic hindrance risk indication apparatus An apparatus for indicating a traffic hindrance risk having a traffic hindrance information generating server that generates traffic hindrance information for links that define a driving route on a mesh map. In the apparatus, the congestion degree information is colored in a color assigned in accordance with a numerical value defined to diminish with increasing congestion degree and is drawn the colored congestion degree information on the mesh map with respect to each of the links defining the driving route. And a traffic hindrance occurrence risk predictive value meaning possibility of traffic hindrance occurrence with respect to the driving route is calculated based on the drawn congestion degree information and is indicated to be viewed by an operator of the vehicle.
US10475329B1	Hand washing compliance and monitoring system A method of hand hygiene compliance enforcement and hand hygiene system comprising at least one dispenser unit that has an interior chamber containing a volume of hand soap or sanitizer and a dispenser nozzle configured to dispense a measured volume of hand soap or sanitizing material upon a triggering event. The dispenser also has a control unit mounted therein, the control unit is in electronic communication with the dispenser nozzle and has at least one identity sensor, at least one alarm indicator and at least one transmitter. The hand hygiene system also has at least one proximity sensor in electronic communication with the control unit. The proximity sensor is located a spaced distance from the at least one dispenser.
US10475322B1	Earthquake alarm device An earthquake alarm device, including an alarm lamp and a base. Inside the alarm lamp, there is a power supply module and an earth magnetic field detection module. The earth magnetic field detection module emits a sound and light early warning signal when identifying any earth field abnormality. The vibration sensing module I senses slight vibration and emits a sensing signal I. The vibration sensing module II senses strong vibration and emits a sensing signal II. The control chip II emits sound and light alarm signals after receiving the sensing signal II or the sensing signal I and sound and light early warning signal at the same time. The alarm lamp gives a light alarm after receiving a sound and light early warning signal. The lighting module receives sound and light early warning signals or sound and light alarm signals and provides lighting.
US10475320B2	Adaptive roaming algorithm for a mobile patient monitoring device using movement classification A mobile patient monitoring device (10) includes a radio (14) having a scan threshold and a roam threshold that is lower or equal to than the scan threshold. The radio (14) is configured to scan to identify available access points when current access point power is below the scan threshold but above the roam threshold and roam to an available access point when current access point power is below the roam threshold. An accelerometer (12) is configured to measure acceleration. Device electronics (16) include at least one processor (24, 28) programmed to classify patient movement from the acceleration measured by the accelerometer and to assign values for the scan and the roam thresholds of the radio (14) based on the patient movement classification. Alternatively, the device electronics (16) may assign the values for the scan and the roam thresholds of the radio (14) based on received vital sign data acquired from an associated physiological sensor (32).
US10475315B2	System and method for configuring surveillance cameras using mobile computing devices A method and system for configuring surveillance cameras can be used to leverage emerging trends in surveillance camera systems, while also enabling the configuration of cameras to operate in such systems. The method comprises displaying configuration images on mobile computing devices and enabling the cameras to view and capture those images within image data. The configuration images are then derived from image data from the surveillance cameras using integrated or separate analytics systems. Then, configuration information from the mobile device can be paired with corresponding surveillance cameras by reference to the configuration images. In one example, cloud image data storage is allocated as part of this setup and configuration process.
US10475312B2	Monitoring camera and monitoring camera control method An image signal processing DSP subjects an image captured by an imaging element having a zoom lens to image processing for identifying a tracking target. In accordance with zoom information generated by the image signal processing DSP, the main CPU controls the zoom lens and controls a turn table that moves the imaging element in panning and tilting directions in accordance with pan and tilt information, to track the tracking target. During tracking of the tracking target, a determination is made, from information about movements of the tracking target generated by the image signal processing DSP, as to whether or not the target to be tracked has intruded the inside of the area from the outside. In a case where the target has intruded the inside of a preset area from the outside, an alarm command is produced when the target continually remains in the area for; e.g., one second.
US10475310B1	Operation method for security monitoring system The present invention provides a method of operating a security monitoring system. A security monitoring system is provided, and it includes at least one 2D monitor and a 3D sensor. First, the 2D monitor is activated, when a person is at a first length from the security monitoring system, the person is continuously tracked by the 2D monitor, and when the person continues to approach the security monitoring system, after the person is at a second length from the security monitoring system, the second length is less than the first length, the 3D sensor is activated to receive a facial information of the person, and compared with an authentication data of a database.
US10475304B2	Signalling device A signalling device, in particular for a signalling tower, for purposes of displaying operating states, with at least one signalling module, which has a circuit board element for at least one signalling element for purposes of outputting a signal, in particular for a lighting element for purposes of outputting a signal light, wherein the signalling module can be detachably connected with a further signalling module, and in the connected state the signalling modules are arranged one above another, wherein a connecting conductor, running through the signalling module, is provided for purposes of controlling a circuit board element of the further signalling module, wherein the circuit board element of the signalling module for purposes of forming the connecting conductor has a conducting track assigned to the signalling element of the further signalling module, which conducting track in the connected state of the signalling modules is connected via a contact element with a conducting track; on the circuit board element of the further signalling module, wherein the signalling module has a bayonet coupling element for purposes of connecting with a bayonet coupling element of the further signalling module, wherein in an interconnected, non-rotated state of the bayonet coupling elements the circuit board elements are arranged in a non-contact position, and in an interconnected, rotated state of the bayonet coupling elements the circuit board are arranged in a contact position with one another.
