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US10560361B2	Distributed database for synchronizing the accessibility of nodes and shared devices A technique for an access node to synchronize the accessibility of a plurality of access nodes within a network is described. The technique receives an accessibility update and/or device update from a remote node. For the accessibility update, the access node compares entries in the accessibility update to the local accessibility table. If entries in the accessibility update are more up-to-date than the local accessibility table, the access node adjusts the local accessibility table to reflect the updates. The local access node compares the node identifier, heartbeat, and timestamp to determine whether and entry in the local accessibility table is up-to-date. For the device update, the access node compares entries in the device update to the local device table. If entries in the device update are more up-to-date than the local device table, the access node adjusts the local device table to reflect the updates.
US10560360B2	Diagnostic heartbeat throttling A method, system, and computer program product for a diagnostic heartbeat throttling are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A component, executing using a processor and a memory in a data processing system, sends diagnostic heartbeat packets over a communication link at a first rate, wherein a diagnostic heartbeat packet is a packet comprises a header, a set of heartbeat parameters, and a set of diagnostic attributes. The component detects a change in data traffic over the communication link. The component changes a rate of sending diagnostic heartbeat packets from the first rate to a second rate responsive to the change in the data traffic over the communication link.
US10560358B2	Method for performing uplink packet delay measurements in a wireless communication system and a device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing UL packet delay measurement in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: checking whether a value of queuing delay of a PDCP SDU is above a threshold, and generating and transmitting a PDCP PDU including the PDCP SDU and a time stamp for the PDCP SDU, if the value of the queuing delay is above the threshold, wherein a value of the time stamp for the PDCP SDU is set to a time when the PDCP SDU is received from the upper layer.
US10560344B1	Page prefetching A method for optimizing resource prefetch criteria may include identifying a prefetch criteria for a selectable item, the first prefetch criteria being associated with the selectable item. The first prefetch criteria may be modified to a second prefetch criteria different from the first prefetch criteria, where the modification includes a change of shape of a prefetch area from a first shape to a second shape different from the first shape. The first prefetch criteria may be replaced with the second prefetch criteria.
US10560321B2	Information processing method, network node, authentication method, and server The present embodiments relate to an information processing method, a network node, an authentication method, and a server. In the information processing method provided in the embodiments, a central node determines that a first access node goes online, a virtual access node on the central node obtains configuration information related to the first access node, and after the first access node goes online, the virtual access node sends the configuration information related to the first access node to the first access node.
US10560320B2	Ranking of gateways in cluster Some embodiments provide a method for managing a set of forwarding elements. The method receives configuration information for a set of gateways specifying (i) multiple gateways for implementing logical router ports and (ii) a ranking order of the gateways in the set. The method configures a first gateway in the ranking order as a master gateway for the set of gateways. Upon receiving a first notification that the first gateway is not operational, the method configures a second gateway in the ranking order as the master gateway for the set of gateways. Upon receiving a second, subsequent notification that the first gateway has resumed operation, the method maintains the second gateway in the ranking order as the master gateway for the set of gateways and configures the first gateway in the ranking order as a first standby gateway.
US10560318B2	System and method for correlating fabric-level group membership with subnet-level partition membership in a high-performance computing environment System and method for correlating fabric-level group membership with subnet-level partition membership in a high performance computing environment. An exemplary embodiment can provide an admin partition in a subnet of a network environment, associated with a resource domain at the fabric level of the network environment. The admin partition can be defined by a P_Key that is stored in a fabric-level database. Each fabric resource is identified by an identifier that is stored in the fabric-level database. When fabric resources are added as members to the resource domain, a relationship is created between the P_Key and the identifier of the fabric resource, where the relationship defines the resource as a member of the admin partition. Access rights can be granted based on the relationship.
US10560317B2	Subscription to a subset of switching events Examples herein disclose a processor to receive a list of switching events. The list of switching events is internal to a networking device and capable of detection by a programmable engine. The processor subscribes to a subset of the switching events based on a selection from the list of switching events.
US10560316B2	System for cloud-based service outage detection and verification An embodiment provides a system for cloud-based service outage detection and verification, including: a network link that receives, over a data communications network, cloud service provider outage information indicating a possible cloud outage at a cloud service provider, wherein the information comprises new content on a website associated with the cloud service provider; a processor that generates outage data comprising a third party cloud service provider identification and an outage characteristic, wherein the outage characteristic is identified from the new content and identifies an outage type; the processor identifying at least one entity implicated in the possible cloud outage, wherein the identifying comprises identifying an entity that subscribes to cloud services provided by the cloud service provider by querying a database that stores information related to the cloud service provider; and the processor providing information to the at least one entity confirming the possible cloud outage, wherein the confirming is based at least in part on the new content.
US10560313B2	Pipeline system for time-series data forecasting A pipeline system for time-series data forecasting using a distributed computing environment is disclosed herein. In one example, a pipeline for forecasting time series is generated. The pipeline represents a sequence of operations for processing the time series to produce forecasts. The sequence of operations include model strategy operations for applying various model strategies to the time series to determine error distributions corresponding to the model strategies. The sequence of operations further include a model-strategy comparison operation for determining which of the model strategies is a champion model strategy for the plurality of time series based on the error distributions of the model strategies. The pipeline is executed to determine the champion model strategy for the time series.
US10560308B2	Correlation across non-logging components Systems are provided for logging transactions in heterogeneous networks that include a combination of one or more instrumented components and one or more non-instrumented components. The instrumented components are configured to generate impersonated log records for the non-instrumented components involved in the transaction processing hand-offs with the instrumented components. The impersonated log records are persisted with other log records that are generated by the instrumented components in a transaction log that is maintained by a central logging system to reflect a complete flow of the transaction processing performed on the object, including the flow through the non-instrumented component(s).
US10560307B2	Method and system for management of an openflow agent in openflow devices A method for managing OpenFlow communications between an OpenFlow Agent and an OpenFlow Controller is disclosed. The method involves extending the command line interface (CLI) based on distributed management task force (DTMF) server management command line protocol (SM CLP) exposed by an integrated Lights Out Management (LOM) software preexisting in enterprise class network equipment to support a plurality of OpenFlow targets, a plurality of verbs, and a plurality of properties, adding a managed element configured to provide handlers for each of the plurality of OpenFlow targets, registering the managed element for the plurality of OpenFlow targets with a manageability access point (MAP) entity, and configuring at least one of the plurality of properties to facilitate communication between an OpenFlow Agent and an OpenFlow Controller within the enterprise class network equipment using the plurality of OpenFlow targets, the plurality of verbs, and the plurality of properties.
US10560305B1	Digital compensation for RF imperfections of a system composed of multiple modules Approaches for compensating for RF imperfections in a system that comprises two or more independent modules. The two or more independent modules may be comprised within a remote PHY node (RPN). RF calibration data is stored in one or more non-volatile mediums for two or more independent modules. Each of the two or more independent modules are electronically coupled in a sequence via a transmission medium. A first independent module digital compensates a RF signal for a set of two or more modules that are coupled together in sequence via the transmission medium. The first independent module may correspond to a remote PHY device (RPD).
US10560302B2	Method and system for joint training sequences design for correlated channel and frequency offsets estimation In distributed communication networks, the signal received at the destination is characterized by unknown multiple carrier frequency offsets (MCFOs) and improper channel state information (CSI). The knowledge of offsets and channel gains are required for coherent deployment of distributed systems. Hence, joint training sequence (TS) design method is proposed for joint estimation of MCFOs and channel estimation over spatially correlated channel. Thus, the present invention provides a method of providing joint estimation for distributed communication systems with multiple antennas at the nodes over spatial correlated channels. The designed optimal training sequences are short length and spectrally efficient. The designed training sequence produces zero cross-correlation, facilitating channel estimation without matrix inversion, significantly lowers the complexity of the estimation algorithm.
US10560290B2	Information handling system half unit interval equalization An information handling system communicates information across a physical link with high and low signal values sent at a unit interval. Feed forward equalization improves signal transfer with pre-emphasis of low-to-high signals and de-emphasis of high-to-low signals lasting for a fraction of the unit interval, such as one-half or one-quarter of the unit interval. Fractional unit interval pre-emphasis and de-emphasis reduce inter symbol interference to improve frequency domain eye structure at the physical link receiver.
US10560289B1	Adaptive equalizer system One example includes an equalizer system. The system includes a filter system configured to receive digital sample blocks associated with an input signal and to provide equalized digital sample blocks associated with the respective digital sample blocks based on adaptive tap weights. Each of the digital sample blocks includes samples and each of the equalized digital sample blocks includes equalized samples. The system also includes a sample set selector to select a subset of equalized samples from each of the equalized digital sample blocks at the output of the filter and an error estimator configured to implement an error estimation algorithm on the subset of the equalized samples to determine a residual error associated with the equalized samples. The system further includes a tap weight generator configured to generate the adaptive tap weights in response to the residual error and to provide the adaptive tap weights to the filter.
US10560288B2	Apparatus and method of non-iterative singular-value decomposition Method of non-iterative singular-value decomposition (SVD). The method includes receiving, by receiver, a signal; determining, by a channel matrix generator connected to the receiver, a channel matrix for the received signal; reducing, by a singular-value decomposer connected to the channel matrix generator, the dimension of the channel matrix; performing, by the singular-value decomposer, an SVD on the dimension-reduced channel matrix to determine singular vectors and corresponding coefficients that maximize singular values of the singular vectors; and outputting a result of the SVD based on at least one of when the dimension of the dimension-reduced channel matrix is less than or equal to 2 and when two greatest singular values of corresponding singular vectors are determined.
US10560287B2	Relative uplink channel estimation There is provided mechanisms for relative uplink channel estimation. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises transmitting reference signals from at least two antennas on respective uplink channels towards a network node. The method comprises receiving a forwarded representation of each of the reference signals from the network node. The method comprises estimating a relation between the uplink channels towards the network node for the at least two antennas using the reference signals and the received forwarded representations of the reference signals, thereby estimating the relative uplink channel, towards the network node, between the at least two antennas.
US10560286B2	Gateway device and control method for the same A gateway device that relays a message between two or more domains receives a first message including a first message authentication code corresponding to a first domain among the two or more domains and first data from the first domain and transmits a second message including a second message authentication code corresponding to a second domain among the two or more domains and the first data to the second domain.
US10560282B2	Control area network (CAN) transceivers with automatic polarity detection Two CAN bus transceivers utilized in a single integrated circuit package with the CAN bus connections between the two transceivers being inverted. Thus, one transceiver is connected to the CAN bus high and low lines while the other transceiver is connected to the CAN bus low and high lines. Both transceivers power up in a standby condition and each transceiver is monitoring for wake up signals on the CAN bus. The transceiver that is correctly connected to the CAN bus detects wake up signals. When the wake up signals are detected at that transceiver, that transceiver is brought to full operating state and the other transceiver is placed in a full standby condition. Additional input resistance is provided with each transceiver to maintain the proper input resistance for the integrated circuit.
US10560258B2	Architecture and instruction set for implementing advanced encryption standard (AES) A flexible aes instruction for a general purpose processor is provided that performs aes encryption or decryption using n rounds, where n includes the standard aes set of rounds {10, 12, 14}. A parameter is provided to allow the type of aes round to be selected, that is, whether it is a “last round”. In addition to standard aes, the flexible aes instruction allows an AES-like cipher with 20 rounds to be specified or a “one round” pass.
US10560257B2	Homomorphic encryption Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices storing instructions for homomorphic encryption via finite ring isomorphisms are provided. An example method includes selecting a polynomial f(x) of exact degree n with small coefficients in a ring Fq[x] and selecting a polynomial h(y) of exact degree n in a ring Fq[y]. The method includes constructing an isomorphism from the ring Fq[x]/(f(x)) to the ring Fq[y]/(h(y)) and constructing an inverse isomorphism from the ring Fq[y]/(h(y)) to the ring Fq[x]/(f(x)). The method includes encrypting a message using said isomorphism from the ring Fq[x]/(f(x)) to the ring Fq[y]/(h(y)) and transmitting the encrypted message to a remote computer. The method also includes receiving one or more encrypted response messages from the remote computer based at least in part on the transmitted message and decrypting the one or more encrypted response messages.
US10560253B2	Systems and methods of controlling synchronicity of communication within a network of devices A communication system controller having an input for receiving output signals of a sending device. The communication system controller further has a clock signal. The communication system controller further has an output for transmitting input signals to a target device. The communication system controller further has a signal processing element capable of determining if the received output signals of the sending device are synchronous with the clock signal. The signal processing element is further capable of determining if the received output signals of the sending device are asynchronous with the clock signal. The communication system controller is capable of transmitting the received output signals of the sending device as input signals to the target device if the received output signals of the sending device are determined to be synchronous with the clock signal.
US10560248B2	Method and device for service time division multiplexing A method and device for transmitting a service are disclosed. A terminal device receives position information of specific radio frames in a time unit, and position information of a specific subframe in each of the specific radio frames in the time unit from a base station. Every 2m radio frames in the time unit include one specific radio frame, the position information of the specific radio frames in the time unit comprises a value of a period of the specific radio frames in the time unit, and a length of the period is 2m radio frames, where m is a nonnegative integer. The terminal device receives the service carried in the specific subframe in one or more of the specific radio frames from the base station in accordance with the position information of the specific radio frames and the position information of the specific subframe.
US10560246B2	Method and device for transmitting and receiving data by using multiple carriers in mobile communication system To solve the above-mentioned problem, the method for transmitting and receiving a signal by user equipment (UE) through one or more cells, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first message indicating whether one or more cells usable by the UE are enabled; determining which cells to enable or disable on the basis of the first message; and enabling or disabling the selected cells. According to the embodiment of the present specification, by aggregating carriers amongst different base stations, a possibility for the UE to transmit and receive high-speed data through carrier aggregation can increase.
US10560245B2	Data transmission/reception method in wireless communication system that supports low latency, and apparatus therefor Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving data by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting low latency includes receiving downlink (DL) control information including a transmission time interval (TTI) indication field indicating a short TTI in which low latency data is scheduled, from an eNB through a DL physical channel, and receiving the low latency data from the eNB through a scheduled short TTI on the basis of the received TTI indication field.
US10560227B2	Downlink transmission method, base station, and terminal A downlink transmission method and a corresponding base station and terminal are provided. In some feasible implementations, a base station sends downlink control information to a terminal in a subframe n+k, where the downlink control information includes indication information and a HARQ process identification, the indication information is used to indicate a location of at least one OFDM symbol in data that is sent by the base station to the terminal in a subframe n, the HARQ process identification in the downlink control information is the same as a HARQ process identification in the subframe n, and both n and k are natural numbers; and the base station transmits, in the subframe n+k, at least data that is sent to the terminal and that is on the at least one OFDM symbol that is in the subframe n and that is indicated by the indication information.
US10560224B2	Transmission method using parity packets, transmitter and repeater Provided is a transmission method executed by a transmitting apparatus to transmit a content to a plurality of terminals. The content having transmission count information indicating a number of times the content is to be transmitted by the transmitting apparatus. The transmission method including a first transmission step of generating and transmitting a first transmission signal which transfers at least a first portion of a plurality of data packets including a plurality of content packets, storing data of the content therein, and a plurality of parity packets, generated from the content packets, and a second transmission step of, when the transmission count information of the content indicates a plurality of times, generating a second transmission signal including at least a second portion of the plurality of data packets, and transmitting the second transmission signal during a period which differs from a period during which the first transmission signal is transmitted.
US10560210B2	Wavelength control method and apparatus A wavelength control system, method, and apparatus are described in the present disclosure. An example method include: adjusting powers of subcarriers on a super channel to a same power, where the subcarriers of the super channel includes consecutive subcarriers, a subcarrier i−1, a subcarrier i, and a subcarrier i+1; obtaining Q values of the subcarrier i−1 and the subcarrier i+1, where the Q values indicate performance of the subcarriers; calculating a Q value difference between the Q value of the subcarrier i+1 and the Q value of the subcarrier i−1, and calculating a difference between the Q value difference and a pre-obtained reference value of the subcarrier i; determining whether the absolute value of the difference is not less than the pre-obtained allowable frequency offset value, and adjusting a center wavelength of the subcarrier i according to the difference.
US10560204B1	5G fixed wireless access device self-installation A fixed wireless access device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to activate a Fifth Generation (5G) scanning mode and scan for 5G wireless signals associated with a provider that is also associated with the fixed wireless access device. The processor may be further configured to detect a 5G wireless signal associated with the provider; determine a signal strength for the detected 5G wireless signal; and generate an indication of the determined signal strength to be displayed in a user interface associated with the fixed wireless access device.
US10560203B2	Measurement system and method for spurious frequency determination A measurement system is provided. The measurement system includes a device under test (DUT), an antenna, and a measuring device connected to the antenna. The measuring device is configured to scan for spurious emissions of the DUT for at least one frequency. The measuring device is further configured to determine at least one spurious frequency. The measuring device is further configured to perform a measurement at each of the at least one spurious frequency.
US10560199B2	Signal processing circuit and optical receiving device A signal processing circuit includes: a processor configured to adjust phases of reception samples which is supplied at a supply interval, according to a phase adjustment amount; and a processing circuit including a finite impulse response (FIR) filter with taps and configured to process, by the FIR filter, each of the reception samples and output output symbols at an output interval different from the supply interval, the processor is configured to: derive initial values of tap coefficients for the respective taps; and derive the phase adjustment amount such that a center of centroids of the tap coefficients at respective output time points of the output symbols coincides with a center of a number of taps of the FIR filter, the tap coefficients at respective output time points of the output symbols being set according to a deviation between the supply interval and the output interval and the initial values.
US10560191B2	Node device, repeater and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a node device includes an interface configured to receive first signals. A plurality of coupling devices are configured to launch the first signals on a transmission medium as a plurality of first guided electromagnetic waves at corresponding plurality of non-optical carrier frequencies, wherein the plurality of first guided electromagnetic waves are bound to a physical structure of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560186B2	Optical power equilibrium method and apparatus The present invention discloses an optical power equilibrium method and apparatus. The method includes: configuring a liquid crystal on silicon LCOS as a blazed grating pattern whose phase periodically changes, where each period includes three grating segments, a pixel quantity in each period does not change, and a second grating segment is located between a first grating segment and a third grating segment; monitoring power of wavelength signals in a WDM signal, where the WDM signal includes a first wavelength signal; and reducing a phase modulation depth and a pixel quantity of the second grating segment in each period at a first location if power of the first wavelength signal is greater than preset target power, so that the power of the first wavelength signal is the same as the target power, where the first location is a location at which the first wavelength signal is incident to the LCOS.
US10560181B2	Aerial vehicle management for an aeronautical communications network The invention provides a system and method of providing service coverage for the provision of data services to a target aircraft comprising the step of configuring one or more other aircraft in an area at a specific time such that the data services can be provided via a radio or communication link to the target aircraft via the one or more other aircraft; and predicting a data services requirement in an area and configuring a pattern of communication links with the one or more other aircraft and the target aircraft to maintain the predicted data services.
US10560179B2	Active repeater device for operational mode based beam pattern changes for communication with a plurality of user equipment An active repeater device includes a primary sector and at least a secondary sector communicatively coupled to the primary sector receives or transmits a first beam of input RF signals having a first beam pattern from or to a base station, respectively. The primary sector includes an baseband signal processor and a first radio head (RH) unit. The secondary sector comprises a second RH unit. The first beam pattern covers a first geographical area. Beamforming coefficients are generated to convert the first beam pattern of the first beam of input RF signals to a second beam pattern. A second beam of output RF signals in the second beam pattern is transmitted from or received by, respectively, the secondary sector to or from, respectively, a plurality of user equipment (UEs) based on the generated beamforming coefficients and the received first beam of input RF signals.
US10560178B2	Millimeter wave communication system featuring adjustable support Apparatuses, systems, and methods for wireless millimeter-wave communications are disclosed. An apparatus is configured to rotate about an axis so as to improve transfer of wireless signals. The apparatus includes a support having a first side and a second side. A first phased array antenna is mounted to the support facing away from the first side. A second phased array antenna mounted to the support facing away from the second side. The apparatus further includes a means for rotating the support, such as a hinge or a pivot. By rotating the support in the field, the coverage of the wireless signals to/from at least one of the phased array antennas may be improved.
US10560173B2	Method for transmitting an receiving downlink signal in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor A method for a terminal, in a wireless communication system, receiving a downlink signal from a cell in which a plurality of beams are multiplexed according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: generating a quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence that is used for scrambling the downlink signal; and receiving the downlink signal through one or more beams of the plurality of multiplexed beams using the generated quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence, wherein the terminal can initialise the quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence using a beam-specific parameter corresponding to one or more beams for transmitting the downlink signal when generating the quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence.
US10560171B2	Method for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system supporting unlicensed band, and apparatus for supporting same Disclosed are a method for a terminal to report channel state information (CSI) to a base station, and an apparatus for supporting the same. More specifically, disclosed are a method for a terminal to report CSI in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band by transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) which only includes the CSI without an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), and apparatuses for supporting the same.
US10560169B2	CSI acquisition with channel reciprocity in mobile communications A user equipment (UE) utilizes a first group of antenna ports at the UE for transmitting and receiving while utilizing a second group of antenna ports for receiving but not transmitting. The UE transmits to a base station (BS) a sounding reference signal (SRS) via the first group of antenna ports through a first channel of a communication link between the UE and the BS. The UE receives from the BS a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) via the first and second groups of antenna ports through the first channel and a second channel of the communication link. The UE determines an estimated channel response and a matrix such that a product of the matrix and a channel response of the first channel approximates a channel response of the second channel. The UE transmits to the BS a CSI feedback indicating at least the matrix.
US10560146B2	Method and system for calibrating multi-wire skew Methods and systems are described for receiving, over a plurality of consecutive signaling intervals, a plurality of codewords, each codeword received as a plurality of symbols via wires of a multi-wire bus, the plurality of symbols received at a plurality of multi-input comparators (MICs), wherein each symbol is received by at least two MICs, generating, for each codeword, a corresponding linear combination of the received symbols, generating a plurality of composite skew measurement signals over the plurality of consecutive signaling intervals, each composite skew measurement signal based on samples of one or more linear combinations, and updating wire-specific skew values of the wires of the multi-wire bus, wherein one or more wire-specific skew values are updated according to composite skew measurement signals associated with linear combinations formed by at least two different MICs.
US10560145B2	Method and apparatus for launching a wave mode that mitigates interference Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a waveguide system detecting a degradation of an electromagnetic wave propagating along a transmission medium. The waveguide system launches a modified electromagnetic wave including a hybrid wave mode according to the degradation that is detected. The modified electromagnetic wave propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560139B2	Dynamic control of single switched uplink versus multi uplink Apparatus and methods for dynamic control of single switched uplink versus multi uplink are provided. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a front end system including a first transmit chain and a second transmit chain. The mobile device further includes a transceiver that transmits a first type of RF signal and a second type of RF signal by way of the front end system. The transceiver is operable in a first mode in which transmissions of the first type of RF signal and the second type of RF signal are staggered, and a second mode in which transmissions of the first type of RF signal and the second type of RF signal at least partially overlap in time. The transceiver includes a transmit control circuit that operates the transceiver in the first mode or the second mode based on comparing a transmit parameter to a threshold.
US10560138B2	Transceiver circuit and related radio frequency circuit A transceiver circuit and related radio frequency (RF) circuit are provided. An RF circuit is coupled to a transceiver circuit configured to generate an envelope tracking (ET) target voltage. The RF circuit includes a tracker circuit and a power amplifier circuit(s). The tracker circuit may have inherent frequency-dependent impedance that can interact with a load current of the amplifier circuit(s) to cause degradation in an ET modulated voltage, which can lead to spectral distortions in an RF offset spectrum. As such, a voltage compensation circuit is provided in the transceiver circuit and configured to add a voltage compensation term in the ET target voltage. By adding the voltage compensation term into the ET target voltage, it is possible to compensate for the degradation in the ET modulated voltage, thus helping to reduce the spectral distortions in the RF offset spectrum and improve linearity and efficiency of the amplifier circuit(s).
US10560132B2	Reconfigurable transmitter and receiver, and methods for reconfiguring The present application discloses a reconfigurable transmitter and receiver, and methods for reconfiguring the same. A system adaptive control circuit generates a control signal according to frequency band information of an input signal; a system clock circuit generates a system clock; a preprocessing circuit preprocesses a received baseband signal according to the system clock and the control signal, to generate a frequency band signal; a digital intermediate frequency processing circuit processes the frequency band signal according to the system clock and the control signal, to generate a digital intermediate frequency signal; a digital-to-analog conversion circuit processes the digital intermediate frequency signal according to the system clock and the control signal, to generate an analog signal; and an analog transmitting circuit transmits the analog signal.
US10560131B2	Front-end module and communication device A front-end module includes a substrate, and a receiving circuit that is provided in or on the substrate and in which CA is executed. The receiving circuit includes a first filter, a first inductor, and a first LNA disposed on a first path, and a second filter, a second inductor, and a second LNA disposed on a second path. A coil axis of the first inductor and a coil axis of the second inductor are different from each other.
US10560126B2	Mixed-mode millimeter-wave transmitter A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a set of input ports to receive baseband samples of a signal to be transmitted on a set of disjoint frequency bands, a set of filter banks, there is one filter bank for each input port, each filter bank includes a plurality of digital polyphase interpolation filters to sample a shifted phase of the corresponding sequence of baseband samples and to interpolate the sampled phases to produce a plurality of sequences of interpolated baseband phased samples with the shifted phase, and a set of oscillators banks, each oscillator bank includes a plurality of polyphase Digital Direct Synthesizer (DDS) corresponding to the plurality of digital polyphase interpolation filters to generate a plurality of sequences of samples of digital waveform. The RF transmitter includes a set of mixer banks to mix corresponding sequences of samples of digital waveform and interpolated baseband phased samples to up convert each sequence of interpolated baseband phased samples to the effective frequency, a parallel digital combiner to combine in-phase sequences of interpolated baseband phased samples of different frequency bands to produce a plurality of sequences of multiband upconverted samples, and a pulse encoder to modulate and encode the plurality of sequences of multiband upconverted samples to produce a plurality of encoded multi-band signals. The RF transmitter converts the plurality of encoded multi-band signals into a RF bitstream and radiate the RF bitstream as an analog signal.
US10560117B2	Groups of phase invariant codewords Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and method for encoding and decoding information on a data bearing medium. A message comprising a bit string is read. A plurality of substrings in the message may be associated with a phase invariant codeword.
US10560114B2	Analog to digital converters with oversampling Embodiments of the invention include an oversampling Analog to Digital Converter that uses uneven non-overlapping clock phases to reduce switched capacitor circuit power consumption. A return-to-zero sub phase of one of the clock phases may also be used for feedback reference capacitors. A delay lock loop may be combined with the non-overlapping clock phase generator to control accurate timing.
US10560113B2	Method of detecting user input in a 3D space and a 3D input system employing same A 3D input system and an angle encoder are disclosed. The 3D input system comprises a computing device and one or more position sensing gloves. The position sensing glove comprises a plurality of angle encoders each installed thereon at a location about a finger joint. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is installed on the glove. A firmware uses data from the angle encoders and IMU to calculate fingertip positions in a 3D space. The firmware generates keystrokes on a virtual keyboard based on the fingertip positions. The angle encoder comprises a first and a second components rotatable with respect to each other, and an encoder pattern comprising codewords for indicating the angle between the first and second components. The encoder pattern comprises a set of base encoder channels coded with a conventional Gray code, and a set of Booster channels for improving the resolution of angle measurement.
US10560110B1	Precision microwave frequency synthesizer and receiver with delay balanced drift canceling loop An example frequency converter includes a drift canceling loop with a balanced delay and a linear signal path (e.g., linear with respect to frequency scaling, amplitude modulation, and/or phase modulation). One side of the drift canceling loop includes a fixed delay, and the opposite side includes an adjustable, complementary delay. The adjustable, complementary delay facilitates precision matching of the signal delays on each side of the loop over a range of frequencies, which results in a significant improvement in noise cancelation, particularly at large offsets to the carrier, while permitting the use of a higher noise, but very fast tuning course scale oscillator. The linear signal path from the signal generator to an RF output facilitates modulation of the signal by the signal generator. A modular format is an advantageous embodiment of the invention that includes the removal of the frequency synthesizer's low phase noise reference into a separate module.
US10560107B1	Power supply power management Power supply topologies can leverage relatively smaller component sizes while meeting the power requirements of loads. In a first stage, a determination is made as to whether a high current limit is exceeded for a first duration, or whether an average current provided exceeds an average current limit, such that a power supply component (e.g., inductor) is thermally stressed. In either event, a clock frequency is reduced by a first factor. In a second stage, a determination is made as to whether an output voltage drops below a voltage threshold. If so, the clock frequency may be further reduced by a second factor.
US10560101B2	Count value generation circuit, physical quantity sensor module, and structure monitoring device A count value generation circuit includes a first counter that counts edges of a reference signal to generate a first count value in synchronization with an input signal, a time digital value generator that generates a time digital value corresponding to a phase difference between the reference signal and the input signal, a count integrated value combiner that outputs a difference between an integer multiple of the first count value and the time digital value, and a count value generator that generates a count value based on a difference between a first output value and a second output value output from the count integrated value combiner.
US10560098B2	Mechanical resonator based cascadable logic device A mechanical resonator-based cascadable logic device includes which includes a resonator having a beam with a first fixed end, a second fixed end, and a length between the first and second fixed ends. A first electrode and a second electrode are aligned along a first side of the beam. A third electrode and a fourth electrode are aligned along a second side of the beam and opposite the first and second electrodes. A DC voltage source is coupled to one of the first and second fixed ends of the beam. At least one of the first, second, third, and fourth electrodes is coupled to a first AC voltage source so that a logic operation is performed by activating a second resonant mode of the resonator.
US10560082B2	Pulse width modulation circuit, corresponding device and method In an embodiment, a PWM modulation circuit includes a first circuit block configured to receive a square wave input signal and produce from the square wave input signal a triangular wave signal, a second circuit block configured to receive a modulating signal and produce a PWM signal by comparing the modulating signal with a carrier signal, a switching circuit block coupled between the first circuit block and the second circuit block and sensitive to reference signals having upper and lower reference values and selectively switchable between a carrier transfer setting in which the switching circuit block couples the first circuit block to the second circuit block to transfer the triangular wave signal as the carrier signal, and one or more carrier forcing settings for optimizing or inhibiting pulse skipping in the PWM signal, wherein the switching circuit block forces the carrier signal to the upper and lower reference values, respectively.
US10560081B2	Method, apparatus, system for centering in a high performance interconnect In an example, a system and method for centering in a high-performance interconnect (HPI) are disclosed. When an interconnect is powered up from a dormant state, it may be necessary to “center” the clock signal to ensure that data are read at the correct time. A multi-phase method may be used, in which a first phase comprises a reference voltage sweep to identify an optimal reference voltage. A second phase comprises a phase sweep to identify an optimal phase. A third sweep comprises a two-dimensional “eye” phase, in which a plurality of values within a two-dimensional eye derived from the first two sweeps are tested. In each case, the optimal value is the value that results in the fewest bit error across multiple lanes. In one example, the second and third phases are performed in software, and may include testing a “victim” lane, with adjacent “aggressor” lanes having a complementary bit pattern.
US10560072B2	Non-foster active antenna In examples, systems and methods for increasing the performance of electrically-small antennas are described. An example system comprises an electrically-small antenna having an antenna feed. The electrically-small antenna is configured to receive a signal. The system also comprises a non-foster circuit having a negative capacitance coupled to the antenna feed in a shunt position. The non-foster circuit is configured to resonate the electrically-small antenna and provide a voltage increase to the received signal. The system also comprises a buffer circuit configured to provide an impedance conversion of the voltage-increased received signal between the antenna feed and an output of the buffer circuit. The buffer circuit includes a field-effect transistor.
US10560068B2	Multiplexer A multiplexer includes: first and second substrate respectively having first and second surfaces facing each other across an air gap; a first filter including first resonators located on the first surface and connected between a common terminal and a first terminal; a second filter including second resonators located on the second surface and connected between the common terminal and a second terminal, a first resonator connected in series between the common terminal and the first terminal and closest to the common terminal overlapping with a second resonator connected in series between the common terminal and the second terminal and closest to the common terminal, first resonators other than the first resonator closest to the common terminal not overlapping with the second resonators, second resonators other than the second resonator closest to the common terminal not overlapping with the first resonators.
US10560052B2	Photovoltaic module capable of outputting AC voltage without converting level of DC voltage Disclosed is a photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes a solar cell module including a plurality of solar cells, and an inverter unit to receive a direct current (DC) voltage from the solar cell module and convert the DC voltage received from the solar cell module into an alternating current (AC) voltage without converting a level of the DC voltage received from the solar cell module.
US10560050B2	Innovative energy generating photovoltaic awning Apparatus, systems and methods are provided for solar awnings or canopies that include rigid solar modules, for example photovoltaic cells or panels. The awnings have solar modules or panels stacked together substantially vertically (e.g., each module is oriented vertically with respect to the next module). The solar modules in the stack are interconnected to each other, such that each solar module is connected electrically and mechanically to adjacent solar modules. The first solar module in the stack of modules is fixed to one end of the base of the awning. The base of the awning is typically mounted to a building, vehicle, mobile home, or other appropriate structure. The last solar module in the stack is attached to a lead arm of the awning. The lead arm moves back and forth (e.g., away and toward) from the base of the awning to enable the expansion or retraction of the awning.
