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US10985539B1	Unmanned aerial vehicle line and cable stringing system An unmanned vehicle line and cable string apparatus is provided and the method of use thereof. A small drone has a shot line canister loaded with an inside wound shot line string spool. Shot line is strung between power line towers wherein the inside shot line string end is attached to a remotely controlled released shot line sinker. The sinker is deployed near the proximate tower, the drone is directed to the distal tower deploying shot line from the shot line canister. The shot line canister, having a remotely controlled jettison mechanism and an end of shot line detection mechanism, is jettisoned at the distal power line tower. As shot line is dispensed, the vehicle loses weight thereby extending the flying time, distance, and maneuverability particularly as the vehicle approaches the distal tower. Because the shot line is deployed and not dragged, the impact of inclement weather conditions is minimized.
US10985521B2	Ridge waveguide laser device A problem with a conventional waveguide type laser device is that in the case in which an isotropic laser medium is used for a core, linearly polarized light is not provided. A ridge waveguide laser device of the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a core joined to the substrate and having a laser medium, the core having a refractive index higher than that of the substrate; and a cladding joined to the core, constituting a ridge waveguide together with the core, and made from a birefringent material having ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices lower than the refractive index of the core, the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices being different.
US10985518B2	Lasers with setback aperture The present disclosure relates, generally, to lasers and, more particularly, to lasers with a setback aperture. In one in illustrative embodiment, a laser comprises front and rear resonator mirrors, an output window positioned near the front resonator mirror, and a plurality of waveguide walls extending between the front and rear resonator mirrors and extending between the rear resonator mirror and an aperture defined by the plurality of waveguide walls, such that a laser beam formed between the front and rear resonator mirrors will propagate in free-space between the aperture and the output window so that a first cross-sectional profile of the laser beam at the aperture will be different than a second cross-sectional profile of the laser beam at the output window.
US10985517B2	Apparatus for assembling cases made of thin plate An assembling apparatus is adapted to assemble a case made of thin plate. The case has a bottom case and a top case, a latch formed on each side wall of the bottom case, and a locking spring formed on each side plate of the top case. When side plates of the top case are located at a predetermined position with respect to the top wall of the top case, the locking springs are fitted into the latches. The assembling apparatus includes a base configured to position and support the bottom case, an operation mechanism adapted to hold and move the top case, and a guide device disposed at the inner side of the latch. The guide device guides the side plate to the predetermined position, so that the locking spring on the side plate of the top case is capable of being fitted into the latch.
US10985514B2	Coaxial cable connectors having port grounding A coaxial cable connector includes a body configured to engage a coaxial cable having a conductive electrical grounding property, a post configured to engage the body and the coaxial cable when the connector is installed on the coaxial cable, a nut configured to engage an interface port at a retention force, and a grounding member extending about the nut. The grounding member is configured to increase the retention force between the nut and the interface port so as to maintain an electrical ground connection between the interface port and the nut when the nut is in a loosely tightened position on the interface port.
US10985513B2	Powered tree construction with rotation limiting A power transfer system to facilitate the transfer of electrical power between tree trunk sections of an artificial tree is disclosed. The power transfer system can advantageously enable neighboring tree trunk sections to be electrically connected without the need to rotationally align the tree trunk sections. Power distribution subsystems can be disposed within the trunk sections. The power distribution subsystems can comprise a male end, a female end, or both. The male ends can have prongs and the female ends can have voids. The prongs can be inserted into the voids to electrically connect the power distribution subsystems of neighboring tree trunk sections. In some embodiments, the prongs and voids are designed so that the prongs of one power distribution subsystem can engage the voids of another power distribution subsystem without the need to rotationally align the tree trunk sections.
US10985507B2	Plug connector part having a temperature-monitoring device A connector part for connecting to a mating connector part includes: a housing part; an electrical contact element arranged on the housing part for making electrical contact with the mating connector part; and a temperature monitoring device having a sensor device for detecting a heating on the contact element. The temperature monitoring device includes a carrier element which extends flatly along a plane, on which the sensor device is arranged, and which has two clip arms via which the carrier element is clippable onto the contact element.
US10985506B2	Interface arrangement with protection against electromagnetic radiation and computer system using a method of assembling the same An interface arrangement (1) includes a plug connector (4) arranged on an interface board (3). Furthermore, the interface arrangement (1) includes an electrically conductive cover (10) at least partially surrounding the plug connector (4). The electrically conductive cover (10) is adapted to seal an interface opening of the housing, in which opening the plug connector (4) can be arranged, against electromagnetic radiation. The electrically conductive cover (10) includes at least one tab (19) with a latching device. The interface board (3) includes at least one receiving device, which is adapted to receive the at least one tab (19) and to latch with the latching device. A computer system with such an interface arrangement (1), and a method for assembling such an interface arrangement (1).
US10985504B2	Electrical connector and connector device An electrical connector is attached to a wiring substrate and mated with a counterpart connector connected to a signal transmission medium. A shell of the electrical connector has a pair of wall parts that contact a ground member on the counterpart connector. One wall part distant from the signal transmission medium includes a first side plate that has one end attached to a ground conductive path of the wiring substrate and extends in a direction away from the wiring substrate, a joining part that has one end joined to another end of the first side plate, and a second side plate that has one end joined to another end of the joining part and extends in a direction closer to the wiring substrate. The second side plate has a contact piece that extends in a direction away from the wiring substrate and elastically contacts the ground member.
US10985496B2	Cable clamping device for sealed electrical connector and electrical connector A cable clamping device for a housing of a sealed electrical connector comprises a grid having an orifice adapted to receive a cable and clamp the cable in the orifice.
US10985495B1	High voltage connector with wet contacts A high-voltage underwater electrical connector is provided that includes first and second connectors each having a positive contact and a negative contact. The electrical connector further includes an auxiliary electrode made from a conductive material electrically connected to the first positive contact. A voltage limiting circuit electrically connects the auxiliary electrode to the positive contact. A high resistance water pathway is created between the auxiliary electrode and the negative contacts when the first and second connectors are mated while immersed in water or other corrosive environments.
US10985491B2	Board connectors The present disclosure includes: a pair of left and right half body parts, each of which includes a connector main body along with multiple terminals installed in this connector main body; and a reinforcing bracket for coupling the half body parts, wherein connector main bodies of each of the half body parts are abutted and installed at main body end parts formed on both ends of the connector main bodies, wherein each connector main body extends in the longitudinal direction thereof, in addition to including a projection for retaining the terminals, an extension end part connected to both ends in the longitudinal direction of this projection, and an end wall part extending from this extension end part towards the counterpart half body part, and wherein each of the main body end parts include mutually abutted left and right end wall parts along with left and right extension end parts with these end wall parts extending therefrom.
US10985480B2	Transformation connector An electrical connector comprises a plurality of substrates, a first plurality of spacers, a second plurality of spacers, a plurality of pitch transformation routing assemblies, and a plurality of contact assemblies. The plurality of substrates each extends along a first direction. Each of the second plurality of spacers and a respective spacer of the first plurality of spacers connect a respective substrate of the plurality of substrates to a respective adjacent substrate of the plurality of substrates. Each of the plurality of pitch transformation routing assemblies is surrounded by a corresponding substrate of the plurality of substrates, a corresponding spacer of the first plurality of spacers, a corresponding adjacent substrate of the plurality of substrates, and a corresponding spacer of the second plurality of spacers.
US10985474B2	Grounding connector with lock joint A grounding connector has a body including a first side, a second side, and a mid-section extending therebetween, with an opening extending through the body from the first side to the second side. The body of the grounding connector includes a lock joint configured to join the grounding connector with a second grounding connector, with the lock joint including a recess inset into the mid-section of the body and a protrusion adjacent the recess extending from the mid-section.
US10985470B2	Curved near-field-focused slot array antennas A slot array antenna including a smooth curved surface and planar feed structures which are respectively disposed at two ends of the smooth curved surface and are tangent to the smooth curved surface. The smooth curved surface includes at least two arcs mutually connected by smooth transition. The at least two arcs each includes an upper copper metal layer, a lower copper metal layer, and a dielectric substrate layer between the upper and lower copper metal layers. The upper copper metal layer includes radiating slots, and the adjacent radiating slots in a linear array have opposite offsets along the center line of the slot array antenna. The dielectric substrate layer includes metallic vias symmetrically arranged on both sides of the central line of the antenna to form a substrate integrated waveguide.
US10985469B2	Scanning antenna and method for manufacturing same The scanning antenna (1000) is a scanning antenna in which antenna units (U) are arranged, the scanning antenna comprising: a TFT substrate (101) including: a first dielectric substrate (1), TFTs, gate bus lines, source bus lines, and patch electrodes (15), a slot substrate (201) including: a second dielectric substrate (51), and a slot electrode (55); a liquid crystal layer (LC) provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate; a sealing portion that envelopes the liquid crystal layer; and a reflective conductive plate (65). The slot electrode includes slots (57) arranged in correspondence with the plurality of patch electrodes. The sealing portion includes a main sealing portion (73Fa) that defines an injection port (74Fa) and an end sealing portion (75Fa) that seals the injection port (74Fa). The end sealing portion (75Fa) is formed of a thermosetting sealant material.
US10985464B2	Miniaturized inductive loop antenna with distributed reactive loads A device for implanting into, or mounting onto, a body includes an enclosure, an inductive loop antenna disposed on a surface within the enclosure, and an integrated circuit (IC) disposed within the enclosure and coupled to the inductive loop antenna. The inductive loop antenna includes one or more distributed reactive loads disposed along the inductive loop antenna that adjust a reactance of the inductive loop antenna. The one or more distributed reactive loads include signal trace sections that run along, or adjacent to, the surface upon which the inductive loop antenna is disposed. The IC includes communication circuitry coupled to the inductive loop antenna to wirelessly communicate over the inductive loop antenna. The one or more distributed reactive loads adjust the reactance of the inductive loop antenna to improve conjugate reactance matching of the inductive loop antenna to the IC.
US10985460B2	Antenna structure An antenna structure includes a border frame, a first feed portion, a second feed portion, and two ground portions. The border frame includes a first gap and a second gap passing through the border frame, thereby defining a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. The first feed portion is electrically coupled to the first radiating portion to supply an electric current to the first radiating portion. The second feed portion is electrically coupled to the second radiating portion to supply an electric current to the second radiating portion. The two ground portions are disposed between the first feed portion and the second feed portion and separated from each other. The two ground portions are electrically coupled to the first radiating portion or the second radiating portion.
US10985459B2	Antenna structure and wireless communication device using the same An antenna structure of few components and reduced size which functions by switching between components to achieve radiation in three different frequency bands includes two radiating portions, a feeding portion, a matching circuit, and a first switching circuit. With the first switching circuit closed, current flows along a first radiating portion to activate a first frequency band. A second radiating portion obtains the current from the first switching circuit by coupling with the first radiating portion, to activate a second frequency band. Current in the first radiating portion can activate a third frequency band. With the first switching circuit open, current in the first radiating portion activates radiation in the first frequency band. The second radiating portion can radiate in second frequency band by coupling current from the first radiating portion. Frequency multiplication of the first frequency band can activate the third frequency band.
US10985456B1	Antenna system for wireless networks An antenna system for a wireless network that provides multi-band and/or multi-sector operation from a single location is provided. The antenna system may provide improved control and adjustment of antennas contained within a compact design to allow sectors of coverage provided by the antennas to be modified to accommodate different cell site parameters that may otherwise have been satisfied using a more distributed arrangement of antennas.
US10985452B2	Antenna elements Examples of antenna elements are described herein. In an example, the antenna element may include a substrate for being disposed on an enclosure. The substrate may include a ground plane. Further, the antenna element may include an antenna feeder that may be electrically coupled to the ground plane. The antenna element may also include a radiator. The radiator may be electrically coupled to the antenna feeder. In addition, the antenna element may include a lump component connected to the radiator.
US10985445B2	Wirelessly reconfigurable antenna A reconfigurable antenna element is controlled using a wirelessly powered and wirelessly activated switch, where the antenna element is part of an antenna or antenna array. A control signal for reconfiguring the antenna element is embedded into a wirelessly transmitted data signal for transmission by the antenna.
US10985440B2	Small form factor pluggable unit with wireless capabilities The present subject matter relates to one or more devices, systems and/or methods for providing wireless telecommunication services. A Small Form Factor Pluggable Unit (SFP) incorporates wireless capabilities, and includes an integrated or an external antenna. The SFP comprises wireless circuitry for transmitting and receive multiple and distinct wireless signals, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for communicating with various equipment and/or devices.
US10985436B2	Apparatus and method utilizing a transmission medium with hollow waveguide cores Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium for propagating electromagnetic waves. The transmission medium can include a core for propagating electromagnetic waves guided by the core without an electrical return path, a rigid material surrounding the core, wherein an inner surface of the rigid material is separated from an outer surface of the core, and a conductive layer disposed on the rigid material. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10985427B2	Method for producing an electrode stack for a battery cell, battery cell The invention relates to a method for producing an electrode stack for a battery cell, comprising the following steps: providing a strip-shaped anode element (45) comprising an anodic current discharger (31) to which an anodic active material (41) is applied; providing a strip-shaped cathode element (46) comprising a cathodic current discharger (32) to which a cathodic active material (42) is applied; providing at least one strip-shaped separator element (16); introducing grooves (70) into the cathodic active material (42) around segmentation lines (S); generating a strip-shaped composite element (50) by applying the cathode element (46) onto the anode element (45), with the interposition of the at least one separator element (16); cutting the composite element (50) into plate-shaped composite segments at the segmentation lines (S); and stacking the composite segments. The invention also relates to a battery cell comprising at least one electrode stack which is produced according to the method according to the invention.
US10985426B2	Separator for lithium secondary battery, method for manufacturing same, and lithium secondary battery including same The present invention relates to a separator for a lithium secondary battery, a method for manufacturing the separator, and a lithium secondary battery including the separator. The separator includes a porous substrate and a heat resistance porous layer positioned on at least one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the heat resistance porous layer includes a sulfonic acid group-containing polysulfone.
US10985423B2	Battery pack In a battery pack, a cover is fixed to a case by a special component. A first service plug includes a special tool detaching the special component. Part of the first service plug or part of a first lid closing it and part of a second service plug or part of an annular component between a second housing part and a second lid closing it are superimposed together via a superimposed part. In the superimposed part, part of the first service plug or part of the first lid is positioned on a deeper side in a direction where the first service plug and the first lid are detached. Accordingly, the first service plug cannot be detached unless the second service plug is detached, and unless both the first and second service plugs are detached, the cover cannot be detached from the case using the special tool, thus ensuring safety.
US10985415B2	Power storage module with cooling member A power storage module includes: a power storage element; a cooling member that is stacked on the power storage element and has a sealing body hermetically sealing a coolant and an absorption member disposed in the sealing body to absorb the coolant; and a heat transfer plate that is stacked on the power storage element with the cooling member sandwiched therebetween. The heat transfer plate is provided with protrusion portions that protrude to the cooling member side.
US10985411B2	Apparatus and method for managing battery Disclosed are an apparatus and method for managing a battery. The battery management apparatus includes a thickness calculator configured to calculate a thickness of a battery on the basis of a capacitance of the battery and an information generator configured to generate a battery-state information by subtracting an increase in a thickness of the battery according to temperature of the battery from the calculated thickness.
US10985400B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which includes an electrode assembly, a housing with an opening and contains the electrode assembly, and a sealing member sealing the opening, the electrode assembly comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material, lithium carbonate, and lithium phosphate, the negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material. The method includes placing the electrode assembly in the housing, and placing a nonaqueous electrolyte containing lithium fluorosulfonate in the housing.
US10985398B2	Battery unit and battery set A battery unit includes two bases, two locking components, a plurality of battery cells and two electrode pieces. The two bases fixed to each other through the two locking components. The battery cells and the two electrode pieces are accommodated in the two bases. Two opposite ends of each battery cell respectively abut against the two electrode pieces. Each base has an engaging protrusion and an engaging groove. A battery set is also provided. The battery set is composed by the plurality of battery units and the battery units are electrically connected with each other through at least one electrical connecting component. One of the battery units is engaged with the engaging groove of the other one of battery units through the engaging protrusion.
US10985396B2	Fuel cell stack pressurized by press forks and assembly method of the same A fuel cell stack is provided and includes a fuel cell assembly in which a plurality of fuel cells are stacked between upper and lower current collectors. The fuel cell stack includes an enclosure that pressurizes and seals the fuel cell assembly in a stacked direction of the fuel cells.
US10985391B2	Real time iterative solution using recursive calculation Methods, systems, and devices of a cooling system for controlling air or liquid flow. The fluid system includes one or more actuators that control the air or liquid flow. The fluid system includes multiple interconnecting pipes that transport the air or liquid flow. Each pipe may have a mass flow for the air or liquid flow. The fluid system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to determine an initial mass flow of the air or liquid flow. The electronic control unit is configured to determine the mass flow for each pipe based on the initial mass flow. The electronic control unit is configured to predict a cooling capability of the air or liquid flow within each pipe and control the one or more actuators to regulate or control cooling of one or more components of the vehicle based on the predicted cooling capability.
US10985390B2	Fuel cell system and control method of fuel cell system Provided is a fuel cell system including: a fuel cell; an anode gas supply device; a pressure sensor; a discharge valve; an estimation unit that estimates an anode gas concentration; and a control unit. The control unit performs first control of opening the discharge valve when a first valve opening condition is established in which the estimated anode gas concentration is equal to or lower than a first concentration, and closing the discharge valve when a first valve closing condition is established in which the estimated anode gas concentration is equal to or higher than a second concentration higher than the first concentration, and performs second control of closing the discharge valve when a deviation between the target pressure value and a value of the pressure sensor is continuously equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold for a predetermined period, and opening the discharge value when a second valve opening condition is established in which the estimated anode gas concentration is equal to or lower than a third concentration lower than the first concentration, or in which a value obtained by multiplying the estimated anode gas concentration by a predetermined coefficient so that the anode gas concentration is estimated to be high is equal to or lower than the first concentration.
US10985384B2	Corrosion resistant current collector for high-temperature fuel cell A cathode current collector is made from a composite material including a first metallic layer made of a first metal and a second metallic layer made of a second metal different from the first metal. The first metallic layer is cladded with the second metallic layer. The first metallic layer is configured to form a conductive oxide corrosion layer in the presence of oxygen, molten carbonate electrolyte, or a combination thereof. The second metallic layer is corrosion resistant.
US10985380B2	Battery and battery plate assembly with highly absorbent separator A battery plate assembly for a lead-acid battery is disclosed. The assembly includes a plates of opposing polarity each formed by an electrically conductive grid body having opposed top and bottom frame elements and opposed first and second side frame elements, the top frame element having a lug and an opposing enlarged conductive section extending toward the bottom frame element; a plurality of interconnecting electrically conductive grid elements defining a grid pattern defining a plurality of open areas, the grid elements including a plurality of radially extending vertical grid, wire elements connected to the top frame element, and a plurality of horizontally extending grid wire elements, the grid body having an active material provided thereon. A highly absorbent separator is wrapped around at least a portion of the plate of a first polarity and extends to opposing plate faces. An electrolyte is provided, wherein substantially all of the electrolyte is absorbed by the separator or active material. A method for assembling a battery is also disclosed.
US10985378B2	Electrolyzed copper foil and current collector of energy storage device An electrolyzed copper foil and a current collector of an energy storage device are provided. The electrolyzed copper foil includes a transition layer and a nano-twin copper layer formed on the transition layer. The transition layer has an equiaxial grain of a (111) plane having a volume ratio of 20-40%, a (200) plane having a volume ratio of 20-40%, and a (220) plane having a volume ratio of 20-40%. A thickness of the transition layer is 0.2 μm to 1.5 μm. The nano-twin copper layer has a columnar grain of the (111) plane having a volume ratio of more than 85%, and a thickness of the nano-twin copper layer is 3 μm to 30 μm.
US10985361B2	Electrodes configured to reduce occurrences of short circuits and/or lithium plating in batteries An example method of reducing short circuits from occurring in a battery can include providing a current collector coated with a safety layer. The method can include providing an electrochemically active material film on the safety layer such that the safety layer is configured to reduce exposure of the current collector to an opposing electrode. The method can also include adhering the electrochemically active material film to the current collector via the safety layer.
US10985354B2	Separator for electricity storage devices, electrode body using same, and electricity storage device This separator for electricity storage devices comprises a porous base and a thermoplastic polymer layer that is arranged in at least a part of the outermost surface of at least one surface of the porous base, and wherein: a thermoplastic polymer contained in the thermoplastic polymer layer contains a copolymer that has, as a monomer unit, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (P) having a polyalkylene glycol group; and the thermoplastic polymer layer contains the thermoplastic polymer in an amount of more than 3% by mass but 100% by mass or less if the thermoplastic polymer layer is taken as 100% by mass.
US10985353B2	Secondary batteries The present invention pertains to a secondary battery comprising at least one separator, said separator comprising at least one fluorinated polymer [polymer (F)], said polymer (F) comprising recurring units derived from vinylidene fluoride (VDF), hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and at least one (meth)acrylic monomer (MA) having formula (I) here below, wherein: —R1, R2 and R3, equal to or different from each other, are independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a C1-C3 hydrocarbon group, and —ROH is a C1-C5 hydrocarbon moiety comprising at least one hydroxyl group.
US10985348B2	Display panel, manufacturing method thereof, and display device A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of functional layers arranged on a base substrate. A portion of at least one of the functional layers is removed to form a gap portion. The display panel further includes a light-transmissible structure including the gap portion and configured to allow a light beam to pass therethrough to an optical sensing element arranged at a position corresponding to the light-transmissible structure. An orthogonal projection of the gap portion onto the base substrate overlaps an orthogonal projection of the optical sensing element onto the base substrate.
US10985344B2	Flexible cover lens films Flexible display devices, such as flexible cover lens films, are discussed and provided herein. The flexible cover lens film has good strength, elasticity, optical transmission, wear resistance, and thermostability. The cover lens film includes a hard coat layer with a thickness from about 5 μm to 40 μm, an impact absorption layer with a thickness from about 20 μm to 110 μm, and a substrate layer with a thickness from about 10 μm to 175 μm and is disposed between the hard coat layer and the impact absorption layer. By combining the hard coat layer and the impact resistant layer, the cover lens film is both flexible and strong with hardness from 6H to 9H.
US10985342B2	Display device The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device includes a first substrate, the first substrate being provided with a first relief groove, a second substrate, the second substrate being provided with a second relief groove, and a sealant. The sealant is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to seal the first substrate and the second substrate. Furthermore, the sealant is spaced apart from outer edges of the first substrate and the second substrate. The first relief groove is located between the sealant and the outer edge of the first substrate, and the second relief groove is located between the sealant and the outer edge of the second substrate.
US10985341B2	Encapsulating thin film, production method thereof, and method for encapsulating display panel Provided are an encapsulating thin film, a production method thereof, and a method for encapsulating a display panel. The encapsulating thin film has: a protective film; a plurality of discrete metal film units on the protective film; an adhesive layer on each of the metal film units; and optionally a release layer. This encapsulating thin film may be used to encapsulate a plurality of display panels simultaneously.
US10985339B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting display (OLED) apparatus includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed separate from the first electrode; a pixel-defining layer covering an edge of the first electrode and an edge of the second electrode; a first organic functional layer disposed on the first electrode and the pixel-defining layer including a first emission layer; a first opposing electrode covering a top surface and enclosing an outer circumference of side surfaces of the first organic functional layer; a second organic functional layer disposed on the second electrode and the pixel-defining layer including a second emission layer; and a second opposing electrode covering a top surface and enclosing an outer circumference of side surfaces of the second organic functional layer. An area of the first opposing electrode in contact with the pixel-defining layer is greater than an area of the second opposing electrode in contact with the pixel-defining layer.
US10985338B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device comprises two emission portions between first and second electrodes, wherein at least one among the two emission portions includes two emitting layers, whereby efficiency and a color reproduction ratio may be improved.
US10985336B1	Oxygen scavenging nanoparticles for air-processed quantum dot light emitting diodes A light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emissive layer between the first and second electrodes, where the emissive layer comprises quantum dots and oxygen scavenging nanoparticles. The oxygen scavenging nanoparticles comprise at least one of one or more iron based materials, and one or more organic polymer based materials.
US10985334B2	Module structures and flexible display devices A module structure includes a support film layer. The support film layer includes a film layer body and a stress relief gap disposed in the film layer body. The stress relief gap includes a layer gap, and the film layer body is divided into stacked sub-layers by the layer gap. In the module structure according to the embodiments of the present application, the stress relief gap is disposed in the film layer body of the support film layer.
US10985329B2	Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed-cyclic compound represented by Formula 1A: wherein in Formula 1A, groups, substituents, and variables are the same as defined in the specification.
US10985328B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices Organic compounds containing indolocarbazoles as electron donor connected with electron acceptors such aza-triphenylene or dibenzoquinoxaline that can improve the performance of phosphorescent organic light emitting devices are disclosed.
US10985325B2	Aromatic amine derivative, and organic electroluminescent element using same An aromatic amine derivative represented by formula (1): wherein HAr1, Ar2, L1, L2, and L3 are as defined in the specification, is useful as a material for constituting an organic EL device and realizes an organic EL device having a high efficiency and a long lifetime even when driving at a low voltage.
US10985312B2	Methods of fabricating magneto-resistive random-access memory (MRAM) devices with self-aligned top electrode via and structures formed thereby A method of fabricating an MRAM device includes forming a bottom electrode over a semiconductor substrate, forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure on the bottom electrode, and forming a top electrode on the MTJ structure. The method also includes forming spacers on sidewalls of the top electrode and the MTJ structure, and depositing a first dielectric layer to surround the spacers. The method further includes selectively depositing a patterned etch stop layer on the first dielectric layer and the spacers. In addition, the method includes depositing a second dielectric layer on the patterned etch stop layer and the top electrode, forming a via hole in the second dielectric layer to expose the top electrode, and forming a top electrode via in the via hole.
US10985310B2	Flexible device and operating methods thereof A flexible device includes a flexible body and a plurality of piezoelectric materials arranged on the flexible body that deform in response to drive signals causing deformation of the flexible body of the flexible device.
US10985304B2	Highly reliable light emitting diode A light emitting diode including a first semiconductor layer, a mesa disposed thereon and including a second semiconductor layer and an active layer, an ohmic reflection layer disposed on the mesa to form an ohmic contact with the second semiconductor layer, a lower insulation layer covering the mesa and the ohmic reflection layer and partially exposing the first semiconductor layer and the ohmic reflection layer, a first pad metal layer disposed on the lower insulation layer and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, a metal reflection layer disposed on the lower insulation layer and laterally spaced apart from the first pad metal layer, and an upper insulation layer covering the first pad metal layer and the metal reflection layer, and having a first opening exposing the first pad metal layer, in which at least a portion of the metal reflection layer covers a side surface of the mesa.
US10985294B2	Contact structures for light emitting diode chips Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly contact structures for LED chips are disclosed. LED chips as disclosed herein may include contact structure arrangements that have reduced impact on areas of active LED structures within the LED chips. Electrical connections between an n-contact and an n-type layer may be arranged outside of a perimeter edge or a perimeter corner of the active LED structure. N-contact interconnect configurations are disclosed that form electrical connections between n-contacts and n-type layers of LED chips outside of lateral boundaries of the active LED structures. By electrically contacting n-type layers outside of the lateral boundaries of the active LED structures, LED chips are provided with improved current spreading and improved brightness.
US10985289B2	Solar cell and solar cell module A solar cell includes a crystalline silicon substrate, a P-doped silicon oxide layer that is formed on a principal surface of the crystalline silicon substrate and that includes phosphorus as an impurity, and an amorphous silicon layer that includes an intrinsic amorphous silicon layer and a p-type amorphous silicon layer. The intrinsic amorphous silicon layer is formed on the P-doped silicon oxide layer. The p-type amorphous silicon layer is formed on the intrinsic amorphous silicon layer and includes a p-type dopant. The intrinsic amorphous silicon layer includes the p-type dopant. The concentration of the p-type dopant in the thickness direction of the intrinsic amorphous silicon layer has a profile higher than the concentration of the p-type dopant at the interface between the P-doped silicon oxide layer and the intrinsic amorphous silicon layer.
US10985288B2	Monolithic multiple solar cells A monolithic multiple solar cell includes at least three partial cells, with a semiconductor mirror placed between two partial cells. The aim of the invention is to improve the radiation stability of said solar cell. For this purpose, the semiconductor mirror has a high degree of reflection in at least one part of a spectral absorption area of the partial cell which is arranged above the semiconductor mirror and a high degree of transmission within the spectral absorption range of the partial cell arranged below the semiconductor mirror.
US10985282B2	Liquid crystal display device To provide a liquid crystal display device suitable for a thin film transistor which uses an oxide semiconductor. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light is used as an interlayer film which covers at least the oxide semiconductor layer. As the film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light, a coloring layer can be used and a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer is preferably used. An interlayer film which includes a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer and a light-blocking layer may be formed in order that the light-blocking layer is used as a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light.
US10985279B2	Source and drain epitaxy and isolation for gate structures Semiconductor devices and methods for forming the semiconductor devices include forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate on each side of a stack of nanosheets, the stack of nanosheets including first nanosheets and second nanosheets stacked in alternating fashion with a dummy gate structure formed thereon. Source and drain regions are grown on from the sacrificial layer and from ends of the second nanosheets to form source and drain regions in contact with each side of the stack of nanosheets. The sacrificial layer is removed. An interlevel dielectric is deposited around the source and drain regions to fill between the source and drain regions and the substrate.
US10985277B2	Method for forming semiconductor device structure A method includes forming a first semiconductor layer over a substrate. A second semiconductor layer is formed over the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are etched to form a fin structure that extends from the substrate. The fin structure has a remaining portion of first semiconductor layer and a remaining portion of the second semiconductor layer atop the remaining portion of the first semiconductor layer. A capping layer is formed to wrap around three sides of the fin structure. At least a portion of the capping layer and at least a portion of the remaining portion of the second semiconductor layer in the fin structure are oxidized to form an oxide layer wrapping around three sides of the fin structure.
US10985276B2	Method and device having low contact resistance A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor structure having a semiconductor substrate and a gate structure on the semiconductor substrate. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, a gate on the gate dielectric layer, and a spacer layer on opposite sides of the gate. The method also includes etching the semiconductor substrate to form first and second recesses, etching a portion of the spacer layer to expose a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a source filling the first recess and a drain filling the second recess. The source (drain) includes a first source (drain) portion in the first (second) recess and a second source (drain) portion on the first source (drain) portion. The second source portion or the second drain portion covers the exposed surface portion of the semiconductor substrate.
US10985270B2	Nitride power transistor and manufacturing method thereof A nitride power transistor comprises: a silicon substrate comprising a differently doped semiconductor composite structure for forming a space charge depletion region; and a nitride epitaxial layer located on the silicon substrate. With introduction of a differently doped semiconductor composite structure for forming a space charge depletion region inside a silicon substrate of a nitride power transistor, the nitride power transistor is capable of withstanding a relatively high external voltage, and thus a breakdown voltage of the device is improved.
US10985261B2	Dummy gate structure and methods thereof A structure and method for implementation of dummy gate structures within multi-gate device structures includes a semiconductor device including an isolation region that separates a first and second active region. The first active region is adjacent to a first side of the isolation region and the second active region is adjacent to a second side of the isolation region. A device including a source, a drain, and a gate is formed within the first active region. One of the source and drain regions are disposed adjacent to the isolation region. A dummy gate is formed at least partially over the isolation region and adjacent to the one of the source and drain regions. In various examples, the gate includes a first dielectric layer having a first thickness and the dummy gate includes a second dielectric layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness.
US10985258B2	Method for preparing diamond-based field effect transistor, and corresponding field effect transistor Disclosed are a preparation method for a diamond-based field effect transistor and a field effect transistor, relating to the technical field of semi-conductors. Said method comprising: forming a conductive layer on the upper surface of a diamond layer; the diamond layer being a high-resistance layer; manufacturing an active region mesa on the diamond layer; manufacturing, on the conductive layer, a source electrode on a first region corresponding to a source electrode region, and manufacturing, on the conductive layer, a drain electrode on a second region corresponding to a drain electrode region; depositing, on the conductive layer, a photocatalyst dielectric layer on the upper surface of a third region corresponding to a source and gate region, and depositing, on the conductive layer, the photocatalyst dielectric layer on the upper surface of a fourth region corresponding to a gate and drain region; illuminating the photocatalyst dielectric layer; depositing, on the conductive layer, a gate dielectric layer on a fifth region corresponding to gate electrode region, manufacturing a gate electrode on the upper surface of the gate dielectric layer. The present invention can reduce the on-resistance of devices.
US10985256B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric, a gate electrode, a pair of source/drain regions, a pair of first well regions, a second well region, a pair of contact regions and a pair of third well regions. The gate dielectric is disposed in the semiconductor substrate having a concave profile that defines an upper boundary lower than an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The gate electrode is disposed over the gate dielectric. The pair of source/drain regions are disposed on opposing sides of the gate dielectric. The pair of first well regions are disposed under the pair of source/drain regions. The second well region is disposed between the pair of first well regions. The pair of contact regions are disposed on opposing sides of the pair of source/drain regions. The pair of third well regions are disposed under the pair of contact regions.