US10475296B1	Hybrid cash recycler Exemplary embodiments include a hybrid cash recycler device that provides cash handling and extended capabilities for use within a financial institution. The hybrid cash recycler may be configured to support wireless communications with multiple distributed computing devices in a financial institution branch. The wireless connectivity may provide portable command and control capabilities for the hybrid cash recycler. The hybrid cash recycler may be configured to employ queuing mechanisms, in a manner that allows the device to systematically arrange and execute multiple command requests initiated from several computing devices. The hybrid cash recycler may require user authentication prior to completing cash handling services. Upon a successful authentication, requested cash handling services may be completed.
US10475295B2	Media replenishment management A method of method of managing media replenishment at a media terminal, the method comprising: receiving a media event from a media terminal; retrieving a next scheduled media replenishment event for that media terminal; evaluating if the next scheduled media replenishment event is scheduled to occur within an acceptable delay period; and initiating an unscheduled replenishment event only if the next scheduled media replenishment event is scheduled to occur after the acceptable delay period.
US10475291B1	System, apparatus and method for drawing-based lottery play with wagering event integrity A lottery host, ticket generator, retailer terminal(s) and specially adapted draw-based lottery game tickets provide embodiments of a wagering event integrity control system, method and apparatus as disclosed. In various embodiments, purchased but unactivated tickets for a lottery drawing are activated based upon key codes associated with unsold tickets received by the lottery host at the end of a game. The lottery host and ticket generator can store different sets of information about the draw-based lottery game tickets, which can be pre-printed with game indicia and activated when desired by the player.
US10475284B2	Managing virtual currencies in a gaming environment A method for converting a game award earned during play of a first wager-based game into a game award in a second wager-based game includes, but is not limited to any of combination of: receiving, over a network, a request to convert a first award earned by a player in the first wager-based game into at least one award in the second wager-based game; converting, by one or more processors, the first award earned during play of the first wager-based game to at least one award associated with the second wager-based game based on award conversation data; and storing, by the one or more processors, data associated with result of the conversion of the first award into the at least award of the second wager-based game in a data storage system.
US10475283B2	Gaming system and method modifying of one or more options provided to a player based on the player's previously-chosen options The present disclosure provides a gaming system and method modifying of one or more options provided to a player based on the player's previously chosen options. When a triggering event occurs, the gaming system displays an indication of each of a first plurality of options and enables the player to choose one of the first plurality of options. The gaming system stores player choice data representing the player's chosen one of the first plurality of options. Upon an occurrence of one or more modification events, the gaming system modifies the first plurality of options based at least in part on which of the first plurality of options were previously chosen by the player. Following a subsequent occurrence of the triggering event, the gaming system displays an indication of each of the modified first plurality of options and enables the player to choose one of the modified first plurality of options.
US10475281B2	Gaming system and method for providing symbol combinations with dynamic awards The gaming system and method disclosed herein provides a plurality of symbol combinations that are each associated with a dynamic award. Such dynamic awards increase based, at least in part, on one or more random events which occur in association with one or more plays of a game. In one embodiment, the gaming system increases the dynamic award of a designated symbol combination based on the random generation of another, different symbol combination. In this embodiment, if the gaming system randomly generates the other symbol combination, the gaming system: (i) provides any award associated with this other symbol combination, and (ii) increases the dynamic award of the designated symbol combination. Additionally, if the gaming system randomly generates the designated symbol combination, the gaming system provides to a player the dynamic award of the designated symbol combination.
US10475264B2	Application method of Bluetooth low-energy electronic lock based on built-in offline pairing passwords, interactive unlocking method of a Bluetooth electronic lock and electronic lock system An application method of a Bluetooth low-energy electronic lock based on built-in offline pairing passwords, an interactive unlocking method of a Bluetooth electronic lock, and an electronic lock system are provided, wherein data propagation of some public keys or public addresses is carried out through a scanning response packet of a broadcast packet, the mobile phone APPs run in a Bluetooth server mode, the Bluetooth electronic lock works in a Bluetooth client mode, the Bluetooth electronic lock periodically sends a broadcast packet of a random address, and the Bluetooth electronic lock has a set of temporary door-opening passwords of random algorithm built in after manufacture; and during the initialization process, the Bluetooth electronic lock uploads the built-in temporary door-opening password set, with the random algorithm, through the relational data of application services and the public address of the Bluetooth electronic lock.
US10475258B1	Method and system for utilizing vehicle odometer values and dynamic compliance A system and method vehicle dynamic compliance and utilizing multiple vehicle odometer values is disclosed herein. The system comprises a vehicle (210) comprising an on-board computer (232) with a memory (231) having a vehicle identification number (233), a connector plug (235), and an motorized engine (234), a connected vehicle device (130) comprising a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, a memory, and a connector for mating with the connector plug of the vehicle (210), and a mobile device (110) comprising a graphical user interface (335), a processor (310), a WiFi radio (307), a BLUETOOTH radio (306), and a cellular network interface (308).
US10475247B1	Configuration for resuming/supplementing an augmented reality experience A process determines, with a content presentation device, a recognition indicium that corresponds to an identifier of the content presentation device. Further, the process provides, with the content presentation device, the recognition indicium to an output device so that the output device emits the recognition indicium. In addition, the process receives, at the content presentation device from the server, remaining content of an augmented reality experience that was paused by a processor in operable communication with an augmented reality device. The augmented reality device is distinct from the output device. Further, the processor sends the identifier and a position of the remaining content to the server. In addition, the process sends, with the content presentation device, the remaining content to the output device so that the output device emits the remaining content.
