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US10568025B2	Power management in wireless communications devices An approach is provided for data processing methods wherein a PHY layer transmit operation is constructed by aggregating MAC layer data units (MPDUs) by means of a linked list. A link list of TX descriptors can be formed separately from the payloads. In order to minimize processor speed rates, the next transmission buffer is pre-fetched whenever appropriate. Interlocks are used to prevent conflict on descriptor fetches and payload fetches.
US10568019B2	Worker safety system A network for connecting a plurality of network nodes includes a leader node and a plurality of follower nodes. The leader node transmits a sync message to the plurality of follower nodes indicating a beginning of a network interval, wherein the leader node and the plurality of follower nodes transmit information during a transmission period and do not transmit information during a sleep period of the network interval, and wherein during a predetermined time of the transmission period of the network interval each of the follower nodes that received the sync message transmit a message advertising one or more properties of the leader node. The network nodes are environmental sensing devices that are part of a worker safety system.
US10568012B2	Device and method of handling mobility management A communication device for handling mobility management includes a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage unit. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The communication device performs attaching to a first network and not having an active Packet Data Network (PDN) connection with the first network; selecting a second network after attaching to the first network; initiating an attach procedure to the second network, if the second network does not support an attach without the PDN connection establishment; and initiating a tracking area update (TAU) procedure to the second network, if the second network supports the attach without the PDN connection establishment.
US10568011B2	Method and apparatus for selecting target network side device A method for selecting a target network side device includes: after at least one first network side device completes admission control and receives a data packet for user equipment, selecting, by the user equipment, from the at least one first network side device according to configuration information of the at least one first network side device, a first network side device that meets a first preset condition as a target network side device to communication with the user equipment, where the at least one first network side device is a candidate target network side device that is determined by a second network side device and that is for communication with the user equipment that meets a second preset condition; and sending, by the user equipment to the first network side device, a message instructing the first network side device to provide a service for the user equipment.
US10568007B2	Handover random access Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Random access procedures may include various types of procedures, such as 4-step or 2-step random access procedures. One or more indicators may be included in one or more messages for a handover to indicate a type of a random access procedure.
US10568006B2	Determining the need for a routing area update for packet switched handover in multi-operator core network A method is implemented by a controller functioning as a node in a source Radio Access Network (RAN) to control handover of a mobile station (MS), where the handover of the MS is from a source cell of the source RAN operating in packet switched (PS) domain to a target cell of a target RAN operating in PS domain. The target RAN supports multi-operator core network (MOCN). The method includes transmitting a system information 3 (SI3) message by the node to the MS, the SI3 message including a selected public land mobile network (PLMN) of the target cell, and transmitting a PS handover command to the MS subsequent to transmitting the SI3 message.
US10568005B2	Method and system for X2-messaging in cloud radio access network (C-RAN) This disclosure relates generally to cloud radio access network (C-RAN), and more particularly to X2-messaging in the C-RAN. The method may include receiving, by a control unit in the CRAN, in the C-RAN, a request from a first virtual eNodeB (eNB) associated with a source eNodeB (eNB) to establish a X2 interface with each virtual eNB associated with a set of neighbor eNBs. A second virtual eNB associated with a target eNB may be selected from the virtual eNBs associated with the set of neighbor eNBs. A check may be made to determine whether the first virtual eNB and the second virtual eNB associated with the target eNB are co-located on same datacenter in the C-RAN. At least one X2 message may be transmitted between the first virtual eNB and the second virtual eNB that are co-located on the datacenter based on eNB information accessed from a shared storage.
US10568004B2	Layer 2 (L2) mobility for new radio (NR) networks A UE comprises: a memory comprising instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to: wirelessly communicate with a source node, perform a handover from the source node to a target node using L2 signaling in response to a handover decision between the source node and the target node, and wirelessly communicate with the target node in response to the handover. A method implemented by a UE comprises: wirelessly communicating with a source node; performing a handover from the source node to a target node using L2 signaling and in response to a handover decision; and wirelessly communicating with the target node in response to the handover.
US10567992B2	Network device KPI monitors based on bitmaps In example implementations, a method is provided. The method collects key performance indicator (KPI) data of a plurality of network devices periodically. The KPI data of each one of the plurality of network devices is converted into a bitmap for each time period that the KPI data is collected. A number of the plurality of network devices that have exceeded a KPI threshold is detected based on the bitmap for the each time period. A determination is made that the number of the plurality of network devices exceeds a number threshold. In response to the determination, a time series graphical image of the KPI data for the each time period is generated based on the bitmap for the each time period.
US10567991B2	Measuring multiple carriers under discontinuous activity According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device capable of operating in discontinuous activity mode comprises: determining that the wireless device is configured with a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle longer than a DRX threshold; obtaining a reduced measurement group comprising a set of one or more cells or carriers to be measured; comparing a signal level of the serving cell at the wireless device with a signal threshold; and when the signal level of the serving cell at the wireless device is below the signal threshold, performing a measurement on the set of one or more cells or carriers of the reduced measurement group. Some embodiments include obtaining a normal measurement group comprising a set of one or more cells or carriers to be measured and measuring the normal measurement group when the signal level is equal to or above the signal threshold.
US10567985B2	Relay node related measurements A method for relay node related measurements is provided. The method includes the following steps: obtaining air interface related measurements; and forming form the measurements at least one merely relay node related measurement result. The method can facilitate use of relay nodes and guarantee the advantages provided by the relay nodes.
US10567980B2	Methodology and method and apparatus for signaling with capacity optimized constellations Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US10567977B2	Method and apparatus for configuring criteria for relay configuration in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for determining to be a relay UE in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) receives reference signal received power (RSRP) based criteria from a network, and determines to be a relay UE when a specific condition corresponding to the RSRP based criteria is met. The UE may further receive a hysteresis value from the network. When a measured RSRP of the UE plus the hysteresis value is below the RSRP threshold, the UE may determine to be a relay UE.
US10567974B2	Monitoring non-supported wireless spectrum within coverage areas of distributed antenna systems (DASS) Monitoring non-supported wireless spectrum within a coverage area of a distributed antenna system (DAS) in which a listening module connected to a remote unit of the DAS monitors non-supported wireless frequencies (i.e., frequencies that are outside the frequency ranges supported by the downlink and uplink signals of the DAS), via one or more antennas. The listening module also transmits the wireless frequencies to a monitoring module connected to head-end equipment (HEE) of the DAS. In that manner, a monitoring module can use an existing DAS infrastructure to monitor non-supported portions of the wireless spectrum at remote locations. In addition to avoiding the need to run a parallel DAS infrastructure, the disclosed arrangements are also useful in shared spectrum environments and other environments where efficient spectrum utilization is desired.
US10567973B2	Communication control device, storage device, communication control determination device, and server device [Object] To provide a communication control device capable of allowing coexistence of communication nodes in any implementation.[Solution] Provided is the communication control device including: a transmission unit configured to transmit an acquisition request of connection information to a storage device storing the connection information for connection to a communication control determination device that controls coexistence of a plurality of wireless systems; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a response including the connection information from the storage device; and a control unit configured to select, on a basis of at least one reference, a communication control determination device from the connection information received from the storage device. The reference relates to information necessary for communication control for the coexistence.
US10567968B2	Information configuration method, information configuration apparatus and communication system An information configuration method, an information configuration apparatus and a communication system, wherein the method includes: the base station configures a user equipment (UE) with a mapping relation between configuration information of one or more sets of reference signals and indication information indicating the configuration information according to an antenna port formed by virtualizing a two-dimensional planar antenna array. By configuring the UE with the configuration information by the base station according to the antenna port formed by virtualizing the two-dimensional planar antenna array, the configuration information is adaptive to the two-dimensional planar antenna array, such that the user end accurately acquires the configuration information of the array.
US10567959B2	System and method for managing application data of contactless card applications For managing application data of different contactless card applications for a plurality of mobile communication devices (2), a card emulation module and application data for contactless card applications are transferred (S2, S3) by a computer system (1) to one of the mobile communication devices (2). The card emulation module is configured to control the mobile communication device (2) to emulate a contactless card module and to execute data transactions (S6, S7) via a close range wireless communication interface of the mobile communication device (2) using the application data. The computer system (1) maintains (S20, S30, S40, S50, S60) for the mobile communication devices (2) a card database with representations of the card emulation modules and their application data. The computer system (1) makes it possible to manage centrally and flexibly the application data of different contactless card applications and different application providers for a plurality of mobile communication devices (2).
US10567948B1	User equipment identification from mobile high-speed wireless uplink channels Systems and methods can support identifying wireless devices from radio frequency sensors positioned within an electromagnetic environment where one or more user equipment devices are serviced by a base station. The radio frequency sensors can receive wireless uplink signals transmitted from the user equipment devices to the base station. Data samples can be generated from the received signals. Frequency domain samples can be computed from the data samples. The data samples can be partitioned in time and frequency to generate spectrum tiles. The spectrum tiles can be statistically aggregated in a frequency domain to reduce the quantity of data samples. A clustering algorithm may be applied to the statistically aggregated spectrum tiles. Unique instances of the user equipment devices may be identified from the clustered spectrum tiles to enumerate the instances of the user equipment devices.
US10567945B2	Emergency services delivery A cell broadcast emergency services delivery mechanism for vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) communication is provided. A method can comprise receiving, from a federal emergency management agency device, first data representing federal management emergency event data, aggregating second data representing an emergency event associated with a vehicle with the first data to form third data, based on the emergency event data and the third data, determining a commonality between the first data and the second data, in response to determining the commonality between the first data and the second data, generating metadata, and broadcasting the metadata to the vehicle.
US10567942B2	Communication apparatus and communication control method A communication apparatus includes a communication unit and a controller. The controller determines, according to a first reference of received signal strength in one communication apparatus which is either an external communication apparatus or the communication apparatus, a transmitted signal strength for a transmission radio wave from the other communication apparatus as a first reference of transmitted signal strength. The controller determines a second reference of transmitted signal strength between the first reference of transmitted signal strength and a maximum strength of transmitted signal strength from the other communication apparatus. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the controller obtains a received signal strength of the one communication apparatus for the transmission radio wave in the second reference of transmitted signal strength and determines a transmitted signal strength of a transmission radio wave from the other communication apparatus according to the received signal strength.
US10567941B2	Methods for maintaining line-of-sight communications An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive millimeter wave signals. Beam steering circuitry may be coupled to the phased antenna array and may be adjusted to steer the millimeter wave signals in a particular direction. The control circuitry may track the location of an external device using sensor data. The control circuitry may control a mechanical positioner to mechanically adjust an orientation of the phased antenna array and/or may control the beam steering circuitry to steer the millimeter wave signals towards the location of the external device. In this way, a line of sight millimeter wave communications link may be maintained between the phased antenna array and the external device even if the external device moves over time.
US10567935B1	Connected services configuration for connecting a mobile device to applications to perform tasks A system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle, a first computing device associated with a driver of the vehicle, and a server. The server may receive, from the telematics device or another device, driving behavior data, a vehicle location, and a time corresponding to the vehicle location, and parse data regarding a driver's calendar in order to identify a scheduled meeting or event and a location and/or time associated therewith. Further, the server may estimate a time of arrival at which the vehicle will arrive at the meeting or event location, determine whether or not the driver will be late to the meeting or event, and take action as appropriate.
US10567932B2	Positioning adapter, communication method, indoor positioning system and method The present disclosure provides a positioning adapter, a communication method, an indoor positioning system and an indoor positioning method. The positioning adapter includes: a first communication circuit, an encoder, a second communication circuit and an adaptation interface. The first communication circuit is configured to receive position information, and send the position information as well as identity information to the encoder. The encoder is configured to receive the position information and the identity information, obtain encoded information that matches the smart device by encoding the position information and the identity information, and send the encoded information to the second communication circuit. The second communication circuit is configured to receive the coded information and transmit the coded information to the smart device through the adaptation interface. The adaptation interface is configured to connect the positioning adapter with the smart device, and communicate with the smart device through the second communication circuit.
US10567928B2	Methods and arrangements for sensors Generally, smart sensors, logic to process messages from smart sensors, and smart sensor systems are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to communicate events as messages via a messaging system to post the messages to a messaging account. The messaging system may be a texting service like Twitter™ that captures the messages and then re-broadcasts the messages, e.g., immediately as a tweet or a cellular text message. In some embodiments, the smart sensor comprises a communications module with a Twitter™ application program interface (API) on a communications platform with a software/hardware framework to interconnect with one or more pluggable monitors with sensors. In other embodiments, the communications module may be integrated with one or more monitors. Further embodiments comprise a smart-device, which can provide status updates and event notifications to a user.
US10567926B2	Apparatus and method for sending and receiving broadcast signals A broadcast signal receiver includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal, a pilot detector configured to detect pilots comprised in the tuned broadcast signal, a de-framer configured to de-frame a signal frame of the broadcast signal and to extract Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, and a decoder configured to decode the extracted PLP data.
US10567923B2	Computation service for mobile nodes in a roadway environment The disclosure includes embodiments for providing a service to a vehicle via a macro-vehicular cloud. A method, according to some embodiments, is implemented by the vehicle which communicatively coupled to the macro-vehicular cloud via a non-infrastructure network. The macro-vehicular cloud includes a plurality of micro-vehicular clouds which each include a set of onboard vehicle computers that are operable to provide a set of computing resources to the macro-vehicular cloud via the non-infrastructure network. The method includes transmitting, via the non-infrastructure network, a wireless message requesting a merge service from the macro-vehicular cloud. The method includes receiving, via the non-infrastructure network, the merge service from the set of computing resources of the macro-vehicular cloud. The merge service includes the macro-vehicular cloud instructing the vehicle to merge into a lane of a roadway.
US10567922B2	Wireless network service assessment Methods of creating an indoor confidence level comprising: receiving a location and location accuracy value from or for a device, wherein the location accuracy value is equated to a location accuracy circle; comparing the location and location accuracy circle to a map of known buildings and outdoor locations; and defining an indoor confidence level based upon the percent of overlap of the accuracy radius to a building on said map; and methods of defining an optimization priority among a set of collected data points for network connectivity.
US10567915B2	System and methods of searching for an object using hyper-local location techniques Embodiments are provided for enhancing an in-store retail experience for a customer by providing information relevant to objects and services using hyper-local location techniques to facilitate identification of objects and services available for sale in a premise. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may determine a location of the electronic device and generate object capture information based on detecting the object or service at the physical premise by a viewfinder of the electronic device. The electronic device may display, on an interface, notification information particular to the object or service corresponding to the location and object capture information.
US10567910B2	Workzone safety system An apparatus includes a wireless communication system capable of receiving position information for a plurality of workers in a work zone and a position system capable of providing position information for a piece of movable equipment in the work zone. A processor is capable of receiving the position information for the plurality of workers and the position information for the movable equipment and is capable of determining the position of the workers relative to the position of the movable equipment.
US10567909B2	Wireless dissemination of environment aware information The method and system disclosed herein enables non-spamming dissemination of environment and proximity aware information and advertisements to a user of a mobile device. The method disclosed herein provides a client application on the mobile device. The client application detects the presence of base station sensor devices in proximity to the user. Service offerings information of vendors is then transferred to the client application. The client application categorizes the service offerings information into multiple categories. The client application communicates with the base station sensor devices to receive business information and advertisements of the vendors based on categories selected by the user. Environmental sensors capture environmental data of a region surrounding the base station sensor devices. The business information and advertisements are correlated with the environmental data and local time data. The correlated information and advertisements are then transferred to the client application.
US10567907B2	Systems and methods for transmitting and updating content by a beacon architecture Messaging communications systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example system includes a beacon architecture including a server; and a plurality of beacons arranged around an environment, the server being configured to sense a real-time center of gravity of a communication device from any of the plurality of beacons receiving communications from the communication device, the real-time center of gravity being a location of the communication device within the environment, transmit a notification to the communication device, the notification including a link to content based on the real-time center of gravity, and transmit the content to the communication device based on a selection of the link.
US10567906B1	User adapted location based services Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining location data of a client computer device in reference to a geofence, the client computer device being associated to a certain user, the geofence being associated to a certain enterprise venue; in response to a breach of the geofence by the client computer device, initiating a process to obtain user associated data of the certain user; providing, while the client computer device is located within the geofence, one to more output observable by the certain user in dependence on data of the user associated data obtained by the initiated process; and in response to an exiting of the geofence by the client computer device terminating the process to obtain user associated data of the certain user.
US10567905B2	Systems and methods for locating a mobile device using angle of arrival and inertial sensor measurements Angle of arrival (AOA) and differential AOA (DAOA) positioning for a user equipment (UE) is enhanced by using the UE's inertial sensors to track UE motion and change in angular UE orientation. UE location may be computed, by the UE or a location server, using triangulation for AOA measurements relative to a global reference frame or using multilateration for DAOA measurements. The computed UE location may remain accurate even when the UE is moving while obtaining measurements. The UE can also use AOA and DAOA measurements using 3D angles to increase accuracy when the UE and measured base stations are not in the same horizontal plane. 3D angles can also be used to identify whether the UE is close to a serving base station to improve accuracy further. Various non-AOA measurements may also be used to supplement AOA and DAOA measurements.
US10567904B2	System and method for headphones for monitoring an environment outside of a user's field of view In at least one embodiment, a computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that is programmed to provide an alert for a user of an environment outside of the user's visual field of view is provided. The computer-program product includes instructions to receive an echo profile indicative of at least one object outside of the user's visual field of view from headphones and to receive a command indicative of at least one object to detect on the echo profile from the user. The computer-program product includes instructions to generate an alert for the user to notify the user of a detected object in the user's visual field of view in the event the echo profile includes the at least one object.
US10567897B2	Assembly aid for miniature transducer An electroacoustic transducer comprises a sleeve extending along a longitudinal axis; a diaphragm coupled to the sleeve at a first end of the sleeve; a subassembly in the sleeve; and an alignment element extending from the subassembly in a direction substantially away from the diaphragm.
US10567889B2	Binaural hearing system and method The present disclosure regards a binaural hearing system configured to receive sound signals from the environment having two hearing instruments to be worn on respective sides of the head of a user and to generate a binaural signal using the received sound signals of both hearing instruments.
US10567885B2	Electroacoustic transducer, and associated assembly and system Disclosed is an acoustic transducer for converting a sound signal into an electric signal, including a mobile element movable under the effect of the sound signal, a fixed element opposite the mobile element, a recess, and a dissipative element between the mobile and fixed elements. The coupled system has a natural frequency corresponding to a resonance frequency of the transducer set at maximum sensitivity. The mobile element, the fixed element, the dissipative element and the recess are configured so the quality factor of the acoustic transducer>2. The recess has a straight prismatic, cylindrical, or frustoconical shape, the mobile element forming a first base of the prism, cylinder, or frustum, the fixed element being inside the prism, cylinder or frustum, over the second base of the prism, cylinder or frustum. Such a transducer also incorporates an analogue filtering function for filtering the signal around the natural frequency of same.
US10567879B2	Combined near-field and far-field audio rendering and playback Some disclosed methods may involve receiving audio reproduction data and determining, based on the audio reproduction data, a sound source location at which a sound is to be rendered. A near-field gain and a far-field gain may be based, at least in part, on a sound source distance between the sound source location and a reproduction environment location. Room speaker feed signals may be based, at least in part, on room speaker positions, the sound source location and the far-field gain. Near-field speaker feed signals may be based, at least in part, on the near-field gain, the sound source location and a position of near-field speakers.
US10567877B2	Method and electronic device for playing audio data using dual speaker An electronic device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. Electronic device includes first speaker and second speaker arranged in electronic device, processor operatively connected with first speaker and second speaker, and memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions executed to enable the processor to detect an orientation or attitude of the electronic device while playing first channel audio data and second channel audio data via the first speaker and the second speaker, and based on at least part of the detected orientation or attitude of the electronic device, keep outputting a first frequency component of the first channel audio data and a second frequency component of the second channel audio data via the first speaker and the second speaker and switch a second frequency component of the first channel audio data and a first frequency component of the second channel audio data.
US10567872B2	Locally silenced sound field forming apparatus and method The present technology relates to a locally silenced sound field forming apparatus and method capable of controlling a silenced area in a depth direction. The locally silenced sound field forming apparatus includes a first speaker array that outputs a sound on the basis of a first speaker drive signal to form a predetermined sound field, and a second speaker array arranged at a position different from the position of the first speaker array and that outputs a sound on the basis of a second speaker drive signal to form a sound field that cancels the predetermined sound field. The present technology can be applied to a locally silenced sound field forming apparatus.
US10567870B2	Shotgun microphone unit A shotgun microphone unit which includes a housing, a microphone capsule, a shotgun tube having a longitudinal axis, and a shotgun mounting for mounting the shotgun tube with the microphone capsule within the housing. The shotgun mounting has an axial and a radial mounting, wherein the axial mounting is softer than the radial mounting.
US10567869B2	Sound-absorbing component and speaker module applying the sound-absorbing component Disclosed is a sound-absorbing component, comprising a housing and sound-absorbing particles filled in the housing. An antistatic material is added to the materials from which the housing is made, or the antistatic material is coated on the surface of the housing. Also disclosed is a speaker module applying the sound-absorbing component. The sound-absorbing component of the present invention greatly increases the fill rate of the sound-absorbing particles in the housing, thus allowing the space of the rear acoustic cavity of the speaker module applying the sound-absorbing component to be fully utilized, and allowing the sound-absorbing particles to fully exert the effects thereof in improving the acoustic properties of the speaker module.
US10567854B1	Redundant sensor system with fault detection and mitigation A system includes first and second modules, each having a sensor and a processing circuit. First and second fault detection circuits are coupled with respective first and second modules. Each of the first and second fault detection circuits determines from a processed signal output from a corresponding module whether the module is faulted, prevents output of the processed signal when the module is faulted, and enables output of the processed signal when the module is not faulted. A signal processing unit combines the processed signals from the first and second modules to produce a first output signal when neither of the first and second modules is faulted, and the signal processing unit produces a second output signal by utilizing only the processed signal from a non-faulted one of the first and second modules when the other of the first and second modules is faulted.
US10567851B2	Broadcast signal transmitting method, broadcast signal receiving method, broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, and broadcast signal receiving apparatus Provided is a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method includes generating a plurality of input packets including broadcast data, generating at least one link layer packet using the input packets, wherein a header of the link layer packet includes packet type information and packet configuration information, the packet type information indicates a type of an input packet included in a payload of the link layer packet, and the packet configuration information indicates a payload configuration of the link layer packet, generating a broadcast signal using the link layer packet, and transmitting the broadcast signal.
US10567837B2	System for providing cloud-based user interfaces and method thereof Disclosed are a system for providing cloud-based user interfaces and a method thereof. More particularly, a subscriber terminal device according to the present disclosure may include a control command receiver configured to receive a first control command including description information on a template repeated on a UI (User Interface) screen and a second control command including a replication command for the template from a remote application server; a template generator configured to generate a template the based on the description information on the template; a UI resource acquirer configured to acquire a UI resource based on the second control command; and a UI element generator configured to generate UI elements based on replication of the template and apply the UI resource to the UI element.
US10567835B2	Media channel identification with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on single-match Disclosed herein are methods and systems to help disambiguate channel identification in a scenario where fingerprint data of media content matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different channels. Upon detecting such a multi-match, a server or other entity will perform disambiguation based on a determination that a segment of the fingerprint data matches a reference fingerprint corresponding with just a single channel, such as a reference fingerprint representing commercial or news programming content specific to just the single channel. The server or other entity will thereby determine the channel on which the media content being rendered by the media presentation device is arriving, so as to facilitate taking channel-specific action.
US10567833B2	Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus and transmission method The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus and a transmission method in which NRT service is provided in digital broadcasting using an IP transmission method. There is provided a reception apparatus including: a channel selection control unit that performs a channel selection control of channel-selecting digital broadcasting using the IP transmission method; an acquisition control unit that controls acquisition of an application delivered through broadcasting or communication in the digital broadcasting based on signaling information transmitted at a layer higher than an IP layer in a protocol layer of the IP transmission method; and an application execution unit that executes the application acquired. The present technology is applicable to a television receiver, for example.
US10567827B2	Method of detecting and synchronizing audio and video signals and audio/video detection and synchronization system There is provided a method of detecting and synchronizing audio/video signals. At least one audio signal is detected by means of at least one microphone unit. Timestamps are generated and stored together with the detected audio signal in the microphone unit. An optical synchronization signal is output by the microphone unit, wherein the optical synchronization signal contains optical timestamps which are respectively associated with one of the generated timestamps. At least one video signal is detected by means of at least one camera unit. The video signal at least partially has the optical synchronization signal output by the microphone unit. The optical timestamps contained in the optical synchronization signal are extracted. The video signal and the audio signal are synchronized on the basis of the timestamps in the audio signal and the optical timestamps extracted from the detected optical synchronization signal.
US10567822B2	Providing streamed content responsive to request There is disclosed a server for providing content, the server being configured to: receive a request defining one or more characteristics of content; access content from a plurality of content sources; and determine content responsive to the request in dependence on the accessed content.
US10567793B2	Adaptive overlapped block prediction in variable block size video coding Encoding frames of a video stream may include encoding a current block of a current frame, generating a base prediction block for the current block based on current prediction parameters associated with the current block, identifying adjacent prediction parameters used for encoding previously encoded adjacent blocks that are adjacent to the current block. At least one side of the current block is adjacent to two or more of the previously encoded adjacent blocks. The encoding may include determining overlap regions in the current block, each of the overlap regions corresponding to a respective previously encoded adjacent block, generating an overlapped prediction of pixel values for each of the overlap regions according to a weighted function of the base prediction and a prediction based on the adjacent prediction parameters. The weighted function may be based on a difference between the current prediction parameters and the adjacent prediction parameters.
US10567792B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector predictor from the list; and coding a current block and coding a current motion vector, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
US10567782B2	Method for encoding/decoding block information using quad tree, and device for using same Disclosed decoding method of the intra prediction mode comprises the steps of: determining whether an intra prediction mode of a present prediction unit is the same as a first candidate intra prediction mode or as a second candidate intra prediction mode on the basis of 1-bit information; and determining, among said first candidate intra prediction mode and said second candidate intra prediction mode, which candidate intra prediction mode is the same as the intra prediction mode of said present prediction unit on the basis of additional 1-bit information, if the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit is the same as at least either the first candidate intra prediction mode or the second candidate intra prediction mode, and decoding the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit.
US10567780B2	System and method for encoding 360° immersive video A system and method for effectuating optimized 360° immersive video viewing experience. A media input stream is coded into a plurality of phase-encoded bitstreams in multiple bitrate representations with varying video qualities. Each phase-encoded bitstream that belongs to a particular bitrate representation includes a number (N) of frames with a specific GOP structure having a GOP size (p), wherein the plurality of phase-encoded bitstreams equals the GOP size. For each pth phase-encoded bitstream, N frames are encoded as follows: at least a first frame is encoded as an I-frame; and a frame at a frame position i, for 2≤i≤N, that satisfies {i Mod (GOP size)}=p is encoded as an X-frame that has a slice header of a P-frame and includes blocks of only intra-coded data, otherwise, that frame is encoded as a P-frame having blocks of predictive-coded data (P-blocks) with a P-slice header.
US10567768B2	Techniques for calculation of quantization matrices in video coding Techniques are disclosed for developing quantization matrices for use in video coding. According to these techniques a first quantization matrix may be derived from a second quantization matrix by scaling quantization values of the second quantization matrix by scaling parameters. The scaling parameters may increase according to distance between each matrix position and a matrix origin, they may be derived from characteristics of a video sequence to be coded, or both. The first quantization matrix may be communicated to a decoder. Thereafter, a video sequence may be coded predictively. As part of the coding, pixel data of the video sequence may be transformed to a plurality of frequency domain coefficients, and the frequency domain coefficients may be quantized according to the first quantization matrix.
US10567760B2	Apparatus for encoding an image Provided is a method that de-multiplexes a bit stream to extract intra prediction mode information and residual signals, restores an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit using the intra prediction information and intra prediction modes of prediction units adjacent to the current prediction unit, generates reference pixels using one or more available reference pixel if there exist unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, adaptively filters the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode, generates a prediction block using the restored intra prediction mode and the reference pixels, decodes the residual signal to generating a residual block, and generates a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.
US10567748B2	Targetless vehicular camera calibration method A method of calibrating a vehicular camera includes disposing a camera at a vehicle, moving the vehicle along an arbitrary path, capturing image data with the camera, and processing, via a processor, image data captured by the camera. Responsive to tracking a determined feature across multiple frames of captured image data during movement of the vehicle along the arbitrary path, and responsive to received vehicle data representative of the movement of the vehicle along the arbitrary path, misalignment of the camera is determined. The determined camera misalignment is corrected (i) without use of a target in the field of view of the camera as the vehicle moves along the arbitrary path and (ii) without processing of image data captured by the camera that is representative of a target in the field of view of the camera as the vehicle moves along the arbitrary path.
US10567743B1	See-through based display method and system for simulators A display system for a simulator comprising: a main display for displaying a simulated scene, the first display being positionable away from a user; a see-through display for displaying a portion of the simulated scene, the see-through display being wearable by the user; a filter for filtering a portion of a field of view of the user; and a control unit configured for: receiving environment images, the environment images comprising a first set of images of the simulated scene, a second set of images of the simulated scene and a third set of images of at least a portion of the simulated scene; displaying the first and second set of images on the first display; and displaying the third set of images on the see-through display.
US10567732B2	Method and device for stereoscopic vision A stereoscopic vision device, a method and a robot, the stereoscopic vision device comprising: a first image capture device and a second image capture device configured to capture a light pattern formed in an environment of the device by a light source configured to emit NIR light at a multiplicity of directions, each of the first image capture device and the second image capture device comprising a filter configured to transmit at least 75 percent of the NIR light, and to transmit at most 50 percent of visible light; and a processor configured to: determine depth information of the environment from a first image captured by the first image capture device and a second image captured by the second image capture device, based on the light pattern as depicted in the first image and the second image; and determine color information of the environment the first image and the second image.
US10567725B2	Information processing apparatus, information recording medium, information processing method, and program There is provided an information processing apparatus that reproduces data recorded onto a recording medium, the apparatus including: circuitry configured to convert a color space of an image recorded onto the recording medium, and superimpose a main content image and a sub-content image recorded onto the recording medium, wherein, when a color space of the main content image corresponds to BT.709 format, the circuitry determines to convert color spaces of the sub-content image and the main content image into the same color space, and wherein, when the color space of the main content image corresponds to BT.2020 format, the circuitry determines to not convert the color space of the sub-content image into BT.2020 format.
US10567721B2	Using a light color sensor to improve a representation of colors in captured image data A method, a system, and a computer program product for applying a white balance correction to an image data captured by a camera sensor based on a current level of ambient color. The method includes capturing, via a camera sensor, image data of a scene. The method further includes contemporaneously measuring, via a light color sensor, an amount of ambient color. The method further includes calculating a determinant value that represents a magnitude of variance of colors in the scene. The method further includes in response to determining the determinant value is less than a determinant threshold: generating a white balance correction based at least in part on the measured amount of ambient color and applying the white balance correction to the image data to generate a corrected image data having colors that more accurately represent colors in the current scene.
US10567716B2	Projection system, light beam generating device thereof and method for controlling light beam luminance A projection system, a light beam generating device thereof and a method for controlling light beam luminance are provided. The light beam generating device includes a first controller, a driver, an illuminating device, a sensing device and a second controller. The driver generates a driving current according to a control command. The illuminating device generates an output light beam according to the driving current. The sensing device detects the driving current and the output light beam to respectively generate a sensing current signal and a sensing luminance signal. The second controller generates an adjustment signal according to the sensing current signal and the sensing luminance signal. The first controller or the second controller generates the control command according to the adjustment signal, and a computing speed of the second controller is greater than a computing speed of the first controller.
US10567713B2	Camera and method of producing color images A camera comprising: an aperture; an image sensor comprising a plurality of pairs of pixels where in each pair: a first pixel is configured such that it detects radiation which has entered the camera through the aperture to the image sensor via a first radiation path, and a second pixel is configured such that it detects radiation which has entered the camera through the aperture to the image sensor via a second radiation path, the second radiation path being different from the first radiation path; and a filter arranged in the vicinity of the aperture, wherein the filter comprises a first portion configured to block IR-radiation or visible light and a second portion configured to be transparent to wavelengths that are blocked by the first portion, wherein radiation passing the first portion travels to the first pixels, and radiation passing the second portion travels to the second pixels.
US10567704B2	Method for motion estimation between two images of an environmental region of a motor vehicle, computing device, driver assistance system as well as motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for motion estimation between two images of an environmental region (9) of a motor vehicle (1) captured by a camera (4) of the motor vehicle (1), wherein the following steps are performed: a) determining at least two image areas of a first image as at least two first blocks (B) in the first image, b) for each first block (B), defining a respective search region in a second image for searching the respective search region in the second image for a second block (B) corresponding to the respective first block (B); c) determining a cost surface (18) for each first blocks (B) and its respective search region; d) determining an averaged cost surface (19) for one of the at least two first blocks (B) based on the cost surfaces (18); d) identifying a motion vector (v) for the one of the first blocks (B) describing a motion of a location of the first block (B) in the first image and the corresponding second block (B) in the second image. The invention also relates to a computing device (3), a driver assistance system (2) as well as a motor vehicle (1).
US10567703B2	High frame rate video compatible with existing receivers and amenable to video decoder implementation Methods and systems for achieving a high frame rate video with compatibility for existing receivers without depending bitstream encoding are provided herein. For example, an apparatus comprises: a memory; and one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored in the memory. The instructions comprise: receiving a first bitstream having a first packet identifier (“PID”) and a second bitstream having a second PID; decoding the first bitstream and the second bitstream; and interleaving the decoded first bitstream and the decoded second bitstream to form a high frame rate video signal, wherein the high frame rate video signal has a frame rate equal to the sum of the frame rate of the decoded first bitstream and the decoded second bitstream.