US10985252B2	Integrated assemblies, and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. A first stack is formed over a conductive structure. The first stack includes a second layer between first and third layers. The first and third layers are conductive. A first opening is formed through the first stack. A sacrificial material is formed within the first opening. A second stack is formed over the first stack. The second stack has alternating first and second levels. A second opening is formed through the second stack and through the sacrificial material. First semiconductor material is formed within the second opening. A third opening is formed through the second stack, through the third layer, and to the second layer. The second layer is removed, forming a conduit. Second semiconductor material is formed within the conduit. Dopant is out-diffused from the second semiconductor material into the first semiconductor material. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies.
US10985250B2	Gate cut device fabrication with extended height gates Semiconductor devices include a first dielectric layer formed over a source and drain region. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has an internal structure that is the result of a thermal oxidation process and has a higher quality than an internal structure of the first dielectric layer. A gate stack is positioned through the first and second dielectric layers.
US10985248B2	SiC power semiconductor device with integrated Schottky junction Embodiments of SiC devices and corresponding methods of manufacture are provided. In some embodiments, the SiC device has shielding regions at the bottom of some gate trenches and non-linear junctions formed with the SiC material at the bottom of other gate trenches. In other embodiments, the SiC device has the shielding regions at the bottom of the gate trenches and arranged in rows which run in a direction transverse to a lengthwise extension of the trenches. In still other embodiments, the SiC device has the shielding regions and the non-linear junctions, and wherein the shielding regions are arranged in rows which run in a direction transverse to a lengthwise extension of the trenches.
US10985246B2	MOSFET with selective dopant deactivation underneath gate A semiconductor device includes a channel region comprising dopants, a gate structure over the channel region and a deactivated region underneath the gate structure and partially within the channel region. Dopants within the deactivated region are deactivated. The deactivated region includes carbon. The deactivated region is physically separated from a top surface of a substrate by a portion of the substrate that is free of carbon.
US10985242B2	Power semiconductor device having guard ring structure, and method of formation In one embodiment, a power semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises an active device region and a junction termination region. The power semiconductor device may also include a polysilicon layer, disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The polysilicon layer may include an active device portion, disposed over the active device region, and defining at least one semiconductor device; and a junction termination portion, disposed over the junction termination region, the junction termination portion defining a ring structure.
US10985240B2	Semiconductor device having diode devices with different barrier heights and manufacturing method thereof A Schottky diode device includes a substrate having a first conductivity type, a first well region having a second conductivity type disposed in the substrate, and a first doped region having the second conductivity type in the first well region, wherein the first doped region includes a first portion and a second portion, and the first portion and the second portion have different doping concentrations. The first portion includes a region having at least four sides, from a top-view perspective, abutting the second portion.
US10985238B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A capacitor includes a plurality of lower bottom electrodes, a lower supporter supporting the lower bottom electrodes and including a plurality of lower supporter openings, upper bottom electrodes formed on the lower bottom electrodes, respectively, and an upper supporter supporting the upper bottom electrodes and including a plurality of upper supporter openings, wherein the lower supporter openings and the upper supporter openings do not vertically overlap each other.
US10985237B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to embodiments includes: a first conductivity-type first semiconductor layer set to a first potential; a second conductivity-type second semiconductor layer stacked on the first semiconductor layer and set to a second potential; an interlayer insulating film disposed on a main surface of the second semiconductor layer; a resistor disposed above the first semiconductor layer while interposing the second semiconductor layer and the interlayer insulating film therebetween; and a terminal electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer.
US10985235B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate, a first insulating layer, a power lines, and connection lines. The substrate includes a peripheral area adjacent to at least one side of a pixels area. The first insulating layer including one or more contact holes. The power line is in the peripheral area and provides a driving voltage to pixels. The power line includes a first metal layer on the substrate and a second metal layer connected to the first metal layer through the contact hole. The connection lines extend to the peripheral area from the pixels and overlap part of the power line. The power line includes a first area in which the first and second metal layers are electrically connected through the contact hole. The connection line does not overlap the first area of the power line.
US10985230B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes an organic light emitting diode having an anode and a cathode. The organic light emitting diode is configured to receive a reference voltage. A control transistor includes a first control electrode and a first semiconductor active layer. The control transistor is configured to receive a control signal. A driving transistor includes a second control electrode that is electrically connected to the control transistor, an input electrode that is configured to receive a power voltage, an output electrode that is electrically connected to the anode of the organic light emitting diode, and a second semiconductor active layer that includes a different material from that of the first semiconductor active layer. A shielding electrode is disposed on the second semiconductor active layer, overlapping the driving transistor, and configured to receive the power voltage.
US10985228B2	Flexible display panel with reinforced insulating layer, method of manufacturing flexible display panel, and flexible display apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a flexible display panel, a method of manufacturing the flexible display panel, and a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display panel comprises: a reinforced insulating layer of an inorganic material, wherein the reinforced insulating layer comprises a reinforced region, and is formed with a reinforcing hole in the reinforced region; an organic material filled in the reinforcing hole; and at least one insulating film which is disposed on at least one of both sides of the reinforced insulating layer and which is in contact with the reinforced insulating layer at least in the reinforced region.
US10985218B2	Display device and method of fabricating the same A display device includes a first substrate in which a first pixel region and a second pixel region are defined, a second substrate including a first display element and a second display element, a first layer having a first refractive index, and a second layer having a second refractive index. The first substrate includes a first wavelength conversion layer disposed in the first pixel region and a second wavelength conversion layer disposed in the second pixel region. A total reflection critical angle between the first layer and the second layer is smaller than an incident angle of light which is emitted from the first display element and is incident into the second wavelength conversion layer.
US10985211B1	Embedded MRAM structure and method of fabricating the same An embedded MRAM structure includes a substrate divided into a memory cell region and a logic device region. An active area is disposed in the memory cell region. A word line is disposed on the substrate and crosses the active area. A source plug is disposed in the active area and at one side of the word line. A drain plug is disposed in the in the active area and at another side of the word line. When viewing from a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate and taking the word line as a symmetric axis, the source plug is a mirror image of the drain plug.
US10985207B2	Display device having light emitting stacked structure A display device includes a plurality of pixel tiles spaced apart from each other, each of the pixel tiles including a substrate and a plurality of light emitting stacked structures disposed on the substrate, in which a distance between two adjacent light emitting stacked structures in the same pixel tile is substantially equal to a shortest distance between two adjacent light emitting stacked structures of different pixel tiles.
US10985200B2	Method for producing an image sensor, and an image sensor A method for producing an image sensor comprises: depositing a first back-end-of-line, BEOL, layer above a substrate comprising an array of light-detecting elements, said BEOL layer comprising metal wirings being arranged to form connections to components on the substrate and together with depositing the first BEOL layer, improving planarization of the first BEOL layer by depositing a planarizing metal dummy pattern in the first BEOL layer, wherein a part of the planarizing metal dummy pattern is arranged above a light-detecting element, wherein the planarizing metal dummy patterns is formed from the same material as the metal wirings and is deposited to planarize density of the metal deposited in the first BEOL layer across a surface of the layer and wherein a shape and/or position of the metal dummy pattern above the array of light-detecting elements is designed to provide a desired effect on incident light.
US10985198B2	Pixel isolation elements, devices and associated methods Light trapping pixels, devices incorporating such pixels, and various associated methods are provided. In one aspect, for example, a light trapping pixel device can include a light sensitive pixel having a light incident surface, a backside surface opposite the light incident surface, and a peripheral sidewall disposed into at least a portion of the pixel and extending at least substantially around the pixel periphery. The pixel can also include a backside light trapping material substantially covering the backside surface and a peripheral light trapping material substantially covering the peripheral sidewall. The light contacting the backside light trapping material or the peripheral light trapping material is thus reflected back toward the pixel.
US10985197B2	Imaging device An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a first diffusion region of a first conductivity type and a second diffusion region of the first conductivity type; a first plug that is connected to the first diffusion region and that contains a semiconductor; a second plug that is connected to the second diffusion region and that contains a semiconductor; and a photoelectric converter that is electrically connected to the first plug. An area of the second plug is larger than an area of the first plug in a plan view.
US10985193B2	Display panel A display panel includes pixels and a first conductive element. Each pixel includes a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, and an insulating layer. The first signal lines are arranged in a first direction. Orthogonal projections of a first electrode of a second capacitor of a first pixel, a first electrode of a third capacitor of the first pixel, and a first contact window of an insulating layer of the first pixel on a first substrate are arranged in the first direction. The first conductive element is electrically connected to a second electrode of the third capacitor of the first pixel and a second electrode of the second capacitor of the first pixel through the first contact window.
US10985189B2	Contact structure and display device including the same In the contact structure according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure and a display device including the same, the pixel may be designed regardless of the size of the contact hole by designing a size (or an area) of the contact hole to be larger than the contact area and applying different structures depending on the characteristics of the lower layer. Therefore, the size of the contact hole is increased so that the halftone mask may be easily applied and the number of masks may be advantageously reduced. Further, a degree of freedom of metal in the pixel design is increased so that the pixel may be designed in a high resolution model and the aperture ratio is increased without having the electrode margin. The contact structure comprises: a lower layer; at least a first insulating layer on the lower layer, the first insulating layer having a predetermined contact hole to expose a part of the lower layer; and an upper layer on the first insulating layer to be in contact with the lower layer through the contact hole, wherein the contact hole has a relatively larger area than a contact area where the upper layer and the lower layer are in contact with each other.
US10985175B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device comprises: stacked bodies adjacent to each other in a second direction, each comprising conductive layers stacked in a first direction; semiconductor portions arranged in a third direction between the stacked bodies, and comprising semiconductor layers facing the conductive layers, and a first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer provided between the semiconductor portions. The smallest distance from a geometrical center of gravity of the second insulating layer to the stacked body on a predetermined first cross-section being represented by D1; a distance from surfaces of the stacked bodies facing the semiconductor portion on a predetermined second cross-section being represented by D2, the relationship 2D1>D2 is satisfied.
US10985167B2	Flexible merge scheme for source/drain epitaxy regions A method includes etching a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin to form first recesses. The first and the second semiconductor fins have a first distance. A third semiconductor fin and a fourth semiconductor fin are etched to form second recesses. The third and the fourth semiconductor fins have a second distance equal to or smaller than the first distance. An epitaxy is performed to simultaneously grow first epitaxy semiconductor regions from the first recesses and second epitaxy semiconductor regions from the second recesses. The first epitaxy semiconductor regions are merged with each other, and the second epitaxy semiconductor regions are separated from each other.
US10985164B1	Semiconductor device with nanowire contact and method for fabricating the same The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a plurality of doped regions; a plurality of silicide pads disposed respectively over the plurality of doped regions; and a plurality of conductive contacts disposed respectively over the plurality of silicide pads. The plurality of conductive contacts comprise a plurality of nanowires, a conductive liner disposed over the plurality of nanowires, and a conductor disposed over the conductive liner.
US10985163B2	Semiconductor capacitor structure The present disclosure provides a semiconductor capacitor structure. The semiconductor capacitor structure includes a substrate, a comb-like bottom electrode disposed over the substrate, a top electrode disposed over the comb-like bottom electrode, and a dielectric layer sandwiched between the top electrode and the comb-like bottom electrode. The comb-like bottom electrode includes a plurality of tooth portions parallel to the substrate and a supporting portion coupled to the plurality of tooth portions and perpendicular to the substrate.
US10985159B2	Method for manufacturing monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits A method for manufacturing a monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) with junctionless semiconductor devices (JSDs) is provided. A first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate, while also forming first vias and first interconnect wires alternatingly stacked in the first ILD layer. A first doping-type layer and a second doping-type layer are transferred to a top surface of the first ILD layer. The first and second doping-type layers are stacked and are semiconductor materials with opposite doping types. The first and second doping-type layers are patterned to form a first doping-type wire and a second doping-type wire overlying the first doping-type wire. A gate electrode is formed straddling the first and second doping-type wires. The gate electrode and the first and second doping-type wires at least partially define a JSD.
US10985154B2	Logic drive based on multichip package comprising standard commodity FPGA IC chip with cryptography circuits A multichip package comprising: a first chip package comprising a first semiconductor IC chip, a first polymer layer in a space beyond and extending from a sidewall of the first semiconductor IC chip, a first through package via in the first polymer layer, and a first interconnection scheme under the first semiconductor IC chip, first polymer layer and first through package via, wherein the first semiconductor IC chip comprises a plurality of volatile memory cells configured to store first data associated with a plurality of resulting values for a look-up table (LUT) and a selection circuit configured to select, in accordance with a first input data set thereof, a data from a second input data set thereof as an output data for the logic operation; a first metal bump under the first chip package; and a non-volatile memory IC chip over the first chip package, wherein the non-volatile memory IC chip comprises a plurality of first non-volatile memory cells configured to store second data associated with the plurality of resulting values for the look-up table (LUT), wherein the first data are associated with the second data.
US10985147B2	Capacitors embedded in stiffeners for small form-factor and methods of assembling same A stiffener on a semiconductor package substrate includes a plurality of parts that are electrically coupled to the semiconductor package substrate on a die side. Both stiffener parts are electrically contacted through a passive device that is soldered between the two stiffener parts and by an electrically conductive adhesive that bonds a given stiffener part to the semiconductor package substrate. The passive device is embedded between two stiffener parts to create a smaller X-Y footprint as well as a lower Z-direction profile.
US10985144B2	Light emitting apparatus Disclosed is a light emitting apparatus including: first and second substrates having light transmissive property and flexibility arranged to face each other; a plurality of light emitting element groups arranged along a predetermined straight line between the first and second substrates and each of the light emitting element groups includes a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element; and a conductor pattern formed on the first substrate and including respective individual line patterns individually connected to the first and second light emitting elements and a common line pattern commonly connected to the first and second light emitting elements. The individual line patterns are routed to one side and the other side of the straight line centered on at least a part of the common line pattern.
US10985143B2	Micro assembled LED displays and lighting elements The disclosed technology provides micro-assembled micro-LED displays and lighting elements using arrays of micro-LEDs that are too small (e.g., micro-LEDs with a width or diameter of 10 μm to 50 μm), numerous, or fragile to assemble by conventional means. The disclosed technology provides for micro-LED displays and lighting elements assembled using micro-transfer printing technology. The micro-LEDs can be prepared on a native substrate and printed to a display substrate (e.g., plastic, metal, glass, or other materials), thereby obviating the manufacture of the micro-LEDs on the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the display substrate is transparent and/or flexible.
US10985139B2	Semiconductor chip for sensing temperature and semiconductor system including the same In one example embodiment, a semiconductor system includes a first chip configured to generate first temperature information of the first chip, the first temperature information being based on at least one temperature measurement using at least one first temperature sensor. The semiconductor system further includes a second chip including a second temperature sensor configured to be controlled based on at least the first temperature information.
US10985137B2	Stacked integrated circuit structure and method of forming A semiconductor device, and a method of forming the device, are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first die having a first plurality of contact pads and a second die having a second plurality of contact pads. A substrate is bonded to a first contact pad of the first plurality of contact pads and a first contact pad of the second plurality of contact pads in a face-to-face orientation with the first die and the second die. A first through via extends through the substrate. Molding material is interposed between the first die, the second die and the substrate, the molding material extending along sidewalls of the first die, the second die, and the substrate. A second through via is positioned over a second contact pad of the first plurality of contact pads, the second through via extending through the molding material.
US10985136B2	Microelectronic die stack having at least one rotated microelectronic die A microelectronic package may be fabricated having a microelectronic die stack attached to a microelectronic substrate, wherein the microelectronic die stack may include a first microelectronic die having an active surface and an opposing back surface, a first side and an opposing second side, wherein the first microelectronic die may include a plurality of primary bond pads on the active surface proximate the first side and at least one secondary bond pad on the active surface proximate the second side. The microelectronic die stack may further include a second microelectronic die having an active surface and an opposing back surface, wherein the back surface of the second microelectronic die is attached to the active surface of the first microelectronic die and wherein the second microelectronic die is rotated relative to the first microelectronic die to expose the at least one secondary bond pad of the first microelectronic die.
US10985124B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a surface and a conductive via in the substrate. The surface has an inner region and an outer region surrounding the inner region. The semiconductor structure also includes an under bump metallurgy (UBM) pad on the surface and within the outer region, where the UBM pad has a first zone and a second zone. The first zone faces towards a center of the surface and the second zone faces away from the center of the surface. The conductive via is disposed outside the second zone and at least partially overlaps the first zone from a top view perspective.
US10985116B2	Semiconductor package and method of forming the same A semiconductor package and a method of forming the same are disclosed. A method of forming a semiconductor package includes the following operations. A polymer layer is formed over a die. A metal feature is formed in the polymer layer. An argon-containing plasma treatment is performed to the polymer layer and the metal feature.
US10985115B2	Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package includes a first redistribution structure, a semiconductor die electrically coupled to the first redistribution structure, a die attach material interposed between the first redistribution structure and the semiconductor die, and an insulating encapsulant disposed on the first redistribution structure and covering the semiconductor die and the die attach material. A bottom of the semiconductor die is embedded in the die attach material, and a thickness of a portion of the die attach material disposed over a spacing of conductive traces of the first redistribution structure is greater than a thickness of another portion of the die attach material disposed over the conductive traces of the first redistribution structure and underlying the bottom of the semiconductor die.
US10985111B2	Electronic assembly, electronic apparatus including the same and method for fabricating electronic assembly An electronic assembly according to an embodiment includes: a circuit board including a first edge surface and a trace having an electrical conductivity; an electronic element including a lateral edge spatially spaced apart from the first edge surface, and mounted on the circuit board and electrically connected to the trace; a protection layer including a second edge surface and disposed on the electronic element to substantially cover the electronic element; a magnetic field shielding film including a third edge surface and disposed on the protection layer; and a first metal layer. The first edge surface connects a main top surface of the circuit board and a main bottom surface of the circuit board, the second edge surface connects a main top surface of the protection layer and a main bottom surface of the protection layer, and the third edge surface connects a main top surface of the magnetic field shielding film and a main bottom surface of the magnetic field shielding film, and the first edge surface, the second edge surface, and the third edge surface are substantially aligned with one another to form a coupling edge surface which is substantially planar. In addition, the first metal layer is disposed on the magnetic field shielding film, and covers the main top surface of the magnetic field shielding film and the coupling edge surface.
US10985108B2	Compositions for gap coating and/or filling in or between electronic packages by capillary flow and methods for the use thereof Provided herein are conductive formulations which are useful for applying conductive material to a suitable substrate; the resulting coated articles have improved EMI shielding performance relative to articles coated with prior art formulations employing prior art methods. In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, there are also provided methods for filling a gap in an electronic package to achieve electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding thereof, as well as the resulting articles shielded thereby. Specifically, invention methods utilize capillary flow to substantially fill any gaps in the coating on the surface of an electronic package. Effective EMI shielding has been demonstrated with very thin coating thickness.
US10985105B2	Low resistance contacts including intermetallic alloy of nickel, platinum, titanium, aluminum and type IV semiconductor elements A method of forming a contact to a semiconductor device is provided that forms an alloy composed of nickel (Ni), platinum (Pt), aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti) and a semiconductor material. The methods may include forming a nickel and platinum semiconductor alloy at a base of a via. A titanium layer having an angstrom scale thickness is deposited in the via in contact with the nickel platinum semiconductor alloy. An aluminum containing fill is deposited atop the titanium layer. A forming gas anneal including an oxygen containing atmosphere is applied to the structure to provide a contact alloy comprising nickel, platinum, aluminum, titanium and a semiconductor element from the contact surface of the semiconductor device.
US10985104B2	Semiconductor device having electrode pad and electrode layer intervening semiconductor layer inbetween and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first electrode pad containing copper as a main component and having a thickness equal to or more than 5 μm and less than 50 μm; an electrode layer containing copper as a main component and having a thickness equal to or more than 5 μm and less than 50 μm; and a semiconductor layer provided between the first electrode pad and the electrode layer.
US10985102B2	Semiconductor device, fabrication method for a semiconductor device and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device, including: a first substrate including a first electrode, and a first insulating film configured from a diffusion preventing material for the first electrode and covering a periphery of the first electrode, the first electrode and the first insulating film cooperating with each other to configure a bonding face; and a second substrate bonded to and provided on the first substrate and including a second electrode joined to the first electrode, and a second insulating film configured from a diffusion preventing material for the second electrode and covering a periphery of the second electrode, the second electrode and the second insulating film cooperating with each other to configure a bonding face to the first substrate.
US10985101B2	Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes semiconductor dies, an encapsulant and a redistribution structure. The semiconductor dies are disposed side by side. Each semiconductor die has an active surface, a backside surface, and an inner side surface connecting the active surface and the backside surface. The encapsulant wraps the semiconductor dies and exposes the active surfaces of the semiconductor dies. The redistribution structure is disposed on the encapsulant and the active surfaces of the semiconductor dies. The inner side surfaces of most adjacent semiconductor dies face each other. The redistribution structure establishes single-ended connections between most adjacent semiconductor dies by crossing over the facing inner side surfaces of the most adjacent semiconductor dies.
US10985100B2	Chip package with recessed interposer substrate A chip package is provided. The chip package includes a redistribution structure including an insulating layer and a wiring layer. The wiring layer is in the insulating layer. The chip package includes a chip over the redistribution structure and electrically connected to the wiring layer. The chip package includes an interposer substrate over the redistribution structure and the chip, wherein a portion of the chip is in the interposer substrate. The chip package includes a conductive structure between the interposer substrate and the redistribution structure and electrically connected to the wiring layer. The conductive structure includes a conductive bump or a conductive pillar. The chip package includes a molding layer surrounding the interposer substrate and the conductive structure. The molding layer is partially between the interposer substrate and the redistribution structure and partially between the interposer substrate and the chip.
US10985096B2	Electrical device terminal finishing In described examples, a terminal (e.g., a conductive terminal) includes a base material, a plating stack and a solder finish. The base material can be a metal, such as copper. The plating stack is arranged on a surface of the base material, and includes breaks in the plating stack. The breaks in the plating stack extend from a first surface of the plating stack to a second surface of the plating stack adjacent to the surface of the base material. The solder finish is coated over the breaks in the plating stack.
US10985089B2	Semiconductor cooling arrangement The present invention relates to a semiconductor cooling arrangement for cooling semiconductor devices, such as power semiconductors. The semiconductor cooling arrangement comprises one or more semiconductor assemblies located in a chamber within a housing. The housing comprises inlet and outlet ports for receiving and outputting a cooling medium. The chamber is flooded with a cooling medium to cool the assemblies. The assemblies themselves each comprise a heatsink and one or more semiconductor power devices thermally coupled to the heatsink. The heatsink comprises heat exchanging elements in the form of a plurality of holes in the heatsink extending through the heatsink from one surface to another surface such that the cooling medium flows through the holes to extract heat from the heatsink.
US10985080B2	Electronic package that includes lamination layer An electronic package that includes a substrate and an electronic component attached to the substrate. A laminated layer is attached to an upper surface of the substrate such that the laminated layer covers the electronic component. The electronic package may further include a stiffener mounted on the laminated layer where the stiffener is over the electronic component.
US10985078B2	Sensor and adjuster for a consumable An apparatus for use in a processing chamber is provided. A consumable is within the processing chamber. A scale is positioned to measure a mass of the consumable.
US10985071B1	Gate oxide forming process A gate oxide forming process includes the following steps. A substrate including a first area and a second area is provided. A first oxide layer, a silicon containing cap layer and a second oxide layer on the substrate of the first area and the second area are sequentially and blanketly formed. The silicon containing cap layer and the second oxide layer in the first area are removed. An oxidation process is performed to oxidize the silicon containing cap layer and a gate oxide layer is formed in the second area.
US10985065B2	Method of dicing a wafer by pre-sawing and subsequent laser cutting A wafer processing method includes a protective member laying step of placing a protective member on a face side of a wafer, a reverse side grinding step of grinding a reverse side of the wafer to thin the wafer, a cut groove forming step of positioning a cutting blade in alignment with projected dicing lines one at a time on the reverse side of the wafer, cutting the wafer with the cutting blade to form cut grooves in the wafer which terminate short of the face side thereof, and a cutting step of applying a laser beam to the wafer from the reverse side thereof along the cut grooves to completely sever the wafer along the projected dicing lines into individual device chips.
US10985058B2	Semiconductor device and formation thereof A semiconductor device and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor device comprises a metal plug in a first opening over a substrate, the metal plug is over a silicide layer, and the silicide layer is over a metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer has an oxygen gradient, such that a percentage of oxygen increases from a top surface of the metal oxide layer to a bottom surface of the metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer unpins the Fermi level of the interface between the metal plug and the substrate, which is exhibited by a lowered Schottky barrier height (SBH) and increased oxygen vacancy states between the V.B. and the C.B. of the metal oxide layer, which decreases the intrinsic resistivity between the metal plug and the substrate as compared to a semiconductor device that lacks such a metal oxide layer.
US10985054B2	Interconnect structure and method of forming the same An interconnect structure and a method of forming an interconnect structure are disclosed. The interconnect structure includes a lower etch stop layer (ESL); an upper low-k (LK) dielectric layer over the lower ESL; a first conductive feature in the upper LK dielectric layer, wherein the first conductive feature has a first metal line and a dummy via contiguous with the first metal line, the dummy via extending through the lower ESL; a first gap along an interface of the first conductive feature and the upper LK dielectric layer; and an upper ESL over the upper LK dielectric layer, the first conductive feature, and the first gap.
US10985042B2	SiC substrate, SiC epitaxial wafer, and method of manufacturing the same A SiC substrate includes a first principal surface, a second principal surface disposed on a side opposite to the first principal surface, and an outer periphery connected to the first principal surface and the second principal surface, wherein a density of composite defects present at a peripheral edge portion of the SiC substrate, in which a hollow portion and a dislocation line extending from the hollow portion are connected to each other is equal to or greater than 0.01 pieces/cm2 and equal to or less than 10 pieces/cm2.
US10985038B2	Determination method and substrate processing equipment In equipment that executes a drying process of forming a liquid membrane on a top surface of a substrate W which is held horizontally and gradually enlarging a dry area from which the liquid membrane has been removed, quality of the drying process is determined. Specifically, first, the top surface of the substrate is repeatedly imaged by an imaging unit during execution of the drying process. Then, it is determined whether the dry area is in a normal state based on a plurality of captured images acquired by the imaging. Accordingly, it is possible to quantitatively determine whether a dry area is in a normal state based on a plurality of captured images.
US10985034B2	Semiconductor processing device A semiconductor processing device is provided. The device includes a reaction chamber, a first gas inlet mechanism, and a second gas inlet mechanism that includes a gas inlet, a uniform-flow chamber, at least one gas outlet, and at least one switch element. The gas inlet communicates with the uniform-flow chamber and arranged to deliver a process gas into the uniform-flow chamber. The at least one gas outlet is between the reaction chamber and the uniflow-flow chamber. The at least one switch element is disposed in each gas outlet and arranged to enable the uniform-flow chamber to communicate with the reaction chamber when the process gas is being delivered into the uniform-flow chamber through the gas inlet, and to isolate the uniform-flow chamber from the reaction chamber when no process gas is being delivered into the uniform-flow chamber.
US10985033B2	Semiconductor package with reduced parasitic coupling effects and process for making the same The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package with reduced parasitic coupling effects, and a process for making the same. The disclosed semiconductor package includes a thinned flip-chip die and a first mold compound component with a dielectric constant no more than 7. The thinned flip-chip die includes a back-end-of-line (BEOL) layer with an upper surface that includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion surrounding the first surface portion, a device layer over the upper surface of the BEOL layer, and a buried oxide (BOX) layer over the device layer. The BEOL layer includes a first passive device and a second passive device, which are underlying the first surface portion and not underlying the second surface portion. Herein, the first mold compound component extends through the BOX layer and the device layer to the first surface portion.
US10985032B2	Power MOSFET A power MOSFET includes a substrate, a dielectric layer, solder balls, first and second patterned-metal layers. The substrate includes an active surface, a back surface, a source region and a gate region on the active surface, and a drain region on the back surface. The first patterned-metal layer disposed on the active surface includes a source electrode, a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a connecting trace. The source and gate electrodes electrically connect the source and gate regions. The connecting trace located at an edge of the substrate electrically connects the drain electrode. The dielectric layer disposed on the active surface exposes the first patterned-metal layer. The second patterned-metal layer includes UBM layers covering the source, gate and drain electrodes and a connecting metal layer covering the connecting trace and extending to the edge to electrically connect the drain region. The solder balls are disposed on the UBM layers.
US10985025B2	Fin cut profile using fin base liner Methods for forming semiconductor fins include forming a protective layer around a base of a hardmask fin on an underlying semiconductor layer. A portion of the hardmask fin is etched away with an etch that is selective to the protective layer. A semiconductor fin is etched from the semiconductor layer using the etched hardmask fin as a mask.
US10985020B2	Method (and related apparatus) that reduces cycle time for forming large field integrated circuits In some embodiments, a method for forming an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes forming a first layer over a semiconductor wafer, the first layer having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is patterned by projecting a first image field over the first portion of the first layer, where the first portion of the first layer corresponds to the first image field. The second portion is patterned by projecting a second image field over the second portion of the first layer, where the second portion of the first layer corresponds to the second image field. A second layer is formed over the first layer. The second layer is patterned by projecting a third image field over the second layer, where the third image field covers a majority of the first portion and a majority of the second portion of the first layer.
US10985019B2	Method of forming a semiconductor device using layered etching and repairing of damaged portions A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes plasma etching a portion of a plurality of metal dichalcogenide films comprising a compound of a metal and a chalcogen disposed on a substrate by applying a plasma to the plurality of metal dichalcogenide films. After plasma etching, a chalcogen is applied to remaining portions of the plurality of metal dichalcogenide films to repair damage to the remaining portions of the plurality of metal dichalcogenide films from the plasma etching. The chalcogen is S, Se, or Te.
US10985017B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium Described herein is a technique capable of improving a quality of a substrate processing performed using hydrogen peroxide. According to one aspect of the technique described herein, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including: (a) supplying a first process gas containing water and a first concentration of hydrogen peroxide to a substrate having a silicon-containing film formed on a surface thereof; and (b) supplying a second process gas containing water and a second concentration of hydrogen peroxide higher than the first concentration to the substrate after (a).
US10985016B2	Semiconductor substrate, and epitaxial wafer and method for producing same A semiconductor substrate that is used as an underlying substrate for epitaxial crystal growth carried out by the HVPE method includes a β-Ga2O3-based single crystal, and a principal plane that is a plane parallel to a [100] axis of the β-Ga2O3-based single crystal. An epitaxial wafer includes the semiconductor substrate, and an epitaxial layer including a β-Ga2O3-based single crystal and formed on the principal plane of the semiconductor substrate by epitaxial crystal growth using the HVPE method. A method for producing an epitaxial wafer includes by using the HVPE method, epitaxially growing an epitaxial layer including a β-Ga2O3-based single crystal on a semiconductor substrate that includes a β-Ga2O3-based single crystal and has a principal plane parallel to a [100] axis of the β-Ga2O3-based single crystal.
US10985014B2	Methods for selective deposition on silicon-based dielectrics Methods of selectively depositing a film on a hydroxide terminated surface relative to a hydrogen terminated surface are described. The hydrogen terminated surface is exposed to a nitriding agent to form an amine terminated surface which is exposed to a blocking molecule to form a blocking layer on the surface. A film can then be selectively deposited on the hydroxide terminated surface.
US10985000B2	Chemical analyzer with membrane A system for analyzing an analyte is described herein. The system includes a chamber having an inlet and a semi-permeable membrane arranged to seal the inlet. The semi-permeable membrane includes a cross-linked mixture of a first compound and a second compound. The system can also include a radiation source arranged in the vacuum chamber, the radiation source spaced apart from the semi-permeable membrane and adapted to irradiate the semi-permeable membrane with electromagnetic radiation at a frequency at least partially absorbed by the semi-permeable membrane.
US10984999B2	Device for detecting charged particles and an apparatus for mass spectrometry incorporating the same A device for detecting charged particles includes a substrate, a charge detection plate and an integrated circuit unit that are electrically connected together and respectively disposed on non-coplanar first and second sides of the substrate, and an interference shielding unit substantially enclosing the charge detection plate and the integrated circuit unit in such a manner as to permit impingement on the charge detection plate by the charged particles from outside of the interference shielding unit. The integrated circuit unit disposed on the second side is non-coplanar with the charge detection plate disposed on the first side so as to prevent interference on the integrated circuit unit by the charged particles.
US10984998B2	Mass spectrometer In a tandem mass spectrometer, when the measurement mode is switched between a positive ion measurement mode and a negative ion measurement mode, a DC offset voltage applied to a lens electrode to impart collision energy to an ion is temporarily switched to 0V (S1). After being maintained at 0V for a predetermined waiting time (S2), the voltage is changed to a DC offset voltage corresponding to a measurement mode which is used after the switching operation (S3). By such an operation, the voltage difference between the neighboring plate electrodes among the plate electrodes (171, 172, 173) included in the lens electrode can be decreased as compared to the case where the polarity of the DC offset voltage is immediately switched. Consequently, unintended electric discharge between the neighboring electrodes can be prevented.