US10475246B1	Systems and methods to provide views of virtual content in an interactive space A system configured to provide views of virtual content in an interactive space may comprise one or more of a light source, an optical element, one or more physical processor, non-transitory electronic storage, and/or other components. The optical element being configured to provide light emitted from the light source into one or more eyes of a user. The non-transitory electronic storage may be configured to store virtual content information defining virtual content. The virtual content may include one or more of a virtual gallery, one or more virtual objects, and/or other virtual content. The virtual gallery may comprise a set of supports. The virtual gallery may be configured to simulate removable engagement of individual virtual objects to individual supports.
US10475239B1	Systems and methods for obtaining accurate 3D modeling data with a multiple camera apparatus Systems and methods for obtaining data capture at a cell site for developing a three dimensional (3D) thereof include obtaining or providing the multiple camera apparatus comprising a plurality of cameras at a shelter, a cabinet, or an interior of a building and positioning the multiple camera apparatus therein; causing the plurality of cameras to simultaneously take photos based on the positioning; repositioning the multiple camera apparatus at a different location in the shelter, the cabinet, or the interior of the building to take additional photos; and providing the photos taken by the multiple camera apparatus to a 3D modeling system to develop a 3D model of the shelter, the cabinet, or the interior of the building, for a virtual site survey thereof.
US10475237B2	Image processing apparatus and control method thereof Provided is an image processing apparatus that can flexibly control the position of a virtual light source used for re-lighting processing and correct shading of an object, and a control method thereof. A shading condition detection unit calculates an evaluation value representing the condition of the shading for an object region within an image. A virtual light source control unit then sets a virtual light source based on the evaluation value, and a virtual light addition unit applies the effects of virtual light irradiated by the virtual light source in the image.
US10475234B2	Multi-stage method of generating 3D civil site surveys A method of creating a three-dimensional model, based on two-dimensional (hereinafter “2D”) images is provided. The method includes acquiring a number of images of a number of physical locations, wherein each image is associated with one image group of a number of hierarchical image groups, the number of hierarchical image groups including a base image group, converting images within a group to a number of 3D models, wherein each 3D model is associated with one model group of a number of hierarchical model groups, the number of hierarchical model groups including a base model group, merging a number of the 3D models from the base model group and a number of 3D models from another 3D model group to create a multi-scale 3D model, and utilizing the multi-scale 3D model.
US10475231B2	Methods and systems for surface fitting based change detection in 3D point-cloud Methods and systems for change detection utilizing three dimensional (3D) point-cloud processing are provided. The method includes detecting changes in the surface based on a surface fitting approach with a locally weighted Moving Least Squares (MLS) approximation. The method includes acquiring and comparing surface geometry of a reference point-cloud defining a reference surface and a template point-cloud defining a template surface at local regions or local surfaces using the surface fitting approach. The method provides effective change detection for both, rigid as well as non-rigid changes, reducing false detections due to presence of noise and is independent of factors such as texture or illumination of an object or scene being tracked for changed detection.
US10475230B2	Surface material pattern finish simulation device and surface material pattern finish simulation method A device for generating a simulation image including circuitry which obtains information including normal vector map and light source information about a source of light to be applied to a surface of a material, calculates incident light information about incident light to each of pixels in an image to be generated as simulation of a finish of a pattern including a picture and an uneven shape on the surface, calculates a radiance of reflected light from the surface with respect to each of the pixels in the image, based on calculation information including the incident light information, the normal vector map, diffuse reflectance information about the picture, gloss information indicating gloss of the surface, and observation condition information about the material, and controls display of the image based on the radiance of each of the pixels.
US10475228B2	Allocation of tiles to processing engines in a graphics processing system A graphics processing system processes primitive fragments using a rendering space which is sub-divided into tiles. The graphics processing system comprises processing engines configured to apply texturing and/or shading to primitive fragments. The graphics processing system also comprises a cache system for storing graphics data for primitive fragments, the cache system including multiple cache subsystems. Each of the cache subsystems is coupled to a respective set of one or more processing engines. The graphics processing system also comprises a tile allocation unit which operates in one or more allocation modes to allocate tiles to processing engines. The allocation mode(s) include a spatial allocation mode in which groups of spatially adjacent tiles are allocated to the processing engines according to a spatial allocation scheme, which ensures that each of the groups of spatially adjacent tiles is allocated to a set of processing engines which are coupled to the same cache subsystem.
US10475226B2	Coloring kit for capturing and animating two-dimensional colored creation A digital template animation kit is provided for generating a three-dimensional animation corresponding to a captured two-dimensional template. In embodiments, a template animation kit includes a template portfolio having template designs for coloring in by a user. A computing device executing a template animation kit application, such as a digital fashion portfolio kit application, may then capture an image of the user-completed drawings on each template design. In some embodiments, capturing an image of a template design includes identifying a coloring figure identifier, an upper page guide identifier, and a lower page guide identifier. In further embodiments, the captured images of two-dimensional template designs are applied to three dimensional digital templates for animation within a digital template animation environment.