US10567699B2	Information processing apparatus to improve image quality by removing flicker component from captured image There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image, a key information acquisition unit that acquires key information for extracting a light temporal modulation component included in the captured image, and a modulation component extraction unit that extracts the modulation component from the captured image based on the key information.
US10567696B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus and control method thereof A broadcast receiving for updating service map information by scanning the broadcast signal when signaling information included in a broadcast signal has been changed.
US10567684B2	System and method for using filtering and pixel correlation to increase sensitivity in image sensors An over sampled image sensor in which the pixel size is small enough to provide spatial oversampling of the minimum blur size of the sensor optics is disclosed. Image processing to detect targets below the typical limit of 6× the temporal noise floor is also disclosed. The apparatus is useful in detecting dimmer targets and targets at a longer range from the sensors. The inventions exploits signal processing, which allows spatial temporal filtering of the superpixel image in such manner that the Noise Equivalent Power is reduced by a means of Superpixel Filtering and Pooling, which increases the sensitivity far beyond a non-oversampled imager. Overall visual acuity is improved due to the ability to detect dimmer targets, provide better resolution of low intensity targets, and improvements in false alarm rejection.
US10567678B2	Multispectral camera replaceable filter array Multispectral cameras may be used for aerial imaging, such as in precision agriculture aerial imaging applications. In particular, multispectral camera mounted on an aerial vehicle may be used to determine vegetative indices of the plants being photographed. A multispectral imaging method may include optically filtering a plurality of images through a plurality of optical image filters within a swappable filter cartridge, receiving the filtered plurality of images at a plurality of image sensors within a multiple image sensor module, each of the plurality of image sensors corresponding to each of the plurality of optical image filters, and storing the received plurality of images at a memory within the multiple image sensor module.
US10567668B2	Image capturing apparatus capable of intermittently capturing images, method for controlling the same, and recording medium An image capturing apparatus for intermittently acquiring first images for use in generating a time lapse moving image, from among images corresponding to frames included in a moving image. The image capturing apparatus includes a target value setting unit configured to, based on a result of photometry, set a target value regarding an exposure when an image is acquired, a control value calculation unit configured to calculate a control value with respect to each frame regarding the exposure when brightness is changed toward the target value, and a control unit configured to control the exposure based on the control value. In a predetermined period before each first image is acquired, the control unit changes the exposure by a first degree of change, and outside the predetermined period, the control unit changes the exposure by a second degree of change different from the first degree of change.
US10567665B2	Display control device and display control system A display control device for controlling displaying of images taken by a plurality of cameras each having a function of changing a zoom magnification includes: an operation unit including an operation element provided for each of the cameras to accept an operator's operation of setting the zoom magnification of the cameras, the operation unit being configured to output a input pulse signal corresponding to an operation amount of the operation element; and a W/T pulse convertor configured to convert the input pulse signal to a reference pulse signal that is uniformized variations in the zoom magnification of respective cameras with respect to a predetermined operation amount of the operation element, and output the second control signal to a corresponding camera.
US10567661B2	Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof An electronic apparatus which prevents and/or reduces photographing of contents is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera and a processor configured to cause the electronic apparatus to turn off the display and/or control a display to display a UI for restricting photographing of the content in response to a predetermined object being detected in an image received by the camera.
US10567654B2	Automatic structurally induced line of sight jitter compensation for electro-optical/infrared turret system A light sensor system including a reference light source that moves in unison with a primary mirror and/or an inertial measurement device, and/or the reference light source is directed toward an obscured region of the light sensor system. The reference light source may allow for improved jitter compensation based on feedback of the reference light. The feedback may be representative of the elastic deformation of the optics and telescope optical axis. The improved jitter compensation may allow for the light sensor system (e.g., the housing and/or mirrors) to be built with less stiff materials, which can reduce the cost of manufacturing the present light sensor system compared to previously known optical sensor systems. In cases of high vibration levels which would otherwise degrade the resulting image quality after material stiffness property selections have been exhausted, the light sensor system may provide jitter compensation to improve video or still image quality.
US10567652B2	Communication apparatus wirelessly communicable with external apparatus, control method thereof, and recording medium An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus, and a control unit that controls the imaging apparatus with any one of a plurality of imaging modes using the imaging unit. The control unit controls the imaging unit based on content of a signal received from the external apparatus. The control unit enables transmission of information representing that communication via the communication unit is disconnectable to the external apparatus, based on the content of the received signal.
US10567650B2	Motor control system for a self-calibrating multi-camera alignment system Embodiments include a method for autonomous camera pod tracking of a vehicle during vehicle alignment. The method can include receiving, at a processor of an autonomous camera pod, at least one of vehicle target image data from a vehicle target camera or calibration target image data from a calibration camera, the vehicle target camera being adapted to acquire images of a target mounted to the vehicle, and the calibration camera being adapted to acquire images of a calibration target mounted to a sister autonomous camera pod. An optimal location of the autonomous camera pod can be calculated based on the received vehicle target image data or calibration target image data. The method can include transmitting, when it is determined to move the autonomous camera pod, a motor command to a motor drive of the autonomous camera pod, thereby causing the autonomous camera pod to move to the optimal location.
US10567647B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of an object captured through an imaging lens, a coordinate transformation unit that performs coordinate transformation for the captured image such that a sagittal resolution in a direction tangent to circumference having a center of an imaging surface as an origin and a tangential resolution in a radial direction perpendicular to the tangential direction are close to each other at a designated spatial frequency, and a resolution enhancement processing unit that performs a rotationally-symmetric resolution enhancement process for the coordinate-transformed image. According to this aspect, a rotationally-symmetric filter can be used for the resolution enhancement process. It is possible to prevent an increase in filter size or to perform a process at a high speed. It is possible to prevent a process from being complicated due to the use of the filter for coordinate transformation.
US10567638B2	Electronic device and computer program product for setting image capturing conditions for multiple regions in image capturing sensor An electronic device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject with an image sensor, the image sensor being configured to be able to set image-capturing conditions for a plurality of regions on an image-capturing surface; and a control unit that determines the image-capturing conditions varied for each of the regions, based on a subject element detected from the image captured by the image-capturing unit.
US10567631B2	Lens unit, imaging device, and control method There is provided a lens unit equipped with multiple focus lenses provided inside a lens barrel, multiple actuators corresponding to the respective multiple focus lenses and configured to move each of the multiple focus lenses inside the lens barrel, and a control circuit configured to control movement of the multiple focus lenses according to different rules between a case of a position of each of the multiple focus lenses being inside a designated range of satisfactory optical performance, and a case of being outside the range.
US10567626B2	Observation apparatus An observation device includes: a structured illumination section; a phase difference measurement illumination section; a phase contrast lens that has a phase plate for dimming illumination light for phase difference measurement, where the illumination light for phase difference measurement is incident into the lens, and the structured illumination light is incident into the lens from a side opposite to an incidence side of the ring-shaped illumination; a detection section that detects reflected light of the structured illumination light; and an observation section that images the illumination light for phase difference measurement. When Fourier transform is performed on the structured illumination light, a spatial frequency of the structured illumination light is set on a high-frequency side or a low-frequency side with respect to a position of the phase plate on optical Fourier space.
US10567618B2	Correcting sharing ratios of nozzle groups in overlapping image region and correcting color conversion table based thereon An image processing method for generating printing data includes correcting, in accordance with a degree of reduction in a dot coverage below a predetermined dot coverage in a region that undergoes printing in an overlapped manner by a first nozzle group and a second nozzle group, at least either of a first sharing ratio for the first nozzle group sharing positions of dots to be formed in an overlapping image region and a second sharing ratio for the second nozzle group sharing positions of dots to be formed to allow a total ratio of the first sharing ratio and the second sharing ratio to exceed 100%, and correcting a color conversion table based on the first sharing ratio and the second sharing ratio, after the correcting of at least either of the first sharing ratio and the second sharing ratio.
US10567617B2	Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium, that perform dither processing on first image data to generate second image data having pixels of varying density An image processing apparatus includes (A) a dither processing unit to perform dither processing on first image data to generate second image data, the second image data including a target pixel and an adjacent pixel, each of the pixels having a density value, the density value of the target pixel being greater than that of the adjacent pixel, and the density value of the adjacent pixel being not greater than a predetermined density, (B) a diffusing unit (a) to determine an error value resulting at the target pixel, (b) to diffuse the error value to pixels subsequent to the target pixel, and not to diffuse an error value resulting at the adjacent pixel to pixels subsequent to the adjacent pixel.
US10567615B2	Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus sets, as a cutting area, an area containing an image of a double-page spread out of image data obtained by a scan of a book-type document, sets a borderline which divides an area corresponding to one page of the image data and an area corresponding to the other page of the image data from each other, and divides the cutting area cut out from the image data into a one-side area of the borderline and the other-side area of the borderline, thereby generating a first pre-output page in which divided image data of the one-side area is provided and a second pre-output page in which divided image data of the other-side area is provided.
US10567606B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a medium mounting portion configured to mount a medium; a feeding means configured to feed a medium from the medium mounting portion; at least one edge guide each configured to regulate a corresponding one of at least one medium width direction edge of the medium having been mounted on the medium mounting portion; a reading means configured to read the medium and disposed on a further downstream side than the at least one edge guide in the medium feeding direction; and at least one medium detection means configured to detect the medium and disposed on a further downstream side than the at least one edge guide in the medium feeding direction and further outside in the medium width direction than at least one edge regulation position for the edge regulation by the at least one edge guide.
US10567604B2	Image forming apparatus, printing method, and non-transitory recording medium An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor: receives page setting information in print data of a next page; stores the page setting information in a second memory at the time of receiving the print data of the next page from the external apparatus when a first memory has no area to store image information of the next page; and controls a conveyer to feed out the sheets from a paper feed tray specified by the page setting information to a conveyance path of the conveyer and to convey the sheets when the page setting information is in the second memory at the timing of feeding out the next sheet to the conveyance path of the conveyer regardless of whether the image information corresponding to the page setting information is in the first memory.
US10567600B2	Image processing device, method for controlling image processing device, and program An image processing device includes: a displayer; and a hardware processor that obtains voice recognition data that is a voice recognition result related to a voice vocalized in a state in which at least one operation screen is displayed in the displayer, determines a search target character string on the basis of the voice recognition data, executes search processing of searching for one voice operation command that agrees with the search target character string among a plurality of voice operation commands including a voice operation command group related to a first screen related to the image processing device, and a voice operation command group related to a second screen displayed according to user's operation for the first screen, and executes processing corresponding to the one voice operation command that has been searched for by the hardware processor.
US10567599B2	Image processing apparatus and method for processing image An image processing apparatus is an image processing apparatus that generates image data used to print images on a sheet appliable to the skin. The image processing apparatus includes an image determiner that determines a makeup article image whose target position on the face is determined in accordance with facial feature points and an assist mark image whose target position on the face is determined in accordance with the facial feature points and a printing controller that generates the image data including contents indicating that the determined makeup article image and the determined assist mark image are to be printed on the sheet, the determined assist mark image printed at a position corresponding to a printing position of the determined makeup article image.
US10567590B2	Apparatus, system, and method of conference assistance A conference assistance system and method for assisting a user in utilizing conference-related information, each of which: receives input of voice or writing of at least one meeting participant; determines whether text data representing the received voice or writing is to be used by the conference assistance system to generate assistance information, to generate a determination result; when the determination result indicates that the text data is to be used, generates, based on the text data, assistance information for assisting the meeting participant; and controls a display to display the generated assistance information.
US10567579B2	Systems and methods for providing integrated computerized personal assistant services in telephony communications Systems and methods for providing integrated computerized personal assistant services in telephony communications are provided herein. In some embodiments, the system may include a call processing system configured to transmit voice-based data generated during a telecommunication session between multiple participants, and a computerized virtual assistant system configured to analyze the voice-based data received to identify the presence of actionable commands, determine at least one service provider associated with the identified actionable command, generate and transmit at least one request for performance of the actionable command to the at least one service provider, receive, from each of the at least one service providers, a response to the at least one request for performance of the actionable command, and transmit, to the call processing system, a notification based on the responses received from the at least one service provider.
US10567578B1	Applying user preferences, behavioral patterns and environmental factors to an automated customer support application A method and apparatus of applying user profile information to a customized application are disclosed. One example method of operation may include receiving an inquiry message or call from a user device, identifying and authorizing the user from inquiry message information received from the inquiry message, retrieving a user profile comprising at least one user preference, applying the at least one user preference to a user call processing application, and transmitting menu options to the user device based on the applied at least user preference.
US10567577B2	Information processing system and information processing method Provided is an information processing system that, by reproducing writing in a notebook together with the situation in which the writing is written in the notebook, makes it possible to easily understand the contents of writing in a notebook. To achieve this, a mobile terminal: receives writing on a page of a notebook displayed on a touch panel; together with receiving writing, executes at least one or more application; respectively adds time stamps to the received writing data and the execution contents of each of the executed applications; as playback data of a written page, transmits a recording request to a data management apparatus; then, when displaying a written page on the touch panel, receives playback data from the data management apparatus; and based on time stamps, synchronously plays back writing data and the execution contents included in the received playback data.
US10567571B2	Limiting distraction from in-vehicle portable devices Disclosed is a technique for managing communications of portable devices within a vehicle through an in-vehicle router system. The in-vehicle router system includes a plurality of out-of-band interfaces used to determine a user type associated with a portable device used to manage a connection with a wireless access point. The out-of-band interface receives a query from a portable device via a first communication link. The query includes identifying information of the portable device and a request for network credentials to a second communication link with a wireless access point. A user type is determined based on a location of the out-of-band interface and a unique identifier. Network credentials associated with the determined user type are retrieved. The network credentials are provided to the portable device via the first communication link. Access to the second communication link is restricted based on the user type and/or vehicle status information.
US10567568B2	User event pattern prediction and presentation Aspects of the technology described herein provide visual representations of future user events for improved graphical user interfaces and improved computing services provided to a computer user. In one particular embodiment, using the one or more sensors, information about a current event, which may include a current location of the user, is determined. Based on at least the current event, a prediction of future events or event patterns in association with the user is determined. Each user event pattern can include one or more future events, such as activities, meetings, or location visits, corresponding with the user. Thereafter, the user event patterns can be presented via a graphical user interface. Each user event pattern can be visually represented as a sequence of events in which the user might partake over a timeframe, and may include a corresponding probability of the user's likelihood of partaking in the event.
US10567567B2	Electronic device and method for controlling of the same A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the mobile terminal are disclosed. A mobile terminal according to the present invention may figure out a user's intention for controlling an IoT device on the basis of at least one of a grip sensor, attitude detection sensor, camera image, and context awareness information without involving a process of executing a separate application for controlling the IoT device, thereby providing a control menu for controlling the IoT device more intuitively.
US10567566B2	Method and apparatus for providing mechanism to control unattended notifications at a device An approach is provided for providing mechanisms to control unattended notifications at a device. The approach includes determining that at least one notification presented at a device is an unattended notification. The approach also includes causing, at least in part, a presentation of one or more mechanisms for controlling the unattended notification at the device, one or more other devices, or a combination thereof.
US10567564B2	Interactive networked apparatus Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for connecting an interactive wearable device with a network. In one aspect, a method includes loading content from a playlist; recognizing contextual information relating to the content; determining the location of the user; requesting supplemental content via a network based on the contextual information and the location; displaying supplemental information to a user; interacting with the supplemental information at least in part via an interactive apparatus.
US10567557B2	Automatically adjusting timestamps from remote systems based on time zone differences The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes data received from a remote system. During operation, the system sends, from a computer system to a remote system, a request for a local time at the remote system and records a time of transmission of the request. Next, the system obtains, from the remote system, a response to the request, wherein the response includes the local time of the remote system. The system then computes a difference between the time of transmission and the local time of the remote system to determine a time offset that accounts for a time difference between the computer system and the remote system. Finally, the system uses the time offset to standardize timestamps in time-series data received from the remote system, wherein standardizing the timestamps associated with the time-series data comprises adjusting the timestamps to conform to a time standard.
US10567550B2	Method for operating a server A method for operating a server, including: establishing a communication connection between the server and a vehicle located in the parking facility via a communication network, the communication network being formed by a communication infrastructure of the parking facility, checking via the communication connection whether a software stored in the processing device of the vehicle must be updated, transmitting, as a function of the check, update data for updating the software to the vehicle via the communication connection using the server so that it is possible to update the software based on the update data while the vehicle is located in the parking facility. Also described is a server, a parking system for vehicles and a computer program.
US10567549B2	Distributed database transaction processing method, device based on GPS atomic clock server A distributed database transaction processing method and device based on a GPS atomic clock, the method includes: receiving a plurality of transaction requests by the first node server; determining a concurrency conflict between transaction requests received by the first node server; obtaining start time of each transaction in a case that the concurrency conflict exists, wherein the start time is local time of the second node server when the transaction request is sent; and local time of the second node server is synchronized with time of the GPS atomic clock server in an area which the second node server locates; processing all transactions by the first node server according to the sequence of the start time of each transaction. Throughput of distributed database system can be increased and an arrangement complexity of servers is reduced.
US10567546B2	Network content communication Briefly, embodiments of systems and/or method of communicating digital content via a network, such as a computing and/or communications network, are described.
US10567543B1	Installable web applications According to one general aspect, a method of executing a web application installed on an apparatus may include executing, via a processor included by the apparatus, a web browser. The method may include loading, via the web browser, the web application. In some embodiments, the web application may include a manifest and at least a portion of a web site and wherein the web application was packaged as an installable entity. The method may further include managing, by the web browser, the execution of the web application. The method may include accessing, via the web browser, from a local storage medium one or more portions of the web site included by the web application. In some embodiments, the one or more portions of the web site may have been stored in the local storage medium when the web application was installed.
US10567535B2	Monitoring and alerting a user to variants from predicted patterns based on real time device analysis A program product for detecting abnormal behavior of users is disclosed. A computer identifies first and second users based on user definitions and at least one personal device associated with the users. Activities of the users are monitored in real time based on the user definitions, location data received over a time series from the personal devices. A proximity distance, between the personal devices over the time series, is identified based on the location data. The computer generates movement patterns for the personal devices over the time series based on the location data and the proximity distance and creates a workflow. The computer compares the current location with the workflow in real time, and detects a deviation from the workflow in response to the comparing the current location in real time. The computer generates an alert in response to the detecting deviation in real time.
US10567534B2	Apparatus, method and computer program product for sharing data There is provided methods, apparatuses and computer program products for delivering contents from a source device to a multiple of destination devices. In an apparatus in a source device an indication of a content selected for delivery to destination devices is received and at least one delivery condition to be used to control the delivery of the selected content to the destination devices is defined. A notification regarding the selected content is formed and information on the at least one delivery condition is included in the notification. The notification is transmitted. The at least one delivery condition includes at least one of a location condition and a time condition. In an apparatus in a destination device an indication of a content selected for delivery from a source device to the apparatus is received and information of at least one delivery condition to control the delivery of the selected content to the apparatus is obtained from the notification. It is examined whether the apparatus fulfills the delivery conditions; and if so, the selected content is received.
US10567533B2	System and method to determine the presence status of a registered user on a network The invention relates to a presence status determination system and a computer implemented method to determine the presence status of a first user registered in a network and to communicate this presence status to a second user, who would like to make contact with the first user. An input device for a presence status determination device records a predetermined first presence status component determined by the first user and forwards the first presence status component to the presence status determination device (20). A contact person registration device records the identity of the second user and reports the identity to a relationship determination device. The relationship determination device determines, with the aid of a computer, a second presence status component, which considers the social proximity between the first user and the second user. The presence status determination device determines the presence status of the first user taking into account the first presence status component and the second presence status component. Then a presence status communications device communicates the determined presence status of the first user to the second user.
US10567532B2	Contact availability prediction Contact availability prediction within a messaging service provides users with enhanced tools and services for insights on a contact's availability. Contact availability prediction enhances functionality within a messaging service to predict when a contact will be online or when the contact will be available to communicate. Various types of information about the contacts may be utilized for providing insights on the contact's availability that allow the user to better plan on how to communicate with the contact. For example, telemetry data, including historical availability information and usage information, associated with each user are retrieved and analyzed by the messaging service to produce a model that is used to predict when an unavailable contact will become available, and share those predictions with the user.
US10567527B2	Method for continuous, frame-specific click-stream recording A method for tracking a user's movements between network addresses can include, subsequent to a request for a (current) network address from a user, receiving the network address and an identifier for a region associated with the network address. The method can also include locating a record that contains the identifier for the region and a time that immediately precedes the request for the network address from the user. The record may further contain a prior network address. The method can further include generating an entry for a table that includes the identifier for the region, the current network address, and the prior network address. A server computer or a client computer can generate the entry. Improved accountability and improved user profile accuracy can be obtained with the method. A data processing system readable medium can comprise code that includes instructions for carrying out the method.
US10567524B2	Dynamic cognitive optimization of web applications A method for dynamically and cognitively generating and delivering web build layers for web applications is provided. The method may include receiving, by a computer, file requests associated with web applications. The method may further include, in response to receiving the file requests, identifying resource files associated with the file requests and the web applications by querying, by a computer, at least one application server for the resource files. Additionally, the method may include determining, by a computer, related resource files based on the identified resource files by tracking information and user activity associated with the identified resource files. The method may also include generating web build layers by grouping, by a computer, the determined related resource files. The method may further include delivering the generated optimized web build layers to the web applications based on the tracked information and user activity.
US10567522B2	Workflow to automatically generate reports for different component-level metadata after interacting with multiple web services A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for automatically generating reports from component-level metadata collected from multiple web sources. A predetermined set of web sources are respectively monitored to detect user interactions with one or more predetermined components. Component-level metadata associated with such user interactions is then respectively collected from each web source and parsed to generate component-level metadata elements. The component-level metadata elements are then used to automatically generate reports on the user interactions with the predetermined components at multiple web sources.
US10567520B2	Multi-user requests for service and optimizations thereof A network system managing an on-demand service within a geographic region can receive, over a network, multi-user request data corresponding to a request for service for a plurality of users. The request data can indicate one or more start locations, a plurality of users, and one or more service locations. In response to receiving the request data, the network system can select a set of service providers from a plurality of candidate service providers in the geographic region to provide the requested service. The service providers can be selected based on optimizations of one or more service parameters including estimated fares for the plurality of users, ETAs to the start location, ETAs to the service locations, etc. The network system can further determine routes for the set of service providers from their respective locations to the start or service location(s) and from the start or service location(s) to the respective start or service location(s).
US10567516B2	Sharing local network resources with a remote VDI instance Local network resources can be seamlessly accessed from a remote session. A remoting client that executes on a client terminal and a remoting service that executes in a remote session can each be configured to implement a virtual network pseudo device. These virtual network pseudo devices can be configured to communicate network communications via a virtual channel with the virtual channel endpoints performing any necessary network address translation. As a result, when the remote session host attempts to discover local network resources, the corresponding network communications will be routed over the virtual channel and transmitted over the client's local area network. Any resources on the client's local area network will respond accordingly with this responses being routed back over the virtual channel to the remote session host thus causing the resources to appear as if they were part of the same local area network as the remote session host.
US10567515B1	Speech processing performed with respect to first and second user profiles in a dialog session Techniques for implementing a “volatile” user ID are described. A system receives first input audio data and determines first speech processing results therefrom. The system also determines a first user that spoke an utterance represented in the first input audio data. The system establishes a multi-turn dialog session with a first content source and receives first output data from the first content source based on the first speech processing results and the first user. The system causes a device to present first output content associated with the first output data. The system then receives second input audio data and determines second speech processing results therefrom. The system also determines the second input audio data corresponds to the same multi-turn dialog session. The system determines a second user that spoke an utterance represented in the second input audio data and receives second output data from the first content source based on the second speech processing results and the second user. The system causes the device to present second output content associated with the second output data.
US10567511B2	Method and system for managing encrypted data of devices A method for managing data of devices using one or more computing entities includes encrypting, by one or more encrypting entities, the data based on encryption policies using encryption keys; storing the encrypted data as ciphertext at a storing entity; requesting decryption keys to decrypt the stored ciphertext by one or more clients; computing restricted decryption keys based on access right policies for the requesting clients by a security management entity; and providing the generated decryption keys to the requesting clients for decrypting the stored ciphertext.
US10567506B2	Data storage method, SDN controller, and distributed network storage system A data storage solution in a distributed network storage system, where a metadata management node sends a backup mapping relationship of a destination data node to a controller, where the controller generates a first flow entry according to the backup mapping relationship of the destination data node, and sends the first flow entry to a switch, where the first flow entry includes an address of the destination data node and an address of a backup data node of the destination data node, and the switch broadcasts, to the destination data node and the backup date node according to the first flow entry, a write request sent by a client.
US10567502B2	Format-independent media file indexing A media file indexing service involves maintaining a media file index in a location external to the media file itself. The index is built up incrementally as the media file is being captured or transferred to shared storage. Client systems receive raw messages with information as to the location within the media file of media elements within each media file portion after it is written to shared storage, or receive refined messages indicating changes to the media file without the associated location information. Clients may query the index maintained by the index service for specific media elements during file capture, enabling edit-while-capture workflows.
US10567496B2	Efficient maintenance of a distributed system membership view A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for maintaining a membership view of a distributed computing system comprising a multitude of members, wherein each of said members sends out a message indicating that said each of the members is available in the system. In one embodiment, the method comprises maintaining a first list of at least some of the members in the distributed system; and over a period of time, when one of the members sends out the message indicating that said one of the members is available in the distributed system, adding said one of the members to a second list. At defined times, the first list is replaced with the second list. In an embodiment, the method further comprises at said defined times, starting a new, empty second list.
US10567481B2	Work environment for information sharing and collaboration An approach for collaboration is provided. An approach includes linking a first user device to a first collaboration screen of a work environment and a second user device to a second collaboration screen of the work environment. The approach also includes displaying data associated with the first user device on the first collaboration screen. The approach further includes detecting manipulation of the data at the first collaboration screen. The approach additionally includes displaying a copy of the data on the second collaboration screen based on the detecting.
US10567480B2	Remote control of a shared application Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for enabling client devices to remotely control a shared application. A remote control service receives a request for a shared application to be controlled by a multiple client devices. Based on this request, the client devices are enabled to remotely control the shared application. A command from one of the client devices is received at the remote control service to modify a display of the shared application without the client device receiving any sensitive information associated with the shared application or the computing device running the shared application. The command is used to cause a modification to the display of the shared application.
US10567479B2	Managing a device cloud Particular embodiments of a gateway computing device may provide a provisioning service for access credentials for a restricted network. The gateway computing device may receive, from a client device, a request for the access credentials, wherein the request was sent over an open network using a restricted-packet-size protocol designed to limit power usage by devices sending messages using the protocol. The gateway computing device may segment data comprising the access credentials into a plurality of packets, wherein the plurality of packets conform to the restricted-packet-size protocol. Finally, the gateway computing device may send, over the open network to the client device, the segmented data using the restricted-packet-size protocol.
US10567471B2	Systems and methods for cost effective distribution of files to user devices using combination of broadcast and two-way communication paths Hybrid file delivery systems and methods divide one or more files into parts for transmission to plural user devices during a first transmission phase employing one or more one-to-many communication paths (e.g., broadcast or multicast), and then transmit missing file parts to designated user devices during a second transmission phase employing respective one-to-one communication paths. User devices are configured with specified criteria for when and how to report file delivery status to a file delivery center that maintains a database of target user devices, file delivery campaigns, and statuses of file delivery completion at the user devices. The file delivery center can employ the database information to determine cost benefit for delivery of a file using two different transmission modalities and control when to switchover to or commence the second transmission phase after the first transmission phase.
US10567467B2	System and method for heuristic control of network traffic management A method for heuristic control of traffic management on a computer network, the method including: setting predetermined benchmarks for traffic; performing a traffic management control loop to determine at least one value of a quality of experience (QoE) metric, via a QoE measuring module, on the network based on the traffic flow; performing a heuristic control loop comprising: aggregating the at least one value of the QoE metric obtained from the traffic management control loop; determining a new benchmark based on the aggregation of the QoE metric, via a heuristic control module; and sending the new benchmark to the QoE measuring module. a system for heuristic control of traffic management on a computer network, the system including: a heuristic calibration module configured to set predetermined benchmarks for traffic; a QoE module configured to determine at least one value of a quality of experience (QoE) metric, on the network based on the traffic flow; an analysis module configured to aggregate the at least one value of the QoE metric obtained from the traffic management control loop; the heuristic calibration module further configured to determine a new benchmark based on the aggregation of the QoE metrics; and send the new benchmark to the QoE measuring module.
US10567455B2	Reception device, reception method, transmission device, and transmission method The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method in which a convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. A FLUTE processing unit is configured to acquire one or more components constituting a specific service of a plurality of services included in broadcast waves of digital broadcasting using an IP transfer system, in accordance with a first control signal including information indicating types and a transfer system of the one or more components constituting the specific service such that the convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
US10567454B2	Method and system for sharing live broadcast data including determining if an electronic device is a seed device in response to determining the relationship a random value has with a setting value A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations including receiving, at a first electronic device, high quality live stream data through a high quality channel; playing back the high quality live stream data; receiving low quality live stream data through a low quality channel as the electronic device is set as a seed device in response to creation of the high quality channel; and sharing the received low quality live stream data by transmitting the received low quality live stream data.
US10567444B2	Tele-communication system and methods A system for tele-communication between mobile devices is described. The disclosed system can capture real-time data regarding a mobile device user's receptivity to interacting, need to interact, and likely availability for interacting. The system can match this data with that of a second party; and can facilitate the connection of the mobile device user to the second party for a mutually beneficial interaction. The second party could be a friend or peer, or an organization/enterprise. Overall, the integrated system can save time, money, and effort of both parties by reducing or eliminating unnecessary attempts to connect where there is an insufficient likelihood of interaction success.
US10567439B2	Data processing systems and methods for performing privacy assessments and monitoring of new versions of computer code for privacy compliance Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, perform privacy assessments and monitor new versions of computer code for updated features and conditions that relate to compliance with privacy standards. The systems and methods may obtain a copy of computer code (e.g., a software application or code associated with a website) that collects and/or uses personal data, and then automatically analyze the computer code to identify one or more privacy-related attributes that may impact compliance with applicable privacy standards. The system may be adapted to monitor one or more locations (e.g., an online software application marketplace, and/or a specified website) to determine whether the application or website has changed. The system may, after analyzing the computer code, display the privacy-related attributes, collect information regarding the attributes, and automatically notify one or more designated individuals (e.g., privacy office representatives) regarding the attributes and information collected.
US10567432B2	Systems and methods for incubating malware in a virtual organization Systems and methods for tracking malware operator behavior patterns in a network environment simulated for an extended period of time include a processor that causes the system to receive organizational data that describes a virtual organization, obtain additional data related to the organizational data, and provide a simulated computer network of the virtual organization based on the organizational data. The process can further cause the system to install at least one malware on the simulated computer network, monitor one or more interactions between the simulated computer network and an operator of the malware, and build a malware operator profile that characterizes the operator of the malware based on the one or more interactions, with which the operator of the malware can be identified in subsequent interactions.
US10567415B2	Visualization of network threat monitoring A method to monitor a network is provided which includes identifying a time associated with detection of each occurrence of the network threats and generating a graphical user interface that includes a display of a time series graph that corresponds to a selected time period and an interactive popup window indicating certain details associated with a user selected network threat.
US10567409B2	Automatic and scalable log pattern learning in security log analysis A method for implementing automatic and scalable log pattern learning in security log analysis is provided. The method includes collecting security logs generated by a computer system. An incremental learning process is implemented to generate a set of log patterns from the collected security logs. The collected security logs are parsed using the set of log patterns.
US10567408B2	Managing credentials of multiple users on an electronic device Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing credentials of multiple users on an electronic device are provided.
US10567402B1	Systems and methods of detecting and mitigating malicious network activity Disclosed herein are systems and methods executing a security server that perform various processes using alert elements containing various data fields indicating threats of fraud or attempts to penetrate an enterprise network. Using alert elements, the security server generate integrated alerts that are associated with customers of the system and assign a risk score for the integrated alerts, which the security server uses to store and sort the integrated alerts according to a priority, based on the relative risk scores. Analyst computers may query and fetch integrated alerts from an integrate alert database, and then present the integrate alerts to be addressed by an analyst according to the priority level of the respective integrated alerts. This allows to ensure that the right customer, is worked by the right analyst, at the right time, to maximize fraud prevention and minimize customer impact.
US10567400B2	Attack detection device, attack detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium An attack detection device executes a process that includes receiving a message periodically transmitted from a communication device in a network, calculating a reception range for receiving a message including identification information in a reference message selected from the received messages by using a transmission period of a message identified by the identification information, the message being transmitted two or more periods after the reference message, storing the reception range associated with an order of reception of a message predicted to be received in the reception range when the reference message is used as a reference, and determining that an attack on the network is detected when a reception time of the received message including the identification information is not within the reception range associated with the order of reception of the received message in a case where the reference message is used as a reference.
US10567399B2	Fragmented malware hash lookup in cloud repository A server communicates over a network with a data inspection device (DID) having access to at least portions of a data file, and assists the DID with matching the data file to known data files represented on the server. A hash tree is constructed for each known data file. To construct each hash tree: the known data file is fragmented into contiguous fragments; spaced fragments separated based on an offset schema are selected from the contiguous fragments; and nodes of the hash tree are generated based on hashes of the spaced fragments, but not the skipped fragments. A hash of a fragment of the data file is received from the DID, and it is compared to the hash trees constructed using the offset schema. Compare results are sent to the data inspection device indicating a match or a mismatch between the received hash and the hash trees.
US10567398B2	Method and apparatus for remote malware monitoring A method executable via operation of configured processing circuitry to identify applications by remote monitoring may include initiating remote communication with a target device through an access point, the access point providing network access to the target device, providing a series of ping messages to the target device via the access point to determine a delay signature of an application running on the target device, comparing the delay signature of the application to a plurality of malware traffic signatures stored in a malware traffic signature library, and determining a matching score between the delay signature of the application and at least some of the malware traffic signatures.