US10560042B2	Turbocompressor comprising a compressor motor generating regenerative electric power by regenerative driving capable of driving a compressor motor A turbocompressor apparatus includes a turbocompressor including a compressor motor, a lubrication pump including a pump motor, a converter that performs electric power conversion between a voltage of a power source and a direct-current voltage of a direct-current voltage unit in a case where electric power is being supplied from the power source to the turbocompressor apparatus; a first inverter that performs electric power conversion between the direct-current voltage and a first alternating-current voltage vector of the compressor motor; and a second inverter that performs electric power conversion between the direct-current voltage and a second alternating-current voltage vector of the pump motor. The compressor motor generates regenerative electric power by regenerative driving and the pump motor is driven by the regenerative electric power in a case where supply of electric power from the power source to the converter is being cut off.
US10560039B2	Harvesting energy from fluid flow The bluff body attaches to an elastic mount and is capable of generate vortex shedding when the elastic mount orients the bluff body in a flow-line traverse to a fluid flow and vibrates in response to the vortex shedding. A harvester is located within the bluff body and is capable of generating power above a specified threshold in response to the vibration.
US10560034B2	AC-to-DC charge pump having a charge pump and complimentary charge pump An improved AC-to-DC charge pump for use, for example, in voltage generation circuits. In one embodiment, two 2-diode charge pumps are coupled in back-to-back configuration, and adapted to develop a substantially stable voltage on a mid-level rail. In one other embodiment, two 3-diode charge pumps are coupled in back-to-back configuration, and adapted also to develop a substantially stable voltage on a mid-level rail. In one preferred embodiment, all diodes are implemented as current-source-biased MOSFETs.
US10560024B2	Bidirectional DC/DC converter for a charging system In one embodiment, a bidirectional DC/DC converter includes a DC/AC inverter having active switches (e.g., MOSFETs), and an AC/DC rectifier having a capacitor that performs DC-bias current blocking and active switches (e.g., MOSFETs) arranged in a bridge configuration. A microcontroller is coupled to the active switches of the DC/AC inverter and AC/DC rectifier and configured to provide control signals thereto according to a control algorithm that, when power is to flow in a forward direction, sends control signals to operate the active switches of the DC/AC inverter at a duty cycle and to disable the active switches of the AC/DC rectifier, and when power is to flow in a reverse direction, sends control signals to operate the active switches of the DC/AC inverter to disable the active switches of the DC/AC inverter and operates the active switches of the AC/DC rectifier at a duty cycle.
US10560022B2	Setting operating points for circuits in an integrated circuit chip using an integrated voltage regulator power loss model An apparatus includes an integrated circuit chip with a set of circuits having two or more subsets of circuits; an external voltage regulator separate from the integrated circuit chip; two or more integrated voltage regulators on the integrated circuit chip that each provide an input voltage to a respective subset of the circuits; and a controller. The controller determines, using an integrated voltage regulator power loss model, an electrical power loss for the integrated voltage regulators for a first combination of operating points for the subsets of the circuits. The controller then determines, based on the electrical power loss, a second combination of operating points for the subsets of the circuits that includes an adjustment to an operating point for at least one of the subsets of the circuits that compensates for an electrical power loss of the corresponding integrated voltage regulator. The controller sets an operating point of each of the subsets of the circuits based on the second combination of operating points.
US10560019B2	Bipolar high-voltage network and method for operating a bipolar high-voltage network An aircraft bipolar high-voltage network includes a DC voltage converter comprising two unipolar input connections, two bipolar output connections and a reference potential connection, and at least one unipolar device having two electrical connections which are each coupled to one of the two unipolar input connections. The DC voltage converter has a first DC voltage converter module coupled to a first of the unipolar input connections via a module input connection, to the reference potential connection via a module reference potential connection and to a first of the bipolar output connections via a module output connection, and a second DC voltage converter module coupled to a second of the unipolar input connections via a module input connection, to the reference potential connection via a module reference potential connection and to a second of the bipolar output connections via a module output connection.
US10560017B2	Charge pump, switch driver device, lighting device, and vehicle Provided is a charge pump including a flying capacitor, an output capacitor, a switch group arranged to switch connection states of the capacitors so as to generate an output voltage from an input voltage, and a feedback control unit arranged to adjust an interterminal voltage of the flying capacitor to a predetermined target value when charging the same. On the basis of a first node voltage applied to a first terminal of the flying capacitor, the feedback control unit adjusts a second node voltage at a second terminal of the flying capacitor. The feedback control unit includes a voltage detection unit arranged to detect the interterminal voltage of the flying capacitor, and a voltage adjustment unit arranged to adjust the second node voltage according to a result of detection by the voltage detection unit.
US10560013B2	Method and apparatus for reducing output voltage ripple in hysteretic boost or buck-boost converter An apparatus and method for reducing an output voltage ripple of a converter are provided. The apparatus may include a controller for controlling a converter, wherein the controller may include a clock generating circuit that generates a periodic clock signal containing periodic clock pulses, and a control circuit that causes the clock generating circuit to asynchronously initiate a clock pulse based on a difference between a feedback voltage of the converter and a reference voltage. The apparatus may also include an on-time modulation circuit which modulates the on-time based on the difference between the reference voltage and the sampled output voltage.
US10560008B2	Brushless direct current electric motor and electric power steering system A brushless direct current electric motor includes a first sub-motor and a second sub-motor. The first sub-motor and the second sub-motor share a common rotor, and each comprises an independent stator. The stators of each sub-motor comprises a plurality of teeth and a plurality of windings. The teeth of the first sub-motor and the teeth of the second sub-motor are interleavingly arranged in a circumferential direction or arranged side by side in an axial direction. The first sub-motor and the second sub-motor are configured to cooperatively work as a single electric motor to output a normal power. When one of the sub-motors breaks down, the other sub-motor can be operated independently to enhance reliability and safety of the brushless direct current electric motor.
US10559996B2	Brush system of an electric motor A brush system of an electric motor, having a commutator, at least one brush that is guided within a brush duct and is provided with a connection line, and a spring element that exerts a spring force on the brush when the spring element is effectively connected thereto, such that the brush rests against the commutator; the brush duct includes a longitudinal duct slot inside which the connection line extends and which has a constriction that the connection line penetrates when the effective connection between the spring element and the brush is established.
US10559994B2	Linear vibration motor A linear vibration motor for fixing a ring-shaped coil provided within the linear vibration motor using a simpler structure. A linear vibration motor in which an upper casing and a bracket are configured to have an integrated shape and fixed to the inside or upper side of the coil to form magnetism, thereby facilitating fabrication due to a simple structure, preventing a reduction of a vibration power through a small space, and minimizing a rise of a material cost. Accordingly, the coil within the internal space of the casing is stably fixed by providing a structure for fixing the coil through the simple process of the bracket itself. Furthermore, since parts forming the vibration motor and the linear vibration motor are integrated, an assembly process is simplified, performance is satisfied by realizing a reduced production cost, and a working process and price competitiveness is secured.
US10559992B2	Stator of rotating electrical machine, and rotating electrical machine Provided is a stator provided with a high withstand voltage insulating system operable at a high drive voltage without increasing the thickness of a slot insulating paper, and a rotary electric machine incorporating the stator. A stator of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a stator core in which a plurality of slots is formed, a stator coil to be inserted into the slot, and an insulating paper to be inserted into the slot, and insulating the stator coil and the stator core, wherein the insulating paper includes a first insulating paper portion arranged adjacent to the stator core at an outside of an end surface in an axial direction of the slot and at least a second insulating paper portion arranged between the first insulating paper portion and the stator coil, and the insulating paper forms a resin reservoir portion in which an insulating resin is arranged, between the first insulating paper portion and the second insulating paper portion.
US10559990B2	Structures utilizing a structured magnetic material and methods for making A motor comprises a stator comprising at least one core; a coil wound on the at least one core of the stator; a rotor having a rotor pole and being rotatably mounted relative to the stator; and at least one magnet disposed between the rotor and the stator. The at least one core comprises a composite material defined by iron-containing particles having an alumina layer disposed thereon.
US10559984B2	Power transfer system, and power receiving apparatus, power transmitting apparatus, and control method thereof In a power transfer system, a power transmitting apparatus includes: power transmission means for wirelessly transmitting power to a power receiving apparatus disposed within a predetermined power transmission range; transmission means for transmitting a power transmitting apparatus identifier unique to the power transmitting apparatus using a power transmission pulse performed by the power transmission means; and power transmitting apparatus communication means for communicating wirelessly with the power receiving apparatus, and a power receiving apparatus includes: power receiving means for receiving power wirelessly from the power transmitting apparatus; extracting means for extracting the power transmitting apparatus identifier from the power transmission pulse received by the power receiving means; and power receiving apparatus communication means for communicating wirelessly with a power transmitting apparatus that transmits a communication packet containing the power transmitting apparatus identifier extracted by the extracting means.
US10559981B2	Power links and methods for improved efficiency Among other things, in general, methods of increasing transfer efficiency in a power link are described, as well as power links implementing such methods. Methods of dynamic charging are also described. Applications of such methods and power links include the charging of portable electronic devices as well as implantable medical devices.
US10559973B2	Electronic device and power supply method thereof An electronic device and a power supply method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a control circuit, a detachable power supply device, and an auxiliary power supply device. The control circuit is coupled to a power supply terminal coupled to a system load. When the detachable power supply device is assembled to the electronic device, the detachable power supply device is coupled to the control circuit and supplies power to the system load. The auxiliary power supply device is coupled to the control circuit. When the electronic device is not turned on and the detachable power supply is removed from the electronic device, the electronic device is not turned on by the auxiliary power supply device. When the electronic device is turned on and the detachable power supply is removed from the electronic device, power is continuously supplied to the system load by the auxiliary power supply device.
US10559963B2	Balance correction apparatus and electric storage system A balance correction apparatus is stopped at an appropriate timing. Provided are an inductor; a first switching device electrically connected between another end of the inductor and another end of the first electric storage cell; a second switching device electrically connected between another end of the inductor and another end of the second electric storage cell; and a control section supplying a control signal to control ON/OFF operations of the first switching device and the second switching device, to the first switching device and the second switching device, where the control section obtains information representing a voltage difference between the first electric storage cell and the second electric storage cell, and the control section supplies the control signal to cause both of the first switching device and the second switching device to operate to be OFF, when the voltage difference is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
US10559962B2	Power-outputting management method for power-supplying apparatus A power-outputting management method includes following steps. When a plurality of power-supplying apparatuses are in a working interval, if an output power ratio of the power-supplying apparatus in a working status is less than an output power ratio standard, at least one of the power-supplying apparatuses in the working status is turned off, so that the output power ratio of the power-supplying apparatus in the working status increases and meets the output power ratio standard. When the power-supplying apparatuses are in the working interval, if the output power ratio of the power-supplying apparatus in the working status meets the output power ratio standard, a power capping of the power-supplying apparatuses is set based on an actual power consumption of an electronic apparatus.
US10559958B2	Method, controller, and network for controlling devices in power distribution network A method of controlling a plurality of power units in a power distribution network (PDN), comprising: a) receiving one or more requests to increase or decrease the power drawn from, or the power supplied to, the PDN; b) determining, based on aggregated power and/or energy data regarding the plurality of power units, and the one or more requests, one or more parameters defining properties of power units to be controlled in response to the one or more requests; c) receiving status updates from the plurality of power units; d) for each status update, determining whether the properties of the power unit fulfils the determined parameters; and e) if the properties of the power unit fulfils the determined parameters, controlling the power unit to change the amount of power drawn from or supplied to the PDN.
US10559957B2	Microgrid electric power generation systems and associated methods A method for operating a microgrid electric power generation system includes delivering energy to an electric power bus at least partially from one or more kinetic generators electrically coupled to the electric power bus, controlling the one or more kinetic generators in response to a change in a load such that a magnitude of a voltage on the electric power bus remains within a predetermined voltage range, and controlling one or more combustion generators electrically coupled to the electric power bus based at least in part on an operating state of the one or more kinetic generators. The one or more kinetic generators are capable of (a) delivering energy stored therein to the electric power bus, and (b) storing energy in kinetic form.
US10559954B2	Methods and apparatus for voltage and current calibration A calibration circuit may comprise a negative pack terminal, an intermediate node, and a first protection IC coupled to a first transistor. The first transistor may be coupled between the negative pack terminal and the intermediate node. The calibration circuit may comprise a second protection IC coupled in parallel with the first protection IC and further coupled to a second transistor. A power source may be coupled in parallel with the first and second protection ICs, and a current source may be coupled between the negative pack terminal and the intermediate node, wherein the intermediate node is positioned between the first transistor and the second transistor, and the power source is configured to provide a current to the first protection IC through a first current loop.
US10559950B2	Crossover-bridge cable router Crossover-bridge cable routers for routing cables through intersections and/or around corners of cable trays are described herein. The crossover-bridge cable router may include a floor, at least a portion of which is substantially horizontal, and at least two ramps, wherein each ramp extends downward from a side of the floor and is positioned either parallel or perpendicular to the other (i.e., opposing or adjacent) ramp.
US10559949B2	Watertight electrical compartment for use in irrigation devices and methods of use A watertight electrical compartment for use in an irrigation device can include a compartment body having a chamber and a sealing section configured to mate with one or more sealing rings. A sealing cap can mate with the sealing section and/or the sealing rings to seal the chamber. A cap retainer can be advanced over at least a portion of the sealing cap. One of the compartment body and cap retainer can have internal threads to be screwed onto external threads of the other one of the compartment body and cap retainer. The cap retainer can also have a stopping feature to keep the sealing cap in its sealed position. The watertight electrical compartment can be used in a wireless flow sensor assembly, a battery operated irrigation controller, and/or a battery-operated central controller device, to provide irrigation control, and/or sensor information, without the need for AC power.
US10559948B2	Casing, electrical connection box, and wire harness A wire harness wired to a vehicle has an electrical connection box at a terminal thereof. The electrical connection box includes an electronic component block to which a plurality of electronic components are assembled and a casing to be an assembly destination of the electronic component block. The casing has a structure in which an upper cover rotates and moves to cover an upper opening portion surrounded by an edge of a frame peripheral wall. The casing includes the frame peripheral wall having the upper opening portion, the upper cover covering the opening portion by rotational movement, and a packing to be assembled to the upper cover. The packing is assembled to a packing groove formed in the upper cover. The frame peripheral wall has a position adjusting portion for adjusting the position of the packing groove with respect to the edge of the frame peripheral wall.
US10559928B2	Electric connector A shell member that is ground-connected to a connected object is constituted by a first shell that faces the connected object and entirely covers a contact member and a second shell that faces the first shell in a part between a connecting object and the connected object. Each of the first and second shells is provided with ground contact points with a ground conducting path of the connecting object and a ground conducting path of the connected object, with a signal transmission path sandwiched between ground paths by the first and second shells and configured to achieve satisfactory electromagnetic shielding of the signal transmission path.
US10559926B2	High frequency electrical connector A high frequency electrical connector including a plastic housing and a plurality of contacts retained by the plastic housing. The contacts include a plurality of differential pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts beside the signal contacts, respectively. The plastic housing includes the insulative plastic portion and the conductive plastic portion to which the insulative plastic portion is assembled. The signal contacts are retained in the insulative plastic portion while the grounding contacts are retained in the conductive plastic portion wherein the signal contacts are isolated from the conductive plastic portion via the insulative plastic portion.
US10559924B2	Connector The connector includes an inner housing, an outer housing, a locking mechanism for locking, a spring member that pushes back the inner housing during half fitting, and a pushback regulating position that regulates a pushback position. The pushback regulating portion includes a claw portion, a stepped portion against which the claw portion abuts, and a sliding load portion that makes a sliding friction force between the inner housing and the outer housing at a predetermined timing before abutting to be larger than the sliding friction force before the predetermined timing.
US10559923B2	Electrical connection device with connection detecting function An electrical connection device includes a first connector (C1) having a first housing (10), a second connector (C2) having a second housing (20) for receiving the insertion of the first housing (10), and a connection detecting tool (30). The first housing (10) includes a housing body (12), a lock (14) having a tool restraining portion (14d) and a displacement restricting portion (16) for blocking an insertion allowing displacement of the lock (14). The connection detecting tool (30) is held at an operating position to resiliently deform the displacement restricting portion (16) to allow the insertion allowing displacement. The tool restraining portion (14d) restrains the connection detecting tool (30) at the operating position so as not to be separable while allowing the separation of the connection detecting tool (30) from the operating position as the lock (14) resiliently returns to a lock position.
US10559921B2	Connector A connector includes: a stationary housing; a movable housing; a stationary terminal that is retained in the stationary housing; a movable terminal that includes a contact portion and that is retained in the movable housing, the contact portion of the movable terminal being configured to follow movement of the movable housing; a movable shield that follows movement of the movable housing; and a stationary shield. The movable shield and the stationary shield are in mutual contact so as to have electrical continuity. The stationary shield and the movable shield are configured to slide against one another while maintaining electrical continuity when the movable housing moves in the front-rear or the left-right direction with respect to the stationary housing.
US10559918B2	Electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly includes a plug body comprising a first housing part and a second housing part with a plug-in portion. The housing parts are movable relative to each other along a housing axis. An elastic element holds the housing parts against each other. The second housing part has a projection with a first sliding surface diagonally to the housing axis. The electrical connector assembly further includes a mating connector having a collar with a second sliding surface cooperating with the first sliding surface. The second housing part is displaced away from the first housing part along the housing axis against a restoring force of the elastic element. The second sliding surface ends at a recess in the collar, so that the elastic element pulls the projection into the recess and locks the plug body with the mating connector.
US10559917B2	Magnetic electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly includes a panel mount connector having an electrical connector having an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts and magnetic elements retained in the insulative housing, and a panel mounting piece which the insulative housing is attached to and has latching devices for attaching to an electrical device. A complementary connector is adapted to be mated with the panel mount connector.
US10559913B2	Holding frame with guide element for plug connector modules The disclosure relates to a holding frame into which plug connector modules can be inserted. The holding frame has guiding means, whereby the holding frame can be aligned with a second holding frame in the plug-in direction so as to fit in a precise manner. Two holding frames which can be plugged together contain at least one respective pneumatic plug connector module. The first holding frame comprises a first pneumatic plug connector module, and the second holding frame comprises a second pneumatic plug connector module. The first pneumatic plug connector module is aligned with the second pneumatic plug connector module such that the modules can be plugged together. Such pneumatic plug connector modules are particularly sensitive to wear when they are plugged together without being aligned relative to one another in an exact manner.
US10559911B2	Plug connector module providing ground connection through a module holding frame An electrical plug connector module and holding frame assembly is provided alone or in combination with further plug connector modules for forming a modular plug connector. The electrical plug connector module is inserted directly in the plug connector housing or can be received fastened in the holding frame with further modules in a plug connector housing. The electrical plug connector module includes an electrical contact that is connected in an electrically conductive manner in the interior of the electrical plug connector module to an electrical contact that is received therein. The electrical contact is guided on the outer side of the electrical plug connector module contacts in addition by way of a resilient region the holding frame or the plug connector housing in which the electrical plug connector module is inserted.
US10559910B2	Electrical connector having instert-molding contact module embedded wtihin a pair of over-molding covers An electrical connector includes a contact module enclosed within a pair of over-molding covers. The contact module includes one row of contacts retained in an insulator via an insert-molding process. Each cover includes a rear base part and a front tongue part extending forwardly from the base part. Each contact has a front contacting section exposed upon the tongue in a vertical direction, and a rear tail section exposed outside of the base. The contacts are exposed upon only one tongue part in the vertical direction.
US10559903B2	Card edge connector equipped with solder balls on contacts A card edge connector includes an insulative elongated housing, two rows of contacts disposed in the housing. The housing includes a pair of side walls extending along the longitudinal direction with a receiving slot therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The receiving slot is configured to receive a card type memory module. Each contact is equipped with the solder ball for surface mounting upon the printed circuit board. The contact includes a retaining section secured to the housing, a deflectable contacting section extending upwardly from the retaining section, and a tail section extending downwardly from the retaining section and including a connecting section and a solder pad. The solder pads of the contacts in a same row along the longitudinal direction are alternately arranged in opposite directions in the transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
US10559899B2	Marker-holder device for a terminal block A marker-holder system for an electrical terminal block comprising a longitudinal marker-holder device according to a direction of extension, the marker-holder device comprising a central part with a thinned portion and a first end in the direction of extension and a second end in the direction opposite to the direction of extension, the system comprising a first fastener configured to be disposed on the terminal block, the first end and/or the second end being configured to cooperate with the first fastener in a removable manner, the thinned portion being divisible.
US10559898B2	Connector producing a biasing force A connector includes, in one embodiment, a first component, a coupling element configured to engage the first component, and a second component configured to engage the first component. The second component, in one embodiment, is configured to produce a spring, pushing or biasing force.
US10559896B2	Terminal-equipped electric wire and method for manufacturing terminal-equipped electric wire A terminal-equipped electric wire has an electric wire including a bonded portion formed over a predetermined length at a part of a conductor exposed due to absence of a sheath over a predetermined length at a part of the electric wire in a longitudinal direction and in which strands of the conductor are bonded to each other; and a terminal including a wire barrel portion, the wire barrel portion covering at least a part of the bonded portion. The wire barrel portion includes a load release portion configured to reduce stress applied to the conductor.
US10559883B2	Antenna device and electronic apparatus An antenna device includes a wiring board, a conductive member including a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion electrically connected to each other, a coil element including a coupling coil to be connected to a feed circuit, and a capacitor. The first conductor portion includes a conductor opening and a gap that connects the conductor opening and an outer edge of the first conductor portion, and the capacitor crosses the gap. The second conductor portion is connected to two points of an inner edge of the conductor opening, and, together with a portion of the first conductor portion and the capacitor, defines a loop-shaped current path. The coupling coil is magnetically coupled to the loop-shaped current path.
US10559880B1	Multi-layered hybrid beamforming A device that implements hybrid beamforming may include at least one processor configured to determine a first beam setting based on a first set of criteria associated with a first user device. The at least one processor may be configured to form a first beam based on the first beam setting using at least one digital beamforming circuit and at least one radio frequency (RF) beamforming circuit. The at least one processor may be configured to transmit, via first antenna elements, the first beam to the first user device.
US10559879B2	Phased array burst sampler An active electronic steered antenna (AESA) circuit monitors bursts of a phased array that has a plurality of signal chains. Each signal chain therefore has a burst output for transmitting at least one burst. To monitor bursts, the AESA circuit has an input that is operably couplable with the burst output of at least one signal chain of the phased array. The input is configured to receive one or more bursts transmitted by the burst output(s) of the at least one signal chain. The AESA circuit also has a sample circuit operably coupled with the input and configured to sample the one or more bursts to produce one or more corresponding samples, and memory operably coupled with the sample circuit. The memory receives and stores the one or more samples. To provide access to the samples, the AESA circuit also has a memory interface.
US10559877B2	Integrated camera and communication antenna An apparatus includes a camera lens assembly and a printed circuit board attached to said camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly may be configured to provide a forward view through a windshield of a vehicle. The printed circuit board generally comprises an antenna, a ground plane, and an image sensor. The antenna is generally disposed on a front surface of the printed circuit board. The ground plane may be disposed either on the front surface or within a layer of the printed circuit board. The image sensor is generally mounted on a back surface of the printed circuit board. The camera lens assembly is generally configured to focus an image of the forward view through the windshield on the image sensor.
US10559862B2	Method of forming a negative electrode for a lithium-ion cell A method is provided for forming a negative electrode for a lithium-ion cell. The method include the steps of: carrying out first constant-current charging with a first charging current until a first half-cell potential with regard to a reference electrode is reached; carrying out first constant-voltage charging at the first half-cell potential with regard to the reference electrode until a second charging current is reached; carrying out AC voltage excitation or alternating current excitation over a frequency time period; carrying out second constant-current charging with a third charging current until a second half-cell potential with regard to the reference electrode is reached; and carrying out second constant-voltage charging at the second half-cell potential with regard to the reference electrode until a final charging current is reached or until a maximum constant-voltage charging duration is reached.
US10559854B2	Secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, a first electrolyte and a second electrolyte. The separator is arranged at least between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The first electrolyte is contained at least in the positive electrode. The first electrolyte includes a lithium salt and an aqueous solvent. The second electrolyte is contained at least in the negative electrode. The second electrolyte includes a bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt and an aqueous solvent.
US10559852B2	Electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery having same Provided is an electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery having the same, the electrolyte solution further including an expressed solid salt which has an ammonium-based cation and a cyanide anion (CN−). According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electrolyte solution including the solid salt may be provided, and thus the problem of decrease in stability of a negative electrode due to copper ions that are dissolved from a copper current collector in a high-temperature environment may be resolved. Therefore, a lithium secondary battery having excellent battery performance such as battery capacity, charging and discharging efficiency, and cycle characteristics even under a high-temperature condition may be provided.
US10559849B2	Glass-ceramic, lithium ion conductor, battery, electronic device, and method for producing electrode A glass-ceramic includes an oxide containing lithium (Li), silicon (Si), and boron (B) and has an X-ray diffraction spectrum with two or more peaks appearing in the range 20°≤2θ≤25° and with two or more peaks appearing in the range 25°<2θ≤30°.
US10559838B2	Oxygen sensing device with capability of storing energy, releasing energy, generating specific gas and removing harmful gas An oxygen sensing device with capability of storing energy and releasing energy including an oxygen sensing unit, a gas storing unit, and a control unit. The oxygen sensing unit includes a solid oxide electrolyte disposed between two conductive catalyst layers. The control unit includes a power source, a voltmeter, and a power output circuit. The power source provides electrical power to these conductive catalyst layers of the oxygen sensing unit to process a catalytic reaction and generate hydrocarbons for being stored in the gas storing unit. The voltmeter senses a voltage generated by the oxygen sensing unit when the oxygen sensing unit senses oxygen. The oxygen sensing unit makes the hydrocarbons stored in the gas storing unit and oxygen process a chemical reaction for generating electrical power to the power output circuit. The oxygen sensing unit uses the power source to generate hydrogen or syngas.
US10559830B2	Graphene foam-protected metal fluoride and metal chloride cathode active materials for lithium batteries A lithium battery cathode layer comprising multiple particles or coating of a cathode active material and a solid graphene foam composed of multiple pores and pore walls, wherein (a) the pore walls contain a pristine graphene material having less than 0.01% by weight of non-carbon elements or a non-pristine graphene material having 0.01% to 5% by weight of non-carbon elements; (b) the cathode active material is selected from a metal fluoride or metal chloride, has a size from 1 nm to 10 μm, and is in an amount from 0.5% to 99% by weight based on the total weight of said graphene foam and the cathode active material combined; and (c) some of the multiple pores are lodged with the particles or coating of the cathode active material.
US10559825B2	Positive electrode active material and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery Provided are a positive electrode active material capable of suppressing the reduction in capacity of a battery and the generation of gas during storage at high temperature in a charged state and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the positive electrode active material. A positive electrode active material particle (20) includes a lithium transition metal oxide particle (21) containing a halogen atom and rare-earth compound particles (22) attached to the surface of the lithium transition metal oxide particle (21). The amount of the halogen atom present on the surface of the lithium transition metal oxide particle (21) is 5 mass percent or less of the total amount of the halogen atom contained in the lithium transition metal oxide particle (21). A rare-earth element making up the rare-earth compound particles (22) is one other than yttrium and scandium.
US10559821B2	Cathode active material and lithium secondary battery comprising the same Disclosed is a cathode active material for secondary batteries comprising at least one compound selected from the following formula 1: (1−s−t)[Li(LiaMn(1−a−x−y)NixCoy)O2]s[Li2CO3]t[LiOH] (1) wherein 0
US10559817B2	Sulfur particles coated with inorganic-organic hybrid membranes as cathode active material and batteries containing the particles A core-shell composite sulfur particle containing a core of elemental sulfur having homogeneously dispersed particles of a conductive carbon and a polyelectrolyte polymer; and a shell containing a hybrid membrane coating of branched polyethyleneimine (bPEI) on the core and at least one sequential set of a negatively charged clay nanosheet and a further coating of bPEI encapsulating the core is provided. In the sulfur particle the dispersed particles of conductive carbon are associated with the polyelectrolyte polymer. A cathode having an active material containing the core-shell composite sulfur particle and a sulfur loading of 1.0 mg S/cm2 to 10 mg/cm2 and a battery containing the cathode are also provided.
US10559812B2	Negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and production method of negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries including: a particle of negative electrode active material, wherein the particle of negative electrode active material contains a particle of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx:0.5≤x≤1.6), on at least a part of a surface of the silicon compound a carbon coating film being formed, and the negative electrode active material contains 2% by mass or less of particle of silicon dioxide and the negative electrode active material contains a silicon dioxide-carbon composite secondary particle containing a plurality of the particles of silicon dioxide and carbon. As a result, the negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries capable of increasing battery capacity and improving the cycle characteristics and battery initial efficiency is provided.
US10559811B2	Graphene-enhanced anode particulates for lithium ion batteries A nano graphene-enhanced particulate for use as a lithium-ion battery anode active material, wherein the particulate is formed of a single sheet of graphene or a plurality of graphene sheets and a plurality of fine anode active material particles with a size smaller than 10 μm. The graphene sheets and the particles are mutually bonded or agglomerated into the particulate with at least a graphene sheet embracing the anode active material particles. The amount of graphene is at least 0.01% by weight and the amount of the anode active material is at least 0.1% by weight, all based on the total weight of the particulate. A lithium-ion battery having an anode containing these graphene-enhanced particulates exhibits a stable charge and discharge cycling response, a high specific capacity per unit mass, a high first-cycle efficiency, a high capacity per electrode volume, and a long cycle life.
US10559795B1	Chassis brace for protecting traction battery A vehicle includes a battery pack having siderails and includes a front cradle having rearwardly extending arms connected to the siderails and a cross member longitudinally spaced from the battery pack. A brace has a midportion connected to the cross member and ends connected to the arms such that the brace creates load paths between the cross member and the siderails to inhibit impact between the cross member and the battery pack.
US10559790B2	Lithium ion secondary battery configured to make best use of an accommodating space in an electronic apparatus The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery, and more particularly, to a lithium ion secondary battery which makes the best use of an accommodating space in electronic apparatus in which a secondary battery is accommodated or mounted to maximize a performance of the battery. A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly in which a plurality of pocketing anode bodies and a plurality of cathode bodies are alternately stacked, in which a concavely recessed space is formed in the electrode assembly, and the space may be formed in the plurality of pocketing anode bodies and the plurality of cathode bodies excluding a cathode body disposed at the lowest end of the electrode assembly.
US10559789B2	Adapter for connecting a plurality of battery packs to a power tool An adapter connects a plurality of first battery packs, each having a nominal voltage of about 18-36 volts, in series to an power tool having a rated voltage that is 36 volts or higher. The power tool includes a second battery interface configured to removably attach a second battery pack. The adapter includes a plurality of first battery interfaces configured to removably attach the plurality of first battery packs and having a different physical configuration than the second battery interface. A connector of the adapter is configured to be removably attached to the second battery interface. A plurality of visual indicators is disposed on the adapter such that they have the same or substantially the same illumination direction and they visually indicate at least a level of charge of each of the first battery packs attached to the adapter.
US10559788B2	Battery pack for mobile devices A battery pack is provided for a mobile communication device, comprising a casing defining a cavity that conforms, at least partially, to the outer shape of the mobile communication device and one or more rechargeable power cells housed within the thickness of the casing. An internal interface engages a corresponding interface on the mobile communication device to provide power from the one or more rechargeable cells to the mobile communication device. An external interface is electrically coupled to the internal interface in order to transmit signals from the mobile communication device to an external device and may further serve to recharge the one or more rechargeable power cells. The battery pack may also serve as an extendible platform by providing additional integrated communication interfaces and/or processors that can be utilized by the mobile communication device to extend its communication and/or processing capabilities.
US10559785B2	Sealing apparatus for secondary battery The present invention relates to a sealing apparatus sealing a sealing part of a battery case at which an electrode lead coupled to an electrode assembly is disposed. The sealing apparatus comprises: a thermal fusion member applying heat and a pressure to the sealing part of the battery case, at which the electrode lead is disposed, to seal the sealing part; and a temperature rising prevention member supported on a front end of the electrode lead to cool the sealing part through the electrode lead, thereby preventing the sealing part from increasing in temperature.
US10559781B2	Display device and manufacturing method of the same A display device includes a display region arranged above a substrate, a first light emitting element emitting light of a first color, a second light emitting element emitting light of a second color, and a third light emitting element emitting light of a third color arranged in the display region, and a first optical path length adjustment film, a second optical path length adjustment film, and a third optical path length adjustment film in the display region.
US10559779B2	Flexible display with stress-relief layer in trench A flexible display and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a flexible substrate including a bending area, an insulating layer disposed on the flexible substrate, and at least one groove in the insulating layer within the bending area. The flexible display also includes a stress relaxation layer disposed on the at least one groove and a plurality of wires formed over the insulating layer and the stress relaxation layer.
US10559774B2	Lighting apparatus using organic light-emitting diode and manufacturing method thereof According to a lighting apparatus using an organic light-emitting diode and a manufacturing method thereof of the present disclosure, a current imbalance due to a short circuit is controlled using a transparent high-resistance conductive film as a positive electrode instead of indium tin oxide (ITO), and a decrease in luminance is prevented by decreasing resistance of a positive electrode of an emission region through a post treatment. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to solve the problem of lighting malfunction of an entire panel, caused by a short circuit due to a foreign substance, even without reducing an aperture ratio, and concurrently, it is possible to secure normal luminance as resistance of an emission region is decreased.