US10475223B2	Generating multiple data-bound graphic objects Methods and systems are provided for creating a plurality of data-bound graphic objects using an existing graphic object displayed within a graphical user interface. A visual property of an existing graphic object is selected and associated with a selected variable identified from a received data set. The data has a plurality of observations, each with a variable value for the selected variable. Once associated, additional graphic objects are created or adjusted to correspond to the observations in the data such that the additional graphic objects and the initial graphic object represent each observation in the data set. Further, property values of the selected visual property for each graphic object are determined by variable values of corresponding observations. Accordingly, the graphic objects have different appearances reflecting different variable values for all the observations in the data set.
US10475214B2	Tomographic reconstruction based on deep learning The present approach relates to the use of machine learning and deep learning systems suitable for solving large-scale, space-variant tomographic reconstruction and/or correction problems. In certain embodiments, a tomographic transform of measured data obtained from a tomography scanner is used as an input to a neural network. In accordance with certain aspects of the present approach, the tomographic transform operation(s) is performed separate from or outside the neural network such that the result of the tomographic transform operation is instead provided as an input to the neural network. In addition, in certain embodiments, one or more layers of the neural network may be provided as wavelet filter banks.
US10475206B1	Medical environment event parsing system A system and a method are described for identifying (e.g., parsing images) images pertaining to an event. The method also includes identifying a first subset of pixels from the plurality of potential locations as representing a bed and/or a seating platform. The method also includes identifying a second subset of pixels within the field of view of the camera as representing an object proximal to the bed and/or seating platform. The method also includes determining an orientation of the object with respect to the bed and/or seating platform, and determining changes in the orientation and/or position of the object over a period of time. In implementations, the method further includes generating state data pertaining to an event and associating the state data with corresponding image frame data.
US10475205B2	Positioning and measuring system based on flexible feature image scale A positioning and measuring system includes: an image capturing device performing image capturing operations on an object; a driving mechanism mechanically connected to one or both of the image capturing device and the object to cause a relative movement between the image capturing device and the object; and a processor electrically connected to the image capturing device and the driving mechanism and performing steps of: controlling the image capturing device to capture N portions of the object to generate N images before and after controlling the driving mechanism to cause M relative movements between the object and the image capturing device; and extracting feature points of each of the N images corresponding to unique surface morphology of the object and respectively performing cross-image feature point matching according to the feature points of every neighboring two of the N images to obtain information of the M relative movements.
US10475204B2	Fast multi-object detection and tracking system The present invention relates to the fast multi-object detection and tracking system. According to the system of the present invention, only a few frames are to be detected and the other frames are split into different size of steady motion segments in a binary way, and then the system of the present invention can predicted accurately. The system can help to achieve high tracking speed with multi-persons in high-definition videos and gain high accuracy as well.
US10475196B2	Hybrid depth detection and movement detection A head-mounted device (HMD) is configured to perform depth detection in conjunction with movement tracking. The HMD includes a stereo camera pair comprising a first camera and a second camera, both of which are mounted on the HMD. The fields of view for both of the cameras overlap to form an overlapping field of view. These cameras are configured to detect both visible light and infrared (IR) light. The HMD also includes an IR dot-pattern illuminator that is configured to emit an IR dot-pattern illumination. The HMD uses the IR dot-pattern illumination to determine an object's depth. The HMD also includes one or more flood IR light illuminators that emit a flood of IR light. The HMD uses the flood of IR light to track at least its own movements, and sometimes even hand movements, in various environments, even low light environments.
US10475191B2	System and method for identification and suppression of time varying background objects A system and method for identification and suppression of time varying background objects is disclosed. A proposed surveillance security system includes an image analytics system and at least one surveillance camera. The image analytics system identifies objects within image data of a scene captured by the surveillance camera, and then analyzes the objects to determine whether each object is a foreground object or a dynamic background object. In examples, the image analytics system determines whether an object is a foreground object or a dynamic background object based upon movement and/or an appearance of the object. The surveillance security system does not send alerts to users of the system for objects determined to be dynamic background objects. When users request objects of interest, the dynamic background objects are also excluded from lists of objects sent in reply messages to the users.
US10475185B1	Associating a user with an event Described is a multiple-camera system and process for identifying a user that performed an event and associating that user with the event. For example, when an event is detected, user patterns near the location of the event are determined, along with touch points at the location of the event. User pattern orientation and/or arm trajectories between the event location and the user pattern may be determined and processed to link the user pattern to the event, thereby confirming the association between the event and the user.
US10475184B2	Medical image processing apparatus and method From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted t least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.
US10475178B1	System, method and computer program product for inspecting a wafer using a film thickness map generated for the wafer A system, method, and computer program product are provided for inspecting a wafer using a film thickness map generated for the wafer. In use, a plurality of locations on a wafer are determined from a design of the wafer. Additionally, a measured brightness at each of the determined locations on the wafer is obtained. Further, a film thickness map for the wafer is generated from the obtained measurements. The wafer is then inspected using the film thickness map.
US10475175B2	Conductive film, display device having the same, and method of evaluating wiring patterns of conductive film A conductive film is provided on the display unit such that the wiring patterns of the two wiring portions overlap with the pixel array patterns of the display unit. A projected wiring pattern, which is obtained when the wiring patterns of the two wiring portions having three-dimensional shapes are projected onto a plane perpendicular to a point of view, includes a regular wiring pattern which has a mesh shape, or an irregular wiring pattern which has mesh shapes and which is formed by making the regular wiring pattern irregular. An indicator of evaluation of moirés, which is caused by interference between a combined wiring pattern formed of the regular wiring pattern and projected pixel array patterns obtained when the pixel array patterns are projected onto the same plane, is equal to or less than an evaluation threshold value.