US10567381B1	Refresh token for credential renewal Security credentials issued by an entity, such as an identity broker, can have a limited lifetime. Access to resources or content under those credentials then can only be obtained for a limited period of time, limiting the ability of an unauthorized entity obtaining the credentials to utilize those credentials for access. Along with the credentials, a refresh token can be issued to a requesting client that can enable the limited lifetime of the credentials to be renewed up to a maximum lifetime of the credentials and/or the token. A service providing access can determine that the client has a valid copy of the refresh token when the credentials are about to expire, and if so can cause the lifetime of the credentials to be extended another credential lifetime. This renewal can be done transparent to a user and without again contacting the identity broker.
US10567378B2	Mount, authentication device, authentication method, and program A wearable article includes: an annular casing that surrounds a space into which a body of a user is to be inserted; a light-emitting element that is provided in the casing, the light-emitting element emitting light towards the space; an imaging element that is provided in the casing, the imaging element capturing and obtaining an image of the space when the light-emitting element emits light; and an authentication circuit that authenticates the user based on a vein pattern obtained in advance and the image.
US10567375B1	Systems and methods for data access control and account management Embodiments of systems and methods for data access control and account management are described. In an embodiment, a server can apply flags to user accounts identified as requiring the user to perform an action or, in the case of potentially compromised access credentials, to offer the user the opportunity to authenticate and create new credentials. A user account database and an access report database can store access credentials, flags, and other relevant information for use by the server to perform various administrative, authentication, and protective actions on user accounts.
US10567373B2	Establishing security over converged Ethernet with TCP credential appropriation A system for establishing a secure connection is described. The system includes a remote direct memory access over converged Ethernet (RoCE) adapter and host device. The host device includes a processor configured to establish a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection between the host device and a client device via the host device network adapter. The host device forwards Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) Security Associations (SAs) and related keys to a host device Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) adapter operatively connected with the host device for remote direct memory access. The RoCE adapter communicates protected data to and from the client device over an RoCE connection using the IPSec SAs and related keys.
US10567370B2	Certificate authority A protocol for issuing and controlling digital certificates is described in which an identity management system is used to identify a user requesting a digital certificate and is also used to issue the digital certificate itself. Accordingly, an IDM-based PKI system is provided.
US10567367B2	Method, system, and program storage device for managing tenants in an industrial internet of things In an example embodiment, a method, system, and program storage device for binding an industrial application to a plurality of services in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is provided. For each of a plurality of tenants, a service template corresponding to a group in which the corresponding tenant belongs is retrieved and an instance of the industrial application is instantiated for the corresponding tenant. Then, at runtime of an instance of the industrial application, a number of actions are taken. A request by the instance of the industrial application for a service identified by a first service name is detected. Then a credential for the service name is retrieved, with the credential identifying a location where an instance of the service identified by the first service name resides. The service identified by the first service name is then dynamically called using the location.
US10567354B2	Enhanced communication security A system may include a communication device configured to communicate over a network, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform one or more operations. The operations may include performing a cryptographic operation on one or more packets to facilitate secure communication between the system and a computing device over the network, the cryptographic operation including probabilistic rounding. The operations may also include communicating, via the communication device, with the computing device over the network using the one or more packets.
US10567353B2	Information processing apparatus, wireless communication system, and communication method A master apparatus generates a frame encryption key by using a session ID unique to communication with a slave apparatus, and an apparatus common key common to the master apparatus and the slave apparatus, encrypts data of an encryption part of an action frame by using the frame encryption key, and transmits, by broadcast, the action frame including the encryption part. Upon receiving the action frame, the slave apparatus transmits a participation request to the master apparatus, and participates in the network of the master apparatus. Then, the master apparatus and the slave apparatus execute a communication application.
US10567352B2	Flexible ethernet encryption systems and methods Systems and methods for Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) encryption implemented by a first network element communicatively coupled to a second network element include encrypting a Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) signal based on a first encryption key with encryption applied to a 64b/66b bit stream associated with the FlexE signal at one or more of a FlexE client layer and a FlexE shim layer; switching to a second encryption key at a predetermined point in the FlexE signal; and encrypting the FlexE signal with the second encryption key subsequent to the switching.
US10567351B1	Polymorphic one time pad matrix The present invention provides a simple and efficient cipher and key generation and selection capability from a predetermined, randomly changing, fixed size matrix (N) of ciphers and keys resulting in a very high-order approximation (Nr,c→∞) of a true One Time Pad for encryption solutions such as the CipherLoc Polymorphic Key Progression Algorithmic Cipher Engine. The ciphers are randomly selected from a pool of user supplied ciphers, FIPS 140-2 or other certified ciphers and the keys are produced from various methods for generating a key that includes reading a data stream from a network or a Cryptographic Pseudo Random Number Generator (CPRNG)/Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) or a Predetermined Cryptographic Key Generator (PCKG) or any combination of all. Ciphers and generated keys are randomly paired and stored in a volatile matrix for use by an encryption solution. When used with the CipherLoc Polymorphic Key Progression Algorithmic (PKPA) Cipher Engine, the OTP Matrix is a method of accomplishing the generation of the key and the selection and association of a suitable cipher with that key, for each sub-message, such that not only key space and equivalent keys (isomorphs) become important, but, the number of keys are also important, thus increasing the effective size of the key space in each sub-message.
US10567344B2	Automatic firewall configuration based on aggregated cloud managed information Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for automatic firewall configuration based on aggregated cloud managed information. A cloud management device can determine, based on security event data received from a first set of client computing environments, that a security attack detected on at least one client computing environment from the first set of client computing environments is likely to occur on other client computing environments. In response to determining that the security attack detected on at least one client computing environment from the first set of client computing environments is likely to occur on other client computing environments, the cloud management device can identify a second set of client computing environments to protect from the security attack. For each client computing environment from the second set of client computing environments, the cloud management device can configure firewall settings to protect from the security attack.
US10567340B2	Data center system A data center system includes: at least two data center subsystems interconnected through a layer-2 network, each of the data center subsystems comprising a plurality of hosts, a plurality of layer-2 switches connected with the plurality of hosts, a firewall group connected with the layer-2 switches, and a layer-2 extension device connected with the layer-2 switches; wherein the firewall groups of the at least two data center subsystems are configured to transmit synchronization information to each other through a synchronization channel in a first virtual local area network; wherein the layer-2 extension devices of the at least two data center subsystems are configured to transmit service information through a service channel in a second virtual local area network; and wherein the first virtual local area network and the second virtual local area network are implemented in the layer-2 network.
US10567338B2	Method and apparatus for setting up relay link in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to an embodiment of the disclosure, in a wireless communication system, a remote terminal transmits a relay request message to a target relay terminal. The remote terminal performs an IP allocation procedure with the target relay terminal. The remote terminal performs relay communication with the target relay terminal on the basis of the IP allocation procedure. The IP allocation procedure is performed using an IP address which has been used in previous relay communication with a source relay terminal.
US10567321B2	Generating interactive messages with asynchronous media content Systems and methods are provided for receiving a first media content item associated with a first interactive object of an interactive message, receiving a second media content item associated with a second interactive object of the interactive message, generating a third media content item based on the first media content item and second media content item, wherein the third media content item comprises combined features of the first media content item and the second media content item, and causing display of the generated third media content item.
US10567319B2	Method of providing instant messaging service and multiple services expanded from instant messaging service Provided is a method of providing an instant messaging service and multiple services expanded from the instant messaging service, the method including displaying a chat window for a chat room related to an instant messaging service, receiving a touch event input by a user on the chat window, selecting one service among a plurality of services expanded from the instant messaging service in response to the touch event, and displaying a window related to the selected service.
US10567313B2	Mail processing methods and server Mail processing methods and a server are described. The server receives a mail reply request sent from a client, determines whether a new contact and an original attachment are present in the mail reply request, and if it determines that the new contact and the original attachment are present in the mail reply request, generates a data packet based on a predetermined rule for non-regular mails, and transmits the data packet to a destination.
US10567309B2	Switch with side port Data center switches are described. A rack of a data center can include several switches to implement a network topology. The switches can include ports on their fronts and sides such that cables can be coupled with these side ports to implement the network topology.
US10567301B2	Implementation of third party services in a digital service platform Systems and method for implementing third party services in digital service platform are provided. More specifically, an application program interface can be provided by a first service provider to a second service provider. The application program interface can be configured to receive one or more access parameters and can be associated with implementing one or more services of the second service provider in one or more services of a second service provider. The one or more access parameters can then be received by the first service provider from the second service provider. Once the one or more access parameters have been received, the first service provider can receive a request from a user for access to the one or more services of the second service provider. The first service provider can then determine whether to grant access to the user based on the access parameters.
US10567299B2	Coflow identification method and system, and server using method A coflow identification method includes: obtaining a weighted matrix by means of learning according to historical data in the network, where the weighted matrix is used to minimize a feature distance between data streams belonging to a same coflow and maximize a feature distance between data streams belonging to different coflows; computing a feature distance between any two data streams in the network according to metrics in the data stream layer data feature, the application layer data stream feature distance, the terminal aspect data feature distance, and the weighted matrix; and dividing the data streams in the network into several cluster sets by using a clustering algorithm and according to the feature distance between the any two data streams in the network, where each of the several cluster sets is a coflow.
US10567298B1	System and method for reducing latency during data transmissions over a network A system and method is provided whereby more data packets than are necessary may be transmitted in order to prompt a node of network to more quickly increase the number of packets that will be accepted by the node. In one aspect, a single packet of data is split into multiple packets. In another aspect, a single packet of data is padded so that multiple packets need to be sent.
US10567295B2	Method and system for teleprotection over segment routing-based networks A method for teleprotection over a segment routed network comprises receiving network requirements for communication between a first teleprotection relay and a second teleprotection relay, the first teleprotection relay associated with a first router of the segment routed network, and the second teleprotection relay associated with a second router of the segment routed network, identifying a primary path from the first router to the second router satisfying the network requirements, determining a congruent reverse of the primary path satisfies the network requirements, sending, to the first router, the primary path, the first router routing traffic from the first teleprotection relay to the second teleprotection relay using the primary path, and sending, to the second router, the congruent reverse of the primary path, the second router routing traffic from the second teleprotection relay to the first teleprotection relay using the congruent reverse of the primary path.
US10567294B2	Distributed load-control in multi-hop networks Techniques for controlling packet transmission levels in a multi-hop network may be performed in a distributed manner. Load-control functionality may be distributed among a plurality of nodes within a network, allowing such nodes to send feedback to upstream nodes, and receive feedback from downstream nodes. In an example, received packets are measured, such as by summing sizes of received packets over time, to determine a received traffic-level. Transmitted packets are measured, such as by summing sizes of transmitted packets over time, to determine a transmitted traffic-level. Feedback may be sent to at least one source of the received packets based at least in part on the received traffic-level and the transmitted traffic-level. The feedback may indicate a desired rate for the sender to transmit. A node may receive data from upstream node(s) and from an internal device, such as a metrology unit. Both data sources may be controlled by feedback.
US10567285B2	Increasing QoS throughput and efficiency through lazy byte batching Described embodiments improve the performance of a computer network via selectively forwarding packets to bypass quality of service (QoS) processing, avoiding processing delays during critical periods of high demand, increasing throughput and efficiency may be increased by sacrificing a small amount of QoS accuracy. QoS processing may be applied to a subset of packets of a flow or connection, referred to herein as “lazy” processing or lazy byte batching. Packets that bypass QoS processing may be immediately forwarded with the same QoS settings as packets of the flow for which QoS processing is applied, resulting in tremendous overhead savings with only minimal decline in accuracy.
US10567281B2	Stateful connection optimization over stretched networks using packet introspection Techniques for stateful connection optimization over stretched networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, hypervisor filtering modules in a cloud computing system are configured to modify packets sent by virtual computing instances (e.g., virtual machines (VMs)) in the cloud to local destinations in the cloud such that those packets have the destination Media Access Control (MAC) address of a local router that is also in the cloud. Doing so prevents tromboning traffic flows in which packets sent by virtual computing instances in the cloud to location destinations are routed to a stretched network's default gateway that is not in the cloud.
US10567275B2	Network interface card switching for virtual networks In some examples, a computing device comprises a virtual network endpoint; a network interface card (NIC) comprising a first hardware component and a second hardware component, wherein the first hardware component and the second hardware component provide separate packet input/output access to a physical network interface of the NIC, wherein the NIC is configured to receive a packet inbound from the physical network interface; and a virtual router to receive the packet from the NIC and output, using the first hardware component, in response to determining a destination endpoint of the packet is the virtual network endpoint, the packet back to the NIC, wherein the NIC is further configured to switch, in response to receiving the packet from the virtual router, the packet to the virtual network endpoint and to output, using the second hardware component, the packet to the virtual network endpoint.
US10567271B2	Topology-aware packet forwarding in a communication network A method includes forwarding one or more packets from a first addressable computing element to at least a second addressable computing element based on a topology-aware address assigned to the second addressable computing element. The topology-aware address includes a set of identifiers representing one or more topology attributes associated with the second addressable computing element.
US10567268B2	Method for detecting topology, compute node, and storage node A method for detecting topology, a compute node, and a storage node are proposed. In this disclosure, the compute node and the storage node exchange identity information with each other. Next, each of the compute node and the storage node combines the identity information thereof and the identification information of the other based on the same rule to generate the same connection identification for characterizing the connection relationship between the compute node and the storage node. Accordingly, the maintenance and management of a data center may be more convenient and less expensive.
US10567263B2	Technologies for simulating service degradation in a software defined network Technologies for simulating service degradation in telemetry data include a simulator device. The simulator device is to identify a telemetry data stream from a production system to a first management system. The simulator device is also to fork a copy of the telemetry data stream for transmission to a second management system, determine perturbations associated with a determined service degradation type, and apply the perturbations to the forked telemetry data stream. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10567260B2	Auto-scaling software-defined monitoring platform for software-defined networking service assurance Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to an auto-scaling software-defined monitoring (“SDM”) platform for software-defined networking (“SDN”) service assurance. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an SDM controller can monitor event data associated with a network event that occurred within a virtualized IP SDN network that is monitored by a virtualized SDM resources platform. The SDM controller can measure, based upon the event data, a quality of service (“QoS”) performance metric associated with the virtualized SDM resource platform. The SDN controller can determine, based upon the QoS performance metric, whether an auto-scaling operation is to be performed. The auto-scaling operation can include reconfiguring the virtualized SDM resources platform by adding virtual machine capacity for supporting event management tasks either by instantiating a new virtual machine or by migrating an existing virtual machine to a new hardware host.
US10567259B2	Smart filter generator Techniques for implementing a smart filter generator in a visibility network are provided. In one set of embodiments, the smart filter generator can maintain at least one mapping between (1) a first-order parameter found in network traffic replicated from a core network monitored by the visibility network, and (2) a second-order parameter related to the first-order parameter, where the second-order parameter is not found in the network traffic replicated from the core network. The smart filter generator can further receive, from a user, a user-defined packet filter definition comprising a filtering criterion that makes use of the second-order parameter. The smart filter generator can then translate, based on the at least one mapping, the filtering criterion into a version that makes use of the first-order parameter, and can generate a new packet filter comprising the translated version of the filtering criterion.
US10567256B2	Information processing system, portable information terminal, information processing device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium An information processing system comprises an information processing device and a portable information terminal that allow communication therebetween. The portable information terminal includes: an application detection part for detecting a running application; a management part for detecting a cloud service to which the application connects and managing the application and the cloud service; a destination information generation part for generating destination information required for the information processing device to use the cloud service; and a transmission part for sending the destination information to the information processing device. The information processing device includes: a destination setting part for automatically configuring the destination to connect to the cloud service the same as that used by the running application on the portable information terminal in accordance with the destination information; and a data processing part for connecting to the cloud service to send and receive data.
US10567247B2	Intra-datacenter attack detection An example method can include receiving a traffic report from a sensor and using the traffic report to detect intra-datacenter flows. These intra-datacenter flows can then be compared with a description of historical flows. The description of historical flows can identify characteristics of normal and malicious flows. Based on the comparison, the flows can be classified and tagged as normal, malicious, or anomalous. If the flows are tagged as malicious or anomalous, corrective action can be taken with respect to the flows. A description of the flows can then be added to the description of historical flows.
US10567244B1	Near real-time feed manager for data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) using custom tags for infrastructure assets A messaging service is disclosed that provides access to data center event data for physical infrastructure assets via dynamically configurable custom tags defined by customers. For example, a network services exchange provider or co-location provider deploys a data center monitoring system that monitors physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within a data center for events. The system implements an API which applies custom tags defined by customers to the assets, wherein each custom tag defines attributes of the assets. The system receives subscription requests that describe events and custom tags applied to the assets. The data center infrastructure monitoring system publishes a subscription of event data related to the events for the assets to which the custom tags are applied. Further, a feed manager receives updates to asset equipment and changes to metadata describing the assets and automatically updates the subscription to account for the changes.
US10567233B2	Shadow agent projection in multiple places to reduce agent movement over nodes in distributed agent-based simulation A computer-implemented method is provided for distributed computing. The method includes forming interaction specific shadow agents by extracting agent interaction data from an original agent at a source node utilizing agent-based simulators. The method further includes broadcasting aggregated agent interaction data collected from the original agent at a source node to other nodes in a distributed area to calculate agent interactions and behaviors therefrom. The agent interaction data extracted from the original agent consists of a constrained subset of data derived from a set of data of the original agent at the source node.
US10567221B2	Network scheduling In one implementation, a network scheduling method includes collecting information describing pending traffic for a network and generating a plurality of initial scheduling plans for network resources associated with the pending traffic within the network. The network scheduling method also includes analyzing a plurality of scheduling plans derived from the plurality of initial scheduling plans, and defining a current scheduling plan for the network resources from the plurality of scheduling plans.
US10567220B2	Distributed rules engine for processing events associated with internet of things devices Disclosed are various examples for deploying a rules engine in a distributed fashion. A rule definition that defines a rule can be transformed in a network topology. The network topology can be deployed onto a cluster of computing devices or instances. In this way, the rules engine can be horizontally scalable such that is it not necessary to deploy the rules engine in a single computing instance.
US10567212B2	Processing data for transferring or mirroring a media stream A method of processing data for limiting, during a multimedia session involving a first user terminal, transferring or mirroring a media stream to other user terminals, including: a) receiving a request to transfer or mirror a media stream transmitted by the first user terminal, the request containing information relating to a second user terminal which is the target of the transfer or mirroring operation, and information relating to the media stream to be transferred or mirrored; b) comparing the information relating to the second user terminal and to the media stream to be transferred or mirrored with a series of information elements relating to transfer or mirroring operations authorized for the multimedia session, and determining, according to the comparison, an authorization for the transfer or mirroring operation; and c) when the transfer or mirroring operation is authorized, transferring or mirroring the media stream to the second user terminal.
US10567210B2	Method and apparatus for quadrature signal modulation Methods and apparatus for facilitating wireless communication using digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation are disclosed. A mapping module electronic component of a wireless communication device utilizes a signal constellation for quadrature modulating a signal for transmission or quadrature demodulating a received signal. The signal constellation includes multiple constellation symbols and associated bit sequences. Specific signal constellations are disclosed. The signal constellations may be obtained through an optimization procedure which accounts for both phase noise and power amplifier nonlinearity.
US10567209B1	Geometrically shaping QAM modulation A method, system, and apparatus for encoding a data for transmission across a communication link, the comprising encoding the data into a constellation; wherein the constellation is of a power 2n; wherein n is an odd number; wherein encoding the constellation creates outer constellation points forming a square at an edge of the constellation.
US10567208B2	Communication device and method in filter-bank based single carrier frequency division multiple access system Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. Particularly, the present invention relates to a communication device and method in a filter-bank based single carrier frequency division multiple access (FB based SC-FDMA) system and, particularly, to a communication device and method for lowering a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in an uplink.
US10567206B2	Synchronization method, apparatus, and system A synchronization method, an apparatus, and a system, which relate to the communications field and applied to synchronization signal transmission to implement synchronization of data frame transmission between devices on an unlicensed carrier are provided. The synchronization method is applied to synchronization on an unlicensed carrier. A network device sets a synchronization signal in a first subframe, and the network device sends the first subframe or the first subframe and a second subframe to user equipment, where the first subframe includes M orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, the second subframe includes N OFDM symbols, M and N are positive integers, M>N, and the first subframe and the second subframe are subframes of an unlicensed carrier.
US10567200B2	Method and apparatus to reduce delays in channel estimation A signal processor and method of signal processing to reduce delays in channel estimation is described. In the method, the following operations are performed: receiving a signal at a signal processor (200); estimating a first channel from the received signal with a one-dimensional, 1D, frequency filter (304) in a frequency domain to generate an interim output; decoding said interim output (406) to generate decoded interim output; estimating (414,418) at least a second channel from the decoded interim output with a two-dimensional, 2D, filter (100) to produce a final output (420).
US10567197B2	Quality-of-service based wireless parallel redundant protocol solution A method includes receiving, at a first wireless bridge device, a first packet and determining whether the first packet is a first type or a second type. If the first packet is the first type, the first packet is duplicated to generate two duplicated packets. A first one of the duplicated packets is forwarded to a second wireless bridge device via a tunnel between the first wireless bridge device and the second wireless bridge device. A second one of the duplicated packets is forwarded to one or more access points via a first wireless link between the first wireless bridge device and the one or more access points. If the first packet is the second type, the first packet is forwarded to the second wireless bridge device via the tunnel or forwarding the first packet to the one or more access points via the first wireless link.
US10567196B2	Decision coordination method, execution apparatus, and decision coordinator Embodiments disclose a decision coordination method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving a decision coordination request message from an execution part in a Network Functions Virtualization system, where the decision coordination request message includes a to-be-coordinated decision. The method also includes determining a coordinated decision according to the to-be-coordinated decision. The method also includes sending a decision coordination response message to the execution part, where the decision coordination response message includes the coordinated decision, and the decision coordination response message is used to instruct the execution part to execute the coordinated decision.
US10567195B2	Network nodes in a ring network According to an example method, it is determined that a first network node in a ring network is claimed by a first managing device and a second network node in the ring network is claimed by a second managing device. The ring network includes a single link to a customer network. The second network node is then isolated from the first network node. A separate linear network is formed including the second network node. Upon reset of the second network node to an unclaimed status, the second network node is claimed by the first managing device.
US10567192B2	Controller area network (CAN) device and method for operating a CAN device Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a Controller Area Network (CAN) transceiver involves detecting phase information related to a CAN data frame that is transmitted by the CAN transceiver and in response to the phase information, switching between different transmitter configurations of the CAN transceiver within a bit interval for use in transmitting subsequent bits of the CAN data frame.
US10567188B2	Apparatus, system and method of multicast communication Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of multicast communication. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry configured to cause a wireless device to process transmission of a multicast transmission to a plurality of devices; and to process reception of at least one Multi-User (MU) acknowledgement transmission from two or more devices of the plurality of devices, the MU acknowledgement transmission to acknowledge receipt of the multicast transmission by the two or more devices.
US10567185B2	Post-conference playback system having higher perceived quality than originally heard in the conference Some aspects of the present disclosure involve the recording, processing and playback of audio data corresponding to conferences, such as teleconferences. In some teleconference implementations, the audio experience heard when a recording of the conference is played back may be substantially different from the audio experience of an individual conference participant during the original teleconference. In some implementations, the recorded audio data may include at least some audio data that was not available during the teleconference. In some examples, the spatial characteristics of the played-back audio data may be different from that of the audio heard by participants of the teleconference.
US10567184B2	System and method for group stream broadcasting with stateless queuing feature A stateless queue system implements and supports a virtual room containing a content playback queue. The system allows multiple clients to listen to queued content in a synchronized manner and to modify the same queue without requiring a broadcasting client to send playback events. The system includes a multiplicity of computing clients that can add content items to the queue by interacting with an application service. The clients are enabled to add content to the queue in a number of ways, including by simple add-on to the bottom of the queue, by vote, or by direct modification of the queue structure. Upon client entrance into the playback session, data is provided to the client that represent the queue order at the time of request, the number of votes each items contains if structure is determined by vote, the start time for each queued item, and the current playing item.
US10567182B1	Revealing connections for persons in a social graph An online system utilizing a social graph allows users to establish an account with the system and establish connections to nodes in the system. The social graph uses system-provided nodes that are created and maintained by the system, so that users cannot edit the system-provided nodes. The system aggregates and analyzes the social graph to present information in ways useful to its users. For example, the system reveals connections between persons in the system, with a corresponding strength of each connection.
US10567173B2	Secure messaging with disposable keys Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for, among other things, secure passphrase handling for computing devices. In one respect, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of passphrase elements from an input device. The method also includes performing a sequence of secure delay processing operations, each operation generating a delayed output value from an initial value. The passphrase is verified upon completion of the sequence of secure delay processing operations. Further, initial values of respective secure delay processing operations are based on respective passphrase elements and, for each secure delay processing operation after a first secure delay processing operation, a delayed output value from at least one other secure delay processing operations.
US10567159B2	CMAC computation using white-box implementations with external encodings A method for mapping an input message to a message authentication code (MAC) by a white-box implementation of a keyed cryptographic operation in a cryptographic system that includes using a white-box implementation of the block cipher in a MAC.
US10567158B2	Cryptographic device and an encoding device A cryptographic device (200) is provided to compute a key dependent cryptographic function for an input message. The cryptographic device has a data store arranged to store multiple variables (w) on which the cryptographic device acts to compute the cryptographic function, a variable (w) being distributed over multiple shares (wj) and represented in the data store as multiple encoded shares (xj), an encoded share being an encoding (xj=Encj (wj, sj)) of a share (wj) together with a state (sj), the multiple states (sj) corresponding to the same variable (w) having a relationship with the input message (M) so that there exists an injective mapping (Σ) from the input message (M) to the multiple states (Σ(M)=(s0, . . . , sn−1)).
US10567156B2	Blockchain-based unexpected data detection Methods, systems, and apparatuses for blockchain-based unexpected data detection are described herein. In some arrangements, a node within a decentralized peer-to-peer (e.g., P2P) network may receive a plurality of network function requests corresponding to the decentralized network. The node may analyze the plurality of network function requests to identify whether the requests included unexpected data and/or irregular data, and/or are associated with flagged wallets and/or smart contracts.
US10567146B1	Frequency multiplexed radio frequency identification A radio frequency identification (RFID) system includes an RFID interrogator configured for generating an RFID signal, wherein a channel frequency of the RFID signal changes over time; at least one single feed patch antenna; and at least one single feed line configured for feeding the signal to the corresponding at least one single feed patch antenna. The single feed patch antenna is configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave in response to and at the channel frequency of the RFID signal such that the electromagnetic wave exhibits (1) a polarization tilt angle that varies depending on the channel frequency of the signal, (2) a substantially linear polarization at all channel frequencies of the signal within the given operational bandwidth, and (3) a range of polarization tilt angles across the given operational bandwidth that spans at least 70 degrees within a single quadrant. A method for frequency multiplexing includes similar components.
US10567145B2	Beam reports with multiple cells A wireless device receives from a base station, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a layer 1 reference signal received power reporting for a secondary cell. The configuration parameters indicate resource configurations of a plurality of reference signals on the secondary cell. A medium access control control element indicating activation of the secondary cell is received. In response to the medium access control control element, a layer 1 reference signal received power report for the layer 1 reference signal received power reporting for the secondary cell is transmitted. The layer 1 reference signal received power report comprises: first fields indicating at least one reference signal of the plurality of reference signals; and second fields indicating at least a layer 1 reference signal received power value of the at least one reference signals.
US10567138B2	Terminal device, base station device, retransmission method, and resource allocation method The present invention provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator (103) generates code words (CW) by encoding data, a layer mapping unit (108) places each CW in one or a plurality of layers, a DMRS generator (110) generates a reference signal for each layer in which a CW is placed by using any resource among a plurality of resources defined by a mutually orthogonal plurality of OCCs, and an ACK/NACK demodulator (102) receives a response signal indicating a retransmission request. When a response signal requesting retransmission of only a CW placed in a plurality of layers is received, the DMRS generator (110) uses each resource having the same OCC among the plurality of resources for the reference signals generated in the corresponding layers.
US10567136B2	Method and user equipment for receiving downlink control information, and method and base station for transmitting downlink control information A method for downlink control information (DCI) transmission/reception is provided. The method for DCI transmission comprises: receiving, by a user equipment, a narrowband physical downlink control channel (N-PDCCH) carrying the DCI. The N-PDCCH is received using at least one of two control channel element (CCEs) on the 1 resource block (RB) only. A first CCE of the two CCEs occupies 6 subcarriers of the lowest indices among the 12 subcarriers and a second CCE of the two CCEs occupies 6 subcarriers of the highest indices among the 12 subcarriers.
US10567129B2	Method for transmitting/receiving signals using multiple carriers in wireless communication system and device therefor The present application discloses a method whereby user equipment receives signals from a base station via a first carrier and a second carrier in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink control channel on the first carrier; and receiving at least one downlink data channel on the first and second carriers on the basis of the downlink control information, wherein the first carrier is for use as a downlink, the second carrier is for use as an uplink or a downlink, and the downlink control channel includes information regarding the use of the second carrier.
US10567128B2	System and method for OFDMA tone allocation in next generation Wi-Fi networks An orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame tone allocation includes a 256 tone payload consisting of 228 data and pilot tones and 28 null tones. The 28 null tones consist of guard tones and at least one direct current (DC) tone. In one example, the 256 tone payload consists of 224 data tones, 4 common pilot tones, and 28 null tones. In another example, the 256 tone payload consists of 222 data tones, 6 common pilot tones, and 28 null tones. In yet another example, the 256 tone payload may consist of 220 data tones, 8 common pilot tones, and 28 null tones. The OFDMA frame may be a downlink OFDMA frame or an uplink OFDMA frame.
US10567121B2	Low latency service feedback method and communications device An embodiment method includes: receiving, by a first communications device, a first service sent by a second communications device on a first time-frequency resource in a first subframe; and sending, by the first communications device at a preset feedback subframe location, first feedback information corresponding to the first service.
US10567120B2	Method and apparatus for determining number of HARQ processes in wireless communication system Provided are a method for determining the number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes in a carrier aggregated system configured with a plurality of serving cells, and an apparatus using such a method. The method receives data from a downlink subframe of a second serving cell, and transmits an ACK/NACK signal for the data from an uplink subframe of a first serving cell, wherein the first serving cell uses a first-type frame, the second serving cell uses a second-type frame, and the number of HARQ processes in the second serving cell are determined with respect to each subframe comprised in the second-type frame and on the basis of the number of downlink subframes comprised in each section comprising a set number of subframes.
US10567118B2	Coding to improve transmission and reception processing time Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The method, systems, and devices may include receiving a plurality of sets of input bits associated with respective transmission symbol periods at an encoder of a transmitting device, the plurality of sets of input bits associated with a single input vector to be encoded into a single codeword. The encoder may process the plurality of sets of input bits to generate a plurality of sets of output bits associated with respective transmission symbol periods, and output a first of the plurality of sets of output bits associated with a first of the plurality of sets of input bits prior receiving a second of the plurality of sets of input bits, the second of the plurality of sets of input bits being received at the encoder subsequent to the first of the plurality of sets of input bits.
US10567116B2	Wireless communication using codebooks from a QC-LDPC code for shorter processing latency and improved decoder throughput efficiency A processor of an apparatus selects a codebook from a plurality of codebooks embedded in a quasi-cyclic-low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) code. The processor stores the selected codebook in a memory associated with the processor. The processor also encodes data using the selected codebook to generate a plurality of modulation symbols of the data. The processor further controls a transmitter of the apparatus to multiplex, convert, filter, amplify and radiate the modulation symbols as electromagnetic waves through one or more antennas of the apparatus. In selecting the codebook from the plurality of codebooks embedded in the QC-LDPC code, the processor selects the codebook according to one or more rules such that a small codebook requiring a shorter amount of processing latency for the encoding is selected for the encoding unless a larger codebook corresponding to a larger amount of processing latency for the encoding is necessary for the encoding.
US10567114B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in wireless communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and apparatus that reduce power consumption of the terminal and increase resource utilization efficiency of the base station through resource sharing between the data channel and the control channel are provided.
US10567112B2	Impulse noise management A discrete multitone transceiver (DMT) includes a deinterleaver operable to de-interleave a plurality of bits. The DMT further includes: a forward error correction decoder operable to decode the plurality of bits, a module operable to determine, during Showtime, an impulse noise protection value, wherein the impulse protection value specifies a number corrupted DMT symbols that can be corrected by the forward error correction decoder in combination with the deinterleaver, and a receiver coupled to the deinterleaver. The receiver receives using a first interleaver parameter value, receives a flag signal, and changes to receiving using a second interleaver parameter value that is different than the first interleaver parameter value, wherein the second interleaver parameter value is used for reception on a pre-defined forward error correction codeword boundary following reception of the flag signal.
US10567111B2	Wireless transmission method for simple receivers Embodiments provide a method for transmitting, according to which the payload data included in the data packet is provided with at least one indicator, such that a degree of interference of the received data (e.g. already decided bits) provided by the receiver for receiving data packets (e.g. a simple cost-effective radio chip) can be determined based on the at least one indicator, such that the determined degree of interference can be considered during channel decoding of the channel-coded payload data for increasing efficiency of channel decoding.
US10567107B2	Portable countermeasure device against unmanned systems A portable countermeasure device is provided comprising one or more directional antennae, one or more disruption components and at least one activator. The portable countermeasure device further comprises a body, with the directional antennae are affixed to a front portion of the body. The one or more disruption components may be externally or internally mounted to the device body. The portable countermeasure device is aimed at a specific drone, the activator is engaged, and disruptive signals are directed toward the drone, disrupting the control, navigation, and other signals to and from the drone.