US10984986B2	Impedance matching network and method In one embodiment, an RF impedance matching network for a plasma chamber is disclosed. The matching network includes at least one electronically variable capacitor (EVC), each EVC comprising discrete capacitors each having a corresponding switching circuit. Each switching circuit is configured to switch in and out its corresponding discrete capacitor to alter a total capacitance of the EVC. Each switching circuit include a first diode operably coupled to the discrete capacitor, a capacitor coupled in series with the first diode, and a second diode operably coupled to the discrete capacitor. The second diode parallel to the first diode and the capacitor coupled in series.
US10984985B2	RF impedance matching network In one embodiment, an impedance matching network includes an electronically variable reactance element (EVRE) comprising discrete reactance elements and corresponding switches. The switches are configured to switch in and out the discrete reactance elements to alter a total reactance provided by the EVRE. A monitoring circuit is operably coupled to the EVRE. For each discrete reactance element, the monitoring circuit monitors a value related to the discrete reactance element or its corresponding switch. Upon determining the monitored value exceeds a predetermined amount, the monitoring circuit the discrete reactance element of the EVRE from switching in or out.
US10984983B2	Particle beam system and method for operating a particle beam system A particle beam system includes first and second particle beam columns. In a first operating mode, an end cap having an opening therein is outside a beam path of a first particle beam. In a second operating mode, the beam path of the first particle beam can extend through the opening of the end cap so that secondary particles coming from a work region can pass through the opening of the end cap to a detector in the interior of the first particle beam column. While the particle beam system is in the first operating mode, an image of an object arranged in the work region is recorded using the first particle beam column. While the particle beam system is in the second operating mode, the object is processed using a second particle beam.
US10984966B1	Configurable micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) transfer switch and methods A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) transfer switch is disclosed. The transfer switch comprises a single-pole, N-throw switch section having N selectable switches. Each selectable switch of the N selectable switches has an input, a control terminal and an output. An electrically conductive line is coupled to each of the selectable switches of the N selectable switches. The transfer switch includes a single-pole, M-throw switch section having M selectable switches coupled to the conductive line, each selectable switch of the M selectable switches having an output, a control terminal and an input. The single-pole, N-throw switch section and the single-pole, M-throw switch section are packaged in a single micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) die. The N and M are numbers between two and eight and the N selectable switches and the M selectable switches are different switches.
US10984964B2	Flexible supercapacitors and devices containing the same Disclosed herein are stretchable strain sensors that include a graphite network embedded within an elastomeric material. The sensors are wearable and can be used to detect mechanical movements in three dimensions in a wide variety of contexts.
US10984943B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a component body and a terminal electrode formed on a mounting surface of the component body. The chamfered part is formed at an intersection between the mounting surface and a side surface of the component body. An edge of the terminal electrode becomes thinner toward the chamfered part.
US10984937B2	Electromagnetic tool for transferring micro devices and methods of fabrication An electromagnetic apparatus includes a non-magnetic body structure above a substrate. The electromagnetic apparatus further includes at least one isolation structure including a dielectric material on a portion of the body structure and a magnetic structure having two separate portions, one on each side of the isolation structure. A first magnetic structure portion is on a first sidewall of the isolation structure on an upper surface and on a first sidewall of the body structure and a second magnetic structure portion is on an opposite second sidewall of the isolation structure onto an upper surface and on to a second sidewall of the body structure. The electromagnetic apparatus further includes an electromagnet on a side opposite to the isolation structure. The electromagnet is coupled with the magnetic structure and is a source of the magnetic flux lines when energized.
US10984935B2	Superconducting dipole magnet structure for particle deflection A superconducting dipole magnet structure that includes coil boxes, a dewar and a support device is provided, wherein each of the coil boxes is of a one-piece structure in which a superconducting coil is provided, wherein the superconducting coils are opposite to each other so that a uniform dipole magnetic field is generated when the two superconducting coils are energized, and wherein the support device is fixed to the dewar and supports the coil box in the way of point contact.
US10984934B2	Fast inductive heaters for active quench protection of superconducting coil An active quench protection system for a superconducting coil in a magnet includes a quench detector. An inductive heating device is configured to generate an electric field to inductively heat a portion of the superconducting coil. A processor can generate a quench signal responsive to the detection of a quench by the quench detector to cause the inductive heating device to generate the electric field to inductively heat a portion of the superconducting coil. A quench power source can supply a time varying current to the inductive heating device to generate the electric field responsive to a quench signal from the processor. A magnet and a method for the active quench protection of a superconducting coil in a magnet are also disclosed.
US10984931B2	Magnetic copper alloys Magnetic copper-nickel-tin-manganese alloys are disclosed. Also disclosed are processing steps that can be performed for maintaining and/or changing various magnetic or mechanical properties of the alloys. Further described herein are methods for using such an alloy, including various articles produced therefrom.
US10984929B2	Rare earth magnet A rare earth magnet includes main phase grains having an R2T14B type crystal structure. The main phase grains include C. A concentration ratio A1 (A1=αC/βC) of the main phase grains is 1.50 or more, where αC and βC are respectively a highest concentration of C and a lowest concentration of C in one main phase grain.
US10984926B2	Support structure and layout for a HVDC disconnector A support structure for a HVDC disconnector is disclosed. The support structure comprises a support insulator having a body enclosing a chamber; an insulating gas provided in the chamber; and a first flange and a second flange positioned at opposite ends of the support insulator. A rotating insulator may be positioned in the chamber.
US10984924B2	Guarded coaxial cable assembly A guarded coaxial cable assembly including at least a pair of conductors, one or more rails, and a jacket covering these parts such as a first rail extending alongside two nearby conductors, the rail and the conductors embedded in an outer electrically insulating jacket, the outer jacket having a pair of generally opposed bearing surfaces for bearing transverse loads, the rail operative to reduce outer jacket deformations resulting from transverse loads applied to the bearing surfaces; and, the orientation of the rail and the conductors within the outer jacket operative to limit conductor or conductor jacket deformations resulting from transverse loads applied to the bearing surfaces.
US10984915B2	Medical/care support method, medical/care support system, and medical/care support program A medical/care support method is provided, which enables medical or care workers having different special fields such as physicians and nurses to share the medical or care information of each patient or care-needing person while protecting the privacy of the patient or care-needing person, and to support the provision of better-quality medical or care service to the patient or care-needing person based on the medical or care information shared. A patient ID, a disease ID, and a medical facility ID are associated and stored, thereby generating a group G11. A patient P1 designated by patient group registration participates in the group G11 after the patient's approval of an invitation request. Medical workers M1 and M2 and patient-related persons R1, R2, and R4 participate in the group G11 as supporters in response to respective invitation requests.
US10984910B2	System and method for assuring patient medication and fluid delivery at the clinical point of use A system for confirmation of fluid delivery to a patient at the clinical point of use is provided. The system includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device has a housing; at least one imaging sensor associated with the housing; a data transmission interface; a data reporting accessory for providing data to the user; a microprocessor for managing the at least one imaging sensor, the data transmission interface, and the data reporting accessory; and a program for acquiring and processing images from the at least one imaging sensor. The system further includes a fluid delivery apparatus; and one or more identification tags attached to or integrally formed with the fluid delivery apparatus. The program processes an image captured by the at least one imaging sensor to identify the one or more identification tags and acquires fluid delivery apparatus information from the one or more identification tags.
US10984900B1	Systems and methods for refilling prescriptions by text message A messaging module is configured to, in response to a first indicator indicating that a patient has opted into receiving text messages, selectively send and receives text messages to and from a mobile phone number of the patient. A refill by text (RBT) module is configured to, when a second indicator indicates that the patient is not included in an RBT program, trigger the messaging module to send a predetermined text message to the mobile phone number in response to a determination that: a name of a prescription drug prescribed to the patient is included in a stored list of prescription drugs associated with the RBT program; the first indicator indicates that the patient has opted into receiving text messages; and a number of refills of the prescription drug already provided to the patient without a change in the therapy of the prescription drug is greater than a predetermined number.
US10984894B2	Automated image quality control apparatus and methods An image quality control system is disclosed. The example system includes an artificial intelligence modeler to process image data and metadata from patient data to generate first feature(s) from the image data and to parse the metadata to identify study information. The example system includes a computer vision processor to identify second feature(s) in the image data. The example system includes a results evaluator to compare the first feature(s) and second feature(s) to generate a comparison and to evaluate the comparison, first feature(s), and second feature(s) with respect to the study information to generate an evaluation. The example system includes a quality controller to compare the evaluation to quality criterion(-ia) to produce an approval or rejection of the patient data, the approval to trigger release of the patient data and the rejection to deny release of the patient data.
US10984890B2	Synthetic WGS bioinformatics validation Systems, methods, and devices for generating synthetic genomic datasets and validating bioinformatic pipelines for genomic analysis are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, synthetic maternal and paternal datasets with known variants are used with matched normal synthetic datasets to validate various bioinformatic pipelines. Bioinformatic pipelines are evaluated using the synthetic datasets to assess design changes and improvements. Accuracy, PPV, specificity, sensitivity, reproducibility, and limit of detection of the pipelines in calling variants in synthetic datasets is reported.
US10984879B2	Shift register unit and method for driving the same, gate driving circuit and display apparatus A shift register unit and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display apparatus are disclosed. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit configured to transmit an input signal to a pull-up node; an output circuit configured to transmit a clock signal to an output signal terminal under control of a voltage at the pull-up node; a first reset circuit configured to reset the pull-up node to a first level under control of a first reset signal; a first pull-down control circuit configured to control levels at the pull-up node and the output signal terminal under control of a first control signal; and a first voltage control circuit electrically connected to a second control signal terminal, and configured to control a voltage signal waveform at the first pull-down node under control of a second control signal.
US10984878B1	One-time programmable memory bit cell A memory bit cell includes a first memory cell including a first antifuse transistor and a first selection transistor, the first antifuse transistor being selectable between a first state or a second state in response to a first signal, the first selection transistor being configured to provide access to the first antifuse transistor in response to a second signal; a second memory cell including a second antifuse transistor and a second selection transistor, the second antifuse transistor being selectable between the first state or the second state in response to the first signal, the second selection transistor being configured to provide access to the second antifuse transistor in response to the second signal; a first word line to selectively provide the first signal; a second word line to selectively provide the second signal; and a bit line for sensing the first state or the second state.
US10984873B2	Memory device for stabilizing internal voltage and method of stabilizing internal voltage of the same A method controls a memory device that includes a page buffer circuit comprising a plurality of page buffers each comprising at least one latch. The method includes generating by an internal voltage circuit at least one internal voltage among internal voltages used for an operation of the page buffer circuit, the internal voltage circuit providing the at least one internal voltage to the page buffer circuit; and providing to the page buffer circuit a control signal for forming an electrical connection between the internal voltage circuit and a first electrical node of a first page buffer unused for buffering in the page buffer circuit during a set operation for a first latch of a second page buffer.
US10984872B1	Non-volatile memory with source line resistance compensation A non-volatile memory device determines the bit-line location of a memory cell selected for memory operation relative to a nearest source line, generates a modified bit-line bias voltage based on the bit-line location and applies the modified bit-line bias voltage to the selected memory cell. In some embodiments, the memory cell is selected to be programmed. In this manner, the non-volatile memory device compensates for source line resistance at the memory cells.
US10984865B2	Three-dimensional non-volatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a memory block comprising a plurality of memory strings, wherein transistors, in each of the plurality of memory strings, are adjusted to be dummy transistors and normal transistors.
US10984857B2	Superconductive memory cells and devices An electronic device (e.g., a superconducting memory cell) includes a substrate and a layer of superconducting material disposed over the substrate. The layer of superconducting material is patterned to form a plurality of distinct instances of the layer of superconducting material including: a first wire; and a loop that is (i) distinct and separate from the first wire and (ii) capacitively coupled to the first wire while the loop and the first wire are in a superconducting state. The loop is configured to form a persistent current via the capacitive coupling in response to a write current applied to the first wire while the loop and the first wire are in the superconducting state. The persistent current represents a logic state of the electronic device.
US10984846B2	Reference generation for voltage sensing in a resistive memory A sense amplifier circuit includes a reference path, a cell path, and a comparator circuit. The reference path includes a first current load device and a reference comparison node in which the reference path is coupled to a cell reference circuit during a read, wherein the first current load device includes a control input for controlling a current of the reference path. The cell path includes a second current load device and a cell comparison node in which the cell path is coupled to a memory cell during a read, wherein the second current load device includes a control input for controlling a current of the cell path. The comparator circuit indicates a data value being stored in the memory cell based on a comparison of voltages at the reference and cell comparison nodes. Different signals are provided to the control inputs of the first and second current load devices.
US10984844B2	Apparatuses and methods for determining a phase relationship between an input clock signal and a multiphase clock signal Apparatuses and methods for determining a phase relationship between an input clock signal and a multiphase clock signal are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a clock path configured to receive a clock signal and provide internal clock signals and a command path configured to receive a command and propagate the command through the command path responsive to the internal clock signals and provide an internal command having a timing that reflects a timing of the clock signal. The example apparatus further includes a data clock path configured to receive a data clock signal and provide multiphase clock signals based on the data clock signal and provide a delayed multiphase clock signal, and further includes a clock synchronization circuit configured to receive the delayed multiphase clock signal and latch a logic level of the delayed multiphase clock signal responsive to the internal command.
US10984837B2	Display, method for monitoring played content and system using the same The disclosure provides a display, a method for monitoring played content and a system using the same method. The method includes: capturing a played screen of a multimedia content at a specified timing point; using a first feature extracting model to transform the played screen to a played screen feature sequence; determining whether the reference screen feature sequence corresponding to the specified time point matches the played screen feature sequence; if yes, determining the multimedia contents have been correctly played, and vice versa.
US10984835B2	Apparatus, system and method for associating one or more filter files with a particular multimedia presentation A method, apparatus, computer program product and computer accessible code configured to link or otherwise associate content filters with a multimedia presentation, e.g., a movie. The content filter data includes an identifier value with an aspect ratio identifier or as a function of an aspect ratio for a particular multimedia presentation associated with the filter information. In one implementation, association between a filter set and a multimedia presentation involves a filtering application that searches a particular multimedia presentation to locate aspect ratio information and further searches filter information for a matching aspect ratio identifier.
US10984834B2	Dual control security processing A dual-control security procedure is initiated, and a first person is identified for the procedure. The first person is authenticated and a remote agent that is remotely located is requested to participate in the procedure. Actions/behaviors of at least the first person are monitored from the video in accordance with the procedure and provided in real-time to the remote agent. An audit log is written to upon the conclusion of the procedure. The audit log at least comprising: identifiers for the first person and the remote agent, a procedure identifier for the procedure, an asset/area identifier associated with the procedure, a zone identifier for a location within an establishment, action identifiers for the actions, behavior identifiers for the behaviors, violation identifiers for any violations detected during the procedure, and a link to a video clip from the video that corresponds to at least the first person performing the procedure.
US10984825B2	Head suspension assembly and disk apparatus A head suspension assembly includes a support plate, an interconnection member including a metal plate on the support plate, a first insulating layer on the metal plate, a conductive layer on the first insulating layer and forming a pair of connection pads, and a second insulating layer on the conductive layer, a head mounted in the interconnection member, and a piezoelectric element electrically connected to the connection pads and configured to displace the head when a predetermined voltage is applied across the connection pads. At least one opening is formed in each of the connection pads. The piezoelectric element is electrically connected to each of the connection pads by a conductive adhesive that is between the piezoelectric element and each of the connection pads and filled in the opening.
US10984821B1	Transfer-printed near-field transducer and heat sink A near-field transducer or heat sink is formed via a first process. The near-field transducer or heat sink is transfer-printed to a read/write head via a second process.
US10984817B2	Time scaler, audio decoder, method and a computer program using a quality control A time scaler for providing a time scaled version of an input audio signal is configured to compute or estimate a quality of a time scaled version of the input audio signal obtainable by a time scaling of the input audio signal. The time scaler is configured to perform the time scaling of the input audio signal in dependence on the computation or estimation of the quality of the time scaled version of the input audio signal obtainable by the time scaling. An audio decoder has such a time scaler.
US10984816B2	Voice enhancement using depth image and beamforming A voice enhancement method and apparatus of a smart device and a smart device are disclosed. The method comprises: monitoring and collecting a voice signal sent by a user in real time; determining a direction of the user according to the voice signal; collecting a depth image in the direction of the user; determining a sound source direction of the user according to the depth image; and adjusting a beamforming direction of a microphone array on the smart device according to the sound source direction of the user, and performing enhancement processing on the voice signal.
US10984815B1	Techniques for removing non-linear echo in acoustic echo cancellers Techniques for non-linear acoustic echo cancellation are described herein. In an embodiment, a system comprises a loudspeaker, a microphone array, a spatial filtering logic with a spatial filter, an acoustic echo canceller (AEC) logic and an adder logic block. The spatial filtering logic is configured to generate a spatially-filtered signal by applying the spatial filter using a reference signal sent to the loudspeaker and a multi-channel microphone signal from the microphone array. The generated spatially-filtered signal carries both linear echo and non-linear echo that are included in the multi-channel microphone signal. The AEC logic is configured to apply a linear adaptive filter using the spatially-filtered signal to generate a cancellation signal that estimates both the linear echo and the non-linear echo of the multi-channel microphone signal. The adder logic block is configured to generate an output signal based on the cancellation signal.
US10984807B2	Multichannel audio signal processing method, apparatus, and system An encoder includes a signal detection circuit and a signal encoding circuit. The signal encoding circuit is configured to encode the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit detects that an Nth-frame downmixed signal includes a speech signal, or when the signal detection circuit detects that the Nth-frame downmixed signal does not include a speech signal, encode the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit determines that the Nth-frame downmixed signal satisfies a preset audio frame encoding condition, or skip encoding the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit determines that the Nth-frame downmixed signal does not satisfy a preset audio frame encoding condition.
US10984804B2	Hybrid concealment method: combination of frequency and time domain packet loss concealment in audio codecs Embodiments of the invention relate to an error concealment unit for providing an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame in an encoded audio information. The error concealment unit provides a first error concealment audio information component for a first frequency range using a frequency domain concealment. The error concealment unit also provides a second error concealment audio information component for a second frequency range, which includes lower frequencies than the first frequency range, using a time domain concealment. The error concealment unit also combines the first error concealment audio information component and the second error concealment audio information component, to obtain the error concealment audio information. Other embodiments of the invention relate to a decoder including the error concealment unit, as well as related encoders, methods, and computer programs for decoding and/or concealing.
US10984797B2	Collaboration devices Collaboration devices are disclosed. An example table-top collaboration device, including a housing; a sensor to obtain audio data, image data, or video data; a display including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion viewable from a first side of the device and the second portion viewable from a second side of the device; and a processor to facilitate a collaboration session between participants, the processor to use the audio data, the image data, or the video data during the collaboration session.
US10984789B2	Apparatus and method using multiple voice command devices The present invention provides a method and system with a plurality of voice command devices, wherein each of the voice command devices comprises a processor unit, a transceiver coupled to the processor unit and configured to couple to a network, one or more microphones, each configured to capture an audio signal, and at least one loudspeaker, and wherein the processor unit is configured to detect a speech signal in the captured audio signals; upon detection of a speech signal, transmit directivity information with respect to the one or more microphones to a software as a service, SaaS, provider via the network using the transceiver; and receive directivity information with respect to the plurality of voice command devices from the SaaS provider via the network using the transceiver.
US10984786B2	Multi-modal interaction between users, automated assistants, and other computing services Techniques are described herein for multi-modal interaction between users, automated assistants, and other computing services. In various implementations, a user may engage with the automated assistant in order to further engage with a third party computing service. In some implementations, the user may advance through dialog state machines associated with third party computing service using both verbal input modalities and input modalities other than verbal modalities, such as visual/tactile modalities.
US10984783B2	Spoken keyword detection based utterance-level wake on intent system An embodiment of a wake-on-intent speech recognition device includes technology to detect one or more keywords in a digital representation of a spoken natural language utterance, determine an intent of the spoken natural language utterance based on the detected keywords, and provide the spoken natural language utterance to a speech recognition and interpretation system if the determined intent is to further process the spoken natural language utterance. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10984772B2	Loop switcher, controllers therefor and methods for controlling an array of audio effect devices The present invention relates to a loop switcher, controllers therefor, and methods for controlling an array of audio effect devices. A controller for controlling a loop switcher with an input, an output, and a plurality of re-orderable loops, comprising a plurality of switches, each of the plurality of switches controls a corresponding one of the plurality of re-orderable loops for coupling the corresponding one of the plurality of re-orderable loops between the input and the output in a sequence; and a plurality of display elements, wherein each of the plurality of switches has a corresponding one of the plurality of display elements, where each display element indicates visually the sequence order of the sequence in which the plurality of re-orderable loops are coupled between the input and the output.
US10984766B1	Sound generation angular velocity-adjustable twirling device A sound generation angular velocity-adjustable twirling device detachably attaches to a fabric-article at a peripheral attachment point or a central attachment point and enables rotation of fabric-article. The fabric-article unfurls and twirls at a rate dependent on the center of gravity at different attachment points on fabric-article. A rod forms the central axis. A textured outer sleeve encapsulates the rod for secure grasping. A first axis positions in the outer sleeve, fixedly attaching to a first-rod end. A fastening mechanism rotates freely about the first axis while retaining the fabric-article. The rotating fastening mechanism and the stationary first axis form a rotational relationship with low friction coefficient. A second axis pins a strap to the second-rod end. The device generates sound while twirling through a gear assembly and/or percussion instruments. The sound generated is proportional to the angular velocity of the gear, and to the applied torque to the sleeve.
US10984759B2	Afterimage compensator and method for driving display device An afterimage compensator includes: a global shifter configured to determine an upscaling area and a downscaling area of a display unit, that together correspond to a preset global shift path, to shift a main image of the display unit; a logo shifter configured to analyze image data corresponding to a logo image and a preset logo peripheral area surrounding the logo image, and configured to determine a logo upscaling area and a logo downscaling area that are each included in the logo peripheral area, the logo shifter being further configured to shift the logo image; and a scaler configured to combine the upscaling area, the downscaling area, the logo upscaling area, and the logo downscaling area and configured to scale image data corresponding to the combined scaling area.
US10984757B2	Machine learning method, machine learning system, and display system To improve the display quality of a display device. To provide a method of correcting image data input to the display device. To provide a novel image correction method or an image correction system. Machine learning for a neural network correcting image data input to the display device is performed by the following method: second image data based on an image that is displayed on the display device by input of first image data to the display device is obtained; third image data is generated by obtaining a difference between the first image data and the second image data; fourth image data is generated by adding the first image data and the third image data; and a weight coefficient is updated so that output data obtained by input of the first image data to the neural network is close to the fourth image data.
US10984755B2	Display device and electronic device A display device whose aspect ratio can be changed is provided. The display device includes a plurality of display units and a plurality of driver circuit units. The plurality of display units each include a light-emitting portion and a connection region. The plurality of driver circuit units each include a driver circuit portion and a connection region. The connection regions of the adjacent units overlap with each other and one shaft passes through the connection regions. The adjacent units are electrically connected to each other with the one shaft. With such a structure, an angle between the adjacent units electrically connected to each other with one shaft can be changed, which enables the aspect ratio of the display device to be changed.
US10984754B2	Display bandwidth reduction with multiple resolutions A system for reducing bandwidth and/or reducing power consumed by a display may comprise a display having a background plane and a region of interest plane that may be identified by a gaze tracker. The region of interest may be of a higher quality picture. In some embodiments, the display may be a large panel display and in others a head mounted display (HMD).
US10984752B2	Display with localized brightness adjustment capabilities An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
US10984750B1	Voltage output system and liquid crystal display device The invention provides a voltage output system and LCD device. The voltage output system is disposed with a variable resistor, one end of the variable resistor is connected to the input voltage transmitted by the level-shifting unit through a contact and a wire, and the other end of the variable resistor is electrically connected to the LCD panel to output an output voltage through a contact and a wire. After the voltage output system is disposed on the assembled circuit board of the LCD device, when the LCD device is tested, the output voltage of the voltage output system can be preset by adjusting the resistance of the variable resistor so that the required different voltages can be provided to the LCD panel conveniently and quickly, which simplifies the test of the LCD device and reduces the product cost.
US10984748B2	Gate driving circuit This disclosure provides a gate driving circuit, which comprises: first P-channel, second P-channel, first N-channel and second N-channel transistors, each has a gate, a source, a drain, and a base connected to the source; an output terminal electrically connected to the drains of the second N-channel and P-channel transistors; wherein the source of the first P-channel transistor is connected to a first voltage source, and a first voltage is applied to its gate; the source of the first N-channel transistor is connected to a second voltage source, and a second voltage is applied to its gate; the source of the second P-channel transistor is connected to the drain of the first P-channel transistor, and a third voltage is applied to its gate; the source of the second N-channel transistor is connected to the drain of the first N-channel transistor, and a control voltage is applied to its gate.
US10984740B2	Display driving device Disclosed is a display driving device. The display driving device may include: a buffer circuit including a positive output amplifier and a negative output amplifier; a switch circuit including output switches connected in series between the positive output amplifier and a first source output terminal, between the positive output amplifier and a second source output terminal, between the negative output amplifier and the first source output terminal, and between the negative output amplifier and the second source output terminal, respectively; and a reset circuit configured to reset output terminals of the positive output amplifier and the negative output amplifier to a middle voltage immediately before switching of the switch circuit for polarity inversion of the first and second source output terminals.
US10984739B2	Ghost relieving circuit for display panel, display panel and ghost relieving method for display panel The invention relates to a ghost relieving circuit for a display panel including a digital-to-analog converter, a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, and a gamma chip. The gamma chip is connected to the digital-to-analog converter and configured to provide a plurality of reference voltages to the digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter is individually connected to the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit, the first switching circuit is connected to receive a first working voltage and a positive-polarity reference voltage and has an positive-polarity data voltage output end, the second switching circuit is connected to receive a second working voltage and a negative-polarity reference voltage and has a negative-polarity data voltage output end, and the positive-polarity reference voltage is less than the negative-polarity reference voltage.
US10984736B2	Image display processing method and device thereof, display device and storage medium An image display processing method for a display device, an image display processing device, a display device and a storage medium are provided. The display device includes a backlight unit, the backlight unit includes a plurality of backlight blocks and is driven by a local dimming mode, and the image display processing method includes: acquiring a regional eigenvalue of each backlight block of an (n)th frame image and a regional eigenvalue of each backlight block of an (n−1)th frame image; and performing a peak driving processing on a backlight luminance of each backlight block of the (n)th frame image, based on a preset threshold, the regional eigenvalue of each backlight block of the (n)th frame image and the regional eigenvalue of each backlight block of the (n−1)th frame image, so as to acquire an adjusted backlight luminance of each backlight block of the (n)th frame image.
US10984734B2	Backlight driving device A backlight driving device includes a plurality of drivers configured to drive a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a planar shape in a predetermined drive unit, and a control unit configured to output drive data directed to each of the plurality of drivers. The plurality of drivers are cascaded, each of the plurality of drivers bi-directionally performs an operation of, in a case of receiving the drive data directed to another driver input from a previous stage, outputting the drive data to a subsequent stage in a row of the plurality of drivers cascaded. In a case that at least one of the plurality of drivers has an abnormality, the control unit outputs the drive data to the driver located at one end of the plurality of drivers, and then outputs the drive data to the driver located at the other end of the plurality of drivers.
US10984722B2	Pixel circuit, method for driving pixel circuit, display panel, and display apparatus The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, a method for driving a pixel circuit, a display panel, and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode. In the above pixel circuit, the first light emitting control signal and the second light emitting control signal are provided to respectively initialize the first polar plate and the second polar plate of the capacitor, to ensure the same initial state of the pixel circuits.
US10984691B2	Panel defect detection method and a display driver apparatus incorporating the same A method and a display driver apparatus for detecting panel defect on an electronic paper display (EPD) are provided. A sense voltage from the voltage for common (VCOM) electrode of the EPD is obtained and compared with an upper reference voltage and a lower reference voltage. As the sense voltage is proportional to a total capacitance of the plural display electrode capacitors on the EPD, a defective panel with capacitance abnormality or opened circuits can be identified.
US10984665B2	Customizing sequences of content objects Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products customizing sequences of content objects in an educational content management system. In some implementations, educational content objects can be displayed. A first educational content object selection can be processed. A content object sequence can be generated or updated and the first educational content object can be added to the content object sequence. A second educational content object can be added to the content object sequence. The content object sequence can be shared with a user of an enterprise learning system.
US10984661B2	Information processing device and information processing method An information processing device is provided, for example, in a vehicle. A control unit of the information processing device executes flight control of an unmanned flying object such that the unmanned flying object moves to a destination and acquires a captured image from the unmanned flying object. The control unit performs adjustment of an arrival time at the destination, for example, depending on a congestion situation or movement guidance of the vehicle to an empty space at the destination on the basis of the captured image of the destination or a surrounding area of the destination. Further, retrieval of a movement route in the destination is performed on the basis of the captured image obtained by causing the unmanned flying object to move inside the destination and imaging the inside of the destination, and the detected movement route is set in a moving object which is used for movement in the destination.
US10984654B2	Cooperative traffic flow optimization Approaches presented herein enable cooperative traffic flow optimization. More specifically, a current position and route information for a plurality of vehicles traveling on a road segment are obtained. Common routes between the vehicles are determined and a first longest common route between two first vehicles is identified. A first vehicle chain navigation instruction based on the identified route is generated and sent to the two first vehicles, instructing the two vehicles to form a first vehicle chain. Further common routes are determined among the vehicles and the vehicle chain using the route information and a second longest common route is identified between a second vehicle and: another vehicle or the first vehicle chain. A second vehicle chain navigation instruction is generated instructing the second vehicle to form a second vehicle chain with the other vehicle or to join the first vehicle chain.
US10984646B2	Proximity based fall and distress detection systems and methods A fall detection system includes a plurality of sensors in which at least one of the sensors is coupled to or disposed near a floor. The fall detection system further includes a central monitoring system in signal communication with the plurality of sensors. The central monitoring system is configured to receive a response signal in response to an activation signal being transmitted from at least one of the plurality of sensors, and determine whether the response signal is indicative of a person being arranged in a prone position on the floor.
US10984634B2	Keno games with bonus ball draws and bonus multipliers An electronic gaming machine, system, and method are disclosed for conducting a keno game. The keno game may be conducted alone or in conjunction with a bingo game. The electronic gaming machine may receive a wager from a player, and conduct the bingo game and/or keno game in response to the wager. Based on the wager, a quantity of numbered keno balls may be designated as feature numbered keno balls. The electronic gaming machine may conduct the keno game using the feature numbered keno balls, and display a bonus if and/or when one or more feature numbered keno balls match one or more player selected keno numbers.
US10984610B2	Method for influencing virtual objects of augmented reality The present invention relates to methods for interacting with virtual objects comprising placing an flat image of an augmented reality object in the field of view of the video camera of the device for creating and viewing virtual objects of augmented reality, determining colors and recognizing patterns on the images received from the video camera device to create and view objects of augmented reality. Coloring the augmented reality object in accordance with the colors defined on the painted image obtained from camera devices. A correspondence is established between the patterns and colors of the painted image and actions of the augmented reality objects, depending on the color, color combination, pattern or colored pattern in the images obtained from the video camera of the device for creating and viewing the augmented reality objects.
US10984606B1	Graphical user interface tool for orienting computer-aided design model A change in orientation or reorientation operation is applied to 3D models while maintaining constant zoom level of model display. The orientation is provided by a computer-based tool or GUI widget formed of a transparent container element and a miniaturized depiction of the 3D model. The transparent container element encapsulates the miniaturized depiction and enables see through view of the miniaturized depiction illustrating real time orientation of the 3D model. The container element is user-interactive to effect change in orientation of the 3D model concurrently displayed in a work area of a screen view. The zoom level of the displayed 3D model in the work area remains constant avoiding or omitting zoom to extents throughout user interaction with the GUI widget.
US10984602B1	Facial expression tracking during augmented and virtual reality sessions An example method for estimating an emotion based upon a facial expression of a user can include: receiving one or more captured facial expressions from the user at a visual computing device; comparing the one or more captured facial expressions to one or more known facial expressions; and assigning an emotion to the plurality of captured facial expressions based upon the comparing.
US10984594B2	Creation and use of virtual places An apparatus, method and system facilitate efficient creation of virtual places and provide tools for using the virtual places. The virtual places include a virtual real estate listing, newsworthy place and a virtual box seat. Tools are provided including an automatic declutter tool and a staging tool.