US10475173B2	Dual mode inspector A dual mode inspector includes an optical inspector configured to detect a defect located at a first location on a sample, a microscope configured to capture an image of the defect at the first location on the sample, and a platform that is configured to support the sample. The sample is not removed from the platform between the detecting of the defect located at the first location on the sample and the capturing of the image of the defect at the first location on the sample. The dual mode optical inspector also includes a controller that causes the optical inspector to detect the defect located at the first location on the sample and causes the microscope to capture the image of the defect at the first location on the sample. The dual mode inspector also performs scanning lens distortion correction to improve the capturing of defect images.
US10475171B2	Multi-camera imaging system for nanosatellites A satellite imaging system uses multiple cameras. For example, the incoming light from a telescope section of the satellite goes through a dichroic beam splitter, with the standard visible spectrum going to a first camera and wavelengths outside of the standard visible spectrum, such as in the infrared or coastal blue range, are sent to a second camera, allowing image data from multiple wavelength ranges to be captured simultaneously. The image data from the different wavelengths of the two cameras can then be selectively recombined. In a more general case, there is a first range of wavelengths and a second range of wavelengths.
US10475170B2	Rendering information into images Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve the operation of a display system are disclosed. Techniques disclosed herein selectively darken a region of an image so that when text or other information is rendered into that region, the contrast between the text or other information and the underlying image in that area is sufficient to ensure the text or other information is visible and readable. In one embodiment, a region into which information is to be rendered may be combined or blended with tone mapped values of those same pixels in accordance with a given function, where the function gives more weight to the tone mapped pixel values the closer those pixels are to the midline of the region and more weight to untone-mapped image pixel values the further those pixels are from the midline of the region.
US10475169B2	High dynamic range illumination estimation Systems and techniques for estimating illumination from a single image are provided. An example system may include a neural network. The neural network may include an encoder that is configured to encode an input image into an intermediate representation. The neural network may also include an intensity decoder that is configured to decode the intermediate representation into an output light intensity map. An example intensity decoder is generated by a multi-phase training process that includes a first phase to train a light mask decoder using a set of low dynamic range images and a second phase to adjust parameters of the light mask decoder using a set of high dynamic range image to generate the intensity decoder.
US10475167B2	Method and device for image rotation, and apparatus for image formation Method and device for image rotation, and apparatus for image formation are provided. The method includes obtaining a tilt angle and size information of a to-be-processed image data, and obtaining position information of a target pixel corresponding to each rotated original pixel by performing a calculation based on the tilt angle and the size information and position information of each original pixel. The method also includes obtaining an enhancement parameter value and an edge parameter value by filtering the original pixel. Further, the method includes performing a two-dimensional interpolation process based on neighboring pixels of the original pixel, the enhancement parameter value and the edge parameter value, and obtaining a target pixel value of the target pixel according to an original pixel value of the original pixel, the enhancement parameter value, and the edge parameter value, thereby obtaining a target image corresponding to the rotated to-be-processed image data.
US10475165B2	Kernel-predicting convolutional neural networks for denoising Supervised machine learning using convolutional neural network (CNN) is applied to denoising images rendered by MC path tracing. The input image data may include pixel color and its variance, as well as a set of auxiliary buffers that encode scene information (e.g., surface normal, albedo, depth, and their corresponding variances). In some embodiments, a CNN directly predicts the final denoised pixel value as a highly non-linear combination of the input features. In some other embodiments, a kernel-prediction neural network uses a CNN to estimate the local weighting kernels, which are used to compute each denoised pixel from its neighbors. In some embodiments, the input image can be decomposed into diffuse and specular components. The diffuse and specular components are then independently preprocessed, filtered, and postprocessed, before recombining them to obtain a final denoised image.
US10475160B1	Image magnification system A method and apparatus can include: displaying original images, the original images including a first original image and a second original image; displaying magnification regions overlaid on top of the original images; detecting a positioning user input, the positioning user input identifying first coordinates for a first center point of a first magnification region; calculating second coordinates for a second center point of a second magnification region based on a linear relationship between the location of the first center point within the first original image and the location of the second center point within the second original image; displaying the second magnification region overlaid on the second original image and the second magnification region having the second center point based on the linear relationship; and displaying magnified images including a first magnified image corresponding to the first magnification region and a second magnified image corresponding to the second magnification region.
US10475155B2	Collecting and viewing three-dimensional scanner data in a flexible video format A method interactively displays panoramic images of a scene. The method includes measuring 3D coordinates with a 3D measuring instrument at a first position and a second position. The 3D coordinates are registering into a common frame of reference. Within the scene, a trajectory includes a plurality of trajectory points. Along the trajectory, 2D images are generated from the commonly registered 3D coordinates. A trajectory display mode sequentially displays a collection of 2D images at the trajectory points. A rotational display mode allows a user to select a desired view direction at a given trajectory point. The user selects the trajectory display mode or the rotational display mode and sees the result shown on the display device.