US10567102B2	Efficient double parity forward error correction on a communication network Methods and systems for enabling recovery of lost packets transmitted over a communication network. In one embodiment, a device includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to calculate a row parity packet (RPP) and a diagonal parity packet (DPP) for n packets. Each of the RPP, the DPP, and the n packets comprises n segments. The processor utilizes each packet, from among the n packets, to update parity values in the RPP and the DPP in such a way that each segment in the packet is used to update one segment in the RPP and at most one segment in DPP. The transmitter transmits the n packets, the RPP, and the DPP over the communication network. Receiving a subset of n members of a set comprising: the RPP, the DPP, and the n packets, enables recovery of two lost packets.
US10567098B2	Reception apparatus, transmission apparatus, and data processing method There is provided an apparatus and a method for efficiently reliably executing a service worker (SW) which is a data management program in a reception apparatus and update processing of its management resource. A service worker information table (SWIT) which is a table storing information on a service worker (SW), which is a data management program for stored data of a reception apparatus, and contains update processing information in an individual SW unit is received, and data management processing using the received SWIT is executed. The SWIT is a table recording an SW identifier and update information on the SW and a management resource specified by the SW identifier, and the reception apparatus performs update processing of the SW and the management resource by referring to the SWIT.
US10567092B2	System to calibrate phase using system information Embodiments of methods and systems for operating a communications device are described. In one embodiment, a method for operating a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling involves adjusting a phase configuration of the communications device in response to at least one system or environmental parameter, modulating a carrier signal with the adjusted phase configuration using active load modulation (ALM), and transmitting the modulated carrier signal from the communications device for inductive coupling. In some embodiments, the at least one system or environmental parameter is selected from one or more of the following: a distance information, a geometric information, a system code, a technology code, a transmitter current and/or a transmitter power, a detuning condition, a quality factor and a resonant frequency of a resonant system.
US10567091B2	Base station for cancelling transmitter noise present in reception band and method for operating same A base station for cancelling a transmitter noise present in a reception band, according to the embodiment of the present invention comprises: a transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving a signal; an uplink signal detector for detecting a first signal extracted from a reception path of the base station and a second signal extracted by filtering, on the basis of the reception band, a signal transmitted on a transmission path of the base station, and for determining, on the basis of the detection result, whether an uplink signal transmitted from a terminal is included in the first signal; and a processor for determining whether to cancel the transmitter noise depending on whether the uplink signal is included in the first signal.
US10567090B2	Use of high speed radio frequency protocols for communication with pipeline pigs and inspection tools A method and system of high speed radio frequency communication between an outside of a metallic pipeline or vessel and an interior volume contained by the metallic pipeline or vessel includes passing a high speed radio frequency signal through a communication portal having a high speed radio frequency permittive material exposed to the interior volume of the metallic pipeline and to the outside. The high speed radio frequency signal may be transmitted from the interior volume to the outside or from the outside to the interior volume. The communication portal may be a cylindrical- or planar-shaped body connected to the metallic pipeline. A tool located within the interior volume may transmit, receive, or transmit and receive the high speed radio frequency signal. The high speed radio frequency signal may be configured according to a 2.45 GHz standard protocol.
US10567089B2	Transmission device, multi-quantum communication system, and multi-quantum communication method According to an embodiment, a transmission device is for a second quantum communication system sharing a quantum communication channel with a first quantum communication system, and includes a generator, a modulator, a controller, and a changer. The generator is configured to generate a photon. The modulator is configured to transmit a quantum signal generated by modulating the photon to a reception device. The controller is configured to control the generator and the modulator. The changer is configured to input, to the controller, control signals for changing an operation timing of the generator and an operation timing of the modulator when an error rate of the quantum signal of the first quantum communication system and an error rate of the quantum signal of the second quantum communication system are equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold.
US10567088B2	Optical noise removal circuit, optical receiver, and optical chip The present invention relates to an optical noise removal circuit, an optical receiver, and an optical chip. The optical noise removal circuit includes: a noise filter unit, where an input end of the noise filter unit receives an electrical signal coming from an photoelectric conversion unit, and the noise filter unit is configured to filter out a noise electrical signal, in the electrical signal, that is generated due to ambient light, and output a target pulse signal at an output end; and a comparison unit, where a first input end of the comparison unit is coupled to the output end of the noise filter unit to receive the target pulse signal, and the comparison unit is configured to output a digital signal based on comparison between the target pulse signal and a reference voltage. By implementing the present invention, quality of a received optical signal can be effectively improved.
US10567084B2	Thermal interface structure for optical transceiver modules A thermal interface structure for electronic devices, such as telecommunications or data networking hardware, that utilize optical transceiver modules which are inserted within cage receptacles of the electronic devices. In order to provide for efficient heat transfer, the thermal interface structure is disposed between, and in abutment with, the optical transceiver module and a heat sink associated with the cage receptacle. The thermal interface structure includes a thermal interface layer including a phase change material, and a polymer layer connected to the thermal interface layer.
US10567083B2	Sigma-delta modulated RF over fiber and filtering A communication system is provided for transmitting a RF signal, which has a frequency band. The communication system comprises: a sigma delta modulator for modulating the RF signal into a broadband signal wherein the signal to noise ratio of the broadband signal is higher in the frequency band of the RF signal than outside the frequency band of the RF signal; an optical transmitter connected with the sigma delta modulator and with an optical fiber for transmitting the broadband signal over the optical fiber; a photo-detector configured for receiving the broadband signal from the optical fiber and converting it into an electrical signal; an output device and a matching circuit configured for power matching and/or noise matching of the photo-detector, at the frequency band of the RF signal, with the output device.
US10567082B2	Optical terminal device, optical terminating device, and communication control method An optical terminal device includes: a relay processing circuitry relaying communication between first base stations, respectively connected to optical terminating devices at branch destinations of a transmission path, and a control device controlling the first base stations in accordance with information acquired from a second base station covering a cell overlapping cells of the first base stations; a detecting circuitry detecting a sleep control instruction, issued for one of the first base stations from the control device, from the communication being relayed by the relay processing circuitry; and a control circuitry performing control, via the transmission path, to cause the optical terminating device connected to the one of the first base stations to shift to an operating state or a sleep state, which consumes less power than the operating state, in response to detection of the sleep control instruction, the optical terminating device being one of the optical terminating devices.
US10567074B2	Time grid with time division duplex switching intervals Methods and apparatus for communicating in a wireless network including apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry to send and receive data in a plurality of time periods, defined by a time division duplex (TDD) time grid, to another entity, the plurality of time periods corresponding to a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the transceiver circuitry being operable to switch from receive mode to transmit mode and/or from transmit mode to receive mode according to a flexible uplink and downlink allocation of the plurality of time periods; and baseband circuitry coupled to the transceiver circuitry to control the transceiver circuitry to switch during a switching interval embedded within a time period corresponding to an OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols.
US10567067B2	Wireless base station, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system A wireless base station that includes: a transmitter that employs a plurality of antenna elements to form a beam in each of a plurality of transmission directions and transmit a reference signal; a receiver that receives a value representing reception quality of the reference signal for a user device that has received the reference signal; a memory; and a processor connected to the memory, the processor being configured to employ an indicator value, representing reception quality for a user device group computed from values received by the receiver that represent reception quality for each of a plurality of user devices, in order to select a combination of beams to employ in user data transmission from the plurality of beams transmitted by the transmitter.
US10567055B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel information in inter-vehicle communication system The present specification relates to a method by which a terminal transmits channel information to a base station in an inter-vehicle communication system. The method for transmitting channel information can comprise the steps of: measuring channel information and feeding the same back to the base station; and receiving data on the basis of the channel information. The terminal comprises a plurality of distributed antenna units (DU), and when it is possible to select whether to activate each of the plurality of DUs, a plurality of channel information sets are measured according to the number and the location of activated DUs, and the channel information to be fed back can include the plurality of channel information sets.
US10567036B2	Echo cancellation to alleviate timing varying channels Echo cancellation to alleviate timing varying channels may be provided. First, a feedback signal corresponding to one of a plurality of downstream paths and a combination upstream signal comprising a combination of upstream signals from a plurality of upstream paths may be received. Next, a plurality of echo corrected signals may be created using the feedback signal, the combination upstream signal, and a plurality of echo cancelation coefficients that each respectively correspond to each one of the plurality of echo corrected signals and that are different from each other. Then a one of the plurality of echo cancelation coefficients that corresponds to a one of the plurality of echo corrected signals that provides a best echo cancelation performance as compared to other ones of the plurality of echo corrected signals may be selected to use.
US10567032B2	Method and device for transmitting/receiving signals related to change of TX/RX capability in FDR system One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method whereby a second node transmits/receives signals in a full duplex radio (FDR) system, the method for transmitting/receiving signals in an FDR system comprising steps in which: the second node transmits a signal to a first node as the second node receives a signal from the first node; the second node transmits Tx/Rx capability information to a third node if the transmission of the signal to the first node is completed during the reception of the signal from the first node; and the second node receives a signal from the third node after transmitting the Tx/Rx capability information.
US10567020B2	Device for processing an audio signal arising from a radiofrequency signal A device for processing an audio signal arising from a radiofrequency signal, including: an instantaneous multipath sensor able to analyze the radiofrequency signal so as to determine an instantaneous multipath rate, an instantaneous filter block able to attenuate the audio signal in line with an instantaneous attenuation that is an increasing function of the instantaneous multipath rate, also including a mean multipath sensor able to determine a mean multipath rate, and a mean filter block able to attenuate the audio signal in line with a mean attenuation that is an increasing function of the mean multipath rate. A radio receiver having such a processing device is also disclosed.
US10567016B2	Transmission device, reception device, transmission method, and reception method A transmission device includes a first mapper, a second mapper, a converter, a superposer, and a transmitter. The first mapper is configured to map a first bit stream of a first data series to generate a first modulated symbol stream. The second mapper is configured to map a second bit stream of a second data series to generate a second modulated symbol stream. The first modulated symbol stream and the second modulated symbol stream are representable on a complex plane extending in a first direction and a second direction. The converter is configured to convert the second modulated symbol stream in accordance with the first modulated symbol stream only in the first direction on the complex plane. The superposer is configured to superpose the first modulated symbol stream and the second modulated symbol stream converted by the converter, at an amplitude ratio, to generate a multiplexed signal.
US10567012B2	Radio frequency front end, terminal device, and carrier aggregation method Example radio frequency front ends, terminal devices, and carrier aggregation methods are provided. In one example, the radio frequency front end includes: P transmit branches, each transmit branch includes at least one transmit filter, N receive branches, where each receive branch includes at least one receive filter, and a switch circuit having L input ports and at least one output port, where the at least one output port is connected to an antenna or a back end circuit of an antenna, and where the L input ports are used to simultaneously connect a transmit branch of the P transmit branches and a receive branch of the N receive branches, where the transmit branch and the receive branch are corresponding to a same frequency band.
US10567004B2	Method and apparatus for constructing interleaving sequence in a wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Method and apparatus for interleaving is provided. The method includes the following steps: constructing a plurality of pseudorandom sequences according to a pre-defined length of an interleaving sequence to be constructed; for each of the constructed pseudorandom sequences, constructing at least one corresponding numerical digit random sequence according to a number of more than two types of numerical values in this pseudorandom sequence; and, for each of the constructed pseudorandom sequences and the at least one corresponding numerical digit random sequence thereof, constructing a corresponding interleaving sequence according to a mapping relation between this pseudorandom sequence and the numerical digit random sequence, so that a plurality of interleaving sequences are allocated and indicated as multiple access signatures.
US10567003B2	List decode circuits Examples disclosed herein relate to very large-scale integration (VLSI) circuit implementations of list decode circuits. In accordance with some examples disclosed herein, a list decode circuit may include a syndrome calculation circuit, a symbol erasure circuit, an erasure syndrome calculation circuit and a Berlekamp-Massey algorithm circuit (BMA), and an error locator polynomial (ELP) evaluation circuit. The syndrome calculation circuit may calculate a baseline syndrome and erasure syndrome calculation circuit may calculate erasure syndromes from error locator polynomials calculated by the symbol erasure circuit. The BMA circuit may use the calculated syndromes to generate a series of ELPs, which may be used by the ELP evaluation circuit to identify error locations in a codeword.
US10567002B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding LDPC codes Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an efficiently decodable QC-LDPC code which is based on a base matrix, the base matrix being formed by columns and rows, the columns being dividable into one or more columns corresponding to punctured variable nodes and columns corresponding to non-punctured variable nodes. Apparatus at a transmitting side includes a encoder configured to encode a sequence of information bits based on the base matrix. Apparatus at a receiving side configured to receive a codeword in accordance with a radio technology across a wireless channel. The apparatus at the receiving side includes a decoder configured to decode the codeword based on the base matrix.
US10566991B2	Suppressing idle tones in a delta-sigma modulator A delta-sigma modulator architecture with idle tone suppression based on injecting an out-of-band signal includes: modulator input circuitry to provide a modulator input signal; modulator loop circuitry to quantize the modulator input signal to generate a modulator output signal at an oversampling frequency, and to provide a feedback signal. Digital filtering circuitry filters the modulator output signal to provide a digital output signal at a data rate frequency related to the oversampling frequency by a defined oversampling ratio. Out-of-band (OoB) signal generator circuitry injects a deterministic OoB injection signal at a defined OoB frequency outside of a target frequency band. The modulator input circuitry combines the analog input signal, the feedback signal, and the OoB injection signal into the modulator input signal. The digital filtering circuitry filters the OoB injection signal. The OoB injection signal can be selectively defined to suppress idle tones generated in the modulator loop circuitry.
US10566990B2	Segmented resistor string type digital to analog converter and control system thereof A segmented resistor string type digital to analog converter comprises: a most significant bit (MSB) resistor string (104) comprising a high level resistor string, an intermediate level resistor string and a ground level resistor string; a decoding circuit (101), configured to decode an n-bit code of the MSB resistor string (104) and output 2n decoded codes; a logic sequential generation circuit (102), connected to the decoding circuit (101) and configured to perform a logic operation on a middle-position code among the 2n decoded codes and a refresh clock signal in non-overlapping sequences, and output two groups of control signals with completely complementary high level durations; a control signal bootstrap circuit (103), connected to the logic sequential generation circuit (102) and configured to perform bootstrap processing on the control signal, and increase the high level of the control signal to a sum of a power supply voltage and a threshold voltage; and a first switch group (106), connected to the control signal bootstrap circuit (103) and the intermediate level resistor string, where on/off of the first switch group (106) is controlled by the control signal after the bootstrap processing, so as to connect the intermediate level resistor string to the circuit or disconnect the intermediate level resistor string from the circuit.
US10566987B2	Charge-scaling subtractor circuit A subtractor circuit can be fabricated within an integrated circuit (IC) and can be configured to draw a difference output node to a voltage proportional to a difference between two received N-bit binary numbers. The subtractor circuit includes sets of N inputs that receive N-bit binary numbers, each set of N inputs indexed by an integer bit number “n.” The subtractor circuit includes two sets of scaled capacitors, each capacitor of one set connected to an nth input of the corresponding set of N inputs and to the difference output node. Each scaled capacitor has a capacitance equal to 2(n)*a unit capacitance (CUNIT). The subtractor circuit includes a reference capacitor connected to ground and the difference output node, and a reset circuit configured to draw, in response to a received RESET signal, the difference output node to ground.
US10566985B2	Method for analog-to-digital conversion of analog input signals A pipelined analog-to-digital converter has an analog signal input. A first input sample-and-hold circuit is connected to the analog signal input. An amplifier is connected to an output of the first input sample-and-hold circuit. A second input sample-and-hold circuit has an input connected to the analog signal input in parallel to the first input sample-and-hold circuit. An AD/DA conversion path is connected to an output of the second input sample-and-hold circuit. A first output sample-and-hold circuit has an input connected to an output of the amplifier. A second output sample-and-hold circuit has an input connected to the output of the amplifier. The amplifier, the first output sample-and-hold circuit, the second input sample-and-hold circuit, and the AD/DA conversion path are part of a converter stage and outputs of the converter stage are inputs to a following converter stage.
US10566984B2	Signal processing circuit A signal processing circuit with high noise resistance is realized. The signal processing circuit includes: a first pre-stage circuit that includes a first input terminal; and a second pre-stage circuit that includes a second input terminal. A resistive element with one end connected to the first input terminal and a capacitative element with one electrode connected to the ground are provided in the first pre-stage circuit. The other end of the first resistive element and the other electrode of the first capacitative element are connected to each other. An output node of the first pre-stage circuit and an output node of the second pre-stage circuit are connected to a post-stage circuit.
US10566983B2	Atomic oscillator, electronic apparatus, and control method An atomic oscillator includes: an atomic cell in which alkali metal atoms are sealed; a light source that radiates first light and second light with different frequencies to the atomic cell; a light detector that detects the first light and the second light transmitted through the atomic cell and outputs a detection signal according to a detection intensity; a signal generator that generates a microwave signal according to a transition frequency between two ground levels of the alkali metal atoms based on a result obtained by detecting the detection signal for each first period; and a light source adjuster that adjusts the frequencies of the first light and the second light for each second period, the second period being longer than the first period.
US10566981B2	Digital phase locked loop for low jitter applications A phase locked loop circuit is disclosed. The phase locked loop circuit includes a ring oscillator. The phase locked loop circuit also includes a digital path including a digital phase detector. The phase locked loop circuit further includes an analog path including a linear phase detector. Additionally, the phase locked loop circuit includes a feedback path connecting an output of the ring oscillator to an input of the digital path and an input of the analog path. The digital path and the analog path are parallel paths. The digital path provides a digital tuning signal the ring oscillator that digitally controls a frequency of the ring oscillator. The analog path provides an analog tuning signal the ring oscillator that continuously controls the frequency of the ring oscillator.
US10566979B2	Oscillator, electronic apparatus, and base station An oscillator includes an oscillation source, multiple temperature control elements, and a controller adapted to perform control to suppress an increase in current consumed in one or more of the temperature control elements during at least part of a period from when operation of the oscillation source initiates to when the oscillation source reaches a specified temperature.
US10566972B1	Analog switches immune to power sequence A system and method for efficiently receiving analog input signals. In various embodiments, a functional unit includes a switch in its interface logic. The switch receives an analog input signal, and when enabled, conveys the received input signal as an analog output signal. The switch is enabled when the received enable signal is asserted. However, when the power supply voltage is at a logic low level, an output n-type device is disabled while an output p-type device is enabled. A guard p-type device serially connected with the output p-type device is disabled by other devices used to control the guard p-type device. The control devices also ensure that the body terminals of the guard p-type device and other p-type devices receive a logic high level regardless of the power supply value, which prevents forward bias currents in parasitic diodes of the p-type devices.
US10566964B2	Apparatus and methods for overvoltage protection of electronic devices An apparatus includes a string of series-connected voltage clamp devices (e.g., metal-oxide varistors (MOVs)) coupled to at least one electronic device (e.g., a transistor or other semiconductor device). The apparatus further includes a bypass circuit configured to selectively bypass a subset of the string of series-connected voltage clamp devices to control a level at which a voltage applied to the at least one electronic device is clamped. A control circuit may be configured to cause the bypass circuit to bypass the subset of the string of series-connected voltage clamp devices responsive to a voltage applied to the at least one electronic device. For example, the control circuit may be configured to cause the bypass circuit to bypass the subset of the string of series-connected voltage clamp devices responsive to a magnitude of the voltage applied to the at least one electronic device exceeding a threshold.
US10566963B2	Wide range input voltage differential receiver A method and apparatus for receiving reduced voltage swing signals is disclosed. A first amplifier may generate a first intermediate signal based on a difference between voltage levels of a first and second input signals, and a second amplifier may generate a second intermediate signal based on a difference in the voltage levels between the second and first input signals. A regenerative amplifier may increase a difference in the voltage level of the first and second intermediate signals using regenerative feedback and the voltage levels of the first and second input signals. A latch circuit may generate first and second output signals using the first and second intermediate signals.
US10566956B2	Cascaded transceiver integrated circuit An apparatus is provided comprising a first integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit comprises a first element comprising one of a transmit or receive element, an oscillator for providing a first local oscillator signal, a local oscillator output configured to output the first local oscillator signal when activated, a local oscillator input configured to receive a master local oscillator signal when activated; and first switching circuitry for selectively coupling the first element to one of the oscillator and the local oscillator input.
US10566955B2	Method and apparatus for accurate and efficient spectrum estimation using improved sliding DFT An improved sliding discrete Fourier transform (SDFT) algorithm called CIC-SDFT and its apparatus are provided. An input signal is multiplied by a modulated twiddle factor, and is then processed by a modified cascade integrator-comb (CIC) filter. The CIC-SDFT comprises an integrator section and a comb section, with a downsampler disposed between the two sections to enable downsampling of the SDFT computations. Through addition of more integrator stages and comb stages to the CIC-SDFT, the accuracy of spectrum estimation may be improved in a computationally inexpensive manner and with less complexity than applying windowing functions to known SDFTs. Various embodiments provide a partially-nonrecursive method of CIC-SDFT that further decreases computational complexity.
US10566952B1	Phase shifter with broadband and phase array module using the same A phase shifter with broadband and a phase array module using the same are provided. The phase shifter includes at least one phase shifting unit. The phase shifting unit includes a first switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a first inductor, a second switch, a second inductor, a first resistor and a second resistor. The first capacitor is connected between the first inductor and a second end of the first switch. The second capacitor is connected between the first inductor and a third end of the first switch. A second end of the second switch is connected to a ground end. The two ends of the second inductor are respectively connected to a ground end and a third end of the second switch. The first inductor is connected between the first capacitor and the third end of the second switch.
US10566951B2	Radio-frequency filter circuit, multiplexer, radio-frequency front-end circuit, and communication device A filter includes a series arm circuit connected between an input-output terminal and an input-output terminal and a parallel arm circuit connected between a ground and a node. The parallel arm circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit has a parallel arm resonator. The second circuit is connected in parallel with the first circuit and has a parallel arm resonator. At least one of the first and second circuits includes a variable frequency circuit. The variable frequency circuit is connected in series with the parallel arm resonator or the parallel arm resonator included in the corresponding one of the first and second circuits. The variable frequency circuit has an impedance element and a switch connected in parallel with each other. The parallel arm resonator has a resonant frequency different from the parallel arm resonator and an anti-resonant frequency different from the parallel arm resonator.
US10566946B2	Quasi-differential RF power amplifier with high level of harmonics rejection A quasi-differential amplifier with an input port and an output port. The amplifier has a phase shifter network with a first port connected to the input port, a second port, and a third port. A first amplifier has an input connected to the second port of the phase shifter network, and an output, and a second amplifier has an input connected to the third port of the phase shifter network, and an output. A balun circuit includes a first differential port connected to an output of the first amplifier, a second differential port connected to an output of the second amplifier, and a single-ended port. An output matching network is connected to the single-ended port of the balun circuit and to the output port.
US10566936B1	Supply-noise-rejecting current source Various technologies pertaining to a high-impedance current source are described herein. The current source outputs a substantially constant current by way of a first transistor that draws current from a supply. The current source is configured to feed-back noise from the supply to a feedback resistor at an input of an operational amplifier (op-amp) by way of a second transistor. The feedback resistor and the op-amp are configured such that responsive to receiving the supply noise feedback, the op-amp drives a gate voltage of the first transistor to cause the first transistor to reject the supply noise and cause the output of the current source to remain substantially constant.
US10566924B2	Motor driven integrated circuit, motor device, and application apparatus A motor-driven integrated circuit comprises a PWM output unit and an overcurrent comparator coupled with the PWM output unit. The overcurrent comparator receives a detection signal and compares the detection signal with a reference value. When the detection signal is larger than the reference value, the overcurrent comparator outputs an overcurrent protection signal to control the PWM output unit enter an overcurrent protection mode.
US10566923B2	Motor drive device including PWM converter controlled in boosting ratio A motor drive device includes a PWM converter configured to convert AC power supplied from an AC power supply into DC power and supply it to a DC link, a DC link capacitor which is provided in the DC link and may store the DC power, an inverter configured to convert the DC power in the DC link into AC power for motor driving and output it, and a boosting ratio control unit configured to control the boosting ratio as the ratio of the value of the DC voltage output from the PWM converter to the peak value of the AC voltage input from the AC power supply, to allow a motor to be driven using AC power output by converting the DC power stored in the DC link capacitor by the inverter during shut-off of supply of the DC power from the PWM converter to the DC link.
US10566919B2	Electric motor control system, driver, inverter and control method, and computer software and storage medium An electric motor control system includes an electric motor motion signal detection part, configured to provide an electric motor motion signal of the electric motor every other first interval time based on a received first encoder signal sent by the first encoder; a shaft motion signal detection part configured to provide a shaft motion signal of the shaft every other second interval time based on a received second encoder signal sent by the second encoder; and a main control apparatus configured to receive and calculate, according to the electric motor motion signal and the shaft motion signal, an electric motor motion parameter of the electric motor at a moment every other second interval time.
US10566917B2	Linear motor control apparatus and linear motor control system A linear motor control apparatus has: a plurality of coil units; a plurality of position detecting units for detecting positions of a plurality of trucks which move over the plurality of coil units; a plurality of deviation calculating units for operating deviation information as differences between the detected truck positions and a target position of the detected truck; a plurality of position control units for operating current control signals based on the deviation information; a plurality of current control units for supplying driving currents to the coil units based on the current control signals; and a switching unit for switching the position control units to which the deviation information is transmitted or switching the current control units to which the current control signals are transmitted.
US10566916B2	Bearing, in particular for a magnetic levitation assembly A magnetic bearing assembly (20) comprises a first magnet assembly (34) for generating a first quadrupole magnetic field in a first plane and a second magnet assembly (36) for generating a second quadrupole magnetic field in a second plane. The second plane is arranged parallel to the first plane. The quadrupole magnetic fields exhibit in each case in the planes magnetic field axes arranged at an angle to one another between four poles. A longitudinal axis (A) is defined at right angles hereto by the centres of the quadrupole magnetic fields. At least one diamagnetic element (44) is arranged on the longitudinal axis (A). The first and second magnet assemblies (34, 36) are arranged relative to one another in such a way that the first and the second quadrupole magnetic fields are rotated towards one another about the longitudinal axis (A) by an angular amount which is not a whole-number multiple of 90°. Such a bearing arrangement can be used in particular in a magnetic levitation assembly (10) with a lifting assembly (26).
US10566915B1	Acoustic guitar energy harvester The present invention is directed to an acoustic resonator within an acoustic chamber such as a stringed instrument body. The acoustic resonator is provided with a piezoelectric material. The kinetic energy derived from the acoustic chamber creates vibrations of sound producing a corresponding or sympathetic mechanical vibration to the piezoelectric material. As a consequence, the piezoelectric material will generate electrical energy which will undergo conditioning by energy harvester electronics. The conditioned electrical energy is used to provide power to multiple devices including on-board electronics or a USB charging port.
US10566913B2	Power generation device and portable electric device Provided is an electric power generating device capable of performing electret power generation by efficiently rotating a rotating electrode group. The electric power generating device includes: a plurality of electret electrodes each made of an electret material and formed into a planar shape, and arranged in a circular shape at intervals in a first plane; a plurality of counter electrodes arranged in a circular shape in a second plane facing the first plane so as to face the plurality of electret electrodes; an oscillating weight supported in a rotatable manner; and a motive power transmission mechanism configured to transmit motive power generated by rotations of the oscillating weight to a rotating electrode group including any one of the plurality of electret electrodes and the plurality of counter electrodes, to thereby rotate the rotating electrode group so that the rotating electrode group is moved relative to another electrode group, the motive power transmission mechanism including a clutch mechanism configured to transmit only a rotation of the oscillating weight in one predetermined direction.
US10566897B2	DC converter, DC converter group and method of connecting the same The present disclosure relates to a DC converter, a DC converter group and a method of connecting the DC converter group. The DC converter includes a DC conversion circuit converting a DC input voltage into a DC output voltage, and a filter module electrically coupled to an input end and an output end of the DC conversion circuit. The filter module includes an input inductor component electrically coupled to the input end of the DC conversion circuit, and an output inductor component electrically coupled to the output end of the DC conversion circuit, wherein the input inductor component and the output inductor component share the same magnetic core.
US10566894B2	Three-phase/single-phase alternating-current power supply compatible electrically driven hoisting machine A three-phase alternating-current power supply compatible electrically driven hoisting machine having a three-phase alternating-current input terminal, a three-phase rectifier circuit, a direct-current circuit, an inverter, and a three-phase alternating-current motor is changed into a single-phase alternating-current power supply compatible electrically driven hoisting machine by attaching a single-phase AC-DC converter unit having a single-phase alternating-current input terminal, a single-phase AC-DC converter, and a direct-current circuit to the three-phase alternating-current power supply compatible electrically driven hoisting machine and connecting the P and N electrodes of a direct-current output terminal of the single-phase AC-DC converter unit to the P and N electrodes of the direct-current circuit, respectively, and further open-circuiting the three-phase alternating-current input terminal.
US10566888B2	Linear actuators for use in electronic devices Embodiments described herein may take the form of an electromagnetic actuator that produces a haptic output during operation. Generally, an electromagnetic coil is wrapped around a central magnet array. A shaft passes through the central magnet array, such that the central array may move along the shaft when the proper force is applied. When a current passes through the electromagnetic coil, the coil generates a magnetic field. The coil is stationary with respect to a housing of the actuator, while the central magnet array may move along the shaft within the housing. Thus, excitation of the coil exerts a force on the central magnet array, which moves in response to that force. The direction of the current through the coil determines the direction of the magnetic field and thus the motion of the central magnet array.
US10566877B2	Method and assembly of a power generation system A wet cavity electric machine includes a stator core having stator poles formed by a post and a wire wound about the post to form a stator winding, with the stator winding having end turns, a rotor having two rotor poles and configured to rotate relative to the stator and a channel for liquid coolant to flow through the rotor to at least one nozzle, and liquid coolant sprays from the at least one nozzle at least a portion of the stator windings.
US10566876B2	Axial gap rotary electric machine To significantly improve a heat dissipation property of an axial gap rotary electric machine within a size necessary for configuring a motor. In an axial gap rotary electric machine comprising a stator and a rotor in an axial direction, the stator has a plurality of stator cores arranged in a circumferential direction and coils wound around the stator cores, and a heat pipe obtained by filling an inside of a metal hollow pipe with a refrigerant is arranged in a gap between adjacent coils formed in an outer diameter portion of the stator in a radial direction and a housing with a necessary insulation distance between the coils and the heat pipe. The heat pipe extends in a direction of a rotation axis and an opposite output side, and is in contact with a heat dissipating fin outside an end bracket on the opposite output side.
US10566872B2	Spindle motor having a bushing for a lead wire A motor includes a lead wire insert hole arranged to have a lead wire extending from any of coils pass therethrough, and a bushing inserted in the lead wire insert hole. The bushing includes a body portion arranged to extend in a first direction; a plurality of through holes each of which is arranged to pass through the body portion in the first direction; and a plurality of projecting portions each of which is arranged to extend in the first direction, and project from a lateral surface of the body portion in a direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each through hole includes a cylindrical first hole portion arranged to have an opening on a first side in the first direction; and a second hole portion arranged to have an opening on a second side in the first direction, and to be continuous with the first hole portion, and including a slanting surface arranged to decrease in a diameter toward the first hole portion. A portion of the lead wire is arranged in a corresponding one of the through holes.
US10566864B2	Magnet retainer for use in an electric motor The present invention relates to a magnet retainer for use in a bldc motor of an electrical appliance. The bldc electric motor comprises a stator, a shaft and an inner magnet-rotor which comprises a core that includes a plurality of slots each for receiving a permanent magnet and a bore for press-fittingly receiving the shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets that are adapted to be respectively mounted into the slots. The magnet retainer of the present invention comprises a main body which is adapted for installation onto the core and a plurality of outer legs each disposed onto the main body and each adapted to be inserted into the respective slot, to resiliently press the respective permanent magnet radially outwards and to clamp the respective permanent magnet within the slot.
US10566861B2	Magnetic electric impulse motor The invention as claimed, has utility in that it uses separate magnetic field impulses from energized coils and permanent magnets strategically placed together, to maintain an interminable magnetic field upon magnets of a rotor when current is flowing to the coil and when current is not flowing to the coil.
US10566856B2	AC permanent magnet motor The present invention discloses an alternating current (AC) permanent magnet motor, including a stator, a rotor, and a controller. Cable troughs and some same coil windings exist on a silicon steel sheet of a stator core. Grooves exist on the stator core, and stator permanent magnets are mounted in the grooves. The groove includes two types of grooves, namely, open grooves and enclosed grooves, and the two types of grooves are alternately laminated to form the stator core. A coil unit of the stator includes stator permanent magnets mounted in grooves of two stator cores and four same coils, and some same coil units form a three-phase stator coil. The rotor includes rotor cores, enclosed squirrel cages and rotor permanent magnets. The controller outputs a three-phase power source having a same positive and negative half sine-wave or step-wave pulse.
US10566855B2	Permanent magnet direct current motor and HVAC system using the same A PMDC motor includes a housing, a stator magnet fixed to the inner circumferential surface of the housing, a rotor core received in the housing and facing the stator magnet, and rotor windings wound around the rotor core. The rotor core includes a plurality of rotor teeth, each of the rotor teeth including a tooth body and a tooth tip. A ratio of the outer diameter of the rotor core to an outer diameter of the housing is in the range of 0.6 to 0.67. Compared to the existing PMDC motor, the PMDC motor of the present invention can satisfy the same performance requirement, while reducing the size and weight of the rotor core and hence the weight of the rotor windings. In this way, the total weight and hence the moment of inertia of the rotor is reduced, thereby effectively reducing the noise generated during operation of the motor.