US10559773B2	Lighting apparatus using organic light emitting diode and manufacturing method thereof A lighting apparatus of the present disclosure includes an organic light emitting diode formed by a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode on a first substrate and configures the first electrode by a transparent conductive material having an electrical resistance of 2800 to 5500Ω in each pixel. Therefore, even though the first electrode and the second electrode are in contact with each other to remove the electrical resistance by the organic light emitting layer in the pixel, the overcurrent is suppressed from being applied to the pixel by the electrical resistance of the first electrode. Further, at least one conductive pattern formed of a low electrical resistance transparent conductive material which is connected to the first electrode in the pixel is disposed to suppress the degradation of the luminance by the first electrode having a high electrical resistance.
US10559767B2	Flexible organic light emitting diode display device A flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is provided and includes a housing and an OLED display panel disposed in the housing. The housing comprises a substrate having at least one first bending section disposed in the middle of the substrate and the OLED display panel is disposed on the surface of the substrate. The beneficial effects are that the OLED display panel is supported and protected by disposing a housing which adapts to the OLED display panel before and after the OLED display panel is bent to prevent the OLED display panel from being extruded, thereby preventing damage to the OLED display panel.
US10559764B2	Fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound, organic thin film including compound and electronic device including organic thin film A fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound represented by Chemical Formula 1A or 1B that has a compact planar structure in which eight or more rings are fused together.
US10559757B2	Host material for delayed fluorescent materials, organic light-emitting device and compound A compound represented by (Tr)n-Z is useful as a host material for delayed fluorescent materials. Tr represents a substituted or unsubstituted triphenylenyl group, and plural Tr's existing in the general formula (1) may be the same as or different from each other. Z represents a carbonyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted, n-valent aromatic hydrocarbon group. n represents an integer of 2 to 6, but when Z is a carbonyl group, n is 2.
US10559753B2	Doping organic semiconductors We describe a method for reducing a parasitic resistance at an interface between a conducting electrode region and an organic semiconductor in a thin film transistor, the method comprising: providing a solution comprising a dopant for doping said semiconductor, and depositing said solution onto said semiconductor and/or said conducting electrode region to selectively dope said semiconductor adjacent said interface between said conducting electrode region and said semiconductor, wherein depositing said solution comprises inkjet-printing said solution.
US10559752B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a first word line and a first bit line. The semiconductor device further includes a mold film disposed between the first word line and the first bit line, and a first memory cell disposed in the mold film. The first memory cell includes a first lower electrode in contact with the first word line. Side surfaces of the first lower electrode are in direct contact with the mold film. The first memory cell includes a first phase-change memory in contact with the first lower electrode, a first intermediate electrode in contact with the first phase-change memory, a first ovonic threshold switch (OTS) in contact with the first intermediate electrode, and a first upper electrode disposed between the first OTS and the first bit line, the first upper electrode in contact with the first OTS and the first bit line.
US10559750B2	Nonvolatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory device includes a first conductive portion, an insulating film surrounding a side surface of the first conductive portion, an intermediate layer provided on the first conductive portion and the insulating film, a first film including a first portion provided on the intermediate layer and at least one second portion provided in the intermediate layer and outside an upper edge of the first conductive portion, the first film including, above the first conductive portion, a resistance change portion that has a first resistance state and a second resistance state having resistance higher than resistance in the first resistance state, and a second conductive portion provided at least on the resistance change portion.
US10559745B2	Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) having an oxide-based PMA-inducing layer and magnetic element including the same Disclosed herein are a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and a magnetic element including the same. The MTJ structure with PMA includes a substrate, a perpendicular magnetic anisotropic inducing layer configured to be disposed on the substrate and including an oxide-based material, a perpendicular antiferromagnetic layer configured to be disposed on the perpendicular magnetic anisotropic inducing layer and including an antiferromagnetic material, a first ferromagnetic layer configured to be disposed on the perpendicular antiferromagnetic layer and having PMA, a tunneling barrier layer configured to be disposed on the first ferromagnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer configured to be disposed on the tunneling barrier layer and having PMA. Therefore, the perpendicular antiferromagnetic layer generates perpendicular coupling at an interface with the perpendicular magnetic anisotropic inducing layer such that perpendicular coupling is further generated between the perpendicular antiferromagnetic layer and the first ferromagnetic layer.
US10559737B2	Method for producing thermoelectric conversion apparatus and thermoelectric conversion apparatus A thermoelectric conversion element includes: a first film including a perovskite structure; a second film and a third film, including a perovskite structure, disposed in such a manner that the first film is interposed between the second film and the third film; a fourth film, including a perovskite structure, disposed so as to interpose the second film with the first film; and a fifth film, including a perovskite structure, disposed so as to interpose the third film with the first film, wherein an offset in conduction band between the first film and the second film and an offset in conduction band between the first film and the third film is less than 0.25 eV, and an offset in conduction band between the second film and the fourth film and an offset in conduction band between the third film and the fifth film is more than 1 eV.
US10559736B2	Thermoelectric generator A thermoelectric generator includes: a heat-receiving plate configured to receive heat; a cooling plate configured to be kept at a lower temperature than a temperature of the heat-receiving plate; and a thermoelectric generation module interposed between the heat-receiving plate and the cooling plate, in which the thermoelectric generation module includes: an opposed surface that is opposed to the cooling plate; a plurality of thermoelectric elements; a terminal configured to electrically conduct to the thermoelectric elements; and a lead member bonded to the terminal, in which the lead member penetrates the opposed surface and extends to the cooling plate.
US10559732B2	Surface-mounted light-emitting device and fabrication method thereof A surface-mounted light-emitting device is fabricated by epitaxial growth: forming the LED epitaxial structure over a growth substrate through epitaxial growth; chip fabrication: determining P and N electrode regions and an isolating region over the LED epitaxial structure surface and fabricating the P and N electrode pads and the insulator over the P and N electrode regions and the isolating region, wherein the P and N electrode pads have sufficient thicknesses to support the LED epitaxial structure, and the insulator is formed between the P and N electrode pads to prevent the P and N electrode pads from a short circuit; removing the growth substrate and unitizing the LED epitaxial structure to form the chip; and SMT packaging: providing the supporting substrate and directly mounting the P and N electrode pads of the chip over the supporting substrate through SMT packaging to thereby form the surface-mounted LED light-emitting device.
US10559723B2	Optical device An example of an optical device of the present disclosure includes a substrate, an obverse-surface conductive layer, a reverse-surface conductive layer, a first conductive part, an optical element and a reflector. The first conductive part extends through the substrate and overlaps with a first obverse-surface conducting region of the obverse-surface conductive layer and the reverse-surface conductive layer as viewed in a thickness direction of the substrate. The reflector has an inner surface that surrounds the optical element as viewed in the thickness direction. The optical element is located on first obverse-surface conducting region, and the second obverse-surface conducting region is located between the first obverse-surface conducting region and the inner surface of the reflector as viewed in the thickness direction. A second obverse-surface conducting region of the obverse-surface conductive layer is spaced apart from the inner surface of the reflector as viewed in the thickness direction.
US10559716B2	Semiconductor light emitting device and method for manufacturing same A semiconductor light emitting device according to an embodiment includes a stacked body. The stacked body includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a light emitting layer is provided on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type provided on the light emitting layer. The stacked body includes a first protrusion on an upper surface of the stacked body. The first protrusion protrudes in a first direction from the first semiconductor layer to the light emitting layer. Length of the first protrusion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction decreases toward the first direction. The first protrusion includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first side surface inclined with respect to the first direction. The second portion is provided below the first portion and having a second side surface inclined with respect to the first direction. The second side surface is curved so as to be convex downward.
US10559715B2	Light emitting diode A light emitting diode is provided to comprises: a substrate that has an elongated rectangular shape in one direction; a light emitting structure positioned on the substrate and having an opening for exposing a first conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode pad disposed to be closer to a first corner of the substrate; a second electrode pad disposed to be relatively closer to a second corner of the substrate opposing to the first corner; a first extension extending from the first electrode pad; and a second extension and a third extension extending from the second electrode pad to sides of the first extension, wherein an imaginary line connecting an end of the second extension and an end of the third extension is located between the first electrode pad and the first corner.
US10559714B2	Resonant cavity strained III-V photodetector and LED on silicon substrate An optoelectronic device that includes a germanium containing buffer layer atop a silicon containing substrate, and a first distributed Bragg reflector stack of III-V semiconductor material layers on the buffer layer. The optoelectronic device further includes an active layer of III-V semiconductor material present on the first distributed Bragg reflector stack, wherein a difference in lattice dimension between the active layer and the first distributed brag reflector stack induces a strain in the active layer. A second distributed Bragg reflector stack of III-V semiconductor material layers having a may be present on the active layer.
US10559704B2	In-plane resonant-cavity infrared photodetectors with fully-depleted absorbers Resonant-cavity infrared photodetector (RCID) devices that include a thin absorber layer contained entirely within the resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the absorber is a single type-II InAs—GaSb interface situated between an AlSb/InAs superlattice n-type region and a p-type AlSb/GaSb region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises quantum wells formed on an upper surface of the n-type region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises a “W”-structured quantum well situated between two barrier layers, the “W”-structured quantum well comprising a hole quantum well sandwiched between two electron quantum wells. In other embodiments, the RCID includes a thin absorber region and an nBn or pBp active core within a resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the RCID is configured to absorb incident light propagating in the direction of the epitaxial growth of the RCID structure, while in other embodiments, it absorbs light propagating in the epitaxial plane of the structure.
US10559694B1	Graphene transistors on microbial cellulose A device including a biopolymer membrane, a passivation layer on the biopolymer membrane, a graphene layer on the passivation layer, a source electrode on the graphene layer, and a drain electrode on the graphene layer, wherein the graphene layer extends between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US10559687B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a substrate; a first and second active region on the substrate; a first recess intersecting with the first active region; a second recess intersecting with the second active region; a gate spacer extending along sidewalls of the first and second recess; a first lower high-k dielectric film in the first recess and including a first high-k dielectric material in a first concentration and a second high-k dielectric material; a second lower high-k dielectric film in the second recess and including the first high-k dielectric material in a second concentration that is greater than the first concentration, and the second high-k dielectric material; a first metal-containing film on the first lower high-k dielectric film and including silicon in a third concentration; and a second metal-containing film on the second lower high-k dielectric film and including silicon in a fourth concentration that is smaller than the third concentration.
US10559684B2	Vertical transistor having dual work function materials and method for fabricating thereof A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor column vertically disposed on the substrate, a first contact material layer on the substrate and in contact with a lower portion of the semiconductor column, a first insulating material layer on the first contact material layer and having an upper surface lower than an upper surface of the semiconductor column, a gate dielectric material layer on the first insulating material layer and on a portion of sidewalls of the semiconductor column while exposing an upper portion of the semiconductor column, and a gate stack structure on the gate dielectric material layer and surrounding a portion of the gate dielectric material layer on the sidewalls of the semiconductor column. The gate stack structure includes from inside to outside a P-type work function layer, an N-type work function layer, and a gate.
US10559678B2	Cascode circuit having a gate of a low-side transistor coupled to a high-side transistor In an aspect, a cascode circuit can include a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor. The source of the high-side transistor can be coupled to the drain of the low-side transistor; and the gate of the high-side transistor can be coupled to each of the source and the gate of the low-side transistor. In another aspect, an electronic device can include a high-side transistor, a low-side transistor, and a field electrode. The low-side transistor can include a drain region coupled to the source electrode of the high-side transistor. The field electrode can overlie and be capacitively coupled to a channel layer of the high-side transistor, wherein the field electrode is configured to be at a voltage between the voltages of the high-side and low-side power supply terminals.
US10559675B2	Stacked silicon nanotubes Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method that incorporates a germanium pull-out process to form semiconductor structures having stacked silicon nanotubes. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a sacrificial layer is formed over a substrate. The sacrificial layer includes a first type of semiconductor material. A pull-out layer is formed on the sacrificial layer. The first type of semiconductor material from the sacrificial layer is removed to form a silicon-rich layer on a surface of the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer can be removed such that the silicon-rich layer defines a silicon nanotube.
US10559672B2	Vertical transport field-effect transistor including dual layer top spacer A vertical transport field-effect transistor includes a top source/drain region separated from an underlying gate stack by a multi-layer top spacer that includes an oxygen barrier layer beneath a top dielectric layer. Techniques for fabricating the transistor include depositing the oxygen barrier layer over the gate stack prior to depositing the top dielectric layer. The oxygen barrier layer blocks oxygen diffusion during deposition of the top dielectric layer, thereby avoiding damage to underlying interfacial and gate dielectric layers.
US10559667B2	Semiconductor device and method for measuring current of semiconductor device A semiconductor device in which a transistor has the characteristic of low off-state current is provided. The transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor layer having a channel region whose channel width is smaller than 70 nm. A temporal change in off-state current of the transistor over time can be represented by Formula (a2). In Formula (a2), IOFF represents the off-state current, t represents time during which the transistor is off, α and τ are constants, β is a constant that satisfies 0<β≤1, and CS is a constant that represents load capacitance of a source or a drain. I OFF ⁡ ( t ) = C S × α × β τ β × t β - 1 × e - ( t τ ) β ( a ⁢ ⁢ 2 )
US10559662B2	Hybrid aspect ratio trapping A semiconductor structure includes a material stack located on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The material stack includes, from bottom to top, a silicon germanium alloy portion that is substantially relaxed and defect-free and a semiconductor material pillar that is defect-free. A dielectric material structure surrounds sidewalls of the material stack and is present on exposed portions of the semiconductor substrate.
US10559660B2	Semiconductor device including metal-2 dimensional material-semiconductor contact A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a metal layer electrically contacting the semiconductor layer, and a two-dimensional material layer between the semiconductor layer and the metal layer and having a two-dimensional crystal structure.
US10559659B2	Power semiconductor device A power semiconductor device includes an emitter electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and through which a main current flows, a conductive layer that is disposed on the emitter electrode and is not a sintered compact, and a sintered metal layer that is disposed on the conductive layer and is a sintered compact. The sintered metal layer has a size to cover all the emitter electrode in plan view, and has higher heat conductivity than the conductive layer. The power semiconductor device can improve heat dissipation performance and adhesion.
US10559657B2	Fabrication of semiconductor junctions Methods are provided for fabricating a semiconductor junction. A first semiconductor structure is selectively grown in a nanotube, which extends laterally over a substrate, from a seed extending within the nanotube. The seed is removed to expose the first semiconductor structure and create a cavity in the nanotube. A second semiconductor structure is selectively grown in the cavity from the first semiconductor structure, thereby forming a semiconductor junction between the first and second structures.
US10559654B2	Nanosheet isolation for bulk CMOS non-planar devices A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a semiconductor substrate including a first device region and a second device region. First trench isolation structures surround the first and second device regions and extend below first and second pedestal portions of the semiconductor substrate. A first semiconductor material fin stack is located above the first pedestal portion of the semiconductor substrate, and a second semiconductor material fin stack is located above the second pedestal portion of the semiconductor substrate. Second trench isolation structures are located at ends of each first and second semiconductor material fin stacks. A portion of each second trench isolation structure is located directly between a bottommost surface of the first or second semiconductor material fin stack and the first or second pedestal portion of the semiconductor substrate.
US10559645B2	Organic light-emitting diode display An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a substrate and an active pattern formed over the substrate and including first to fourth regions. A gate insulation layer is formed over the active pattern and the substrate, and a first gate electrode is formed over the gate insulation layer and partially overlapping the active pattern. The first gate electrode, the first region and the second region define a first transistor. A second gate electrode is formed on the same layer as the first gate electrode. The second gate electrode, the third region and the fourth region define a second transistor, and the second gate electrode, the second region and the fourth region define a third transistor. A first insulating interlayer is formed over the first gate electrode, the second gate electrode, and the gate insulation layer.
US10559641B2	Multiple subthreshold swing circuit and application to displays and sensors An apparatus includes a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) and a set of one or more serially-connected diodes. The JFET includes a first layer including silicon of a first conductivity type, a gate, and first and second terminals. The gate includes a second layer formed on the first layer and including intrinsic amorphous hydrogenated silicon, a third layer formed on the second layer and including amorphous hydrogenated silicon of a second conductivity type, and a conductive layer formed on the third layer. Each of the first and second terminals includes a fourth layer formed on the first layer, the fourth layer including crystalline hydrogenated silicon of the first conductivity type, and a conductive layer formed on the fourth layer. Each of the serially-connected diodes has first and second terminals, a first of the serially-connected diodes having the first terminal connected to the second terminal of the JFET.
US10559640B2	Organic light emitting diode display device Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode display device capable of transmitting a sensing value through an EPI interface without a separate line B-LVDS including a display panel having a plurality of gate lines and data lines, a timing controller for controlling an operation timing of each pixel, a gate driver for driving gate lines, a data driver having a plurality of data driving ICs for driving data lines, and an EPI interface between the timing controller and each data driving ICs and for transmitting video/control data signal from the timing controller to each data driving IC, and transmitting a sensing value from the data driving IC to the timing controller.
US10559637B2	Thin film encapsulation unit, organic light emitting diode display including the same and manufacturing method thereof A thin film encapsulation unit including an inorganic layer, a first organic layer on the inorganic layer and including a light-blocking unit and a light-transmitting unit, and a reflection-preventing layer on the first organic layer.
US10559631B2	Method of manufacturing a display device utilizing pixel and dummy portions A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate comprising a pixel portion configured to display an image, and a dummy portion spaced from the pixel portion, a side of the dummy portion being exposed to the outside, and an interlayer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the pixel portion and the dummy portion each include multiple layers, and at least one layer of the pixel portion and at least one layer of the dummy portion include a same material.
US10559630B2	Light emitting devices featuring optical mode enhancement A light emitting device includes a substrate supporting a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element, the first light emitting element being configured to emit, in a first principal direction, light in a first wavelength band and the second light emitting element being configured to emit, in the first principal direction, light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, each light emitting element including: a light emitting diode layer, extending in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, having a thickness of 10 microns or less in the first direction and a maximum lateral dimension of 100 microns or less orthogonal to the first direction, the light emitting diode layer including a semiconductor material; and one or more layers configured to enhance an optical mode of the light emitted in the corresponding first or second wavelength band perpendicular to the plane and/or suppress an optical mode of the light emitted in the corresponding first or second wavelength band in the plane.
US10559626B2	Neuromorphic device including a synapse having carbon nano-tubes A neuromorphic device is provided. The neuromorphic device may include a pre-synaptic neuron; a row line extending in a row direction from the pre-synaptic neuron; a post-synaptic neuron; a column line extending in a column direction from the post-synaptic neuron; and a synapse disposed at an intersection between the row line and the column line. The synapse may include a first synapse layer including a plurality of first carbon nano-tubes; a second synapse layer including a plurality of second carbon nano-tubes having different structures from the plurality of first carbon nano-tubes; and a third synapse layer including a plurality of third carbon nano-tubes having different structures from the plurality of first carbon nano-tubes and the plurality of second carbon nano-tubes.
US10559616B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus and electronic device The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus and an electronic device that are configured to enhance the accuracy in the detection of polarization information. The solid-state imaging apparatus has a pixel array block on which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion device are arranged; a polarizer, including a conductive light-shielding material, that covers a photosensitive surface of the above-mentioned photoelectric conversion device of at least part of the above-mentioned pixels; a light-shielding film, including a conductive light-shielding material, that is arranged between the above-mentioned adjacent pixels on the photosensitive surface side of the above-mentioned photoelectric conversion device; and a wiring layer arranged on a side opposite to the photosensitive surface of the above-mentioned photoelectric conversion device, in which the above-mentioned polarizer is connected to a wiring of the above-mentioned wiring layer via the above-mentioned light-shielding film. The present technology is applicable to solid-state imaging apparatuses, for example.
US10559615B2	Methods for high-dynamic-range color imaging A method for manufacturing a high-dynamic-range color image sensor includes (a) depositing a color filter layer on a silicon substrate having a photosensitive pixel array with a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, to form (i) a plurality of first color filters above a first subset of each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels and (ii) a plurality of second color filters above a second subset of each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels, wherein thickness of the second color filters exceeds thickness of the first color filters, and (b) depositing, on the color filter layer, a dynamic-range extending layer including grey filters above the second pixels to attenuate light propagating toward the second pixels, combined thickness of the color filter layer and the dynamic-range extending layer being uniform across the photosensitive pixel array.
US10559614B2	Dual conversion gain circuitry with buried channels An imaging device may have an array of image sensor pixels each having a photodiode and a floating diffusion node. Each image sensor pixel in the array may also include a dual conversion gain switch and a dual conversion gain capacitor that allows the image sensor pixel to operate in a low conversion gain mode during which the switch is turned on to share charge between the floating diffusion node and the dual conversion gain capacitor, and a high conversion gain mode in which the switch is turned off. During integration, the photodiode may generate more charge than can be held at the floating diffusion node. A buried channel may be provided beneath the dual conversion gain switch to provide a path along which the excess charge can be shared between the floating diffusion node and the dual conversion gain capacitor even when the dual conversion gain switch is off.
US10559613B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, first and second recesses spaced apart from each other in a first direction within the substrate, a first gate electrode filling the first recess and protruding above the substrate, a second gate electrode filling the second recess and protruding above the substrate, a first source/drain formed between the first and second recesses, a second source/drain formed in an opposite direction to the first source/drain with respect to the first recess, and a third source/drain formed in an opposite direction to the first source/drain with respect to the second recess and electrically connected to the second source/drain.
US10559611B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a control circuit and pixels. Each pixel includes: a photosensitive area, a substantially rectangular storage area adjacent to the photosensitive area, and a read area. First and second insulated vertical electrodes electrically connected to each other are positioned opposite each other and delimit the storage area. The first electrode extends between the storage area and the photosensitive area. The second electrode includes a bent extension opposite a first end of the first electrode, with the storage area emerging onto the photosensitive area on the side of the first end. The control circuit operates to apply a first voltage to the first and second electrodes to perform a charge transfer, and a second voltage to block charge transfer.
US10559606B2	Semiconductor device employing N-channel type transistors Provided is a semiconductor device which can operate stably even in the case where a transistor thereof is a depletion transistor. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor for supplying a first potential to a first wiring, a second transistor for supplying a second potential to the first wiring, a third transistor for supplying a third potential at which the first transistor is turned on to a gate of the first transistor and stopping supplying the third potential, a fourth transistor for supplying the second potential to the gate of the first transistor, and a first circuit for generating a second signal obtained by offsetting a first signal. The second signal is input to a gate of the fourth transistor. The potential of a low level of the second signal is lower than the second potential.
US10559605B2	Liquid crystal display device and electronic device To provide a circuit used for a shift register or the like. The basic configuration includes first to fourth transistors and four wirings. The power supply potential VDD is supplied to the first wiring and the power supply potential VSS is supplied to the second wiring. A binary digital signal is supplied to each of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. An H level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VDD, and an L level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VSS. There are four combinations of the potentials of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. Each of the first transistor to the fourth transistor can be turned off by any combination of the potentials. That is, since there is no transistor that is constantly on, deterioration of the characteristics of the transistors can be suppressed.
US10559602B2	Display device To provide a display device with excellent display quality, in a display device including a signal line, a scan line, a transistor, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode in a pixel, the common electrode is included in which an extending direction of a region overlapping with the signal line differs from an extending direction of a region overlapping with the pixel electrode in a planar shape and the extending directions intersect with each other between the signal line and the pixel electrode. Thus, a change in transmittance of the pixel can be suppressed; accordingly, flickers can be reduced.
US10559601B2	Array substrate and method for manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The array substrate includes a thin film transistor and comprises at least a first region and a second region. A thickness of an active layer of the thin film transistor in the first region is different from that of an active layer of the thin film transistor in the second region. A ratio of the overlapped area between the source electrode or the drain electrode and the active layer of the thin film transistor to the thickness of the active layer is kept uniform over the first region and the second region.
US10559597B1	Display panel and display device A display panel includes a display area which has a notch and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The non-display area includes a notched non-display area that surrounds the notch by substantially in half. The display panel also includes an encapsulation cover located at a side of the display layer away from the array layer, and an encapsulant disposed between the array layer and the encapsulation cover. The encapsulant is located in the non-display area and surrounds the display layer. Moreover, the display panel includes an encapsulated metal located in the non-display area. The encapsulated metal is disposed in an array layer. In a laser-sintering process of the encapsulant, the encapsulated metal is used for reflecting laser light. An orthographic projection of the encapsulated metal in the substrate layer has a non-closed pattern, and the encapsulated metal is undisposed in at least a portion of the notched non-display area.
US10559595B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device A substrate in which an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and an insulating film are stacked on a semiconductor substrate and an element isolation region is embedded in a trench is prepared. After the insulating film in a bulk region is removed by dry etching and the semiconductor layer in the bulk region is removed by dry etching, the insulating layer in the bulk region is thinned by dry etching. A first semiconductor region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in a SOI region by ion implantation, and a second semiconductor region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in the bulk region by ion implantation. Then, the insulating film in the SOI region and the insulating layer in the bulk region are removed by wet etching. Thereafter, a first transistor is formed on the semiconductor layer in the SOI region and a second transistor is formed on the semiconductor substrate in the bulk region.
US10559591B2	Vertical memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same A vertical memory device includes first, second and third impurity regions sequentially stacked in a first direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, a gate electrode structure including gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in the first direction on the third impurity region, a channel extending through the gate electrode structure, the second and third impurity regions, and an upper portion of the first impurity region on the substrate in the first direction, and a charge storage structure covering a portion of an outer sidewall and a lower surface of the channel. The channel directly contacts a sidewall of the second impurity region.
US10559587B2	Electronic device and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing an electronic device includes forming a first source layer including a trench, forming a first sacrificial layer in the trench, forming a first structure over the first source layer, wherein the first structure includes first material layers and second material layers which are alternately stacked over the each other, forming first openings passing through the first structure and extending to the first sacrificial layer, forming first channel layers in the first openings, forming a slit passing through the first structure and extending to the first sacrificial layer, forming a second opening by removing the first sacrificial layer through the slit, and forming a second source layer in the second opening, wherein the second source layer is coupled to the first channel layers.
US10559577B2	Non-volatile memory devices and methods of fabricating the same A non-volatile memory device may include a first semiconductor layer including a peripheral region, the peripheral region including one or more peripheral transistors on a lower substrate. The non-volatile memory device may further include a second semiconductor layer on the peripheral region, the second semiconductor layer including an upper substrate, the second semiconductor layer further including a memory cell array on the upper substrate. The upper substrate may include a first upper substrate on the first semiconductor layer, a first layer on the first upper substrate, and a second upper substrate on the first layer.
US10559573B2	Static random access memory structure A layout pattern of a static random access memory (SRAM) includes a substrate, a first pull-up transistor (PL1), a first pull-down transistor (PD1), a second (PL2), and a second pull-down transistor (PD2) on the substrate, and a first pass gate transistor (PG1A), a second pass gate transistor (PG1B), a third pass gate transistor (PG2A) and a fourth pass gate transistor (PG2B), wherein the PG1A and the PG1B comprise a first fin structure, the PG2A and the PG2B comprise a second fin structure, a first local interconnection layer disposed between the PG1A and the PG1B and disposed on the fin structures of the PL1 and the PD1, a second local interconnection layer disposed between the PG2A and the PG2B and disposed between the fin structures of the PL2 and the PD2, the first local interconnection layer and the second local interconnection layer are monolithically formed structures respectively.
US10559570B2	Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, bit line structures, storage node contacts, and isolation structures. The bit line structures, the storage node contacts, and the isolation structures are disposed on the semiconductor substrate. Each bit line structure is elongated in a first direction, and the bit line structures are repeatedly disposed in a second direction. Each storage node contact and each isolation structure are disposed between two of the bit line structures adjacent to each other in the second direction. Each storage node contact is disposed between two of the isolation structures disposed adjacent to each other in the first direction. Each isolation structure includes at least one first portion elongated in the first direction and partially disposed between one of the bit line structures and one of the storage node contacts adjacent to the isolation structure in the second direction.
US10559557B2	Micro LED display panel and method for making same A micro LED display panel includes a blue LED layer, a green LED layer, and a red LED layer. The blue LED layer, the green LED layer, and the red LED layer are in a stacked formation. The blue, the green, and the red LED layers each include a plurality of micro LEDs spaced apart from each other. The composition of the layers is such that light emitted from all but the bottom layer is able to pass through transparent material in other layers before exiting the panel and being viewed.
US10559542B2	Chip security fingerprint Various methods and structures for fabricating a semiconductor chip structure comprising a chip identification “fingerprint” layer. A semiconductor chip structure includes a substrate and a chip identification layer disposed on the substrate, the chip identification layer comprising random patterns of electrically conductive material in trenches formed in a semiconductor layer. The chip identification layer is sandwiched between two layers of electrodes that have a crossbar structure. A first crossbar in the crossbar structure is located on a first side of the chip identification layer and includes a first set of electrical contacts in a first grid pattern contacting the first side of the chip identification layer. A second crossbar in the crossbar structure is located on a second side of the chip identification layer and includes a second set of electrical contacts in a second grid pattern contacting the second side of the chip identification layer.
US10559541B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes: a connection member including a plurality of connection pads and a redistribution layer; a semiconductor chip disposed on the connection member; an encapsulant sealing the semiconductor chip; a passivation layer disposed on the connection member; a plurality of under bump metallurgy (UBM) pads disposed on the passivation layer; and a plurality of UBM vias connecting the plurality of UBM pads to the plurality of connection pads, respectively, wherein the plurality of UBM pads include a first UBM pad overlapped with the semiconductor chip in a stacking direction, and a second UBM pad located outside of the overlapped region, and the first connection pad has an area larger than an area of an associated first UBM pad while the associated first UBM pad is overlapped in the stacking direction, and has an area larger than an area of the second connection pad.
US10559540B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes a first connection member having a through-hole first and second semiconductor chips disposed in the through-hole, an encapsulant encapsulating the first and second semiconductor chips, a second connection member disposed on at least one side of the first and second semiconductor chips and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the first and second semiconductor chips, and an insulating via in which at least a portion of the first connection member is removed in a thickness direction and is filled with an insulating material.
US10559539B2	Wafer level packages, semiconductor device units, and methods of fabricating the same A wafer level package and or a semiconductor device unit may be provided. The wafer level package may include semiconductor chips disposed on an interconnection structure layer and laterally spaced apart from each other. The wafer level package may include a reinforcement zig attached to the semiconductor chips. The wafer level package may include a molded layer covering the semiconductor chips and embedding the reinforcement zig. Related methods are also provided.
US10559534B2	Circuit substrate A circuit substrate includes a dielectric layer, a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure. The first conductive structure includes a first conductive circuit and a first conductive via. The first conductive circuit is disposed on the dielectric layer. The first conductive via is disposed in the dielectric layer, and the first conductive circuit is connected to the first conductive via. The second conductive structure includes a second conductive circuit and a second conductive via. The second conductive circuit is disposed in the dielectric layer, the second conductive circuit and the first conductive circuit of the first conductive structure are arranged with an interval, and the second conductive via surrounds the first conductive via with an interval. The second conductive structure has an extending portion. The extending portion protrudes toward the first conductive via and does not contact the first conductive via.
US10559531B2	Integrated circuit structures comprising conductive vias and methods of forming conductive vias A method of forming conductive vias comprises forming a first via opening and a second via opening within a substrate. First conductive material of a first conductivity is formed into the first and second via openings. The first conductive material lines sidewalls and a base of the second via opening to less-than-fill the second via opening. Second conductive material is formed into the second via opening over the first conductive material in the second via opening. The second conductive material is of a second conductivity that is greater than the first conductivity. All conductive material within the first via opening forms a first conductive via defining a first maximum conductance elevationally through the first conductive via and all conductive material within the second via opening forms a second conductive via defining a second maximum conductance elevationally through the second conductive via that is greater than said first maximum conductance. Integrated circuit structure comprising conductive vias independent of method of manufacture are disclosed.
US10559528B2	Semiconductor device including external terminal groups This semiconductor device has a plurality of external terminals arranged in an array on a bottom surface of a package. The plurality of external terminals include a first external terminal group for receiving an input of a current from outside the device, and a second external terminal group for outputting a current to the outside of the device. The first external terminal group and the second external terminal group are laid out such that respective arrangement patterns thereof are interlocked with each other. The arrangement patterns may be comb-tooth shaped, cross-shaped, S-shaped, T-shaped, L-shaped, or may have a shape comprising a combination thereof. The plurality of external terminals may be pins, solder balls, or electrode pads.
US10559523B2	Semiconductor package and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A semiconductor package includes a die pad; a plurality of external connection terminals located around the die pad; a semiconductor chip located on a top surface of the die pad and electrically connected with the plurality of external connection terminals; and a sealing member covering the die pad, the plurality of external connection terminals and the semiconductor chip and exposing an outer terminal of each of the plurality of external connection terminals. A side surface of the outer terminal of each of the plurality of external connection terminals includes a first area, and the first area is plated.
US10559522B2	Integrated die paddle structures for bottom terminated components Bottom terminated components and methods of making bottom terminated components are provided. The bottom terminated component includes a die paddle and at least one die paddle structure configured to prevent wicking into a respective thermal via of a printed circuit board. The at least one die paddle structure includes a base defining an axis, the base having an axial thickness extending from the die paddle, and a contact surface configured to contact the printed circuit board at the thermal via of the printed circuit board to prevent wicking of solder into the respective thermal via.
US10559502B2	Fabrication of a pair of vertical fin field effect transistors having a merged top source/drain A method of fabricating a vertical fin field effect transistor with a merged top source/drain, including, forming a source/drain layer at the surface of a substrate, forming a plurality of vertical fins on the source/drain layer; forming protective spacers on each of the plurality of vertical fins, forming a sacrificial plug between two protective spacers, forming a filler layer on the protective spacers not in contact with the sacrificial plug, and selectively removing the sacrificial plug to form an isolation region trench between the two protective spacers.