US10984580B2	Adjusting depth of augmented reality content on a heads up display Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for adjusting depth of AR content on HUD. A viewing device identifies, based on sensor data, a physical object visible through a transparent display of the vehicle. The sensor data indicates an initial distance of the physical object from the vehicle. The viewing device gathers virtual content corresponding to the physical object and generates an initial presentation of the virtual content based on the initial distance. The viewing device presents the initial presentation of the virtual content on the transparent display at a position on the transparent display corresponding to the physical object. The viewing device determines, based on updated sensor data, an updated distance of the physical object and generates an updated presentation of the virtual content based on the updated distance. The viewing device presents the updated presentation of the virtual content on the transparent display of the vehicle.
US10984578B2	Method and system for directly manipulating the constrained model of a computer-generated character A rail manipulator indicates the possible range(s) of movement of a part of a computer-generated character in a computer animation system. The rail manipulator obtains a model of the computer-generated character. The model may be a skeleton structure of bones connected at joints. The interconnected bones may constrain the movements of one another. When an artist selects one of the bones for movement, the rail manipulator determines the range of movement of the selected bone. The determination may be based on the position and/or the ranges of moments of other bones in the skeleton structure. The range of movement is displayed on-screen to the artist, together with the computer-generated character. In this way, the rail manipulator directly communicates to the artist the degree to which a portion of the computer-generated character can be moved, in response to the artist's selection of the portion of the computer-generated character.
US10984577B2	Object-aware transitions Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition.
US10984570B2	Picture marking method and apparatus, computer device, and computer readable storage medium A picture marking method includes dividing a display layer into a window layer to which a display window belongs, a view layer to which a picture belongs, and a mark layer to which a mark belongs. The window layer, the view layer and the mark layer are overlapped with each other. The method includes adjusting a size of the picture according to a size of the display window, and customizing a first mode of the picture in response to a user operation. The method includes customizing an attribute value of the mark and a second mode of the mark in response to the user operation, and deploying the mark. The second mode includes a response mode synchronous with the first mode. The method includes capturing the user operation.
US10984568B2	Methods, devices, and computer-readable media for sharing image effects Provided are methods, servers, and computer-readable media for sharing an effect for an image. An effect sharing method may include: receiving, from a first electronic device, a sharing request for an effect set that is applied to an image by an image editing logic of the first electronic device, wherein the sharing request includes an identifier of the effect set; generating a link for sharing the effect set; and sending the link in response to the sharing request.
US10984564B2	Image noise estimation using alternating negation An imaging system (400) includes a radiation source (408) configured to emit X-ray radiation, a detector array (410) configured to detected X-ray radiation and generate projection data indicative thereof, and a first processing chain (418) configured to reconstruct the projection data and generate a noise only image. A method includes receiving projection data produced by an imaging system and processing the projection data with a first processing chain configured to reconstruct the projection data and generate a noise only image. A processor is configured to: scan an object or subject with an x-ray imaging system and generating projection data, process the projection data with a first processing chain configured to reconstruct the projection data and generate a noise only image, process the projection data with a second processing chain configured to reconstruct the projection data and generate a structure image, and de-noise the structure image based on the noise only image.
US10984563B2	Method of displaying an image on a see-through display A method of displaying an image on a see-through display comprises: obtaining a first electro-magnetic radiation matrix of radiation intensity values of an object; dividing the first matrix into a second matrix representing a first subset of the radiation intensity values, and a third matrix representing a second subset of the radiation intensity values; generating a first histogram for the second matrix; equalizing the first histogram to obtain an equalised second histogram; generating a first grayscale image representing the first subset of the radiation intensity values; colouring the first grayscale image with a first colourmap to obtain a first colour image; generating a second grayscale image representing the second subset of the radiation intensity values; colouring the second grayscale image with a second colourmap to obtain a second colour image; combining the first colour image and the second colour image; and displaying the combined colour image on the see-through display.
US10984559B2	Color engine Various embodiments described herein provide for a method that comprises: accessing an image representing a face of a user; identifying a base color of the user's face based on the image; matching the base color of the user's face to a color palette based on configured color lookup rules; identifying a product depiction, from a plurality of product depictions stored at an ecommerce server, based on a color of the product being included in the color palette; and causing the display of the product depiction on a user interface.
US10984557B2	Camera calibration using traffic sign recognition In some examples, processor(s) of a vehicle may store specified dimensions of a plurality of first objects. The processor(s) may receive a first image from a camera onboard the vehicle, recognize a first object within the image, and determine, based on the first image, a distance to the first object from the camera, and a width and height of the first object. Further, the processor(s) may determine a first measurement error from the determined width of the first object and a specified width of the first object, and a second measurement error from the determined height of the first object and the specified height of the first object. Based on the first and second measurement error, the processor(s) may determine a third measurement error, may determine one or more calibration parameters of the camera based on the determined measurement errors, and may use the calibration parameters for subsequently received images.
US10984556B2	Method and apparatus for calibrating relative parameters of collector, device and storage medium The present disclosure provides a method for calibrating relative parameters of a collector, an apparatus for calibrating relative parameters of a collector, a device and a storage medium. The technical solution of the present disclosure may determine target position and attitude information of a target image collector in a calibration coordinate system when each target image is collected, determine the first position information of a spatial point in a three-dimensional scene point cloud in the calibration coordinate system and the second position information a projection point of the spatial point in each target image, and determine a relative position and attitude value between the target image collector and the reference collector based on the target position and attitude information corresponding to each target image, the first position information and the second position information.
US10984555B2	Object detection device and vehicle An object detection device, detecting an object based on an image from a stereo camera on a vehicle, includes a parallax calculator, a first road parameter estimator, a road parameter storage, a second road parameter estimator, and an object detector. The parallax calculator calculates three-dimensional information of a scene in the image. The first road parameter estimator calculates a first road parameter based on the three-dimensional information. The road parameter storage associates the first road parameter with vehicle information to store therein. The second road parameter estimator calculates, based on stored information, a second road parameter using the first road parameter under a predetermined condition for the vehicle. The object detector detects the object using the second road parameter. The predetermined condition includes that an angular difference between a road surface observed from the stereo camera and a contact surface of the vehicle at observation is within a predetermined angle.
US10984550B2	Image processing device, image processing method, recording medium storing image processing program and image pickup apparatus An image processing device includes a signal processing device, and the signal processing device is configured to perform distance determination processing of determining, based on a depth map concerning an image displayed on a display, an image portion inside a target distance range which is a predetermined distance range in the image, and an image portion outside the target distance range, and perform image processing of subjecting at least the image portion outside the target distance range to image processing of monotonizing visibility based on a determination result of the distance determination processing and displaying the image on the display.
US10984545B2	Estimating depth for a video stream captured with a monocular rgb camera Techniques for estimating depth for a video stream captured by a monocular image sensor are disclosed. A sequence of image frames are captured by the monocular image sensor. A first neural network is configured to process at least a portion of the sequence of image frames to generate a depth probability volume. The depth probability volume includes a plurality of probability maps corresponding to a number of discrete depth candidate locations over a range of depths defined for the scene. The depth probability volume can be updated using a second neural network that is configured to generate adaptive gain parameters to integrate the DPVs over time. A third neural network is configured to refine the updated depth probability volume from a lower resolution to a higher resolution that matches the original resolution of the sequence of image frames. A depth map can be calculated based on the depth probability volume.
US10984542B2	Method and device for determining geometric transformation relation for images A method for determining geometric transformation relation for images is provided. The method includes: obtaining a first image and a second image collection; obtaining coordinates of three non-collinear pixels in the first image to forma coordinate collection; generating a target matrix according to the coordinate collection, and for the at least two second images in the second image collection, obtaining coordinates of pixels in the at least two second images corresponding to coordinate-indicative pixels in the coordinate collection to form a corresponding coordinate collection; according to the corresponding coordinate collection, generating a target column vector matching a column number of the target matrix; pre-multiplying the target matrix by the target column vector to obtain a transformation column vector; determining the geometric transformation relation of the first images and the at least two second images according to the transformation column vector.
US10984541B2	3D point cloud compression systems for delivery and access of a subset of a compressed 3D point cloud An encoding device, a decoding device and a method for point cloud encoding is provided. The method includes generating, for a 3D point cloud, frames corresponding to attributes of the 3D point cloud and an occupancy map. The method also includes encoding, the frames to generate one or more bitstreams. The one or more bitstreams include individual tracks and media content. The individual tracks include media tracks and a timed metadata track. The timed metadata track references the media tracks and the media tracks correspond respectively to the attributes. The method also includes generating a container including the one or more bitstreams transmitting the container.
US10984537B2	Expression transfer across telecommunications networks Methods, devices, and systems for expression transfer are disclosed. The disclosure includes capturing a first image of a face of a person. The disclosure includes generating an avatar based on the first image of the face of the person, with the avatar approximating the first image of the face of the person. The disclosure includes transmitting the avatar to a destination device. The disclosure includes capturing a second image of the face of the person on a source device. The disclosure includes calculating expression information based on the second image of the face of the person, with the expression information approximating an expression on the face of the person as captured in the second image. The disclosure includes transmitting the expression information from the source device to the destination device. The disclosure includes animating the avatar on a display component of the destination device using the expression information.
US10984535B2	Systems and methods for anatomic structure segmentation in image analysis Systems and methods are disclosed for anatomic structure segmentation in image analysis, using a computer system. One method includes: receiving an annotation and a plurality of keypoints for an anatomic structure in one or more images; computing distances from the plurality of keypoints to a boundary of the anatomic structure; training a model, using data in the one or more images and the computed distances, for predicting a boundary in the anatomic structure in an image of a patient's anatomy; receiving the image of the patient's anatomy including the anatomic structure; estimating a segmentation boundary in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy; and predicting, using the trained model, a boundary location in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy by generating a regression of distances from keypoints in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy to the estimated boundary.
US10984530B1	Enhanced medical images processing method and computing device An enhanced medical images processing method and a computing device includes: acquiring series of enhanced medical images and detecting a phase of each enhanced medical image in the series of enhanced medical images using a pre-trained 3D convolutional neural network model. A plurality of target enhanced medical images from the enhanced medical image are selected according to the phases. A plurality of interest images is obtained by identifying and segmenting an interest region in each of the plurality of target enhanced medical images, and finally registering the plurality of interest images. The registered images have clear phase markers and are all spatially aligned, allowing a subsequent doctor or clinician to directly use the registered interest images for diagnosis without the need to rescan the patient.
US10984528B2	System and apparatus for clinical decision optimisation The present invention relates to a system and apparatus comprising automated analysis and feedback on soft tissue imaging quality, including analysis and feedback in real time and in conformance with key parameters and metrics which affect the quality of an image. The system is arranged to implement a method wherein method for providing a qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of an image including several steps. The steps include using an imaging apparatus to obtain at least one soft tissue image of a patient and at least one test object image; deriving a soft tissue image parameter and statistical data from image data from the soft tissue image. The system and method are characterised by employing a metric for the assessment in comparison to the parameter and statistical data, wherein the metric is obtained from the soft tissue image data, data obtained from the at least one test object image, and data from the imaging apparatus.
US10984525B2	Pattern inspection method and pattern inspection apparatus Provided is a pattern inspection method including: irradiating a substrate with an electron beam, a pattern being formed on the substrate; acquiring an inspection image as a secondary electron image of the pattern; setting a pixel value equal to or less than a first threshold value minus a half of a predetermined detection width of the inspection image and a pixel value equal to or more than the first threshold value plus a half of the predetermined detection width of the inspection image to unprocessed; acquiring a difference image between the inspection image having the pixel value having less than the first threshold value minus the half of the predetermined detection width and the pixel value having more of the first threshold value plus the half of the predetermined detection width being set to unprocessed and a reference image of the inspection image; and performing inspection on the basis of the difference image.
US10984517B2	Utilizing a machine learning model to automatically visually validate a user interface for multiple platforms A device receives user interface information associated with a user interface to be provided for a particular platform, and receives design information for a design of the user interface to be provided for the particular platform. The device receives a request to visually compare the user interface information and the design information, and utilizes, based on the request, a trained machine learning model to visually compare the user interface information and the design information. The device generates information, indicating defects in the user interface information, based on utilizing the trained machine learning model to visually compare the user interface information and the design information, where the defects include user interface information that does not visually match the design information. The device provides the information indicating the defects in the user interface information.
US10984516B2	Image inspection device and illumination device Provided are an image inspection device and an illumination device capable of thinning and downsizing the illumination device. An image inspection device includes a photographing part photographing an object, a light transmissive illumination part, and an optical member. The illumination part is arranged between the object and the photographing part and has a light emitting surface arranged to face the object. The optical member is arranged on the light emitting surface of the illumination part and transmits light emitted by the illumination part toward the object. The optical member includes a plurality of optical regions. The optical regions are arranged so as to surround a central region of the light emitting surface centered on an optical axis of the photographing part, and are configured to emit light having mutually different color characteristics toward the object.
US10984515B2	Image inspection device and illumination device The disclosure provide an image inspection device and an illumination device. The image inspection device includes a photographing part; an illumination part including a light guide plate disposed at any position between the object and the photographing part; and a control part. The illumination part includes a first light emitting part and a second light emitting part disposed around the light guide plate; and a first reflective part and a second reflective part. The reflective parts are configured so that a light emitting surface of the light guide plate has an emission intensity distribution of a first pattern when the first light emitting part emits light under control of the control part, and the light emitting surface has an emission intensity distribution of a second pattern different from the first pattern when the second light emitting part emits light under control of the control part.
US10984510B2	Video display apparatus and video display method for luminance conversion A video display apparatus includes: a video receiver that acquires video data including a main video; a generator that generates first characteristics information that indicates first dynamic luminance characteristics by using the video data when a luminance dynamic range format of the main video indicated by the video data is different from a display format that indicates a luminance dynamic range format displayable by the video display apparatus, the first dynamic luminance characteristics being dynamic luminance characteristics indicating a time-dependent change in luminance characteristics of the main video and correspond to the display format; a tone mapping processor that performs a tone mapping process of converting a luminance of the main video based on conversion characteristics according to the first dynamic luminance characteristics indicated by the first characteristics information generated by the generator; and a display that displays the main video that has undergone the tone mapping process.
US10984508B2	Demonstration devices and methods for enhancement for low vision users and systems improvements A visual aid provides utility to its users by performing geometric transformations of raw images from a digital camera into processed images for electronic display, via three nested levels of “implementation” namely, the nature of the mapping that will be applied, i.e. specifying a specific mapping or parameterized family of mappings; the algorithm set used to effect the select mapping, independent of the processor upon which it executes; and the method for realizing this algorithm on that processor. Likewise offered for consideration are software feature sets tied to user interface which enable dynamic tuning of the subject visual context and environments for low vision users, Inter Alia.
US10984495B2	Updating a document based on transaction analysis A platform receives transaction information for an entity, where the transaction information identifies a plurality of transactions associated with the entity, and receives entity information associated with the entity. The platform identifies, using a first model, a selected set of transactions based on the transaction information and the entity information, where the first model outputs information identifying the selected set of transactions based on the selected set of transactions being associated with an event, a theme, or a transaction parameter. The platform determines, using a second model, potential modifications to a document based on the selected set of transactions, where the second model receives the information identifying the selected set of transactions or information identifying the event, the theme, or the transaction parameter, and where the second model outputs information identifying the potential modifications. The platform provides the information identifying the potential modifications.
US10984494B2	Systems and methods for interception of smart contracts Intervention in the operation of a smart contract in a distributed ledger system may include: launching execution of the smart contract; upon launching execution of the smart contract, executing a judgment checking function to determine whether a judgment against the smart contract exists in a judgment database; in response to a judgment against the smart contract existing in the judgment database, intervening in the operation of the smart contract to prevent the execution of the smart contract; and in response to no judgment against the smart contract existing in the judgment database, continuing execution of the smart contract.
US10984493B1	Augmented or virtual reality to scenario plan property purchase or renovation An example method for displaying renovation options for a structure includes: receiving homeowner financial information; receiving a selection of a renovation option; receiving pricing information of the renovation option; generating a financial impact analysis based on the homeowner financial information and the pricing information; displaying a renovation view on an augmented reality device, the renovation view displaying the structure with a representation of the renovation option depicted thereon; and displaying a financial impact analysis view showing the financial impact analysis, including a renovation budget amount.
US10984486B2	Device for implementing body fluid analysis and social networking event planning Event planning using social networking enables an efficient implementation of planning an event, as well as minimizing network traffic and optimizing other technological aspects of life. Additional information acquired by sensors and other technology is able to improve the quality of the event planning. Social network information as well as the additional information is able to be used to select aspects of the event such as time, location, and/or many other aspects of the event.
US10984484B1	Accounting workflow integration A method of accounting workflow integration includes receiving, by a workflow user interface, a first request from a first worker to generate a project including multiple accounting tasks. The first request includes an assignment of an accounting task in the accounting tasks to a second worker. The method further includes generating the project in response to the request, and providing, by the workflow user interface to the second worker, the accounting task and a deadline to complete the accounting task. The method further includes accounting software of the second worker completing the accounting task, and updating a status of the accounting task in response to completing the accounting task. The method further includes receiving a second request from the first worker, the second request to display a status of the project, and providing, to the first worker in the workflow user interface, an updated status of the project.
US10984482B1	Systems and methods for enhanced transaction detail A method for providing enhanced transaction detail for a financial transaction includes receiving transaction information for the financial transaction performed using a financial account held by an account holder, generating a transaction record for the financial transaction based on the transaction information, accessing a secondary account of the account holder, including identifying supplemental information for the financial transaction based on the transaction information, associating the supplemental information with the generated transaction record, and providing the transaction record, including the supplemental information, to the account holder.
US10984479B1	System and method for tracking the operation of a vehicle and/or the actions of a driver A system includes a monitoring device coupled to a vehicle. The monitoring device includes a communication interface and one or more processors coupled to the communication interface. The one or more processors receive, via the communication interface, sensor information relating to operating the vehicle. The one or more processors also receive, via the communication interface, contextual information based at least in part on the sensor information relating to operating the vehicle. The one or more processors further generate a risk factor relating to operating the vehicle based at least in part on the sensor information and the contextual information.
US10984467B2	Compatibility-based identification of incompatible objects in digital representations of real-world environments The technology described herein is directed to object compatibility-based identification and replacement of objects in digital representations of real-world environments for contextualized content delivery. In some implementations, an object compatibility and retargeting service that selects and analyzes a viewpoint (received from a user's client device) to identify objects that are the least compatible with other surrounding real-world objects in terms of style compatibility with the surrounding real-world objects and color compatibility with the background is described. The object compatibility and retargeting service also generates recommendations for replacing the least compatible object with objects/products having more style/design compatibility with the surrounding real-world objects and color compatibility with the background. Furthermore, the object compatibility and retargeting service can create personalized catalogues with the recommended objects/products embedded in the viewpoint in place of the least compatible object with similar pose and scale for retargeting the user.
US10984457B2	Trusted statement verification for data privacy Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to privacy data management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for trusted statement verification for data privacy. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for trusted statement verification for data privacy can be provided. The method can include deducing a claim from an attribute for personal data for an end user, receiving a request from a personal data consumer to vouch for an assertion based upon the attribute, comparing the assertion to the claim, and providing a voucher for the assertion to the personal data consumer on behalf of the end user if the claim supports the assertion without revealing the attribute to the personal data consumer.
US10984454B2	Advertisement distribution method and advertisement distribution system To provide an advertisement distribution method of determining a distribution destination of an advertisement of a product that has a low direct relevance to execution pieces of information collected from home appliances. The advertisement distribution method includes: a collecting step of collecting, from each of one or more of home appliances owned by each of users, one or more pieces of execution information each indicating a function that has been executed by the home appliance; a detecting step of, with respect to each user, detecting an unused function that has not been used in each home appliance by analyzing the collected pieces of execution information and functions of the home appliance; and a transmitting step of extracting a user who is expected to purchase a product based on a detection result, and transmitting an advertisement to one or more of the home appliances owned by the extracted user.
US10984451B2	Caching geolocated offers Provided is a process, including: receiving, with one or more processors, from a remote user computing device, a geographic location of the user computing device; determining that the user computing device is in a cache geographic area in which information about potentially relevant geographically-targeted offers is to be predictively loaded into memory of the user computing device before the user requests the information about geographically-targeted offers; selecting, with one or more processors, an offer from a repository of offers based on the selected offer being associated with the cache geographic area or a location in the cache geographic area; and in response to the determination, sending, with one or more processors, the selected offer to the user computing device for storage in cache memory of the user computing device before the user requests the selected offer.
US10984450B2	System and method to provide an integrated advertising platform A system to provide an integrated advertising platform includes a sensor unit, communication module, telecom server unit, consent database, database unit, application server unit, and retailer computing unit. The sensor unit is installed within a premise to detect the presence of a consented user equipment (UE) in proximity and retrieves an identification number associated with the consented UE. The communication module transmits the retrieved identification number and sensor identification number to the telecom server unit that matches the identification number with an MSISDN. The consent database stores the consent status of the MSISDN. The database unit receives a sensor identification number, system identification number, and MSISDN from the consent database. The application server unit customizes the offer corresponding to the user through a machine learning module and transmits the customized offer to the consented user equipment UE.
US10984449B2	Method and device for increasing advertising revenue on public transit systems via transit scheduler and enunciator systems A device and method for increasing revenues in a transit system is provided wherein specific localized advertising of goods and services is generated and transmitted through the announcement system of transit vehicles. The device includes a transit vehicle equipped with means to track its location and produce an audio message within the vehicle based on its location. The method includes means to sell advertisement space to businesses that would otherwise not find transit advertising effective and means to cause the advertisements of local merchants and service providers to be broadcast in a vehicle in proximity to the advertiser or a specific outlet and software to run the method. Revenue from such advertisements will provide the transit authority or municipality with additional funds without the need for an investment is infrastructure and if done in accordance with the suggested method will cause little disturbance of passengers.
US10984434B1	Systems and methods for determining and providing non-financial benefits on a subscription basis Systems and methods relate to providing subscription accounts. A method includes receiving a request from a customer to open a subscription account, creating the subscription account for the customer, and deducting a subscription fee from the subscription account. The method also includes determining a benefit for the customer. The benefit is offered by a third-party vendor in exchange for a benefit fee. The method further includes reimbursing the benefit fee to the subscription account for the customer. The method additionally includes gathering financial information associated with the customer, analyzing the financial information to identify positive financial behavior of the customer, determining that the positive financial behavior meets a threshold, and offering the customer a reward based on the positive financial behavior meeting the threshold.
US10984432B2	Using media information for improving direct marketing response rate Embodiments of the invention relate to improving direct marketing response rate through use of media information. One embodiment includes extracting samples of language usage in one or more social media activities. Language usage features comprising relationships to products are derived by analyzing the extracted samples for relevant language terms. The language usage features are mapped to one or more of personality traits, emotional state and personal features. The mapped language usage features and personal features are stored in a repository. Customers are segmented for direct marketing using the mapped language usage features and the personal features.
US10984431B1	Data suppression for data transmission control Features are described for improving data transmission by filtering weakly associated items in sequences of item selections. By identifying spurious relationships, data transmissions for weakly related items can be altered or suppressed. The weak relationship may be identified in existing item-to-item associations or for a set of items scheduled for transmission to a user device.
US10984430B2	Sales lead qualification of a consumer based on sales lead rules Systems and methods for qualifying a sales lead may include one or more of the following. Information, received via a network, about an identified end-user computing device and/or an end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be processed. Lead qualification rules that include criteria for qualifying a lead may be accessed. A characteristic of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be derived based at least in part on the information about the identified end-user computing device and/or the end-user. A lead characterization of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be generated based at least in part on the characteristic of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device and the lead qualification rules. The lead characterization may indicate a lead assessment of the end-user. The lead characterization of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be stored.
US10984427B1	Approaches for analyzing entity relationships Systems and methods are provided for obtaining information from at least one computing system, the information including a set of records that respectively identify at least a network-based address of a computing device that accessed the computing system and an account hosted by the computing system that was accessed using the computing device; determining at least a first account and a second account were accessed from one or more computing devices that share a given network-based address based at least in part on the obtained information; and associating the first account and the second account with the network-based address.
US10984425B1	Systems and methods for delivering in-application messages Systems and methods for presenting an in-application message to a user of a software application make use of trigger events that occur on remote servers. When a remote server notes a trigger event, the remote server sends information about the trigger event to a customer engagement service. The customer engagement service causes a push notification to be sent to a user's computing device that is running a software application. The receipt of the push notification causes a campaign within the software application to log a trigger event, and that logged trigger event causes the campaign to present the user with an in-application message.
US10984419B2	Method and system for performing secure banking transactions Method and System for performing secure card less transactions using a user device is disclosed. Initially, an authenticated banking application is downloaded on the user device wherein the downloaded application is linked to a user by a unique ID. To perform a transaction, the user logs in to the downloaded application and after login the user device and the ATM are securely paired, wherein the ATM also has a location based unique ID. The secure pairing process uses parameters such as a specific application identifier and a transaction terminal identifier. Once the user initiates the secure pairing process, the ATM displays a unique number generated by the bank server. The unique number is linked to the user and is entered in the portable device. Further, biometric authentication is performed and after validating a token ID is generated where a User specific UI is obtained and rendered onto the user device.
US10984404B2	Retail card application An application platform configurable for processing a plurality of retail-branded credit cards is provided. Embodiments include a configurable front end comprising a graphical user interface layer that is configurable to a specific one of a plurality of retail-branded credit cards and a backend layer comprising credit card functionality for directly performing credit card transactions associated with a specific one of the plurality of retail-branded credit cards.
US10984393B2	Intelligent management of electronic calendar items Techniques of intelligent management of calendar items in computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a calendar server can be configured to determine whether to accept a requested meeting utilizing a decision tree pre-configured at the server by a service provider. The decision tree contains one or more hierarchical decision nodes individually comparing one or more of parameters provided by a meeting requester to a corresponding criterion previously provided by the service provider. The calendar server can also be configured to invoke an application identified in the decision tree and provide results of the invoked application to the meeting requester in lieu of accepting the requested meeting.
US10984390B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for scheduling appointments with deal offers Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for scheduling services and other types of appointments in conjunction with purchasing and/or redeeming deal offers. Merchants may customize a scheduling system to provide scheduling capabilities and deal redemption capabilities to consumers interested in scheduling appointments. A consumer may use the scheduling system to select dates and times, merchant locations, and/or staff members, among other things, when scheduling appointments, and provide deal and/or other payment related information to the merchant. Merchants may use the scheduling system and consumer date received therefrom to track resources across numerous locations, keep apprised of their staffs' availability, receive/generate analytics data related to the affect deals have on their business, and gain a better understanding of their customers. The scheduling system may be integrated into the merchant's website and/or linked to deals offered by a third party promotional system.
US10984385B2	Query building for search by ideal candidates In an example embodiment, one or more specified ideal candidates are used to perform a search in a database. One or more attributes are extracted from one or more ideal candidate member profiles. A search query is then generated based on the extracted one or more attributes. Then, a search is performed on member profiles in the social networking service using the generated search query, returning one or more result member profiles.
US10984376B2	Storage device and storage method to identify object using sensing data and identification model Provided is a storage method including the following. An object is stored in a storage space. The object is sensed to generate sensing data. An identification model is generated according to the sensing data. In addition, the identification model is uploaded to a server.
US10984364B2	Summarization of a recording for quality control Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for performing summarization of a recording based on biometric and business process data. Aspects include receiving a recording of a customer service representative performing a task, receiving a biometric data from a sensor configured to monitor the customer service representative during the performance of the task and obtaining a business process data relating to one or more of the task and the customer service representative. Aspects also include identifying one or more portions of interest from the recording based on one or more of the biometric data and the business process data and compiling the one or more portions of interest into a summarization of the task.
US10984359B2	Combining batch and queueable technologies in a salesforce platform for large volume parallel processing Disclosed embodiments include a method for combining a BATCH application programming interface (API) and a QUEUEABLE API on a SALESFORCE platform to process records. The method can include accessing a programming environment associated with an add-on application for a SALESFORCE platform, obtaining records via the add-on application to be processed on the SALESFORCE platform in accordance with a job type, calling a BATCH API to process the records by batching the records to create job records, and calling a QUEUEABLE API to process the job records in QUEUEABLES including parallel QUEUEABLES such that at least some job records included in the parallel QUEUEABLES are processed in parallel in accordance with the job type.
US10984358B1	Method and system for automatically controlling electrical power supply based on payment status The present disclosure provides methods and systems for automatically controlling power supply from an electrical power supply system to a user location based on payment status. The method performed by a central control unit includes determining a payment status of the electrical power supply system at the user location. The payment status is determined based at least on a time credit associated with the electrical power supply system. The method further includes facilitating control of the power supply from the electrical power supply system to the user location based on determining the time credit. The power supply to the user location from the electrical power supply system is uninterrupted, if the time credit is greater than a predefined threshold value. The power supply to the user location from the electrical power supply system is disconnected, if the time credit is less than the predefined threshold value.
US10984357B2	Apparatus and method for estimating production capacity A method is provided for estimating production capacity of a component mounting line for producing assembly boards. The component mounting line includes component-mounting-relevant devices coupled to one another, including a component mounter. Operator information is provided, which relates to an operator. Production-plan information is provided, which relates to a production plan for producing the assembly boards scheduled in the component mounting line. Based on floor-disposition information, production-lot information, event information, the operator information, and the production-plan information, a production capacity of the component mounting line is estimated. The floor-disposition information relates to a disposition of the component mounting line on a floor. The production-lot information relates to a time necessary for the component-mounting-relevant devices to produce the assembly boards. The event information relates to an event indicating that a work of the operator is necessary for the component-mounting-relevant devices and occurrence frequency indicating the number of occurrences of the event.
US10984353B1	System and method for outsourcing projects A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for efficiently outsourcing projects, such as software development projects, are presented. A business entity may precisely and succinctly define one or more requests for proposals (RFPs) using predefined service identifiers which specify discrete, short-term projects (e.g., 4 weeks or less) with fixed inputs and outputs and objective evaluation metrics which allow for each project to be evaluated using, for example, automated evaluation software tools. By posting RFPs on a web site, the business entity solicits bids from third party vendors to perform the project identified in the RFP. Since individual projects are identified with objective inputs, outputs, and evaluation metrics, vendors can bid on the project with minimal evaluation and speculation regarding the appropriate bidding price for the project. When a bid is accepted or awarded to a vendor, a contract for the project can be easily prepared using the identifying information for the winning bid, such as the timeline, price, and the specific service identified with the project. Such short timeline projects allow the projects to be concisely described, results returned quickly, shortened evaluation duration, and payment within a normal monthly cycle.
US10984344B2	Document classifying device A document classifying device (10) includes: a unit (22) configured to acquire information regarding a to-be-classified document set in which classification codes based on multi-viewpoint classification are assigned to each document in advance; a unit (23) configured to generate a multi-dimensional feature vector for each document in the to-be-classified document set, the multi-dimensional feature vector having, as elements, all or part of the classification codes assigned to the to-be-classified document set; classifying unit (24) configured to classify the to-be-classified document set using the feature vector of each document; and a generating unit (25) that generates document classification information indicating a result of the classification.
US10984339B2	Entity analysis system A method for building a factual database of concepts and entities that are related to the concepts through a learning process. Training content (e.g., news articles, books) and a set of entities (e.g., Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) that are related to a concept (e.g., Presidents) is received. Groups of words that co-occur frequently in the textual content in conjunction with the entities are identified as templates. Templates may also be identified by analyzing parts-of-speech patterns of the templates. Entities that co-occur frequently in the textual content in conjunction with the templates are identified as additional related entities (e.g., Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon). To eliminate erroneous results, the identified entities may be presented to a user who removes any false positives. The entities are then stored in association with the concept.
US10984334B2	Endpoint detection in manufacturing process by near infrared spectroscopy and machine learning techniques A device may receive training spectral data associated with a manufacturing process that transitions from an unsteady state to a steady state. The device may generate, based on the training spectral data, a plurality of iterations of a support vector machine (SVM) classification model. The device may determine, based on the plurality of iterations of the SVM classification model, a plurality of predicted transition times associated with the manufacturing process. A predicted transition time, of the plurality of predicted transition times, may identify a time, during the manufacturing process, that a corresponding iteration of the SVM classification model predicts that the manufacturing process transitioned from the unsteady state to the steady state. The device may generate, based on the plurality of predicted transition times, a final SVM classification model associated with determining whether the manufacturing process has reached the steady state.
US10984330B1	System and method for managing customer call-backs A system herein provides automated call-back of customers who have terminated an inbound call by exercising a call-back option of an interactive voice response unit or by abandoning the inbound call, using predictive modeling of caller value to prioritize call-backs. The call management system monitors the inbound customer call and detects any termination of the customer call. A call-back module opens a call-back record for the terminated customer call and associates that call-back record with an identified customer. The call-back module retrieves customer demographic data and other data associated with the identified customer. A predictive module determines a value prediction signal for the identified customer by modeling purchase and lapse behaviors and classifies each identified customer for either priority call-back or subordinate call-back treatment. Priority call-back classification may result in assignment to a priority call-back queue, assignment to a priority call-back queue position, or call-back by a selected agent.