US10566854B2	Rotating electric machine The efficiency of inserting a coil conductor into a slot of a stator core is improved in the present invention. Included are a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a stator core formed with a plurality of slots formed at a predetermined depth in a radial direction and arranged while spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction and stator winding having a coil conductor inserted in each of the slots. A plurality of protrusions are formed in each of the slots of the stator core toward a space into which the coil conductor is inserted.
US10566852B2	Establishing connections with chargers in multi-charger wireless power delivery environments Techniques for establishing RF power connections with wireless power transmission systems in multi-wireless power transmission system environments are described herein. More specifically, the techniques describe a method for establishing a connection with an optimal wireless power transmission system when multiple wireless power transmission systems are within range.
US10566849B2	Wireless power transfer device with foreign object detection, system, and method for performing the same Methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of undesirable foreign matter in a region between a wireless power transmission apparatus and a power reception apparatus are described. First and second detection methods, based on different detection schemes, may be used to detect and distinguish the presence of foreign matter from misalignment during power transfer operation. A first detection method may be used before power is transferred to a load in a power reception apparatus, and a second detection method may be used while power is supplied to the load.
US10566843B2	Wireless charging circuit A wireless charging circuit is disclosed. In this regard, a wireless charging circuit is configured to charge a battery by harvesting radio frequency (RF) power from a wireless RF charging signal provided by a wireless charging station. The wireless charging circuit monitors an effective charging power provided to the battery and sends a battery charging signal indication (BCSI) to the wireless charging station to reduce the effective charging power if the effective charging power is greater than a target charging power. In another aspect, the wireless charging circuit sends the BCSI to increase the effective charging power if the effective charging power is less than the target charging power. By dynamically adjusting the effective charging power based on the charging profile of the battery, it is possible to provide fast charging to the battery while protecting the battery from overcharging damage.
US10566829B2	Adapter and charging control method An adapter and a charging control method are provided, the adapter includes a power conversion unit, a voltage feedback unit, a current feedback unit and a power adjusting unit. An input end of the power adjusting unit is coupled to an output end of the voltage feedback unit and an output end of the current feedback unit respectively, and an output end of the power adjusting unit is coupled to the power conversion unit. The power adjusting unit is configured to receive a voltage feedback signal and a current feedback signal, and to stabilize the output voltage and the output current of the adapter when the voltage feedback signal indicates that the output voltage of the adapter reaches a predetermined target voltage or when the current feedback signal indicates that the output current of the adapter reaches a predetermined target current.
US10566828B2	Adapter and charging control method An adapter, a charging control method and a charging system are provided. The adapter includes: a power converter, configured to convert input alternating current to obtain an output voltage and an output current of the adapter, the output current of the adapter being a current with a first pulsating waveform; a sampling and holding unit, coupled to the power converter, and configured to sample the current with the first pulsating waveform in a sampling state, and to hold a peak value of the current in a holding state; a current sampling controller, coupled to the sampling and holding unit, and configured to determine whether the sampling and holding unit is in the holding state, and to sample the peak value of the current with the first pulsating waveform held by the sampling and holding unit when the sampling and holding unit is in the holding unit.
US10566815B2	Charge control apparatus, charge pattern creating device, method, non-transitory computer readable medium and power storage system A charge control apparatus according to an embodiment controls charge of a secondary battery to be charged, on the basis of a charge pattern which is calculated from inner state parameters of the secondary battery to be charged, and of a deterioration model or deterioration map of a secondary battery. The charge control apparatus updates the charge pattern on the basis of change of the inner state parameters.
US10566810B2	Lithium-based battery pack for a hand held power tool A method for conducting an operation including a power tool battery pack. The battery pack can include a housing, a first cell supported by the housing and having a voltage, and a second cell supported by the housing and having a voltage. The battery pack also can be connectable to a power tool and be operable to supply power to operate the power tool. The method can include discharging one of the first cell and the second cell until the voltage of the one of the first cell and the second cell is substantially equal to the voltage of the other of the first cell and the second cell.
US10566809B2	Systems and methods for discharging an AC input capacitor with automatic detection System and method for discharging a capacitor. An example system includes a signal detector and a discharge control component. The signal detector is configured to receive an input signal and generate a detection signal based on at least information associated with the input signal, the input signal being associated with an alternate current signal received by a capacitor including a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal. The discharge control component configured to receive at least the detection signal and generate an output signal to discharge the capacitor if the detection signal satisfies one or more conditions.
US10566801B2	Apparatus, system, and method for preventing improper installation of power supply modules on network devices The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a power distribution module that (A) distributes power to a network device that forwards traffic within a network and (B) includes a series of interlock blocks keyed to (I) enable power supply modules whose electrical ratings satisfy a certain threshold to be installed to the network device and (II) prevent other power supply modules whose electrical ratings do not satisfy the certain threshold from being installed to the network device and (2) at least one power supply module that (A) has an electrical rating that satisfies the certain threshold, (B) includes a flange that is keyed to fit between the interlock blocks of the power distribution module, and when installed to the network device by way of the power distribution module, (C) provides power to the network device that forwards traffic within the network. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10566794B2	Electrical device that communicates with appliances and an electric utility to reduce a cost of electricity A home appliance can operate in a future time frame. Information is obtained from a power distributor in order to determine a time when to operate the home appliance in this future time frame. The home appliance then operates at the time determined with information from the power distributor.
US10566793B2	Systems and methods for distributed synchronization of micro-grids with multiple points of interconnection A distributed synchronization method for interconnecting a microgrid with adjacent power grids at multiple points of interconnections. Receiving a request to connect to the microgrid from a first identified adjacent power grid. Synchronization controllers for each generator of the microgrid identify the generator connecting to the point of common coupling between the microgrid and the first adjacent power grid, and assigns the generator as a leader generator. Determining a frequency synchronization correction and a voltage synchronization correction by the synchronization controller of the leader generator, from synchronization parameters received from the first adjacent power grid. Adjusting active and reactive outputs of the follower generators and the leader generator and connecting the first adjacent power grid with the microgrid when a set of predetermined thresholds are satisfied. Reassigning the leader generator as a follower generator after connecting the first adjacent power grid with the microgrid to iterating synchronize each remaining identified adjacent power grid.
US10566788B2	Systems and methods for redundant line voltage drop compensation A redundant boost circuit configured to compensate for a voltage drop between a power supply and a plurality of loads is provided. The redundant boost circuit includes a first compensator module and a second compensator module. The first compensator module includes a first primary boost circuit and a first secondary boost circuit. The second compensator module includes a second primary boost circuit and a second secondary boost circuit. The first primary boost circuit and the second secondary boost circuit are electrically coupleable between the power supply and a first load. The second primary boost circuit and the first secondary boost circuit are electrically coupleable between the power supply and a second load.
US10566778B2	Line feedthrough for feeding lines through a component A line penetration for routing a line through a building part. The line penetration includes a first lamellar element with a hollow-cylindrical first base part for receiving the line in a straight-through line opening, and with first circumferential lamellas, which extend outwardly transverse to an axial direction of the first base part; a second lamellar element with a hollow-cylindrical second base part for arrangement in a passage opening of the building part, and with second circumferential lamellas, which extend inwardly transverse to an axial direction of the line opening, where the first and second lamellas mesh with one another in the manner of a comb, so that the side faces of the lamellas are impermeable to gas and bear slidingly on one another.
US10566777B2	Mounting arrangement for mounting a device, and methods for mounting and dismounting a device A mounting arrangement for mounting a device in an opening is disclosed. The arrangement comprises an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve arranged inside the outer sleeve, and an adjustment ring arranged inside the outer sleeve. A flange is arranged at a first end of the outer sleeve, arranged to receive said device. The flange is adapted to abut an outer surface of the structure. The inner sleeve is arranged in threaded engagement with the adjustment ring or with the outer sleeve. The adjustment ring comprises a fixing wing extending outwardly through a longitudinally extending aperture in the outer sleeve, the fixing wing having an abutment portion adapted to abut an inner surface of the structure. By relative rotary motion of the inner and outer sleeve, the adjustment ring is movable along a longitudinal direction of the arrangement for adjustment to a thickness of the structure.
US10566771B2	Method for mounting electric switching systems and assembly support device for simplifying the assembly of such switching systems A method for assembling electric switching systems includes wiring and/or connecting electric components together at specific connection points may be used in conjunction with an assembly support device for simplifying and/or checking the assembly of such electric switching systems. A respective component which is provided for connecting in the switching system is identified by an identifying device. At least one target connection point where the identified component is to be connected is determined by a connection point determining device on the basis of the component identified by the identifying device, and the actual connection point where the component has actually been connected is monitored by a monitoring device. If the detected actual connection point deviates from the target connection point, an error message is output.
US10566768B2	Spark plug ignition tip, spark plug device, and method for producing a spark plug ignition tip A spark plug ignition tip for an electrode of a spark plug device, in particular a prechamber spark plug, having a base body that has a first axial end, a second axial end and a circumferential section situated between them; the base body contains a precious metal or precious metal alloy; the first axial end and/or the circumferential section is embodied for fastening the base body to an electrode; the second axial end has a dome-shaped section; and the base body is produced by powder metallurgy.
US10566762B2	Temperature control of an optical device The present disclosure is directed to an optical device including at least one temperature-dependent tunable element for controlling a wavelength of an optical signal, a first temperature control circuit for controlling a temperature of a first region of the optical device; and a second temperature control circuit for controlling a temperature of a second region of the optical device. The second region may include a portion of the first region. The second region may be smaller than the first region. The tunable element may be positioned in the second region such that a temperature of the tunable element is controlled based on the second temperature control circuit controlling the temperature of the second region. The tunable element may be one of (i) a laser for transmitting an outgoing optical signal and (ii) an optical filter coupled to a photodetector for receiving an incoming optical signal.
US10566735B2	Connector Each of additional members of a connector is provided with a connection mechanism. The connection mechanism is provided with a spring portion and a plate piece portion. The plate piece portion has an end face. The end face is formed with a connection portion. The connection portion is oriented inward of the connector in a second direction and located in a receiving portion at least in part. The spring portion supports the plate piece portion so that the connection portion is moveable in the second direction. When the connector is mated with a mating connector, the connection portion is connected to a mating connection portion.
US10566730B2	Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly thereof An electrical connector mounted to a magnetic mechanism includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base and a mating portion extending forwardly from the base. The mating portion includes an upper wall, a lower wall opposite to the upper wall, two side walls connecting between the upper and lower walls, and a mating space defined therebetween. Each of the terminals includes a connecting section extending into the mating space. The electrical connector also includes a pair of pogo pins respectively retained in the two opposite sides of the mating portion. The pogo pins and the mating portion are spaced apart from each other.
US10566725B2	Connector with laterally mounted retainer for supporting and locking a terminal fitting A connector housing (10) includes a terminal inserting portion (15) into which deflectable locking lances (23) project, and a retainer mounting hole (26) communicating with the terminal inserting portion (15) and open in one surface facing in a direction intersecting an inserting direction of a terminal fitting (70). A retainer (40) is inserted into the retainer mounting hole (26). The retainer (40) includes a deflection restricting portion (44) configured to restrict the deflection of the locking lance (23) by entering a deflection space (58) for the locking lance (23) with the retainer (40) inserted to a proper depth in the retainer mounting hole (26) and supports (43) capable of supporting the terminal fitting (70) by being located to be able to come into contact with the terminal fitting (70).
US10566720B2	Simple electrical connector structure connecting a ribbon cable and a printed circuit board A simple connector structure includes a connecting body. The connecting body has a first accommodating space and a second accommodating space. The first accommodating space is matched with a PCB, and the second accommodating space is matched with a ribbon cable body. In addition, the first accommodating space is provided with at least one first conductive part, and the second accommodating space is provided with at least one second conductive part. Therefore, quick connection and labor cost reduction can be effectively achieved through connecting the first accommodating space with the PCB and connecting the second accommodating space with the ribbon cable body.
US10566716B2	Isolation mechanism of controller for circuit breaker The present invention relates to an isolation mechanism of a controller for a direct current circuit breaker, which has a simple structure for isolation and connection manipulation. The isolation mechanism of a controller for a circuit breaker comprises a first connector that has a plurality of output terminals electrically connected to the controller and a plurality of input terminals detached from the output terminals for connecting an input electric power source; and a second connector that has a first connection position connected to the first connector and a second connection position rotated at 180° from the first connection position and connected to the first connector, and has a conductor wiring portion electrically connecting the output terminals with the input terminals at the first connection position and electrically disconnecting the output terminals from the input terminals at the second connection position.
US10566708B2	Electrical connector The present invention provides an electrical connector, comprising a shuttle member for receiving a stripped multi-core cable (such as a twin and earth conductor cable), the shuttle member including a core guide means and a resilient clip member for each of the stripped cores to be received. A body portion is configured to support at least one shuttle member in sliding engagement and includes an array of terminal connections, each connection having a shaped contact to receive a respective clip member of the shuttle member. Each shaped contact defines a jaw member operable to compress a respective clip member when the shuttle member is fully engaged with the body portion to thereby grip the stripped cores of the multi-core cable. The electrical connector has particular application as an electrical junction box for lighting circuits.
US10566706B2	Terminal connector and terminal connection method [Problem]An object of the present invention is to provide the terminal connector and the terminal connection method that are capable of properly keeping the contact area and the contact surface pressure of the electrical contact portion for a long term even if the respective terminals of the motor and the control unit are configured at a simple shape, and to provide the optimum terminal connector and terminal connection method to use for the electric power steering apparatus, the electric actuator and so on.[Means for solving the problem]A terminal connector which connects between a motor-side terminal of a motor and a unit-side terminal of a control unit for the motor, wherein the terminal connector has an electrical contact due to a formation of a junction site between the motor-side terminal and the unit-side terminal by abutting the motor-side terminal and the unit-side terminal and applying a plastic deformation with a machine work to an abutted portion.
US10566705B2	Method for manufacturing electrical connection assembly A method for manufacturing an electrical connection assembly includes a connector preparing step of preparing a connector (CN), in which each of plural terminals (20) has a conductor connection surface (27a) exposed outside an insulating housing (30). A connecting step of connects parts of conductors and the conductor connection surfaces (27a) corresponding thereto while tension is applied to a wiring material (10) by holding the wiring material (10) including the conductors arrayed at intervals from each other in an array direction at holding positions separated from each other in a longitudinal direction of the wiring material. A cutting step sandwiches and cuts the wiring material (10) by two cutting tools (62, 65) at a cutting position between one of the holding positions and the parts to be connected with the wiring material (10) kept held after the completion of the connecting step.
US10566697B2	Beam shaping for reconfigurable holographic antennas A reconfigurable holographic antenna and a method of shaping an antenna beam pattern of a reconfigurable holographic antenna is disclosed. A baseline holographic pattern is driven onto a reconfigurable layer of the reconfigurable holographic antenna while a feed wave excites the reconfigurable layer. An antenna pattern metric representative of a baseline antenna pattern is received. The baseline antenna pattern is generated by the reconfigurable holographic antenna while the baseline holographic pattern is driven onto the reconfigurable layer. A modified holographic pattern is generated in response to the antenna pattern metric. The modified holographic pattern is driven onto the reconfigurable layer of the reconfigurable holographic antenna to generate an improved antenna pattern.
US10566692B2	Optically controlled meta-material phased array antenna system A system includes a phased array antenna. The phased array antenna includes a rear panel that has: a first array of phase shift elements; and a second array of rear antenna elements. The phased array antenna also includes a front panel that has a third array of front antenna elements. Each of the front antenna elements is electrically coupled to a corresponding one of the rear antenna elements through one of the phase shift elements. When the second array of rear antenna elements receives a radio signal from a base station and the first array of phase shift elements receives an optical control beam from the base station, the third array of antenna elements radiates an output radio signal in a direction indicated by the optical control beam.
US10566671B2	Zinc-air battery A zinc-air cell, a battery which is a low weight, low volume, or higher energy system, or a combination thereof and an apparatus for recharging the same are disclosed.
US10566669B2	Lithium oxygen batteries having a carbon cloth current collector and method of producing same A lithium oxygen or air battery (80) is disclosed having two halves (81) that are joined together along their edges. Each battery half (81) has a carbon cloth or mesh cathode current collector (82), a cathode (83), a cathode terminal (84), an anode (85), an anode current collector, anode terminal (88) and a solid separator (87). The cathode includes randomly distributed carbon fibers throughout. The manufacturing of the cathode includes embedding a carbon cloth between two layers of cathode material in a slurry state.
US10566666B2	Cooled busbars and plate A rechargeable battery system, a battery pack, and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. The rechargeable battery system and/or battery pack can be for an electric vehicle. The rechargeable battery system and/or battery pack can include a plurality of battery cells arranged into one or more rows, a busbar, and a housing. The busbar can extend over the ends of the plurality of battery cells, and can be configured to conduct electrical energy to and from the battery cells. The busbar may also connect to the one or more of the terminals of the plurality of battery cells. The busbar may define a busbar cooling duct having an entrance and an exit. In addition, the busbar cooling duct may be in thermal connection with a plurality of contacts of the busbar.
US10566661B2	Electrolytic solution and secondary battery The present invention relates to an electrolytic solution comprising a cyclic disulfonic acid ester represented by the specific formula and a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester represented by the specific formula, and the secondary battery using the same. According to the present invention, the electrolytic solution which can improve a cycle characteristics in a secondary battery and a secondary battery using the same can be provided.
US10566657B2	Electrolyte, battery, battery pack, electronic apparatus, electric vehicle, power storage apparatus, and power system [Solving Means] A battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte. The electrolyte contains an electrolyte solution, and a polymer compound holding the electrolyte solution. The polymer compound includes a copolymer having at least predetermined two kinds of repeating units.
US10566653B2	Lithium sulfur nitrogen compound for anode barrier coating or solid electrolyte Provided is a lithium-conductive solid-state electrolyte material that comprises a sulfide compound of a composition that does not deviate substantially from a formula of Li9S3N. The compound's conductivity is greater than about 1×10−7 S/cm at about 25° C. and is in contact with a negative electroactive material. Also provided is an electrochemical cell that includes an anode layer, a cathode layer, and the electrolyte layer between the anode and cathode layers. In an example, the material's activation energy can be no greater than about 0.52 eV at about 25° C.
US10566652B2	Lithium metal battery with hybrid electrolyte system An electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode that contains lithium and an electrolyte system. In one variation, the electrolyte system includes a first liquid electrolyte, a solid-dendrite-blocking layer, and an interface layer. The solid dendrite-blocking layer is ionically conducting and electrically insulating. The dendrite-blocking layer includes a first component and a distinct second component. The dendrite-blocking layer has a shear modulus of greater than or equal to about 7.5 GPa at 23° C. The interface layer is configured to interface with a negative electrode including lithium metal on a first side and the dendrite blocking layer on a second opposite side. The interface layer includes a second liquid electrolyte, a gel polymer electrolyte, or a solid-state electrolyte. The dendrite-blocking layer is disposed between the first liquid electrolyte and the interface layer.
US10566648B2	Lithium-sulfur battery separation film having composite coating layer including polydopamine, manufacturing method therefor, and lithium-sulfur battery comprising same The present invention relates to a separator for a lithium-sulfur battery having a composite coating layer including polydopamine, and a method for preparing the same, and in particular, to a lithium-sulfur battery suppressing lithium polysulfide elution by using a composite coating layer including polydopamine and a conductive material on one surface of a separator. In the lithium-sulfur battery according to the present invention, a porous structure of polydopamine adsorbs lithium polysulfide eluted from a positive electrode preventing elution and diffusion, and by providing additional electric conductivity, a reaction site of a positive electrode active material is provided, and therefore, battery capacity and life time properties are enhanced.
US10566628B2	Slurry for lithium ion secondary battery positive electrode-use, method for producing slurry for lithium ion secondary battery positive electrode-use, method for producing positive electrode for lithium ion secondary battery-use, and lithium ion secondary battery Provided is a slurry for lithium ion secondary battery positive electrode-use that includes a positive electrode active material, a binding material, a conductive material, and an organic solvent. The positive electrode active material is a lithium cobalt-based composite oxide particle having an oxide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Al, B, Ti, and Zr on its surface. The binding material includes a polymer (P1) and a fluorine-containing polymer (P2). The polymer (P1) includes a nitrile group-containing monomer unit, a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer unit, and an alkylene structural unit having a carbon number of at least 4, and does not substantially include a hydrophilic group-containing monomer unit.
US10566625B2	Electrode active material, electrode for electricity storage device, electricity storage device, and method for producing electrode active material An electricity storage device 20 includes a positive electrode 22, a negative electrode 23 containing a layered structure of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid metal salt as an electrode active material, and an ion conducting medium 27 capable of conducting carrier ions. The layered structure is formed by spray-drying a solution prepared by containing aromatic dicarboxylic acid anions and alkali metal cations by using a spray-drying apparatus.
US10566619B2	Active material, active material composite material, electrode, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. The active material includes particles. The particles have a crystal structure belonging to a monoclinic niobium-titanium composite oxide. A ratio of a crystallite size Dc corresponding to a (020) plane with respect to an average primary particle size Dp of the particles is not less than 35%.
US10566608B2	Negative electrode for electric device and electric device using the same The negative electrode for an electric device includes a current collector and an electrode layer containing a negative electrode active material, a conductive auxiliary agent and a binder and formed on a surface of the current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material contains an alloy represented by the following formula (1): SixSnyMzAa (in the formula (1), M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, V, C and a combination thereof, A is inevitable impurities, and x, y, z and a represent mass percent values and satisfy the conditions of 0
US10566604B2	Method for manufacturing a curved electrode assembly The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing an electrode assembly for an electrochemical device. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a curved electrode assembly having a curve with a uniform curvature radius. According to the present disclosure, as the curved electrode assembly is manufactured by stacking a plurality of curved unit cells having a uniform curvature radius, restoration to the original shape is low and shape stability is high as compared to an electrode assembly manufactured by bending a flat electrode assembly. In addition, as unit cells included in an electrode assembly are produced to have a curve by a roll lamination process under a uniform condition and they have the same curvature radius or a small difference in curvature radius, it is possible to easily manufacture an electrode assembly having a desired curvature radius without excessive deformation of the unit cells.
US10566601B2	Imaging element, solid-state imaging device, and electronic device An imaging element has a laminated structure including a first electrode, a light-receiving layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the light-receiving layer. The second electrode is made of a transparent amorphous oxide having a conductive property.
US10566600B2	Power conditioning and saving device Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a power factor adjustor comprising: a power factor measurement unit configured to measure the power factor on an input line to a load and generate a power factor correction signal based on the measured power factor; and a power factor adjustment unit connected to the power factor measurement unit comprising: a fixed capacitor connected in series to a first switching device; and an adjustable element having a variable capacitance connected in parallel to the fixed capacitor and in series to a second switching device, wherein the overall capacitance of the power factor adjustment unit is adjusted by adjusting the capacitance of the adjustable element or by toggling the first and second switching devices in response to the power factor correction signal.
US10566596B2	Battery unit and wiring unit for a battery unit A battery unit includes multiple cell modules which are interconnected. The cell modules respectively include multiple battery cells. Local cell module control units are associated with the cell modules. The cell module control units are configured in such a way that they control and/or monitor the cell modules. The cell module control units are applied to at least one flat conductor sheet. The flat conductor sheet has plugs which are plugged into mating plugs of the cell modules. There is also described a wiring unit for a battery unit.
US10566591B2	Emergency degassing arrangement for a housing in the motor vehicle sector An emergency degassing arrangement for a housing in the motor vehicle sector, in particular a battery housing. The housing encloses at least one housing interior and has at least one housing opening which is closed by a covering device. The covering device has at least one membrane, a spike member and a sensor device in such a manner that, when a defined internal pressure in the respective housing interior is exceeded, the sensor device detects the exceeding and the membrane can be destroyed. The spike member is mounted resiliently in the covering device by a spring member.
US10566589B2	Battery module and battery pack comprising same Disclosed is a battery module, which may stably maintain a secondary battery stack and have less damage to an electrode lead due to external vibration, and a battery pack including the battery module. The battery module comprises a plurality of pouch-type secondary batteries respectively configured to accommodate an electrode assembly in a pouch thereof so that an electrode lead connected to an electrode tab of the electrode assembly is drawn through a terrace portion of the pouch, and a fixing member interposed at least partially between the secondary batteries and adhered and fixed to the terrace portion to maintain the secondary batteries in a stacked state.
US10566586B2	Leaktight box for alkaline batteries Leaktight box for alkaline electrolyte battery, comprising an assembly of metal plates, where: a first and a second plate overlap in a zone of overlap and are assembled with rivets each comprising a head, a stem and a bulb; the stem of the rivets is deformed in such a way as to occupy in a leaktight manner substantially all of the volume of said holes of the first and second plates; preferably an elastomer seal comprising a material chosen from among a butyl rubber, an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer and a nitrile rubber, where said seal is disposed in continuity with the overlap zone in continuous contact with the first and the second plate in such a way as to complete the leaktightness of the box.
US10566584B2	Electrical storage system with a sheet-like discrete element, sheet-like discrete element, method for producing same, and use thereof An electrical storage system is provided that has a thickness of less than 2 mm and includes comprises at least one sheet-like discrete element. At least one surface of the at least one sheet-like discrete element is designed to be chemically reactive to a reduced degree, inert, and/or permeable to a reduced degree, and/or impermeable with respect to materials coming into contact with the surface. Also provided are a sheet-like discrete element and to the production and use thereof.
US10566574B2	Organic light emitting diode, method for manufacturing same, image display device, and illuminating device An organic light emitting diode includes an anodic conductive layer, an organic EL layer, and a cathodic conductive layer formed from Ag or an alloy of Ag, or the like, sequentially laminated on a substrate, such that a two-dimensional lattice structure is provided on a surface of the cathodic conductive layer on an organic EL layer side, an extraction wavelength and a distance between centers of concave portions or convex portions in the two-dimensional lattice structure are within a region surrounded by specific coordinates in a graph illustrating a relationship between the light extraction wavelength and the distance, and the depth of the concave portions or a height of the convex portions is 12 nm to 180 nm.
US10566573B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing organic light emitting display apparatus An organic light emitting display apparatus including a substrate, an organic light emitting portion comprising a plurality of organic light emitting devices formed on the substrate, and an encapsulation portion for encapsulating the organic light emitting portion. The encapsulation portion includes a porous layer formed on the organic light emitting portion, a planarization layer formed on the porous layer, and a barrier layer formed on the planarization layer. The porous layer prevents impurities from being concentrated at a part of the porous layer.
US10566568B2	Organic light emitting diode display substrate, organic light emitting diode display apparatus, and method of fabricating organic light emitting diode display substrate The present application discloses an organic light emitting diode display substrate. The organic light emitting diode display substrate includes a base substrate; an auxiliary cathode on the base substrate; a spacer layer on the base substrate and including a plurality of spacers; and a flexible transparent conductive layer on a side of each of the plurality of spacers distal to the base substrate. The flexible transparent conductive layer is electrically connected to the auxiliary cathode.
US10566563B2	Organic light emitting diode component and lamp The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode component and a lamp containing the same, the organic light emitting diode component includes an organic light emitting diode, the organic light emitting diode includes an electron transport layer, an organic light emitting material layer and a hole transport layer, and the organic light emitting diode component further includes a magnetic field supply element, the magnetic field supply element supplies a magnetic field, in a case where the magnetic field supply element supplies the magnetic field, at least a part of the organic light emitting diode is located in the magnetic field, the electron transport layer of the organic light emitting diode includes a material with an electron mobility varying with changing of the magnetic field, and/or the hole transport layer of the organic light emitting diode includes a material with a hole mobility varying with changing of the magnetic field.
US10566561B2	Organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting display device including the same An organic light emitting diode includes an emitting material layer including first and second layers; a first electrode on a side of the emitting material layer; and a second electrode on the other side of the light emitting material layer and facing the first electrode, wherein the first layer includes a first compound, and the second layer includes a second compound, wherein the first compound has a difference, between a singlet energy and a triplet energy, less than 0.3 eV, and wherein the singlet energy of the first compound is greater than a singlet energy of the second compound.
US10566551B2	Fluorescent compounds of the boron thienyldipyrromethene type, and their use The present invention concerns fluorescent boron thienyldipyrromethene type compounds, their preparation process, as well as their use as an electron donor in the field of organic electronics, in particular for the production of a photoactive layer in photovoltaic cells of the bulk heterojunction type or for the production of field effect transistors.
US10566546B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A compound having a structure of Formula 1: is disclosed. In Formula 1, each one of X1 to X16 is independently CR or N; at least two adjacent of X1 to X16 are CR; at least one pair of adjacent Rs is fused to one of the Ring A, Ring B, Ring C, or Ring D; each instance of Y1, Y2, Y3, and Y4 is independently CR1 or N; each instance of Z is independently CR2R3, NR4, O, S or Se; each instance of R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from a variety of substituents; and any adjacent substituents of R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are optionally joined or fused into a ring. Formulations and devices, such as an OLEDs, that include the compound of Formula 1 are also described.
US10566541B2	Aromatic amine derivative, material for organic electroluminescent element, and organic electroluminescent element An aromatic amine derivative is represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), R2 to R5, R7 to R9 and R10 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent. R1 and R6 in the formula (1) are each represented by the following formula (2), in which L1 to L3 are each independently, for instance, a single bond. Ar1 in the formula (2) is a monovalent residue derived from a ring structure of the following formula (4), in which X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom and at least one of R11 to R18 is a substituted aryl group. Ar1 in the formula (1) is, for instance, an aryl group or a monovalent residue derived from the ring structure of the formula (4).
US10566538B2	Apparatus and method for forming organic thin film solar battery A method for forming an organic thin film solar battery includes steps of: providing a substrate and an evaporating source; forming a first electrode on a surface of the substrate; spacing the evaporating source from the first electrode, and heating the carbon nanotube film structure to gasify the photoactive material and form a photoactive layer on a surface of the first electrode; and forming a second electrode on a surface of the photoactive layer.
US10566537B2	Carbon nanotube-graphene hybrid transparent conductor and field effect transistor A nanotube-graphene hybrid film and method for forming a cleaned nanotube-graphene hybrid film. The nanotube-graphene hybrid film includes a substrate; nanotube film deposited over the substrate to produce a layer of nanotube film; and graphene deposited over the layer of nanotube film to produce a nanotube-graphene hybrid film.
US10566530B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor devices Disclosed is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method may include forming a mold layer on a substrate, the mold layer having a hole exposing a portion of the substrate, forming a phase transition layer with a void, in the hole, and thermally treating the phase transition layer to remove the void from the phase transition layer. The thermal treating of the phase transition layer may include heating the substrate to a first temperature to form a diffusion layer in the phase transition layer, and the first temperature may be lower than or equal to 55% of a melting point of the phase transition layer.
US10566527B2	Method for fabrication of a CEM device Disclosed is a method for the fabrication of a correlated electron material (CEM) device comprising: forming a layer of a conductive substrate on a substrate; forming a layer of a correlated electron material on the layer of conductive substrate; forming a layer of a conductive overlay on the layer of correlated electron material; patterning these layers to form a stack comprising a conductive substrate, a CEM layer and a conductive overlay, on the substrate; forming a cover layer of an insulating material over the stack; and patterning the cover layer wherein: the patterning of the cover layer comprises etching a trench in the cover layer whereby to expose the conductive overlay; and the method further comprises treating the exposed conductive overlay to remove an oxidation layer there from.
US10566525B2	Method for manufacturing magnetoresistive element A method for manufacturing a magnetoresistive element, includes: a first step of preparing a wafer including a first ferromagnetic layer and a first oxide layer provided directly on the first ferromagnetic layer; a second step of forming, after the first step, a second ferromagnetic layer directly on the first oxide layer; a third step of forming, after the second step, an absorbing layer directly on the second ferromagnetic layer; and a fourth step of crystallizing, after the third step, the second ferromagnetic layer by heat treatment. The second ferromagnetic layer contains boron, and the absorbing layer contains a material for absorbing boron from the second ferromagnetic layer by the heat treatment in the fourth step.
US10566523B2	Storage element and memory A storage element including a storage layer configured to hold information by use of a magnetization state of a magnetic material, with a pinned magnetization layer being provided on one side of the storage layer, with a tunnel insulation layer, and with the direction of magnetization of the storage layer being changed through injection of spin polarized electrons by passing a current in the lamination direction, so as to record information in the storage layer, wherein a spin barrier layer configured to restrain diffusion of the spin polarized electrons is provided on the side, opposite to the pinned magnetization layer, of the storage layer; and the spin barrier layer includes at least one material selected from the group composing of oxides, nitrides, and fluorides.
US10566518B2	Composite substrate and thickness-tendency estimating method for piezoelectric substrate A composite substrate according to the present invention includes a support substrate having a diameter of 2 inches or more, and a piezoelectric substrate having a thickness of 20 μm or less and bonded to the support substrate to transmit light. The piezoelectric substrate has a thickness distribution shaped like a fringe. A waveform having an amplitude within a range of 5 to 100 nm in a thickness direction and a pitch within a range of 0.5 to 20 mm in a width direction appears in the thickness distribution of the piezoelectric substrate in a cross section of the composite substrate taken along a line orthogonal to the fringe, and the pitch of the waveform correlates with a width of the fringe. In the piezoelectric substrate, the fringe may include either parallel fringes or spiral or concentric fringes.
US10566510B2	Packaging frame and manufacturing method of packaging frame A packaging frame for a photoelectric device chip exemplarily includes a lead frame, an insulator and a reflector disposed on the lead frame and the insulator. The lead frame includes a positive electrode pad and a negative electrode pad. The insulator is disposed between the positive electrode pad and the negative electrode pad. The reflector is formed with a through hole to define regions where the lead frame and the insulator are located in the through hole as a die bonding region. The reflector is connected with the lead frame by a geological polymer. The geological polymer is employed as the material of the reflector owing to the excellent interfacial bonding performance with various materials, and a connector or a connective layer formed therefrom has good chemical and thermal stabilities, excellent airtightness, high mechanical strength and weathering resistance, which can significantly enhances adhesion and mounting stability of device.