US10559500B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with wider sidewall spacer for a high voltage MISFET An insulating film and another insulating film are formed over a semiconductor substrate in that order to cover first, second, and third gate electrodes. The another insulating film is etched back to form sidewall spacers over side surfaces of the insulating film. Then, the sidewall spacers over the side surfaces of the insulating films corresponding to the sidewalls of the first and second gate electrodes are removed to leave the sidewall spacers over the side surfaces of the insulating film corresponding to the sidewalls of the third gate electrode. Then, the sidewall spacers and the insulating films are etched back, so that the sidewall spacers are formed of the insulating film over the sidewalls of the first, second, and third gate electrodes.
US10559497B2	Seamless tungsten fill by tungsten oxidation-reduction Methods for filling a substrate feature with a seamless tungsten fill are described. The methods include depositing a tungsten film, oxidizing the tungsten film to a tungsten oxide pillar, reducing the tungsten oxide film to a seamless tungsten gapfill and optionally depositing additional tungsten on the tungsten gapfill.
US10559496B2	Techniques for filling a structure using selective surface modification A method of device processing. The method may include providing a cavity in a layer, directing energetic flux to a bottom surface of the cavity, performing an exposure of the cavity to a moisture-containing ambient, and introducing a fill material in the cavity using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, wherein the fill material is selectively deposited on the bottom surface of the cavity with respect to a sidewall of the cavity.
US10559491B2	Fabrication of vertical transport fin field effect transistors with a self-aligned separator and an isolation region with an air gap A method of forming a vertical transport fin field effect transistor with self-aligned dielectric separators, including, forming a bottom source/drain region on a substrate, forming at least two vertical fins on the bottom source/drain region, forming a protective spacer on the at least two vertical fins, forming a sacrificial liner on the protective spacer, forming an isolation channel in the bottom source/drain region and substrate between two of the at least two vertical fins, forming an insulating plug in the isolation channel, wherein the insulating plug has a pinch-off void within the isolation channel, and forming the dielectric separator on the insulating plug.
US10559490B1	Dual-depth STI cavity extension and method of production thereof A device including multiple depth STI regions with sidewall profiles, and method of production thereof Embodiments include a top region having a substantially vertical sidewall profile; and a bottom region having a width greater than or equal to the top region and a sidewall profile.
US10559484B2	Substrate storage container [Problem] To reduce a sliding trace in a vicinity of a substrate end surface, while maintaining smooth vertical movement of a substrate in a groove of the holding section in a substrate storage container, said sliding trace being made with the holding section.[Solution] The present invention relates to a substrate storage container (1) that is provided with: a container main body (2), which stores a substrate (W), and which has at least one side open; and a removable cover body (3) capable of opening/closing an opening (5) of the container main body (2). In the substrate storage container (1), the inside of the container main body (2) is provided with a first holding section (12) having a first holding groove (12a) for holding a rear portion of the substrate (W), the inner side of the cover body (3) is provided with a second holding section (25) having a second holding groove (25a) for holding a front portion of the substrate (W), and at least the first holding groove (12a) of the first holding section (12) is configured from an alloy resin having a polycarbonate resin and a polybutylene terephthalate resin as main components.
US10559483B2	Platform architecture to improve system productivity A loading station for a substrate processing system includes first and second vertically-stacked loading stations. The first loading station includes a first airlock volume and first and second valves arranged at respective ends of the first loading station. The first and second valves are configured to selectively provide access to the first airlock volume and include first and second actuators, respectively, configured to open and close the first and second valves, and the first and second actuators extend downward from the first loading station. The second loading station includes a second airlock volume and third and fourth valves arranged at respective ends of the second loading station. The third and fourth valves are configured to selectively provide access to the second airlock volume and include third and fourth actuators, respectively, configured to open and close the third and fourth valves.
US10559482B2	Heat treatment method of light irradiation type In a state where nothing is held on a quartz susceptor provided in a chamber, a lower chamber window made of quartz is heated to and maintained at a stable temperature by light irradiation from a continuous lighting lamp. Then, immediately before a semiconductor wafer to be treated is transferred into the chamber, an object to be heated that absorbs infrared light is held on the susceptor, and the object to be heated is heated by light irradiation from the continuous lighting lamp. The susceptor is preliminary heated to a stable temperature by the heated object to be heated. The lower chamber window and the susceptor are each heated to the stable temperature when a semiconductor wafer to be treated first is transferred into the chamber, so that temperature histories of all semiconductor wafers constituting one lot can be made uniform. This enables dummy running, before a semiconductor wafer to be treated first is transferred, to be eliminated.
US10559473B2	Semiconductor process for improving loading effect in planarization A semiconductor process for improving loading effects in planarization is provided including steps of forming multiple first protruding patterns on a first region and a second region of a substrate, wherein the pattern density of the first protruding patterns in the first region is larger than the one in the second region, forming a first dielectric layer on the substrate and the first protruding patterns, wherein the first dielectric layer includes multiple second protruding patterns corresponding to the first protruding patterns below, forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, performing a first planarization process to remove parts of the second dielectric layer, so that the top surface of the second protruding patterns are exposed, performing an etch process to remove the second protruding patterns of the first dielectric layer, removing the remaining second dielectric layer, and performing another planarization process to the first dielectric layer.
US10559471B2	Method of manufacturing bonded wafer Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a bonded wafer, wherein a terrace forming step is carried out using a chamfering wheel which comprise a low grit number grinding stone and a high grit number grinding stone having a higher grit number than the low grit number grinding stone, and wherein the terrace forming step comprises: a coarse chamfering step of chamfering, after chamfering the active layer wafer, the insulating film from the active layer wafer side and further chamfering the support substrate wafer, using the low grit number grinding stone; and a finish chamfering step of finish chamfering, after the coarse chamfering step, a machined surface obtained from the coarse chamfering step, using the high grit number grinding stone.
US10559467B2	Selective gas etching for self-aligned pattern transfer Selective gas etching for self-aligned pattern transfer uses a first block and a separate second block formed in a sacrificial layer to transfer critical dimensions to a desired final layer using a selective gas etching process. The first block is a first hardmask material that can be plasma etched using a first gas, and the second block is a second hardmask material that can be plasma etched using a second gas separate from the first gas. The first hardmask material is not plasma etched using the second gas, and the second hardmask material is not plasma etched using the first gas.
US10559466B2	Methods of forming a channel region of a transistor and methods used in forming a memory array A transistor comprises channel material having first and second opposing sides. A gate is on the first side of the channel material and a gate insulator is between the gate and the channel material. A first insulating material has first and second opposing sides, with the first side being adjacent the second side of the channel material. A second insulating material of different composition from that of the first insulating material is adjacent the second side of the first insulating material. The second insulating material has at least one of (a), (b), and (c), where, (a): lower oxygen diffusivity than the first material, (b): net positive charge, and (c): at least two times greater shear strength than the first material. In some embodiments, an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells comprises such transistors. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US10559446B2	Vacuum closed tube and X-ray source including the same Provided is an X-ray source including a vacuum closed tube. The X-ray source includes a high voltage connection module, a tube module, and a magnetic lens system into which the tube module is inserted. The tube module includes a vacuum closed tube. The vacuum closed tube includes a cathode electrode provided at one end thereof, a nano-emitter on the cathode electrode, an anode electrode provided at the other end, and a first insulation spacer provided between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. In addition, the vacuum closed tube includes a first conductive tube and a second conductive tube both provided between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode and separated from each other by the first insulation spacer, and a first collimator block covering an inner surface of the first insulation spacer and having a first opening.
US10559445B2	Photoelectric surface, photoelectric conversion tube, image intensifier, and photomultiplier tube The present invention improves sensitivity of the ultraviolet band of a photoelectric surface. A photoelectric surface includes a window material that transmits ultraviolet rays, a conductive film that is formed on the window material and has conductivity, an intermediate film 4 that is formed on the conductive film and is formed of MgF2, and a photoelectric conversion film that is formed on the intermediate film 4 and is formed of CsTe. Since the photoelectric surface includes the intermediate film 4 formed of MgF2, the sensitivity of the ultraviolet band is improved.
US10559443B2	Liquid dielectric electrostatic MEMS switch and method of fabrication thereof A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switch with liquid dielectric and a method of fabrication thereof are provided. In the context of the MEMS switch, a MEMS switch is provided including a cantilevered source switch, a first actuation gate disposed parallel to the cantilevered source switch, a first drain disposed parallel to a movable end of the cantilevered source switch, and a liquid dielectric disposed within a housing of the microelectromechanical system switch.
US10559442B2	Relay At the time of contact between the contacts, the first movable contact comes into contact with the first fixed contact before contact between the second movable contact and the second fixed contact is made. The first movable contact is located on a leading end side of the contact piece with respect to the second movable contact. The first divided piece includes a body and a projection. The body extends in the lengthwise direction. The projection projects in the widthwise direction of the first divided piece from the body. The projection includes a contact portion pressed by the link member.
US10559436B2	Keyframe module for an input device System and methods for providing a keyframe module for a input device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the input device includes a keyframe having a key opening, and a key disposed within the key opening. The key includes a keycap having a bottom surface, a plurality of tabs that extend laterally from the bottom surface of the keycap, and a protrusion extending from the bottom surface of the keycap. A compressible dome structure is disposed underneath the protrusion, and a plate is coupled to the keyframe and disposed underneath the compressible dome structure. A plurality of openings is disposed within the plate, where a location of the plurality of openings corresponds to a location of the plurality of tabs such that one or more of the plurality of tabs pass through one or more of the plurality of openings in response to the depression of the key.
US10559435B2	Switch A highly durable, quiet switch includes a housing, a stationary contact terminal including a fixed portion, a moving contact terminal, a moving contact unit including a body, a moving portion, and an urging member and connected to the moving contact terminal, an operating unit, a first elastic unit that comes in contact with the moving contact unit and elastically deforms when the moving portion moves away from the fixed portion, and a second elastic unit including a contact point between the moving portion and the fixed portion facing the moving portion to come in contact with the moving portion. The second elastic unit elastically deforms and electrically connects the stationary and moving contact terminals when the moving portion moves toward the fixed portion and comes in contact with the contact point.
US10559427B2	Ceramic electronic component and mount structure therefor A ceramic electronic component includes an electronic component body and portions of first and second metal terminals defined by lead wires covered with an outer resin material. The first metal terminal includes, connected in order, a first terminal joint portion, a first extension portion extending in a direction toward a mounting surface, and a first mount portion extending toward a side opposite to the electronic component body. The second metal terminal includes, connected in order, a second terminal joint portion, a second extension portion extending in the direction toward the mounting surface, and a second mount portion extending toward a side opposite to the electronic component body. The first and second mount portions respectively include first and second protruding bending portions protruding toward the mounting surface. The outer resin material includes a protruding portion protruding toward the mounting surface.
US10559422B2	Electronic device and method for fabricating the same using treatment with nitrogen and hydrogen A method for fabricating an electronic device including a semiconductor memory includes: forming a variable resistance element over a substrate, the variable resistance element including a metal-containing layer and an MTJ (Magnetic Tunnel Junction) structure which is located over the metal-containing layer and includes a free layer having a variable magnetization direction, a pinned layer having a fixed magnetization direction and a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the free layer and the pinned layer; forming an initial spacer containing a metal over the variable resistance element; performing an oxidation process to transform the initial spacer into a middle spacer including an insulating metal oxide; and performing a treatment using a gas or plasma including nitrogen and hydrogen to transform the middle spacer produced by the oxidation process into a final spacer including an insulating metal nitride or an insulating metal oxynitride.
US10559417B2	Coil component A coil component in which a change in thicknesses of the winding part is prevented is provided. According to the coil component, since each of a pair of neighboring resin walls and a seed part between the pair of resin walls are separated by a predetermined distance, a plating part grown on the seed part is easy to grow uniformly between the pair of neighboring resin walls. For this reason, the winding part whose surface is gentle and in which a change in thickness is prevented is obtained by plating growth.
US10559414B2	Wire-wound type power inductor A wire-wound type inductor includes a core containing magnetic powder flakes and including a central portion and an outside portion, and a winding coil disposed in the core and wound around the central portion of the core, wherein the core has a coupling structure including first and second bodies, and the first and second bodies contain magnetic powder flakes having shape magnetic anisotropy, and long axes of the magnetic powder flakes are arranged in parallel with a direction in which a magnetic field of the winding coil is formed.
US10559409B2	Process for manufacturing a leadless feedthrough for an active implantable medical device A method for manufacturing a feedthrough dielectric body for an active implantable medical device includes the steps of first forming a ceramic reinforced metal composite (CRMC) paste by mixing platinum with a ceramic material to form a CRMC material, subjecting the CRMC material to a first sintering step to thereby form a sintered CRMC material, ball-milling or grinding the sintered CRMC material to form a powdered CRMC material; and then mixing the powdered CRMC material with a solvent to form the CRMC paste. The method further includes forming an alumina ceramic body in a green state, forming at least one via hole through the alumina ceramic body, filling the via hole with the CRMC paste, drying the ceramic body including the CRMC paste to form a first CRMC material filling the via hole, forming a second via hole through the first CRMC material, providing a metal core in the second via hole, and subjecting the ceramic body including the first CRMC material and the metal core to a second sintering step to thereby form the dielectric body. The dielectric body is then sealed in a ferrule opening to form a feedthrough.
US10559403B2	Composition having oil film retention function, anticorrosive agent using same, and insulated terminated electric wire A composition having an oil film retention function which an oil film can be stably retained on surfaces of various metals, an anticorrosive agent using same, and insulated terminated electric wire. A composition having oil film retention function for being added to base oil to be applied onto a metal surface and retaining base oil on metal surface, and composition contains a component that is an adduct of an azole compound and acidic alkyl phosphate ester including one or more compounds represented by General Formulae (1) (Chemical Formula 1) P(═O)(—OR1)(—OH)2 . . . (1) or General Formula (2) (Chemical Formula 2) P(═O)(—OR1)2(—OH) . . . (2) where R1 represents an organic group having four or more carbon atoms, and component that is an adduct of a metal and/or organic amine compound and acidic alkyl phosphate ester including one or more compounds represented by General Formulae (1) or (2).
US10559398B2	Composite solid electrolytes for rechargeable energy storage devices A device includes an ion-conducting membrane with ion-conducting ceramic particles, and an ion-conducting polymer that surrounds the ion-conducting membrane. The ion-conducting polymer includes a pressure-deformable film with a glass transition temperature lower than an operation temperature of the device.
US10559389B2	Modular nuclear reactors including fuel elements and heat pipes extending through grid plates, and methods of forming the modular nuclear reactors A modular nuclear reactor comprises a plurality of sections arranged in a pattern and a side reflector material surrounding the plurality of sections. Each section includes a tank comprising a front plate, a back plate, side plates, a top plate, and a bottom plate. A plurality of grid plates are located within the tank. Each grid plate comprises a plurality of apertures and is vertically separated from an adjacent grid plate. The tank further includes a plurality of fuel elements extending through each grid plate. A plurality of heat pipes extend through each grid plate, the top plate, and an upper reflector. Methods of forming the modular nuclear reactor are also disclosed.
US10559377B2	Graphical user interface for identifying diagnostic and therapeutic options for medical conditions using electronic health records A method for identifying diagnostic and therapeutic options for medical conditions. The method includes obtaining, from patient data in electronic health records, a diagnoses statistics database that includes statistical distributions of values of action results associated with diagnoses, and for each action result, a benefit of using the action result for disambiguating pairs of diagnoses. The method further includes obtaining an initial differential diagnosis for a patient. The initial differential diagnosis includes a set of initial diagnoses that are based on initially available patient data. Each initial diagnosis is assigned a probability that the initial diagnosis correctly identifies a condition of the patient. The method further includes identifying, based on the benefits of action results obtained for pairs of diagnoses, actions that have a largest benefit for disambiguation of the differential diagnosis, and providing a subset of actions, selected from the actions, and associated benefits to a physician.
US10559366B2	Boundary word line voltage shift Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products for dynamically determining boundary word line voltage shift are presented. An apparatus includes an array of non-volatile memory cells and a controller. A controller includes a trigger detection component that is configured to detect a trigger condition associated with a last programmed word line of a partially programmed erase block of an array of non-volatile memory cells. A controller includes a voltage component that is configured to determine a read voltage threshold for a last programmed word line of a partially programmed erase block in response to a trigger condition. A controller includes a voltage shift component that is configured to calculate, dynamically, a read voltage threshold shift for a last programmed word line based on a determined read voltage threshold for the last programmed word line and a baseline read voltage threshold.
US10559352B2	Bitline-driven sense amplifier clocking scheme A memory system includes a sense amplifier electrically coupled to a first bitline and a second bitline associated with a column of a memory array, a bl transistor electrically coupled to the first bitline, wherein the bl transistor is configured to receive as input a first electrical signal from the first bitline, and a blb transistor electrically coupled to the second bitline, wherein the blb transistor is configured to receive as input a second electrical signal from the second bitline, wherein an output of the bl transistor and an output of the blb transistor are electrically coupled together as a common output, and wherein the sense amplifier is configured to receive as an input the common output of the bl transistor and the blb transistor.
US10559351B2	Methods and apparatus for reduced area control register circuit In described examples, an apparatus includes: a set of control registers containing control bits for controlling circuitry coupled to receive register write enable signals and to receive input data; a memory for storing data corresponding to the control bits coupled to receive an address and a memory write enable signal; decode circuitry coupled to output the register write enable signals; a data output bus coupled to receive data from the memory but free from connections to the control registers; and a controller coupled to receive an address, coupled to output the address on an internal address bus, coupled to output a register write enable signal, and coupled to output the memory write enable signal, configured to cause data to be written to a selected control register corresponding to the address received, and to cause the data to be contemporaneously stored at a memory location corresponding to the address received.
US10559350B2	Memory circuit and electronic device A memory circuit according to an embodiment includes: a first inverter circuit including a first p-channel MOS transistor and a first n-channel MOS transistor; a second inverter circuit cross-coupled with the first inverter and including a second p-channel MOS transistor and a second n-channel MOS transistor; a third n-channel MOS transistor in which one of a source and drain terminals is connected to a first output terminal of the first inverter circuit, and a gate terminal is connected to a first wiring line; a fourth n-channel MOS transistor connected to the third n-channel MOS transistor; a fifth n-channel MOS transistor in which one of a source and drain terminals is connected to a second output terminal of the second inverter circuit; and a sixth n-channel MOS transistor connected to the fifth n-channel MOS transistor.
US10559349B2	Polarization gate stack SRAM One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a first inverter comprising a first pull up transistor and a first pull down transistor; a second inverter cross coupled to the first inverter, the second inverter comprising a second pull up transistor and a second pull down transistor; a first access transistor coupled to the first inverter; and a second access transistor coupled to the second inverter. A gate electrode of one transistor of each inverter comprises a polarization layer.
US10559347B2	Processing in memory (PIM) capable memory device having timing circuitry to control timing of operations Apparatuses and methods are provided for logic/memory devices. An example apparatus comprises a plurality of memory components adjacent to and coupled to one another. A logic component is coupled to the plurality of memory components. At least one memory component comprises a memory device having an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component. Timing circuitry is coupled to the array and sensing circuitry and configured to control timing of operations for the sensing circuitry. The logic component comprises control logic coupled to the timing circuitry. The control logic is configured to execute instructions to cause the sensing circuitry to perform the operations.
US10559344B2	Hybrid non-volatile memory devices with static random access memory (SRAM) array and non-volatile memory (NVM) array Technologies are generally described herein for a hybrid non-volatile memory structure that includes a number of SRAM buffers. SRAM access times may be achieved for non-volatile read/write operations by performing access queue buffered read/write operations first. The SRAM buffer may be shareable as a system SRAM. In other examples, a hybrid non-volatile memory according to some embodiments may include a high speed block and a high endurance block to store different types of data with different access needs. The hybrid non-volatile memory may also include a normal block to store the data which is non-frequently changed.
US10559343B1	Memory device with a signal control mechanism A memory device includes an internal storage unit configured to store mode data specifying an operating speed of the memory device; a control decoder coupled to the internal storage unit, the control decoder configured to generate a delay control signal based on the mode data; and an input buffer coupled to the control decoder, the input buffer configured to adjust a delay of an input signal based on the delay control signal.
US10559333B2	Memory macro and method of operating the same A memory macro includes a first memory cell array, first tracking circuit, first pre-charge circuit coupled to a first end of the first tracking bit line and a second pre-charge circuit coupled to a second end of the first tracking bit line. The first tracking circuit includes a first set of memory cells configured as a first set of loading cells responsive to a first set of control signals, a second set of memory cells configured as a first set of pull-down cells responsive to a second set of control signals, and a first tracking bit line. The first set of pull-down cells and first set of loading cells are configured to track a memory cell of the first memory cell array. The first and second pre-charge circuit are configured to charge the first tracking bit line to a voltage level responsive to a third set of control signals.
US10559331B2	Memory device and method of operating the same Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a memory block including a plurality of pages coupled to word lines, respectively, peripheral circuits configured to, during a program operation, perform program, verify, and discharge operations on memory cells coupled to a word line selected from among the word lines, and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuits such that, during the discharge operation performed after the verify operation, word lines, included in a region in which the program operation has not completed, and word lines, included in a region in which the program operation has completed, among the word lines, are discharged at different times.
US10559330B2	Memory device having selectable memory block pairs A memory device may include a first half memory block, a second half memory block, a row decoder group, and a read/write circuit which may be disposed between the first half memory block and the second half memory block. The read/write circuit may be coupled to the first half memory block and the second half memory block through a first bit line and a second bit line. The row decoder group may be configured to simultaneously select the first half memory block and the second half memory block in response to a single block selection signal.
US10559311B2	Speaker diarization with cluster transfer Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: obtaining the media file with a speech and identifying speakers on clusters separated by disfluencies and change of speakers. Clusters are re-segmented rearranged during diarization. Speaker identifications for the clusters in the media file is produced.
US10559308B2	System for determining user intent from text A system determines user intent from text. A conversation element is received. An intent is determined by matching a domain independent relationship and a domain dependent term determined from the received conversation element to an intent included in an intent database that stores a plurality of intents and by inputting the matched intent into a trained classifier that computes a likelihood that the matched intent is the intent of the received conversation element. An action is determined based on the determined intent. A response to the received conversation element is generated based on the determined action and output.
US10559301B2	Generating topic-specific language models Speech recognition may be improved by generating and using a topic specific language model. A topic specific language model may be created by performing an initial pass on an audio signal using a generic or basis language model. A speech recognition device may then determine topics relating to the audio signal based on the words identified in the initial pass and retrieve a corpus of text relating to those topics. Using the retrieved corpus of text, the speech recognition device may create a topic specific language model. In one example, the speech recognition device may adapt or otherwise modify the generic language model based on the retrieved corpus of text.
US10559297B2	Audio landmarking for aural user interface A computing device and method for controlling narration. The computing device comprises a display device displaying a visual user interface including textual information, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor executing instructions to identify a plurality of discrete textual data elements included in the textual information, map each of the plurality of discrete textual data elements to an audio data element, generate an implicit audio narration including the audio data element mapped to each of the plurality of discrete textual data elements and at least one of an audible tone and a pause between audio data elements mapped to at least two of the plurality of discrete textual data elements, and output the implicit audio narration.
US10559296B2	Automated speech pronunciation attribution Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining candidate user profiles as being associated with a shared device, and identifying, from the candidate user profiles, candidate pronunciation attributes associated with at least one of the candidate user profiles determined to be associated with the shared device. The methods, systems, and apparatus are also for receiving, at the shared device, a spoken utterance; determining a received pronunciation attribute based on received audio data corresponding to the spoken utterance; comparing the received pronunciation attribute to at least one of the candidate pronunciation attributes; and selecting a particular pronunciation attribute from the candidate pronunciation attributes based on a result of the comparison of the received pronunciation attribute to at least one of the candidate pronunciation attributes. With the methods, systems, and apparatus, the particular pronunciation attribute, selected from the candidate pronunciation attributes, is provided for outputting audio associated with the spoken utterance.
US10559291B2	Arrangements and methods for generating natural directional pinna cues A headphone arrangement is configured to induce natural directional pinna cues. The arrangement comprises an ear cup comprising a frame configured to at least partly encircle the ear of a user, wherein the frame is at least partially hollow. The arrangement further comprises a loudspeaker arranged within a wall of a frontal part, a rear part, an upper part, and/or a lower part of the frame, the loudspeaker comprising a membrane, a first side of the membrane facing a cavity inside the frame, and a second side of the membrane facing the outside. At least one loudspeaker is arranged at a first angle with respect to a median plane crossing a user's head midway between the user's ears such that a main direction of sound propagation is directed away from the median plane, and the second side of the membrane is directed away from the median plane.
US10559289B2	Apparatus and methods for cellular compositions Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatus for cellular compositions/generating music in real-time using cells (i.e. short musical motifs), where the cellular compositions are dependent on user data.
US10559287B2	Stringed musical instrument adjustable neck joint An adjustable neck system for ease of action adjustment within a wide range of possible string heights and vibrating string lengths while not impeding on the vibrating area of the soundboard and adding minimal mass to the headblock assembly and allowing for significant rigidity to allow for greatly improved tuning stability is described. The system includes a neck joint utilizing a neck that pivots into a slightly mortised headblock with a floating, cantilevered fingerboard that does not contact the surface of the soundboard. The neck heel features extensive reinforcement in conjunction with headblock reinforcement to allow for increased torque on between the captive bolts and pivot points for greater rigidity and stability without the need for locking screws. By laminating the headblock and cantilevering the fingerboard, mass and soundboard contact area is not significantly greater than with traditional assemblies for minimal effect on weight balance and tone.
US10559285B2	Asynchronous single frame update for self-refreshing panels Disclosed herein are techniques to provide both asynchronous frame updates and panel self-refresh in a single implementation. A platform can be arranged to provide frame updates asynchronously with the refresh rate of a connected panel while the connected panel can be arranged to self-refresh where no new updates are provided.
US10559280B2	Operating method using gamma voltage corresponding to display configuration and electronic device supporting the same An electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device using a gamma voltage of a display panel are provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, and a display driver integrated circuit. The display driver integrated circuit includes a source driver including source amplifiers to amplify output signals to be output through sub-pixels included in each pixel of the display panel, a gamma voltage output circuit that outputs one or more gamma voltages for correcting gray scales of the output signals depending on characteristics of the sub-pixels, a gamma adjustment circuit that provides reference voltages for the gamma voltages to the gamma voltage output circuit and includes signal lines connected with the gamma voltage output circuit, and switches connected between the signal lines.
US10559278B2	Display apparatus, gate driver and method for controlling the same Embodiments of the disclosure provide a gate driver, a display apparatus and a method for controlling the gate driver. The gate driver comprises a plurality of clock signal terminals; a controlling signal terminal; and N stages of cascaded gate driving circuits. Each of the N stages of cascaded gate driving circuits is configured to pull-up a voltage of an outputting terminal of the gate driving circuit according to a signal at the respective clock signal terminal, and to perform a noise reduction operation according to a signal at the controlling signal terminal. A controller is coupled with the clock signal terminals and the controlling signal terminal, and is configured to detect signals at the plurality of clock signal terminals, and to output a valid level signal to the controlling signal terminal in response to the signal at the clock signal terminal being abnormal.
US10559269B2	Viewing position adapting multi-panel electronic display device An electronic display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel that are positioned in a stacked configuration. Each of the first display panel and second display panel has pixels. An image processing unit of the electronic display device is configured to generate color image data for the first display panel or contrast image data for the second display panel by applying an expansion based on a viewing position. A method of displaying an image on an electronic display device includes generating color image data and generating contrast image data. One of generating color image data or generating contrast image data includes an expansion based on a viewing position.
US10559261B2	Electroluminescent display An electroluminescent display is disclosed. An electroluminescent display comprises a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including subpixels. A pixel circuit of each subpixels includes a driving transistor configured to drive the electroluminescent diode, a first switching transistor configured to supply a first voltage to a gate of the driving transistor in response to a first scan signal, a second switching transistor configured to supply a second voltage to the gate of the driving transistor in response to a second scan signal, a third switching transistor configured to supply the second voltage to a first electrode of the driving transistor in response to the second scan signal, a fourth switching transistor configured to supply a first supply voltage to a second electrode of the driving transistor in response to an emission control signal, a first capacitor between a first node connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor and a second node connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor, and a second capacitor between the second node and a power supply line supplied with the second voltage or the first supply voltage.
US10559259B2	Control head with electroluminescent panel in land mobile radio An exemplary land mobile radio control head and method are provided. In one embodiment, the control head has the capability to utilize halo light of the control head to implement a multi-function indicator that communicates a state of the land mobile radio. In another embodiment, the control head has the capability to provide buffer images constructed from data received from the land mobile radio into a video stream for rendering on an electroluminescent display. In another embodiment, the control head provides the capability for a user to modify a configuration stored on the land mobile radio that defines one of several display modes to be utilized in generating data for use in forming images to be rendered on an electroluminescent display.
US10559254B2	Display device and method of compensating pixel degradation of the same A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel that emits light with a first luminance that is lower than target luminance and a second pixel that emits light with a second luminance that is higher than the target luminance, a sensor configured to measure a first characteristic of a first light emitting element in the first pixel and a second characteristic of a second light emitting element in the second pixel, and a data compensator configured to calculate a degradation amount of the second pixel based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic.
US10559253B1	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region having a first edge; a non-display region surrounding the display region; a notch; a plurality of display pixels; a plurality of signal lines; a plurality of first compensation lines in the non-display region; and a potential line in the non-display region providing a fixed potential. The display region includes a first display region and a second display region at two sides of the notch along a first direction. The plurality of signal lines includes first signal lines and second signal lines which are not electrically connected to each other. The plurality of first compensation lines is electrically connected to the first signal lines. The plurality of first compensation lines is disposed in a different metal layer from the potential line and at least partially overlaps with the potential line to form compensation capacitors.
US10559236B2	Magnetic interconnected display panels A panel board display system is described that includes a plurality of thin interconnected display panels. The interconnected display panels are capable of interconnecting at a lengthwise edge of each panel without overlap. The interconnected display panels are easily coupled together magnetically and may be coupled in multiple varied orientations utilizing various combinations of the front and back of each panel.
US10559229B2	Secure multi-party device pairing using sensor data Content is securely shared between communication devices in an ad-hoc manner by employing common sensing context to establish pairing between the communication devices. In one aspect, the communication devices are within a specified distance from each other and sense common signals from their environment over a specified time period. The common signals are analyzed to determine an initialization or session key, which is utilized to secure content transfer between the communication devices. Additionally or alternatively, the key is utilized to provide access to virtual (e.g., digital content) and/or physical (e.g., buildings) resources.
US10559225B1	Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically generating an assessment of oral recitations of assessment items Provide automatic assessment of oral recitations during computer based language assessments using a trained neural network to automate the scoring and feedback processes without human transcription and scoring input by automatically generating a score of a language assessment. Providing an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) scoring system. Training multiple scoring reference vectors associated with multiple possible scores of an assessment, and receiving an acoustic language assessment response to an assessment item. Based on the acoustic language assessment automatically generating a transcription, and generating an individual word vector from the transcription. Generating an input vector by concatenating an individual word vector with a transcription feature vector, and supplying an input vector as input to a neural network. Generating an output vector based on weights of a neural network; and generating a score by comparing an output vector with scoring vectors.
US10559223B2	Food description processing methods and apparatuses Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with standardization or normalization of a food description. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors and a food data pre-processing engine. The food data processing engine may, when operated by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to receive a description of a food item, process the description to generate a standardized or normalized description for the food item, and store the standardized or normalized description in a food record in a food data storage arrangement of a fitness management system. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10559222B2	System, method, and apparatus for tracking turning information A rigid elongated member with at least a longitudinal curvature and a cushion placed on the concave side of the member. An electronics module is disposed between the cushion and the rigid member and records information about rotation of the member. Data is captured, processed, and may be displayed on a computing device.
US10559220B2	Systems and methods for creating a neural network to provide personalized recommendations using activity monitoring devices with biometric sensors Systems and methods are provided for creating a neural network to provide personal recommendations. One such system include a wearable device having a bio sensor that measures biometrics and a motion sensor that monitors activity. The system also includes a processor coupled to the bio sensor and the motion sensor, and a transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to execute specific functions. The instructions are executed to cause the processor to generate biometric data when executed, cause the processor to execute specific functions. The instructions are executed to cause the processor to monitor movement to generate physical activity data, monitor a duration and quality of sleep to generate sleep data, and gather biometric data to determine a fatigue score. Further, the instructions are executed to create a personalized recommendation based on the relationship of the physical activity data, sleep data, and the fatigue score.
US10559218B2	Method and device for controlling a simulator The present invention relates to a filter for controlling a simulator for the representation of movements of a simulated vehicle, the rotational and translational control commands required to control the simulator being calculated from a difference between the angle of rotation and the apparent vertical angle, taking into account a physiological rotation rate limitation.
US10559211B2	Real-time service provider progress monitoring A network computer system provides a service instruction to a computing device. The service instruction can include offers, such as a service request to pick up and transport a user, and recommendations, such as a movement recommendation encouraging the service provider to relocate to another geographic area. The network computer system remotely monitors the computing device to receive a current position of the computing device as the service provider travels within a geographic area. The network computer system remotely monitors the computing device to receive a service state of the service provider. The network computer system periodically determines whether the service provider is making progress towards a target of the service instruction based on the current position of the computing device and a set of progress conditions, including determining whether the service provider satisfied the set of progress conditions in response to a change in the service state.