US10984324B2	Automatic generation of training cases and answer key from historical corpus Mechanisms are provided for training and operating a Question and Answer (QA) system pipeline. A corpus of information is received which comprises historical data to which one or more filter criteria are applied to extract filtered historical data relevant to a training objective for training the QA system pipeline. Attribute data, action data, and temporal characteristic data are captured from the filtered historical data. An answer key entry is automatically generated in an automatically generated training answer key data structure based on the attribute data, action data, and temporal characteristic data. The correct answer associated with the answer key entry is an action specified by the action data. The temporal characteristic data provides a historical context for the answer key entry. The QA system pipeline is trained using the automatically generated training answer key data structure.
US10984318B2	Word semantic embedding apparatus and method using lexical semantic network and homograph disambiguating apparatus and method using lexical semantic network and word embedding A word semantic embedding apparatus includes: a data storing unit to store a lexical semantic network including word dictionary data and word semantic data; a word list generating unit to extract vocabularies having a predetermined part of speech from the stored word dictionary data and generate a list of words to be learned; a processing data generating unit to bring the generated list of words to be learned and the word semantic data of a word to be learned included in the list of words to be learned from the data storing unit and process the data suitable for word embedding learning to generate processing data; and a word embedding learning unit to learn the word to be learned through the word embedding learning using a learning model formed of an input/output layer and a projection layer with the generated processing data to generate a word vector.
US10984317B2	Dataset for learning a function taking images as inputs The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for forming a dataset. The dataset is configured for learning a function. The function takes as inputs images of instances of one or more classes of real objects. The method comprises, for each class, providing a parametric model of the class, generating a plurality of 3D modeled objects with the parametric model, and adding to the dataset, for each one of the plurality of 3D modeled objects, one or more corresponding images. The generating includes traversing one or more of the set of ranges. The method constitutes an improved solution for forming a dataset configured for learning a function.
US10984314B1	Method and apparatus for decision making in a neural model including semantic, episodic, and procedural memory components Described is a system for selecting among intelligence elements of a neural model. An intelligence element is selected from a set of intelligence elements which change group attack probability estimates and processed via multiple operations. A semantic memory component learns group probability distributions and rules based on the group probability distributions. The rules determine which intelligence element related to the groups to select. Given an environment of new probability distributions, the semantic memory component recalls which rule to select to receive a particular intelligence element. An episodic memory component recalls a utility value for each information element A procedural memory component recalls and selects the information element considered to have the highest utility. A list of intelligence elements is published to disambiguate likely attackers.
US10984308B2	Compression method for deep neural networks with load balance The present invention relates to artificial neural networks, for example, deep neural networks. In particular, the present invention relates to a compression method considering load balance for deep neural networks and the device thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to how to compress dense neural networks into sparse neural networks in an efficient way so as to improve utilization of resources of the hardware platform.
US10984296B2	Methods and apparatus for identifying objects depicted in a video using extracted video frames in combination with a reverse image search engine Example apparatus disclosed herein are to: capture screenshots of search results pages returned from a reverse image search engine for respective ones of image frames of a first video processed by the reverse image search engine; generate a plurality of base query records corresponding to ones of the screenshots that have respective textual information associated with a base search term, the respective ones of the base query records including at least portions of the respective textual information from the corresponding screenshots; perform a frequency analysis on the textual information included in the base query records to determine an object search term; generate a plurality of object query records corresponding to respective ones of the base query records that have respective textual information associated with the object search term; and identify a first object depicted in the first video based on at least one criteria applied to the object query records.
US10984293B2	Image processing method and apparatus An image processing method includes: acquiring a video stream of a vehicle by a camera according to a user instruction; obtaining an image corresponding to a frame in the video stream; determining whether the image meets a predetermined criterion by inputting the image into a classification model, the classification model comprising a first convolutional neural network; in response to the image meeting the predetermined criterion, adding at least one of a target box or target segmentation information to the image by inputting the image into a target detection and segmentation model, the at least one of the target box or the target segmentation information corresponding to at least one of a vehicle part or vehicle damage of the vehicle, the target detection and segmentation model comprising a convolutional neural network; and displaying the at least one of the target box or the target segmentation information to the user.
US10984291B2	End-member extraction method based on segmented vertex component analysis (VCA) An end-member extraction method based on segmented VCA, includes: conducting rough segmentation on a hyperspectral image by using an unsupervised classification method to partition image elements having a similar substance into the same block; conducting end-member extraction on an area in each partitioned block by using VCA, inverting the abundance by using a least square method after the end-member extraction, and determining one main end-member for each block according to the abundance value; and extracting the main end-members in all blocks and forming an end-member matrix of a global image. The VCA end-member extraction method is used in relatively simple partitioned environment blocks, and the main end-members in the blocks are then controlled by using the abundance inversion result feedback in the blocks, so as to prevent missing main end-members.
US10984285B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit, a memory, a registration unit, and an extraction unit. The recognition unit performs recognition of one or more characters included in an image and outputs character information indicating the one or more characters. The memory stores a first specific character and a second specific character in association with each other. The first specific character has an index taking on a value lower than a predetermined value. The index indicates accuracy of the recognition performed by the recognition unit. The second specific character is output after the recognition unit performs the recognition of the first specific character. The registration unit registers at least one character or at least one character string as an extraction target. The registration unit registers a first character or a first character string as an extraction target and a second character or a second character string as an extraction target if an operator performs an operation for registering the first character or the first character string as the extraction target and if the first character or the first character string includes the first specific character. The second character or the second character string is composed by replacing the first specific character in the first character or the first character string with the second specific character. The extraction unit extracts at least one character or at least one character string from the character information. The extraction unit extracts the first character or the first character string and the second character or the second character string that are registered as the respective extraction targets.
US10984281B2	System and method for correcting color of digital image based on the human sclera and pupil The color correction method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can comprise the steps of: acquiring an image from a captured image; detecting the face and eyes from the captured image; separating the sclera and pupil of the detected eye(s); correcting the image by comparing the areas of the sclera and pupil extracted by separating the sclera and pupil with the reference values stored in a database; and extracting the skin color of the face from the corrected image.
US10984277B2	Image analysis apparatus, image analysis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium An image analysis apparatus includes an extraction section, an acquisition section, an exclusion section, and a recognition section. The extraction section extracts, from a target image, a text area including a character. The acquisition section acquires a predetermined target-object condition. The predetermined target-object condition defines a target object. The exclusion section searches for the target object in the text area and excludes the target object from a target of character recognition. The text area is extracted by the extraction section. The target object satisfies the predetermined target-object condition. The recognition section performs character recognition on the text area. The text area is an area from which the target object is excluded.
US10984274B2	Detecting hidden encoding using optical character recognition Apparatus and method for detecting hidden encoding of text strings, such as Internet web-domain addresses or email addresses, using optical character recognition (OCR) techniques. In some embodiments, a first set of digital data having a first string of text character codes are converted into an image. Optical character recognition (OCR) is applied to the image to generate a second set of digital data having a second string of text character codes based on detection of the image. The first string of text character codes are compared to the second string of text character codes to detect the presence or absence of hidden codes in the first set of digital data. In some cases, a smoothing function such as Gaussian blurring is applied to degrade the image prior to the application of OCR.
US10984266B2	Vehicle lamp detection methods and apparatuses, methods and apparatuses for implementing intelligent driving, media and devices A vehicle lamp detection method includes: obtaining an image block including an image of a vehicle; and performing vehicle lamp detection on the image block by means of a deep neural network, to obtain a vehicle lamp detection result.
US10984265B2	Method and apparatus for estimating front obstacle detection distance A method of estimating a front obstacle detection distance includes detecting an obstacle from a front image of a vehicle, extracting coordinates of a lower end portion of a detection box of the detected obstacle, calculating a projected line on real world coordinates based on the extracted coordinates of the lower end portion, searching for a point or a line through which the projected line passes on a detailed map, and calculating a distance to the point or the line through which the projected line passes on the detailed map from a position of the vehicle.
US10984262B2	Learning method and testing method for monitoring blind spot of vehicle, and learning device and testing device using the same A learning method of a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) for monitoring one or more blind spots of a monitoring vehicle is provided. The learning method includes steps of: a learning device, if training data corresponding to output from a detector on the monitoring vehicle is inputted, instructing a cue information extracting layer to uses class information and location information on a monitored vehicle included in the training data, thereby outputting cue information on the monitored vehicle; instructing an FC layer for monitoring the blind spots to perform neural network operations by using the cue information, thereby outputting a result of determining whether the monitored vehicle is located on one of the blind spots; and instructing a loss layer to generate loss values by referring to the result and its corresponding GT, thereby learning parameters of the FC layer for monitoring the blind spots by backpropagating the loss values.
US10984258B2	Vehicle traveling environment detecting apparatus and vehicle traveling controlling system A vehicle traveling environment detecting apparatus includes first to third stereo cameras, first to third image processors, and an image controller. The first stereo camera includes first and second cameras. The second stereo camera includes the first camera and a third camera. The third stereo camera includes the second camera and a fourth camera. The first to third image processors are configured to perform stereo image processing on first to third outside images and thereby determine first to third image processing information including first to third distance information, respectively. The first to third outside images are configured to be obtained through imaging of an environment outside the vehicle by the first to third stereo cameras, respectively. The image controller is configured to perform integration of the first image processing information, the second image processing information, and the third image processing information and thereby recognize a traveling environment of the vehicle.
US10984249B2	Information processing apparatus, system, control method for information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium An information processing apparatus comprising a detection unit configured to analyze an input image and detect a person included in the image, a person determination unit configured to determine whether the detected person is a person registered in advance, an action determination unit configured to determine whether a person determined by the person determination unit not to be the person registered in advance has performed a first action for requesting support, and an output unit configured to output to an external device a notification about a first person determined by the action determination unit to have performed the first action, wherein the detection unit executes further image analysis associated with the first person determined by the action determination unit to have performed the first action.
US10984244B2	Automated classification based on photo-realistic image/model mappings Techniques are provided for increasing the accuracy of automated classifications produced by a machine learning engine. Specifically, the classification produced by a machine learning engine for one photo-realistic image is adjusted based on the classifications produced by the machine learning engine for other photo-realistic images that correspond to the same portion of a 3D model that has been generated based on the photo-realistic images. Techniques are also provided for using the classifications of the photo-realistic images that were used to create a 3D model to automatically classify portions of the 3D model. The classifications assigned to the various portions of the 3D model in this manner may also be used as a factor for automatically segmenting the 3D model.
US10984231B1	Rights mapping system and method A method and system can include processing title and title opinion document images to generate text information. Trained models may generate data objects representative of period of time during which certain rights to a property exist. The trained models may also generate rules for modifying the data objects and interrelating the data objects to each other. In some examples, a confidence level can be generated and will reflect a likelihood of a data object including correct information. The modified and interrelated data objects may be used to generate a navigable interface which includes a current title status for a property and a navigable chain of title reflecting historical rights to the property.
US10984230B2	Monitoring video analysis system and monitoring video analysis method A monitoring video analysis system includes a wearable camera and a back end server that receives video data files of a captured video. The back end server detects an object appearing in frames constituting the received video data file, for each frame. The back end server stores a position of the object detected for each frame, for each object, as tracking information. The back end server displays the object detected for each frame, on monitor, by using identifiable solid-line border.
US10984227B1	Electronic device and method for analyzing responses to questionnaires A method for analyzing validity of responses to a questionnaire by students identifies each student in classroom images, and analyzes the defined classroom behaviors of each student over a period of time. The classroom behaviors can include learning behaviors and non-learning behaviors. The method determines whether the non-learning behaviors of each student meet (ie. are less than) or exceed (ie. are more than) one or more preset conditions and accordingly screens the questionnaire responses as being valid or not valid. An electronic device and a storage medium for performing the above-described method are also disclosed.
US10984216B2	Optical fingerprint recognition system and fingerprint image capturing method An optical fingerprint recognition system is disclosed. The optical fingerprint recognition system comprises a processing circuit; and an image sensor comprising a pixel array; wherein in an enrollment operation, the processing circuit is configured to set a first exposure time and control the image sensor to capture a first fingerprint image according to the first exposure time and in a matching operation, the processing circuit is configured to set a second exposure time and control the image sensor to capture a second fingerprint image for the matching operation according to the second exposure time; wherein the first exposure time is longer than the second exposure time.
US10984209B2	Darkfield modeling In a method for modeling a darkfield candidate image at a sensor, a plurality of darkfield images of the sensor is captured, wherein each darkfield image of the plurality of darkfield images is associated with a different operational condition of the sensor. An operational condition of the sensor is determined. A darkfield candidate image comprising a combination of the plurality of darkfield images is modeled based at least in part on the operational condition of the sensor, wherein a contribution of each darkfield image of the plurality of darkfield images is dependent on the operational condition.
US10984208B2	Display panel and display device The disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device to thereby extend an area for recognizing a fingerprint or a palmprint instead of only a fixed area in which a fingerprint can be recognized as in the related art, so as to recognize a fingerprint or a palmprint throughout the screen while improving the precision of recognizing light rays. The display panel according to the disclosure includes: a base substrate; and, infrared light sources, pixel units, and infrared photosensitive sensors on the base substrate.
US10984207B2	Label reading system Based on information on a plurality of images taken by a plurality of cameras of a QR-code imaging device, either information that label information has been appropriately acquired or information that the label information has not been appropriately acquired is assigned to each of a plurality of parts boxes placed on a forklift. Then, the information assigned to each parts box is displayed over a corresponding parts box in an image showing the parts boxes. By visually checking the image showing the parts boxes, a worker can easily recognize a parts box of which the label information has not been appropriately acquired.
US10984182B2	Systems and methods for context-rich annotation and report generation for UAV microscan data Systems and methods are disclosed herein relating to the annotation of microscan data/images and the generation of context-rich electronic reports. Microscan images are imported and displayed in a context-rich environment to provide contextual information for an operator to annotate microscan images. Markers are used to identify the relative location of a microscan image on a full-subject image. Reports are generated that include a full-subject image with one or more markers identifying the relative locations of annotated image data in one or more locations on the full-subject image. Hyperlinked data elements allow for quick navigation to detailed report information in location selection sections of the report for each marked location on the full-subject image in the report.
US10984172B2	Utilizing a genetic framework to generate enhanced digital layouts of digital fragments The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize a genetic framework to generate enhanced digital layouts from digital content fragments. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems iteratively generate a layout chromosome of digital content fragments, determine a fitness level of the layout chromosome, and mutate the layout chromosome until converging to an improved fitness level. The disclosed systems can efficiently utilize computing resources to generate a digital layout from a layout chromosome that is optimized to specified platforms, distribution audiences, and target optimization goals.
US10984166B2	System and method for extracting website characteristics Some embodiments determine characteristics related to a theme or branding of an existing website. Characteristics from an existing website may, for example, facilitate theming or branding of a new website or software product to coordinate with the existing website. A characteristic extraction system may optimize an existing webpage based on target characteristics to be extracted from the existing webpage. Optimizing an existing webpage includes manipulating the webpage source code and/or the webpage data to facilitate extraction of the target characteristics. Optimization may result in removal of data or formatting from the existing webpage that is unnecessary for extraction of the target characteristics.
US10984158B1	Generating design verification test cases using a restricted randomization process based on variable dependencies Systems and methods for generating design verification test cases using a restricted randomization process are provided. According to one embodiment, a processor of a hardware design verification system receives a set of restrictions and defines a scenario involving the values that is to be excluded from the test case. The processor also receives pre-assigned values for one or more variables. For each variable other than the one or more variables, the processor assigns a first random value to the variable that is within a valid range for the variable. The processor then identifies a conflict between a first pair of variables, and resolves the conflict by assigning a second random value to a first variable or a second variable of the first pair of variables within their respective valid ranges.
US10984143B2	Recipe creation device for use in semiconductor measurement device or semiconductor inspection device The purpose of the present invention is to provide a recipe creation device, with the goal of using past recipe data in order to highly efficiently create recipes. As an embodiment with which to achieve this goal, there is provided a recipe creation device comprising an arithmetic processing device that, on the basis of design data for a semiconductor element, establishes measurement conditions or inspection conditions by a semiconductor measurement device or a semiconductor inspection device, wherein the arithmetic processing device is configured to be able to access a database in which the measurement conditions or inspection conditions, and the pattern information of the semiconductor element, are stored in associated form, and the measurement conditions or inspection conditions are selected through a search using pattern information of the semiconductor element.
US10984126B2	Sharing information on a network-based social platform A system and method for sharing information on a network-based social platform is provided. An indication is received from a first user to share information regarding an item on a network-based social platform. The network-based social platform is a platform that allows the first user to communicative couple with other users of the network-based social platform. Profile information of the first user is accessed. A determination of whether the first user is authorized to share the information is made. Based on the first user being authorized, an identifier for the item is added to a list of recommended items that is accessible view the network-based social platform.
US10984124B2	Method of managing access in a collaborative data sharing platform There is provided a computer implemented method of managing access in a collaborative data sharing platform, the platform comprising blockchain nodes. The method comprises receiving a read transaction request and processing the transaction request with a consensus algorithm. The transaction is then recorded onto the blockchain.
US10984117B2	Token state synchronization Techniques for managing an application token may include providing, by a first service provider application on a communication device to a first service provider computer, a first request for a first application token, receiving, by an account management application on the communication device from a token service computer in communication with the first service provider computer, the first application token, and storing the first application token in a token container in the account management application.
US10984115B2	System for triple format preserving encryption Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for triple format preserving encryption for activity data transmissions. In particular the invention provides a secure platform for transmission and storage of data based on multi-level compounded encryption while preserving native data format post-encryption to allow compatibility of post-encryption data with existing systems. In particular, the invention is configured for generating a plurality of encryption keys such that each of the encryption keys are structured to preserve pre-encryption data format, post-encryption. The invention is further configured for sequentially compounding encryption of native format data using the plurality of encryption keys.
US10984104B2	Malware clustering based on analysis of execution-behavior reports Techniques are disclosed relating to malware clustering based on execution-behavior reports. In some embodiments, a computer system may access malware information that includes a plurality of reports corresponding to a plurality of malware samples. In some embodiments, each of the malware reports specifies a set of features relating to execution behavior of a corresponding malware sample. The computer system may, in various embodiments, process the plurality of reports to generate a plurality of vectors that includes, for each of the malware samples, a corresponding vector indicative of the execution behavior of the corresponding malware sample. Based on the plurality of vectors, the computer system may generate similarity values indicative of a similarity between ones of the plurality of vectors. Further, based on the similarity values, the computer system may assign each of the plurality of malware samples to one of a plurality of clusters of related malware samples.
US10984097B2	Methods and apparatus for control and detection of malicious content using a sandbox environment A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process includes code to cause the processor to receive a set of indications of allowed behavior associated with an application. The processor is also caused to initiate an instance of the application within a sandbox environment. The processor is further caused to receive, from a monitor module associated with the sandbox environment, a set of indications of actual behavior of the instance of the application in response to initiating the instance of the application within the sandbox environment. The processor is also caused to send an indication associated with an anomalous behavior if at least one indication from the set of indications of actual behavior does not correspond to an indication from the set of indications of allowed behavior.
US10984088B2	Systems and methods for authenticating a user at a public terminal Systems and methods for authenticating a user to access a public terminal are described. Disclosed embodiments may include reading, using the physical credential reader, a user identifier from the physical credential device. Disclosed embodiments may also include transmitting the public terminal identifier and the user identifier to a secure server. Further, disclosed embodiments may include receiving, after completing the transmission, a unique code from the secure server. Disclose embodiments may additionally include displaying the unique code on the display device. Disclosed embodiments may include receiving, after displaying the unique code, an authentication message from the secure server. Disclosed embodiments may further include, responsive to receiving the authentication message, authorizing the user to use a terminal command at the public terminal.
US10984084B2	System, device management system, and methods for the same A device management system according to the present invention transmits, in response to an authentication request from a network device, verification data generated by the device management system and a whitelist including identification information corresponding to a user managed in association with the network device, receives a signature generated according to biometrics for a user on a portable terminal and the whitelist, via the network device, and, in a case where verification of the signature is successful, responds to the network device to permit login by the user of the terminal.
US10984071B2	Function and memory mapping registry with reactive management events A system for managing data content and data content relationships through resource efficient process structures for cloud and network environments includes a Clode core. The Clode core creates an object/display/process based on a defined order of processes determined by the object's tags and/or relationships to a function map and/or other objects in the system. This is used in Clode tag modules such as ‘clode:autopublish’ to create a data publication on the server, by ‘clode:autosubscribe’ to make client's automatically subscribe to data related to the tagged object, and by ‘clode:surface’ to manage an object on a display; just to name a few use cases. Tags can then be used to manage third party environments such as a docker container that would be classified as having the tag ‘on’, but when removed could cause the container to shut off. Tag management functions could also change the classifications as to say in the previous example to cause a tag to be added called ‘off’.
US10984061B2	Systems and methods for providing communications to and from verified entities Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a verified entity who is verified based on a verification process. A set of questions directed to the verified entity can be received from a set of question providers. The set of questions can be ranked based on question ranking criteria. At least one response to at least one question in the set of questions can be received from the verified entity. Access to the at least one response can be provided.
US10984060B2	Detecting attribute change from trip data Systems and methods for improving attribute data for a point of interest (POI) are provided. A networked system accesses trip data associated with the POI. The networked system generates, using a processor-implemented clustering algorithm, a first spatial cluster and a second spatial cluster using coordinates corresponding to the POI indicated in the trip data. A centroid for the first spatial cluster and a centroid for the second spatial cluster are identified by the networked system. The networked system determines that a difference in distance between the centroid for the first spatial cluster and the centroid for the second spatial cluster meets or transgresses a centroid distance threshold. In response to the determining, a database is updated to indicate a new attribute for the POI, the new attribute corresponds to an attribute associated with either the first spatial cluster or the second spatial cluster.
US10984057B2	Method and apparatus for search query formulation Systems, methods, and user interfaces for search query formulation are provided. A graphical representation (610) of a media basis may be provided that includes at least one metadata region (611) representing metadata associated with the media basis. Then, at least one user selection (620) of at least a portion of the graphical representation (610) may be received. Based on the received selection(s) (620), at least one search term may be generated.
US10984056B2	Systems and methods for evaluating search query terms for improving search results A system for displaying product information to a customer is described herein. The system includes a database and a server including a processor. The processor is programmed to receive a search query including a plurality of search terms via a computing device. The processor selects a search term from the plurality of search terms and determines an optionalization probability associated with the selected search term. The processor generates a search request as a function of the search query and determines whether to retain the selected search term with the search request as a function of the optionalization probability. The processor retrieves product records from the database as a function of the search request, and generates and displays a product search result including product information associated with the retrieved product records.
US10984045B2	Neural bit embeddings for graphs An approach is provided in which a system transforms a set of embedding approximation values corresponding to a set of knowledge graph nodes into a set of binary valued embedding vectors. The system evaluates the set of binary valued embedding vectors against a query and a selects one of the binary valued embedding vectors based on the evaluation. The system then identifies one of the knowledge graph nodes that corresponds to the selected binary valued embedding vector and in turn, provides a result to the query based on the identified knowledge graph node.
US10984042B2	Publishing RDF quads as relational views A method, system, and computer program product for transforming RDF quads to relational views. The method commences by receiving a named graph, the named graph comprising at least one RDF quad, and analyzing the named graph to produce analysis metadata. The method uses the analysis metadata to generate relational views. The method further comprises publishing a relational view in the form of a SPARQL query. The quality of the results can be quantitatively measured and reported by calculating a goodness score based at least in part on aspects of the relational view definitions. Several variants for transformation include generating relational view definitions formed using a named-graph strict variant, or a named-graph relaxed variant, or a named-graph agnostic variant. The transformations can form outputs responsive to characteristics or properties such as a number of classes, a number of single-valued properties, a number of nullability properties, or a number of type-uniformed ranges.
US10984036B2	Providing media content based on media element preferences A computing device is programmed to receive data collected from communications of a user. The computer identifies portions of the collected data including a keyword selected from a list of media content elements or lists of keywords associated with each of the media content elements. The computer associates each portion with a media content element. The computer further determines a score for each media content element based on at least one of the number of references, words included in the portion of collected referring to the media content element, and the voice quality of the portion of collected data referring to the media content element. Based on the scores, the computer assigns media content elements to the user. The computer recommends media content items to the user based at least in part on the media content elements assigned to the user.
US10984009B2	Scaling by dynamic discovery for data processing Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that partitions searchable content and distributes the segments across a plurality of processing nodes, which in turn further sub-partitions the partitions for processing by local search actor in order to increase the speed with which a search request from a user is processed. Processing nodes available to receive partitioned searchable content are registered with an external storage device. The external storage device also maintains a global results collector that compiles results from the partitions of searchable content. Respective local collector actors receive compiled results from local search actors for a processing node and the compiled results are sent to the global results collector for compiling for the plurality of processing nodes. Results of the user search request are then provided to the user.
US10984004B2	Systems and methods for predictive augmentation of vehicle service procedures An example method includes receiving a first service procedure including a plurality of procedural steps for servicing a vehicle, identifying at least one procedural step of the plurality of procedural steps to supplement with supplemental service information, receiving information about vehicles sharing one or more attributes with the vehicle, determining at least one piece of supplemental service information to supplement the at least one identified procedural step, and providing a supplemented service procedure comprising the first service procedure with the at least one piece of supplemental service information included with the at least one identified procedural step.
US10984003B2	Report generation for a digital task A method of generating a report for a digital task is provided. The method may include receiving an identification of a digital task initiated by a user, and electronically monitoring at least one of user interaction with at least one application while the user performs the digital task via an electronic system and a state of the electronic system while the user performs the digital task via the electronic system. Further, the method may include capturing a plurality of snapshots for the digital task. Each snapshot of the plurality of snapshots may include information for at least of one or more user actions and the state of the electronic system while the user performs the digital task. The method may also include generating a report for the digital task including the plurality of snapshots.
US10983996B2	Asynchronous predictive caching of content listed in search results Technologies described reduce the amount of time between requesting content and receiving the requested content. In some embodiments, a client provides a search query. A search result page is generated and, prior to returning the search result page to the client, some or all of the search results are asynchronously pre-fetched and cached. The search query can include custom parameters that are also included in the pre-fetch requests. Web addresses in the search results page can be modified to indicate whether a prefetch operation was initiated. Once a user activates one of the search results, the responding web server uses the cached data while generating a response.
US10983989B2	Issue rank management in an issue tracking system Described herein is a computer implemented method for balancing a set of issues maintained by an issue tracking system, each issue in the set of issues having an original rank value. The method comprises determining a set of new rank values for the issue in the set of issues; selecting a first issue from the set of issues, the first issue being an issue from set of issues that is neither a lowest ranked issue or highest ranked issue; determining whether the first issue can be safely re-ranked based on the new rank value calculated for the first issue and original rank values of issues adjacent to the first issue; and in response to determining that the first issue can safely be re-ranked, re-ranking the first issue by assigning the new rank value determined for the first issue to the first issue.
US10983977B2	Volumetric vector node and object based multi-dimensional operating system A method for the visualization and addressing of data within a volumetric container, using XYZ coordinates represented as a vector. Whereas users build their own immersive experience, variants, and/or representations of their respective data as polygons nested within a virtual universe. This includes variants such as time, space, velocity and trajectory as they relate to data containers, and the tracking of each user's multi-dimensional representations. This method also creates permanent threaded connections between web data, social communities and data retrieved from any other source, to a structured polygon based correlation library.
US10983970B2	Relational database organization for sharding Techniques are provided for creating, organizing, and maintaining a sharded database. A sharded database can be created using user-defined sharding, system-managed sharding, or composite sharding. The sharded database is implemented with relational database techniques. The techniques described provide improvements to load distribution, organization, query processing, and schema propagation in a sharded database.
US10983964B1	Managing file system tailored for cluster deployment A technique for operating a file system in a NAS (network attached storage) cluster includes discovering, by a data node running in the NAS cluster, a LUN (Logical UNit) provisioned from block storage. The data node renders the LUN as a block device and creates a local volume, built on the block device. The data node then deploys the file system on the local volume. The file system, the local volume, the block device, and the LUN all have address spaces, and the address space of each corresponds one-to-one with the address space of each of the others. Write requests directed to addresses in the file system propagate to the LUN, where they effect writes at corresponding addresses in the LUN.
US10983963B1	Automated discovery, profiling, and management of data assets across distributed file systems through machine learning Embodiments for locating, identifying and categorizing data-assets through advanced machine learning algorithms implemented by profiler components across Hadoop and Hadoop Compatible File Systems, databases and in-memory objects automatically and periodically to provide a visual representation of the category of data infrastructure distributed across data-centers and multiple clusters, for the purposes of enriching data quality, enabling data discovery and improving outcomes from downstream systems.
US10983962B2	Processing device utilizing polynomial-based signature subspace for efficient generation of deduplication estimate An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to identify a dataset to be scanned to generate a deduplication estimate for that dataset, to designate a subset inclusion characteristic to be utilized in the scan, and for each of a plurality of pages of the dataset, to scan the page, where scanning the page includes computing a polynomial-based signature for the page, determining whether or not the polynomial-based signature satisfies the designated subset inclusion characteristic, and responsive to the polynomial-based signature satisfying the designated subset inclusion characteristic, computing a content-based signature for the page and updating a corresponding entry of a deduplication estimate table for the dataset based at least in part on the content-based signature. The processing device generates the deduplication estimate for the dataset based at least in part on contents of the deduplication estimate table.
US10983960B2	Multi-source, multi-dimensional, cross-entity, multimedia centralized personal information database platform apparatuses, methods and systems The MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, CROSS-ENTITY, MULTIMEDIA CENTRALIZED PERSONAL INFORMATION DATABASE PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CPDB”) transform data aggregated from various computer resources using CPDB components into updated entity profiles and/or social graphs. In one implementation, the CPDB aggregates data records including search results, purchase transaction data, service usage data, service enrollment data, and social data. The CPDB identifies data field types within the data records and their associated data values. From the data field types and their associated data values, the CPDB identifies an entity. The CPDB generates correlations of the entity to other entities identifiable from the data field types and their associated data values. The CPDB also associates attributes to the entity by drawing inferences related to the entity from the data field types and their associated data values. Using the generated correlations and associated attributes, the CPDB generates an updated profile and social graph of the entity. The CPDB provides the updated profile and social graph for an automated web form filling request.
US10983958B1	Sustainable energy tracking system utilizing blockchain technology and Merkle tree hashing structure Apparatus and associated methods relate to generating energy blocks on a blockchain corresponding to generation, transmission, and consumption of predetermined quanta of energy represented by corresponding records in an associated Merkle trie. In an illustrative example, individual energy data records may be hashed. Each hash may be stored in a leaf node of a Merkle trie. The individual energy data records may be aggregated to correspond to represent a predetermined quantum of energy. The individual energy data records may include energy generation records. The energy blocks may be associated with scheduling, delivery, and consumption data for the energy quantum. Various embodiments may advantageously provide secure, verifiable, and immutable tracking and processing of energy generation, transmission, and consumption of physical energy quanta across one or more distributed energy networks.
US10983951B1	Recovery processing for persistent file data cache to reduce data loss Processing for a file system may include determining an inconsistency between a data log and inodes (index nodes) of the file system. Responsive to determining the inconsistency, recovery processing may be performed including first processing of the data log, second processing of the inodes of the file system, and third processing of the data log after said second processing. First processing may, for each entry of the data log that records a create snapshot operation to create a snapshot of a file having an associated inode of the file system that is a dirty snapshot inode, marking the associated inode as “snap validated”. Second processing may include freeing each dirty snapshot inode not marked as “snap validated”. Third processing may include freeing any entry of the data log where the entry references dirty snapshot inode freed by the second processing.
US10983945B2	Method of data synthesis Methods, devices, and computer programs are presented for consolidating overlapping data provided by multiple sources. One method includes operations for associating a plurality of devices to a user, each device operable to capture data associated with the user, and for receiving, from the plurality of devices, captured data about a first activity associated with a first period of time. Additionally, the method includes operations for detecting that the received captured data from two or more devices provide overlapping information about the first activity, and for evaluating one or more rules for consolidating the overlapping information to produce consolidated data. The consolidated data provides a unified view of the first activity during the first period of time. The consolidated data is stored in permanent storage and made available for presentation to the user.
US10983936B2	Programmable arbitrary sequence direct memory access controller for configuring multiple core independent peripherals A programmable arbitrary sequence direct memory access (DMA) controller accesses sequentially addressed memory locations (source or destination) using address pointer registers. Each sequentially addressed memory location containing an indirect memory address is stored in an address latch and used to access the actual non-sequential memory location to be accessed by the DMA transfer.
US10983934B2	Individually addressing memory devices disconnected from a data bus Memory devices and methods for operating the same are provided. A memory device can include at least one command contact and at least one data contact. The memory device can be configured to detect a condition in which the at least one command contact is connected to a controller and the at least one data contact is disconnected from the controller, and to enter, based at least in part on detecting the condition, a first operating mode with a lower nominal power rating than a second operating mode. Memory modules including one or more such memory devices can be provided, and memory systems including controllers and such memory modules can also be provided.