US10566506B2	Packaging method and package structure of QLED device The present disclosure provides a packaging method and a package structure of a QLED device. The packaging method of the QLED device forming a thin film encapsulation layer in which a plurality of inorganic barrier layers and at least one organic buffer layer are arranged alternately on a QLED device to seal the QLED device against water and oxygen, and the organic buffer layer is further doped with a thermal conducting material, so that the heat generated by the QLED device can be promptly transmitted through the thin film encapsulation layer to improve the heat dissipation of the thin film encapsulation layer, thereby improving the light extraction efficiency and the service life of the QLED device.
US10566502B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-emitting stack including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the light-emitting stack and configured to convert at least some of light having a first wavelength, emitted from the active layer, into light having a second wavelength, and a light control layer disposed between the light-emitting stack and the wavelength conversion layer, and including a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer, the first insulating layer having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the light-emitting stack, and the second insulating layer having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the first insulating layer by 0.5 or more.
US10566500B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor component An optoelectronic semiconductor component has a semiconductor body, wherein the semiconductor body includes a semiconductor layer sequence having a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and an active region that generates or receives radiation disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; the semiconductor body has a functional region in which the first semiconductor layer electrically conductively connects to a first terminal layer and the second semiconductor layer electrically conductively connects to a second terminal layer; an isolating layer is arranged on a side of the first terminal layer facing away from the semiconductor body; an interruption is formed in the isolating layer which at least locally delimits an inner subregion of the isolating layer in a lateral direction; the interruption encloses the functional region in the lateral direction; and in a plan view of the semiconductor component, the interruption overlaps with the active region.
US10566495B2	Method for producing light-emitting device To remove a deteriorated layer generated in forming a scribing trench by laser irradiation. A scribing trench is formed by irradiating a laser beam along a device dividing line on the rear surface of a substrate. At this time, a deteriorated layer is formed on the bottom surface or side surface of the scribing trench. Next, a protective film is formed so as to cover the entire top surface of the device structure, and the deteriorated layer is removed by wet etching. Wet etching is performed by alternately repeating BHF (buffered hydrofluoric acid) wet etching and MEA (monoethanolamine) wet etching several times.
US10566482B2	Inorganic coating-protected unitary graphene material for concentrated photovoltaic applications This invention provides an inorganic coating-protected unitary graphene material article for concentrated photovoltaic cell heat dissipation. The article comprises at least a layer of unitary graphene material having two primary surfaces and an electrically non-conducting layer of inorganic coating deposited on at least one of the primary surfaces, wherein the unitary graphene material is obtained from heat-treating a graphene oxide gel at a heat treatment temperature higher than 100° C. and contains chemically bonded graphene molecules or chemically merged graphene planes having an inter-graphene spacing no greater than 0.40 nm, preferably less than 0.337 nm, and most preferably less than 0.3346 nm.
US10566481B2	Solar battery module and manufacturing method therefor A solar battery module includes: a front face protective sheet at a first side; a sheet-shaped solar battery cell disposed at a second side, the second side being an opposite side from the first side with respect to the front face protective sheet; a backing sheet disposed at the second side with respect to the solar battery cell; and an encapsulation layer provided between the front face protective sheet and the backing sheet, and encapsulating the solar battery cell. A convexly-curved portion is provided at the backing sheet to overlap the solar battery cell, and curves convexly toward a solar battery cell side, the solar battery cell curves in accordance with the convexly-curved portion, and a rigidity of the convexly-curved portion with respect to a load acting in the sheet thickness direction of the solar battery cell is higher than a rigidity of the solar battery cell.
US10566476B2	Optical sensor and manufacturing method thereof Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an optical sensor. The optical sensor includes a semiconductive substrate; a light sensing region on the semiconductive substrate; a waveguide region configured to guide light from a wave insert portion through a waveguide portion and to a sample holding portion; and an interconnect region below the waveguide region, and the interconnect region being disposed above the light sensing region. The waveguide portion includes a first dielectric layer comprising a first refractive index and at least one second dielectric layer comprising a second refractive index, wherein the second refractive index is smaller than the first refractive index.
US10566474B2	Single-step metal bond and contact formation for solar cells A method for fabricating a solar cell is disclosed. The method can include forming a dielectric region on a surface of a solar cell structure and forming a first metal layer on the dielectric region. The method can also include forming a second metal layer on the first metal layer and locally heating a particular region of the second metal layer, where heating includes forming a metal bond between the first and second metal layer and forming a contact between the first metal layer and the solar cell structure. The method can include forming an adhesive layer on the first metal layer and forming a second metal layer on the adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer mechanically couples the second metal layer to the first metal layer and allows for an electrical connection between the second metal layer to the first metal layer.
US10566468B2	Optoelectronic module assembly and manufacturing method An optoelectronic module assembly includes an optoelectronic module. The module includes: an active optoelectronic component in or on a mounting substrate, an optical sub-assembly, and a spacer disposed between the mounting substrate and the optical sub-assembly so as to establish a particular distance between the active optoelectronic component and the optical sub-assembly. The optoelectronic module assembly also includes a recessed substrate including first and second surfaces, wherein the second surface is in a plane closer to the optical sub-assembly than is the first surface. The optoelectronic module is mounted on the first surface. The second surface is for mounting other components.
US10566467B2	Optical device The wafer-level manufacturing method makes possible to manufacture ultrathin optical devices such as opto-electronic modules. A clear encapsulation is applied to an initial wafer including active optical components and a wafer-size substrate, thereon, a photostructurable opaque coating is produced which includes apertures. Then, trenches are produced which extend through the clear encapsulation and establish side walls of intermediate products. Then, an opaque encapsulation is applied to the intermediate products, thus filling the trenches. Cutting through the opaque encapsulation material present in the trenches, singulated optical modules are produced, wherein side walls of the intermediate products are covered by the opaque encapsulation material.
US10566466B2	Termination structure for insulated gate semiconductor device and method A semiconductor device structure includes a region of semiconductor material having an active region and a termination region. An active structure is disposed in the active region and a termination structure is disposed in the termination region. In one embodiment, the termination structure includes a termination trench and a conductive structure within the termination trench and electrically isolated from the region of semiconductor material by a dielectric structure. A dielectric layer is disposed to overlap the termination trench to provide the termination structure as a floating structure. A Schottky contact region is disposed within the active region. A conductive layer is electrically connected to the Schottky contact region and the first conductive layer extends onto a surface of the dielectric layer and laterally overlaps at least a portion of the termination trench.
US10566462B2	Bipolar semiconductor device and manufacturing method A bipolar semiconductor device and method are provided. One embodiment provides a bipolar semiconductor device including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type having a first doping concentration, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type forming a pn-junction with the first semiconductor region, and a plurality of third semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type at least partially arranged in the first semiconductor region and having a doping concentration which is higher than the first doping concentration. Each of the third semiconductor regions is provided with at least one respective junction termination structure.
US10566459B2	Semiconductor device having a first region comprising silicon, oxygen and at least one metal element formed between an oxide semiconductor layer and an insulating layer An object is to provide a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor with stable electric characteristics can be provided. An insulating layer having many defects typified by dangling bonds is formed over an oxide semiconductor layer with an oxygen-excess mixed region or an oxygen-excess oxide insulating layer interposed therebetween, whereby impurities in the oxide semiconductor layer, such as hydrogen or moisture (a hydrogen atom or a compound including a hydrogen atom such as H2O), are moved through the oxygen-excess mixed region or oxygen-excess oxide insulating layer and diffused into the insulating layer. Thus, the impurity concentration of the oxide semiconductor layer is reduced.
US10566447B2	Single column compound semiconductor bipolar junction transistor with all-around base A vertical, single column compound semiconductor bipolar junction transistor device includes an all-around extrinsic base. Aspect ratio trapping is employed during fabrication of the transistor device on a silicon substrate. Homojunction and heterojunction devices are formed using III-V materials with appropriate bandgaps. The emitter of the device may be electrically connected by a lateral buried metal contact.
US10566445B2	Gate spacer and inner spacer formation for nanosheet transistors having relatively small space between gates Embodiments of the invention are directed to method of fabricating a semiconductor device. A non-limiting embodiment of the method includes performing fabrication operations to form a nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) device on a substrate, wherein the fabrication operations include forming gate spacers along a gate region of the nanosheet FET device, wherein each of the gate spacers comprises an upper segment and a lower segment.
US10566444B2	Vertical fin field effect transistor with a reduced gate-to-bottom source/drain parasitic capacitance A method of forming a vertical fin field effect device is provided. The method includes, forming a vertical fin on a substrate, forming a masking block on the vertical fin, wherein the masking block extends a distance outward from the vertical fin sidewalls and endwalls, and a portion of the substrate surrounding the masking block is exposed. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the exposed portion of the substrate to form a recess and a fin mesa below the vertical fin, removing a portion of the fin mesa to form an undercut recess below an overhanging portion of the masking block, forming a spacer layer on the masking block and in the undercut recess, and removing a portion of the spacer layer to form an undercut spacer in the undercut recess.
US10566437B2	Thin film transistor and array substrate A first oxide semiconductor region serving as a channel region of a TFT is formed on a first insulating region of a gate insulating film whose hydrogen content is comparatively low, and a second oxide semiconductor region that contacts with a source electrode and a drain electrode is formed on a second insulating region of a gate insulating film whose hydrogen content is comparatively high. For this reason, sheet resistance R1 of the first oxide semiconductor region is comparatively high, and sheet resistance R3 of the second oxide semiconductor region is comparatively low so that R1>R3.
US10566432B2	Transistor device A transistor device includes an active region surrounded by an isolation structure, a gate structure disposed over the active region and the isolation structure, and a source/drain disposed in the active region. The gate structure includes a body portion extending in a first direction, a head portion extending in a second direction, and a pair of wing portions disposed at two opposite sides of the body portion. The first direction and the second direction are perpendicular to each other. Each of the wing portions is in contact with the head portion and the body portion.
US10566423B2	Semiconductor switch device and a method of making a semiconductor switch device A semiconductor switch device for switching an RF signal and a method of making the same. The device includes a first semiconductor region having a first conductivity type. The device also includes a source region and a drain region located in the first semiconductor region. The source region and the drain region have a second conductivity type. The second conductivity type is different to the first conductivity type. The device further includes a gate separating the source region from the drain region. The device also includes at least one sinker region having the second conductivity type. Each sinker region is connectable to an external potential for drawing minority carriers away from the source and drain regions to reduce a leakage current at junctions between the source and drain regions and the first semiconductor region.
US10566409B2	Integrated quantized inductor and fabrication method thereof An integrated, quantized inductor, comprising a plurality of identical inductor sections, is provided for multiple applications on the chip. The inductor section represents one turn and includes two stacked metal layers with identical area and configuration, separated by dielectric layers, winding around the insulated ferromagnetic core, and interconnected by via. Power transformer, having a primary winding and multiple secondary windings comprised of a plurality of identical inductor sections and a shielded common ferromagnetic core ring, placed outside of the active chip area between the seal ring and pad-ring enhanced area. Inside of active chip area, in proximity to the related linear RF components are placed sensitive inductors, balun-transformers, resonator, separately protected by EM guard rings, wherein one node is open, and the second one is tied to the ground. The fabrication is compatible with integrated circuits manufacturing.
US10566407B2	Organic light emitting diode display having barrier layer on auxiliary electrode An organic light emitting diode display is disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display includes a first substrate including an organic light emitting diode, a second substrate including a power line supplied with a power voltage and facing the first substrate, and a conductive filler layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes an auxiliary electrode, a first barrier on the auxiliary electrode, a cathode physically divided by the first barrier and exposing at least a portion of the auxiliary electrode, a contact electrode disposed on the cathode, physically divided by the first barrier, and exposing at least a portion of the auxiliary electrode, and a protective layer between the cathode and the contact electrode. One end of the cathode directly contacts the auxiliary electrode, and one end of the contact electrode directly contacts the auxiliary electrode.
US10566401B2	Thin film transistor array substrate and preparing method therefor, and OLED display device The present disclosure discloses a thin film transistor array substrate including an active layer disposed on a base substrate, wherein the active layer includes a first active region and a second active region located in a same structural layer, the first active region has a material comprising poly-silicon, and includes a first channel region, and a first source region and a first drain region that are located at both sides of the first channel region, respectively, the first source region having a first contact layer disposed thereon, the first drain region having a second contact layer disposed thereon, and materials of both the first and second contact layers being boron-doped poly-silicon; and the second active region has a material comprising metal oxide semiconductor, and includes a second channel region and a second source region and a second drain region that are located at both sides of the second channel region, respectively. The present disclosure also discloses a preparing method for the thin film transistor array substrate as mentioned above, and an OLED display device including the array substrate.
US10566397B2	Ink jet printing first and second materials to form a pixel defining layer having groove Preparation methods for a pixel defining layer and an OLED, a pixel defining element, an OLED, and a display device are disclosed. The method for preparing a pixel defining layer comprises: providing a substrate; forming a first defining pattern on the substrate, wherein the first defining pattern is composed of a concave accommodation groove, and the concave accommodation groove is formed by ink jet printing a first material, forming a first defining pattern layer in a predetermined region of the substrate, and then subjecting the first defining pattern layer to a drying treatment; forming a second defining pattern by ink jet printing a second material in the concave accommodation groove, wherein the first defining pattern and the second defining pattern constitute the pixel defining layer.
US10566388B2	Three-dimensional vertical memory In a shared three-dimensional vertical memory (3D-MV), each horizontal address line comprises at least two regions: a lightly-doped region and a low-resistivity region. The lightly-doped region is formed around selected memory holes and shared by a plurality of low-leakage memory cells. The low-resistivity region forms a conductive network to reduce the resistance of the horizontal address line.
US10566387B2	Interconnect landing method for RRAM technology The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the method may be performed by forming a lower interconnect structure within a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer over an upper surface of a substrate, and forming a resistive random access memory (RRAM) device over the lower interconnect structure. A second ILD layer is formed over the RRAM device. The second ILD layer is patterned to remove a part of the second ILD layer that defines a cavity. The cavity vertically extends from an upper surface of the second ILD layer to an upper surface of the RRAM device and laterally extends past opposing sidewalls of the RRAM device. An upper interconnect wire is formed within the cavity.
US10566381B2	Light-emitting diode chip and micro display device A light-emitting diode (LED) chip and a display device having the same are provided. A green LED is regrown on a blue LED to produce blue and green light, and a red phosphor is disposed on the blue or green LED to produce red light. Red light, green light, and blue light are to be produced using a single LED chip. The single LED chip forms three subpixels therein so as to facilitate a transfer process of the LED chip to a display panel. The LED chip is configured based on the blue, green, and blue LEDs so as to facilitate the fabrication and driving of the LED chip.
US10566380B2	Image sensor with dual trench isolation structures at different isolation structure depths An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes disposed in a semiconductor material to convert image light into image charge. A floating diffusion is disposed proximate to the plurality of photodiodes to receive the image charge from the plurality of photodiodes. A plurality of transfer transistors is coupled to transfer the image charge from the plurality of photodiodes into the floating diffusion in response to a voltage applied to the gate terminal of the plurality of transfer transistors. A first trench isolation structure extends from a frontside of the semiconductor material into the semiconductor material and surrounds the plurality of photodiodes. A second trench isolation structure extends from a backside of the semiconductor material into the semiconductor material. The second trench isolation structure is disposed between individual photodiodes in the plurality of photodiodes.
US10566375B2	Stacked-die image sensors with shielding A stacked-die image sensor may be provided with an array of image pixels. The stacked-die image sensor may include at least first and second integrated circuit dies stacked on top of one another. Some of the pixel circuitry in each pixel may be formed in the first integrated circuit die and some of the pixel circuitry in each pixel may be formed in the second integrated circuit die. Coupling structures such as conductive pads may electrically couple the pixel circuitry in the first integrated circuit die to the pixel circuitry in the second integrated circuit die. A shielding structure may partially or completely surround each conductive pad to reduce parasitic capacitive coupling between adjacent conductive pads. The shielding structure may be a metal wire coupled to a ground voltage. The shielding structure may extend between columns of image pixels and/or between rows of image pixels.
US10566373B2	Solid state image sensor and manufacturing method thereof In a solid state image sensor having two semiconductor substrates or more laminated longitudinally, electrical connection between the semiconductor substrates is made by a fine plug. An insulating film covering a first rear surface of a semiconductor substrate having a light receiving element, and an interlayer insulating film covering a second main surface of a semiconductor substrate mounting a semiconductor element are joined to each other. In its joint surface, a plug penetrating the insulating film and a lug embedded in a connection hole in an upper surface of the interlayer insulating film are joined, and the light receiving element and the semiconductor element are electrically connected through the plugs.
US10566344B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device using exposure mask having light transmission holes to transfer slit shaped pattern to stack structure A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional semiconductor device, the method comprising: forming a stack structure; patterning channel holes using light transmission holes of an exposure mask; forming cell plugs penetrating the stack structure; and patterning wave-type slits using light transmission holes of the exposure mask, wherein the step of patterning holes further includes sequentially stacking a first mask layer and a first photoresist layer on the stack structure, and exposing the first photoresist layer by light transmitted through the exposure mask.
US10566342B2	Semiconductor memory devices including a stress relief region Semiconductor memory devices are provided. A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell region and an insulator on a portion of the memory cell region. The semiconductor memory device includes a stress relief material that is in the insulator and is between the memory cell region and another region of the semiconductor memory device.
US10566335B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure, channel layers passing through the stacked structure, a well plate located under the stacked structure, a source layer located between the stacked structure and the well plate, a connection structure coupling the channel layers to each other and including a first contact contacting the source layer and a second contact contacting the well plate, and an isolation pattern insulating the source layer and the well plate from each other.
US10566332B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having active areas and a trench isolation region between the active areas. The active areas extend along a first direction. Buried word lines extend along a second direction in the semiconductor substrate. Two of the buried word lines intersect with each of the active areas, separating each of the active areas into a digit line contact area and two cell contact areas. The second direction is not perpendicular to the first direction. A digit line contact is disposed on the digit line contact area. A storage node contact is disposed on each of the two cell contact areas. The digit line contact and the storage node contact are coplanar. At least one digit line extends along a third direction over a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The at least one digit line is in direct contact with the digit line contact.
US10566320B2	Method for fabricating electronic package An electronic package is provided, including: a substrate having opposite first and second surfaces; at least a first electronic element disposed on the first surface of the substrate; a first encapsulant encapsulating the first electronic element; at least a second electronic element and a frame disposed on the second surface of the substrate; and a second encapsulant encapsulating the second electronic element. By disposing the first and second electronic elements on the first and second surfaces of the substrate, respectively, the invention allows a required number of electronic elements to be mounted on the substrate without the need to increase the surface area of the substrate. Since the volume of the electronic package does not increase, the electronic package meets the miniaturization requirement. The present invention further provides a method for fabricating the electronic package.
US10566310B2	Microelectronic packages having stacked die and wire bond interconnects A microelectronic package includes at least one microelectronic element having a front surface defining a plane, the plane of each microelectronic element parallel to the plane of any other microelectronic element. An encapsulation region overlying edge surfaces of each microelectronic element has first and second major surfaces substantially parallel to the plane of each microelectronic element and peripheral surfaces between the major surfaces. Wire bonds are electrically coupled with one or more first package contacts at the first major surface of the encapsulation region, each wire bond having a portion contacted and surrounded by the encapsulation region. Second package contacts at an interconnect surface being one or more of the second major surface and the peripheral surfaces include portions of the wire bonds at such surface, and/or electrically conductive structure electrically coupled with the wire bonds.
US10566308B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method and soldering support jig A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: applying solder to an arrangement area of a substrate, the substrate having a connection area to which a wiring member is to be directly connected, the connection area neighboring the arrangement area; arranging a component on the arrangement area via the solder; and soldering the component to the arrangement area by heating the solder while covering the connection area. A soldering support jig includes a columnar covering member having a covering surface at a bottom of the columnar covering member.
US10566300B2	Bond pads with surrounding fill lines Bond pad structures and methods for fabricating bond pad structures. A bond pad and a plurality of fill lines are formed on the top surface of a dielectric layer. The fill lines are arranged on the top surface of the dielectric layer adjacent to the bond pad, and may be separated from the bond pad by a fill keep-out zone. One or more Under Bump Metallurgy (UBM) layers may be arranged on the bond pad and may extend outwardly to overlap with the fill lines.
US10566297B2	Monolithic integration of III-V cells for powering memory erasure devices A method for making a photovoltaic device is provided that includes the steps of providing a silicon substrate having a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (“CMOS”); bonding a first layer of silicon oxide to a second layer of silicon oxide wherein the bonded layers are deposited on the silicon substrate; and forming a III-V photovoltaic cell on a side of the bonded silicon oxide layers opposite the silicon substrate, wherein when the III-V photovoltaic cell is exposed to radiation, the III-V photovoltaic cell generates a current that powers a memory erasure device to cause an alteration of a memory state of a memory cell in an integrated circuit.
US10566284B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device comprising a device region on a substrate, an interlayer dielectric layer on the device region, a first interface layer on a side of the interlayer dielectric layer, a low-k dielectric layer spaced apart from the interlayer dielectric layer across the first interface layer and having a dielectric constant less than that of the interlayer dielectric layer, and a conductive line in the low-k dielectric layer. The first interface layer comprises a first sub-interface layer in contact with the low-k dielectric layer, and a second sub-interface layer in contact with the interlayer dielectric layer. The second sub-interface layer has hydrogen permeability less than that of the first sub-interface layer.
US10566268B1	Package to die connection system and method therefor A package to die connection system and method are provided. The system includes a semiconductor device having a substrate with a top surface. A gasket is affixed to the top surface of the substrate and has at least one cavity with a portion of the cavity open to a sidewall of the gasket. A semiconductor die is attached to the top surface of the substrate. A sidewall of the semiconductor die is abutted with the sidewall of the gasket. A portion of a metal layer is exposed to the open portion of the cavity. A pillar located in the cavity is electrically connected to the exposed portion of the metal layer.
US10566266B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked chips is disclosed. Each of the stacked chips includes a plurality of through vias arranged in a regular polygonal shape. The through vias of each chip are formed at corresponding positions in a stacked direction. The respective through vias of each chip are electrically connected to through vias of a chip adjacent in the stacked direction in a manner that the connected through vias are spaced apart from one another in substantially the same direction.
US10566264B2	Flow path member and semiconductor module A flow path member may include silicon nitride ceramics. The flow path member may have an inlet port, an outlet port, and a flow path connected to the inlet port and the outlet port inside the flow path member. A plurality of needle-shaped crystals may be arranged on a surface of the flow path where the needle-shaped crystals intersect each other.
US10566252B2	Overlay-correction method and a control system using the same A method of correcting an overlay includes: forming a first pattern on a first substrate; forming a second pattern on the first pattern; obtaining a first overlay error profile of the second pattern and obtaining a first overlay correction profile from the first overlay error profile; forming a third pattern on the second pattern; obtaining a second overlay error profile of the third pattern and obtaining a second overlay correction profile from the second overlay error profile; and forming the second pattern on a second substrate, wherein the forming of the second pattern on the second substrate includes: determining whether the second overlay correction profile has a non-correctable model parameter; and when the second overlay correction profile has the non-correctable model, obtaining a preliminary correction profile to correct a position of the second pattern to be formed on the second substrate.
US10566245B2	Method of fabricating gate all around semiconductor device A method of fabricating a gate all around semiconductor device is provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of active fins extending in a first direction in a first region and a second region next to the first region, a plurality of gate all around channels stacked above each of the plurality of active fins, and a plurality of gate openings extending in a second direction across the first and second regions and crossing the plurality of active fins, in which the plurality of gate openings include cave-like gate spaces between each of the plurality of active fins and one adjacent gate all around channel and between two adjacent gate all around channels, forming a dielectric layer in the first and second regions on bottom and sidewalls of each of the plurality of gate openings, and on and surrounding each of the plurality of gate all around channels and filling a first portion of each of the cave-like gate spaces, forming first work function metal in the first and second regions on the dielectric layer with the first work function metal filling a second portion of each of the cave-like gate spaces, forming first carbon-based mask in the first and second regions by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to fill the plurality of gate openings to a height at least covering all the plurality of gate all around channels, forming second carbon-based mask in the first and second regions on top of the first carbon-based mask to a height above the plurality of gate openings, removing the first and second carbon-based masks in the second region, removing the first work function metal in the second region through etching using remaining first and second carbon-based masks in the first region as an etching mask, removing the remaining first and second carbon-based masks in the first region, and forming second work function metal on the dielectric layer in the second region, and on the first work function metal in the first region.
US10566233B2	Semiconductor device having interconnection structure A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor pattern on a semiconductor substrate, a three-dimensional memory array on the semiconductor pattern, and a peripheral interconnection structure between the semiconductor pattern and the semiconductor substrate. The peripheral interconnection structure includes an upper interconnection structure on a lower interconnection structure. The upper interconnection structure includes an upper interconnection and an upper barrier layer. The lower interconnection structure includes a lower interconnection and a lower barrier layer. The upper barrier layer is under a bottom surface of the upper interconnection and does not cover side surfaces of the upper interconnection. The lower barrier layer is under a bottom surface of the lower interconnection and covers side surfaces of the lower interconnection.
US10566227B2	Controlling method for a wafer transportation part and a load port part on an EFEM A controlling method for a wafer transportation part and a load port part on an EFEM includes a fixing step of fixing a container on an installation stand of the load port part, a first cleaning step of connecting a bottom nozzle of the load port part to multiple bottom holes formed on a bottom surface of the container and introducing a cleaning gas into the container and discharging a gas from the container via the nozzle, a connection step of connecting the container and the transportation room, and a wafer transportation step of transporting the wafer from the container to a processing room via the opening and the transportation room and transporting the wafer from the processing room to the container via the transportation room and the opening.
US10566225B2	Substrate container with enhanced containment Substrate containers and/or portions thereof for use in the semiconductor manufacturing industry can be formed by injection molding metal slurries. More particularly, such substrate containers and/or portions thereof can be formed by injection molding metal slurries containing magnesium or magnesium alloys. Substrate containers, wherein at least a portion of the substrate container is injection molded from a metal slurry containing magnesium or magnesium alloy can exhibit improved permeation control of moisture and oxygen over, and as compared to, comparable substrate carriers formed of polymer based materials. Exemplary substrate containers can include wafer containers, reticle pods, disk shippers and/or work-in-process boxes.
US10566224B2	Protecting partially-processed products during transport Methods, systems and devices for protecting partially processed electronic parts, are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for protecting electronic parts includes applying a first protective sheet on one or more partially-processed semiconductor devices, removing the first protective sheet, and performing a semiconductor-processing operation on the one or more partially-processed semiconductor devices. In some embodiments, a semiconductor processing system for protecting electronic parts includes one or more partially-processed semiconductor devices, and a first protective sheet applied on the one or more partially-processed semiconductor devices, the first protective sheet being subsequently removed, and a semiconductor-processing operation being performed on the one or more partially-processed semiconductor devices.
US10566212B2	Designer atomic layer etching Methods for evaluating synergy of modification and removal operations for a wide variety of materials to determine process conditions for self-limiting etching by atomic layer etching are provided herein. Methods include determining the surface binding energy of the material, selecting a modification gas for the material where process conditions for modifying a surface of the material generate energy less than the modification energy and greater than the desorption energy, selecting a removal gas where process conditions for removing the modified surface generate energy greater than the desorption energy to remove the modified surface but less than the surface binding energy of the material to prevent sputtering, and calculating synergy to maximize the process window for atomic layer etching.
US10566201B1	Gate cut method after source/drain metallization A method that includes forming a conductive source/drain structure that is conductively coupled to source/drain regions of first and second transistor devices, selectively forming a conductive source/drain metallization cap structure on and in contact with an upper surface of the conductive source/drain structure, forming a patterned etch mask that exposes a portion of the gate cap and a portion of the conductive source/drain metallization cap structure, and performing at least one etching process to remove the exposed portion of the gate cap and thereafter an exposed portion of the final gate structure so as to form a gate cut opening, wherein the conductive source/drain metallization cap structure protects the underlying conductive source/drain structure during the at least one etching process.
US10566194B2	Selective deposition of etch-stop layer for enhanced patterning Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selective deposition of etch-stop layers for enhanced patterning during semiconductor manufacturing. One method includes an operation for adding a photo-resist material (M2) on top of a base material (M1) of a substrate, M2 defining a pattern for etching M1 in areas where M2 is not present above M1. The method further includes operations for conformally capping the substrate with an oxide material (M3) after adding M2, and for gap filling the substrate with filling material M4 after the conformally capping. Further, a stop-etch material (M5) is selectively grown on exposed surfaces of M3 and not on surfaces of M4 after the gap filling. Additionally, the method includes operations for removing M4 from the substrate after selectively growing M5, and for etching the substrate after removing M4 to transfer the pattern into M1. M5 adds etching protection to enable deeper etching into M1.
US10566193B2	Synthesis and processing of Q-carbon, graphene, and diamond Using processes disclosed herein, materials and structures are created and used. For example, processes can include melting boron nitride or amorphous carbon into an undercooled state followed by quenching. Exemplary new materials disclosed herein can be ferromagnetic and/or harder than diamond. Materials disclosed herein may include dopants in concentrations exceeding thermodynamic solubility limits. A novel phase of solid carbon has structure different than diamond and graphite.
US10566182B2	Substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing method, and storage medium Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus including a dry processing unit and a controller. The dry processing unit includes: a chamber that accommodates the substrate; a supercritical processing liquid supply unit that supplies a supercritical processing liquid to the substrate; a heating unit that heats an inside of the chamber; and a discharge unit that discharges a fluid in the chamber from the chamber. The controller controls the supercritical processing liquid supply unit, the heating unit, and the discharge unit such that the supercritical processing liquid is supplied to the substrate before or after the substrate is accommodated in the chamber, the inside of the chamber is heated to change the supercritical processing liquid into a supercritical fluid or a subcritical fluid, and the supercritical fluid or the subcritical fluid is discharged from the chamber.
US10566181B1	Substrate processing apparatuses and substrate processing methods Examples of a substrate processing apparatus include a stage, a driving unit for rotating the stage, an electrode facing only a part of an outer edge of the stage, a high-frequency power supply unit for supplying high-frequency power to the electrode, and a gas supply device for supplying gas to a gap between the electrode and the stage.
US10566165B2	Fuse board and battery block equipped with same A fuse board including a metal plate, a connection portion connected to a cell, a fuse portion connecting the metal plate to the connection portion, and an insulating resin film bonded to the fuse portion, wherein a wiring pattern of the fuse portion has a bent portion, and the insulating resin film has a rectangular sheet-like shape that covers one surface of the fuse portion.
US10566160B2	Passive triggering mechanisms for use with switching devices incorporating pyrotechnic features Disclosed herein are passive triggering mechanisms for activation of pyrotechnic features within electrical switching devices, such as contactor devices and fuse devices. The activation of the pyrotechnic features is configured to change the configuration of the internal components of the switching device and prevent current flow through the device. In some embodiments, the triggering mechanisms comprise features that respond to a magnetic field, such as a reed switch. In some embodiments, threshold strength of a magnetic field needed to trigger the passive triggering mechanism, which corresponds to a threshold level of current running through the switching devices indicating a dangerous overcurrent, can be adjusted based upon the distance between the passive triggering mechanism and a portion of the device such as a power terminal or feature connected to a power terminal.
US10566156B1	Communication system controlled motorized in-line disconnect switch with improved lock out system A communication system controlled motorized in-line high voltage air break disconnect switch with a lock out system including a communication device remote controlled lock out. Also a mechanical lock out is provided if a battery that powers the remote controlled lock out is not functioning or other unforeseen problems cause a failure of the switch or the remote controlled lock out to operate. The remote controlled lock out when operative can prevent the switch from operating the motor when the remote controlled lock out is actuated. The motorized switch typically includes the motor having a worm drive shaft carrying a hookstick eye ring. The remote controlled lock out includes a locking gear mounted on the drive shaft. A lockout lever having a locking tooth is provided that engages or disengages the locking gear when appropriately actuated by the remote control to lock or unlock the switch blade drive motor.
US10566153B2	Lever device A lever device may include a movable component including a pair of support arm portions. The lever device may also include an operable knob provided with a base end portion inserted between the pair of support arm portions, the base end portion being supported by the pair of support arm portions to be rotatable around a first axis line. The lever device may further include a fixed component configured to assemble a polar board and a cover in a direction of a second axis line perpendicular to the first axis line, the movable component being supported to be rotatable around the second axis line in the fixed component. Arc-shaped guide grooves to surround the second axis line by a predetermined interval as viewed in the direction of the second axis line may be provided respectively on opposing faces of each other of the polar board and the cover. Projections engaging to the guide groove in a polar board side and the guide groove in a cover side may be provided in the support arm portion.
US10566144B2	Solar cell, manufacturing method therefor, semiconductor device, and manufacturing method therefor Provided are a solar cell that can be manufactured by non-vacuum process and can have more excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency and a manufacturing method therefor as well as such a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method therefor. A solar cell, includes at least a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes metal oxide particles of 1 nm or more and 500 nm or less in average particle size and a compound having relative permittivity of 2 or more and 1,000 or less. For instance, the content of the organic compound in the first semiconductor layer is 10 mass % or more and 90 mass % or less.
US10566138B2	Hein electro-polarizable compound and capacitor thereof An electro-polarizable compound has the following general formula: Core1 is an aromatic polycyclic conjugated molecule having two-dimensional flat form and that self-assembles to form supramolecular structures. R1 are electron donor groups connected to Core1 and R1′ are electron acceptor groups connected to Corel, m is number of acceptor groups R1, m′ is a number of donor groups R′. The numbers m and m′ are equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, but both m and m′ are not both equal to 0. R2 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core1 directly or via a connecting group; a number p of ionic groups R2 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The fragment marked NLE has a nonlinear effect of polarization. Core2 is a self-assembling electro-conductive oligomer, a number n of the such oligomers is 0, 2, or 4. R3 is a substituent comprising one or more ionic groups connected to Core2; a number s of the ionic groups R3 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. R4 is a resistive substituent electrically insulating the supramolecular structures from each other. A number k of substituents R4 is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8.