US10475152B1	Dependency handling for set-aside of compute control stream commands Techniques are disclosed relating to managing dependencies in a compute control stream that specifies operations to be performed on a programmable shader (e.g., of a graphics unit). In some embodiments, the compute control stream includes commands and kernels. In some embodiments, dependency circuitry is configured to maintain dependencies such that younger kernels are allowed to execute ahead of a type of cache-related command (e.g., a command that signals a cache flush and/or invalidate). Disclosed circuitry may include separate buffers for commands and kernels, command dependency circuitry, and kernel dependency circuitry. In various embodiments, the disclosed architecture may improve performance in a highly scalable manner.
US10475150B2	GPU minimum latency dispatch for short-duration tasks Graphics processing systems and methods are described. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU), the GPU including a high priority command streamer to dispatch high priority commands from an application, a normal priority command streamer to receive normal priority commands through a command path, one or more execution units, and a thread dispatcher. The thread dispatcher to dispatch normal priority commands to the one or more executions units, determine the high priority command streamer includes at least one command, cause the one or more execution units to save their states, and dispatch at least one command from the high priority queue to the one or more execution units.
US10475147B2	Multiple GPU graphics processing system A graphics processing system comprises a pair of graphics processing units that are connected to each other via communications bridges that can allow communication between the connected graphics processing units. One of the graphics processing units is operable to act as a master graphics processing unit controlling graphics processing operations on the other graphics processing unit which is operable as a slave graphics processing unit to perform graphics processing operations under the control of the master graphics processing unit. Each graphics processing unit of the pair of graphics processing units is also capable of operating in a standalone mode, in which the graphics processing unit operates independently of the other graphics processing unit to perform a graphics processing task.
US10475144B2	Presenting context-based guidance using electronic signs Computer-implemented functionality is described herein for assisting a user in interacting with an environment. In one implementation, the functionality operates by: determining that a particular user is within a prescribed proximity to an electronic sign, or will be in prescribed proximity to the electronic sign, based on sensor information provided by one or more sensors within the environment; determining an identity of the user; determining at least one destination of the user based at least on calendar information; providing directions to the destination(s), to provide unfiltered direction information; optionally filtering the unfiltered direction information with respect to restriction information (e.g., privacy information, security information, etc.), to produce filtered direction information; composing sign information based on the filtered direction information; and sending the sign information to the electronic sign for presentation by the sign.
US10475142B2	Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results.
US10475132B1	Computer implemented methods systems and articles of manufacture for identifying tax return preparation application questions based on semantic dependency Computer-implemented methods, system and computer program products for determining questions or potential questions to present to a user of a tax preparation application based at least in part upon analysis of pre-determined semantic dependencies of interview questions. Questions that are determined to be independent or free of semantic dependency can be selected as questions to be presented to the user or questions that are the subject of non-binding suggestions generated by a rule module and provided to an interface controller, which processes the non-binding suggestions.
US10475123B2	Coupon blending of swap portfolio Systems and methods for blending a plurality of swaps may include determining a fixed rate for use in blending a plurality of swaps, each of the plurality of swaps having matching economics and a different associated fixed rate. A computing device may determine a first remnant swap for blending fixed rate components of the plurality of swaps using the fixed rate. In some cases, the computing device may determine second remnant swap for blending floating rate components of the plurality of swaps based on the first remnant swap.
US10475116B2	Method to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database A method and system to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database including a plurality of divisions is provided. The method includes receiving entry criteria associated with the data entry, and searching the database using the entry criteria to locate similar stored data entries. At least one division for data entries is identified wherein the stored data entries are located. The at least one division is then presented to a user as the suggested location. The method and system may be applied in a network-based auction facility and the data entry may then be a user listing. The method may thus include identifying at least one potentially relevant category for the user listing as the suggested location.
US10475114B2	On-line product catalogue and ordering system, and the presentation of audio tracks and user avatars along a journey path A method of presenting an on-line product catalog and ordering system to a user, said method comprising providing a graphical user interface representing a virtual space through which users may navigate, said virtual space including representations representing products, through which a user may obtain product information and order a product on-line, and representations representing other users of the system, through which the user may identify such other users and communicate with a selected other user regarding the products on offer.
US10475101B1	Determining potential causes of an issue associated with recommendations and changing recommendation filter settings based on the outcome of an action Techniques for analyzing recommendations may be described. In particular, an item offered from a network-based resource may be selected based at least in part on past orders for the item. Recommended items offered from the network-based resource may also be identified. A determination may be made as to whether the recommended items may include the item. Based on this determination, an indication of an issue associated with recommending the item may be generated. Based on the indication, a workflow to identify a potential cause of the issue may be initiated.
US10475097B2	Systems and methods for providing an interactive virtual environment A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing an interactive virtual environment. The system may receive environmental data, and generate virtual environmental data based on the environmental data. The system may then provide the virtual environmental data to at least a first computing device to create a virtual environment. The system may then receive user input, and modify the virtual environment to display enhanced content in response to the user input.
US10475096B2	Triggers for automatic purchasing based on dynamic sales data There are provided systems and methods for to triggers for automatic purchasing based on dynamic sales data. A user may establish preauthorization data with a service provider that indicates an item of interest that the user would like to purchase. Additionally, the user may set criteria required to be met for an automatic purchase of the item of interest by the service provider on behalf of the user. The criteria may correspond to a purchase price, date, discount, or additional information associated with the item, including inventory, purchases by friends, and other types of data. The service provider may use the preauthorization data to determine triggers that, when met, cause the service provider to purchase the item on behalf of the user. Additionally, the service provider may monitor sales data for the item and additional information until a trigger is met to cause a purchase of the item.