US10983926B2	Efficient userspace driver isolation for virtual machines A driver associated with a host peripheral component interconnect (PCI) device may be initiated, the host PCI device to be accessed by an application executed by a guest operating system (OS) of a guest using user space memory of the guest. A host page table switching instruction may be executed using the driver to cause a switch from a first host page table structure to a second host page table structure. The host PCI device may be accessed using the driver via a PCI alias address that is mapped to a host PCI address in the second host page table structure. Application code associated with the application may be prevented from accessing a host memory address in the second host page table structure.
US10983925B2	Configuration profile updates An example non-transitory machine-readable medium may store instructions, which may be executable by a processing resource. The instructions may be executable by a processing resource to cause a computing device to store a configuration profile update in a data structure associated with an interface communicatively coupled to the processing resource, determine, during runtime of the computing device, that a peripheral device is connected to the computing device, and update a configuration profile of the peripheral device using the configuration profile update stored in the data structure.
US10983923B2	Dynamic memory protection Presented herein are methods and systems for adjusting code files to apply memory protection for dynamic memory regions supporting run-time dynamic allocation of memory blocks. The code file(s), comprising a plurality of routines, are created for execution by one or more processors using the dynamic memory. Adjusting the code file(s) comprises analyzing the code file(s) to identify exploitation vulnerable routine(s) and adding a memory integrity code segment configured to detect, upon execution completion of each vulnerable routine, a write operation exceeding from a memory space of one or more of a subset of most recently allocated blocks allocated in the dynamic memory to a memory space of an adjacent block using marker(s) inserted in the dynamic memory in the boundary(s) of each of the subset's blocks. In runtime, in case the write operation is detected, the memory integrity code segment causes the processor(s) to initiate one or more predefined actions.
US10983922B2	Selecting one of multiple cache eviction algorithms to use to evict a track from the cache using a machine learning module Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a machine learning module to select one of multiple cache eviction algorithms to use to evict a track from the cache. A first cache eviction algorithm determines tracks to evict from the cache. A second cache eviction algorithm determines tracks to evict from the cache, wherein the first and second cache eviction algorithms use different eviction schemes. At least one machine learning module is executed to produce output indicating one of the first cache eviction algorithm and the second cache eviction algorithm to use to select a track to evict from the cache. A track is evicted that is selected by one of the first and second cache eviction algorithms indicated in the output from the at least one machine learning module.
US10983911B2	Capacity swapping based on compression In one embodiment, a method is operable in an over-provisioned storage device comprising a cache region and a main storage region. The method includes compressing incoming data, generating a compression parameter for the compressed data, and storing at least a portion of the compressed data in chunks in the main storage region of the storage device. The method also includes predicting when to store other chunks of the compressed data in the cache region based on the compression parameter.
US10983894B2	Autonomously adaptive performance monitoring System and techniques for autonomously adaptive performance monitoring are described herein. A device state may be measured. A measurement set may be located using the device state. A difference set between the measurement set and a current measurement group may be identified. The current measurement group may be changed into a next measurement group using the difference set. A measurement package created during at least one sample period of the next measurement group may be sent to a remote device.
US10983883B2	Error recovery in magnetic random access memory after reflow soldering A method is performed at an electronic device that includes magnetic random access memory (MRAM). The method includes loading the MRAM with data including main data, first error correcting data, and second error correcting data. The MRAM comprises a plurality of MRAM cells characterized by a first magnetic anisotropy corresponding to a first error rate at a predefined temperature that exceeds a threshold for correcting errors using only the first error correcting data. The method further includes, after loading the MRAM with the data, heating the MRAM to the predefined temperature and correcting errors in the main data using both the first error correcting data and the second error correcting data. The method further includes after correcting the errors in the main data, erasing, from the MRAM, the second error correcting data and maintaining, on the MRAM, the first error correcting data.
US10983878B2	Processor for detecting and preventing recognition error Provided is an image recognition processor. The image recognition processor includes a plurality of nano cores each configured to perform a pattern recognition operation and arranged in rows and columns, an instruction memory configured to provide instructions to the plurality of nano cores in a row unit, a feature memory configured to provide input features to the plurality of nano cores in a row unit, a kernel memory configured to provide a kernel coefficient to the plurality of nano cores in a column unit, and a difference checker configured to receive a result of the pattern recognition operation of each of the plurality of nano cores, detect whether there is an error by referring to the received result, and provide a fault tolerance function that allows an error below a predefined level.
US10983865B2	Adjusting memory parameters In various examples, a device comprises a memory. The memory comprises a plurality of dies and logic. The logic may: determine a tolerable bit error rate (BER) of the memory based on whether one of the plurality of dies has failed, and adjust a parameter of the memory based on the tolerable BER.
US10983844B1	Event subscription and management system An enterprise system for an event management framework is described where an event subscription processor detects and/or creates computer-executable events, which are then published on user interface of multiple computing devices configured to subscribe, process, and execute the computer-executable events. The event subscription processor may enable processing and execution of one or more computer-executable events in a mode that the computer-executable event execution and management is centralized, and performed in a consistent manner within an organization. The event subscription processor allow the computer-executable event execution tasks/processes to be easily created, modified, and managed in one single enterprise system.
US10983833B2	Virtualized and synchronous access to hardware accelerators An aspect includes hardware accelerator access. An application executing on a core of a multi-core processor triggers an interface code routine to acquire ownership of a hardware accelerator that is shared by a plurality of cores. The interface code routine partitions an input work package of the application into a plurality of pages in one or more input queues. The input work package is provided to the hardware accelerator in groups of one or more pages through the one or more input queues based on acquiring ownership of the hardware accelerator.
US10983824B2	Remotely monitoring and scheduling a data integration job Methods for deriving an integration module using an electronic computing device, the methods including: providing a framework coupled with a system of computer hardware for remotely monitoring and scheduling a number of data integration (DI) jobs between a number of enterprise applications, where the framework provides an extensible and reusable architecture for the integration module; adding to the integration module at least one function or component corresponding with a user specified requirement via the framework; deploying the integration module as an embedded client to one of the number of enterprise applications by the framework.
US10983823B2	Computer apparatus, task initiation method, and computer readable medium A computer apparatus (100) includes an OS execution unit (120), an OS-dependent interrupt processing unit (110), and an OS-independent interrupt processing unit (130). When an OS-independent interrupt (201) due to a state of a device (200) occurs, the OS-independent interrupt processing unit (130) determines whether or not to initiate a task (145). When the task (145) is to be initiated, the OS-independent interrupt processing unit (130) turns on the flag (141) and causes the OS execution unit (120) to generate an OS-dependent interrupt (202). When the OS-dependent interrupt (202) is generated, the OS-dependent interrupt processing unit (110) determines whether or not the flag (141) is on, and when the flag (141) is on, initiates the task (145) and turns off the flag (141).
US10983815B1	System and method for implementing a generic parser module Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a generic parser module are disclosed. A repository that stores a plurality of files each having a corresponding file format. A processor accesses the repository to obtain the plurality of files and format each file into a class-based logical hierarchy. The processor also creates a Java model based on the formatted files having the class-based logical hierarchy, each file having a plurality of data and the Java model having file-level classes that contain a list of said plurality of data; generates Java annotations identifying each file type included in the file-level classes; injects the Java annotations into the file-level classes of the Java model to indicate how to process each file; calls a method along with the file containing the data; and parses the file to read the data into the Java model injected with the Java annotations.
US10983808B2	Method and apparatus for providing emotion-adaptive user interface The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing an emotion-adaptive user interface (UI) on the basis of an affective computing service, in which the provided service is configured with at least one of a service operation condition, a service end condition, and an emotion-adaptive UI service type on the basis of purpose information of the service, and the detailed pattern is changed and provided on the basis of the purpose information and the usefulness information of the service.
US10983806B2	User interface for computer system usage types Techniques for providing an improved user interface in which a computer system usage type is configured are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a first plurality of selectable UI elements indicating distinct system types based on a request to create a new computer system; receiving a first user selection of one of the first plurality of selectable UI elements; displaying a second plurality of selectable UI elements indicating distinct system usage types in response to a determination that the distinct system type indicated by the first user selection comprises a predetermined system type; receiving a second user selection of one of the second plurality of UI elements; creating the new computer system; and storing the distinct system usage type indicated by the second user selection in association with the new computer system in a database.
US10983795B2	Extended memory operations Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to extended memory operations are described. Extended memory operations can include operations specified by a single address and operand and may be performed by a computing device that includes a processing unit and a memory resource. The computing device can perform extended memory operations on data streamed through the computing tile without receipt of intervening commands. In an example, a computing device is configured to receive a command to perform an operation that comprises performing an operation on a data with the processing unit of the computing device and determine that an operand corresponding to the operation is stored in the memory resource. The computing device can further perform the operation using the operand stored in the memory resource.
US10983793B2	Array broadcast and reduction systems and methods The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of performing one or more broadcast or reduction operations using direct memory access (DMA) control circuitry. The DMA control circuitry executes a modified instruction set architecture (ISA) that facilitates the broadcast distribution of data to a plurality of destination addresses in system memory circuitry. The broadcast instruction may include broadcast of a single data value to each destination address. The broadcast instruction may include broadcast of a data array to each destination address. The DMA control circuitry may also execute a reduction instruction that facilitates the retrieval of data from a plurality of source addresses in system memory and performing one or more operations using the retrieved data. Since the DMA control circuitry, rather than the processor circuitry performs the broadcast and reduction operations, system speed and efficiency is beneficially enhanced.
US10983786B2	Automatically evaluating software project requirements Examples for automatically evaluating a software project requirement are disclosed. In an example, a neural word vector corresponding to a requirement file is generated and the neural word vector based on a score based vector is updated. An output vector comprising a conditional probability distribution of a plurality of answers associated with a plurality of questions identified from the updated neural word vector is generated. Further, a set of input parameters associated with at least one of the software project and the requirement is obtained. Based on the output vector and the set of input parameters, an effort required for completing the requirement may be estimated. A validation score associated with the requirement based on the output vector and a plurality of validation and classification parameters may be determined.
US10983780B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus is configured to update at least one program by updating firmware. The information processing apparatus includes a new/old determiner configured to determine whether a program that is an update target is new or old by using a known program list, the known program list including identification information for identifying whether the program that is the update target is a same program as a known program; and an overwrite determiner configured to overwrite the program that is the update target with a bulk delivery program configured to update the program that is the update target, upon detecting that the program that is the update target is a customized program and is included in the known program list.
US10983774B2	Extensions for deployment patterns Extension patterns are deployed to core deployment patterns stored in a first software repository. An event relating to registration of a component is detected. In response to detecting the event, a tool registry can be queried to identify one or more extension deployment patterns for use with one or more core deployment patterns. Based upon the query, one or more extension deployment components can be retrieved from a second software repository. The one or more extension deployment components can be deployed on top of one or more instances of the one or more core deployment patterns.
US10983761B2	Deep learning enhanced code completion system A code completion tool uses a deep learning model to predict the likelihood of a method completing a method invocation. In one aspect, the deep learning model is a LSTM trained on features that represent the syntactic context of a method invocation derived from an abstract tree representation of the code fragment.
US10983760B2	Source code generation from web-sourced snippets The disclosure presents methods and apparatus that can be used to generate a software source code according to a user-provided specification based on example snippets searched from the Internet or a local database, comprising: providing a user-defined specification of the target program including input data, output data, a function or algorithm, and other parameters; decomposing the function into sub-functions if necessary; searching a list of related programming example codes and snippets of each sub-function; analyzing and ranking the search results; selecting and extracting the best snippet source codes; refactoring and reformatting the codes; gluing and testing the generated codes. The final source codes are supposed to be compiled successfully and implement the desired function and meet the performance requirements. Even the final compilation success is not guaranteed the described method and apparatus can help on a best-effort basis and reduce a great effort in programming.
US10983759B1	Rapid API development Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for automating the development and implementation of API protocols via a user-friendly user interface (UI) dashboard that allows users to create new API protocols without the need for intensive coding. The system is configured to provide automatic data discovery, customized documentation with UI based management, and support for all major database types. The system is designed to provide a seamless front-end creation dashboard which users can use to configure APIs by inputting a limited amount of information. The system includes inbuilt administration features, such as a separate user interface dashboard for system administrators to monitor the creation of and activity associated with active APIs across an entity system.
US10983758B1	System, method, and computer program product for automatically inferring case-split hints in equivalence checking of an electronic design The present disclosure relates to a method for use in a formal verification of an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, a reference model including a software specification and an implementation model at a register transfer level. Embodiments may also include generating one or more invariants based upon, at least in part, the reference model, wherein generating one or more invariants includes applying a semantic analysis. Embodiments may further include automatically generating at least one case splitting candidate based upon, at least in part, the one or more generated invariants.
US10983743B2	Programmable display and programmable logic controller system including the same A programmable display includes a display data generator that generates display data for pages corresponding to their page identifier, a display portion that displays a page corresponding to the page identifier on its display screen based on the display data that is generated by the display data generator, and a touch detector that detects touch operations on the display screen of the display portion. The display portion generates display data for displaying the device wave of the device that is specified by the subject device settings based on the chronological data, which is stored in the PLC, when the touch detector detects a predetermined second touch operation on the display screen. The display portion displays a second page or a device wave on the display screen based on the display data that is generated by the display data generator.
US10983739B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method configured to construct a server in the mobile terminal through which an output device communicates with the mobile terminal using a communication information An information processing apparatus coupled to a device via at least one of a plurality of networks includes a memory having computer readable instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to transmit to the device first communication information for performing communication between the device and the information processing apparatus, when a process is requested from the device; determine whether the communication is possible via a first network to which the device is coupled according to whether the communication is performed using the first communication information; connect to a second network using second communication information for connecting to the second network, when the communication is determined impossible via the first network; and determine whether the communication is possible via the second network according to whether the communication is performed using the first communication information via the second network.
US10983738B2	Computer-readable storage medium, information processing apparatus, and system A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an operating terminal is provided. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to designate an information processing apparatus to transmit apparatus information to a server, and based on the designation of the information processing apparatus, transmit a setting command to the designated information processing apparatus through a communication interface. The setting command commands the information processing apparatus to shift to one of a condition for transmitting the apparatus information to the server and a condition for not transmitting the apparatus information to the server.
US10983732B2	Method and system for accessing a file A method for accessing a file in a storage system is provided. The method includes determining, for each file chunk of the file, an authority among differing storage nodes of the storage system and receiving from the authority having ownership of the file chunk, location information for the file chunk. The method includes accessing file chunks of the file as directed by each of the determined authorities.
US10983731B2	Packet forwarding method, device, and system in non-volatile memory express over fabric A packet forwarding method, device, and system for use in non-volatile memory express (NVMe) over fabric are described. According to the method, a first packet sent by a control device is received; a second packet is generated according to the first packet; a network port for forwarding the second packet is selected according to an identity of a target non-volatile memory; and the second packet is encapsulated into a packet that meets an NVMe over fabric forwarding requirement, and the encapsulated second packet is sent by using the selected network port.
US10983724B2	Controller with distributed sequencer components A host operation to be performed can be received. Sub-operations that are associated with the received host operation can be determined. A memory component of multiple memory components can be identified for each sub-operation. Furthermore, each sub-operation can be transmitted to a media sequencer component that is associated with a respective memory component of the memory components.
US10983721B2	Deterministic finite automata node construction and memory mapping for regular expression accelerator An example processing device includes a memory including a discreet finite automata (DFA) buffer configured to store at least a portion of a DFA graph, the DFA graph comprising a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes having zero or more arcs each including a respective label and pointing to a respective subsequent node of the plurality of nodes, at least one of the plurality of nodes comprising a match node, wherein the at least portion of the DFA graph comprises one or more slots of a memory slice, the one or more slots comprising data representing one or more of the arcs for at least one node of the plurality of nodes, and a DFA engine implemented in circuitry, the DFA engine comprising one or more DFA threads implemented in circuitry and configured to evaluate a payload relative to the DFA graph.
US10983719B1	Replica pools to support volume replication in distributed storage systems Generally described, aspects of the present application correspond to enabling rapid duplication of data within a data volume hosted on a network storage system. The network storage system can maintain a highly distributed replica pool of the data volume, include a number of replicas duplicating data of the data volume. By providing increased parallelization, the replica pool can facilitate rapid duplication of the volume. In one configuration, each partition of a new volume is mapped to an individual replica within the replica pool, which supports population of the partition with data. Each replica can further include a set of replica partitions, such that read requests from each partition of a new volume are distributed among a number of servers to provide additional parallelization.
US10983702B2	Reducing data storage system I/O bandwidth via read-once point in time copy According to one embodiment, a computer program product for read-once point-in-time copy includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, and the program instructions are executable by a storage system manager to cause the storage system manager to perform a method comprising: detecting a read access to one or more data tracks of a target data storage module; setting a value of one or more bits in response to detecting the read access to the one or more data tracks, each of the one or more bits being associated with one of the one or more data tracks. The value of the one or more bits is set to a value configured to prevent a copy-on-write operation being applied to the one or more data tracks to which the read access was detected.
US10983690B2	Methods and devices for precluding touch initiated control operations during three-dimensional motion An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, one or more processors, and one or more motion sensors. The touch-sensitive display detects touch input at a surface of the touch-sensitive display, with the touch input identifying a user input command requesting performance of a control operation. The one or more motion sensors determine whether the electronic device moves in three-dimensional space while the touch input is occurring. The one or more processors preclude execution of the control operation in response to the touch input where the electronic device moved in the three-dimensional space while the touch input was occurring, thereby preventing control operations in response to inadvertent touching when the electronic device is being picked up or moved.
US10983688B2	Content scrubber bar with real-world time indications In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a playback user interface that is configured to playback content on the electronic device. While displaying the playback user interface that is configured to playback the content on the electronic device, the electronic device displays a scrubber bar for navigating through the content, wherein the scrubber bar includes: a visual indication of a current playback position within the content; and one or more playback time indications that include time values based on the current playback position within the content. A respective playback time indication of the one or more playback time indications is based on a time of day at the electronic device, and an amount of time that it will take to play the content from the current playback position to an end of the content at a respective content playback speed.
US10983682B2	Interactive graphical user-interface for analyzing and manipulating time-series projections Time-series projections can be analyzed and manipulated via an interactive graphical user interface generated by a system. The graphical user interface can include a graph depicting an aggregated time-series projection (ATSP) over a future time. The ATSP can be generated by aggregating multiple time-series. The system can receive user input indicating that an existing value in the ATSP is to be overridden with an override value. In response, the system can adjust the ATSP using the override value to generate an updated version of the ATSP. The system can display the updated version of the ATSP in the graphical user interface. The system can also propagate the impact of overriding the existing value with the override value through the multiple time-series. The system can display an impact analysis portion within the graphical user interface indicating the impact of overriding the existing value with the override value on the multiple time-series.
US10983681B1	Image identification system Embodiments may relate to a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may include a first portion that displays an image related to images of a location. The GUI may also include a second portion that displays an image related to detection and ranging information of the location. The two images may be linked such that an interaction with an object in one portion of the GUI causes changes in the other portion of the GUI. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US10983680B2	Display device, program, display method and control device A display device includes: a first display unit that displays a first image at a remote position; a second display unit that displays a second image at a position different from the position of the first image; a detection unit that detects an operation performed by a user with respect to the first image; and a display control unit that adjusts a display mode for at least either one of; the first image displayed by the first display unit and the second image displayed by the second display unit, based upon the operation detected by the detection unit.
US10983671B2	Terminal device, information processing method, and information processing program An object is to prevent of display of display of candidates unlikely to be selected. An information processing device a target date associated with an input value to be input. The information processing device displays candidates for an input value on a screen. At this time, the information processing device displays a first number of candidates when the target date is included in a first period during which the information changes in a first range. The information processing device displays a second number of candidates that is smaller than the first number when the target date is included in a second period during which the information changes in a second range that is narrower than the first range. The first period and the second period is included in a cycle in which the information changes.
US10983662B2	Distally shared, augmented reality space In a method facilitating connectivity between at least first and second persons contemplates utilizing one or more computer processors to instantiate a first augmented reality space that mimics a real world space physically in existence about a first person. The first augmented reality space includes at least an avatar of the first person, and a first virtual representation of at least one real world object within the first augmented reality space. Using one or more computer processors, the method provides an interface through which the second person, distal to the first person, can use a second avatar to contemporaneously occupy and enter the first augmented reality space, traverse the space, and interact with the object.
US10983661B2	Interface for positioning an object in three-dimensional graphical space Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can be activated by selecting a graphical object or objects. When multiple objects are selected, the manipulations can occur as a group. In one aspect, the manipulations occur around the centroid of the 3-D graphical object, or groups of objects. The manipulations can include rotation, size adjustment, and positional adjustment within the virtual drawing space. The control interface comprises a visible mesh that helps the user position the object in space relative to other objects.
US10983659B1	Emissive surfaces and workspaces method and apparatus A conferencing arrangement for sharing information within a conference space, the arrangement comprising a common presentation surface including a presentation surface area, a common presentation surface driver, a system processor linked to the driver and receiving and presenting the information content via the common presentation surface and a portable user interface device including a device display screen and a device processor, the device processor programmed to provide an interface via the device display screen useable to view content and to enter a command to replicate content presented on the device display on the common presentation surface, the device processor capable of identifying a direction of a swiping action on the interface as a command to replicate the content, wherein, upon identifying that the direction of a swiping action on the interface is in the direction of the common presentation surface, the arrangement creates a sharing space on the presentation surface area and replicates the content from the device display within the sharing space.
US10983655B2	Systems and methods for interactive mobile electronic content creation and publication Existing content such as books are reorganized and condensed as electronic books for display on a mobile computing device. The electronic books have a hierarchical structure. A user interacts with the content of the book by way of a touch screen of the mobile computing device. The navigation may be non-linear in nature and the book is reconstructed as a set of primary ideas, supporting ideas, stacks of cards for the supporting ideas, and individual cards comprising elements and commentary from or about the book.
US10983654B2	Providing variable responses in a virtual-assistant environment Virtual assistants intelligently emulate a representative of a service provider by providing variable responses to user queries received via the virtual assistants. These variable responses may take the context of a user's query into account both when identifying an intent of a user's query and when identifying an appropriate response to the user's query.
US10983649B2	Touch control module, display panel, display device and touch control method A touch control module, a display panel, a display device, and a touch control method. The touch control module includes a first substrate and an array of touch electrodes disposed on a first surface of the first substrate. In a touch control period of a touch electrode row, the touch electrode row and at least one touch electrode row directly adjacent to the touch electrode row are configured to receive a same touch scan signal simultaneously. Therefore, under synchronous modulation, the influence of the coupling between directly adjacent touch electrode rows is reduced and overall uniformity of the capacitance is achieved, so that accuracy of the touch positioning and the pressure touch control can be improved.
US10983648B2	Touch input device A touch input device includes a display module, a substrate for blocking electrical noise or for separating the display module from a circuit board or battery for operation of the touch input device, and a first electrode disposed on the display module and a second electrode disposed on the substrate. A spacer layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A pressure magnitude of the touch is detected based on a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode. The capacitance is changed depending on the distance between the first electrode and the second electrode. The display module is bent by the touch, and the distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is changed due to the bending of the display module. The first electrode is disposed on a bendable surface of the display module.
US10983644B2	Touch display device A touch display device is provided. The touch display device comprises: two substrates disposed opposite to each other, a display medium disposed between the substrates, and at least one photo spacer region, and a plurality of layout units are distributed on the photo spacer region, and the layout units are disposed between the substrates, the layout units comprise a plurality of layout subunits disposed in rows and columns, and in one of the layout units, a portion of the layout subunits is provided with at least one photo spacer, and the other portion of the layout subunits is provided without the photo spacer; and a touch matrix comprising a plurality of touch units covering different amounts of photo spacers; and a touch compensation module performing the touch compensations on the touch units.
US10983643B2	Touch panel having partitioned regions on surface thereof The present disclosure discloses a capacitive touch panel, including a substrate, wherein a first surface of the substrate includes a first region and a second region, and a second surface of the substrate includes a third region and a fourth region. A first group of drive lines is formed in the first region, a first group of sense lines is formed in the second region, a second group of the drive lines is formed in the third region, and a second group of the sense lines is formed in the fourth region. Each of the drive lines of the first group and the second group extends along a first direction from a periphery of the substrate to a middle of the substrate, with an end of said each drive line on the periphery of the substrate being connected to a drive chip.
US10983640B2	Position detection circuit and position detection method in which line electrode of capacitive touch sensor is determined to be anomalous or possibly anomalous A position detection circuit is connected to a capacitive touch sensor that includes a plurality of line electrodes arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern. The position detection circuit includes: at least one processor device; and at least one memory device storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor device, cause the position detection circuit to: acquire capacitance-related detection values at crossing points of the line electrodes in association with positions of the crossing points; calculate a number of crossing points at which a detection value is smaller than a first threshold for each of the line electrodes; and determine that one or more of the line electrodes for which a calculated number of crossing points is greater than a second threshold are anomalous or possibly anomalous.
US10983638B2	Multi-stage capacitive sensor A multi-stage capacitive sensor is provided having a layered structure, including a user-contact surface, a first capacitive sensor for the user-contact surface, a second capacitive sensor which is spaced apart from the first capacitive sensor in a direction away from the user-contact surface, and a conductive member. The conductive member is positioned between the first and second capacitive sensors, and is engaged with the first circuit substrate and spaced apart from the second capacitive sensor. In a preferred embodiment, under the application of a force at the user-contact surface, the conductive member is deflected relative to the second capacitive sensor to alter a distance therebetween to create a detectable change in a capacitance at the second capacitive sensor.
US10983634B2	Touch array substrate and touch display panel A touch array substrate and a touch display panel are provided, including a base substrate, a TFT layer, a flat layer, a metal wiring layer, an insulating layer, a bottom transparent electrode, a passivation layer and a top transparent electrode. The metal wiring layer includes a touch signal line, a dummy wiring and a connection wiring connecting the touch signal line and the dummy wiring. The critical dimension of the connection wiring is smaller than the critical dimensions of the touch signal line and the dummy wiring, or a portion of the connection wiring close to the first via is bent away from the first via, to enlarge the distance between the connection wiring and the first via. The connection wiring is prevented from falling into the first via and contacting the TFT layer, and the top transparent electrode and the bottom transparent electrode are prevented from being directly short-circuited.
US10983617B2	Touch sensing unit and display device including the same A touch sensing unit includes a base layer having defined thereon a first sensing area, a second sensing area, and a third sensing area. The second and third sensing areas protrude from the first sensing area in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other. A non-sensing area is adjacent to the first, second, and third sensing areas. A first detection electrode is disposed within the first sensing area. A second detection electrode is disposed within the second sensing area. A third detection electrode is disposed within the third sensing area. First, second, and third signal wires are electrically connected to the first, second, and third detection electrodes, respectively. The first and second signal wires are disposed adjacent to a first edge of the non-sensing area. The third signal wire is disposed adjacent to a second edge of the non-sensing area.
US10983616B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display panel and a touch sensing unit on the display panel. The touch sensing unit includes a plurality of first touch sensing parts arranged with each other along a first direction and having a mesh shape, a first connection part configured to connect adjacent ones of the first touch sensing parts to each other along the first direction, a plurality of second touch sensing parts arranged with each other along a second direction crossing the first direction and having the mesh shape, and a second connection part configured to connect adjacent ones of the second touch sensing parts to each other along the second direction. An insulation layer is located between the first connection part and the second connection part, and the first connection part extends to cross the adjacent ones of the second touch sensing parts.
US10983613B2	Stylus nibs with a lubricating material The present disclosure is drawn to a stylus nib, which includes a polymeric core structure having a plurality of channels formed within the polymeric core structure along a longitudinal axis thereof. The polymeric core structure can be internally lubricated or impregnated with a lubricating material. The tip portion of the nib can be shaped to interface with a drawing surface.
US10983610B2	Electronic pen and coordinate input apparatus An electronic pen includes a conductive core-side member, a power supply circuit, a signal transmission circuit which, in operation, receives a power supply voltage from the power supply circuit, generates a first signal and a second signal each having a different waveform, and selectively supplies either the first signal or the second signal to the core-side member, an input reception circuit which, in operation, receives a designation input designating either the first signal or the second signal to be supplied from the signal transmission circuit to the core-side member, and a control circuit which, in operation, controls the signal transmission circuit to supply either the first signal or the second signal to the core-side member according to the designation input received by the input reception circuit.
US10983608B2	System and method of annotation of a shared display using a mobile device Systems and methods use a mobile device to position an annotation of displayed content on a shared display coupled with a host device. Sensor data, such as gyroscope and accelerometer data, from the mobile device may be transmitted to the host device and used to generate the annotation. The sensor data may be preprocessed to smooth and fit the data to a parametric curve or shape prior to or after display on the shared display. The user of the mobile device may interact with the mobile device to further start and stop the annotation, as well as denote to animate the annotation.
US10983606B2	Control instruction input methods and control instruction input devices A control instruction input method includes forming motion state information of a screen according to a limb movement; and forming an operating instruction of a UI in the screen according to the motion state information. An association between a limb stable posture and a touch standard instruction is established by recognizing the limb stable posture of wearing the smart wearable device. Therefore, the touch gesture input by the touch standard instruction is evolved into the limb motion posture. A cooperation process of both hands is avoided to make application scenarios of wearing the smart wearable device richer. At the same time, a motion process of the existing touch gesture is amplified by the relative large-scale motion state of the limb stable posture to form a finer instruction control process.
US10983584B2	Electronic device and operation method thereof An operation method of an electronic device including a core includes reading first status information from a first status register of a first functional block driven independently of the core, reading second status information from a second status register of a second functional block driven independently of the core, reading first change information from a first flag register of the first functional block, reading second change information from a second flag register of the second functional block, determining whether an operation status of the electronic device is any one status of an idle status and a busy status, based on the read first and second status information and the read first and second change information, and operating in an operation mode corresponding to the determined operation status.
US10983582B2	Mechanism for facilitating power extension service at computing devices by one or more power saving techniques A mechanism is described for facilitating power extension service at computing devices according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes calculating potential power saving by one or more of a plurality of power-saving techniques supported by a computing device. The calculating includes identifying the one or more of the plurality of power-saving techniques that are available for selection and an expected amount of power to be saved with the one or more of the plurality of power saving techniques. The method may further include generating a list identifying the one or more of the plurality of power-saving techniques and relevant information resulting from the calculation, and displaying the list.
US10983580B2	Computer system and electric power control method for computer system Computer components, such as processors and storage devices, provide a performance and consumes an electric power within a range of an upper limit performance and an upper limit power consumption of a power state set for the component among a plurality of power states corresponding to a type of the component. A processor unit determines whether a budget power as a power consumption permitted for a target computer is equal to or more than a power consumption of the target computer or not. When the determination result is false, for at least one component of the target computer, the processor unit selects a power state based on at least one of a priority of an operation using the component and a data characteristic corresponding to the component among a plurality of types of power states corresponding to a type of the component as power state of the component.
US10983577B2	Method and apparatus to provide dynamic regulation of power assist unit output based on active profile An information handling system (IHS) includes a power supply unit (PSU) and a power assist unit (PAU). The PSU provides power to a power rail at a first voltage level when he IHS is in a first platform state, and at a second voltage level when the IHS is in a second platform state. The PAU includes a power storage element, a converter coupled to the power storage element and to the power rail, and a controller. The controller determines whether the IHS is operating in the first or second platform state, directs the converter to provide power from the power storage element to the power rail at the first voltage level when the information handling system is in the first platform state, and to direct the converter to provide power from the power storage element to the power rail at the second voltage level when the information handling system is in the second platform state.
US10983576B2	Method and apparatus for managing global chip power on a multicore system on chip According to at least one example embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus for controlling power in a multi-core processor chip include: accumulating, at a controller within the multi-core processor chip, one or more power estimates associated with multiple core processors within the multi-core processor chip. A global power threshold is determined based on a cumulative power estimate, the cumulative power estimate being determined based at least in part on the one or more power estimates accumulated. The controller causes power consumption at each of the core processors to be controlled based on the determined global power threshold. The controller may directly control power consumption at the core processors or may command the core processors to do so.
US10983570B1	Keyboard charging from an information handling system An information handling system peripheral keyboard sized to rest on an information handling display has a charging port that aligns to couple to a charging extension extending from a hinge that rotationally couples information handling system housing portions to each other. As the housing portions close around the keyboard placed on the display, the hinge extends a distance between parallel axles forcing a cover disposed over the first and second axles to expose an opening through which the charging extension extends. When the hinges open, the first and second axles bias together to close the cover opening and retract the charging extension back into the hinge.
US10983564B2	Flexible display panel and display apparatus including the flexible display panel A flexible display panel including: a flexible substrate including a first region, second regions that extend from the first region and that have a curved surface, and a third region folded towards the second regions; a first display region in the first region of the flexible substrate; a second display region in the second regions of the flexible substrate; a plurality of non-display regions outside the first display region or the second display regions, wherein at least one of the plurality of non-display regions is in the third region of the flexible substrate; and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the first display region and the second display regions.
