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US10992424B2	Method and device for determining resource selection window on basis of information related to sidelink HARQ feedback in wireless communication system According to an embodiment, proposed herein is an operating method of a first apparatus in a wireless communication system. The method may include the steps of determining a first region for selecting resources related to transmission of sidelink information, and adjusting the first region to a second region based on information related to sidelink HARQ feedback.
US10992416B2	Forward error correction with compression coding Compression coding may be used with forward error correction (FEC) coding to provide higher information rates by reducing the proportion of redundant bits relative to information bits that are transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. In one example, first determiners and second determiners are calculated from a set of information bits, where each first determiner is calculated from a different first subset of the information bits along a first dimension, and each second determiner is calculated from a different second subset of the information bits along a second dimension that differs from the first dimension. First and second nubs are calculated from the first and second determiners, respectively, each nub comprising a number of redundant bits that is less than the number of bits in the determiners from which the nub is calculated. The information bits and the nubs are transmitted over one or more communications channels.
US10992412B2	Transmitter for cancelling simultaneous switching noise and data transmission method in the same Disclosed are a transmitter capable of cancelling simultaneous switching noise while ensuring low costs and a small area and a data transmission method in the same. The transmitter includes an encoder configured to convert input data of two levels (1 and 0) into data of three levels (+1, 0, and −1) and an output unit configured to output the data converted by the encoder. Here, the encoder adds 1 bit to the input data such that the number of bits corresponding to logic 1 becomes an even number. In addition, a specific correlation is established between currents or voltages corresponding to at least two levels of levels “+1”, “0”, and “−1” so that “+1” and “−1” corresponding to the logic 1 are alternately arranged and a current flowing through a power line or a ground line is constant regardless of the input data.
US10992411B2	System and method for high reliability transmission with superposition modulation aided network coding Systems and methods described herein employ wireless physical network coding (WPNC) together with superposition modulation to support a highly reliable transmission. Embodiments include a composite constellation for carrying the side information that avoids use of extra resources. In additional embodiments, the MIMO, multi-stream transmission and multi-user superposition transmission (MUST) configurations are configured to utilize superposition modulation signaling.
US10992396B1	Systems and methods for mapping resource blocks to network slices A RAN node may determine an aggregate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of each resource block of a plurality of resource blocks, where the aggregate SNR of a given resource block of the plurality of resource blocks is based on SNRs of subcarrier frequencies of the given resource block. The RAN node may determine, based on a type of network traffic on each network slice of a plurality of network slices, an index value of each network slice of the plurality of network slices. The RAN node may map, based on the aggregate SNR of each resource block, based on the index value of each network slice, and for each resource block of the plurality of resource blocks, a resource block of the plurality of resource blocks to a network slice of the plurality of network slices.
US10992387B2	Port replicator A method of combining optical signals from a plurality of optical fibers into a single optical signal includes receiving, at corresponding optical-signal receivers optically coupled to corresponding trunk fibers, respective optical signals. The method further includes determining, by the corresponding optical-signal receivers, when each respective optical signal is received. When the respective optical signal is received, the method includes performing the following steps: converting, by the corresponding optical-signal receiver, the respective optical signal to a corresponding electrical signal; transmitting, by the corresponding optical-signal receiver, the corresponding electrical signal to a corresponding input channel of an electrical-multiplexing device; and configuring the electrical-multiplexing device to select the corresponding input channel. Configuring the electrical-multiplexing device to select the corresponding input channel causes the electrical-multiplexing device to transmit the corresponding electrical signal to an electro-optical converter configured to convert the corresponding electrical signal back to the respective optical signal.
US10992385B2	Apparatus and method for joint profile-based slicing of mobile access and optical backhaul Software Defined Networking concepts apply to access, fronthaul, backhaul and core networks of 5G mobile networks and beyond. Such network components currently have individual/segmented control planes and associated controllers to provide configurability, provisioning, and network slicing. This is because of technology disparity between these network components: access is wireless/cellular, backhaul and fronthaul are optical/fiber, and core is electrical/wire-line. A system/method is detailed that enables a coordinated and unified end-to-end slicing, wherein the coordination is provided in the system/method that (a) attaches to the respective controllers of these network components in real-time, (b) collects the connectivity topology of each network segment as the network evolves, (c) passes the slice-profile information (translating according to capabilities of that network segment to configure an end-to-end slice with a specified bandwidth requirement and service quality level), and (d) passes across a VLAN tag to be used across network segments to associate with the same slice.