US10559209B2	Vehicle position planning Described herein is a framework to facilitate vehicle position planning. In accordance with one aspect of the framework, transition information is determined based on the vehicle data, wherein the transition information includes pairs of starting and ending road segments and corresponding passenger states. Short-term demand for vehicles may be calculated based on the transition information and the historical transactional records. The short-term demand may then be used to generate a cruising recommendation.
US10559206B2	Mobile body spatial information calculation apparatus and collision avoidance system A mobile body spatial information calculation apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input section configured to receive sensor information including information on one or more target objects based on a position of an own mobile body from a sensor apparatus, an object recognition section configured to recognize the target object based on the sensor information, a calculation section configured to calculate a collision prediction time and a target portion angle based on the sensor information on the target object recognized by the object recognition section, and a spatial information generation section configured to generate spatial information according to the collision prediction time and the target portion angle using the collision prediction time and the target portion angle calculated by the calculation section and store the generated spatial information.
US10559193B2	Premises management systems Systems and methods are described for remote monitoring of a premises. A remote device may be authenticated and may be granted access to a premises management system configured to monitor a premises.
US10559190B2	Assistance summons device for motorcycle or the like A distress situation recognizing and remote assistance summoning device for recognizing a distress situation which may be encountered by a transport vehicle, and for summoning assistance via a wireless communications link is shown and described. The device may be self-contained in one unit and clamped to a tube member of the vehicle. The device includes microprocessor, a battery, a power cable connectable to a vehicle electrical system, accelerometer and gyroscope for sensing impacts, GPS capability, wireless communications capability for summoning assistance, an annunciator for annunciating transmission of an assistance request, a manual assistance request feature, a request cancellation feature, a delay feature delaying the assistance request, a visible and an audible beacon annunciating location of the vehicle, and a coverage annunciator signaling that the vehicle is in an area not in potential communication with a recipient of the request for assistance.
US10559183B2	Activity amount calculation system, activity amount calculation device, activity amount calculation method, and computer-readable recording medium An activity amount calculation system includes a plurality of detection units and an activity amount calculation device. The plurality of detection units detect a resident and output detection signals when the resident passes through doorways of a plurality of rooms. The calculation device includes a calculation unit and a summation unit. Upon detection of the resident by the detection units, the calculation unit calculates an activity amount of the resident based on relationships between detection units and reference activity amounts. The summation unit repeatedly calculates a total activity amount of the resident in a predetermined period by summing activity amounts calculated by the calculation unit.
US10559181B2	Building risk analysis system with risk combination for multiple threats A building management system includes one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a plurality of threats, the plurality of threats comprising a first threat and a second threat, the first threat and the second threat affecting a risk score of an asset and determine whether the first threat is correlated with the second threat. The instructions cause the one or more processors to determine a value of the risk score to be a first value in response to a determination that the first threat is correlated with the second threat and determine the value of the risk score to be a second value in response to a determination that the first threat is not correlated with the second threat.
US10559172B1	Customized notifications based on device characteristics The application describes customized notifications based at least in part on device characteristics. For example, a client device may identify information for populating an audio tone list associated with an electronic device, wherein the information includes a type of electronic device, a name of the electronic device; and/or a setting of the electronic device. The client device may then display audio tones that are based at least in part on the information. While displaying the audio tones, the client device may receive input selecting at least one of the audio tones to be associated with the electronic device. The client device may then receive a message indicating that the electronic device detected an object. Based at least in part on the message, the client device may output sound represented by an audio tone of the at least one audio tone.
US10559168B2	Player tracking system and methods of operating same A casino management networked computer system is described. The networked computer system includes a database server computer and an application server computer coupled to the database server computer and to a plurality of gaming devices. The database server processor is programmed to generate and store a program file including a patron logic matrix that includes data records of patron ranking information included in the spreadsheet. Each data record includes a market definition value, a patron ranking value, a theoretical loss value, and a comp reinvestment data. The application processor is programmed to calculate patron comp point values based on the comp reinvestment data and patron wager data included in a patron data record.
US10559158B2	Item dispensing apparatus Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a dispenser configured for storing one or more items and dispensing the stored items to authorized users. According to various embodiments, the dispenser generally includes a housing defining an interior portion dimensioned to receive one or more items and a laterally sliding access door comprised of a flexible barrier configured to provide restricted access to items stored within the dispenser. In various embodiments, the dispenser also includes a biasing system configured bias the access door to a closed position.
US10559157B2	Automated vending machine with tray transport system An automated vending machine for vending, accepting returns for, and restocking, vendible products. Vendible products are stored on moveable trays, resting on a shelving system, and are transported within the automated vending machine by a gantry system and dispensing unit. The shelving system and moveable trays can be adjusted to accommodate vendible products of varying shape, size, weight, and durability. The moveable trays are gravity fed forward into position for being coupled with the dispensing unit when selected. A supplementary storage area for restocking products and storing returned products is included.
US10559151B2	Networked door closer and auto-operator An access control system for a plurality of door operators that are each respectively coupled to one of a plurality of doors providing an entrance to or exit from a building. A system controller monitors the status of each of the doors real time and controls the operation of each of the door operators based on the monitored status. The system controller adjusts the status of one or more door operators as a function of the determined status of one or more other door operators. Door operator commands are provided by the system controller to selected door operators to, for example, extend the opening time of one or more doors due to current activity by other door closers. The system controller is configured adjust the status of an entire group of doors or a sub-group group of doors depending on the status of the door operators.
US10559146B2	Role-based locking system for plants unattended premises The present disclosure describes computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems, for role-based plants unattended premises occupancy monitoring, mapping, and events logging. One computer implemented method includes unlocking a mechanical door controllable by a computing device upon successfully validating login information input by an occupant, performing an occupancy footprint mapping (OFM) by periodically calculating the occupant's location using a triangulation process, determining an identity of the occupant based a received RFID signal, identifying a job role for the occupant based on the occupant's identity, identifying a normal OFM associated with the occupant's job role, calculating a deviation between the OFM and the normal OFM, sending a security event including the OFM to a Syslog server and an object linking, and sending an embedding for process control alarm to a human machine interface if the deviation exceeds a predetermined deviation tolerance threshold.
US10559140B2	Systems and methods to obtain feedback in response to autonomous vehicle failure events The present disclosure provides systems and methods to obtain feedback descriptive of autonomous vehicle failures. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can detect that a vehicle failure event occurred at an autonomous vehicle and, in response, provide an interactive user interface that enables a human located within the autonomous vehicle to enter feedback that describes the vehicle failure event. Thus, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can actively prompt and/or enable entry of feedback in response to a particular instance of a vehicle failure event, thereby enabling improved and streamlined collection of information about autonomous vehicle failures.
US10559123B2	Patched shading in graphics processing Aspects of this disclosure relate to a process for rendering graphics that includes designating a hardware shading unit of a graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform first shading operations associated with a first shader stage of a rendering pipeline. The process also includes switching operational modes of the hardware shading unit upon completion of the first shading operations. The process also includes performing, with the hardware shading unit of the GPU designated to perform the first shading operations, second shading operations associated with a second, different shader stage of the rendering pipeline.
US10559116B2	Interactive caricature generation from a digital image Caricature generation techniques and systems are described that are configured to preserve an individuality identity of a subject of the caricature and thus overcome inaccuracies and failures of conventional techniques. In one example, a caricature generation system is employed by a computing device to determine deviations of facial features of a subject captured by a digital image from reference values. Caricature-specific blend shapes are then employed by the caricature generation system to generate a digital image caricature from a digital image based on these deviations. In one example, blend shapes include interaction rules that define an interplay of distortions that are jointly applied to at least two of the facial features of a subject in the digital image.
US10559106B2	Video smoothing method and apparatus A method includes obtaining a to-be-processed current point in a target area in a current frame, obtaining a first-type smoothing weight of a first-type neighborhood point in an Nth frame before the current frame with respect to the current point, where the first-type neighborhood point is an Xth circle point that encircles a point corresponding to a location of the current point and that is in the Nth frame before the current frame, obtaining a second-type smoothing weight of a second-type neighborhood point in an Mth frame after the current frame with respect to the current point, where the second-type neighborhood point is a Yth circle point that encircles the point corresponding to the location of the current point and that is in the Mth frame after the current frame, and performing smoothing calculation on the current point according to the first-type smoothing weight and the second-type smoothing weight.
US10559101B2	Method and apparatus for generating x-ray tomographic image data Provided are a method and apparatus for interpolating X-ray tomographic image data by using a machine learning model. A method of interpolating an X-ray tomographic image or X-ray tomographic composite image data includes obtaining a trained model parameter via machine learning that uses a sub-sampled sinogram for learning as an input and uses a full-sampled sinogram for learning as a ground truth; radiating X-rays onto an object at a plurality of preset angular locations via an X-ray source, and obtaining a sparsely-sampled sinogram including X-ray projection data obtained via X-rays detected at the plurality of preset angular locations; applying the trained model parameter to the sparsely-sampled sinogram by using the machine learning model; and generating a densely-sampled sinogram by estimating X-ray projection data not obtained with respect to the object on the sparsely-sampled sinogram.
US10559098B1	Color sampling for displaying content items An online system is configured to provide content items to users. The content item includes an image, and is displayed with a color block or colored border as an accent to the image. The color of the color block or colored bordered is dynamically selected based upon the image included in the content item, and is selected using a waterfall selection method comprising a sequence of different selection methods, each selection method configured to select a color based upon a most common color of the image that satisfies a respective set of selection criteria or determine that no color meets the respective set of selection criteria. The selection methods may comprise a dominant color selection method wherein the selected color corresponds to a most dominant color of the image, and a complementary color selection method wherein the select color is a complement of a dominant color of the image.
US10559095B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and medium There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A determination unit determines color information of an object present in an object image from a virtual viewpoint. The color information of the object is determined by combining color information of the object in a captured image obtained by one or more image capturing apparatus selected based on position and orientation information of the virtual viewpoint, position and orientation information of the image capturing apparatuses, and position information of the object, by using a weight corresponding to an image capturing direction of the one or more image capturing apparatus and a position of the object in a field of view of the one or more image capturing apparatus.
US10559090B2	Method and apparatus for calculating dual-camera relative position, and device A method for calculating a dual-camera relative position provided in the present disclosure includes obtaining M groups of dual-camera images, where each group of dual-camera images in the M groups includes two images obtained by photographing a same scene by dual cameras at the same time, screening the M groups of dual-camera images to obtain Q groups of dual-camera images that can be used to calculate the dual-camera relative position, obtaining dual-camera relative position parameters corresponding to each group of dual-camera images in the Q groups according to each group of dual-camera images in the Q groups, and obtaining optimal dual-camera relative position parameters from the Q groups of dual-camera relative position parameters. Therefore, the dual-camera relative position can be calculated when a scene is relatively difficult to recognize.
US10559084B2	Reflection determining apparatus A reflection determining apparatus is configured to determine reflection for a camera, wherein the camera is configured to photograph an external environment of a vehicle through a glass from an inside of the vehicle and the camera includes a reflection preventer configured to prevent reflection on the glass. The reflection determining apparatus is provided with: a calculator configured to calculate an optical flow of an area in which the reflection is not prevented in a photographed image of the camera; and a determinator configured to determine that there is the reflection in the photographed image of the camera if a duration in which a particular area is detected is greater than or equal to a predetermined time, wherein the particular area is defined by points with a value of the optical flow that is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
US10559083B2	Systems and methods for horizon identification in an image Systems and method of identifying a horizon depicted in an image are presented herein. Information defining an image may be obtained. The image may include visual content comprising an array of pixels. The array may include pixel rows. Parameter values for a set of pixel parameters of individual pixels of the image may be determined. Individual average parameter values of the individual pixel parameters of the pixels in the individual pixel rows may be determined. Based on the average parameter values a pixel row may be identified as depicting a horizon in the image.
US10559081B2	Method and system for automated visual analysis of a dipstick using standard user equipment A method for analyzing a dipstick using a smartphone is provided herein. The method includes: capturing an image containing: a dipstick having colored test reagents, and a color board having a grid of grey patches and a plurality of reference color patches; deriving, based on the grid, local illumination parameters associated with the colored test reagents and the plurality of reference color patches; determining whether illumination parameters are sufficient for interpreting the colored test reagent; in a case the illumination parameters are insufficient, notifying a user that an interpretation of the colored test reagents is not possible, otherwise, applying one or more image enhancement operation to the captured image, based on an analysis of the grid of grey patches, to yield enhanced reference color patches; and interpreting the one or more colored test reagents, by projecting the colored test reagents onto a vector of the enhanced reference color patches.
US10559074B2	Sample observation device and sample observation method A sample observation device images a sample placed on a movable table by irradiating and scanning the sample with a charged particle beam of a microscope. A degraded image having poor image quality and a high quality image having satisfactory image quality which are acquired at the same location of the sample by causing the charged particle microscope to change an imaging condition for imaging the sample are stored. An estimation process parameter is calculated for estimating the high quality image from the degraded image by using the stored degraded image and high quality image. A high quality image estimation unit processes the degraded image obtained by causing the charged particle microscope to image the desired site of the sample by using the calculated estimation process parameter. Thereby, the high quality image obtained at the desired site is estimated, and then the estimated high quality image is output.
US10559070B2	Image processing method and apparatus, and electronic device An image processing method is provided. The image processing method is applied in an electronic device. The array of photosensitive pixel units is controlled to expose with different exposure parameters and output multiple frames of color-block image. Each frame of color-block image includes image pixel units arranged in a preset array, each image pixel unit includes a plurality of original pixels, and each photosensitive pixel corresponds to one original pixel. The multiple frames of color-block image are merged to obtain a HDR color-block image. The HDR color-block image is converted to a simulation image using an interpolation algorithm. The simulation image includes simulation pixels arranged in an array, and each photosensitive pixel corresponds to one simulation pixel. An image processing apparatus and an electronic device are also provided.
US10559061B2	Computerized generation of ornamental designs by placing instances of simple shapes in accordance with a direction guide Systems and methods for computerized drawing of ornamental designs consisting of placed instances of simple shapes. The shapes, called elements, are selected from a small library of templates. The elements are deformed to flow along a direction field interpolated from user-supplied strokes, giving a sense of visual flow to the final composition, and constrained to lie within a container region. In an implementation, a vector field is computed based on user strokes. Streamlines that conform to the vector field are constructed, and an element is placed over each streamline. The shape of the elements may be modified such as by bending, stretching or enlarging to reduce spacing between elements and to minimize variations in spacing to improve aesthetic appearance.
US10559049B2	Digital passport country entry stamp The method utilizes a passport identification number as an element of a homomorphic encryption used to stamp a passport with country entry/exit data to form a digital representation of a subset of information in the passport. As a result, exchange of the digital representation is permitted to allow a selective transfer of information without exposing a user-sensitive passport identification number. The homomorphic encryption comprises a support for exposing a trusted photo and a trusted group containing country travel entry and exit information. The digitally signed passport stamp may then be used to provide verification of the individual by ensuring linkage to that user's passport. The individual's identity and passport verification may occur unconnected, i.e., without having to connect to a central database.
US10559047B2	Systems and methods for facilitating closing of a check Various methods are described for facilitating closing and payment of a check. One example method may comprise performing an action with a mobile device proximate a physical location associated with the check. The method may further comprise receiving in response a location identifier associated with the physical location. Additionally, the method may comprise determining the check to be closed based at least in part on the location identifier. Another example method may comprise performing an action with a mobile device proximate a folio device. The method may further comprise receiving in response a folio device identifier associated with the folio device. Additionally, the method may comprise providing for transmission of the check information to the folio device based at least in part on the folio device identifier. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided.
US10559046B2	Power supply management system A power supply management system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a fee setting unit configured to set power fee unit prices (first power fee unit price and second power fee unit price) for each time slot, and a notification unit configured to notify a consumer of information on the set power fee unit prices. The first power fee unit price is a power unit price for a household electrical load, and the second power fee unit price is a power unit price in a case of using a charge/discharge device to charge a vehicle-mounted storage battery. The fee setting unit is configured to set, by predicting a load factor of a transformer, a discount rate of the second power fee unit price to become higher (second power fee unit price to become lower) as the predicted load factor becomes lower. The second power fee unit price is determined on the basis of the first power fee unit price and the discount rate.
US10559042B2	Capturing information regarding an interaction to a database Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for capturing information regarding an interaction to a database. A client device receives an indication of an interaction with the client device that satisfies a user-defined trigger. A user interface is provided to the client device having input controls capable of receiving one or more information items. The one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second data field regarding at least one entity associated with the interaction. The one or more information items may generate a custom object that is stored in a database of the on-demand database service. A profile object for the at least one entity may be generated based on an aggregation of the stored one or more items with attributes of the at least one entity.
US10559039B1	Augmented reality insurance applications Software, hardware, and/or combinations thereof are provided for facilitating augmented reality presentations, which dynamically augment or enhance (images or live video of) the real world with computer-generated data (e.g., graphics of virtual objects) to facilitate insurance applications. Through the use of a mobile device (e.g., phone, tablet, and eyewear), augmented reality applications are engineered to allow an insurer to enhance the experiences of customers and prospects across sales, service, and claims.
US10559024B1	Voice initiated purchase request Methods are described herein related to enabling users to purchase a product or service by providing a voice request and/or an image. An example method may involve: (a) receiving, by a hybrid response system (“HRS”), a first speech-segment message that comprises a speech segment and is associated with a user-account, (b) the HRS determining that the speech segment indicates a purchase request, (c) the HRS determining a target product/service based on at least the purchase request, (d) the HRS determining a confidence level associated with a purchase of the target product/service, (e) if the confidence level is greater than or equal to a threshold level, then the HRS sending a purchase order, via the associated user-account, for the target product or service, otherwise, the HRS sending the purchase request and the target product/service to at least one guide computing system to facilitate a response to the purchase request.
US10559020B2	System and method for dynamic real-time cross-selling of passenger oriented travel products Disclosed is a method for cross-selling passenger-oriented travel products from a sponsor company and other travel product providers to users, by normalizing the products and dynamically filtering the products in real-time according to rules defined by the travel product sponsor company. In one of the embodiments, ancillary products from any combination of an airline sponsor company, affiliated airline companies and other travel product providers may be presented to customers in accordance with the sponsor company's preferred product bundling nor package scheme and in coordination with affiliated airlines and other travel product providers as they may be available for a combined product. Other embodiments cross-sell travel products for rail, sea and other ground transportation, accommodation services and providers as well as passenger-oriented ancillary travel product providers such as Wi-Fi and duty-free shopping services.
US10559012B1	Income distribution based on user consumption of content This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for enabling users to create and manage their own channels to stream digital content or media for viewing, sharing, downloading, etc., by others. Users who create the channels are designated as editors and accorded a status that allows them to invite contributing publishers or authors to supplement their channels with additional digital content or media for viewing, listening, sharing, downloading, etc. The editors and the publishers or authors who contribute to a particular channel receive payments that are computed based on determining the extent of either viewing, listening, sharing, downloading, etc., of the digital content, by users, or determining the total playback time of the digital content for users and computing a viewing score. The systems and methods provide analytics relating to the content to the editors or the platform providers as desired.
US10558998B2	System and method for capability packages offering based on analysis of edited websites and their use A system for a website building system server, the server having at least one processor and a memory, the system includes: an analyzer and updater to construct a promotional package for a user of the website building system according to at least editing history and/or business intelligence of a website belonging to the user, a channel determiner to determine the best mode of interface to present the promotional package to the user and a marketer to modify the website building system interface for the user according to the best mode of interface.
US10558995B2	Value management system A value management system which facilitates substantially real-time exchange of loyalty value during transactions. The value management system includes an exchange computer for acting as an intermediary between a loyalty member computer and a loyalty system on behalf of a loyalty member. The exchange computer is for storing login information of the loyalty member, for accessing a loyalty account of the loyalty member within the loyalty system using the login information, for determining a loyalty value associated with the loyalty account, for performing a transaction with the loyalty member involving a change in the loyalty value in exchange for other value, and for charging a fee from the loyalty member in return for the transaction.
US10558977B2	System and method for linking bill payment service with remittance An enrollment of a receiver in a biometric authentication system is obtained. The receiver is challenged with a pre-remittance biometric challenge from the biometric authentication system prior to initiating a remittance to the receiver. An indication is obtained that the remittance has at least been initiated to a financial account of the receiver. The indication includes successful completion of the pre-remittance biometric challenge by the receiver. Responsive to obtaining the indication, at least one payee is automatically paid from the financial account.
US10558973B2	Method and apparatus for card activation Method and apparatus for card activation are provided, which belong to computer technology. The method is applied to an intelligent device having a secure element (SE) chip and includes: creating a first background thread during pre-activation operations using a user interface (UI) thread; obtaining a first part of data for the card activation from a server using the first background thread; writing the first part of data to the SE chip using the first background thread; creating a second background thread after the pre-activation operations have been accomplished using the UI thread and the card activation is confirmed; and writing a second part of data for the card activation to the SE chip using the second background thread.
US10558970B2	White label merchant stored value account peer linking and funding system A white label merchant stored value account peer linking/funding system includes a payment service provider database storing associations between different merchants and respective groups of white label merchant stored value accounts. A payment service provider links, in the database, a first user identifier received from a first user device with a first white label merchant stored value account that is included in a first group of white label merchant stored value accounts that are associated with a first merchant in the database. The payment service provider device then receives second user identifiers from the first user device, and links each of the second user identifiers with the first white label merchant stored value account in the database. The payment service provider device then receives respective second user account information from the second user devices and funds the first white label merchant stored value account with respective first funding amounts.
US10558963B2	Shareable widget interface to mobile wallet functions Configuring a shareable widget interface to mobile wallet functions includes disposing a wallet module in a memory of a client device, and disposing a wallet companion applet in a secure element accessible by the client device, wherein the wallet companion applet facilitates access by at least one other applet and at least one wallet module to content that is stored in the secure element via a mobile wallet function sharable interface.
US10558956B2	Device and method for facilitating financial transactions A device, system, and method for conducting a secure transaction over a network includes receiving from a merchant a price amount associated with a purchase selection made by a user and an identification of a stored-value financial instrument having been issued to the user, and participating in a user-free electronic dialogue with a non-integrated financial institution, the user-free electronic dialogue including a request to transfer funds from the non-integrated financial institution to satisfy the price amount associated with the purchase selection. The device, system, and method further includes determining whether there are sufficient funds associated with the stored-value financial instrument. The participation in the user-free electronic dialogue to request the funds transfer from the non-integrated financial institution occurs as a result of determining that there are insufficient funds.
US10558955B2	Secure real-time product ownership tracking using distributed electronic ledgers A processor receives a signal representing data including event information detailing an event involving an entity having a registered ownership interest in a product and loads a portion of a distributed electronic ledger for tracking ownership information associated with the product. The distributed electronic ledger includes, within a block thereof and associated with the product, an event trigger list including entity data associated with each entity having a registered ownership interest in the product and a rules engine including rules associated with event triggers in the event trigger list. The processor determines whether a triggering event corresponding to the event is stored in the event trigger list and, when the event has a corresponding triggering event, determines the associated rule within the rules engine. The processor updates and saves the distributed electronic ledger by performing an action specified by the determined associated rule.
US10558947B2	System and method for management of perpetual inventory values based upon financial assumptions A book inventory monetary value of a selected product in the retail store is received. The book inventory monetary value is the monetary value of the selected product according to the accounting records of a retail store. A perpetual inventory (PI) monetary value is also received from the retail store. The PI monetary value is a product of multiplying a PI value for the selected product with the cost of the selected product. The book inventory monetary value and the PI monetary value are stored in a database. Subsequently, the book inventory monetary value and the PI monetary value are retrieved from the database. A difference between the book inventory monetary value and the PI monetary values is determined. An adjustment of the PI value is determined based upon the difference.
US10558936B2	Systems and methods for dynamically generating patrol schedules based on historic demand data Systems and methods are described herein for dynamically generating and updating a patrol schedule for a shift based on historic demand event data, and a predicted-demand model based on the historic demand event data. The systems and methods also receive information associated with patrol officers assigned to a shift and constraints on the officers' availability, and generate a patrol schedule comprising patrol assignments for the assigned patrol officers optimized based on at least one policing objective. The patrol schedule may be dynamically updated based on changing information and provided to the patrol officer via mobile device or display in the patrol officer's vehicle.
US10558933B2	Merging feature subsets using graphical representation A system, method and computer program product provides improved performance in machine learning, decision making and similar processes. In one example method, a plurality of individual subsets of features of a dataset comprising multiple features are received. The subsets may be provided by applying one or more feature selection methods to the dataset. Each subset is represented as a graph based on a predefined graph template. The example method merges the graphs of the plurality of individual subsets by overlaying the graphs on each other to form a merged feature graph. The merged feature graph may be used for identifying a single subset of features for use in machine learning, decision making and similar processes.
US10558927B2	Nested device for efficient fact checking An efficient fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The efficient fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information efficiently and/or provides a status of the information.
US10558919B2	Predictive analysis with large predictive models An approach to optimizing predictive model analysis, comprising creating one or more model templates, decomposing a predictive model, wherein model information is extracted from the predictive model, storing the model information in the one or more model templates, creating a plurality of sub-models, associated with the predictive model, using the stored model information, sending the plurality of sub-models to a scoring engine, receiving results based on the plurality of sub-models from the scoring engine and generating predictions based on combining the results received from the scoring engine. The generated predictions can be sent to one or more analytic applications for further processing.
US10558906B2	Method for embedding integrated circuit flip chip Embodiments of the invention relate to processes for fabricating a smart device (200), e.g. smart card, and configurations for smart card devices with greater reliability and lifespan, and improved finish. In the smart card device comprising of laminated substrate layers (220, 240) interposing a flexible film (230) having conductor pattern thereon, at least one flip chip (250) for operating the smart card device is embedded in a first substrate (220) such that the first substrate provides an encapsulation to the at least one flip chip, wherein the at least one flip chip (250) is arranged at a position in a first vertical plane; and a contact pad (260), for providing electrical connection when the smart card device is inserted into a smart card reader, is arranged at a position in a second vertical plane, wherein the first vertical plane is non-overlapping with the second vertical plane. The contact pad (260) is projected through a cavity in a second substrate to form a continuous even plane from an outer surface of the laminated substrate layers to the contact pad (260).
US10558905B2	Method for producing a device comprising at least one electronic element associated with a substrate and an antenna The invention relates to a method for producing a device comprising at least one electronic element (3) associated with a substrate (1) and an antenna (4). According to the invention, this method comprises the following steps: the antenna (2) is disposed on the upper face (6) of the substrate (1); the electronic element (3, 10) is introduced at least partially into the substrate (1); the assembly is laminated in a way allowing the antenna (2) and the electronic element (3, 10) to enter into the substrate (1) completely; and the laminated substrate (1) is cooled under a press. The invention also relates to a device obtained in this way, either as a finished product or a semi-finished product. This device can find application as a chip card or in a passport.
US10558898B2	System and method for generating a map from activity data A method for generating a graph comprises receiving a plurality of GPS data collected as a user performs a workout, the GPS data comprising a plurality of latitude and longitude positions. The method further comprises identifying from within the plurality of GPS data at least two nodes, each of the at least two nodes comprising a cluster of GPS data points which are determined to be within a previously specified range to a latitude and longitude pair representative of a center of the cluster. Additionally, the method comprises determining a sequence of the at least two nodes through which a user traversed based at least in part on the collected GPS data. The method also comprises generating a map indicative of a route of the user taken during the workout based at least in part on the determined sequence of the at least two nodes.
US10558893B2	Systems and methods for recognizing characters in digitized documents Methods and systems are provided for end-to-end text recognition in digitized documents of handwritten characters over multiple lines without explicit line segmentation. An image is received. Based on the image, one or more feature maps are determined. Each of the one or more feature maps include one or more feature vectors. Based at least in part on the one or more feature maps, one or more scalar scores are determined. Based on the one or more scalar scores, one or more attention weights are determined. By applying the one or more attention weights to each of the one or more feature vectors, one or more image summary vectors are determined. Based at least in part on the one or more image summary vectors, one or more handwritten characters are determined.
US10558889B2	Frequency-based projection segmentation A method for segmenting a projected pattern in an image recorded by a camera includes recording, by a camera in a learning phase, a multiplicity of images produced by virtue of a light source projecting the pattern from a plurality of different angles onto a projection surface in a clean room, wherein the projection surface has a plurality of respectively different distances from the light source for each angle; transforming the multiplicity of images into a frequency domain representation; obtaining a value range of occurring frequencies from the frequency domain representation of the multiplicity of images; and masking, in an application phase, frequencies other than the frequencies lying in the value range in a frequency domain representation of the image recorded by the camera, wherein a difference image produced in this manner is transformed back from the frequency domain representation.
US10558881B2	Parallax minimization stitching method and apparatus using control points in overlapping region Provided is a parallax minimization stitching method and apparatus using control points in an overlapping region. A parallax minimization stitching method may include defining a plurality of control points in an overlapping region of a first image and a second image received from a plurality of cameras, performing a first geometric correction by applying a homography to the control points, defining a plurality of patches based on the control points, and performing a second geometric correction by mapping the patches.
US10558880B2	System and method for finding evidencing electronic documents based on unstructured data A system and method for finding evidencing electronic documents based on unstructured data. The method includes analyzing a first electronic document to determine at least one transaction parameter of a transaction, wherein the first electronic document includes at least partially unstructured data; creating a template for the transaction, wherein the template is a structured dataset including the determined at least one transaction parameter; generating, based on the created template, at least one query; and querying at least one data source for a second electronic document using the at least one query.
US10558871B2	System and method for improving the performance of an in-vehicle sensor system A method of identifying an object includes setting scan parameters for scanning, with a sensor, objects in a field of view of the sensor; setting classification parameters for identifying objects scanned in the field of view of the sensor; controlling the sensor to scan for objects in the field of view using the scan parameters, and to identify any scanned objects based upon the classification parameters; receiving information relating to a first object which is not in the field of view but is expected to enter the field of view; modifying the scan parameters based upon the received information, controlling the sensor to scan based upon the modified scan parameters; and identifying the first object in the field of view. Responsive to identifying the first object, the method performs one or more actions so the vehicle avoids the first object.
US10558864B2	System and method for image localization based on semantic segmentation A system and method for image localization based on semantic segmentation are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving image data from an image generating device mounted on an autonomous vehicle; performing semantic segmentation or other object detection on the received image data to identify and label objects in the image data and produce semantic label image data; identifying extraneous objects in the semantic label image data; removing the extraneous objects from the semantic label image data; comparing the semantic label image data to a baseline semantic label map; and determining a vehicle location of the autonomous vehicle based on information in a matching baseline semantic label map.
US10558858B2	Augmented reality system and kit An augmented-reality system that includes a printed media member that has at least a first image target, a head mounted device that includes a mobile device securing member, and software that is configured to run on a mobile device that includes a camera that has a camera lens. The software is in communication with a target database (either on a remote server or within the software) that includes information related to the first image target, and wherein the software includes first augmented-reality content that is associated with the first image target.
US10558855B2	Vision system with teat detection A vision system that includes a robotic arm and a three-dimensional (3D) camera operably coupled to a processor. The processor is configured to position the robotic arm adjacent to the dairy livestock and acquire a 3D image using the 3D camera. The processor is further configured to identify a set of teat candidates within the 3D image and to filter the set of teat candidates based on one or more filtering rules. The processor is further configured to determine an aggregate teat candidate score for the consolidated set of teat candidates, compare the aggregate teat candidate score to a score threshold value, and update teat location information for the dairy livestock in response to determining the aggregate teat candidate score is greater than or equal to the score threshold value.
US10558851B2	Image processing apparatus and method of generating face image An image processing apparatus stores, as instance images, a plurality of face images obtained by photographing respective faces of a plurality of persons on a plurality of photographing conditions, while associating the persons with the photographing conditions for each part; obtains the photographing condition of the input face image; approximates the respective parts of the input face images, by a combination of the instance images of the plurality of persons stored in association with the parts and the obtained photographing conditions; decides, for each part of the input face image, a combination corresponding to the combination in the approximation from the instance images of the plurality of persons stored in association with the part and a predetermined photographing condition; and generates an image obtained by photographing the input face image on the predetermined photographing condition, by synthesizing the obtained combination on the whole input face image.
US10558849B2	Depicted skin selection Depicted skin selection is described. An image processing system selects portions of a digital image that correspond to exposed skin of persons depicted in the digital image without selecting other portions. Initially, the image processing system determines a bounding box for each person depicted in the digital image. Based solely on the portion of the digital image within the bounding box, the image processing system generates an object mask indicative of the pixels of the digital image corresponding to a respective person. Portions of the digital image outside the bounding box are not used for generating this object mask. The image processing system then identifies the pixels of the digital image indicated by the object mask and having a similar color to a range of exposed skin colors determined for the respective person. The processing system generates skin selection data describing the identified pixels and enabling the exposed skin selection.
US10558840B2	Fingerprint recognition method and electronic device A fingerprint recognition method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes collecting a touch image in a fingerprint collection region of the fingerprint recognition sensor; configuring a correspondence list; determining whether the touch image is consistent with a pre-stored fingerprint sample; and if the touch image is consistent with the pre-stored fingerprint sample, executing a first preset action corresponding to the fingerprint sample; or if the touch image is inconsistent with the pre-stored fingerprint sample, determining whether the touch image meets a preset condition; and if the touch image meets the preset condition, executing a second preset action, calculating a quantity of times of continuously executing the second action, and if the quantity of times of continuously executing the second preset action is greater than or equal to a third preset value, locking the electronic device within a preset time.