US10983552B2	Low latency trigger activation mechanism using bus protocol enhancement Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving bus latency are described. Clock-cycle overhead associated with the transmission of trigger activation information may be reduced through the use of optimized datagram structures for register-configurable trigger activation mechanisms. A first mechanism defines a command code with a first Trigger-Activation datagram, and a second mechanism defines a command code with a second Trigger-Activation datagram that uses a 4-bit Magic-ID and eliminates 18 clock cycles from the conventional Extended Register Write datagram structure. A method performed at a device coupled to a serial bus includes generating a datagram that does not have an address field, populating a data payload of the datagram with trigger activation information directed to a plurality of slave devices coupled to a serial bus, and transmitting the datagram over the serial bus. Transmission of the datagram serves as a trigger that causes a configuration change in at least one slave device.
US10983551B2	Clock management unit, integrated circuit including the clock management unit, system on chip, and method of operating the system on chip In one embodiment, the integrated circuit includes a clock generator configured to selectively generate a first clock; a processor configured to perform operations; and a clock management circuit. The clock management circuit is configured to receive clock management information from the processor and selectively generate a second clock based on the clock management information and the first clock. The processor is configured to perform some operations based on the second clock.
US10983543B1	Method and circuits to provide higher supply voltage for analog components from lower supply voltages A mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC), including: a voltage booster that includes one or more charge pump devices configured to receive an input voltage, an oscillator signal, and a control signal, wherein the one or more charge pump devices comprise a network of capacitors switchable to provide a charged pumped in response to the control signal, and wherein the one or more charge pump devices, using the pumped, generate a boosted voltage based on the input voltage and at least a portion of an amplitude of the oscillator signal, a voltage regulator coupled to the one or more charge pump devices and configured to receive the boosted voltage and generate a regulated boosted voltage based on the boosted voltage, and a control and monitoring engine configured to provide the control signal based on, at least in part, the input voltage, the oscillator signal, and the regulated boosted voltage.
US10983542B2	Load-predicting and control system and method for subway heating, ventilation and air conditioning system Disclosed is a load-predicting and control system for a subway heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. In one aspect, a load-predicting and control system for a subway heating, ventilation and air conditioning system is provided. The system includes a basic database, a sensing system, a load predicting unit, and a controller; the basic database stores historical data; the sensing system provides measured data; the load predicting unit calculates a predicted load value of the subway heating, ventilation and air conditioning based on the historical data and the measured data, and transmits the predicted load value to the controller; the controller issues a control command based on the predicted load value. Also provided is a load-predicting and control method for the subway heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. The present disclosure solves problems such as poor accuracy of conventional load prediction and inadequate control of the air conditioning system.
US10983537B2	Systems and methods for flow sensor back pressure adjustment for mass flow controller A mass flow control apparatus comprising a proportional valve upstream of a flow measurement portion, a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to determine a fluid pressure downstream of the flow measurement portion, and a dynamically adjustable variable valve downstream of the flow measurement portion and adjacent to the pressure sensing element connection. Fluid conductance of the variable valve is adjusted according to a control scheme based upon limitations of the flow measurement portion. Integral flow verification may be enabled with additional fluid pathway elements upstream of the flow measurement portion.
US10983535B2	System and method for positioning a movable object A system for navigation includes a movable object. The movable object is configured to navigate to a first position and, while at the first position, determine a second position based on a selected point on an image.
US10983526B2	Method and system for generating a semantic point cloud map A method and system for generating a semantic point cloud map. Voice input is received via a microphone and converted into text via speech-to-text synthesis. The text is decomposed into semantic data comprising a number of words, and it is determined whether keywords of the semantic data are present in an autonomous driving (AD) ontology. In response to the keywords of the semantic data being present in the AD ontology, coordinates of a point cloud map corresponding to the semantic data are determined. An association between a semantic label determined from the words of the semantic data and coordinates in the point cloud map corresponding to the semantic data is generated and stored in a memory of the computer vision system.
US10983520B2	Teleassistance data prioritization for self-driving vehicles A system can analyze a live sensor view of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) in accordance with a safety threshold to detect objects of interest along a route and classify each detected object of interest. When the safety threshold is not met, the system can transmit a teleassistance inquiry using LIDAR data to a backend computing system. When a certainty threshold is not met for an object of interest, the system can transmit a different teleassistance inquiry using image data to the backend computing system.
US10983516B2	Vehicle control system When generating a traveling path for divergent event, a traveling path generation portion judges an occurrence of a traffic jam on a divergent lane. The occurrence of the traffic jam on the divergent lane is judged based on whether or not a surrounding vehicle which satisfies a predetermined condition exist in a search region. If it is judged that the traffic jam is occurring on the divergent lane, a notice for handover from an automatic divergent operation to a manual divergent operation is given to a driver.
US10983513B1	Automated algorithm and real-time system to detect MPFM preventive maintenance activities Systems and methods include a system for processing health information for multiphase flow meters (MPFMs) of different types and at one or more different locations. Multiphase flow meter (MPFM) readings of different MPFM types are received in real-time from MPFMs at different locations. For each MPFM, an MPFM health rule that corresponds to the MPFM readings is determined using the MPFM readings and logic of MPFM health rules. A recommendation is determined for each MPFM based on the MPFM health rule. A health status and an alarm priority are determined for each MPFM using the MPFM readings and the logic of MPFM health rules. A dashboard is presented to a user that includes, for each MPFM, the MPFM readings, the recommendation, the health status, and the alarm priority.
US10983512B2	Automated creel systems and methods for using same Systems and methods for loading and delivering stalk subassemblies and yarn packages are disclosed herein. Such systems and methods can have at least one processor, at least one automated guided vehicle, at least one creel assembly, and an automated creel loading assembly. The at least one automated guided vehicle can be communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor can be configured to selectively direct an automated guided vehicle to engage a respective stalk subassembly. Upon engagement between the automated guided vehicle and the stalk subassembly, the processor can be configured to selectively direct the automated guided vehicle to move about and between the selected operative position within the creel assembly and a loading position proximate the automated creel loading assembly.
US10983509B2	Method for the decentralized control of processing machines A method for controlling machines (M1, M2, . . . ), which are provided for the processing of objects (O1, O2, . . . ), includes introducing an object (O1, O2, . . . ) into a working region of a machine (M1, M2, . . . ) and accessing, in a local environment of the machine (M1, M2, . . . ), a process key (PS1, PS2, . . . ), which is associated with the object (O1, O2, . . . ) and which contains at least one URI (unified resource identifier). The object (O1, O2, . . . ) is then processed using the URI contained in the process key (PS1, PS2, . . . ).
US10983508B2	Automated independent cart system and method of controlling operation of a plurality of movers of the automated independent cart system A method and system for motion control of movers in an independent cart system is disclosed. In one implementation, the independent cart system includes a plurality of movers, a track including a path, and a controller coupled to the track. Each of the plurality of movers includes at least one drive magnet, and each track segment includes a plurality of drive coils and a drive coupled to the plurality of drive coils. The controller defines a queue zone for the path, the queue zone having one or more target positions; defines a circular pointer queue for the queue zone; associating the circular pointer queue with the one or more target positions of the queue zone; circulating the circular pointer queue when a lead mover leaves the queue zone; and moves the movers through the queue zone based on the circular pointer queue.
US10983506B2	Methods and software for manufacturing a discrete object from an additively manufactured body of material including a precursor to a discrete object and a reference feature(s) An automated manufacturing system for manufacturing a discrete object is configured to manufacture a reference feature on a precursor to the discrete object. Reference feature is used to place the precursor at a subtractive manufacturing machine; the reference feature may be based on a locating feature at the subtractive manufacturing machine. Manufacturing reference feature is accomplished by automatedly detecting one or more critical-to-quality features and manufacturing the reference feature based on the one or more detected critical-to-quality features.
US10983505B2	Scan path correction for movements associated with an additive manufacturing machine Some embodiments facilitate creation of an industrial asset item via an additive manufacturing process wherein motion is provided between a build plate and a print arm. A correction engine may receive, from an industrial asset item definition data store containing at least one electronic record defining the industrial asset item, the data defining the industrial asset item. A correction engine computer processor may then correct the motion provided between the build plate and the print arm such that the motion deviates from a path indicated by the data defining the industrial asset item. The three-dimension printer may be a rotary printer such that the build plate rotates about a vertical axis and moves along the vertical axis during printing. In these cases, a pre-compensation algorithm may be applied to correct the motion provided between the build plate and the print arm before transmitting data to the three-dimensional additive manufacturing printer.
US10983504B2	Control of a chain of machines, including an additive manufacturing machine, in the manufacture of a workpiece This invention concerns apparatus for generating instructions for machines of a manufacturing chain used to manufacture a workpiece. The apparatus comprising a processor arranged to receive a model based definition (MBD) of a workpiece including geometric dimensions and tolerances; receive inputs setting an additive build design for building the workpiece based upon the geometric dimensions; generate additive instructions for an additive manufacturing machine of the manufacturing chain based upon the additive build design; determine a prospective intermediate workpiece product expected from an additive build in accordance with the additive build design; determine differences between the prospective intermediate workpiece product and the model based definition of the workpiece; and generate further instructions for at least one further machine of the manufacturing chain based upon the differences.
US10983494B2	Modular field device having a display/operating device containing a radio module and an internal power supply A modular field device comprising a housing, sensor and an electronics unit arranged in the housing, and comprising a display and/or operating unit that can be releasably connected to the electronics unit, said display and/or operating unit having a radio module for wireless communication with at least one other unit and an internal power supply, particularly a battery or rechargeable battery for at least partially supplying power to the radio module.
US10983484B2	Hierarchical implicit controller for shielded system in a grid A system or a method to at least partially steer systems, e.g. heating and/or cooling and clusters of systems, when the controller of the system is unknown or when the transfer function of the system is unknown. The steering of the energy flow, e.g. heating/cooling/electrical energy, includes providing energy to the system or the cluster of systems and preferably to manage common constraints, like capacity problems.
US10983478B2	Complex defect diffraction model and method for defect inspection of transparent substrate A method for defect inspection of a transparent substrate comprises utilizing a wavefront reconstruction unit to obtain complex defect diffraction wavefront of a transparent substrate; using a complex defect diffraction module to confirm the effective diffraction distance of the complex defect diffraction wavefront; utilizing a defect detection module to detect position of the defect of the transparent substrate; using a defect classification module to perform extraction, analysis and classification of diffraction characteristics and utilizing a machine learning algorithm or a deep learning algorithm to automatically identify the defects.
US10983475B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming unit An image forming unit to be attached to an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus includes a first cartridge including a driven portion configured to rotate on a first rotational axis; and a second cartridge configured separable from the first cartridge. The second cartridge includes an input portion configured to receive driving force from the apparatus body; and a drive transmission portion configured to rotate on a second rotational axis and to transmit the driving force to the driven portion.
US10983469B2	Image reading device, image inspection device, and image forming apparatus An image reading device includes a reader, a first background part, a second background part, and circuitry. The reader reads a pattern formed on a medium. The first and second background parts are disposed opposite the reader via a conveyance passage of the medium. The second background part has a higher light reflectance than that of the first background part. The circuitry moves one of the first and second background parts to a facing position at which the one faces the reader via the conveyance passage of the medium. The circuitry moves the first background part to the facing position in a case in which the pattern is a light color and the medium is transparent. The circuitry moves the second background part to the facing position in a case in which the pattern is a dark color darker than the light color or the medium is not transparent.
US10983468B2	Printing apparatus and printed matter printed by same A printing apparatus includes a printer and a sheet feeder. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet to the printer in a feed direction. The printer prints a folding guide line on the sheet with a transparent recording agent or a recording agent having a similar color close to the color of the sheet.
US10983461B2	Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus The present invention provides an image heating apparatus including an acquiring portion which acquires thickness information of a recording material, and a control portion controls a power to be supplied to a heating element which heats a region where the recording material does not pass through among a plurality of heating regions based on a control target temperature which is set based on the thickness information.
US10983460B2	Curved ink gutter sloped towards an ink outlet in a wall In one aspect an apparatus for use in an electrographic printer is described. The apparatus includes a housing having a base, a first wall, and a second wall, wherein the housing defines a cavity. The apparatus also includes a developer roller and an ink developer electrode for developing ink to the developer roller. The apparatus also includes an ink outlet, and a gutter for directing ink in the cavity towards the ink outlet, the gutter being disposed between the first wall and second wall, and between the developer roller and base. The gutter has a floor, a first side, and a second side, each extending along a length of the gutter. The floor slopes towards the ink outlet to direct ink towards the ink outlet, and the floor and sides of the gutter form a curve transverse to the length of the gutter to direct ink towards the floor.
US10983457B2	Sealing assembly for an electrophotographic image forming device A sealing assembly according to one example embodiment includes a housing and an imaging component positioned on the housing. A seal has opposed first and second edges extending along a longitudinal dimension of the seal. A lateral dimension of the seal is perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension and extends in a direction from the first edge to the second edge. The seal is attached to the housing along the first edge and contacts the imaging component along the second edge. Upon attachment to the housing, the seal is elastically deformed from an unassembled state in which the second edge has a first profile that varies in the lateral dimension along the longitudinal dimension to an assembled state in which the second edge is deformed relative to the first profile to a second profile having less variation in the lateral dimension along the longitudinal dimension than the first profile.
US10983456B2	Developer cartridge provided with gear having engagement portions A developer cartridge may include: a first gear having a small-diameter gear portion and a large-diameter gear portion; and a second gear including: a first columnar portion centered on a second axis; a second columnar portion having a smaller diameter than the first columnar portion; a first engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the first columnar portion and engageable with the small-diameter gear portion; a second engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the second columnar portion and positioned closer to a housing than the first engagement portion in an axial direction and engageable with the large-diameter gear portion; and a protruding portion protruding in the axial direction and rotatable together with the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion. The second engagement portion may engage the large-diameter gear portion after the first engagement portion engages the small-diameter gear portion.
US10983449B2	Method for manufacturing electrophotographic photoconductor A method for manufacturing an electrophotographic photoconductor including a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer in this order on a cylindrical electrically-conductive support including the steps of: (i) immersing the support in a charge generating layer coating liquid, (ii) pulling the support out of the coating liquid, (iii) heat drying the support coated with the coating liquid to form the charge generating layer, (iv) cooling the charge generating layer, and (v) immersing the support on which the charge generating layer has been formed in a charge transport layer coating liquid while retaining gas inside of the support. The charge transport layer coating liquid contains a solvent having a boiling point of 34° C. or more and 85° C. or less, and the step (v) satisfies two specific conditions.
US10983438B2	Exposure apparatus, manufacturing method of flat-panel display, device manufacturing method, and exposure method An exposure apparatus that scans and exposes each of a plurality of areas on a glass substrate, by irradiating the substrate with an illumination light via a projection optical system and relatively driving the substrate with respect to the illumination light, is equipped with: a substrate holder that levitates and supports a first area of the substrate; a substrate carrier that holds the glass substrate levitated and supported by the substrate holder; an X coarse movement stage that drives the substrate holder; an X voice coil motor that drives the substrate carrier; and a controller that controls the X coarse movement stage and the X voice coil motor so that the substrate holder and the substrate carrier are driven, respectively, in scanning exposure. Accordingly, an exposure apparatus with improved position controllability of an object can be provided.
US10983434B2	Photoresist composition for deep ultraviolet light patterning method and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided is a photoresist composition including a plasma light absorber and a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices using the same. The photoresist composition may include a developable polymer, a photoacid generator, a plasma light absorber, and an organic solvent. The plasma light absorber may be relatively transmissive to light used with a photolithographic patterning process (e.g., ultraviolet light) to pattern a layer formed with the photoresist composition and be relatively absorptive to light created in a subsequent etching process (such as light generated from a plasma). When forming a semiconductor device, a patterned photoresist layer may be more precisely generated and may better maintain is desired properties when used to etch various target layers of the semiconductor device.
US10983430B2	Mask assembly and haze acceleration method A method of testing a photomask assembly is disclosed. The method includes placing a photomask assembly into a chamber. The photomask assembly includes a pellicle attached to a first side of a photomask. The method further includes exposing the photomask assembly to a radiation source in the chamber. The exposing of the photomask assembly includes illuminating an entirety of an area of the photomask covered by the pellicle throughout an entire illumination time.
US10983427B2	Method for manufacturing a mask blank substrate, method for manufacturing a mask blank, method for manufacturing a transfer mask, method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a mask blank substrate, a mask blank, and a transfer mask A mask blank substrate and a method for selecting a mask blank substrate wherein a square calculation region is set on the main surface of the substrate. Specific points are set at the corner portions of the calculation region. The heights of the specific points from a reference plane are acquired, an imaginary plane passing through three of the specific points is set, an intersection between the imaginary plane and a perpendicular line that passes through the remaining of the specific points and that is perpendicular to the reference plane is set, and the distance between the remaining of the specific points and the intersection is calculated. A substrate in which the distance satisfies a predetermined reference value is selected as a mask blank substrate.
US10983420B2	Detachable control device, gimbal device and handheld gimbal control method A detachable control device includes an operation member, a detachable interface configured to attach the detachable control device to a handle of a gimbal device, a wireless communication circuit, and a controller configured to detect an operation on the operation member, and generate control data according to the operation. The control data includes at least one of gimbal orientation control data for controlling an attitude of a gimbal of the gimbal device or camera function control data for controlling a photographing device mounted at the gimbal to perform a corresponding function. If the detachable control device is not attached to the handle, the controller sends the control data to at least one of the gimbal device or the photographing device through the wireless communication circuit.
US10983412B1	Silicon photonic components fabricated using a bulk substrate Structures including a photodetector and methods of fabricating such structures. A substrate, which is composed of a semiconductor material, includes a first trench, a second trench, and a pillar of the semiconductor material that is laterally positioned between the first trench and the second trench. A first portion of a dielectric layer is located in the first trench and a second portion of the dielectric layer is located in the second trench. A waveguide core is coupled to the pillar at a top surface of the substrate.
US10983410B2	Electro-optic media including encapsulated pigments in gelatin binder An electro-optic medium exhibiting reduced haze and having other improved properties may be obtained by including a binder containing fish gelatin and acacia. The electro-optic medium may include a plurality of capsules in a binder, each capsule containing a plurality of electrically charged particles and a fluid, the charged particles being movable by application of an electric field.
US10983401B2	Liquid crystal display panel having three transparent conductive layers for forming electric fields A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first base plate, plural scan lines and plural data lines formed on the first base plate and intersected each other, wherein two adjacent scan lines and two adjacent data lines define a pixels region. Each pixel region includes a first transparent conductive layer formed above the first base plate, an insulating layer formed on the first transparent conductive layer, and a second transparent conductive layer formed on the insulating layer. The second substrate includes a second base plate and a third transparent conductive layer formed on the second base plate.
US10983395B2	Display apparatus comprising a color conversion pattern and a blue light blocking pattern disposed on a data pattern of a thin film transistor and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes a backlight unit to emit blue light, a first base substrate disposed on the backlight unit, a gate pattern disposed on the first base substrate, a first inorganic insulation layer disposed on the gate pattern, a data pattern disposed on the first inorganic insulation layer, a blue light blocking pattern disposed on the first inorganic insulation layer on which the data pattern is disposed, a second inorganic insulation layer disposed on the data pattern and the first inorganic insulation layer, a shielding electrode disposed on the blue light blocking pattern and overlapping the gate pattern and/or the data pattern, a pixel electrode disposed on the second inorganic insulation layer, and electrically connected to the drain electrode, a color conversion pattern overlapping the pixel electrode, and includes a quantum dot and/or phosphor, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the color conversion pattern.
US10983392B2	Vehicle window pane having a liquid crystal arrangement A vehicle window pane having a plate-like window pane body which has an outer side facing the surroundings of the vehicle and an inner side facing away from the outer side and on whose inner side a shading arrangement is disposed, the shading arrangement being formed by a liquid crystal arrangement which has a liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal arrangement has two films between which the liquid crystal cell is disposed, and the liquid crystal arrangement is connected to the window pane body via at least one longitudinal-expansion compensation layer.
US10983390B2	Methods for fabricating display structures An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.
US10983383B2	Optical film, color filter substrate, manufacturing methods thereof, and display devices An optical film, a color filter substrate, manufacturing methods thereof and display devices are provided, in the field of liquid crystal display technology. The color filter substrate includes a base, a color resistant layer and a diffusion layer. The color resistant layer and the diffusion layer are arranged on the base, and the color resistant layer and the base are arranged at the same side of the diffusion layer. The color resistant layer comprises a plurality of color resistant blocks which are arranged in an array. The diffusion layer comprises a plurality of diffusion structures which are arranged to be in one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of color resistant blocks. Each of the plurality of diffusion structures is configured to diffuse light vertically emitted from the color filter substrate.
US10983380B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display surface and a rear surface located in an opposite side to the display surface, a support plate including a first main surface opposing the rear surface of the display panel, a second main surface located in an opposite side to the first main surface and a first opening opposing at least a central portion of the display panel, and an adhesive tape disposed on the second main surface so as to be overlaid on the first opening, and including a first adhesive region attached on the second main surface around the first opening and a second adhesive region located in the first opening and attached on the rear surface of the display panel.
US10983358B2	Heat mounted display having an inter-lens structure disposed between the right-eye lens and left-eye lens A head mounted display is worn on a head of a user. The head mounted display includes a display device configured to display image; a casing that houses the display device; a right-eye lens and a left-eye lens attached to the casing; and an inter-lens structure disposed between the right-eye lens and the left-eye lens. The head mounted display causes the user to recognize a color of at least a part of the inter-lens structure as a color that is equal to or brighter than a skin color when the user wears the head mounted display.
US10983356B2	Systems, devices, and methods for optical waveguides Systems, devices, and methods for optical waveguides that are well-suited for use in wearable heads-up displays (WHUDs) are described. An optical waveguide includes a volume of optically transparent material, a first holographic optical element (HOE) and a second holographic optical element, wherein the first HOE and the second HOE are carried by the volume of optically transparent material, and the first HOE is positioned across a width of the volume of optically transparent material from the second HOE. Light enters the optical waveguide and is propagated down a length of the waveguide by reflection between the first HOE and the second HOE. Propagation of the light within the optical waveguide does not require total internal reflection. The optical waveguide may include means to in-couple the light into the waveguide and means to out-couple the light from the waveguide. WHUDs that employ such optical waveguides are also described.
US10983352B2	Display system with virtual image distance adjustment and corrective lenses A head-mounted device may have a display that displays computer-generated content for a user. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that directs the computer-generated image towards eye boxes for viewing by a user. The optical system may be a see-through optical system that allows the user to view a real-world object through the optical system while receiving the computer-generated image or the optical system may include a non-removable lens and a removable vision correction lens through which an opaque display is viewable. The optical system may include a removable lens. The removable lens may serve as a custom vision correction lens to correct for a user's vision defects. The optical system may have a projection bias lens that places computer-generated content at one or more desired virtual image distances and a corresponding compensation bias lens.
US10983344B2	System for optical wireless communication to extended reality immersion device An optical communication system includes a base station and an extended reality immersion device (XRID). The base station includes an optical transmitter assembly configured to convert an electrical signal to an optical beam, and emit the optical beam in free space, uncollimated and with a divergence angle greater than 0.1 degrees. The XRID includes an optical receiver assembly having an acceptance angle greater than 0.1 degrees. The optical receiver is configured to detect the optical beam in free space, convert the optical beam to a corresponding electrical signal, and reproduce information carried by the corresponding electrical signal. The XRID also includes a head-up display configured to present the information.
US10983332B2	Device for heat dissipation from an endoscopic illumination apparatus Device for an endoscopic illumination apparatus comprising a heat pipe having a first end region and a second end region; a first heat source; a heat dissipation element for dissipating thermal energy from said first heat source; a heat sink spaced apart from the first heat source; and a clamping element, wherein the clamping element is reversibly detachably mounted on the heat dissipation element such that the first end region of the heat pipe is held between the heat dissipation element and the clamping element, wherein the heat pipe is adapted to conduct the thermal energy of the heat source to the heat sink, wherein the second end region of the heat pipe is spaced apart from the first end region, and wherein the second end region ends in the heat sink.
US10983327B2	Light sheet microscope A light sheet microscope includes an illuminator having a beam source which is designed to direct an illuminating beam propagating along an illumination axis onto a sample. A light-sheet generator is designed to generate a light-sheet-type illuminating light distribution illuminating the sample in one partial region. A detection unit has a detector that is designed to capture detection light originating from the section of the sample that is illuminated by the illuminating light distribution. An objective is provided for both the illuminator and the detection unit such that the objective is to be penetrated by the illuminating beam and the detection light. The illuminator has a beam modulator designed to modulate the illuminating beam perpendicular to the illumination axis.
US10983318B2	Optical elements An optical element is provided. The optical element includes a substrate, a plurality of metal grids formed on the substrate, a patterned organic layer formed on the plurality of metal grids, a color filter surrounded by the patterned organic layer, and a light collection layer formed between the color filter and the substrate, and surrounded by the patterned organic layer. The refractive index of the light collection layer is greater than that of the patterned organic layer.
US10983314B2	Imaging lens system An imaging lens system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power. The F number of the system is 2.0 or less. The following Conditional Expression is satisfied: OAL/(Img HT)<1.50. In the expression, OAL represents a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, and Img HT represents a half of a diagonal length of the imaging plane.
US10983307B2	Aperture switching device for use with a lens of a mobile device The invention provides an aperture switching device for use with lens of mobile device. The lens of the mobile phone or the portable electronic product usually has a fixed aperture of lens, and the aperture size cannot be adjusted. Therefore, the invention provides an aperture switching device for the lens, comprising a plate base, a driving mechanism, a connecting rod and a transfer mechanism, wherein the transfer mechanism comprises a insert piece having a light-transmissive hole, wherein the driving mechanism moves the connecting rod to move the insert piece toward the lens, and replaces the lens aperture with the light-transmissive hole of the insert piece. As such, the invention achieves the purpose of changing the aperture of the lens, and the lens aperture of the mobile device can be substantially switched.
US10983302B2	Lens driving mechanism A lens driving mechanism is provided for driving a first lens and a second lens to move, wherein light enters the first and second lenses along a light incident direction. The lens driving mechanism includes a first base movably connected to the first lens, a first driving assembly, and a second driving assembly. The first driving assembly has a first magnet and a first coil corresponding thereto for moving the first lens. The second driving assembly has a second magnet and a second coil corresponding thereto for moving the second lens. The first magnet is adjacent to the second magnet, and the polar direction of the first magnet is parallel to the light incident direction.
US10983292B1	QSFP-DD backshell Presented herein is a backshell of a Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) plug configured to be connected to the end of a QSFP-DD copper cable. The backshell includes an over-mold strain relief and 16 pairs of 26 AWG copper conductors. The backshell defines external dimensions and shape that are compliant with the industry standards for a QSFP backshell.
US10983291B2	Holder element with integrated optical arrangement to offset an output light path The present disclosure is generally directed to a holder element, also generally referred to herein as a welding element, configured to couple an optical coupling receptacle to a substrate and provide an integrated optical arrangement to redirect light received from the optical coupling receptacle along a receive light path to an output light path that is offset from the receive light path.
US10983288B2	Microfabrication method for optical components A ferrule mold having a reverse-image of a through-hole array for optical fibers is formed. A non-polymeric ferrule material is deposited in the reverse-image mold, followed by removing the mold to create a multi-fiber connector ferrule having at least two fiber through-holes. An optical fiber is inserted in each through-hole until each fiber endface is positioned approximately even with a connection surface of the ferrule. A fiber recess for each of the optical fibers is formed such that each fiber is recessed from the multi-fiber ferrule connection surface by a distance of at least 0.1 micron. The recess may be formed by differential polishing of the non-polymeric ferrule and endfaces of the optical fibers. Alternatively, a layer of spacer material may be deposited over the multi-fiber ferrule connection surface. An antireflection coating is deposited over the ferrule connection surface and ends of the recessed fibers.
US10983283B2	Optical communication connector, optical communication cable, and electronic device [Object] To propose an optical communication connector, an optical communication cable, and an electronic device being novel and improved that have excellent maintenance properties and can prevent parallel light (collimated light) from being directly emitted to the outside of an optical connector during non-optical coupling. [Solution] There is provided an optical communication connector device including: a collimating lens configured to collimate light from an optical transmission path; a refracting section arranged on a leading end side with respect to the collimating lens, and configured to refract and eject light from the optical transmission path ejected from the collimating lens; and a scattering section configured to scatter at least a part of the light ejected from the refracting section.
US10983273B1	Integrated optical waveguide emitter The optical phased array may use a grating based emitter in order to emit light out of the plane of a PIC chip from an array of output waveguides. A longer grating allows for a larger aperture in the output waveguide dimension and allows for a small spot size. However, even for the relatively thick grating layers available in production foundries, the gratings still cause light to decay within less than 0.5 mm. To reduce the grating strength, some or all of the diffraction gratings may only be provided between the output waveguides, e.g. over trenches between the output waveguides, but not over top the output waveguides, whereby the periodicity only interacts with the weaker evanescent tails of the confined mode instead of the entire cross section of the output waveguides. By forming sufficiently narrow slots in the grating layer only down to the upper cladding layer, the diffraction gratings may be made extremely weak.
US10983271B2	Optical plasmonic conductors comprising one or more fibrillar organic supramolecular species Some embodiments are directed to optical conductors comprising one or more fibrillar organic supramolecular species including an association of triarylamines, methods of preparation and applications thereof as optical and plasmonic waveguides.
US10983269B1	Optical fibers with two metal coatings surrounding the cladding An optical fiber and a method of fabrication thereof. The optical fiber includes a core; a cladding surrounding the core; a primary metal coating surrounding the cladding and including a noble metal having a melting point of at least 500 degrees Celsius; and a secondary metal coating surrounding the primary coating and having a melting point higher than the melting point of the primary metal coating, a thickness of the primary metal coating being greater than a thickness of the secondary metal coating.
US10983268B2	Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety An optical fiber includes multiple optical cores configured in the fiber including a set of primary cores and an auxiliary core. An interferometric measurement system uses measurements from the multiple primary cores to predict a response from the auxiliary core. The predicted auxiliary core response is compared with the actual auxiliary core response to determine if they differ by more than a predetermined amount, in which case the measurements from the multiple primary cores may be deemed unreliable.
US10983264B2	Optical systems including light-guide optical elements with two-dimensional expansion An optical system including a light-guide optical element (LOE) with first and second sets (204, 206) of mutually-parallel, partially-reflecting surfaces at different orientations. Both sets of partially-reflecting surfaces are located between parallel major external surfaces. A third set of at least partially-reflecting surfaces (202), deployed at the coupling-in region, receive image illumination injected from a projector (2) with an optical aperture having a first in-plane width and direct the image illumination via reflection of at least part of the image illumination at the third set of at least partially-reflective facets towards the first set of partially-reflective facets with an effective optical aperture having a second width larger than the first width.
US10983252B2	Anti-reflective film Disclosed herein is an anti-reflective film including: a hard coating layer; and a low-refractive layer containing a binder resin, and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin, wherein the low-refractive layer includes a first layer containing at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles and a second layer containing at least 70 vol % of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles, and at the time of fitting polarization ellipticity measured by ellipsometry for the first layer or/and the second layer included in the low-refractive layer using a Cauchy model represented by the following General Equation 1, the second layer satisfies a predetermined condition.
US10983250B1	Component-based system for computer implemented multi-dimensional gridded mesoscale meteorological projection A component-based system and method is provided for generating and processing multi-dimensional gridded mesoscale meteorological projections. In embodiments, the system includes four integrated processes for data storage, retrieval, manipulation, communication, processing, and end user application tasks. Two or more components may interface for performing tasks. A data component stores, retrieves, and manipulates data utilizing functions under conditions of variable internet and non-internet connectivity. A communications component transmits and receives data to/from the data component for manipulation by the processing component. The processing component includes an artificial intelligence machine learning component and logic for manipulating the data to generate gridded mesoscale meteorological projections arrayed spatially and temporally. A post-processing component allows users to receive and retrieve automated projections from the data repository in a format suitable for end user application to automatically support and enhance the accuracy of computationally complex but tractable position, navigation, and timing solutions.
US10983249B2	Indicator interpolation to predict a weather state A weather prediction model predicts a weather state for a query location within a region. The weather prediction model accesses current and/or historical indicator weather states from weather measurement systems located near the query location. The weather measurement systems that are located near a query location are those within a proximity distance of the query location. The weather prediction model partitions the region into sectors each containing a number of the weather measurement systems. The weather prediction model determines a representative weather state for each sector at a representative distance from the query location using the indicator weather states. The weather prediction model predicts a weather state at the query location by interpolating the representative weather states for the sectors. The weather prediction model transmits the predicted weather state to a user responsible for agricultural management of the query location.
US10983248B2	Weather data collection through incentivized and collaborative drone flights A computer receives a hotspot and a corresponding incentive, where the hotspot is a geolocation for collecting the weather data. The computer presents the received hotspot and the corresponding incentive to a user. The computer receives the weather data from the drone, transmits the weather data to a server, and updates a scorecard with the incentive corresponding to the hotspot based on determining that the drone reached the hotspot.
US10983246B2	Thermal maturity estimation via logs The systems and methods provided herein relate to extracting maturity-based properties from input log data obtained by a downhole well logging tool. A maturity inversion is performed using the input log data, a log response model, and at least one maturity model to extract maturity-based properties from the input log data. The maturity-based properties are provided in an output log, such that subsequent down hole operation of the formation may account for the maturity-based properties.