US10566136B2	Capacitors, integrated assemblies including capacitors, and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include a capacitor. The capacitor has a first electrode with a lower pillar portion, and with an upper container portion over the lower pillar portion. The lower pillar portion has an outer surface. The upper container portion has an inner surface and an outer surface. Dielectric material lines the inner and outer surfaces of the upper container portion, and lines the outer surface of the lower pillar portion. A second electrode extends along the inner and outer surfaces of the upper container portion, and along the outer surface of the lower pillar portion. The second electrode is spaced from the first electrode by the dielectric material. Some embodiments include assemblies (e.g., memory arrays) which have capacitors. Some embodiments include methods of forming capacitors.
US10566135B2	Method of manufacturing stacked body and stacked body An electromagnet includes a stacked body formed by stacking and thermocompression-bonding a plurality of insulating base materials having thermoplasticity and including wound linear conductors which define a spiral coil. In a region of each of the insulating base materials surrounded by each of the wound linear conductors, each of low mobility members is formed of a material having mobility lower than that of the insulating base materials at a temperature upon thermocompression-bonding of the insulating base materials.
US10566133B2	Apparatus and method for wireless power transfer The present invention provides an apparatus for wireless power transfer including three or more coils, each coil defining a respective coil plane, and the coils being arranged in one or more power flow paths whereby each coil can be magnetically coupled to one or more of the other coils thereby to wirelessly transfer power along the one or more power flow paths. The present invention also provides a method for wirelessly transferring power, the method including: providing three or more coils, each coil defining a respective coil plane; and arranging the coils in one or more power flow paths whereby each coil can be magnetically coupled to one or more of the other coils thereby to wirelessly transfer power along the one or more power flow paths.
US10566132B2	Electromagnetic switch for engine starter An electromagnetic switch includes a first and a second solenoid arranged in alignment in an axial direction of a housing and brings a pinion into mesh with a ring gear of an engine and close main contacts in a power supply circuit for an electric motor which cranks the engine. A retainer is provided which extends from a first bobbin of the first solenoid at least to a location of an air gap formed in a magnetic circuit of the second solenoid. The retainer holds a portion of a lead wire extending from a bobbin of the first solenoid at least in a range between the bobbin and the air gap, thereby minimizing inclination or deflection of the lead wire when the first and second solenoids are fabricated within the housing, thus facilitating the ease with which the first and second solenoids are mounted in place in the housing.
US10566129B2	Electronic component In an embodiment, an electronic component includes: an element body part 10 constituted by an insulative body of rectangular solid shape; an internal conductor 30 provided inside the element body part 10; and external electrodes 50 provided at least on the bottom face 14 (mounting surface) of the element body part 10 and electrically connected to the internal conductor 30; wherein the element body part 10 has: a conductor-containing layer 20 in which a coil conductor 36 (functional part) that will become a part of the internal conductor 30 to demonstrate electrical performance, is provided; and a high-hardness layer 22 which is provided side by side with the conductor-containing layer 20 in a direction parallel with the bottom face 14 (mounting surface) of the element body part 10, and which has a higher hardness compared to the conductor-containing layer 20. The electronic component has improve mechanical strength.
US10566115B2	Multilayer component and process for producing a multilayer component A multilayer component and a mathod for producing a multilayer component are disclosed. In an embodiment a multilayer component includes a ceramic main element and at least one metal structure, wherein the metal structure is cosintered and wherein main element is a varistor ceramic having ≥90 mol % of ZnO, from 0.5 to 5 mol % of Sb2O3, from 0.05 to 2 mol % of Co3O4, Mn2O3, SiO2 and/or Cr2O3, and <0.1 mol % of B2O3, Al2O3 and/or NiO.
US10566110B2	Channeled insulation for telecommunication cable The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications cable. The telecommunication cable includes a plurality of twisted pairs of insulated wires extending substantially along a longitudinal axis of the telecommunications cable. Each insulated wire of the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated wires includes a conductor and an insulation surrounding the conductor. The insulation includes a first insulation layer defining a plurality of channels disposed around a peripheral surface of the conductor. In addition, the insulation includes a second insulation layer disposed circumferentially around the first insulation layer. Moreover, the insulation includes a third insulation layer disposed circumferentially around the second insulation layer. Furthermore, the telecommunication cable includes a separator and a first layer defining the outer jacket of the telecommunication cable.
US10566098B2	Positioning and inspection apparatuses for use in nuclear reactors Devices position inspection and operation tools in a nuclear reactor without use of a bridge or other refueling structure well above the reactor core. Devices can selectively join to in-reactor structures like steam dams through clamping that permits limited movement. Clamps can include one or more rollers that allow for controlled, accurate positioning of the devices relative to the structures. Devices include an extension to which the tools can be affixed. Through selective disengagement of joining structures, devices can move over obstacles on the mounting structure. Devices further include controls so that operators positioned outside the reactor can move the device while mounted on a static structure. The controls can further move the inspection tool in other directions with the extension. Devices are useable underwater or submerged in other fluid and may include powering lines or mechanical extensions that permit powering or direct interfacing from operators outside the reactor.
US10566097B2	Intermixing feedwater sparger nozzles and methods for using the same in nuclear reactors Nozzles mix coolant from different sources together in an outlet to prevent differences in coolant output. Different flow path configurations are useable in the nozzle, including a multiple-path configuration with flows from different sources jacketed or concentrically arranged around flows from other sources. Swirl vanes may be installed in the nozzle to impart mixing or filtering the fluid flow. Diffusers may be used to passively suction or accelerate flow and mixing the same like a jet pump. Nozzles can be combined with filtration systems like trap filters that capture debris based on a momentum difference between the denser debris and fluid. Filters can use magnetic, adhesive, or porous materials to capture debris without blocking a flow path. Filters can be disengaged, such as when clogged, such that coolant flows around the system. Nozzles can be installed on feedwater sparger assemblies in varying manner to distribute coolant from multiple nozzles.
US10566096B2	Electro-synthesis of uranium chloride fuel salts This disclosure describes systems and methods for synthesizing UCl3 from UCl4. These systems and methods may also be used to directly synthesize binary and ternary embodiments of uranium salts of chloride usable as nuclear fuel in certain molten salt reactor designs. The systems and methods described herein are capable of synthesizing any desired uranium chloride fuel salt that is a combination of UCl4, UCl3 and one or more non-fissile chloride compounds, such as NaCl. In particular, the systems and methods described herein are capable of synthesizing any UCl3—UCl4—NaCl or UCl3—NaCl fuel salt composition from UCl4—NaCl.
US10566092B2	Methods and systems using mathematical analysis and machine learning to diagnose disease Exemplified method and system facilitates monitoring and/or evaluation of disease or physiological state using mathematical analysis and machine learning analysis of a biopotential signal collected from a single electrode. The exemplified method and system creates, from data of a singularly measured biopotential signal, via a mathematical operation (i.e., via numeric fractional derivative calculation of the signal in the frequency domain), one or more mathematically-derived biopotential signals (e.g., virtual biopotential signals) that is used in combination with the measured biopotential signals to generate a multi-dimensional phase-space representation of the body (e.g., the heart). By mathematically modulating (e.g., by expanding or contracting) portions of a given biopotential signal, in the frequency domain, the numeric-based operation gives emphasis or de-emphasis to certain measured frequencies of the biopotential signals, which, when coupled with machine learning, facilitates improved diagnostics of certain pathologies.
US10566091B2	Methods and systems using mathematical analysis and machine learning to diagnose disease Exemplified method and system facilitates monitoring and/or evaluation of disease or physiological state using mathematical analysis and machine learning analysis of a biopotential signal collected from a single electrode. The exemplified method and system creates, from data of a singularly measured biopotential signal, via a mathematical operation (i.e., via numeric fractional derivative calculation of the signal in the frequency domain), one or more mathematically-derived biopotential signals (e.g., virtual biopotential signals) that is used in combination with the measured biopotential signals to generate a multi-dimensional phase-space representation of the body (e.g., the heart). By mathematically modulating (e.g., by expanding or contracting) portions of a given biopotential signal, in the frequency domain, the numeric-based operation gives emphasis or de-emphasis to certain measured frequencies of the biopotential signals, which, when coupled with machine learning, facilitates improved diagnostics of certain pathologies.
US10566083B2	Used narcotic or controlled substance container return and tracking for automated medicated dispensing machines A system includes a database that stores information associated with a medication located in a base station. The information includes an indication of whether a container of the medication was returned to the base station subsequent to the medication being administered. A control module communicates with the base station, determines when the medication is retrieved from the base station, determines whether the container of the medication is returned to the base station, and updates the information stored in the database when the container of the medication is returned to the base station.
US10566078B1	Method of Determination of Operating and/or Dimensioning Parameters of A Gas Treatment Plant The present invention relates to methods and systems for determining operating and/or dimensioning parameters of a gas treatment plant including at least one gas treatment unit as well as methods and units for generating a request to initiate the determination of operating and/or dimensioning parameters of a gas treatment plant. The present invention further relates to a computer program and non-volatile or non-transitory storage medium with the computer program, which when executed on one or more processors, performs one or more of the methods.
US10566076B2	Customized integrated circuit for serial comparison of nucleotide sequences Comparisons between two nucleotide sequences can be performed by customized integrated circuitry that can implement a Smith Waterman analysis in series, as opposed to the parallel implementations known in the art. Series performance enables such customized integrated circuitry to take advantage of optimizations, including enveloping thresholds that demarcate between cells of a two-dimensional matrix for which nucleotide comparisons are to be performed, and cells of the two-dimensional matrix for which no such comparison need be performed, and, instead, a value of zero can simply be entered. Additionally, such customized integrated circuitry facilitates the combination of multiple control units, each directing the comparison of a unique pair of nucleotides, with a single calculation engine that can generate values for individual cells of the two-dimensional matrices by which such pairs of nucleotides are compared.
US10566070B2	Electronic device with a fuse read mechanism A method of operating an electronic device includes: precharging a fuse read node to an intermediate voltage less than an input voltage, wherein the fuse read node connects a fuse array and a fuse read circuit, the fuse array including a fuse cell configured to store information and the fuse read circuit configured to read the stored information; connecting the fuse cell to the fuse read node for reading the information; and determining, with the fuse read circuit, the information from the fuse cell based on changes to the intermediate voltage at the fuse read node.
US10566061B2	Calibrating optimal read levels After a predetermined period of time in a life cycle of a flash memory device, a plurality of reliability values corresponding to a plurality of reads of one or more of the plurality of memory cells are generated; each of the reads using a variation of a predetermined read level voltage. An offset voltage is then identified, offset from the read level voltage. The offset voltage corresponds to a zero crossing point in the range of the reliability values. Once the offset voltage is identified, the read level voltage is set to a calibrated voltage based on the offset voltage.
US10566060B2	Memory device and program/erase method therefor A memory device is provided and includes a status register, a memory array, a memory controller, an interface control circuit, and a write control logic circuit. The status register stores a plurality of status bits and a first threshold. The interface control circuit is controlled by the memory controller to perform a data program/erase operation on the memory array and re-program/re-erase the memory array in a retry mode when the data program/erase operation is not complete. The write control logic circuit counts the number of times the memory array is re-programmed/re-erased in the retry mode to generate a retry counting value, compares the retry counting value with the first threshold to generate a result signal. The status register updates a result bit included in the status bits according to the result signal. The memory controller determines whether the data program/erase operation is successful according to the result bit.
US10566056B2	Global bit line pre-charge circuit that compensates for process, operating voltage, and temperature variations A memory array includes wordlines, local bitlines, two-terminal memory elements, global bitlines, and local-to-global bitline pass gates and gain stages. The memory elements are formed between the wordlines and local bitlines. Each local bitline is selectively coupled to an associated global bitline, by way of an associated local-to-global bitline pass gate. During a read operation when a memory element of a local bitline is selected to be read, a local-to-global gain stage is configured to amplify a signal on or passing through the local bitline to an amplified signal on or along an associated global bitline. The amplified signal, which in one embodiment is dependent on the resistive state of the selected memory element, is used to rapidly determine the memory state stored by the selected memory element. The global bit line and/or the selected local bit line can be biased to compensate for the Process Voltage Temperature (PVT) variation.
US10566054B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell having a variable resistance unit, a first selector, and a second selector. The first and second selectors are connected in series with the variable resistance unit and have different switching characteristics from one another. A control unit is provided to write data to the memory cell by setting a resistance state of the variable resistance unit and to read data from the memory cell according to the resistance state of the variable resistance unit.
US10566052B2	Auto-referenced memory cell read techniques Methods, systems, and devices related to auto-referenced memory cell read techniques are described. The auto-referenced read may encode user data to include a certain number bits having a first logic state prior to storing the user data in memory cells. Subsequently, reading the encoded user data may be carried out by applying a read voltage to the memory cells while monitoring a series of switching events by activating a subset of the memory cells having the first logic state. The auto-referenced read may identify a particular switching event that correlates to a median threshold voltage value of the subset of the memory cells. Then, the auto-referenced read may determine a reference voltage that takes into account a statistical property of threshold voltage distribution of the subset of the memory cells. The auto-referenced read may identify a time duration to maintain the read voltage based on determining the reference voltage. When the time duration expires, the auto-referenced read may determine that the memory cells that have been activated correspond to the first logic state.
US10566028B1	Digital video recorder failover Aspects of the present disclosure provide for systems and methods that provide automatic failure options from a primary recording and/or playback device/system to a backup recording and/or playback system, but are not so limited. A disclosed system operates to failover to one or more of a backup cDVR system and/or local DVR device/system when a primary recording and/or playback device/system is inoperable or otherwise inaccessible. A method of an embodiment operates to automatically failover to a backup DVR device/system upon detecting a failure mode associated with a primary DVR device/system, wherein the automatic failover includes synchronizing one or more content items and/or one or more content items playlists associated with the backup DVR device/system and the primary DVR device/system.
US10566016B2	Flexure of hard disk drive A flexure includes a metal base, a circuit member, and an actuator. The circuit member includes a base insulating layer, a conductor layer, and a cover insulating layer. The conductor layer includes a second pad, and a reference hole, which is an example of a portion to be protected, in a tongue portion. A second end portion of the actuator is fixed to the second pad via an adhesive. The circuit member includes a wall portion. The wall portion is formed between the second pad and the reference hole. A height of the wall portion is greater than a height of the second pad.
US10566013B1	Semiconductor laser for thermally-assisted magnetic recording head A light source unit for thermally-assisted magnetic head includes a substrate member having a bonding surface, multiple layers formed on the bonding surface and comprising a base layer, a connection pad layer, an insulation layer and a bonding layer; a light source assembly attached on the bonding layer of the substrate member and having a laser diode embedded therein and connected to the connection pad layer on the bonding surface, so as to form a laser diode circuit; and a heater buried in the insulation layer and connected to the connection pad layer, so as to form a heater circuit. The light source unit can maintain stable heat power for facilitating performance of the thermally-assisted magnetic head, and further reduce the sizes of the light source unit and substrate member.
US10566012B1	Direction based end-pointing for speech recognition A speech recognition system utilizing automatic speech recognition techniques such as end-pointing techniques in conjunction with beamforming and/or signal processing to isolate speech from one or more speaking users from multiple received audio signals and to detect the beginning and/or end of the speech based at least in part on the isolation. Audio capture devices such as microphones may be arranged in a beamforming array to receive the multiple audio signals. Multiple audio sources including speech may be identified in different beams and processed.
US10566006B2	System and method for non-destructively normalizing loudness of audio signals within portable devices Many portable playback devices cannot decode and playback encoded audio content having wide bandwidth and wide dynamic range with consistent loudness and intelligibility unless the encoded audio content has been prepared specially for these devices. This problem can be overcome by including with the encoded content some metadata that specifies a suitable dynamic range compression profile by either absolute values or differential values relative to another known compression profile. A playback device may also adaptively apply gain and limiting to the playback audio. Implementations in encoders, in transcoders and in decoders are disclosed.
US10566004B2	Resampling an audio signal for low-delay encoding/decoding A method and device for resampling an audio frequency signal in an audio frequency signal coding or decoding. The method includes the following acts for each signal block to be resampled: determining, by adaptive linear prediction, a number of future signal samples, this number being defined as a function of a chosen resampling delay; constructing a resampling support vector from at least samples of the current block and determined future signal samples; applying a resampling filter to the samples of the resampling support vector.
US10566003B2	Transform encoding/decoding of harmonic audio signals An encoder for encoding frequency transform coefficients of a harmonic audio signal include the following elements: A peak locator configured to locate spectral peaks having magnitudes exceeding a predetermined frequency dependent threshold. A peak region encoder configured to encode peak regions including and surrounding the located peaks. A low-frequency set encoder configured to encode at least one low-frequency set of coefficients outside the peak regions and below a crossover frequency that depends on the number of bits used to encode the peak regions. A noise-floor gain encoder configured to encode a noise-floor gain of at least one high-frequency set of not yet encoded coefficients outside the peak regions.
US10566000B2	Frame error concealment A frame error concealment method based on frames including transform coefficient vectors including the following steps: It tracks sign changes between corresponding transform coefficients of predetermined sub-vectors of consecutive good stationary frames. It accumulates the number of sign changes in corresponding sub-vectors of a predetermined number of consecutive good stationary frames. It reconstructs an erroneous frame with the latest good stationary frame, but with reversed signs of transform coefficients in sub-vectors having an accumulated number of sign changes that exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10565997B1	Methods and systems for teaching a hebrew bible trope lesson A method for teaching a Hebrew Bible trope lesson, comprising: accessing, using a computing device, a symbolic representation of the Hebrew Bible trope lesson, comprising either Torah tropes or Haftorah tropes or Five Scrolls tropes, each according to a lesson plan; accessing, using a computing device, an audio recording of a human chanting the Hebrew Bible trope lesson; accessing, using a computing device, a first boundary time, denoting a word boundary within said audio recording; accessing, using a computing device, a second boundary time, denoting a word boundary within said audio recording; playing, using an electronic device, said audio recording of said human at the first boundary time, until the second boundary time; displaying the symbolic representation, said displaying comprising: visually distinguishing said symbolic representation, said visually distinguishing being synchronized with the playing of said audio recording of said human using said first boundary time and said second boundary time.
US10565992B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing speech by lip reading A dictation device includes: an audio input device configured to receive a voice utterance including a plurality of words; a video input device configured to receive video of lip motion during the voice utterance; a memory portion; a controller configured according to instructions in the memory portion to generate first data packets including an audio stream representative of the voice utterance and a video stream representative of the lip motion; and a transceiver for sending the first data packets to a server end device and receiving second data packets including combined dictation based upon the audio stream and the video stream from the server end device. In the combined dictation, first dictation generated based upon the audio stream has been corrected by second dictation generated based upon the video stream.
US10565989B1	Ingesting device specific content A system for easily importing content related to a device into a speech-controlled system in a manner that makes the content easily accessible using voice commands. A speech-controlled system that detect a device type from which audio data is received and can determine if the utterance of the audio data includes a query related to the specific device. The system can then obtain and ingest content related to the device and analyze that content to identify the portion of the content responsive to the query. The remaining content can be stored to potentially respond to future queries.
US10565987B2	Scalable dynamic class language modeling This document generally describes systems and methods for dynamically adapting speech recognition for individual voice queries of a user using class-based language models. The method may include receiving a voice query from a user that includes audio data corresponding to an utterance of the user, and context data associated with the user. One or more class models are then generated that collectively identify a first set of terms determined based on the context data, and a respective class to which the respective term is assigned for each respective term in the first set of terms. A language model that includes a residual unigram may then be accessed and processed for each respective class to insert a respective class symbol at each instance of the residual unigram that occurs within the language model. A transcription of the utterance of the user is then generated using the modified language model.
US10565982B2	Training data optimization in a service computing system for voice enablement of applications Techniques for optimizing training data within voice user interface (VUI) of an application under development are disclosed. A VUI feedback module synthesizes human speech of a training phrase. This phrase is presented upon a speaker which is simultaneously captured upon a microphone. A speech to text framework converts the synthesized training phrase into text (textualized training phrase). The VUI feedback module compares the textualized training phrase to the actual training phrase and generates a speech training data structure that identifies similarities or dissimilarities between the textualized training phrase and the actual training phrase. This data structure may be utilized by an application developer computing system to identify training data that is most venerable to misinterpretation when a user interacts with the VUI. The VUI may subsequently be adjusted to account for the vulnerabilities to improve operations or user experience of the VUI.
US10565980B1	Audio streaming of text-based articles from newsfeeds An example embodiment may involve receiving, from a client device, a selection of text-based articles from newsfeeds. The selection may specify that the text-based articles have been flagged for audible playout. The example embodiment may also involve, possibly in response to receiving the selection of the text-based articles, retrieving text-based articles from the newsfeeds. The example embodiment may also involve causing the text-based articles to be converted into audio files. The example embodiment may also involve receiving a request to stream the audio files to the client device or another device. The example embodiment may also involve causing the audio files to be streamed to the client device or the other device.
US10565979B1	Concurrent noise cancelation systems with harmonic filtering A noise cancellation system with harmonic filtering for a vehicle audio system may include at least one input sensor configured to transmit reference signals, and at least one input sensor configured to transmit at least two narrowband input signals each of the input signals including harmonic noise. The system may include a processor being programmed to receive the reference signals, the reference signals including at least two narrowband reference signals, receive the narrowband input signals, apply a gain reference control to the reference signals to determine whether the frequencies of each of the reference signals are within a predefined range of another, and remove one of the reference signals in response to the frequencies of each of the reference signals being within the predefined range of another to prevent common harmonic content from presiding on both reference signals during the algorithm adaption.
US10565954B2	Field-effect transistor, display element, image display device, and system A field-effect transistor, including: a base; a passivation layer; a gate insulating layer formed therebetween; a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are formed to be in contact with the gate insulating layer; a semiconductor layer, which is formed between at least the source electrode and the drain electrode, and is in contact with the gate insulating layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; and a gate electrode, which is in contact with the gate insulating layer, and faces the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating layer, wherein the passivation layer contains a first passivation layer, which contains a first composite metal oxide containing Si, and an alkaline earth metal, and a second passivation layer, which is formed to be in contact with the first passivation layer, and contains a second composite metal oxide containing an alkaline earth metal, and a rare-earth element.
US10565951B2	Display device According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display area provided to a substrate; a shift register including a plurality of registers coupled in series; and a control circuit that supplies clock pulses to the registers, and that supplies a start pulse to a first register of the shift register to acquire an output from a last register of the shift register, wherein the display area is provided in an area surrounded by the shift register, the control circuit, and wiring that couples the shift register to the control circuit.
US10565949B2	Liquid crystal display, turnoff discharge circuit of liquid crystal display and driving method thereof The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display, a turnoff discharge circuit of a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixel units distributed in an array, each column of pixel units being connected to a data line. The turnoff discharge circuit includes: a power storage circuit, having a first end grounded; a discharge circuit, having a first end grounded and a second end connected to a data line corresponding to each column of the pixel units; and a discharge control circuit, wherein the discharge control circuit is connected to a second end of the power storage circuit and to a control end of the discharge circuit; wherein in response to receiving a turnoff signal of the liquid crystal display, the discharge control circuit controls the discharge circuit to operate in order to discharge each of the pixel units through the discharge circuit, and controls the power storage circuit to charge, wherein after the turnoff signal ends, the power storage circuit discharges to keep the discharge circuit in an operating state, so that each of the pixel units continues discharging through the discharge circuit.
US10565948B2	Driving method of liquid crystal display panel and voltage adjustment circuit A driving method of an LCD panel includes: obtaining an adjustable supply voltage and a predetermined voltage, calculating a first difference between the adjustable supply voltage and the predetermined voltage when the adjustable supply voltage is greater than the predetermined voltage, determining whether the first difference is greater than a reference voltage, and lowering the adjustable supply voltage when the first difference is greater than the reference voltage.
US10565945B2	Display driver, display controller, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus A display driver includes a processing circuit to which information regarding a temperature range is input and that performs gamma conversion processing on display data with respect to gray level. In the gamma conversion processing, at a first set point, a first output gray level is gray level m when the temperature range is a first temperature range, and is gray level n (m and n are integers of zero or more and are different to each other) when the temperature range is a second temperature range, and the processing circuit changes, when the temperature range has transitioned from the first temperature range to the second temperature range, the first output gray level from gray level m to gray level n by a step smaller than \|n−m\|.
US10565943B2	Device and method for reducing power consumption of liquid crystal display, and liquid crystal display The present disclosure provides a device for reducing power consumption of a liquid crystal display, which includes: a screen area acquisition module for acquiring a first screen area being viewed and a second screen area not being viewed while a viewer watches a screen of the liquid crystal display; and a dynamic backlight control module for performing a dynamic backlight control adjustment on the second screen area. The present disclosure also discloses a method for reducing power consumption of the power consumption reduction device and a liquid crystal display having device. The present disclosure realizes intelligently partitioning dynamic backlight control to the screen of the liquid crystal display and also reduces the power consumption.
US10565942B2	Display device One example provides a display device. The display device includes an electronic paper display imageable by receiving charges on an imaging surface of the electronic paper display. The display device includes a first ground electrode opposite to a first portion of the imaging surface of the electronic paper display and a second ground electrode opposite to a second portion of the imaging surface of the electronic paper display. Writing to the second portion of the electronic paper display is selectively disableable.
US10565938B2	Blue light compensation film and OLED display The present invention provides a blue light compensation film and an OLED display. The blue light compensation film of the present invention effectively absorbs blue light with wavelength longer than blue wavelength and excite blue light by using a blue light upconversion luminescent material, and effectively improves color shift white OLED device caused by short lifespan of blue electroluminescent material to achieve blue light compensation of the white OLED device and solve the of yellowing in traditional OLED display with age. The OLED display of the present invention comprises the blue light compensation film to avoid color shift problem and provides good display quality.
US10565936B2	Organic light emitting display device and the method for driving the same An organic light emitting display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The organic light emitting display device comprising a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including an organic light emitting element, a data driver supplying a data signal to the organic light emitting element through a data line, a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the organic light emitting element through a gate line, and a timing controller controlling an operation timing of the data driver and an operation timing of the gate driver, and generating a conversion control signal controlling a conversion timing of a refresh rate of the display panel in response to an external input signal of the display panel.
US10565928B2	Method and apparatus for compensating image data for LED display An LED display system has an LED display panel coupled to a driver circuitry. The driver circuitry includes a scrambled PWM generator, a register, and a memory. The driver circuit receives an image data from an external source and, after certain compensations, the compensated data is sent to the scrambled PWM generator to be distributed according to a new set of rules. Compared with existing technologies, this LED display has a host of benefits, including having a uniform optical energy output at low brightness.
US10565926B2	OLED pixel circuit and driving method and related display panel and display apparatus An OLED pixel circuit includes a charging control module (1), a resetting control module (2), and a driving transistor (3). The charging control module (1) is connected to a data signal line and the resetting control module (2). The resetting control module (2) is connected to the driving transistor (3) to reset and compensate the driving transistor (3) to set a control terminal of the driving transistor (3) at a first potential value. The driving transistor (3) is configured to generate a driving current being based on a difference between a potential of a source of the driving transistor and the first potential value, irrespective of a voltage signal at the source of the driving transistor and a threshold voltage of the driving transistor (3).
US10565924B2	Method for determining scene currently displayed on terminal and terminal A method for determining a scene currently displayed on a terminal and a terminal are provided. The method includes obtaining parameters for determining a scene currently displayed on the terminal, and determining the scene currently displayed on the terminal based on the parameters. The parameters include one or more process identifiers of a currently running application and sensing data provided by one or more sensors of the terminal.
US10565918B2	OLED pixel arrangement structure having pixel unit of four sub-pixels configured for improving display resolution A pixel arrangement structure and a display panel. The pixel arrangement structure includes a first pixel unit including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel; a center of the first sub-pixel is coincident with a first vertex of a first virtual diamond; a center of the second sub-pixel is coincident with a second vertex of the first virtual diamond; a center of the third sub-pixel is coincident with a third vertex of the first virtual diamond; and a center of the fourth sub-pixel is coincident with a fourth vertex of the first virtual diamond.
US10565912B2	Electrical characteristics inspection method An electrical characteristics inspection method is provided. A pixel compensation circuit of a display panel comprises a plurality of thin film transistors. The method comprises steps of: removing a film layer above a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; cutting the connection between the thin film transistor and the other thin film transistors in the pixel compensation circuit using a first laser, cutting the connection between the thin film transistor and the other pixel circuits using the first laser; inserting a probe into a probing location, and supplying a predetermined voltage to the probe for measuring the electrical characteristics of the thin film transistor. This method allows the probe to more precisely touch the metal layer in the display area. It can test and analyze the electrical characteristics in the dense display area more easily. And further can avoid the electrical effects from other thin film transistors.
US10565905B2	Light-emission unit and display A light-emission unit includes a light-emission section, a light extraction surface that extracts light outputted from the light-emission section, and a light-condensing section that is provided on side opposite the light extraction surface, with the light-emission section provided therebetween.
US10565904B2	Splicing screen, method and device for driving the same, and display apparatus A splicing screen, a method and a device for driving the splicing screen and a display apparatus are provided. The splicing screen includes at least one main display region configured to display a first portion of a display image, and a frame display region at edges of the main display region and configured to display a second portion of the display image other than the first portion. The method includes calculating a division manner for a display image; and displaying different portions of the image correspondingly on the main display region and the frame display region according to the division manner. The device for driving the splicing screen includes an image capture module and an image division display module.
US10565897B2	Quantitative diet tracking and analysis systems and devices The present disclosure provides a system that quantitatively tracks an individual's diet and exercise using smart devices (phones, watches, and other wearables). Unlike existing programs, which work in energy units (calories), the present system works in mass units (grams) and satisfies the fundamental physics law of conservation of mass. Food ingested is tracked as well as exercise in order to place the user on a quantitative, custom diet that safely and effectively results in weight loss. In addition to rigorously treating the problem of weight loss by addressing the physics that underlies diet and exercise, the system empirically learns about the user over time such that performance may be optimized.
US10565876B2	Information processing apparatus, onboard device, information processing system, and information processing method According to one embodiment, in general, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors receive from an onboard device of a probe vehicle an image showing a vehicle group of one or more vehicles stopping on the same lane, imaging time of the image, and a position of the probe vehicle at the imaging time. The one or more processors select vehicle groups according to the imaging time and an imaging position. The one or more processors identify the selected vehicle groups as a vehicle queue. The one or more processors calculate a stopping vehicle-queue evaluation value. The one or more processors calculate a parking vehicle-queue evaluation value. The one or more processors determine whether the identified vehicle queue is the stopping vehicle queue or the parking vehicle queue.
US10565870B2	System and method for driving assistance along a path Various aspects of a system and method for driving assistance along a path are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, a unique identifier is received from a communication device at an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The unique identifier is received when the first vehicle has reached a first location along a first portion of the path. A communication channel is established between the first vehicle and the communication device based on the received unique identifier. Data associated with a second portion of the path is received by the ECU from the communication device based on the established communication channel. Alert information associated with the second portion of the path is generated by the ECU based on the received data.
US10565866B2	Acquisition device, recognition device, vehicle identification system and method A vehicle identification system includes an acquisition device and a recognition device. The acquisition device is mounted on a first vehicle and includes an acquisition circuit configured to obtain identification information of the first vehicle; and an optical signal transmitting circuit configured to generate and transmit a first optical signal corresponding to the identification information of the first vehicle. The recognition device includes an optical signal receiving circuit configured to receive a first optical signal emitted from the first vehicle, and a recognition circuit configured to determine the identification information of the first vehicle based on the first optical signal. A vehicle identification includes transmitting a first optical signal corresponding to identification information of a first vehicle; and determining the identification information of the first vehicle based on the first optical signal.
US10565854B2	Eyeglasses-type wearable terminal, control method thereof, and control program There is provided an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal that causes a user to more reliably recognize the position of a predetermined object, which includes an image capturing unit that captures the periphery of the user. The eyeglasses-type wearable terminal also includes a determiner that determines whether a predetermined target object is included in a video acquired by image capturing using the image capturing unit. The eyeglasses-type wearable terminal further includes a display unit that displays the position of the predetermined target object in a case in which the determiner determines that the predetermined target object is included.
US10565848B2	Fluid leak detection methods, systems and apparatus Embodiments disclosed herein relate to leak detection and notification from fluid conduit systems, apparatus and methods. In one aspect, embodiments relate to leak detection of water supply, sewage system, and plumbing. In another aspect, embodiments of the invention comprise an apparatus related to piping and plumbing encapsulation for detecting leaks. In another aspect, certain embodiments further comprise an apparatus that conform to piping and plumbing features, for example, valves and connectors, for detecting leaks that may be included as part of original installations or added in retrofit applications. In other embodiments, leak detection and notification systems may be included as part of the manufacture of fixtures by a manufacturer.
US10565837B1	Security monitoring system and methods The present disclosure relates to a system and methods for monitoring an electronic device with an alarm state and responding to an alarm state on the device based upon a location of a respondent and more specifically, the present invention includes monitoring a security or intrusion detection system and communicating via an IP network to a controller with a user defined profile of responses. The present invention also includes a method of using a security unit on an ad hoc basis, rather than requiring a built-in alarm system. The present invention also includes the ability to attach peripheral devices to allow for ad-hoc video recording based upon an alarm state.