US10475090B2	Calculating user experience scores Examples relate to calculating user experience scores for applications. The examples disclosed herein collect, for each of at least two frames of each of at least two user sessions of an application, a set of user event data items representing user experiences from the perspective of a user device during a corresponding frame of the at least two frames of a user session. A frame score is calculated for each of the at least two frames in each of the at least two user sessions by analyzing the frame's set of user event data items. A user session score is calculated for each of the at least two user sessions by averaging the frame scores for the at least two frames in the user session of the at least two user sessions. A user experience score may then be calculated for the application by averaging the user session scores of each of the at least two user sessions.
US10475087B2	Targeting items to a user of a social networking system based on a predicted event for the user A social networking system predicts a life event (e.g., birthday, change in marital status, relationship status, etc.) for a target user based on information associated with the user. The social networking system identifies gift suggestions to provide to one or more friends of the user based on the predicted event. A gift suggestion may include an invitation to purchase or send an item, voucher, or other gift to the target user, wherein the gift may be determined based on information about the target user's interests obtained by the social networking system. The social networking system sends a gift suggestion to one or more friends of the target user, where the gift suggestion identifies the predicted life event and provides the gift suggestion to the target user's friend. The advertisement may require action by multiple of the target user's friends before the gift is sent to the target user.
US10475077B2	Displaying advertisements with location information Advertisement content associated with an entity having a physical location is selected for display to a user by a client device. A proximity of the client device to the physical location is determined. In response to determining the proximity between the client device and the physical location, an advertisement is generated that includes the advertisement content and an indicator of the physical location. The generated advertisement is sent to the client device for display to the user.
US10475076B1	Navigation-based ad units in street view Systems, methods, and computer storage mediums for directing a user to an image of an advertiser's geolocation are provided. An exemplary method includes retrieving a first image associated with a geolocation, where the geolocation is based on a user action. At least one advertising unit is also selected based on at least the geolocation associated with the first image. Each advertising unit includes at least one geolocation associated with an advertiser. At least one advertising unit is then placed on the first image. Finally, a second image is retrieved when a placed advertising unit is selected by the user. The second image is retrieved based on the geolocation associated with the placed advertising unit.
US10475074B2	Selecting content associated with a collection of entities Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. An indication is received from a content sponsor of a first collection of entities, sharing common characteristics, to be used for selection criteria for presenting a first content item. References to the first content item and selection criteria are stored. A query is received including terms or phrases associated with a first entity. It is determined that the first entity is included in the first collection of entities, wherein the terms or phrases do not include the first collection. Eligible content items are identified, each being associated with selection criteria including criteria specifying the first collection of entities. At least a portion of the first collection of entities is provided for presentation along with search results, including providing one or more of the eligible content items and the first content item.
US10475072B2	System and method for providing dynamic product offerings A system and method for dynamically selecting products for presentation to consumers in a hands-on environment of a merchant, based upon social signals acquired from consumers in an online environment.
US10475056B2	Sales prediction systems and methods Computer implemented sales prediction system collects data relating to events of visitors showing an interest in a client company from plural data sources, an organization module which organizes collected data into different event types and separates collected event counts in each event type between non-recent and recent events occurring within a predetermined time period, a first processing module which periodically calculates weighting for each event type based on recent and non-recent events for the event type compared to totals for other selected event types, a second processing module which periodically calculates sales prediction scores for each visitor and companies with which visitors are associated based on accumulated event data and weighting, and a reporting and data extract module which is configured to detect variation in sales prediction scores over time to identify spikes which can predict upcoming sales and to provide predicted sales information and leads to the client company.
US10475043B2	Method and system for pro-active detection and correction of low quality questions in a question and answer based customer support system User satisfaction with answers that may be provided through a question and answer based customer support system is predicted by pre-submission analysis of the attributes of the question itself before the answer is generated. Questions being entered into the question and answer based customer support system that are not likely to satisfy either an asking user submitting a question, or subsequent searching users accessing the resulting question and answer pair, are labeled improperly formatted questions, or low quality format questions. The question data representing improperly formatted questions is then either filtered out, avoided completely, or, proactively corrected by providing the user with a set of personalized question format transformation instructions to transform improperly formatted questions into a re-phrased/re-formatted properly formatted questions having a question format predicted to provide a significantly higher probability of user satisfaction with any answer eventually provided.
US10475036B2	Restricting account use by controlled replenishment A restriction request message, including a restriction parameter for a secondary account, is received from a device that is associated with a primary account, via a network node that is outside of a secure authorization network. A replenishment request message, including a password and an account replenishment parameter for the secondary account, is also received via a network node that is outside of the authorization network. Authentication is performed based on the password, and the restriction parameter for the secondary account is identified responsive to receiving the replenishment request message. Responsive to determining that the account replenishment parameter satisfies the restriction parameter, a replacement key is generated and associated with the account replenishment parameter for the secondary account. A replenishment response message including the replacement key is transmitted to a device that is associated with the secondary account, via a network node that is outside of the authorization network.
US10475031B2	Conducting secure retail transactions using a mobile wallet system A mobile payment system for a retail environment enables customers to securely use their mobile device to pay for goods purchased at a point-of-sale (POS) system, regardless of whether the mobile device has cellular service or is connected to a network.