US10558838B2	Optimized scan sequence for biometric sensor Disclosed are systems and method for imaging an input object. An imaging device includes: a light source that emanates light to a sensing region in which the input object to be imaged is placed; a collimator filter layer; an image sensor array disposed below the collimator filter layer that blocks some light reflected from the input object while other light passes through apertures in the collimator filter layer and arrives at the image sensor array; and a controller configured to cause a first image of the input object to be captured with the light source turned on, and to transmit the first image to a processor associated with the electronic device to perform image matching against one or more template images before causing a second image of the input object to be captured with the light source turned off.
US10558830B2	System and method for activity monitoring Aspects of the present invention provides a system for monitoring and reminding a user of specific activities. In one embodiment, a machine detectable element is provided to an appropriate contactless reader that, when read, provides a proxy for the user completing the activity. Schedule and adherence information may be provided via a display-containing portable electronic device that may also be configured as the contactless reader. The system may also be configured to provide reminders or other information to the user or third parties.
US10558826B2	Method and apparatus for providing security mode to user device Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a secure mode for a device. The method includes obtaining a plurality of parameters for determining a security environment of the device from one or more devices included in the device; determining whether the device is in an insecure environment based on combinations of the obtained plurality of parameters; and, when it is determined that the device is in an insecure environment, controlling the device to operate in the secure mode.
US10558817B2	Establishing a link between identifiers without disclosing specific identifying information A method for linking user identifiers. The method includes receiving, by a linking server and from a company server, a first data structure comprising entries. Each entry comprising a user tag, a first hashed user information, and a second hashed user information. The method includes receiving, by a linking server and from a partner server, a second data structure comprising entries. Each entry comprising a bridge tag, a first hashed bridge information, and a second hashed bridge information. The method includes retrieving, by the linking server and from the first data structure, a first entry of the entries and retrieving, by the linking server and from the second data structure, a first entry of the entries. The method includes linking the user tag of the first entry of the first data structure to the bridge tag of the first entry of the second data structure to generate a first linkage.
US10558810B2	Device monitoring policy A method and device for generating a monitoring policy for a device and selectively monitoring multiple tasks executed by the device is disclosed. The monitoring policy may relate to security monitoring or resource availability. A monitoring importance score for each of multiple tasks executing on the device may be generated and a monitoring resource availability within the device may be determined. The monitoring policy for the device may be generated based at least in part on the monitoring importance scores for the multiple tasks and the monitoring resource availability within the device. Fewer than all of the multiple tasks may be selectively monitored based on the monitoring policy for security threats to the device or resource availability for the device.
US10558807B2	Method and device for providing access page A method and an apparatus of providing an access page are disclosed. The apparatus firstly obtains an access page that is sent by a network device and is to be provided to a user device, determines an XSS processing module corresponding to the access page, and forwards the XSS processing module and the access page to the user device, wherein the XSS processing module is executed to process XSS information on the access page when the access page is loaded by the user device. The disclosed apparatus can configure a processing module for detecting XSS information that is tailored to each access page, thus avoiding false negatives in detection of an access page in the existing technologies, and ensuring to prompt and stop anomalies on the access page in time when the access page is insecure.
US10558803B2	System and method of protecting client computers A threat response platform to act as a bridge between non-inline security programs and inline security programs. The threat response platform receives event reports, relating to client devices, from the non-inline security programs and creates incident reports for a user. The incident reports describe the event report and also additional data gathered by an active correlation system of the threat response platform. The active correlation system automatically gathers various types of data that are potentially useful to a user in determining whether the reported event is an incidence of malware operating on the client device or a false positive. The active correlation system places a temporary agent on the client device to identify indications of compromise.
US10558800B2	Labeling objects on an endpoint for encryption management Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth. In this manner, threat detection based on complex interactions of computing objects can be characterized in a platform independent manner and pre-processed on endpoints without requiring significant communications overhead with a remote threat management facility.
US10558787B2	Threat-monitoring systems and related methods Disclosed herein are methods, devices, systems and computer-executable instructions for managing software in threat-monitoring systems. One such method comprises receiving a plurality of licence identifiers identifying respective licences available for assignment to a threat monitoring system. The method further comprises receiving a selection of at least one of the licence identifiers. The method also comprises uploading, to the threat monitoring system, an activation tool for activating at least one operational function of the threat monitoring system, the at least one operational function corresponding to the selected at least one licence identifier.
US10558780B1	Methods, systems, and computer program product for implementing schematic driven extracted views for an electronic design Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing schematic driven extracted views for an electronic design. These techniques identify a schematic circuit component design represented by a schematic symbol from a schematic design and identifying layout device information from a layout of the electronic design. An extracted view is generated anew or updated from an existing extracted view at least by placing and interconnecting a symbol in the schematic design based at least in part upon the layout device information. The electronic design may be further updated based in part or in whole upon results of performing one or more analyses on the extracted view.
US10558774B1	Electronic library and design generation using image and text processing The present embodiments are generally directed to electronic circuit design and verification and more particularly to techniques for generating electronic design element symbols for electronic circuit design tool libraries and designs in any desired format. In embodiments, such electronic design element symbols can be generated from a datasheet or any other image using image processing, graphical shape and text recognition techniques. Embodiments use step by step processing to extract feature vectors from a symbol/design image, apply text and graphical shapes recognition using models, apply techniques for data association and write the final output for targeted systems. These and other embodiments can feed back the output data for further refinement of the recognition models.
US10558772B1	Partitioning a system graph for circuit simulation to obtain an exact solution A circuit is simulated by using system or network tearing to obtain a real solution. The circuit may be an entire integrated circuit, portion of an integrated circuit, or a circuit block. A circuit simulation technique of the invention generates a system graph, finds a tree, and partitions the tree into two or more subtrees. The technique identifies global links and local links in the graph. Each subtree may be solved individually using distributed, parallel computing. Using the results for the subtrees, the technique obtains a real solution, branch voltages and currents, for the circuit.
US10558765B2	Lumped data modeling of tool joint effects in underbalanced drilling In one embodiment, the invention provides a computer implemented method for determining underbalanced drilling conditions. The method may include determining the number of tool joints in a segment of drill string, where each tool joint has a length and an inner diameter and an outer diameter, determining the total length of all tool joints in a segment of drill string, determining the total length of the segment of drill string excluding the tool length of all tool joints in the segment of drill string, wherein the drill string has an inner diameter and an outer diameter, determining the inner diameter of a segment of wellbore encompassing a segment of drill string, and determining a pressure drop in the segment of wellbore, based on the total length of all tool joints in the segment of drill string.
US10558762B2	System and method for adaptive quality estimation for machine translation post-editing A translation text output corresponding to a machine translation from a source text of a first language to a target text of a second language is received. The translation text output includes at least one sentence including at least one translation chunk. A first translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one sentence of the text and a second translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one translation chunk are received. A first translation confidence indicator for the at least one sentence and a second translation confidence indicator for the at least one translation chunk are displayed. The first translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different first translation confidence indicators based upon the first translation quality confidence estimate. The second translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different second translation confidence indicators based upon the second translation quality confidence estimate.
US10558760B2	Unsupervised template extraction An approach is provided that improves a question answering (QA) computer system by automatically generating relationship templates. Event patterns are extracted from data in a corpus utilized by the QA computer system. The extracted event patterns are analyzed with the analysis resulting in a number of clusters of related event patterns. Relationship templates are then created from the plurality of clusters of related event patterns and these relationship templates are then utilized to visually interact with the corpus.
US10558746B2	Automated cognitive processing of source agnostic data With the scale of information available today along with the existing diverse channels of communication, manual processing of information is becoming a challenge and companies across industries are under tremendous pressure to lower transactional costs. Artificial Intelligence based automation of business transactions has seen regulatory hurdles due to probabilistic nature of the outcome. The main challenge lies in processing of transactions with unstructured information. Systems and methods of the present disclosure uses deterministic as well as probabilistic approaches to maximize accuracy. The larger use of deterministic approach with configurable components and ontologies helps to improvise accuracy, precision and reduce recall. The probabilistic approach is used when there is absence of quality information or less information for learning. Also, confidence indicators are provided at attribute level of data being processed and at each decision level.
US10558740B1	Serving different versions of a user interface in response to user emotional state The present disclosure relates to dynamically generating user interfaces based on a user's emotional state. An example method generally includes a computer system receiving emotional response data from a client device. The computer system identifies a version of a user experience to present on the client device based on the received emotional response data and generates code for rendering a user interface associated with the identified version of the user experience. The generated code is transmitted to the client device for rendering and presentation on the client device.
US10558739B2	Prefix table generation for prefix burrows-wheeler transformation with fast operations on compressed data The Prefix Burrows-Wheeler Transform (“PWBT”) is described to provide data operations on data sets even if the data set has been compressed. Techniques to set up a PWBT, including an offset table and a prefix table, and techniques to apply data operations on data sets transformed by PWBT are also described. Data operations include k-Mer substring search. General applications of techniques using PWBT, such as plagiarism searches and open source clearance, are described. Bioinformatics applications of the PWBT, such as genomic analysis and genomic tagging, are also described.
US10558738B1	Compression of machine learned models Devices and techniques are generally described for compression of natural language processing models. A first index value to a first address of a weight table may be stored in a hash table. The first address may store a first weight associated with a first feature of a natural language processing model. A second index value to a second address of the weight table may be stored in the hash table. The second address may store a second weight associated with a second feature of the natural language processing model. A first code associated with the first feature and comprising a first number of bits may be generated. A second code may be generated associated with the second feature and comprising a second number of bits greater than the first number of bits based on a magnitude of the second weight being greater than a magnitude of the first weight.
US10558737B2	Generating a semantic diff Generation of a semantic diff is described. A machine according to some example embodiments generates first and second parse trees by parsing the first and second documents using a grammar of a coding language common to both documents. The machine classifies subtrees within these parse trees and determines that a first subtree from the first document shares a classification with a second subtree from the second document. Based on their sharing of the classification, the machine selects these two subtrees for comparison to each other and also chooses a comparison procedure based on the shared classification. The machine then executes the selected comparison procedure with the selected two subtrees as input and generates a differential subtree that indicates one or more differences between the two subtrees. The machine may also generate a differential tree that indicates differences between the entireties of the first and second documents.
US10558735B2	System and method for using an application on a mobile device to transfer internet media content A system and a method use an application on a mobile device to transfer internet media content to a rendering device in a home network. The application may use an HTML rendering engine to display a web page to a user of the mobile device, and the web page may have controls for accessing the internet media content. The application may receive a user interaction signal which may indicate that a user invoked one of the controls for accessing the internet media content. In response, the application may initiate transfer of the internet media content to the rendering device in the home network and/or may queue the internet media content for later playback using the rendering device.
US10558734B2	Collaborative workflow through messaging conversations A networked application and email application were described herein that provide for an intuitive system by which users can participate in collaborative workflow relating to a network document. In one implementation, a system includes a messaging server component to provide messaging services and an application server component to provide a networked application. The application server component interacts with the messaging server component in response to a user command to initiate collaboration on the network document. The interaction with the messaging server component includes providing a link that refers to a version of the network document as created or edited by the user.
US10558728B2	Shared content delivery streams in data networks The systems and methods described herein use a tag for collecting data associated with a content object of a content page. The tag may be a universal tag which can provide a single point of data collection and thereby reduce the number of network requests due to piggyback tags. The data collected from the content page may be communicated to a stream management system which can process the data and split the data into multiple data streams to be fed to a downstream system. The downstream system can further process the data and communicate to another downstream system. In some embodiments, the stream management system can access the repositories of its downstream system and veto the data flows created by the downstream system.
US10558727B2	System and method for operating a browsing application A method of generating additional information to be provided in a browser application of a client device comprising: receiving a request for displaying a first resource in the browser application, the request causing the client device to display the first resource in the browsing application, receiving an indication of a user interaction with the browsing application, responsive to the indication and prior to the user navigating away from the first resource: parsing the request to obtain at least one keyword, searching and retrieving, based on the at least one keyword, at least one entry of structured information based on the at least one keyword and being potentially relevant to the first resource, generating snippet information based on the at least one retrieved entry of structured information, transmitting and causing the client device the a to display a start page including the snippet information.
US10558726B2	Method and apparatus for executing application A disclosed information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: instruct a browser engine to load an application based on a virtual URL corresponding to a path of a storage location of the application, the application being stored in a storage unit and to be executed by the browser engine; and provide, to the browser engine, the application identified by the path corresponding to the virtual URL, when receiving, from the browser engine, a request to obtain data using the virtual URL as a proxy.
US10558696B2	Semantic category classification In accordance with an example embodiment, large scale category classification based on sequence semantic embedding and parallel learning is described. In one example, one or more closest matches are identified by comparison between (i) a publication semantic vector that corresponds to at least part of the publication, the publication semantic vector based on a first machine-learned model that projects the at least part of the publication into a semantic vector space, and (ii) a plurality of category vectors corresponding to respective categories from a plurality of categories.
US10558695B2	Weather-based natural language text processing Relationship extraction between descriptors in one or more lists of weather condition descriptors, and adverse event descriptors within unstructured data sources using natural language processing. Medical condition descriptor may be a descriptor that may be used to further extract relationships between weather condition descriptors and adverse event descriptors. A data object is generated, according to a data model, based on the extracted relationships between the descriptors. A set of candidate unstructured documents containing the extracted relationship between the descriptors is retrieved and filtered by selecting unstructured documents that include a precautionary measure descriptor. The filtered precautionary measure descriptors are presented to a user in a summarized message to a user device.
US10558694B2	Search method and apparatus A search method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the search method includes: finding a set of first time-effective search queries from a search log; selecting search queries meeting one of the following selection requirements as candidate time-effective search queries: included in the search log and semantically associated with the first time-effective search queries in the set of first time-effective search queries; included in the search log and containing a combination of preset keywords; processing the candidate time-effective search queries to obtain second time-effective search queries; performing search with a second time-effective search query, when a search query entered by the user matches the second time-effective search query. The present disclosure achieves obtaining the second time-effective search queries from the search queries of the search log based on the identified first time-effective search queries, thus raising the identification recall rate and further improving the identification effect of the time-effective search queries, on the condition that the identification accuracy is ensured in the identification process of the time-effective search queries.
US10558691B2	Sentiment normalization based on current authors personality insight data points An approach is provided that analyzes electronic document sets, each of the sets written by a different author. The analysis includes performing a normalized sentiment analysis of the documents which results in normalized sentiment scores that pertain to each of the authors. The normalize sentiment scores are stored in a data store that is accessible from a question answering (QA) system. The question answering system then receives a sentiment-based question. Responsively, the QA system generates a qualitative set of candidate answers, with the candidate answers based at least in part on the normalized sentiment scores retrieved from the data store.
US10558682B2	Cross media recommendation Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for cross-media recommendation by store a plurality of taste profiles corresponding to a first domain and a plurality of media item vectors corresponding to a second domain. An evaluation taste profile in the first domain is applied to a plurality of models that have been generated based on relationship among the plurality of taste profiles and the plurality of media item vectors, and obtain a plurality of resulting codes corresponding to at least one of the plurality of media item vectors in the second domain.
US10558680B2	Efficient data retrieval in big-data processing systems A mechanism is provided for implementing operation optimization. Responsive to a request to load data via a input/output (I/O) load operation, prior to loading the data, transformed data in a local memory is searched for a match to the requested data. Responsive to identifying transformed that matches the requested data, the transformed data in the local memory is used to fulfill the request. Responsive to failing to identify transformed data in the local memory that matches the requested data, untransformed data in the local memory is searched for a match to the requested data. Responsive to identifying untransformed data that matches the requested data, the untransformed data in the local memory is used to fulfill the request. Responsive to failing to identify untransformed data in the local memory that matches the requested data, the requested data may be loaded from the storage system via the I/O load operation.
US10558672B1	System and method for executing queries on multi-graphics processing unit systems A system and method allocates partitions to be used to perform a query to multiple GPUs and each partition is also allocated to a CPU to which the GPU is attached. The GPUs use any assigned data in GPU memory, and otherwise request it from a CPU, which provides it from CPU memory if possible, and otherwise copies it from long term storage, to CPU memory and makes it available to GPU memory. The GPUs process the query against the partitions assigned, optionally by performing portions of the query at a time, for example performing an innermost nested query and then performing the next outermost nested query. The results from any given portion of a query may be accumulated across all GPUs and some or all of the results distributed to each of the GPUs. The remaining work may be balanced by redistributing only some of the accumulated results.
US10558667B2	System and method of healthcare data management A method of managing healthcare data is disclosed. Healthcare data of the first healthcare database operated by a first healthcare data management system (HDMS) is collected. The collected healthcare data is stored in a second healthcare database operated by the second HDMS. The healthcare data between the first healthcare database and the second healthcare database are synchronized by detecting a change in the healthcare data of the first healthcare database, creating a delta file representing the change in the healthcare data of the first healthcare database, transmitting the delta file to the second HDMS and updating the healthcare data of the second healthcare database based on the delta file.
US10558664B2	Structured cluster execution for data streams A system for executing a streaming query includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a logical query plan. The processor is configured to determine a physical query plan based at least in part on the logical query plan. The physical query plan comprises an ordered set of operators. Each operator of the ordered set of operators comprises an operator input mode and an operator output mode. The processor is further configured to execute the physical query plan using the operator input mode and the operator output mode for each operator of the query.
US10558662B2	Transforming a user-defined table function to a derived table in a database management system Disclosed aspects relate to transforming a user-defined table function (UDTF) to a derived table in a database management system (DBMS). It may be detected by the DBMS that a query indicates the UDTF. A derived table may be constructed from the UDTF. The derived table may be derived from a set of statements of the UDTF. The derived table may be introduced to the query to fulfill the UDTF. A query plan may be generated for the query by the DBMS. The query plan may be generated in response to introducing the derived table in the query.
US10558642B2	Mechanism for deprecating object oriented data Techniques are described to allow the deprecation of classes in an object-oriented data model, such as a CDM for a CMDB. When a class is deprecated and replaced by another existing or new class, data associated with instances of the deprecated class may be migrated to the replacement class. A mapping between the deprecated class and its replacement class may be provided to allow existing applications to continue to access data using the deprecated class without change until the deprecated class is finally deleted or the application is updated to use the replacement class. New applications written to use the object-oriented data model after the deprecation may use the replacement class to access data instances created using the original data model.
US10558637B2	Modularized data distribution plan generation A system includes instantiation of a plan generation environment exposing one or more software hooks, each of the one or more software hooks associated with a respective one of a plurality of steps for generating a database table partition redistribution plan, identification, for of the one or more software hooks, of an associated one or more software modules for performing the step associated with the at least one software hook, and execution of the plan generation environment and the identified one or more software modules to generate a database table partition redistribution plan.
US10558636B2	Index page with latch-free access Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing read queries latch-free access to an index page. In an embodiment, a processor receives a request from a read query to access one or more records of an index page. The index page includes an update pointer and a slot array. The processor locates one or more updates prepended to the index page by locating a most recently prepended update indicated by the update pointer. Then, the processor generates a local offset table with entries in the slot array and the located one or more updates. The generated local offset table enables the processor to provide the read query access to the one or more records of the index page.
US10558624B2	System and method for datastore management framework Systems and methods for a datastore management framework are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises storing each one of a plurality of datastore configuration files in association with a corresponding one of a plurality of datastore types, receiving a request to create a datastore of a datastore type of the plurality of datastore types, selecting, from the plurality of datastore configuration files, a datastore configuration file associated with the datastore type, parsing the selected datastore configuration file, rendering a user interface for display based on the parsing of the selected datastore configuration file, receiving a user input via the rendered user interface, and creating the datastore based on the received user input, with the datastore being of the datastore type indicated by the request.
US10558622B2	Network accessible file server A cloud-based write-once object store is configured to store inode-based data exported to the store from an enterprise file system. For each version of data (e.g., a file) exported to the store, there is a version of the inode corresponding to that data. As versions of the data are exported to the cloud, the system creates multiple versions of the inode. The set of inode versions corresponding to the versions of the file have a pointer associated therewith that specifies the latest version of the data associated with the inode. The inode versions in the set share the same pointer. The inode versions represent a revision history for the inode. For each inode version corresponding to a version of the data, information is received and stored in a new portion of the object store. The inode version for a file version comprises a list of data chunks for the file.
US10558614B2	Network ingestion of multimodal multisource machine data to traffic regulated network storage volume A server group of a data intake and query system (DIQS) establishes connections with multiple source data network nodes. Data from the multiple sources comports with a variety of different data modes and may be received via the established network connections on a periodic or continuous basis for ongoing capture as modal entries of modal buckets of a common networked storage volume. Rates of data reception across the network connections influences a process to maintain a measured utilization of storage volume capacity at, near, or below a targeted level.
US10558613B1	Storage system with decrement protection of reference counts A storage system in one embodiment comprises a plurality of storage devices storing data pages. Each data page has a content-based signature derived from that data page. The content-based signatures are associated with physical locations storing the data pages. In response to receipt of a write input/output (IO) request that includes a data segment that is smaller than a page granularity of the storage devices, a content-based signature associated with the data segment is determined which also corresponds to a target data page stored at one of the physical locations. In response to determining the content-based signature, an inflight write count corresponding to the content-based signature is incremented. In response to a decrement request to decrement a reference count of the physical location corresponding to the content-based signature, a decrement flag corresponding to the content-based signature is set in the data structure and the decrement request is postponed.
US10558609B2	Apparatus for inter-integrated circuit (I2C) clock transmission channel wherein each filtering modules cooperates with the resistive circuit In an embodiment, an electronic device for filtering an incoming digital signal includes several elementary filtering modules that include an elementary input configured to receive an incident elementary signal extracted from an incoming signal, an elementary output, and a dedicated capacitive circuit. The device further includes a resistive circuit common to all the elementary filtering modules and configured for cooperating with the capacitive circuit of each elementary filtering module in such a manner as to filter, on the respective elementary output, pulses of the incident elementary signal having a first voltage level and a duration less than a time constant and to deliver a filtered elementary signal on the elementary output.
US10558598B2	Logic circuit that provides verification of signals used to interrupt server operation Based on a command to interrupt operation of a selected one or more of a plurality of data storage drives coupled to two or more storage controllers, two or more signals are sent from the two or more storage controllers via two or more data busses associated with and coupled to the respective two or more controllers. The selected data storage drive receives the two or more signals via the two or more data busses. Based on determining that the two or more signals agree, the operation of the selected drive is interrupted.
US10558589B1	Secure data access between computing devices using host-specific key Techniques are disclosed concerning secure access to data in a computing device. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a communication interface, a memory, a memory controller, and a security processor. The communication interface may communicate with a different computing device. The security processor may generate a host key in response to a successful authentication of the different computing device, and then encrypt a memory key using the host key. The security processor may also send the encrypted memory key to the memory controller, and send the host key to the different computing device. The host key may be included by the different computing device in a subsequent memory request to access data in the memory. The memory controller may, in response to the subsequent memory request, use the included host key to decrypt the encrypted memory key and use the decrypted memory key to access the data.
US10558588B2	Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to support live migration of protected containers A processor includes a decode unit to decode an instruction that is to indicate a page of a protected container memory, and a storage location outside of the protected container memory. An execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to ensure that there are no writable references to the page of the protected container memory while it has a write protected state. The execution unit is to encrypt a copy of the page of the protected container memory. The execution unit is to store the encrypted copy of the page to the storage location outside of the protected container memory, after it has been ensured that there are no writable references. The execution unit is to leave the page of the protected container memory in the write protected state, which is also valid and readable, after the encrypted copy has been stored to the storage location.
US10558585B2	Dynamic memory scrambling A memory, a data processing system comprising a memory, a method of operating a memory and a memory compiler apparatus and method of memory compilation are provided, which relate to a memory comprising data storage circuitry to store data values at data locations. Addressing circuitry is provided to access the data value at a storage location in dependence on a received address and readout circuitry to provide an output value in dependence on the accessed data value. The memory further comprises scrambling circuitry to select at least one of: a mapping between the address and the storage location; and a mapping between the data value and the output value, in dependence on a received scrambling value. The mapping between the address and the storage location and/or the data value and the output value can thus be easily and rapidly changed.
US10558579B1	System and method for adaptive cache The system can include a cache and cluster manager. The cache can store a plurality clusters, each of a plurality of clusters including a plurality of cache entries, each of the plurality of cache entries including a plurality of first metadata feature values. The cluster manager can assign a first cache entry corresponding to a data record located in memory to a first cluster based on determining a lowest distance. The lowest distance is determined by operations. The operations can include calculating a plurality of intra cluster feature means. The operations can include receiving a plurality of second metadata feature values of the first cache entry. The operations can include calculating a plurality of distances based on the plurality of intra cluster feature means and the plurality of second metadata feature values. The operations can include determining the first entry having a lowest distance of the plurality of distances.
US10558577B2	Managing memory access requests with prefetch for streams Managing memory access requests to a cache system including one or more cache levels that are configured to store cache lines that correspond to memory blocks in a main memory includes: storing stream information identifying recognized streams that were recognized based on previously received memory access requests, where one or more of the recognized streams comprise strided streams that each have an associated strided prefetch result corresponding to a stride that is larger than or equal to a size of a single cache line; and determining whether or not a next cache line prefetch request corresponding to a particular memory access request will be made based at least in part on whether or not the particular memory access request matches a strided prefetch result for at least one strided stream, and a history of past next cache line prefetch requests.
US10558569B2	Cache controller for non-volatile memory Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to control a cache. An example method includes monitoring cache lines in a cache, the cache lines storing recently written data to the cache, the recently written data corresponding to main memory, comparing a total quantity of the cache lines to a threshold that is less than a cache line storage capacity of the cache, and causing a write back of at least one of the cache lines to the main memory when a store event causes the total quantity of the cache lines to satisfy the threshold.
US10558549B2	Method and system for pre-deployment performance estimation of input-output intensive workloads A method and system is provided for pre-deployment performance estimation of input-output intensive workloads. Particularly, the present application provides a method and system for predicting the performance of input-output intensive distributed enterprise application on multiple storage devices without deploying the application and the complete database in the target environment. The present method comprises of generating the input-output traces of an application on a source system with varying concurrencies; replaying the generated traces from the source system on a target system where application needs to be migrated; gathering performance data in the form of resource utilization, through-put and response time from the target system; extrapolating the data gathered from the target system in order to accurately predict the performance of multi-threaded input-output intensive applications in the target system for higher concurrencies.
US10558546B2	User interfaces for controlling or presenting device usage on an electronic device In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of usage metrics for the device. In some embodiments, an electronic device sets, configures and/or enforces device usage limits. In some embodiments, an electronic device limits access to certain applications during certain periods of time. In some embodiments, an electronic device suppresses auxiliary functions of certain applications when an application usage limit or restriction criteria associated with those applications is reached. In some embodiments, an electronic device manages restriction settings with permission optionally provided by another electronic device.
US10558538B2	Erasure coding repair availability Distributed storage systems frequently use a centralized metadata repository that stores metadata in an eventually consistent distributed database. However, a metadata repository cannot be relied upon for determining which erasure coded fragments are lost because of a storage node(s) failures. Instead, when recovering a failed storage node, a list of missing fragments is generated based on fragments stored in storage devices of available storage nodes. A storage node performing the recovery sends a request to one or more of the available storage nodes for a fragment list. The fragment list is generated, not based on a metadata database, but on scanning storage devices for fragments related to the failed storage node. The storage node performing the recovery merges retrieved lists to create a master list indicating fragments that should be regenerated for recovery of the failed storage node(s).
US10558526B2	Apportioning storage units amongst storage sites in a dispersed storage network A method of apportioning storage units in a dispersed storage network (DSN) includes generating storage unit apportioning data indicating a mapping of a plurality of desired numbers of storage units to a plurality of storage sites based on site reliability data. The mapping includes a first desired number of storage units corresponding to a first one of the plurality of storage sites that is greater than a second desired number of storage units corresponding to a second one of the plurality of storage sites in response to the site reliability data indicating that a first reliability score corresponding to the first one of the plurality of storage sites is more favorable than a second reliability score corresponding to the second one of the plurality of storage sites. A plurality of storage units are allocated to the plurality of storage sites based on the storage unit apportioning data.
US10558523B2	Computing system with data protection enhancement mechanism and method of operation thereof A computing system includes: storage devices configured to read data sectors; and a data correction engine, coupled to the storage devices, configured to: detect an error data sector among the data sectors, generate soft information from the error data sector, apply a soft bit flipping logic to the error data sector to produce a transformed data sector, and generate a corrected data sector from the transformed data sector.
US10558516B2	Anomaly detection for signals populated based on historical data points A continuous anomaly detection service receives data stream and performs continuous anomaly detection on the incoming data streams. This continuous anomaly detection is performed based on anomaly detection definitions, which define a signal used for anomaly detection and an anomaly detection configuration. These anomaly detection definitions can be modified, such that continuous anomaly detection continues to be performed for the data stream and the signal, based on the new anomaly detection definition.
US10558510B2	Testing a data coherency algorithm Testing a data coherency algorithm of a multi-processor environment. The testing includes implementing a global time incremented every processor cycle and used for timestamping; implementing a transactional execution flag representing a processor core guaranteeing the atomicity and coherency of the currently executed instructions; implementing a transactional footprint, which keeps the address of each cache line that was used by the processor core; implementing a reference model, which operates on every cache line and keeps a set of timestamps for every cache line; implementing a core observed timestamp representing a global timestamp, which is the oldest construction date of data used before; implementing interface events; and reporting an error whenever a transaction end event is detected and any cache line is found in the transactional footprint with an expiration date that is older than or equal to the core observed time.
US10558508B1	System agnostic front end application for legacy systems A system and method for accessing data in one of a first legacy computer system that has a first operating system and a second legacy computer system that has a second operating system that is different from the first operating system. The method includes providing a front end application that is in communication with the first and second legacy computer systems, with the application being displayed on a user interface of a computer. Aircraft and maintenance data of a first legacy airline is associated with the first legacy computer system and aircraft and maintenance data of a second legacy airline is associated with the second legacy computer system.
US10558497B2	Prevention and resolution of a critical shortage of a shared resource in a multi-image operating system environment A technique relates to resource allocation of a countable managed resource. A computer sets a reserved amount of the managed resource to be available for a privileged status, such that there is an unreserved amount of the managed resource to be available for a non-privileged status. In response to a non-privileged job needing more of the unreserved amount of the managed resource than what is available, it is determined whether the non-privileged job is promotable to the privileged status. In response to the non-privileged job not being promotable to the privileged status, the non-privileged job is prevented from accessing the reserved amount of the managed resource. In response to the non-privileged job being promotable to the privileged status, the non-privileged job is permitted to utilize the reserved amount of the managed resource.
US10558485B2	Information processing apparatus and method for shifting buffer A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer including a first-processor in which a first-thread is executed at a first-node having a first-buffer and a communication device and a second-processor in which a second-thread is executed at a second-node having a second-buffer, the first-thread includes setting an output-destination of the communication device to the second-buffer with respect to a flow addressed to a virtual machine executed in the second-processor, notifying the second-processor of a switch notification information of the setting the output-destination of the communication device to the second-buffer, and transferring a packet stored in the first-buffer to the second-processor, and the second-thread includes receiving the switching notification, suspending temporarily a reception-process of the second-buffer for the flow, transferring the packet transferred by the first-processor to the virtual machine, and resuming the reception-process of the second-buffer after the packet is transferred to the virtual machine.
US10558482B1	Client network instances for resources in provider network environments Methods and apparatus that allow clients to replace standard packet processing provided by network processing devices on host devices with client network instances that provide custom packet processing for packets going to and/or coming from the clients' resource instances in a provider network environment. Thus, packet processing functionality needed by a client that may not be supported or provided by the service provider's standard packet processing may be added to the clients' private network implementations. In addition, standard private network functionality provided by the service provider may be removed, modified, or replaced using the client network instances. Development tools, services, and interfaces may be provided for developing, integrating, and managing the client network instances.
US10558476B1	Automatically selecting a virtual machine storage location A computer-implemented method for automatically selecting a virtual machine storage location. The method includes receiving a selection of a level of service of a storage system for provisioning of a virtual machine; and responsive to receiving the selection of the level of service, automatically selecting a storage location for the virtual machine. The storage location is one of a plurality of storage locations compliant with the selected level of service.
US10558471B2	Proof of configuration When a system configuration is deployed, the recipe used, the results of the deployment, and/or the results of any qualification tests performed may be anchored to a distributed ledger. Periodically, the system configuration may be audited by verifying the recipe against the anchored version. The results of such audits may also be anchored to the distributed ledger. Thus, what is anchored to the distributed ledger represents a cryptographically verifiable history of the configuration of the system. Consequently, the system configuration at any time can be proven by comparing historical configuration information maintained by the owner of the system to the distributed ledger.
US10558469B2	Using public key infrastructure for automatic device configuration A device may receive a digital voucher, a customer certificate, and configuration information for automatically configuring the device. The digital voucher may include a first customer identifier that identifies a customer associated with the device and a device identifier that identifies the device. The customer certificate may include a second customer identifier that identifies the customer and a customer public key associated with the customer. The configuration information may include information that identifies a configuration for automatically configuring the device. The device may validate at least one of the digital voucher, the customer certificate, or the configuration information. The device may configure the device, using the configuration, based on validating at least one of the digital voucher, the customer certificate, or the configuration information.
US10558467B2	Dynamically generating a service pipeline comprising filtered application programming interfaces According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system filters a collection of application programming interfaces based on input data representing information of a document to be processed, and generates a pipeline of filtered application programming interfaces. Each filtered application programming interface is sequentially executed within the pipeline. The document may be processed through the pipeline and visualizations based on the processing of the document may be generated, allowing the pipeline to be refined to produce desired output data selected within the visualizations. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for generating a pipeline of filtered application programming interfaces in substantially the same manner described above.