US10992361B2	Determining precoding coefficients for fronthaul links in a cloud radio access network A split radio access network is provided that efficiently transmits beamforming coefficients from a distributed baseband unit device to a remote radio unit device to facilitate beamforming at the remote radio unit. The beamforming coefficients can be determined at the baseband unit device and transmitted along with the IQ data (data to be beamformed) to the remote radio unit device. Due to the large number of antenna ports however, there can still be a very large number of coefficients to transmit, and the disclosure provides for a compressed set of coefficients that reduces the overhead signaling requirements. Instead of sending coefficients for every kth antenna port, the system can select a subset of the coefficients corresponding to a set of k antenna ports which can be used by the remote radio unit to approximate the full set of beamforming coefficients.
US10992358B2	Signaling for resource allocation and scheduling in 5G-NR integrated access and backhaul Embodiments of apparatus and methods for signaling for resource allocation and scheduling in 5G-NR integrated access and backhaul are generally described herein. In some embodiments, User Equipment configured for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI) index in a channel state information (CSI) reference resource assumes a physical resource block (PRB) bundling size of two PRBs to derive the CQI index.
US10992356B2	Main bluetooth circuit of multi-member bluetooth device A main Bluetooth circuit of a multi-member Bluetooth device includes: a Bluetooth communication circuit; a data transmission circuit; and a control circuit arranged to operably conduct bidirectional packet transmission with a remote Bluetooth device through the Bluetooth communication circuit by utilizing a Bluetooth wireless transmission approach, and arranged to operably communicate data with other devices through the data transmission circuit. During the period in which the Bluetooth communication circuit conducts packet transmission with the remote Bluetooth device, an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit of the multi-member Bluetooth device sniffs packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device. When the control circuit has detected that the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit missed packets transmitted from the remote Bluetooth device, the control circuit is further arranged to operably transmit missing packets of the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit to the auxiliary Bluetooth circuit through the data transmission circuit.
US10992355B2	Electronic device including plurality of panel antennas and operating method thereof An operating method of an electronic device including a plurality of panel antennas and storing information about a plurality of codebooks includes: determining at least one panel antenna among the plurality of panel antennas based on environmental information; receiving control information from a base station; and selecting an optimal codebook among the plurality of codebooks based on the determined at least one panel antenna and the received control information.
US10992354B2	Differential quantization of precoder matrix In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE measures one or more reference signals to determine a channel state on a channel including M delay taps. The UE determines a first precoder matrix for selecting a set of beams from L beams transmitted from the base station on the channel. The UE determines a second precoder matrix for combining the set of beams. The second precoder matrix includes at least two groups of coefficients each including coefficients being normalized based on a respective reference coefficient. Each coefficient corresponds to a respective one beam of the L beams at a particular polarization on a respective one delay tap of the M delay taps. The UE quantizes coefficients of the second precoder. The UE transmits an indication of the second precoder matrix having quantized coefficients.
US10992350B2	Cross-sub-band quasi co-location signaling Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may configure a first sub-band and a second sub-band of a system bandwidth for communication with a user equipment (UE). The base station may determine a spatial quasi co-location (QCL) relationship between the first sub-band and the second sub-band and may transmit signaling to the UE that indicates the determined spatial QCL relationship. Upon receiving the signaling, the UE may derive, based on the indicated spatial QCL relationship, spatial parameters (e.g., beam width, pointing angle, etc.) for communication with the base station via the second sub-band. The spatial parameters may be derived based on spatial parameters used for reception of a downlink transmission from the base station via the first sub-band. Subsequently, the UE may communicate with the base station via the second sub-band using the derived spatial parameters.
US10992345B2	Method for low voltage broadband power line carrier communication Disclosed is a method for low voltage broadband power line carrier communication; when transmitting a physical layer protocol frame, short preambles are first transmitted to undergo automatic gain control, channel estimation, coarse-grained frequency offset compensation, and symbol synchronization; and then long preambles are transmitted to undergo automatic gain control, channel estimation, fine-grained frequency offset compensation, and symbol synchronization. Compared with the scheme of only transmitting long preambles, the present disclosure combines transmissions of short preambles and long preambles, which thus may quickly and accurately implement frequency offset compensation, automatic gain control, symbol synchronization, and channel estimation without sacrifice of precision, thereby achieving quick convergence, reducing resource overheads and time overheads, and enhancing system performance.
US10992341B2	Low-complexity beamforming for a multi-line communication system A multi-line digital transceiver configured to use low-complexity beamforming on at least some tones to boost effective SNR values for selected subscriber lines. In an example embodiment, the beamforming coefficients can be restricted to one-bit values or two-bit values, e.g., such that the corresponding beamforming computations can be implemented using only sign changes, swaps of the real and imaginary parts, and/or zeroing of some values, and without invoking any full-precision hardware multiplication operations. At least some embodiments can be run on a significantly simpler and/or less powerful vectoring engine than conventional beamforming solutions while still being able to provide nearly optimal beamforming SNR gains. In some embodiments, additional scaling by powers of two may be applied to at least some signals contributing to the beamforming, e.g., to satisfy power constraints for some or all of the subscriber lines.