US10475029B2	System and method for consumer fraud protection The present invention relates to system and method for authorizing a financial transaction using user-data collected from third party websites, such as Social Media Networks. In operation, collected user-data may be compared to a financial-data collected during a financial transaction to identify potential fraud and/or other discrepancies, confirming the identity of the user with a greater degree of accuracy.
US10475027B2	System and method for exchanging data with smart cards A system that includes an issuer system that receives, via a network, registration information from a mobile device, wherein the issuer system is associated with a financial institution that issues a smart card to a user and wherein the registration information includes an identifier of the mobile device, and a mobile device application associated with the issuer system, that when executed on a mobile device, communicates with the issuer system to validate the mobile device as a trusted device and enables the trusted device to communicate with the smart card and enable smart card management features mobile device application.
US10475024B1	Secure smart card transactions A method of securely conducting a financial transaction includes receiving, at a card reader, a first plurality of messages from a smart card; identifying, using the reader, one or more sensitive messages in the first plurality of messages, where the first plurality of messages conforms to a protocol of the financial transaction; encrypting, using the reader, the one or more sensitive messages using a cryptographic key of the reader to generate encrypted messages; formatting, using the reader, a second plurality of messages according to the protocol to send to a mobile device, where the second plurality of messages includes the encrypted messages and messages in the first plurality of messages that are not sensitive; determining, using a mobile device, action steps according to the protocol, where the action steps are determined from the second plurality of messages; and executing the action steps.
US10475021B2	Mobile device, method, and computer storage medium for determining an order of stored data items/payment account numbers based on location A mobile device having: a position determination device configured to determine a location of the mobile device; a transceiver configured to communicate with a transaction terminal via near field communication; a communication device configured to communicate with at least one server over internet; a memory storing a plurality of data items and a set of instructions of a mobile application; and at least one microprocessor coupled with the memory to execution the instructions of the mobile application. The mobile application is configured to: communicate the location of the mobile device, using the communication device, to the at least one server over internet; determine, via communications with the at least one server based on the location of the mobile device, an order of data items; and communicate, using the transceiver via near field communication, with the transaction terminal in accordance with the order of the data items.
US10475020B2	Mobile device roaming status subscription Methods, computer-readable media and devices for authorizing a pending payment transaction using mobile device roaming status information are disclosed. For example, a method includes a processor receiving an authorization to monitor the roaming status information of a mobile device, sending a request to a cellular service provider network to monitor the roaming status information of the mobile device, and receiving from the cellular service provider network a notification of the roaming status information of the mobile device. The method may further include the processor receiving a notification of a payment transaction of a payment device associated with a user of the mobile device at a payment location and sending an authorization to continue processing the pending payment transaction when the roaming status information indicates that a location of the mobile device corresponds to the payment location.
US10475004B2	Methods of securing a paper check, and methods of constructing a secure paper check For a consumer having a bank checking account but who is without a preprinted paper check, a signed paper check is electronically constructed for the consumer on a transaction basis, by a computer system. The system captures GPS location from the consumer's phone and prints numerical GPS coordinates onto the check as part of electronically constructing the signed check. One usage context is a system used by creditors obtaining payment from debtors who are overdue on their accounts.
US10475000B2	Systems and methods for providing files in relation to a calendar event Systems and methods are provided for providing suggested files in relation to a calendar event. An electronic device receives an input related to the calendar event. Calendar event information, such as attendees, subject, and the date, are obtained. A search is performed for files related to the calendar event information. The related files can be ordered or ranked according to confidence values. The files are then displayed as suggestions. Links between suggested files and the calendar event are also formed.
US10474999B2	System and method for visual communication between buyers and sellers A visual communications (VC) tool enables visual communication over a data communications network. An email is sent to a recipient containing a link to a first visual arrangement generated by a sender. The first visual arrangement may include images of various products. The first visual arrangement is displayed via a web browser in a first display area of the VC tool in response to actuation of the link in the email message. The recipient then selects a first image in the first display area. The selection may include dragging and dropping the first image into a second display area of the VC tool. The selection triggers the generating of a second visual arrangement which includes a copy of the first image. The copy of the first image is displayed in a second display area concurrently with the display of the first image in the first display area.
US10474996B2	Workflow management system platform A workflow management system platform may access electronic data records in a scenario database, including, for each of a plurality of scenarios, a scenario identifier and a set of associated workflow identifiers. Electronic data records in a workflow database may also be accessed, including, for each of a plurality of workflows, a workflow identifier, a valid from date, a valid to date, and an order value. Some embodiments may then automatically display information about the plurality of scenarios. For example, for each workflow associated with a scenario, a workflow area may be displayed extending from a start location associated with the workflow's valid from date on the graphical timeline to an end location associated with the workflow's valid to date on the graphical timeline. According to some embodiments, workflow areas within a scenario may be presented in a sequence in accordance with order values.
US10474995B2	Method and computer-readable media for managing governing documents in complex business transactions A method, and computer-readable media for performing the method, for managing governing documents in business transactions. Electronic transaction documents are received from authenticated users and stored in an on-line transaction document database. Governing document rules are defined with transaction participants categorized in user categories. Governing documents corresponding to those user categories are stored and provided to the transaction participants for agreement according to the governing document rules as a condition to access to the on-line transaction document database.

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