US10565835B2	Control and monitoring of light-emitting-diode (LED) bulbs A smart light-emitting-diode (LED) bulb includes apparatus enabling the bulb to be turned ON, OFF, or dimmed without the use of a wall switch. Such apparatus may include circuitry responsive to rotating the LED portion of the bulb, circuitry responsive to touching or tapping on the bulb, or a Bluetooth or WiFi interconnection enabling the bulb to be controlled using a smartphone or other device executing a bulb-control application. Other apparatus may include a microphone enabling the bulb to be controlled with a voice, sound or music. In other embodiments, apparatus enabling the bulb to be turned ON, OFF, or dimmed may include a power line communication (PLC) interface enabling the bulb or bulbs to be controlled via the Internet. A camera or image sensor may be provided enabling the bulb to be gesture-controlled. A system may include a plurality of smart LED light bulbs.
US10565834B2	Apparatus and method for emergency rescue service An disclosure apparatus for an emergency rescue service includes: a cluster transmitting an electric warning sound output signal related to information regarding a vehicle; an emergency call unit connected to the cluster so as to receive the electric warning sound output signal from the cluster, and selecting and transmitting one of a plurality of previously stored electric sound sources so as to output an electric sound corresponding to the selected and transmitted electric warning sound output signal; and a speaker outputting the electric sound source selected by the emergency call unit.
US10565812B2	Apparatus and method for a balcony access status alert system A barrier that is releasably secured across an ingress/egress to a balcony or other elevated platform. The barrier is a fence-style assembly that has a pair of vertical posts that are releasably secured within respective boots secured to the floor. One of the boots includes a switch-activated transmitter that is inactive when the respective post is seated in the boot. If the post is pulled out of the boot, the switch-activated transmitter transmits a wireless signal to a transceiver located on the barrier which then transmits a signal to an on-site controller that transmits respective text messages to authorized personnel informing them of the barrier removal and restoration and will continue to do so until the barrier status changes. The transceiver may be housed within a housing that also contains a visual and/or audible warning at the barrier vicinity to warn those in the vicinity of the barrier removal.
US10565810B2	Systems and methods for object localization and path identification based on RFID sensing A networked radio frequency identification system includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tag readers, a computer in signal communication with the RFID tag readers over a network, and a software module for storage on and operable by the computer that localizes RFID tags based on information received from the RFID tag readers using a network model having endpoints and oriented links. In an additional example, at least one of the RFID tag readers includes an adjustable configuration setting selected from RF signal strength, antenna gain, antenna polarization, and antenna orientation. In a further aspect, the system localizes RFID tags based on hierarchical threshold limit calculations. In an additional aspect, the system controls a locking device associated with an access point based on localization of an authorized RFID tag at the access point and reception of additional authorizing information from an input device.
US10565797B2	System and method of enhancing user's immersion in mixed reality mode of display apparatus A system and a method for enhancing a user's immersion in a mixed reality mode of head-mounted display apparatus, the system being at least communicably coupled to the aforesaid display apparatus. The system includes at least one camera communicably coupled to a processor. The processor controls said camera to capture sequence of images of real-world environment; analyse sequence of images to identify spatial geometry of real objects in real-world environment and material categories to which real objects belong; process sequence of images to generate sequence of mixed-reality images, based upon spatial geometry and material category of at least one real object that is represented by at least one virtual object in sequence of mixed-reality images, wherein visual behaviour of at least one virtual object emulates at least one material property associated with material category of the at least one real object; and render the sequence of mixed-reality images.
US10565796B2	Method and system for compositing an augmented reality scene Disclosed are systems and methods for compositing an augmented reality scene, the methods including the steps of extracting, by an extraction component into a memory of a data-processing machine, at least one object from a real-world image detected by a sensing device; geometrically reconstructing at least one virtual model from at least one object; and compositing AR content from at least one virtual model in order to augment the AR content on the real-world image, thereby creating AR scene. Preferably, the method further includes; extracting at least one annotation from the real-world image into the memory of the data-processing machine for modifying at least one virtual model according to at least one annotation. Preferably, the method further includes: interacting with AR scene by modifying AR content based on modification of at least one object and/or at least one annotation in the real-world image.
US10565792B2	Approximating mesh deformations for character rigs Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for approximating mesh deformations for character rigs are disclosed. An embodiment includes applying a first deformation function to one or more mesh elements to determine an intermediate position based on a transform to a first structural element, wherein the one or more mesh elements are assigned to the first structural element, generating an offset based on a second deformation function for the one or more mesh elements using a deformation function approximation model, wherein the offset is a positional offset of the one or more mesh elements from the intermediate position to a target position corresponding to the transform applied to the first structural element, and generating a combined mesh deformation for the one or more mesh elements by combining the intermediate position and the offset.
US10565787B1	Systems and methods for enhanced 3D modeling of a complex object A system and method for remotely and accurately generating a 3D model of a complex object is provided through the use of laser scan data and a plurality of overlapping images taken of the complex object. To generate the 3D model first, second, and third 3D point clouds may be derived from laser scan data obtained from one or more LiDAR scanners at a first, second, and, third location, respectively, near a complex object. A fourth 3D point cloud of a first portion of the complex object may be derived from a plurality of overlapping images, wherein at least a section of the first portion of the complex object is partially or wholly occluded. The first, second, third, and fourth 3D point clouds may be combined into a single 3D point cloud and a 3D model of the complex object may be generated from the single 3D point cloud.
US10565782B2	Facilitating body measurements through loose clothing and/or other obscurities using three-dimensional scans and smart calculations A mechanism is described for facilitating smart measurement of body dimensions despite loose clothing and/or other obscurities according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes capturing, by one or more capturing/sensing components of a computing device, a scan of a body of a user, and computing one or more primary measurements relating to one or more primary areas of the body, where the one or more primary measurements are computed based on depth data of the one or more primary areas of the body, where the depth data is obtained from the scan. The method may further include receiving at least one of secondary measurements and a three-dimensional (3D) avatar of the body based on the primary measurements, and preparing a report including body dimensions of the body based on at least one of the secondary measurements and the 3D avatar, and presenting the report at a display device.
US10565778B2	Electronic devices for and methods of implementing memory transfers for image warping in an electronic device A method of implementing memory transfers for image warping in an electronic device is described. The method comprises receiving an input tile associated with an image; generating a geometric boundary around pixels of the input tile; and remapping the pixels in the geometric boundary to an output tile. An electronic device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for performing the method are also disclosed.
US10565772B2	Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space A graphics processing unit (GPU) processes graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles. The GPU comprises cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space. The cost indication for a set of tile(s) is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles. The GPU controls a rendering complexity with which primitives are rendered in tiles based on the cost indication for those tiles. This allows tiles to be rendered in a manner that is suitable based on the complexity of the graphics data within the tiles. In turn, this allows the rendering to satisfy constraints such as timing constraints even when the complexity of different tiles may vary significantly within an image.
US10565771B2	Automatic video segment selection method and apparatus Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatically extracting and creating an animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) file from a media file. The disclosed systems and methods identify a number of GIF candidates from a video file, and based on analysis of each candidate's attributes, features and/or qualities, at least one GIF candidate is automatically selected for rendering.
US10565770B2	Communication system and method for providing a bionic virtual meeting room The invention relates to a communication system and a method for providing a virtual meeting of a first user (U1, U2, U3, U4) and a second user (U1, U2, U3, U4), comprising a first communication device (12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34) with a first display device (12a, 14a, 16a, 18a, 24a, 26a, 28a, 32a) associated with the first user (U1, U2, U3, U4), and a second communication device (12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34) with a second display device (12a, 14a, 16a, 18a, 24a, 26a, 28a, 32a) associated with the second user (U1, U2, U3, U4). Moreover a virtual meeting space (22) is displayed on the second display device (12a, 14a, 16a, 18a, 24a, 26a, 28a, 32a), user related data (B1, B2, B3, D1, D2, D3) related to the first user (U1, U2, U3, U4) are provided and a first displaying characteristic (B1′, B2′, B3′) of a first object (U1′, U2′, U3′, U4′, 30) is determined in dependency of the provided user related data (B1, B2, B3, D1, D2, D3) according to a set degree of variance (R1, R2, R3) of the user related data (B1, B2, B3, D1, D2, D3). Further the first object (U1′, U2′, U3′, U4′, 30) is displayed with the determined first displaying characteristic (B1′, B2′, B3′) according to the set degree of variance (R1, R2, R3) within the virtual meeting space (22) displayed on the second display device (12a, 14a, 16a, 18a, 24a, 26a, 28a, 32a) to the second user (U1, U2, U3, U4).
US10565758B2	Neural face editing with intrinsic image disentangling Techniques are disclosed for performing manipulation of facial images using an artificial neural network. A facial rendering and generation network and method learns one or more compact, meaningful manifolds of facial appearance, by disentanglement of a facial image into intrinsic facial properties, and enables facial edits by traversing paths of such manifold(s). The facial rendering and generation network is able to handle a much wider range of manipulations including changes to, for example, viewpoint, lighting, expression, and even higher-level attributes like facial hair and age—aspects that cannot be represented using previous models.
US10565752B2	Graphical mapping of pipe node location selection Examples for creating a graphical mapping of pipe node location selection for a fluid distribution system are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method for creating a graphical mapping of pipe node location selection for a fluid distribution system includes: receiving predetermined criteria for each pipe segment of a plurality of pipe segments in the fluid distribution system; determining an equivalent length for each pipe segment based at least on the predetermined criteria; grouping each pipe segment into a specific propagation category of a plurality of propagation categories based on the equivalent lengths; and creating a graphical map of the plurality of pipe segments and utility components utilizing a plurality of links.
US10565751B2	Method and apparatus for spatial data visualization A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to analyze and visualize two or more parameters of spatial data. In the context of a method and for each of a plurality of grid cells, an aggregated representation is identified of the data value(s) associated with a respective grid cell and a count of data values that are associated with the respective grid cell. The method also applies a smoothing function to create a smoothed representation of the data value(s) associated with the respective grid cells and to create a smoothed count of the number of data values that are associated with the respective grid cell. For each of the plurality of grid cells, the method causes presentation of a visual depiction of: (i) a value based on the smoothed representation and the smoothed count of the respective grid cell and (ii) the smoothed count of the respective grid cell.
US10565749B1	Methods and apparatus for efficiently processing a graph data structure In some implementations, a processor can compute a relationship graph to be visually rendered on a display. The processor can define a set of graphical nodes, and can randomly select a first subset of graphical nodes from the set of graphical nodes. The first subset of graphical nodes is less than the set of graphical nodes of the relationship graph. The processor can update a position for each graphical node from the first subset of graphical nodes based on a repulsion value between that graphical node from the first subset of graphical nodes and each graphical node from a second subset of graphical nodes from the set of graphical nodes. The processor can then render each graphical node from the set of graphical nodes based on the updated position for each graphical node from the first subset of graphical nodes.
US10565741B2	System and method for light field correction of colored surfaces in an image A computer-implemented method for correcting a makeup or skin effect to be rendered on a surface region of an image of a portion of a body of a person. The method and system correcting the makeup or skin effect by accounting for image-specific light field parameters, such as a light profile estimate and minimum light field estimation, and rendering the corrected the makeup or skin effect on the image to generate a corrected image.
US10565735B2	Image calibration patient identification A digital image is captured. The captured digital image includes a calibration pattern. The calibration pattern includes displayed information about the calibration pattern. The displayed information is read to obtain calibration information about the captured digital image.
US10565729B2	Optimizations for dynamic object instance detection, segmentation, and structure mapping In one embodiment, a method includes a system accessing an image and generating a feature map using a first neural network. The system identifies a plurality of regions of interest in the feature map. A plurality of regional feature maps may be generated for the plurality of regions of interest, respectively. Using a second neural network, the system may detect at least one regional feature map in the plurality of regional feature maps that corresponds to a person depicted in the image, and generate a target region definition associated with a location of the person using the regional feature map. Based on the target region definition associated with the location of the person, a target regional feature map may be generated by sampling the feature map for the image. The system may process the target regional feature map to generate a keypoint mask and an instance segmentation mask.
US10565722B1	Techniques for determining a three-dimensional representation of a surface of an object from a set of images Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate determining a three-dimensional surface representation of an object. In some embodiments, the system includes a computer, a calibration module, which is configured to determine a camera geometry of a set of cameras, and an imaging module, which is configured to capture spatial images using the cameras. The computer is configured to determine epipolar lines in the spatial images, transform the spatial images with a collineation transformation, determine second derivative spatial images with a second derivative filter, construct epipolar plane edge images based on zero crossings of second derivative epipolar planes image based on the epipolar lines, select edges and compute depth estimates, sequence the edges based on contours in a spatial edge image, filter the depth estimates, and create a three-dimensional surface representation based on the filtered depth estimates and the original spatial images.
US10565716B2	Method and system for processing an image A method of processing an image is disclosed. The method comprises decomposing the image into a plurality of channels, each being characterized by a different depth-of-field, and accessing a computer readable medium storing an in-focus dictionary defined over a plurality of dictionary atoms, and an out-of-focus dictionary defined over a plurality of sets of dictionary atoms, each set corresponding to a different out-of-focus condition. The method also comprises computing one or more sparse representations of the decomposed image over the dictionaries.
US10565715B2	Method of estimating the motion of a carrier with respect to an environment and calculation device for navigation system A method for estimating the motion of a carrier with respect to an environment in relation to which the carrier is moving. The carrier bearing a navigation sensor and a vision sensor producing images of the environment. In the images acquired by the vision sensor, the characteristic elements of the images representing characteristic elements of the environment are identified. At least one condensed measurement is calculated as a function of characteristic elements of at least two images acquired at different instants. The motion of the carrier by a navigation filter is estimated, as a function of navigation measurements carried out and as a function of the condensed measurement. The condensed measurement is calculated as a function furthermore of a priori estimation of the motion, as provided by the navigation filter.
US10565712B2	Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same An image processing apparatus capable of accurate area tracking, and a method for controlling the same are provided. An image area for extracting a feature amount is identified based on a specified position. A plurality of images are searched for an image that corresponds to the image area using the feature amount extracted from the identified image area. The image area is identified using distance information if distance information that satisfies a reliability condition has been obtained regarding an area that includes the specified position, and without using the distance information if the distance information that satisfies the reliability condition has not been obtained.
US10565704B2	Inspection method and inspection system An inspection region 201 of a sample 2 is scanned with light, an optical image formed of the scanning light is acquired according to progression of scanning with the light, a reference image as a reference for the acquired optical image is created according to progression of acquisition of the optical image, the acquired optical image is compared to the reference image for the optical image to detect first defects in the pattern according to progression of the acquisition of the optical image, second defects caused by an erroneous operation of an inspection system 1 are detected based on a distribution of differences between the acquired optical image and the reference image during progression of detection of the first defects, and an inspection is stopped when the second defects are detected.
US10565684B2	Super-resolution method and system, server, user device and method therefor A super-resolution method, a super-resolution system, a user equipment and a server. The super-resolution method includes: training an image sample at a server; obtaining a server-side image database; updating a local image database in a user device by using the server-side image database; and displaying an input low-resolution image as a high-resolution image.
US10565683B2	Image processing method, apparatus and machine-readable media Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus, and a machine readable media for image processing. The method includes obtaining a panoramic video image, where the panoramic video image is determined based on a perspective mapping, and the panoramic video image includes a primary perspective region and at least one secondary perspective region; dividing the secondary perspective region into at least two sub-regions based on distribution information of high-frequency components in the secondary perspective region; determining respective filter templates of the sub-regions, and filtering the sub-regions using the respective filter templates; and determining a filtered panoramic video image.
US10565672B2	Electronic device for composing graphic data and method thereof An electronic device includes a first graphic composer that composes first graphic data associated with a layer of a first composition type, a second graphic composer that composes second graphic data associated with a layer of a second composition type different from the first composition type. The electronic device also includes a processor that sets a composition type of each of a plurality of layers associated with at least one application to the first or second composition type, composes first graphic data corresponding to a layer set to the first composition type using the first graphic composer, compose the composed graphic data in the frame buffer and second graphic data corresponding to a layer set to the second composition type using the second graphic composer, and display the composed graphic data through a display connected with the electronic device.
US10565664B2	Controlling access to a vault server in a multitenant environment A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a vault access request for vault credentials stored by a vault server; verifying, by the computing device, whether a source of the vault access request originated from a multitenant application server; preventing, by the computing device, access to the vault server and the vault credentials when the source of the vault access request has not been verified as originating from the multitenant application server; obtaining, by the computing device, vault credentials from a vault server based on verifying that the source of the vault access request originated from the multitenant application server; and executing, by the computing device, a multitenant application task using the vault credentials.
US10565648B1	Mobile communication device, methods and systems Mobile communication devices, systems, and methods involve receiving an extension of a trading-related application running on a mobile computing device by one or more processors of a wearable computing device and displaying a visualization of trading-related data on a display screen of the wearable computing device received via wireless communication with the mobile computing device from one or more back-end servers. A capture of input on the wearable computing device is detected by the mobile computing device via wireless communication with the wearable computing device and forwarded by the mobile computing device to the one or more backend servers.
US10565646B2	Methods and apparatus to internalize trade orders Methods and apparatus to internalize trade orders are described herein. An example method includes obtaining, via an internalization manager, a trade order communicated to an exchange. The trade order corresponds to a tradeable object offered at the exchange. The example method includes comparing, via the internalization manager, the trade order to one or more trade orders in an internalization order record to determine whether a matching contra-side trade order is included in the one or more trade orders in the internalization order record. The example method includes communicating, via the internalization manager, an order modification to the exchange if a matching contra-side trade order is included in the one or more trade orders in the internalization order record, and matching, via the internalization manager, if a matching contra-side trade order is included in the one or more trade orders in the internalization order record, the trade order to the matching contra-side trade order in the internalization order record.
US10565641B2	Financial gadgets Methods, computer program products, and systems, related to providing financial gadgets to users. In one implementation, a method includes receiving gadgets and receiving a notification that one or more gadgets has been certified. A web page with an interface through which users can select gadgets is generated and provided to a user computer. A user selects a gadget, and the selected gadget is run, including providing the user-specific financial information to the gadget. Content based on the output of the gadget is provided to the user. User-specific financial information can be collected, and modified by the gadget. A notification can be received that a financial institution has authorized one or more of the certified gadgets and the web page can only allow users to select authorized gadgets.
US10565638B2	Selectively shared account access Tools, methods and computer systems for selectively sharing access to personalized user accounts containing account specific consumer information, between one or more different user accounts maintained by an e-commerce merchant. Upon accessing the user's own personalized account, users may request and approve the sharing of account data, with one or more approved user accounts hosted by the e-commerce merchant, wherein the shared account data may include personalized information such as the user's browsing history, order history, saved wish lists, product reviews, name, shipping address, etc. The tools, methods and systems of the disclosure may seamlessly display shared information in a specified section of the merchant's e-commerce website, such as a specific tab, widget or window and allow for users to make purchases on their own account for other users, using the shared account information to influence the decision of making the purchase.
US10565637B2	System and method for directing a customer to additional purchasing opportunities A dynamic merchandising system creates for each of a plurality of products in a plurality of purchase orders a list of products purchased together. This information is then used to create ordered lists reflecting relationships between various product attributes, e.g., the relationships between different brand names purchased together, different product categories purchased together, different catalog pages of products purchased together, etc. From these ordered relationship lists information may be selected and presented to the customer for the purpose of directing the customer to additional purchasing opportunities.
US10565635B2	Item recognition and interaction A system for identifying and providing user interface features based on a captured image wherein the system performs operations including capturing video frames, delineating an object within at least one of the video frames, determining identification information about the object; and augmenting the display of the object.
US10565616B2	Multi-view advertising system and method A multi-view (MV) advertising system includes an MV display including one or more MV pixels, each configured to emit beamlets in different directions in a beamlet coordinate system. The MV advertising system receives, via an input node, a first attribute of a first viewer or of a first viewing zone and, optionally, a second attribute of a second viewer or of a second viewing zone. The MV advertising system controller defines the first and second viewing zones relative to the MV display in a viewing zone coordinate system, determines a mapping that translates between the viewing zone coordinate system and the beamlet coordinate system, associates first and second targeted advertising contents with the first and second viewing zones based at least on the first and second attributes, and controls the MV display to project first and second images generated from the first and second targeted advertising contents to the first and second viewers at the first and second viewing zones, respectively.
US10565612B2	System, method and user interface for generating electronic mail with embedded optimized live content A system for introducing behaviorally tested live content (18) into an electronic mail message comprising at least one dynamic live content area (1006) sent through an e-mail service provider system (16) comprises memory and a click manager (28). The memory 5 includes behaviorally tested live content comprising image data. The click manager (28) receives an indication of the opening of the message by a recipient, whereupon the click manager (28) accesses the memory to retrieve behaviorally tested live content (18) and send the retrieved behaviorally tested live content (18) for rendering in the dynamic live content area (1006) of the electronic mail message opened by the one of the plurality of 0 recipients.
US10565609B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium Information related to a privilege is caused to be presented so as to increase the probability that a user purchases a transaction target. An information processing apparatus detects a predetermined operation of a user which is defined as an operation where purchase motivation for a transaction target is higher than that of an operation to display transaction target information related to the transaction target and which is other than an operation of a user which is necessary to purchase in a transaction site where the transaction target can be purchased. When the predetermined operation is detected, the information processing apparatus causes privilege information related to a privilege which is given to the user to be presented on condition that the user purchases the transaction target targeted by the detected operation.
US10565608B1	Market liquidity incentive systems and methods A system and method determine rewards or other incentives for market participants submitting orders for financial instruments on a financial exchange. The system and method determine if orders submitted by one or more market participants are eligible for a reward or other incentive by identifying orders that are at a best bid or offer for a corresponding financial instrument. The system and method determine a number of eligible orders submitted by each of the one or more market participants and applies a reward or other incentive to a particular market participant with the most eligible orders or greatest aggregate size of eligible orders.
US10565606B2	Method and system for providing an event space associated with a primary virtual space An approach to facilitate providing an event space associated with a primary virtual space is provided. An event space is provided to users of a primary virtual space, wherein the event space comprises one or more event objectives. Users of the primary virtual space having primary user accounts have associated event space accounts indicating event user parameters, event game parameters, and event inventory information for the first user. The user may be provided with event virtual items for purchase wherein the event virtual items are used in the event space during the event period. In response to a determination of the progress of the user associated with one or more event objectives an event award is determined for distribution to the user, wherein the event award may be used within the primary virtual space.
US10565603B2	Segments of contacts A method is provided in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure. The method includes processing data related to a group of contacts, where the data includes at least one attribute related to each of the contacts. The method also includes defining the at least one attribute based on a probability distribution of a context in relation to attribute values of the at least one attribute for all contacts. The method further includes determining clusters of contacts based on the probability distribution of the context in relation to the attribute values of the at least one attribute for all contacts, and constructing a plurality of segments of similar contacts by using the clusters.
US10565601B2	Methods and apparatus to identify non-traditional asset-bundles for purchasing groups using social media Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify non-traditional asset-bundles for purchasing groups using social media. An example method includes identifying an asset-bundle in a social media message and generating a profile for a user associated with the social media message. The example method also includes identifying a plurality of social media messages posted by cohorts of the user based on the generated profile and classifying the asset-bundle based on occurrences of the asset-bundle in the plurality of social media messages.
US10565599B2	Systems and methods for managing information technology infrastructure to generate a dynamic interface A system includes a device configured with a tool that interfaces with administrator devices remote from the device. The system receives an identifier of an administrator of an administrator device. The system retrieves an administrator profile corresponding to the identifier. The system identifies one or more administrator profiles stored in the administrator profile data structure of one or more different administrators. The system determines a similarity metric between the administrator profile and each of the identified administrator profiles. The system identifies the administrator profiles having the similarity metric satisfying a predetermined threshold. The system instantiates a dynamic report interface to render an electronic report indicating a first value of a first performance metric of the administrator based on the administrator profile and a second value of the first performance metric based on the identified administrator profiles. The system provides the electronic report for display via the administrator device.
US10565598B2	Sponsored advertisement ranking and pricing in a social networking system A social networking system (SNS) provides sponsored stories and organic stories about actions taken by other SNS users to a viewing user. Organic stories are selected based on the likelihood the viewing user is interested in their content. While advertisers compensate the SNS for presentation of sponsored stories, the sponsored stories also include information about actions by other SNS users. To increase the likelihood the viewing user interacts with sponsored stories, a common communication channel is used to present both the sponsored stories and the organic stories. To simplify selection of organic stories and sponsored stories, the SNS determines a common unit of measurement for both and makes selections based on the common unit of measurement.
US10565595B2	Systems and methods for data desensitization Systems and methods are provided to identify payment data and desensitize the payment data by a secure card reader. Desensitization of the payment data may include replacing sensitive information such as discretionary data with zeroes or other predetermined values. Desensitization may also include replacing sensitive information with fraud detection data such as merchant identifying information. Desensitization of the payment data may leave certain payment data intact for customer tracking or other non-payment related purposes.
US10565585B2	Method and system for identifying linked cards from authorization records A computer-implemented method of detecting associated payment devices comprises: receiving, by a processor from a payment network, transaction data representing a plurality of transaction records, a transaction amount, a transaction time, a terminal identifier, and a result code indicating success or failure of a transaction; identifying from said transaction records a declined transaction associated with a first payment device identifier, and determining a terminal identifier and transaction amount associated with the declined transaction; identifying from said transaction records a subsequent transaction occurring within a predetermined window of the declined transaction, the subsequent transaction being associated with the same terminal identifier and the same transaction amount as the declined transaction, the subsequent transaction being associated with a second payment device identifier that is different from the first payment device identifier; and storing, in a database, an association between the second payment device identifier and the first payment device identifier.
US10565574B2	Methods and systems for applying promotion codes to payment transactions A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction is provided. The method uses at least one input device in communication with a database. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including at least one merchant participating in the payment card network, each promotional program offered by the at least one merchant to the cardholder, and promotion codes associated with each promotional program offered to the cardholder. The method further includes accessing the promotion data using the at least one input device, receiving a selected promotional program from the cardholder using the at least one input device, and automatically applying the promotion codes associated with the selected promotional program to the payment transaction.
US10565567B2	System for handling network transactions A method of securing a transaction that comprises a trust entity computer in communication with data storage, a first party and a second party over a network, and receiving a request from the first party to undertake a transaction with the second party. In addition, receives a first token, storing the first token in the data storage, receiving a second token from the second party, comparing the stored first token and the received second token, if the stored first token and the received second token are a match, enabling the transaction.
US10565564B2	Rescheduling flexible events in an electronic calendar Systems and methods for managing flexible events in an electronic calendar are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: determining, by a computing device, that an electronic calendar event is a flexible event based on recording data of the electronic calendar event indicating that a recording of the electronic calendar event may be available; determining, by the computing device, an end date by which the electronic calendar event must be completed based on the scheduling data; and displaying, by the computing device, an electronic calendar with the electronic calendar event to a user.
US10565555B1	Systems and methods for scheduling inbound products, stowing inbound products, and monitoring inbound error The present disclosure provides systems and methods for receiving inbound products, comprising a memory and a processor configured to schedule a delivery of an inbound pallet based on a predetermined priority rule, receive at least one of a waybill number, a reservation number, or a purchase order number associated with the inbound pallet containing a product, and modify a database to assign an inbound barcode and at least one of the waybill number, the reservation number, or the purchase order number to the inbound pallet, receive at least one of the inbound barcode or a product identifier associated with the product, predict a zone for stowing the product, receive a tote identifier associated with a tote containing the product, and modify the database to assign the product identifier associated with the product and the tote identifier to the zone.
US10565548B2	Planogram assisted inventory system and method A manually assisted robot inventory monitoring method provides for detecting and reading shelf labels using an autonomous robot. Bounding boxes around possible products in a panoramic image can be taken with at least one camera associated with the autonomous robot. Products in the bounding boxes are automatically identified, with those that are not being later manually identified.
US10565547B2	Inter-store inventory transfer Examples of techniques for generating an inter-store inventory transfer are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include defining a subset of stores of a plurality of stores to fulfill inter-store inventory transfer request for a product category of a plurality of product categories. The method may further include, responsive to determining that an order for a product of the product category cannot be fulfilled by one of the stores of the subset of stores of the plurality of stores, determining, by a processing device, an alternate store of the subset of stores to fulfill the order.
US10565541B2	Systems and methods for simulating home loss prevention A method and computer system executes a home loss prevention simulation to provide a user with information on home loss prevention. The method and system may allow the user to select and place one or more home sensors on items and/or in locations within a simulated home environment. Once the user has finished selecting and placing the home sensors in the simulated home, the method and system may begin the home loss prevention simulation by applying different loss-related simulation scenarios to the simulated home. Based the different loss-related scenarios, the method and system may evaluate the placement of the home sensors in the simulated home to determine one or more losses (e.g., fire, water or burglary) and any associated financial costs. At the end of the simulation, the method and system may provide instructional information regarding the simulation results in order to educate the user on how to improve or optimize home loss prevention.
US10565540B2	Oilfield water and well management using modeled predictions of oilfield water production or hydrocarbon production A method for managing oilfield water. Oilfield water data is grouped into discrete and non-overlapping groups. Outliers are removed from the data. Features of the remaining data are analyzed to identify most discriminative feature. The data is separated into training data and testing data, and the training data is fit into a model that shows the best precision, accuracy and recall. The model is confirmed using the testing data. Upon confirmation of the accuracy of the model, the model is applied to data for a new proposed oilfield well, and a new proposed project is implemented or disapproved based on a result of the identified model that predicts water production of the new proposed oilfield well.
US10565538B1	Customer attribute exemption The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for generating attribute tables for holding attributes while a corresponding business plan is in an approval process. The present disclosure also extends to methods, systems and computer program products for approving proposed business plans and automatically generating workflow for establishing data tables for aggregating customer profile data in those data tables. The present disclosure also extends to methods, systems and computer programs for excluding, hiding or removing certain items of information or data from data contained in one or more attribute tables.
US10565535B2	System having inventory allocation tool and method of using same A system and method includes a computer network system configured to provide output to a plurality of distribution centers for a retailer, an inputting system configured to allow ordering of a quantity of an item from a vendor having a minimum order quantity (MOQ) and vendor pack size for the item, an allocation system configured to allocate the order quantity based on an allocation policy including specific distribution centers and allocation percentages associated with the specific distribution centers, and an inventory allocation tool (IAT) configured to receive the allocation policy, order quantity, MOQ, and vendor pack size as inputs, optimizes distribution of the order quantity among the specific distribution centers so that MOQ and vendor pack size according to the allocation policy are respected, and outputs an executable purchase order over the computer network system for each specific distribution center.
US10565534B2	Constraints and constraint sharing in a catalog service platform A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages software products and portfolios of software products on behalf of service provider customer organizations. Through an administrator interface of the service, a customer organization administrator may create constraints on the use of the software products, and each constraint may include one or more rules about how the products can be launched. These may include environmental constraints (specifying a region in which a product launches), restrictions on input parameter values (including the types of resource instances on which a product can be launched), quotas (controlling the number of product installations), or billing constraints. Constraints may be applied on a user-to-product arc or on a portfolio-to-product arc. Constraints may be stored as objects, and reference to those objects may be added to product or portfolio objects. Constraints may be shared across object versions, portfolios, or service provider customer accounts.
US10565521B2	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.
US10565520B2	Feature extraction for machine learning A device may receive a first command, included in a set of commands, to set a configuration parameter associated with performing feature extraction. The device may receive a second command, included in the set of commands, to set a corresponding value for the configuration parameter. The configuration parameter and the corresponding value may correspond to a particular feature metric that is to be extracted. The device may configure, based on the configuration parameter and the corresponding value, feature extraction for a corpus of documents. The device may perform, based on configuring feature extraction for the corpus, feature extraction on the corpus to determine the particular feature metric. The device may generate a feature vector based on performing the feature extraction. The feature vector may include the particular feature metric. The feature vector may include a feature identifier identifying the particular feature metric. The device may provide the feature vector.
US10565513B2	Time-series fault detection, fault classification, and transition analysis using a K-nearest-neighbor and logistic regression approach Methods and systems for time-series transient analysis of data are disclosed herein. A method includes receiving time-series data, generating a training data set including randomized data points, generating randomized data point combinations using a set of the randomized data points that are within a time window, computing distance values based on the randomized data point combinations, generating a classifier based on a plurality of computed distance values, and determining, using the classifier, a probability that new time-series data generated during a new execution of the process matches the time-series data. A system for performing the method is also disclosed.
US10565510B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a sensor data generator sensing a user behavior and generating sensor data corresponding to the user behavior; a behavior recognizing unit performing a predetermined threshold value process on the sensor data to recognize the behavior exhibited by the user and generating behavior information that is information indicating the behavior exhibited by the user; a behavior manager managing the behavior information generated by the behavior recognizing unit in correspondence with the time point at which the behavior corresponding to the behavior information is exhibited; and a behavior information post-processing unit performing a predetermined post-process on the behavior information managed by the behavior manager, wherein the behavior recognizing unit further includes a plurality of behavior determination units specified to specific behaviors exhibited by the user and generates the behavior information based on the determination results of the plurality of behavior determination units.
US10565506B2	Communication generation in complex computing networks This disclosure is directed to communication generation by traversing routes of a graph in a complex computing network. The communication generation is used for determining whether an input signal has certain desired signal attributes.
US10565501B1	Block device modeling Techniques are described for formally expressing whether sequences of operations performed on block storage devices are sequential or random. In embodiments, determinations of whether these sequences of operations are sequential or random may be used to predict latencies involved with running particular workloads, and to predict representative workloads for particular latencies.
US10565497B2	Synapse and neuromorphic device including the same A neuromorphic device includes a synapse. The synapse, according to an embodiment, includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, an oxygen-containing layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the oxygen-containing layer including oxygen ions, and a reactive metal layer disposed between the oxygen-containing layer and the second electrode. The oxygen-containing layer includes oxygen ions. The reactive metal layer is capable of reacting with the oxygen ions of the oxygen-containing layer. A width of the reactive metal layer decreases along a direction toward the oxygen-containing layer from the second electrode.

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