US10992336B2	Identifying audio characteristics of a room using a spread code Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for identifying audio characteristics of a room using a spread code. In some embodiments, a first electronic device receives a spread spectrum signal from a second electronic device over an audio data channel. The first electronic device determines a time of receipt of the spread spectrum signal based on despreading. The first electronic device calculates an airtime delay based on the time of receipt and a time of transmission of the spread spectrum signal. The first electronic device determines a direction of the second electronic device based on the spread spectrum signal and beam forming techniques. The first electronic device adjusts playback of audiovisual content at the second electronic device and a third electronic device for a location based on the airtime delay and the direction.
US10992323B2	Early decoding termination for a memory sub-system A decoder can receive an indication that a portion of a codeword has been decoded during a decoding operation. The decoder can determine a group of candidate output values of the decoding operation for the portion of the codeword, and eliminate one or more candidate output values from the group of candidate output values based on a decoded check code for each of the group of candidate output values. In response to determining that all of the candidate output values have been eliminated from the group of candidate output values, the decoder can terminate the decoding operation.
US10992314B2	Residue number systems and methods for arithmetic error detection and correction A method and apparatus for detecting and correcting digit errors of arithmetic results and signed data represented in a redundant residue number system (RRNS) and further represented using a non-systematic method of complements suitable for processing by a complement based digital arithmetic of the full redundant range.
US10992307B2	Frequency signal generation apparatus and frequency signal generation system A frequency signal generation apparatus includes a light source, an atom cell with gaseous alkali metal atoms and a buffer gas enclosed therein, through which light output from the light source passes, and a container with a gas containing gas molecules in common with the buffer gas enclosed, housing the atom cell, wherein pressure of the common gas molecules is substantially the same within the atom cell and within the container.
US10992304B2	Methods and apparatuses for digitally controlled oscillator frequency resolution control An example apparatus (100) is for use for use with front-end circuitry (102) to transmit and receive radar wave signals, The apparatus (100) includes digital phase locked loop (PLL) circuitry (104) and a control circuit (106). The digital PLL circuitry (106) provides a chirp sequence with frequency modulated continuous wave signals (FMCW), the FMCW signals being chirps containing a start frequency and a stop frequency, representing a selected chirp bandwidth (BW). The digital PLL circuitry (104) includes the DCO circuit (108) which frequency resolution is configured and arranged to be tuned relative to the selected chirp BW, the frequency resolution configured in response to a selected level of capacitance. The control circuit (106) controls the selected level of capacitance used by the DCO circuit (108) by changing the frequency resolution of the DCO according to the selected chirp BW, wherein different frequency resolutions are used for a first selected chirp BW and for a second selected chirp BW.
US10992296B2	Circuit arrangement for the temperature-dependent actuation of a switching element The invention relates to a circuit arrangement (100) for the temperature-dependent actuation of a first switching element (S1), comprising an input terminal (EA) for accepting an input potential, an output terminal (AA) for transferring an output potential to a first control terminal (G1) of the first switching element (S1), and a temperature-dependent component (RT) which is connected between the input terminal (EA) and the output terminal (AA).
US10992281B2	Bulk acoustic wave resonator and method of manufacturing the same A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate; a lower electrode disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed to cover at least a portion of the lower electrode; an upper electrode disposed to cover at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer; and a passivation layer disposed to cover at least a portion of the upper electrode, wherein the passivation layer includes a non-trimming-processed portion disposed outside an active region of the bulk acoustic wave resonator in which portions of the lower electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and the upper electrode overlap, and having a thickness that is thicker than a thickness of a portion of the passivation layer disposed in the active region.
US10992273B2	Electronic device and operation method thereof Provided are an electronic device and an operation method thereof. The operation method of an electronic device for processing an audio signal may include obtaining viewing environment information related to sound intelligibility, processing an input audio signal by separating the input audio signal into a first channel including a primary signal and a second channel including an ambient signal based on the viewing environment information, processing the input audio signal based on a frequency band and based on the viewing environment information, and generating an output signal based on processing the input audio signal.
US10992266B2	Cascode amplifier bias A power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor and a bias circuit. The first transistor has a base configured to receive a first signal. The second transistor has an emitter connecting to a collector of the first transistor and a collector configured to output a second signal. The bias circuit is coupled to the first transistor and the second transistor. The bias circuit is configured to provide a direct current (DC) voltage at the collector of the second transistor about twice a DC voltage at the collector of the first transistor. The bias circuit is configured to provide an alternating current (AC) or radio frequency (RF) voltage at the collector of the second transistor about twice an AC or RF voltage at the collector of the first transistor.