US10558463B2	Communication between threads of multi-thread processor Embodiments of the present disclosure support hardware based thread switching in a multithreading environment. The thread switching is implemented on a multithread microprocessor by utilizing thread mailbox registers and other auxiliary registers that can be pre-programmed for hardware based thread switching. A set of mailbox registers can be allocated to each thread of a plurality of threads that can be executed in the microprocessor. A mailbox register in the set of mailbox registers comprises an identifier of a next thread of the plurality of threads to which an active thread switches based on a thread switch condition further indicated in the mailbox register. The auxiliary registers in the microprocessor can be used to configure a number of threads for simultaneous execution in the microprocessor, a priority for thread switching, and to store a program counter of each thread and states of registers of each thread.
US10558461B2	Determining and predicting derived values used in register-indirect branching A predicted value to be used in register-indirect branching is predicted. The predicted value is to be stored in one or more locations based on the prediction. An offset for a predicted derived value is obtained. The predicted derived value is to be used as a pointer to a reference data structure providing access to variables used in processing. The predicted derived value is generated using the predicted value and the offset. The predicted derived value is used to access the reference data structure during processing.
US10558460B2	General purpose register allocation in streaming processor Systems and techniques are disclosed for general purpose register dynamic allocation based on latency associated with of instructions in processor threads. A streaming processor can include a general purpose registers configured to stored data associated with threads, and a thread scheduler configured to receive allocation information for the general purpose registers, the information describing general purpose registers that are to be assigned as persistent general purpose registers (pGPRs) and volatile general purpose registers (vGPRs). The plurality of general purpose registers can be allocated according to the received information. The streaming processor can include the general purpose registers allocated according to the received information, the allocated based on execution latencies of instructions included in the threads.
US10558459B2	Approach to summarize code usage Techniques for autonomously generating a code usage summary associated with a web application programming interface request are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise evaluating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, data from a data repository, wherein the evaluating is based on a defined machine learning process. Also, the computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by the system, a usage summary of the data, wherein the usage summary is based on a statistic derived from a web application programming interface request, and the web application programming interface request is associated with the data.
US10558457B1	Platform discovery and deployment automation system A platform discovery and deployment automation system is provided. The system discovers and/or monitors the current versions of all applications and services running in an environment. The system also deploys updates or new versions of the applications and services. The monitoring and the deployment are both done through a single interface. Methods and machine readable media are also provided.
US10558454B2	Constraint-based upgrade and deployment One or more software products/services may be installed on a cloud deployment. Product versions of such services can be upgraded (or rolled back) based on a deployment plan comprising tasks adapted to reach a target deployment state. A central upgrade server can forward tasks to an upgrade agent for execution, the tasks being based on a current operational state of the cloud deployment (obtained by the upgrade agent) and one or more constraints. In multiple node deployments, some nodes may be upgraded to a new product version, while other nodes are kept at a current product version until stability of the new product version is determined. Traffic across nodes can be shaped to ensure a deployment is healthy before upgrading other nodes/deployments. If the health of a node/deployment does not meet specified criteria, an upgrade can be stopped, an alert can be triggered, and the node/deployment can be rolled back.
US10558444B2	Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for improving productivity for building applications An apparatus is provided for building an application. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to generate a build of an application in a C Object-Oriented Programming Language. The processor is also configured to generate a unity file including a plurality of source files having references to one or more header files. At least two of the source files include references to a same header file. The processor is also configured to compile the unity file including the plurality of source files to obtain an object file. The processor is also configured to link the object file to generate an executable of the application. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.
US10558442B2	Integrating and sharing software build component targets Techniques are described for sharing software targets in componentized automated software product build processes. In some examples, a method includes identifying among software component builds having dependencies on software targets, two or more software targets having a number of common dependencies that exceeds a threshold. The method further includes integrating the two or more software targets into at least one integrated software target. The method further includes assigning at least one subset of software component builds having dependencies on the two or more software targets, as having dependencies on the at least one integrated software target. The method further includes executing a software build process using the at least one integrated software target and the assigned dependencies of the at least one subset of the software component builds on the at least one integrated software target.
US10558440B2	Tightly integrated accelerator functions In an example, there is disclosed a computing system, including: a processor; a memory; a configuration interface to a logic configuration unit; and a system compiler including: a first block compiler to compile logic for a first logical block in a first language, the first language being a domain-specific language (DSL) and the first logical block being switching logic for a network switch; a second block compiler to compile logic for a second logical block in a second language, the second language being a non-DSL and providing an external accelerator method not supported by the first language; and an interface compiler to define input/output channels for encapsulated data interchange between the first logical block and the second logical block, wherein the encapsulated data interchange is to target a resident instance of the external accelerator method.
US10558431B2	Memristor-based multipliers using memristors-as-drivers (MAD) gates Memristor-based multipliers using memristors-as-drivers (MAD) gates. As a result of employing MAD gates in memristor-based multipliers, such as shift-and-add multipliers, Booth multipliers and array multipliers, the number of delay steps may be less than half than the number of delay steps required in traditional CMOS implementations of multipliers. Furthermore, by using MAD gates, memristor-based multipliers can be implemented with less complexity (e.g., fewer memristors and drivers). As a result, by the memristor-based multipliers using MAD gates, the speed and complexity of a wide variety of arithmetic operations is improved.
US10558430B2	Neural network engine A neural network engine comprises a plurality of floating point multipliers, each having an input connected to an input map value and an input connected to a corresponding kernel value. Pairs of multipliers provide outputs to a tree of nodes, each node of the tree being configured to provide a floating point output corresponding to either: a larger of the inputs of the node; or a sum of the inputs, one output node of the tree providing a first input of an output module, and one of the multipliers providing an output to a second input of the output module. The engine is configured to process either a convolution layer of a neural network, an average pooling layer or a max pooling layer according to the kernel values and whether the nodes and output module are configured to output a larger or a sum of their inputs.
US10558427B2	Electronic device for reproducing audio signal via external device and operating method thereof An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit configured to support communications by a first communication scheme and a second communication scheme; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to establish a first communication channel corresponding to the first communication scheme with a first external electronic device using the communication circuit; receive, from the first external electronic device, configuration information related to the first communication channel; transmit, to the first external electronic device, audio data through the first communication channel such that the first external electronic device outputs the audio data using the first communication channel; and transmit, to the second external electronic device, the configuration information related to the first communication channel through the second communication channel corresponding to the second communication scheme such that the second external electronic device is capable of acquiring the audio data using the configuration information.
US10558424B1	Speaker device with equalization control A speaker device with equalization (EQ) control is provided, wherein the speaker device may be a pair of earbuds/earphones or a headset having a pair of headphones, comprising: an audio receiving port for receiving audio signals from an audio source, a circuitry comprising at least a processor and a memory, the processor being configured to execute one or more firmware or software programs to perform tasks for processing the audio signals, including equalization of the audio signals according to one of multiple EQ settings stored in the memory, a user input terminal for detecting a user input to select one of the EQ settings; and a pair of speaker drivers for emitting sound corresponding to the processed audio signals.
US10558422B2	Using a plurality of buffers to provide audio for synchronized playback to multiple audio devices having separate device clocks According to one embodiment, a media system communicates with an aggregate device that includes multiple media output devices. When providing media data for presentation, the system adjusts for device clock drift by resampling the media data provided to a media output device based at least in part on a device clock rate difference between a device clock of one of the media output devices and a device clock of another of the media output devices.
US10558409B2	Image forming system, information processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for information processing device A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for an information processing device including a memory and a processor is provided. The memory stores connection destination setting data initially indicating a first connection destination corresponding to a first first-type image forming device as a set connection destination of a first device driver which supports first-type image forming devices. The computer-readable instructions cause, when executed by the processor, the information processing device to determine whether the first first-type image forming device corresponding to the first connection destination is online or offline, identify, in response to determining that the first first-type image forming device is offline, a second connection destination that is different from the first connection destination and corresponding to a second first-type image forming device which is online, and update the connection destination setting data to indicate the identified second connection destination as the set connection destination.
US10558394B2	Injectable flowable composition comprising buprenorphine The present invention is directed to a buprenorphine sustained release delivery system capable of delivering buprenorphine, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof for a duration of about 14 days to about 3 months. The buprenorphine sustained release delivery system includes a flowable composition and a solid implant for the sustained release of buprenorphine, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof. The implant is produced from the flowable composition. The buprenorphine sustained release delivery system provides in situ 1-month and 3-month release profiles characterized by an exceptionally high bioavailability and minimal risk of permanent tissue damage and typically no risk of muscle necrosis.
US10558392B2	Enhancing quality of service of a storage device Systems and methods presented herein provide a controller that is operable to monitor a plurality of background commands to a storage device over a pre-determined period of time and to determine how often each of the background commands is issued during the pre-determined period of time. The controller is further operable to establish a time interval for each of the background commands, and to issue each of the background commands at their respective time intervals.
US10558389B2	Per-storage class quality of service (QoS) management within a distributed storage network (DSN) where the DSN stores data using dispersed storage error decoding/encoding A dispersed storage (DS) processing unit and method for quality of service (QoS) management in a dispersed or distributed storage network (DSN) are disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to access a set of encoded data slices from a first user computing device of a plurality of user computing devices of the DSN, where the set of encoded data slices is stored in a set of storage units of the DSN, and where a first storage container of a plurality of storage containers of the DSN includes the set of storage units and supports a first group of logical storage vaults of a plurality of logical storage vaults of the DSN, and the first user computing device is affiliated with a first logical storage vault of the first group of logical storage vaults. The method further includes determining a quality of service (QoS) matrix regarding the request when QoS issues exists. The QoS matrix includes classes for the plurality of user computing devices, the plurality of logical storage vaults, and the plurality of storage containers, and a plurality of performance properties for each class. The method further includes determining QoS levels attributable to the first user computing device, the first logical storage vault, and the first storage container. The method further includes determining processing priority of the request based on the QoS matrix and QoS levels, and executing the request in accordance with the processing priority. The performance properties may include a number of requests per frame, data transfer rate, storage quota and latency guarantee, and a dispersed storage (DS) processing unit of the DSN may determine whether the QoS issue is a container level issue, a vault level issue or a user computing device level issue.
US10558388B2	Memory system and method of controlling the same A memory system includes: one or more memory modules, each comprising a plurality of memory devices having corresponding write commit policies; and one or more memory controllers coupled to the one or more memory modules, the one or more memory controllers having a configurable write operation protocol to operate with the memory devices according to the corresponding write commit policies.
US10558378B2	Memory system According to one embodiment, there is provided a memory system including a power supply terminal, a plurality of couplers, and a control unit. The power supply terminal is a terminal to be connected to a power supply line of a host. The plurality of couplers are couplers to be electromagnetically coupled respectively to couplers of the host. The control unit can establish a reception channel and a transmission channel that are independent of each other between the memory system and the host via the plurality of couplers according to level of a power supply voltage supplied from the host via the power supply line and the power supply terminal.
US10558373B1	Scalable index store A method, system, and computer program product for providing, via a provisioning engine, a scalable set of indexed key-value pairs enabled to store objects in a data storage environment; wherein the data representing the objects is enabled to be spread across arrays in the data storage environment; wherein additional arrays are enabled to be added to the data storage environment and included in the indexed key-value pairs; wherein the data stored across the arrays may be balanced.
US10558372B1	Method and system for implementing action application programming interface (API) framework Methods and systems for implementing an Action application programming interface (API) framework are described herein. A method of implementing an API framework starts by generating input work items from an external source for a first action included in a workflow. The external source includes a list of client devices to be backed up. The output work items for the first action are then populated when the first action is complete. The input work items for a second action included in the workflow are retrieved using the output work items for the first action. The input work items for the second action are filtered using a filter and the output work items for the second action are populated when the second action is complete.
US10558358B2	Character recognition on a computing device In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
US10558357B2	Method for responding to touch operation and electronic device A method includes receiving data inputted via at least one touch point generated on a touch screen via a first touch mode of the touch screen, detecting whether the at least one touch point on the touch screen satisfies a preset condition, and, in response to the at least one touch point satisfying the preset condition, controlling the touch screen to switch from the first touch mode to a second touch mode. The second touch mode allows data input based on pressure generated on the touch screen.
US10558356B2	Display control device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program recorded thereon A display control device includes a display, a touch panel, and a display controller. The display displays one or more items of list information. The touch panel is attached to the display. The display controller controls the display based on an operation performed on the touch panel. The display controller determines whether or not a swipe operation has been detected. The swipe operation is a swipe that is performed on the touch panel when the display displays at least one item of list information. Upon determining that the swipe operation has been detected, the display controller controls the display to change a size of a display area of the at least one item of list information being displayed by the display and change the number of items of list information being displayed by the display.
US10558354B2	Method for providing content search interface and electronic device for supporting the same An electronic device including a touch screen display, a processor, and a memory configured to store content including a starting point and an ending point, and instructions. When the instructions are executed, the processor to reproduces the stored content, displays a looping graphic user interface (GUI) indicating the starting point, the ending point, and a point of playback on the touch screen display. The starting point and the ending point are adjacent to each other and the point of playback is displayed on a path forming a loop between the starting point and the ending point.
US10558349B2	Functional scrollbar and system An improvement to a graphical user interface disposed within a display includes a functional scrollbar, a magnifier disposed on the functional scrollbar to enhance the view of the functional scrollbar, and a filter for selecting attributes of data within a data file. The functional scrollbar includes two parts, one that has a plurality of portions indicative of content of the data file shown on the display and one that has a plurality of portions indicative of content of the data file not shown on the display. The two parts of the scrollbar include portions indicative of content within the data file that matches the filter selection. A system for generating a functional scrollbar is also described and claimed.
US10558331B2	Terminal device and method for designing network application product Terminal devices and methods for designing a network application product are provided. The terminal device includes a task starting interface, a graphical displaying interface, an inputting interface. The task starting interface is configured to receive a task starting instruction to obtain a plurality of first type e-cards having at least one dimensionality type. Each first type e-card contains graphic information corresponding to a dimensionality type and text information corresponding to the graphic information. The graphical displaying interface is configured to display the plurality of first type e-cards. The inputting interface is configured to receive an inputting instruction to select at least two first type e-cards from the plurality of first type e-cards. The inputting interface is further configured to receive context information generated by correlating information including the graphic information and the text information on the at least two first type e-cards.
US10558320B2	Probability of collision topology Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments provide for a three dimensional tool for depicting the variability of probability of collision (Pc) inputs to Pc estimates. The depictions generated by the various embodiments may be used to quantify the quality of Pc input data required to yield actionable Pc estimates. Various embodiments may provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for a computing device that may display a three dimensional depiction of the variability of Pc inputs to Pc estimates.
US10558318B2	System and method of communication analysis A system and method are disclosed for a communication analytics system comprising a communication device and a system analyzer and the system analyzer is configured to continuously monitor electronic communications over the one or more communication devices and identify one or more communication activities associated with the electronic communications. The system analyzer is further configured to translate the one or more communication activities into communication data, store the communication data in a database and identify one or more correlations from the communication data.
US10558312B2	Touch panel In a touch panel having a structure in which a first layer in which a first sensor electrode in the form of a mesh of fine lines is formed and a second layer in which a second sensor electrode in the form a mesh of fine lines is formed are overlaid on one another with a transparent insulator between them, a first dummy wiring that constitutes a first mesh pattern with the first sensor electrode is formed in the first layer and a second dummy wiring that constitutes a second mesh pattern with the second sensor electrode is formed in the second layer. The first mesh pattern and the second mesh pattern are identical to each other in a pair of tiling periodicity directions and translational periods corresponding thereto.
US10558310B2	Onboard operation apparatus An onboard operation apparatus includes an operation panel having an operation face touch-operated on by a fingertip of a user, an output part outputting an operation signal that corresponds to an operation element touch-operated, a vibration instrument causing the user to feel vibration, a position sensor detecting the touch position by a fingertip, and a vibration control part controlling the actuation of the vibration instrument. The onboard operation apparatus further includes a trace calculation part calculating the movement trace of a touch position, and a prediction part predicting whether the touch position reaches a second operation element within a predetermined time. The vibration control part has an entering vibration control part and a holding control part.
US10558302B2	Coded integration of a self-capacitance array Coded integration of a self-capacitance array to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of self-capacitance measurements is disclosed. A composite measurement of the self-capacitance of a plurality of electrodes can be measured for a plurality of integration periods. The composite measurements can include weighted contributions of charge from the plurality of electrodes, the weighting corresponding to a code. In some examples, the weighted contribution can include positive contributions integrated by a first integrator circuit and negative contributions integrated by a second integrator circuit. The composite measurements of the self-capacitance for the plurality of integration periods can be decoded to extract the self-capacitance measurement for the electrodes. The SNR for the self-capacitance measurements can therefore be improved by increasing the number of samples during the total integration period without requiring dedicated sensing circuitry for the electrodes.
US10558287B2	Pressure-sensitive display touch unit, touch screen, and manufacturing method thereof A pressure-sensitive display screen touch-control unit, a touch screen and a manufacturing method thereof. The touch-control unit mainly comprises a driving electrode, a lower electrode, and a dielectric layer sandwiched between the driving electrode and the lower electrode. When a pressure is applied between the driving electrode and the lower electrode, a tunnel current IT is formed, and a voltage VT exists between the driving electrode and the lower electrode. With the touch-control unit, an external pressure may be converted into a current signal to make pressure an information input mode; and the touch-control unit is combined with the existing capacitive touch screen or the resistive touch screen, such that the touch-control unit may be compatible with the existing multi-point touch function, and may also sense change in pressure sensitively. Functions of the existing touch screens may be enhanced to rich operations and applications of touch screens.
US10558285B2	Touch substrate and touch display device A touch substrate and a touch display device are provided. The touch substrate includes a plurality of touch electrodes arranged to be intersected on a base substrate, two ends of each of the touch electrodes being connected to two bonding PINs constituting a PIN group; the two bonding PINs in every PIN group being arranged side by side along a width direction of the bonding PIN, and being adjacent with each other without contact there-between.
US10558283B2	Touch-control photosensitive structure for preventing red light leakage A touch-control photosensitive structure for preventing red light leakage includes a metal substrate, an insulating layer, a photosensitive layer, a third metal layer and a transparent conductive layer. The insulating layer is disposed on the metal substrate. The photosensitive layer is disposed on the insulating layer. The photosensitive layer at least comprises red photosensitive blocks, green photosensitive blocks and blue photosensitive blocks, arranged alternately. A junction region is disposed at the junction of the photosensitive blocks in different colors. The third metal layer is disposed on the junction region. The third metal layer has a lower surface which a light absorption layer is disposed on. The light absorption layer absorbs a reflecting light otherwise reflecting off the metal substrate and the third metal layer and propagating therebetween. The transparent conductive layer is disposed on the third metal layer. The third metal layer reduces impedance of the transparent conductive layer efficiently and thereby renders public voltage stable. The light absorption layer absorbs the reflecting light and thereby prevents light leakage.
US10558279B2	Dual mode optical navigation device There is provided a mode switching method of a dual mode optical navigation device. The dual mode optical navigation device is configured to be operated on a working surface and has a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface having an included angle with the first bottom surface. The mode switching method includes: determining whether the first bottom surface or the second bottom surface contacts with the working surface; switching the dual mode optical navigation device to a first mode when identifying that the first bottom surface contacts with the working surface; and switching the dual mode optical navigation device to a second mode when identifying that the second bottom surface contacts with the working surface.
US10558278B2	Interacting with an electronic device through physical movement The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with an electronic device without touching a display screen or other physical input mechanisms. In some examples, the electronic device performs an operation in response to a positioning of a user's hand and/or an orientation of the electronic device.
US10558276B2	Operating unit for a vehicle The operating unit for a vehicle is provided with a housing with a front face and an operating element arranged on the front face of the housing and having a center of gravity and an operating surface. Said operating element is mounted on and/or in the housing in a spring-elastic manner along a vertical axis of movement extending essentially orthogonally to the operating surface and along a lateral movement axis extending essentially transversely with respect thereto. At least one sensor for detecting an actuation movement of the operating element in the direction of the vertical movement axis is provided. Also, the operating unit comprises an actuator arranged in and/or on the housing for feedback movement of the operating element at least also in the lateral movement axis during a detected actuating movement of the operating element, wherein the actuator comprises an electromagnetically controllable drive element which is mechanically coupled to the operating element which can be moved back and forth along a movement axis. The center of gravity of the operating element lies on the movement axis of the drive element of the actuator.
US10558271B2	System for receiving input in response to motion of user A system includes a sensor that detects motions of a first portion and a second portion of a body of a user, a controller that sets an association relationship between a coordinate system of a real space and a coordinate system of a virtual space in response to the motion of the first portion and receives an operation for an object in the virtual space in response to a position and the motion of the second portion, and a notification device that contactlessly notifies a third portion of the body of prescribed information.
US10558265B2	Input device and system of input device An input device having flexibility includes a display portion, a touch panel, a haptic element, a haptic controller, and a control portion. The touch panel is configured to acquire information on the size of a user's body part operating the input device and transmit the information to the control portion. The control portion is configured to receive the information, generate information on the positioning of a plurality of buttons, and transmit the information to the display portion. The display portion is configured to display the plurality of buttons on the basis of the received information. The haptic controller is configured to transmit information on a haptic effect to the haptic element.
US10558261B1	Sensor data compression In one embodiment, a method includes receiving motion data from a motion sensor during a packet-transmission interval of a wireless protocol. The motion data corresponds to a first pre-determined number of samples measured at a first sampling frequency. Each sample is associated with a first timestamp corresponding to a measurement time of that sample during the packet-transmission interval. The method also includes converting the motion data to correspond to a second pre-determined number of samples. The second pre-determined number is fewer than the first pre-determined number. The method also includes determining a second timestamp for each of the second pre-determined number of samples. The second timestamps are within the packet-transmission interval and represent measurement times at a second sampling frequency that is lower than the first sampling frequency. The method also includes combining the converted motion data and the corresponding second timestamps into a first data packet.
US10558258B2	I/O interface-based signal output method and apparatus An input/output (I/O) interface-based signal output method and apparatus. The method includes determining whether a voltage output by a core power supply domain of a first chip is lower than a preset threshold voltage of the first chip, and when the voltage output by the core power supply domain is lower than the threshold voltage, generating a first level signal according to a control function of the first chip over a second chip, where the first level signal is used to enable the second chip to be in an ignoring state after the second chip receives the first level signal, and sending the first level signal to the second chip through an I/O interface, where the ignoring state indicates that the second chip ignores a control signal and a data signal that are sent by the first chip where the method improves stable performance of a chip product.
US10558253B2	Energy monitoring methods and battery devices According to various embodiments, an energy monitoring method may be provided. The energy monitoring method may include: determining internal energy information indicating a charge state of an internal battery of a computing device; wirelessly receiving external energy information indicating a charge state of an external battery for the computing device; determining a combined energy information indicating a combined charge state of the internal battery and external battery based on the internal energy information and based on the external energy information; and providing a notification to a user of the computing device based on the combined energy information.
US10558242B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device that enables convenient and easy coupling of a display panel to a housing is provided. The foldable display device includes a mounting member provided at a location between a lower plate and the housing and is capable of realizing a slim bezel design by eliminating coupling portions protruding from both ends of the lower plate and by improving the coupling structure between the lower plate and the housing using the mounting member.
US10558234B2	Winch mechanism for a carrier truck A winch assembly includes a first bracket configured to be positioned at a first lateral side of a vehicle, a second bracket configured to be positioned at a second lateral side of the vehicle, a first actuator and a second actuator configured to be coupled to a winch free spool device, a first bushing coupled to the first actuator, a second bushing coupled to the second actuator, and a lever arm coupled to both the first actuator and the second actuator and configured to interface with the winch free spool device. The first actuator and the second actuator are moveable to position the first bushing into engagement with the first bracket or position the second bushing into engagement with the second bracket to selectively lock the winch free spool device in an engaged position.
US10558232B2	Regulator circuit and control method The present technology relates to a regulator circuit and a control method capable of coping with steep change in load. An output transistor provided between an input terminal and an output terminal, a differential amplifying unit that amplifies a difference between reference voltage and voltage fed back from the output transistor, a voltage feedback path, and a current feedback path are provided, in which the current feedback path includes a current source and a transistor. The transistor included in the current feedback path is formed of an NMOS, a gate is connected to an output terminal of the differential amplifying unit, a drain is connected to the current source, and a source is connected to an input terminal of the differential amplifying unit. The present technology is applicable to a regulator circuit.
US10558230B2	Switched low-dropout voltage regulator High-resolution switched digital regulators are disclosed having fast cross corner and variable temperature response, with constrained ripple. The strength of the power transistors utilized by the regulator are adjusted to control the current delivered to the load. The regulators utilize a slow control loop in parallel with a primary fast switching loop. The slow loop uses the switching signal of the primary loop to estimate the load current and set the power transistor size accordingly.
US10558214B2	Manual control modes for an autonomous mobile robot A method for performing tasks on items located in a space using a robot, includes receiving an order to perform a task on at least one item and obtaining a pose associated with the at least one item. The pose is in a coordinate system defined by the space and the pose is where the task is to be performed on the at least one item. The method includes navigating the robot toward the pose associated with the at least one item and detecting, when in proximity to the pose, if the pose is obstructed by an object. If the pose is obstructed by an object, halting the robot at a location spaced from the pose and then causing the robot to provide a first signal indicating that the robot is in a holding mode at the location spaced from the pose.
US10558209B1	System and method for cooperative operation of piloted and optionally piloted aircraft A system for controlling the flight of aircraft includes an aircraft operated by a human pilot, one or more optionally piloted aircraft controlled by a processor, and a communication link between the aircraft. The optionally piloted aircraft receives data indicative of the position and flight path of the piloted aircraft, and is automatically controlled to maintain a predetermined range of separation distances from the piloted aircraft. Control of the optionally piloted aircraft may include machine reasoning computing functions based on a classification of data received by the communication link, data indicative of the current positions and three-dimensional flight paths of the aircraft, stored data from previously calculated positions and three-dimensional flight paths of the aircraft, and stored data from previously executed flight plans associated with the optionally piloted aircraft.
US10558207B1	Event monitoring system A computing system detects an event. (A) A frequency spectrum of observation vectors is computed using a Fourier transform. Each observation vector includes a sensor value. (B) (A) is repeated a predefined plurality of times with successive windows of the observation vectors. Each window of the successive windows includes a subset of the observation vectors. The successive windows include successive subsets selected sequentially in time. (C) An average frequency spectrum is computed from the frequency spectrum computed the predefined plurality of times. (D) A predefined noise filter is applied to the average frequency spectrum to define a filtered frequency spectrum. (E) A distance value is computed between the filtered frequency spectrum and a predefined reference spectrum using a distance computation function. (F) When an event has occurred is determined based on a comparison between the computed distance value and a predefined distance threshold.
US10558204B2	System and method for scalable real-time micro-object position control with the aid of a digital computer The system and method described below allow for real-time control over positioning of a micro-object. A movement of at least one micro-object suspended in a medium can be induced by a generation of one or more forces by electrodes proximate to the micro-object. Prior to inducing the movement, a simulation is used to develop a model describing a parameter of an interaction between each of the electrodes and the micro-object. A function describing the forces generated by an electrode and an extent of the movement induced due to the forces is generated using the model. The function is used to design closed loop policy control scheme for moving the micro-object towards a desired position. The position of the micro-object is tracked and taken into account when generating control signals in the scheme.
US10558202B2	Signal transmission circuit, field device, and plant control system A signal transmission circuit includes a first photocoupler to which a transmission signal is input, an edge detection circuit which is disposed in a primary side of the first photocoupler, the edge detection circuit being configured to detect a rising edge and a falling edge of the transmission signal, and an edge demodulation circuit which is disposed in a secondary side of the first photocoupler, the demodulation circuit being configured to demodulate the transmission signal by using only one of the rising edge and the falling edge of an edge detection signal output from the edge detection circuit via the first photocoupler.
US10558195B2	Methods and apparatus for machine learning predictions of manufacture processes The subject technology is related to methods and apparatus for discretization and manufacturability analysis of computer assisted design models. In one embodiment, the subject technology implements a computer-based method for the reception of an electronic file with a digital model representative of a physical object. The computer-based method determines geometric and physical attributes from a discretized version of the digital model, a cloud point version of the digital model, and symbolic functions generated through evolutionary algorithms. A set of predictive machine learning models is utilized to infer predictions related to the manufacture process of the physical object.
US10558189B2	Safety control system having configurable inputs A safety control system for switching on and safely switching off at least one actuator, including at least one input module for evaluating an input signal of a safety transmitter and for generating an output signal, and at least one output module for the safe actuation of the at least one actuator as a function of the output signal of the input module. The input signal has different signal parameters as a function of the type of safety transmitter. Furthermore, the safety control system includes a setting unit having a memory in which the signal parameters for the input module are stored, and the input module evaluates the input signal as a function of the signal parameters.
US10558186B2	Detection of drones A pre-trained convolutional network is trained to accurately distinguish between video images of different types of drones. In addition, a neural network is also trained to distinguish between the drones based upon their audio signatures.
US10558175B2	PID control device, PID control method, and PID control program A technique capable of shortening a period in which value of a PID parameter is outside of an appropriate range is provided. A measured value acquisition functional unit processes a sensing signal of a sensor that measures a barrel and acquires a measured value of the barrel. A storage unit stores a target value of the barrel and a PID parameter. An operation amount calculation functional unit calculates an amount of operation using the PID parameter and a difference between the measured value and the target value. A first output unit and a second output unit output the amount of operation. A first updating functional unit updates the PID parameter through a first update process when the variation range is greater than a first range, and a second updating functional unit updates the PID parameter through a second update process when the variation range is less than a second range.
US10558172B2	Timing device using electrodeposit growth Systems and methods are presented for a timing device. The timing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a material selected such that an electrodeposit forms on the first electrode when a current is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. A measurable electrical characteristic of the timing device is indicative of a time-dependent degree of growth of the electrodeposit between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10558158B2	Inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a heater, a calculation section, storage, and a determination section. The image forming section ejects ink onto a sheet in which first to M-th regions are defined (M is an integer of at least 2). The heater includes first to M-th heat sources and heats an n-th region of the sheet using an n-th heat source (n is an integer of at least 1 and no greater than M). The calculation section calculates an ink ejection rate of ink to be ejected onto the n-th region. The storage stores therein heating information indicating whether it is necessary to heat the n-th region. The determination section determines whether or not to cause the n-th heat source to generate heat.
US10558144B2	Developing cartridge, developing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A developing cartridge includes a developing portion to supply toner, a toner storing portion to store the toner, a partition wall formed between the developing portion and the toner storing portion and having a toner supply section, and a storing-portion agitating member rotatably disposed in the toner storing portion to intermittently rotate to move the toner in the toner storing portion while the developing portion supplies the toner.
US10558143B2	Image forming apparatus that controls a thermal fixing condition of a fixing portion based on thermal characteristic information of toner An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of cartridges containing toners, each cartridge including a storage element that stores a type of thermal characteristic information of the toner contained therein, and a reading portion configured to read the type of thermal characteristic information. A fixing portion thermally fixes a toner image, formed by a plurality of toners of different colors contained in the cartridges, respectively, onto a recording material, and a control portion controls the fixing portion by switching a thermal fixing condition in accordance with a combination of the types of the thermal characteristic information read by the reading portion, the thermal fixing condition being a condition that prioritizes the performance of fixing, to a recording material, a toner, of the toners that form the toner image, that is transferred first to the recording material, from among the plurality of toners of different colors.
US10558138B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes image forming units each of which includes an image bearing member, a contact charging member, and a developer bearing member of a toner, applies a charging bias in a direction in which the toner moves from the image bearing member to the charging member in an image forming period, and applied a charging bias of an opposite polarity relative to that in the image formation in a cleaning period, and collects the toner by the developer bearing member. In consecutive image formation, a charging bias in the image forming period is applied in a first interval period and which is between first and second image forming periods and a second interval period which is between second and third image forming periods. An absolute value of a charging bias applied in the second interval period is larger than that applied in the first interval period.
US10558135B1	Image forming apparatus and carrying control method According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus of the embodiment includes a roller, a plurality of developing units, an image forming unit, a sensor, and a control unit. The rollers carry a sheet. The plurality of developing units include different types of developing materials. The image forming unit forms a plurality of images on a transfer belt by the developing materials of each of the plurality of developing units. The sensor reads the plurality of images formed on the transfer belt. The control unit controls the speed of the roller based on the positions of the plurality of images read by the sensor.
US10558109B2	Tripod head A tripod head, in particular to hold a film or television camera, includes a first body and a second body, wherein the first body can be pivoted about at least one pivot axis relative to the second body, and a damping device to damp the pivoting movement of the first body relative to the second body, with a first damping element fixed to the first body and a second damping element, wherein the damping elements each have a plurality of concentrically arranged annular ribs which engage in cavities formed between the ribs of the respective other damping element and a damping medium is provided between the ribs of the damping element, wherein the second damping element is formed of at least two separate parts which are fixable independently of each other to the second body.
US10558108B2	Camera module A camera module including a lens part; a lens holder supporting the lens part while surrounding the same; a PCB assembly processing light input through the lens part into an electrical signal; and a shield can having an internal space in which the PCB assembly is disposed, wherein the PCB assembly includes a plurality of PCBs having circuits mounted thereon; and a flexible connecting part electrically connecting the plurality of PCBs and including a conductive layer in which a conductive material is disposed, and the shield can has an avoidance part formed in a position corresponding to the connecting part.