US10983243B2	Human body security inspection apparatus and method of operating the same and filter device A human body security inspection apparatus, a method of operating the same, and an associated filter device are disclosed. The human body security inspection apparatus includes a radiation beam exit configured for emitting a radiation beam; a beam guiding box configured for guiding the radiation beam; and a filter device configured between the radiation beam exit and the beam guiding box. The filter device includes a housing and a filter cage having a central axis. The filter cage is formed by arranging two or more pairs of filtering sheets, which are made of different materials and/or have different thicknesses, in an encircling way. The filter cage is rotatable about its central axis such that at least one pair of filtering sheets is capable of filtering the radiation beam to adjust an outputted dosage of the radiation beam of the human body security inspection apparatus.
US10983240B1	Magnetic utility locator devices and methods Magnetic locators and uses of such locators for detection of buried objects, such as buried utilities, are disclosed. Outputs provided from two or more three three-axis magnetic sensors, as well as optionally from other sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors, may be used to determine information about the buried utilities including one or more of position and depth of the buried utilities relative to the locator.
US10983238B2	Wellbore sand detection using passive acoustic array A passive array of acoustic sensors capture acoustic signals produced by sand movement. The array tool is deployed downhole where it passively listens for acoustic energy generated by sand movement in the well. Once acoustic signals are acquired, model-based frameworks are used to extract single and multiple sensor features from the acoustic signals. The extracted features are used as signatures to detect or classify the production of sand.
US10983222B2	Satellite radiowave receiving device, electronic timepiece, method for controlling positioning operations, and storage device A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver acquires and receives radiowaves from a positioning satellite. The processor performing a positioning operation based on the radiowaves received by the receiver to obtain a current position of the satellite radiowave receiving device. The processor causes the receiver to stop an acquiring operation of radiowaves from a new positioning satellite under a predetermined condition while radiowaves are being acquired from a required number of positioning satellite for the positioning operation. If an error range of the obtained current position no longer satisfies a predetermined accuracy standard during a stop of the acquiring operation, the processor causes the receiver to resume the acquiring operation.
US10983220B2	Spoofing detection and rejection Systems and methods for performing spoofing detection and rejection including receiving, at a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) device having an antenna, a set of signals, identifying a questionable signal in the set of signals, and in accordance with a determination that the set of signals includes a subset of valid GNSS satellite signals, where the subset satisfies a minimum number of valid GNSS satellite signals and does not include the questionable signal, calculating an approximate position of the GNSS device based on the subset of valid GNSS satellite signals.
US10983212B2	Distance measurement device A distance measurement device includes: a pulse light emitter that emits pulse light to a measurement target; an optical sensor that receives reflected light which is the pulse light reflected by the measurement target; and a controller that controls a light emission timing of the pulse light emitted by the pulse light emitter, and determines a distance to the measurement target, from a light reception timing of the reflected light detected by the optical sensor. The controller sets the light emission timing in each of N periods (N being a natural number less than K) selected randomly from continuous K periods (K being a natural number greater than or equal to 2) to a timing that is delayed by a random first time from a start time of the period.
US10983198B2	Objective sensor, objective sensor dirt determination method, and object detection device An objective sensor, a dirt determination method thereof, and an object detection device according to the present invention, individually transmit transmission waves in a plurality of mutually different directions and receive the respective reflected wave thereof, through a protective member, so as to measure, with the plurality of directions as a plurality of measurement points, a transmission and reception time and the intensity of the reflected wave for each of the plurality of measurement points. Then, the objective sensor, the dirt determination method thereof, and the object detection device extract, as dirt candidate points, the measurement points each having the transmission and reception time shorter than a first threshold time and the intensity equivalent to or more than threshold intensity, regard the dirt candidate points that have been extracted, as the dirt points in a case where the dirt candidate points continue for a second threshold time or more, and acquire the dirt point distributions on the basis of the dirt points. Then, the presence or absence of dirt on the protective member is determined, on the basis of the dirt point distributions that have been acquired.
US10983197B1	Adaptive emitter and receiver for Lidar systems A Lidar system and method is provided for adaptive control. The Lidar system comprises: an array of emitters each of which is individually addressable and controlled to emit a multi-pulse sequence, at least a subset of the emitters are activated to emit multi-pulse sequences concurrently according to an emission pattern; an array of photosensors each of which is individually addressable, at least a subset of the photosensors are enabled to receive light pulses according to a sensing pattern, each of the subset of photosensors is configured to detect returned light pulses returned and generate an output signal indicative of an amount of optical energy associated with at least a subset of the light pulses; and one or more processors electrically coupled to the array of emitters and the array of photosensors and configured to generate the emission pattern and the sensing pattern based on one or more real-time conditions.
US10983181B2	Magnetic sensor A magnetic sensor whose output characteristic is less sensitive to the environmental temperature is provided. Magnetic sensor 1 has free layer 24 whose magnetization direction changes in response to an external magnetic field, pinned layer 22 whose magnetization direction is fixed with respect to the external magnetic field, spacer layer 23 that is located between pinned layer 22 and free layer 24 and that exhibits a magnetoresistance effect, and at least one magnet film 25 that is disposed on a lateral side of free layer 24 and that applies a bias magnetic field to free layer 24. A relationship of 0.7 ≤TC_HM/TC_FL≤1.05 is satisfied, where TC_HM is Curie temperature of the magnet film, and TC_FL is Curie temperature of the free layer.
US10983177B2	Magnetic field shaping components for magnetic field measurement systems and methods for making and using A magnetic field measurement system includes at least one magnetometer; and at least one flux concentrator made of a high magnetic permeability material and configured to receive magnetic field signals from a source, to concentrate the magnetic field signals or reorient the magnetic field signals in a preselected direction, and to direct the concentrated or reoriented magnetic field signals toward at least one of the at least one magnetometer. In addition to, or as an alternative to, the flux concentrator, the system can include a passive shield made of the high magnetic permeability material. The system may also include active shielding.
US10983173B2	Active current monitor A current monitor for a transmission line having powered active components is provided. A current monitor includes: a housing configured to be coupled to a transmission line, an inductive current sensor in the housing configured to measure a value of the current on the transmission line to generate a sensor signal, a power source, and a sensor signal conversion circuit in the housing configured to receive power from the power source and to generate a current output signal based on the sensor signal, the current output signal having a natively useful form.
US10983164B2	Test apparatus A test apparatus may include transceivers and a global de-skew circuit. In a training mode, the transceivers provide first timing information obtained by delaying a first data signal in the range of up to a preset unit interval based on a clock signal and receive second timing information corresponding to timing differences between a slowest transceiver and the remaining transceivers. In an operation mode, the transceivers provide compensation data to a plurality of DUTs (Devices Under Test) substantially simultaneously. The compensation data may be obtained by delaying a second data signal by multiples of the preset unit interval in response to the second timing information. In the training mode, the global de-skew circuit receives the first timing information, calculates, using the first timing information, the timing differences between the slowest transceiver and the remaining transceivers, and provides the second timing information corresponding to the timing differences to the transceivers.
US10983156B2	Panel for audible monitoring of electrical components and the detection of electrical faults Embodiments of the present disclosure may enable an electrical component within an electrical distribution equipment cabinet to be audibly monitored via an electrical fault detection device mounted on the housing of the cabinet. The electrical fault detection device may comprise a sensor to detect a signal emitted from an electrical fault within the cabinet, a transducer to convert the detected signal into an electrical audio signal, and an output socket adapted for an external device that may generate an audible sound based on the detected signal. The detected sensor may be an ultrasound sensor and the detected signal may be an ultrasound emitted from the electrical fault.
US10983153B1	Stray voltage detection system for protecting against electric shock drowning A stray voltage detection system for detecting a stray voltage in pool water within a pool The system comprises a pair of elongate conductive elements, with one of the elongate conductive elements having a detector electrode end and a terminal end, and with the other elongate conductive element having a reference electrode end and a terminal end. The detector electrode end is positioned adjacent to an electrical fixture within the pool and the reference electrode end is positioned opposite from the detector electrode end. The terminal ends are connected to a microprocessor for measuring a voltage between the detector electrode end and reference electrode end. A voltage detection system for a pier, with the system having a pair of elongate conductive elements attached to a pair of corresponding pier pilings on opposite sides of a pier deck, and with the pair of conductive elements for measuring a voltage between the conductive elements.
US10983151B2	Resistive-sensor interface A device to read a variable resistor has an analog to digital converter (ADC), a first switch and a second switch. The ADC has a first ADC input, a second ADC input and an ADC output. The first switch selectively couples a first voltage indicative of a voltage across a first resistance to the first ADC input. The second switch selectively couples a second voltage indicative of a voltage across a second resistance to the second ADC input. The ADC outputs a signal indicative of a value of the second resistance.
US10983149B2	Inrush current test device An inrush current test device is adapted to receive an alternating current. The inrush current test device includes: a first isolation coupling component, a positive crossing point pulse generation circuit, an output circuit, and a control circuit. The first isolation coupling component includes a primary side and a secondary side, and is responsive to the alternating current on the primary side and conducts the secondary side. When the secondary side transits from an off state to an on state, the positive crossing point pulse generation circuit generates a positive crossing point pulse. When the control circuit is actuated and the positive crossing point pulse is detected, after delaying for a delay time, the control circuit outputs a control pulse for actuating the output circuit for a first operating time. The output circuit is configured to receive the alternating current and output the alternating current when the output circuit is actuated.
US10983145B2	System for testing devices inside of carriers An example test system includes a carrier having a test socket to receive a device to test. The test socket includes electrical connections. The test system also includes a lid assembly having a socket cap to contact the device to apply pressure to cause the device to connect electrically to the electrical connections. The socket cap includes a material having a thermal conductivity that exceeds a defined value. The lid assembly also includes one or more structures configured to provide surface area over which heat from the device dissipates. The one or more structures are made of a material having a thermal conductivity that exceeds the defined value.
US10983141B2	Excitation circuit, system including excitation circuit and capacitive transducer, and method A system includes a capacitive transducer, an excitation circuit, and a measuring circuit. The excitation circuit is configured to excite the capacitive transducer and the measuring circuit measures an output signal from the capacitive transducer responsive to the excitation voltage. The excitation circuit includes a voltage source for providing a first voltage in response to receipt of a supply voltage, a voltage generator coupled to the voltage source for receiving the first voltage and generating a second voltage that is greater than the supply voltage, and a control circuit coupled to the voltage source and the voltage generator. The control circuit is configured to provide any of a system ground, the first voltage, and the second voltage to first and second terminals of the capacitive transducer, and particularly, being configured to apply the system ground and the second voltage in the form of two consecutive stimuli with opposite polarities.
US10983139B1	Levitated charged nanoparticles as a radio frequency transducer A system includes a vacuum chamber to receive a laser beam and a charged nanoparticle. The nanoparticle oscillates at a trapping frequency in a focus of the laser beam. Resonant oscillation of the nanoparticle is driven by a presence of an ambient electric field adjacent to the vacuum chamber. The system also includes a controller to tune the trapping frequency of an oscillating nanoparticle to be in resonance with the ambient electric field causing on-resonant enhancement of the system; a detector to detect positional changes of the oscillating nanoparticle; and a processor to calculate an electromagnetic force of the ambient electric field based on the positional changes of the oscillating nanoparticle.
US10983137B2	Diagnosis of leukocyte-mediated disease and halogen gas exposure Described are glutathione adducts of fatty aldehydes (FALD-GSH) and methods useful in the detection of FALD-GSH in the identification of pathologies associated with leukocyte-mediated disease conditions, including eosinophil and neutrophil activation. Thus, the present disclosure provides methods of diagnosing a subject as having or being at risk of developing a leukocyte-mediated disease (LMD) comprising (a) detecting the level of glutathione adducts of 2-halofatty aldehydes (FALD-GSH) in a sample; (b) comparing the amount of FALD-GSH with a control or standard reflective of diseased and/or healthy levels of FALD-GSH; and (c) diagnosing the subject as having or being at risk of developing LMD if the level of FALD-GSH in the sample is higher than the control or standard.
US10983135B2	Diagnostic and prognostic methods for cardiovascular diseases and events Compositions and methods are provided for diagnosis and/or prognosis of cardiovascular diseases or events in a subject. In some embodiments, the method includes measuring and comparing the level of particular proteins to other proteins. In other embodiments, the method includes comparison with clinical variable information.
US10983133B2	Diagnosis and treatment of Kawasaki disease Described is a method of diagnosing, treating, or monitoring a treatment for Kawasaki disease in a subject. The method includes detecting the level of a biomarker in a sample obtained from the subject, the biomarker being IL-7F, sCD40L, MPIF-1, E-selectin, IP-10, or IL-33. The level is compared to a cut-off level. Also described is a kit for carrying out the method.
US10983116B2	System, device and method for high-throughput multi-plexed detection The present invention relates to a system, device, and method for the high throughput multiplexed detection of a wide number of compounds. The invention comprises of a microwell array coupled to a capture agent array to form a plurality of interfaces between a microwell and a set of immobilized capture agents. The set of capture agents comprises a plurality of distinguishable features, with each feature corresponding to the detection of a particular compound of interest. In certain embodiments, each microwell is configured to contain a single cell. The invention is therefore capable of performing a high throughput analysis of single cell profiles, including profiles of secreted compounds.
US10983112B2	Bile acid biomarkers for Niemann-Pick diseases, methods and uses therefor Methods for identification and quantification of bile acids are disclosed. Bile acids in plasma, serum and/or blood such as a dried blood spot are used to identify subjects with a Niemann-Pick disease. The methods include measuring levels of a bile acid, such as 3β,5α,6β-trihydroxycholanic acid, N-(3β,5α,6β-trihydroxy-cholan-24-oyl)glycine, N-(3β,5α,6β-trihydroxy-cholan-24-oyl)taurine, or a combination thereof. Detection of bile acids involve mass spectroscopy and/or a combination of mass spectroscopy and liquid chromatography such as a LC-MS/MS assay. The methods can be used with sphingomyelinase assays to detect, diagnose and differentiate between Niemann-Pick A/B and Niemann-Pick C (NPC) disease.
US10983105B2	Rotating apparatus and method for measuring acid-rock reaction characteristics in high temperature and pressure An apparatus for controlling acid-rock reaction includes a first reactor, a second reactor connected to the first reactor and configured to produce a spent acid through reaction of a rock with an acid aqueous solution and to introduce the spent acid into the first reactor, the first reactor being configured to react a rock disk with the spent acid introduced from the second reactor, a sample extractor connected to the first reactor and configured to extract, from the first reactor, a predetermined amount of the spent acid reacting with the rock disk in the first reactor, and a data acquisition device configured to acquire temperature and pressure data of the first reactor and the second reactor and control the first reactor and the second reactor based on he acquired temperature and pressure data of the first reactor and the second reactor.
US10983100B2	Trimethylamine-containing compounds for diagnosis and prediction of disease The present invention provides markers and methods for determining whether a subject, particularly a human subject, has or is at risk of developing, a disease such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, NAFLD (Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease) or NASH (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis) (e.g., within the ensuing year, two years, and/or three years). The present application also relates to the use of such markers and methods for monitoring the status of such diseases in a subject or the effects of therapeutic agents on subjects with such diseases.
US10983097B2	Automatic mechanical systems diagnosis A method for automatic diagnosis of a mechanical system of a group of mechanical systems sharing mechanical characteristics includes obtaining data relating to a vibration. The vibration-related data is acquired by a portable communications device configured to communicate with a remote processor. The processor automatically diagnoses the mechanical system by applying a relationship to the obtained vibration-related data. The relationship is based on sets of vibration-related data previously obtained from the mechanical systems. Each set of vibration-related data relates to vibrations of a mechanical system. The relationship is further based on sets of operation data previously obtained for mechanical systems of the group. Each set of operation data indicates a previous state of operation of a mechanical system. Each of the previous states of operation is associated with at least one of the previously obtained sets of vibration-related data.
US10983096B2	Guided wave testing An apparatus for guided wave testing of a test object comprises a linear array of receiver electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs), and at least one linear array of transmitter EMATs disposed substantially parallel to the linear array of receiver EMATs and configured to launch guided waves in said test object in a direction substantially perpendicular to the at least one linear array of transmitter EMATs. Either (i) transmitter coils of the at least one linear array of transmitter EMATs have a common winding direction, receiver coils of adjacent receiver EMATs have alternating winding directions, and receiver coils of at least two adjacent receiver EMATs are connected in series, or (ii) transmitter coils of the transmitter EMATs have alternating winding directions, receiver coils of adjacent receiver EMATs have a common winding direction, and receiver coils of at least two adjacent receiver EMATs are connected in series.
US10983093B2	Resonant chemical sensor comprising a functionalisation device and method for the production thereof A chemical sensor including at least one resonant detection structure, the detection structure including at least one layer based on a porous material, the pores of which are covered with at least one functionalization layer that can adsorb or absorb at least one chemical species.
US10983092B2	Acoustic sensor An acoustic sensor comprises a side wall closed at each end by an end wall to form a cavity which, in use, contains a fluid. At least one transmitter and at least one receiver are operatively associated with one of the end walls. A maximum half width, a, of the cavity and a height, h, of the cavity satisfies the following inequality: a/h is greater than 1.2. In use, the transmitter causes oscillatory motion of the region of the end wall operatively associated with the transmitter, in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the end walls such that the perpendicular oscillations of the end walls drive substantially in-plane oscillations of the fluid pressure in the cavity. The substantially in-plane oscillations in the pressure of the fluid drive substantially perpendicular oscillatory motion of the region of the end wall operatively associated with the receiver, resulting in an electrical signal from the receiver.
US10983075B2	Device and method for analysing a defect of a photolithographic mask or of a wafer The present application relates to a scanning probe microscope comprising a probe arrangement for analyzing at least one defect of a photolithographic mask or of a wafer, wherein the scanning probe microscope comprises: (a) at least one first probe embodied to analyze the at least one defect; (b) means for producing at least one mark, by use of which the position of the at least one defect is indicated on the mask or on the wafer; and (c) wherein the mark is embodied in such a way that it may be detected by a scanning particle beam microscope.
US10983073B2	Hybrid inspection system A hybrid inspection system of the present invention is an inspection system including a first inspection device (1) for inspecting a sample (11) based on X-ray measurement data obtained by irradiating the sample (11) with X-rays, and a second inspection device (2) for inspecting the sample (11) by a measuring method using no X-rays. The X-ray measurement data obtained by the first inspection device or an analysis result of the X-ray measurement data is output to the second inspection device (2). In the second inspection device (2), the structure of the sample (11) is analyzed by using the X-ray measurement data input from the first inspection device (1) or the analysis result of the X-ray measurement data.
US10983059B2	Sparsity-based super-resolution correlation microscopy An imaging apparatus (20) includes an interface (50) and a processor (30). The interface is configured to receive a sequence of images of an object (38) acquired at respective acquisition times, the object is labeled with fluorescent emitters. The images depict intensity fluctuations of emitters on an acquisition grid, and the intensity fluctuations being uncorrelated among the emitters and during an overall time over which the images in the sequence are acquired. The a processor is configured to calculate a temporal correlation function of the intensity fluctuations over the sequence of images, and to estimate locations of the emitters on a super-resolution grid having a higher resolution than the acquisition grid, by applying to the temporal correlation function a recovery process in which the locations on the super-resolution grid are assumed to be sparse or compressible in a predefined domain. The recovery process includes a sparse-recovery process or a regularized process.
US10983058B1	Device and method for visualization of fluorophores A device and method are described for the naked eye visualization of fluorophores. The device has a light source capable of exciting fluorophores, a rack to receive one or more fluorophores and a window through which test tubes can be observed. The method provides a means for inferring the conformational state of molecules from the amount of fluorescence emitted by the fluorophores.
US10983056B2	Apparatus for detecting pH and dissolved oxygen Embodiments of a cell culture monitoring system are disclosed that may include a device having collimating and filtering components to elicit and detect fluorescence from a substrate located within a reaction vessel. The device may be used to detect changes in pH and dissolved oxygen levels in a liquid contained in the reaction vessel due to growth of living cells. Excitation light beams can be generated and collimated by a beam combiner and directed into the reaction vessel so as to be incident upon the substrate to cause the substrate to fluoresce. Some embodiments include use of expected wavelength offsets and shifted filters/mirrors to improve functionality and reduce space of device components.
US10983055B2	Sample observation apparatus A sample observation apparatus includes a light source unit, an illumination optical system, a detection optical system, a light detection element, and an image processing apparatus. The scanning unit relatively moves the light spot and the sample. An optical member is disposed. The illumination optical system and the detection optical system are disposed such that an image of a pupil of the illumination optical system is formed at a pupil position of the detection optical system. The image of the pupil of the illumination optical system is decentered relative to a pupil of the detection optical system due to refraction caused by the sample. The illumination optical system, the detection optical system, and the optical member are configured such that quantity of light passing through the pupil of the detection optical system changes by decentering.
US10983034B2	Assembly for storing and transporting tissue samples immersed in a fluid A method and system for processing a sample in a fluid is provided. An assembly comprising a cap prefilled with a fixative solution, a valve, and a container for storing a tissue sample are provided. The valve is adapted to be situated between the cap and the container such that fluid can flow from the cap into the container when the assembly is upright, but the fluid cannot backflow from the container to the cap when the assembly is horizontal or inverted.
US10983033B2	Disposable cartridge for preparing a sample fluid containing cells for analysis A disposable cartridge includes parallel first and second preparation units. An analysis unit may be coupled to both the first preparation unit and the second preparation unit. The analysis unit has a compartment that receives the contents of the at least one pressable chamber of the first preparation unit and the contents of the at least one pressable chamber of the second preparation unit. Upon opening the at least one frangible seal of the first preparation unit, the contents of the at least one pressable chamber of the first preparation unit flows into the compartment of the analysis unit. Further, upon opening the at least one frangible seal of the second preparation unit, the contents of the at least one pressable chamber of the second preparation unit flows into the compartment of the analysis unit.
US10983032B2	Automatic control of the separation and collection of fluid An apparatus for automatically separating and collecting a fluid stream into multiple portions, including a tubing to receive the fluid stream, a plurality of valves attached to the tubing in spaced relation along the length of the tubing and a plurality fluid collection containers attached to the valves. A controller controls the activation of the plurality of valves to collect and separate portions of the fluid stream in the plurality of the fluid collection containers. A flow meter detects the flow of the fluid stream in the tubing and measures a flow rate of the fluid stream. The controller activates the valves based on the detection of the fluid and the flow rate. The controller also activates the valves based on the timing of the fluid stream. The controller also monitors the flow rate over time and activates the valves in sequence based on the flow rate.
US10983031B2	Method for producing sample slice A method for producing a sample slice includes providing a disk, providing a jig on the disk for supporting side portions of a material, providing the material inside the jig, providing a pillar assembly on the jig, the pillar assembly that includes a first base member having a plurality of through holes, a second base member detachably mounted to said first base member, and a plurality of pillars supported between said first and second base members and arranged to be exposed through the plurality of holes, inserting the plurality of pillars into the material, solidifying the material, separating the jig and the pillar assembly to remove the material from the jig, and cutting a sample slice from the material with a cutter.
US10983028B2	Planetary gear arrangement In a planetary gear arrangement with a planetary gear which includes a rotating part and a non-rotating part, and with a sensor module for sensing properties of the planetary gear, the sensor module includes a sensor as well as a first sending/receiving unit and a second sending/receiving unit, wherein the sensor and the first sending/receiving unit are coupled and arranged at the rotating part, and wherein the second sending/receiving unit is arranged at the non-rotating part, wherein the first sending/receiving unit and the second sending/receiving unit are configured for being inductively coupled, wherein the first sending/receiving unit includes an energy storage, wherein the energy storage is configured for being charged during each turn of the rotating part for powering the sensor via the first sending/receiving unit in order to perform measurements.
US10983026B2	Methods of updating data in a virtual model of a structure Method and apparatus for updating data descriptive of procedure within a structure to generate a user interface with a representation of the structure from a vantage point and according to a direction of interest. Data is generated by a sensor that records aspects of a procedure and a position of the condition is determined via wireless communications with multiple reference point transceivers. An augmented virtual model viewing interface is generated with positional coordinates and conditions related to the procedure.
US10983025B2	System and method of monitoring a diagnostic system of a process control system Monitoring systems and methods for a relief valve system. In one example, a monitoring system for a relief valve includes at least one tilt sensor coupled to one or more of a cover or a latch of the relief valve. The at least one tilt sensor is associated with an interface. Upon detection by the at least one tilt sensor that one of the cover is open or the latch is unlocked, a signal is transmitted by the interface indicating one or more of the cover is open or the latch is unlocked.
US10983020B2	System and method for reconstruction of explosion blast and blast loading on humans using pressure sensor data A system for reconstruction of an explosion blast loading on a subject can include at least two pressure sensors and a computing system configured to: receive sensor data from the at least two pressure sensors, the sensor data being generated in response to an explosion blast wave; compute an explosion location and explosive charge mass of an explosive that caused the explosion blast wave based on the sensor data; and compute explosion blast loading on a subject from the explosion location and explosive charge mass. The pressure sensors can be configured as wearable pressure sensors or on equipment. The computing of the explosion location and explosive charge mass includes processing the sensor data through an inverse problem solver (IPS); and/or the computing of the explosion blast loading on the subject includes simulating the explosion blast wave with a forward problem solver (FPS).
US10983011B2	Lifetime determining technique for a solid electrolytic capacitor and system for the same A system and method for determining the lifetime of a capacitor element, specifically a capacitor element comprising a solid electrolyte that undergoes oxidation, is provided. The system and method utilize a capacitor element comprising an anode body, a dielectric, and a solid electrolyte, and may also comprise other stages of the production of a capacitor. The system and method provide an estimation of the life of the capacitor while considering the oxidation of the solid electrolyte.
US10983005B2	Spectroscopic overlay metrology A spectroscopic overlay metrology system and corresponding spectroscopic overlay metrology methods are disclosed herein for improving overly measurement accuracy, optimizing overlay recipes, and/or minimizing (or eliminating) asymmetry-induced overly error from overlay measurements. An exemplary method includes generating a diffraction spectrum by an overlay target from incident radiation having more than one wavelength. The diffraction spectrum includes a plurality of positive ordered diffracted beams and a plurality of negative ordered diffracted beams that are separated by wavelength, such that the diffraction spectrum includes more than one wavelength of a positive order and a negative order. The method further includes collecting intensity information associated with the diffraction spectrum generated by the overlay target from the incident radiation, and generating overlay information from the collected intensity information, where the overlay information includes contributions from asymmetry-induced overlay error. In some implementations, the method includes optimizing an overlay recipe based on the generated overlay information.
US10983003B2	High-performance on-chip spectrometers and spectrum analyzers We disclose an on-chip photonic spectroscopy system capable of dramatically improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), dynamic range, and reconstruction quality of Fourier transform spectrometers. Secondly, we disclose a system of components that makes up a complete on-chip RF spectrum analyzer with low-cost and high-performance.
US10982993B2	Overload detection processing apparatus, overload detection system and computer-readable recording medium storing program An overload detection processing apparatus, an overload detection system and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program capable of determining overload more accurately are provided. An overload detection processing apparatus for determining a vehicle whose loading weight exceeds a predetermined reference is provided with a processor. The processor acquires a determination value relating to magnitude of deformation of a tire from image data obtained by photographing the tire of the vehicle and determines whether or not the loading weight of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined reference based on data corresponding to the determination value and a situation relating to the tire.
US10982987B2	Device for powder metering for chemical production processes under clean-room conditions, use thereof and metered addition method Device for metering powder, in particular in clean-rooms, which includes a vessel containing powder and a sealing head with a septum for the vessel, wherein the sealing head is connectable powder-tight with the vessel and the septum powder-tight with the sealing head and the device further includes a vessel holder, which serves to hold the sealing head of the vessel, and the vessel with its opening points downwards, so that the powder can flow out of the vessel, wherein a gap is provided between the sealing head and a holding bowl of the vessel holder, in which a gas flow between the holding bowl and the sealing head can be created. The invention also relates to a use of the device and a metered addition method.
US10982977B2	Pulse signal generator and angle detection system including the same A pulse signal generator suitable for generating a two-phase pulse signal required as information of a rotation angle of a motor from a motor control device is provided. According to an embodiment, the pulse signal generator includes: a compensation unit that outputs a compensation signal for compensating for the deviation between the angle information representing the rotation angle of the rotor provided in the resolver and the fed back angle information; a counter pulse output unit that outputs a counter pulse having a frequency corresponding to the compensation amount of the compensation signal and code information representing the sign of the compensation signal, and a pulse processing unit that outputs a count value by a counter as the angle information, which counts the pulse according to the code information, the pulse processing unit generating two-phase pulse signals PA and PB using the values of the counter.
US10982973B2	Position change measuring device A position change measuring device which measures a change in position of a target object and includes a base member, a press member which is movable following a change in position of the target object, an elastic member which produces heat when contracting or absorbs heat when expanding, a heat flux sensor which outputs a signal as a function of a rate of heat flux transferred inside or outside the elastic member, and a diaphragm unit which is made of elastically deformable material. The diaphragm unit is retained by the base member in contact with the press member and works to produce force of resilience to recover the elastic member to its initial state when the elastic member contracts or expands in response to movement of the press member. This structure improves a response rate for sensing a change in position of the target object with high accuracy.
US10982969B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for lane-level route guidance A method is provided for establishing determining lane-level route guidance, and more particularly, to establishing recommended lane-level guidance between an origin and a destination based on a safe, efficient, or popular path. Methods may include receiving a plurality of probe data points from a plurality of probe apparatuses, each probe apparatus traveling between a respective origin and destination pair; determining a lane-level maneuver pattern for each probe apparatus between the origin and the destination; providing for storage of the lane-level maneuver patterns for each probe apparatus in the memory; grouping together lane-level maneuver patterns for probe apparatuses having an origin and destination pair within a predefined similarity of origin and destination pairs of other apparatuses; and generating a lane-level maneuver pattern for each group based on at least one of a popularity, efficiency, or relatively safe lane-level maneuver pattern for the respective group.
US10982968B2	Sensor fusion methods for augmented reality navigation Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to providing an Augmented Reality (AR) navigation display in a vehicle. More specifically, embodiments are directed to rendering AR indications of a navigation route over a camera video stream in perspective. According to one embodiment, visual tracking can be performed on features in the video data and camera pose, i.e., a matrix encapsulating position and orientation, can be determined for each frame of video based on both the visual tracking and navigation sensor data. These separately determined camera poses can then be merged or fused into a single camera pose that is more accurate and more stable and which can then be used in rendering more realistic AR route indicators onto the video of the real-world route captured by the camera.
US10982965B2	Systems and methods for providing navigation directions based on emotions and activities Systems and methods are described for improved navigation assistance by providing overview directions focusing on points where other users tend to make mistakes or display emotional responses, such as stress, that indicate that they feel they may make mistakes. In an exemplary method, a navigation process receives information about a present user's navigation route, the present user's status, and the user history. The navigation service compiles the received information and determines an enhanced navigation route.
US10982962B2	V2X location accuracy enhancement A system includes a camera and a processor. The processor is programmed to determine a first location of the vehicle using wireless signals; responsive to determining that the first location is within an urban area, capture an image of a fixed-location device along a roadway using the camera; identify a device location of the fixed-location device; and update the first location in comparison with the device location to generate a second location of the vehicle.
US10982961B2	Vehicle control system and vehicle control device This vehicle control system (1) is configured from a vehicle control device (2) installed in a vehicle and a server (40) connected to the vehicle control device (2) via a network. The server (40) is equipped with: a virtual lane generation section which generates virtual lane information relating to a virtual lane virtually set on a road on the basis of at least the travelling locus of another vehicle other than the vehicle; and a server communication section (42) which transmits, to the vehicle control device, the virtual lane information generated by the virtual lane generation section. The vehicle control device (2) is equipped with: a vehicle communication section (14) which receives the virtual lane information from the server (40); a target course generation section (28) which generates a target course of the vehicle on the basis of the virtual lane information; a vehicle control section (39) which causes the vehicle to move along the target course generated by the target track generation section (28).
US10982955B2	Ultrasonic measurement of surface profile and average diameter of a tube Disclosed is a system and method for ultrasonic measurement of the average diameter and surface profile of a tube. A calibration block is used to calibrate the average tube diameter, and a correction is applied to account for any temperature difference of the couplant between calibration and test measurements. By using a linear probe, or a single probe with a finely pitched helicoidal scan, errors in diameter measurement due to presence of surface pits may be compensated.
US10982954B2	Structured light projector and electronic apparatus including the same A structured light projectors includes an illuminator configured to emit illumination light, a pattern mask configured to project structured light by partially transmitting the illumination light, and a lens configured to project the structured light, wherein the pattern mask includes a first lens distortion compensation region including a plurality of opaque first light shielding patterns having a first pattern width, respectively, and a second lens distortion compensation region surrounding the first lens distortion compensation region, the second lens distortion compensation region including a plurality of opaque second light shielding patterns having a second pattern width, respectively, wherein the second pattern width is less than the first pattern width.

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