US10558107B2	LED flash ring surrounding camera lens A flash system for an electronic device includes a ring-shaped light guide having a central opening. A camera lens is positioned in or behind the opening. A first light emittting diode (“LED”) is mounted on a printed circuit board (“PCB”), and the LED and PCB are encapsulated by a molded light guide of the flash system. An identical LED and PCB are encapsulated at an opposite end of the molded light guide (i.e., 180 degrees away). The back surfaces of each PCB diffusively reflects light from the LED on the other PCB. Light extraction features on the light guide surface uniformly leak out light from the LEDs. The light emission profile of the light guide has a peak axially aligned with the central opening of the light guide and rolls off to the edge of the camera's field of view.
US10558105B2	Directional sensitive fiber optic cable wellbore system A fiber optic cable assembly includes an elongate housing, a signal fiber placed inside the housing and extending longitudinally, and a plurality of sensing fibers placed inside the housing and extending longitudinally. The plurality of sensing fibers is placed around the signal fiber. Each of the plurality of sensing fibers carries a respective laser signal of a distinct frequency. The signal fiber carries one or more evanescent coupling signals responsive to the laser signals in the plurality of sensing fibers.
US10558096B2	Display device A circuit section of a display device is provided with a display element section on which a plurality of display elements are arranged at positions overlapped with a display region on which a display functional layer is formed, an input section for transmitting a signal for driving the display functional layer to the display element section and a lead-out wiring section for electrically connecting the display element section to the input section. Moreover, the lead-out wiring section is provided with a plurality of stacked wiring layers, and the plurality of wiring layers include a first wiring layer on which a plurality of first wirings having a first wiring width and a second wiring layer on which a plurality of second wirings having a first wiring width that is narrower than the first wiring width are formed.
US10558095B2	Liquid crystal display with reduced color mixing A liquid crystal display includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel each displaying a different color. A first data line is positioned between the first pixel and the second pixel, and a second data line is positioned between the second pixel and the third pixel. A first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode are respectively positioned in the first, second, and third pixels. An interval between the first pixel electrode and the first data line is larger than an interval between the second pixel electrode and the first data line. An interval between the second pixel electrode and the second data line is smaller than an interval between the third pixel electrode and the second data line.
US10558094B2	Display device with novel sub-pixel arrangement A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups, wherein each of the plurality sub-pixel groups comprises eight sub-pixels disposed in a row direction or in a column direction and the eight sub-pixels comprise two red sub-pixels; two blue sub-pixels; two green sub-pixels; and two sub-pixels of a predetermined color, wherein in each of the plurality of sub-pixel groups, a distance between the red sub-pixels or between the blue sub-pixels is less than a distance between the green sub-pixels or between the sub-pixels of the predetermined color, and the sub-pixels of the predetermined color have a luminance higher than a luminance of the red sub-pixels and the blue sub-pixels.
US10558091B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display region where pixels each having a TFT and a pixel electrode are formed in a matrix, a counter substrate having a display region where color filters of three colors are formed in a matrix, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate being bonded together with a sealing material in a seal portion at a periphery, and liquid crystal sealed between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate by the seal material. In the display region, a first insulation film, a first alignment film, a first columnar spacer, an overcoat film, a first color filter among the color filters of three colors are stacked in this order between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate.
US10558089B2	Photoalignment composition The present invention relates to a photoalignment composition comprising a) 0.001 to 20%, by weight; preferably, 1 to 10% by weight, more preferably 1 to 9% by weight of at least one photoreactive compound (I) that comprises a photoalignment group and b) 80 to 99.999% by weight, preferably, 90 to 99% by weight, more preferably 91 to 99% by weight of at least one compound (II) that does not comprise a photoalignment group, and c) optionally at least one reactive or non reactive additives, and d) optionally at least one solvent. Further, the present invention relates to the use of this photoalignment composition for the alignment of liquid crystals or liquid crystal polymers, in electro-optical and optical elements, systems and devices.
US10558087B2	Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a second substrate configured to be separated from and overlap the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystal molecules; a first polymer layer disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; a second polymer layer disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of protrusions disposed in at least one of a first position between the first polymer layer and the liquid crystal layer and a second position between the second polymer layer and the liquid crystal layer, in which the protrusions include polymers of reactive mesogens, and the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer include a polymer of a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1.
US10558083B2	Liquid crystal display module and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display module is switchable between a blocking state and a displaying state on the basis of a change, caused by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, in the orientation of liquid crystal molecules contained in the liquid crystal layer, the blocking state being a state in which transmitting light is concentrated to a blocking region on an initial optical axis, the displaying state being a state in which transmitting light is concentrated to a light-emitting region on a voltage-induced optical axis different from the initial optical axis.
US10558082B2	Display apparatus comprising a blue light blocking pattern overlapping a thin film transistor and a color conversion pattern comprising a quantum dot or phosphor A display apparatus includes a backlight unit to emit blue light, a first base substrate disposed on the backlight unit, a gate pattern disposed on the first base substrate, a first inorganic insulation layer disposed on the gate pattern, a data pattern disposed on the first inorganic insulation layer, a blue light blocking pattern disposed on the first inorganic insulation layer on which the data pattern is disposed, a second inorganic insulation layer disposed on the data pattern and the first inorganic insulation layer, a shielding electrode disposed on the blue light blocking pattern and overlapping the gate pattern and/or the data pattern, a pixel electrode disposed on the second inorganic insulation layer, and electrically connected to the drain electrode, a color conversion pattern overlapping the pixel electrode, and includes a quantum dot and/or phosphor, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the color conversion pattern.
US10558080B2	Segmented transparent LCD with localized backlighting A segmented transparent LCD is disclosed that includes a LC module that is substantially transparent to visible light. The segmented transparent LCD includes an array of spaced apart display segments supported by the LCD module. Each display segment is configured to display a segment of the display image. Each display segment includes a non-specular light-redirecting segment configured to provide localized backlight to the display segment when the ambient light is incident thereon. The segmented transparent LCD allows for a display image to be displayed and viewed while also allowing a viewer to see through one or more transparent regions that separate the display segments. Methods of displaying a display image using the segmented transparent LCD are also disclosed.
US10558074B2	Display device having improved light emission and color reproducibility An exemplary display device includes: a display panel; a color conversion panel overlapping the display panel; and an optical bonding layer positioned between the display panel and the color conversion panel. The color conversion panel includes: a substrate; a color conversion layer and a transmission layer positioned between the substrate and the display panel; a first capping layer having one side facing the color conversion layer and the transmission layer, and another side facing the display panel; a second capping layer positioned between the first capping layer and the display panel; and an optical layer positioned between the first capping layer and the second capping layer and/or between the second capping layer and the optical bonding layer. A refractive index of the optical layer is lower than at least one of a refractive index of the first capping layer and a refractive index of the second capping layer.
US10558071B2	Multilayer structure, method for producing the same and touch sensitive display using the same The present invention is directed to an optical bonding apparatus with multiple layer structure including a pressure sensitive bonding layer and a thermal flow pressure sensitive bonding layer. The thermal flow pressure sensitive bonding layer is used for bonding to a rough surface of an object and superposing on the pressure sensitive bonding layer.
US10558067B2	Support frame, display device and mounting method thereof A support frame, a display device and mounting method thereof. The support frame includes a main body and a protrusion disposed at a side of the main body; the main body includes a first portion located on the protrusion and a second portion located under the protrusion, a thickness of the first portion is at least equal to a thickness of a touch cover plate; a thickness of the second portion is at least equal to a thickness of a backlight module; and a thickness of the protrusion is at least equal to a thickness of a display panel.
US10558064B2	Optical communication module and optical modulator used therein An optical communication module includes: an optical modulator that includes an optical modulation element housed in a rectangular parallelepiped container; a driver circuit that inputs a high-frequency signal to the optical modulation element; and a housing that houses the optical modulator and the driver circuit. An electrical interface is provided on one lateral surface of the housing, and an optical interface is provided on another lateral surface, which is opposite to the lateral surface, of the housing. In the optical modulator, an end of a wiring substrate, which is configured to introduce the high-frequency signal to the optical modulation element, is led out from one short-side side of the rectangular parallelepiped container, and the driver circuit is disposed between the short-side side of the optical modulator and the electrical interface.
US10558051B2	Display apparatus [Object] To provide a display apparatus capable of obtaining excellent heat radiation performance of a light source while ensuring positional accuracy of the light source.[Solving Means] A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a light guide portion, a casing, a projection portion, a heat source, and a heat-transfer member. The light guide portion is disposed in front of eyes of a user. The casing is fixed to the light guide portion. The projection portion is housed in the casing and is configured to be capable of projecting an image to the light guide portion. The heat-transfer member includes a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the heat source, the second end being connected to an inner surface of the casing, and is configured to be deformable.
US10558044B2	Optical waveguide device and head-mounted display apparatus using the same An optical waveguide device and a head-mounted display apparatus using the same are provided. The optical waveguide device used for transmitting an image light includes a light entering surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, and at least one planar reflective structure. The image light enters the optical waveguide device through the light entering surface. The first side surface is parallel to the second side surface. The at least one planar reflective structure is disposed between the first side surface and the second side surface, and the planar reflective structure is parallel to the first side surface. The planar reflective structure and the light entering surface have a distance therebetween.
US10558041B2	Virtual reality image system with high definition A virtual reality stereoscopic image expansion device with high definition where 1 to 2 monitors are provided in an independent rotary case, first or first and second left and right reflectors having reflective refraction angles of 90° in left and right directions of stereoscopic left and right eye images are provided and configured as left and right lenses for matching optical axes so that the image center of the large monitor having a screen size of a human pupil interval or more is matched with the interval between the left and right eyes of the observer by coupling the optical axes of the monitors and the reflectors with an optical structure. Thereby it makes it possible to observe the stereoscopic image by a general monitor without structures of the polarizer and the translucent mirror.
US10558039B2	Head-up display apparatus A head-up display apparatus mounted on a moving body. The head-up display apparatus projects an image on a projecting portion. The head-up display apparatus includes a light source portion, an imaging element, a cold mirror, and a phase shifter. The light source portion emits a source light. The imaging element generates the image and outputs the light of the image. The light of the image has a predetermined polarization state. The cold mirror reflects the light of the image toward the projecting portion. In the cold mirror, an optical multilayer film is disposed on a translucent base member, and the light of the image obliquely enters the cold mirror along a plane of incidence of the cold mirror. The phase shifter converts the light of the image into an S wave. The phase shifter is disposed on an optical path between the imaging element and the cold mirror.
US10558029B2	System for image reconstruction using a known pattern Disclosed herein are systems and methods for constructing an image of a sample using a plurality of images acquired under multiple illumination conditions. In some cases, a microscope may include an image capture device, an illumination assembly, and a processor configured to acquire a plurality of images of a sample and a fiducial marker under a plurality of different illumination conditions and to reconstruct a high resolution image in response to the plurality of images. The disclosure also provides a method for generating a high resolution image of a sample comprising acquiring a plurality of images of a sample and a fiducial marker under a plurality of different illumination conditions and reconstructing the high resolution image in response to the plurality of images.
US10558025B2	Variable magnification optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same A variable magnification optical system includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, and each of the lens units makes a different movement relatively to a lens unit that is adjacently positioned at least at one of a time of changing magnification, a time of focusing, and a time of image stabilization.
US10558023B2	Optical system and head-mounted display apparatus using same An ultra wide-angle high-resolution optical system includes, from a human-eye observation side to a side at an image display unit, a first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lenses sequentially and coaxially arranged in the direction of an optical axis. A relationship of the focal lengths of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lenses meet a certain criterion. In addition, the first lens, third lens, and fourth lens are positive lenses, and the second lens and fifth lens are negative lenses. At the same time, the relationship of refractive indexes of the first lens, second lens, third lens, fourth lens, and fifth lens at the line d and the Abbe numbers thereof meet a certain criterion. In this way, an image displayed on the display unit is magnified by the optical system and then imaged on the human-eye. Also disclosed is a head-mounted display apparatus including the optical system.
US10558016B2	Camera optical lens The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10558007B2	Enclosure for local convergence point for fiber optic communications network An enclosure for providing a local convergence point for a fiber optic network may include an enclosure frame and an end panel defining a plurality of ports. The enclosure may include a feeder compartment to receive through at least one of the ports an optical source cable from the network. The enclosure may include a feeder compartment panel pivotally coupled to the feeder compartment and configured to pivot. The enclosure may also include a feeder splice tray removably coupled to the feeder compartment panel and configured to receive one or more optical fibers from the optical source cable. The feeder splice tray may be configured to communicatively couple at least one optical fiber of the optical source cable to at least one distribution fiber configured to facilitate communication with a destination device configured to receive an optical signal from the network.
US10558006B2	Fiber-optic cable and method of manufacture A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber element including a core and cladding layer. A strength member layer is positioned over the optical fiber element and includes a layer of fiber elements composed of at least 25% high temperature fiber material. An outer jacket layer is positioned over the strength member layer and is formed of a highly flame-resistant material.
US10558004B2	Optical transceiver An optical transceiver which is inserted and ejected with respect to a cage is disclosed. The optical transceiver comprises a slider, a housing supporting the slider to slid the slider along the first direction, and a latch rotating along a second direction intersecting with the first direction at the center of a shaft. The latch has a first face engaging the cage and a second face locking the slider, and is supported by the housing. The latch controls the rotating by locking the second face to the slider when the slider is in a first position, and uncontrols the rotating when the slider is in a second position farther than the first position ejected a direction. A position of the shaft is the same position as a position of the first face or more than a position ejected in case of locking the second face to the slider.
US10558003B2	Optical waveguide sheet, optical transmission module, and manufacturing method for an optical waveguide sheet [Object] To provide an optical waveguide sheet including a mirror structure that can be fabricated at low cost and has a high smoothness, an optical transmission module, and a manufacturing method for an optical waveguide sheet. [Solving Means] An optical waveguide sheet according to the present technology includes a core, a cladding, and a mirror structure. The core extends in a first direction parallel to a first plane. The cladding is provided around the core. The mirror structure has a concave shape which is formed from the cladding to the core, the mirror structure including a first inclined surface that is parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to the first plane, is inclined with respect to the first plane, and includes a core region in which the core is exposed, and a bottom surface parallel to the first plane.
US10558001B2	Optical alignment of fiber-optic rotary joint assembly A first optical axis of a first optical component is caused to be at a first angle with respect to a first precision surface of the first optical component. A second optical axis of a second optical component is aligned to be at a second angle to a second flat surface of the second optical component. The second angle is equal to or derived from the first angle. The first and second flat surfaces are caused to directly face each other to allow only sliding motion between the first and second flat surfaces. The sliding motion is performed between the first and second flat surfaces until the first and second optical axes are sufficiently collinear.
US10557998B2	Optical fiber connection system including optical fiber alignment device A self-centering structure (300) for aligning optical fibers (308) desired to be optically coupled together is disclosed. The self-centering structure (300) including a body (310) having a first end (312) and a second end (314). The first end (312) defines a first opening (303) and the second end (314) defines a second opening (304). The self-centering structure (300) includes a plurality of groove structures (306) integrally formed in the body (310) of the self-centering structure for receiving the optical fibers (308) and a fiber alignment region (305) positioned at an intermediate location between the first and second ends (312, 314) to facilitate centering and alignment of the optical fibers (308). The plurality of cantilever members (322) is flexible and configured for urging the optical fibers (308) into their respective groove structures (306).
US10557997B2	Light source device A light source device and a method of manufacturing a light source device are provided. The light source device includes a base. A light-emitter is above the base. A cap is joined to the base to cover the light-emitter. The cap includes an opening in a position corresponding to the light-emitter. A first light guide is in communication with the opening for guiding, to outside of the cap, light emitted by the light-emitter. A first ferrule is provided around the first light guide. The first ferrule is joined to an edge of the opening in a state in which the first ferrule is in the opening.
US10557994B1	Waveguide grating with spatial variation of optical phase An optical waveguide is disclosed. The optical waveguide includes a plate of transparent material comprising opposed first and second surfaces for guiding an optical beam between the surfaces by at least one of reflection or diffraction. A diffraction grating is disposed at the first surface for spreading the optical beam by diffracting portions thereof into a non-zero diffraction order to propagate inside the plate. The first diffraction grating includes an array of parallel grooves structured to provide a spatial variation of optical phase of the portions of the optical beam diffracted by the first diffraction grating into the non-zero diffraction order.
US10557989B1	Slot assisted grating based transverse magnetic (TM) transmission mode pass polarizer The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a slot assisted grating based transverse magnetic (TM) pass polarizer and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a waveguide strip composed of a first type of material and having openings along its length which are positioned to reflect/scatter a propagating electromagnetic waves; and grating fin structures on one or both sides of the waveguide strip which are positioned and structured to reflect/scatter the propagating electromagnetic waves.
US10557988B2	Ultra-high resolution scanning fiber display One embodiment is directed to a compact system for scanning electromagnetic imaging radiation, comprising a first waveguide and a second waveguide, each of which is operatively coupled to at least one electromagnetic radiation source and configured such that output from the first and second waveguides is luminance modulated and scanned along one or more axes to form at least a portion of an image.
US10557978B2	Composition, optical film including composition, and method of producing optical film The present invention provides, as a composition containing a smectic liquid crystal compound which can be used for production of a homogeneous optical film at a temperature around room temperature, a composition containing a smectic liquid crystal compound having a 1,4-cyclohexyl group, which smectic liquid crystal compound having the 1,4-cyclohexyl group contains (i) 100 parts by mass of a smectic liquid crystal compound having a trans-1,4-cyclohexyl group and (ii) 0.1 parts by mass to 10 parts by mass of a smectic liquid crystal compound having a cis-1,4-cyclohexyl group.
US10557974B2	Optical element, optical apparatus, and method for forming random uneven shape An optical element includes an optical surface with a random uneven shape that satisfies 0.30≤Icenter≤1.00 and 0.00≤C2nd≤0.60 where P is an average pitch, Icenter is a ratio of a component intensity sum from 0.9P to 1.1P to a component intensity sum of an entire frequency spectrum calculated with a square area in which each side is equal to or longer than 40 μm, and C2nd is a value of a second largest intensity peak in an autocorrelation function calculated with a square area in which each side is 20P.
US10557971B2	Marker, method for manufacturing same, and optical component A transparent resin is injection molded to create a marker (10) as an integrally molded article (lenticular lens portion (11)) including convex surfaces (112) and recesses (113) formed on the rear side of the convex surfaces. The recesses (113) are filled with coating films (115) formed by applying and curing a fluid coating material. Each recess (113) is arranged corresponding to a convex surface (112) so that the coating films (115) can be observed as optically distinguishable from the side of the convex surfaces (112).
US10557969B2	Optical component, sensor and method for measuring an expansion and/or a temperature An optical component may be provided having a substrate with a first refractive index, in which space regions with a second refractive index are arranged, wherein the optical component contains at least one optical metamaterial, which contains a plurality of individual pixels each comprising a space region which has the first or the second refractive index, wherein the substrate contains at least one polymer. Further, a sensor may be provided with such an optical component and a process for measuring any of an expansion or a temperature.
US10557967B2	Process and system for enhanced depth penetration of an energy source The method for enhanced depth penetration of energy into a formation may include mechanically stimulating the formation at a first frequency to induce mechanical stress in the formation and directing electromagnetic radiation towards the formation while mechanically stimulating the formation.
US10557965B2	Device, system, and method for detecting human presence An embodiment device includes an optical source configured to transmit an optical pulse and an optical sensor configured to receive a reflection of the optical pulse. The device further includes a processor configured to determine a parameter based on the reflection, the parameter indicative of a distance between the device and a target; and a controller configured to generate a first control signal based on the parameter, the first control signal being configured to control an operation of the optical source.
US10557954B2	Modeling angle domain common image gathers from reverse time migration The present disclosure describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems, for modeling angle domain common image gathers (ADCIG) from reverse time migration (RTM). One computer-implemented method includes calculating seismic source and receiver wavefields based on seismic data, calculating characteristic source and receiver wavefields from the seismic source and receiver wavefields, calculating propagation angles for the characteristic source and receiver wavefields, applying a wavefield decomposition algorithm on the characteristic source and receiver wavefields to obtain corresponding directional source and receiver wavefields, the wavefield decomposition algorithm decomposing wavefield amplitude of a wavefield in an angle interval centered on a propagation angle of the wavefield, and forming ADCIG by applying an image condition to the obtained directional source and receiver wavefields.
US10557953B2	Molded snap-in plug and device and method for using same A harness plug and methods of use. Example devices include an arcuate portion and a lateral portion disposed at an outer periphery of the arcuate portion. The arcuate portion is configured to engage with arcuate portion of a hole within a spacer. A method of using the harness plug includes molding a harness plug about a portion of a cable bundle and inserting the cable bundle into an arcuate portion of a hole in the spacer through a lateral portion of the first hole. The harness plug is pressed into the arcuate portion of a hole in the spacer. A streamer spacer for use with the harness plug includes a hole having a portion having an arcuate shape and a second portion lateral to and abutting the arcuate portion and extending to a periphery of an elongate body of the streamer spacer.
US10557952B2	Accelerometer device An accelerometer device for determining the acceleration of an object, along three axes X, Y and Z of a main orthonormal reference system and subject to a surrounding pressure, comprises a number N of accelerometer sensors of MEMS type, N at least equal to two, each sensor defined by construction in an auxiliary reference system comprising three orthonormal axes, the set of accelerometer sensors comprising at least one pair of sensors mounted to face in opposite directions and parallel to one another, and: for each of the pairs of accelerometer sensors, the sensors have components of opposite sign along two axes of the main reference system; and the axes of the reference system along which the components of the accelerometer sensors oppose the set of pairs of sensors in twos comprise at least two of the three axes X, Y and Z of the reference system, to compensate for the effect of the pressure on at least two axes of the reference system.
US10557944B2	Timing circuit calibration Disclosed are devices, systems and techniques for propagating a system time maintained at a mobile device in a lower power mode using a sleep counter advanced by an XO crystal oscillator. In one particular implementation, a mobile device obtains initial and subsequent satellite positioning system fixes while in a higher power mode. Between the initial and subsequent position fixes, the mobile device may transition to a lower power mode during which measurements of a temperature of the XO crystal oscillator may be obtained.
US10557942B2	Estimation of motion using LIDAR Techniques of tracking an object's motion involve using a LIDAR system that is configured to track an object over a period of time in which the object is moving using a single scanning motion. Using the LIDAR system, tracking of the object can be performed while eliminating visible imaging hardware (e.g., video camera hardware). Accordingly, the LIDAR system can be configured to operate in total darkness, into the sun, etc. The LIDAR system can be less susceptible to motion of the object than conventional systems. Accordingly, the motion of the object 110 be determined in some implementations solely from LIDAR measurements, without, for example, video.
US10557939B2	Lidar system with improved signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of solar background noise A lidar system with improved signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of solar background noise. The lidar system can comprise a light source to emit light toward a target. The light source can have an operating wavelength which lies within a band that delineates a relative maximum in atmospheric absorption. The lidar system can also include a detector to detect scattered light from the target and a processor to determine a characteristic of the target based on a characteristic of the scattered light received at the detector.
US10557931B2	Radar measurement method with different fields of view An FMCW radar sensor and a method for localizing a radar target, in which FMCW radar measurements are performed with transmitting antennas having different fields of view which differ in terms of an aperture angle and/or a range, the measurements each encompassing temporally interleaved sequences of ramps, and measurements with different fields of view being temporally interwoven with one another; ambiguous values for the relative velocity of the radar target being determined from a position of a peak in a two-dimensional spectrum; phase relationships between spectral values of spectra being checked for agreement with phase relationships expected for several of the determined values of the relative velocity; and on the basis thereof an estimated value for the relative velocity of the radar target being selected from the determined periodic values of the relative velocity.
US10557926B2	Modular ladar sensor A lightweight, inexpensive LADAR sensor incorporating 3-D focal plane arrays is adapted specifically for modular manufacture and rapid field configurability and provisioning. The sensor generates, at high speed, 3-D image maps and object data at short to medium ranges. The techniques and structures described may be used to extend the range of long range systems as well, though the focus is on compact, short to medium range ladar sensors suitable for use in multi-sensor television production systems and 3-D graphics capture and moviemaking. 3-D focal plane arrays are used in a variety of physical configurations to provide useful new capabilities.
US10557919B2	Observed time difference of arrival angle of arrival discriminator A method, user equipment (UE) and location server for estimating position of a UE based on observed angles of arrival. According to one embodiment, angles of arrival of signals from a plurality of base stations are received by a UE are observed by scanning for position reference signals (PRS) by adjusting a phase difference between antennas to cause a null of a beam of the UE to be incremented through an angular sector. For each of a plurality of base stations, an angle of arrival at which the null is steered when a PRS is suppressed by the null and a reference signal time difference, RSTD, are determined. Each angle of arrival and corresponding RSTD is transmitted to a location server which estimates UE position based on the observed angles of arrival. Further, the location server may instruct the UE to suppress a non-line-of-sight PRS signal.
US10557896B2	Magnetic sensor The magnetic sensor can prevent an increase of a positional detection error of a subject/object even in the case of applying an external magnetic field with a magnetic field intensity exceeding a predetermined range. A magnetic sensor is equipped with a magnetoresistive effect element (MR element) 11 that can detect an external magnetic field and a soft magnetic body shield 12. The soft magnetic body shield(s) 12 are/is positioned above and/or below the MR element 11 in a side view, and the size of the MR element 11 is physically included within a perimeter of the soft magnetic body shield 12.
US10557891B2	Battery system and control method thereof An ECU obtains an OCV and an internal pressure, obtains a first estimated value of an SOC corresponding to the time of charging and a second estimated value of the SOC corresponding to the time of discharging using the obtained OCV and a first correspondence, obtains a third estimated value of an SOC corresponding to the time of charging and a fourth estimated value of the SOC corresponding to the time of discharging using the obtained internal pressure and a second correspondence, estimates the SOC using at least one of the first or the third estimated value when a first difference between the first and the third estimated value is less than a second difference between the second and the fourth estimated value, and estimates the SOC using at least one of the second or the fourth estimated value when the second difference is less than the first difference.
US10557888B2	Test apparatus A test apparatus may include transceivers and a global de-skew circuit. In a training mode, the transceivers provide first timing information obtained by delaying a first data signal in the range of up to a preset unit interval based on a clock signal and receive second timing information corresponding to timing differences between a slowest transceiver and the remaining transceivers. In an operation mode, the transceivers provide compensation data to a plurality of DUTs (Devices Under Test) substantially simultaneously. The compensation data may be obtained by delaying a second data signal by multiples of the preset unit interval in response to the second timing information. In the training mode, the global de-skew circuit receives the first timing information, calculates, using the first timing information, the timing differences between the slowest transceiver and the remaining transceivers, and provides the second timing information corresponding to the timing differences to the transceivers.
US10557885B2	Systems for detecting electrical faults in a vehicle Systems are provided to determine a location of an electrical fault in an electrical system of a vehicle. A test apparatus can include a control unit and a plurality of scan circuits. The control unit is configured to electrically couple the plurality of scan circuits to the electrical system and trigger the plurality of scan circuits to pass electrical signals to the electrical system. Each scan circuit is configured to detect a presence of an electrical fault in the electrical system based on an electrical signal passed. Each scan circuit provides information indicative of a location of the electrical fault in the electrical system, when detected, to the control unit.
US10557881B2	Electrical overstress reporting Aspects of this disclosure relate to detecting and recording information associated with electrical overstress (EOS) events, such as electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. For example, in one embodiment, an apparatus includes an electrical overstress protection device, a detection circuit configured to detect an occurrence of the EOS event, and a memory configured to store information indicative of the EOS event.
US10557879B2	Sensor excitation in systems where remote sensor signal processing is performed A sensor control arrangement may comprise a host controller, a remote sensor interface, a power/data bus extending between the host controller and the remote sensor interface, and an electromagnetic sensor configured to receive an AC signal from the host controller via the power/data bus, and send an a sensor signal to the remote sensor interface via the power/data bus.
US10557874B2	Electric current measurement apparatus and electric current measurement method An electric current measurement apparatus for measuring an electric current flowing in a conducting wire in a circuit to be measured, the electric current measurement apparatus characterized by having a magnetic element to which a drive electric current terminal and a measurement voltage terminal are provided, a holder for fixing a positional relationship of the conducting wire to a magnetic body, an electric current source capable of outputting at least one frequency of alternating electric current across the drive electric current terminal, a voltage meter for measuring a voltage across the measurement voltage terminal, and a low-pass filter provided between the measurement voltage terminal and the voltage meter.
US10557866B2	Probe seat of vertical probe device A probe seat of a vertical probe device includes a lower die, a middle die fixed on the lower die, at least one upper die fixed on the middle die, and at least one reinforcing die fixedly disposed in at least one through trough of the middle die. The lower die has lower probe holes located below the through trough, such that probes are be inserted through the lower probe holes respectively and inserted through the through trough. The at least one upper die has upper probe holes located above the through trough for the probes to be inserted therethrough. The at least one reinforcing die has middle probe holes for the probes to be inserted therethrough. As a result, the probe seat has improved rigidity to avoid bending.
US10557846B2	Encoded polymeric microparticles Provided are encoded polymeric microparticles and a multiplexed bioassay using the encoded polymeric microparticles. Each of the encoded polymeric microparticles includes an encoded polymeric microparticle core and a silica shell surrounding the microparticle core. Further provided is a method for producing encoded polymeric microparticles. The method includes: mixing a photocurable material with a linker having a functional group polymerizable with the photocurable material and an alkoxysilyl group; applying patterned energy to cure the mixture, followed by encoding to obtain encoded polymeric microparticle cores; and treating the encoded polymeric microparticle cores with a silica precursor to form a silica shell on each encoded polymeric microparticle core.
US10557842B2	Method and system for analysing a blend of two or more hydrocarbon feed streams The invention relates to a method for analysing a blend of two or more hydrocarbon feed streams such as crude oils. These crude oils are blended in a facility such as a refinery. The method assesses the compatibility of a hydrocarbon feed in a blend to calculate the blend stability such that organic deposition is minimised. The method uses all of a plurality of hydrocarbon feeds to be blended for analysis. The method either selects a neat hydrocarbon feed, from a plurality of the hydrocarbon feeds included in a blend, as a titrant, wherein the or each other hydrocarbon in the hydrocarbon feed are used to make a pseudo-blend and titrating the pseudo-blend with said selected neat hydrocarbon feed for a plurality of different blend ratios. Alternatively the method involves preparing a reference hydrocarbon and making a blend from the plurality of hydrocarbon feeds and titrating the blend with the reference hydrocarbon. Measurements associated with the change in characteristics of the titrated blend are made and data recorded. The method then calculates, using said data, the stability of the blend.
US10557828B2	Ultrasonic phased array transducer for the NDE inspection of the jet pump riser welds and welded attachments An ultrasonic phased array transducer assembly having a single housing in which a plurality of phased array transducer subassemblies are mounted at a skewed angle relative to a leading face of the housing and to each other, with each transducer mounted on composite wedge(s) at different orientations within the housing.
US10557827B2	Electrostatically actuated torsional resonant sensors and switches Embodiments in accordance of a torsional resonant sensor disclosure is configured to actuate a beam structure using electrostatic actuation with an AC harmonic load (e.g., AC and DC voltage sources) that is activated upon detecting a particular agent having a mass above a predefined level. In various embodiments, the beam structure may be different types of resonant structures that is at least partially coated or layered with a selective material.
US10557826B2	Vibronic sensor An apparatus for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium in a container, comprising at least an oscillatable unit having at least one membrane, and at least one oscillatory element, a driving/receiving unit embodied to excite the mechanically oscillatable unit by means of an electrical, exciter signal of adjustable excitation frequency to execute oscillations in an oscillation mode corresponding to the excitation frequency and to receive mechanical oscillations from the oscillatable unit and to convert such into an electrical received signal, and an electronics unit embodied, to produce the exciter signal, and to ascertain from the received signal the at least one process variable. The membrane is connected with the driving/receiving unit. The oscillatory element has the shape of an oscillatory rod, on which a paddle is terminally formed, and the oscillatory element is secured on the membrane in an end region remote from the paddle. Mass distribution, stiffness and/or geometry of the oscillatable unit is/are selected in such a manner that at least one of the oscillation modes of the oscillatable unit higher in reference to the oscillation mode corresponding to the excitation frequency lies in the range between two neighboring whole-numbered multiples of the excitation frequency.
US10557821B2	Methods and systems for variant detection In one exemplary embodiment, a method for detecting variants in electropherogram data is provided. The method includes receiving electropherogram data from an instrument and analyzing the electropherogram data to identify mixed bases in the electropherogram data. The method further includes validating the identified mixed bases. Then the method includes determining variants in the electropherogram data based on the validated mixed bases.
US10557816B2	Sensor element for detecting HCl gas, sensor device having the sensor element, and method of manufacturing the sensor element The present invention relates to a sensor element for detecting hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas, a sensor device having the sensor element, and a method of manufacturing the sensor element, wherein the sensor element includes: an ionic layer including a Ag ion obtained through ionization; an ion conductive layer, in which the Ag ion is conducted, the ion conductive layer being formed on the ionic layer; and a reactive layer, in which the Ag ion conducted from the ion conductive layer and HCl gas react with each other, the reactive layer being formed on the ion conductive layer. The sensor element detects HCl gas generated from insulting materials when fire occurs, thereby detecting an electrical fire and preventing gas and fire spreading.
US10557810B2	Ice nucleating particle spectrometer Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing an exemplary immersion mode ice spectrometer. In order to increase sample throughput and improve accuracy of Ice Nucleating Particle (INP) freezing temperature measurement, the exemplary immersion mode ice spectrometer both increases sample cooling rates and monitors changes in optical properties of water droplets during freezing.

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