US10992260B2	Oscillator device In an oscillator device that outputs a frequency signal based on an oscillation frequency of a crystal resonator and a frequency setting value, a frequency difference detector that obtains a difference value corresponding to a frequency difference between the output frequency of the oscillator device and an external clock signal and a temperature detector are disposed. An aging coefficient and a temperature characteristic coefficient are obtained based on a secular change of the difference value obtained in the frequency difference detector and a secular change of the detected temperature during a period where the external clock signal is obtained. Furthermore, a frequency correction value is calculated using the aging coefficient and the temperature characteristic coefficient during a holdover period, and the frequency correction value is added to the frequency setting value.
US10992257B2	State of health mechanisms for energy generation systems A method of monitoring state of health for an energy generation system includes receiving a measurement of a parameter of an electrical component in the PV energy generation system at an instance in time, referencing a look-up table containing several values of the parameter representing an expected degradation trend across a progression of time for the electrical component, comparing the measurement to an expected value of the expected degradation trend for a period of time corresponding to the instance in time, and initiating a preventative measure based upon the comparison between the measurement and the expected value of the expected degradation trend.
US10992245B2	Position estimation of permanent magnet synchronous machines through vibration induced saliency Technical solutions are described herein for position estimation of permanent magnet synchronous machines through vibration induced saliency. An example permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) includes a motor control system to provide input command to the motor to cause a position of the motor to change. The PMSM further includes a motor position estimation module configured to estimate the position of the motor. The estimation includes measuring a current Iabc across the motor. The estimation further includes extracting a filtered current Iabc_inj at a predetermined frequency from the current Iabc. The estimation further includes estimating the position of the motor based on the filtered current Iabc_inj.
US10992233B2	Sub-resonant mode dual control of DC-DC converter with secondary-side resonant tank A DC to DC power converter is described that includes a transformer, a primary side connected to a primary transformer winding, and a secondary side connected to a secondary transformer winding. The secondary side comprises inductor-capacitor (LC) circuitry at an input, and a plurality of diodes providing uncontrolled rectification. A controller controls switching of the switching circuitry to apply voltage pulses to the primary transformer winding. The voltage pulses are separated by zero-voltage periods. A switching frequency of the switching circuitry is less than the resonant frequency of the LC circuitry.
US10992217B2	Insulated power source and power conversion device To suppress a leakage current flowing through a parasitic capacitor of an insulated transformer of a high-side insulated power. The present invention suppresses a common mode current using a common mode reactor by focusing on the fact that a leakage current flowing through a parasitic capacitor of an insulated transformer of a high-side insulated power source resulting from a high-frequency signal generated due to an on/off operation of a high-side switching element is the common mode current. The common mode reactor reduces the common mode current and bears the high-frequency signal to prevent the high-frequency signal from being applied to the insulated transformer of the high-side insulated power source, suppress the leakage current flowing through the parasitic capacitor of the insulated transformer, and reduce an erroneous operation of the high-side switching element generated due to the leakage current flowing through the parasitic capacitor of the insulated transformer.
US10992212B2	Method of manufacturing a stator A method for manufacturing a stator includes the steps of: (1) providing a stator core module having a first stator fixture disposed on a first side of the stator core module, the first stator fixture is configured to support a first set of stator core junction portions in a fixed position; (2) providing a first crown module having a set of first crown junction portions and a first crown fixture to support the first set of first crown junction portions; (3) aligning the first stator fixture with the first crown fixture so that the first set of stator core junction portions are aligned with the first crown junction portions; and (4) joining the first set of stator core junction portions with the first crown junction portions.
US10992207B2	Electric static discharge protection for power tools A power tool has a housing, a motor disposed within the housing, a power supply circuit for providing power to the motor, a controller circuit for controlling the power provided to the motor, and an electric static discharge (ESD) protection circuit connected to the power supply circuit and the housing. The ESD protection circuit includes a first resistor connected to the power supply circuit and the housing. The first resistor may be a high impedance resistor. The ESD protection circuit may also have a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first resistor, a second resistor connected in series to the first resistor, and a second capacitor connected in series to the first capacitor and in parallel to the second resistor.
US10992205B2	Arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine The present invention relates to an arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine. The electrical machine comprises a rotor rotatably arranged around a rotation axis, a stator including a stator winding arranged radially outside of the rotor, a housing enclosing the rotor and the stator, at least one drain hole configured to drain a cooling fluid from the housing, at least one spraying device configured to spray cooling fluid on the stator winding and a pump configured to pump cooling fluid to the spraying device. The arrangement comprises a control unit, which is configured, when the electrical machine is in operation, to receive information of the temperature in at least one position of the stator winding and to control the pump such that it pumps a flow rate of the cooling fluid to the spraying device, which is related to the estimated temperature of the stator winding.
US10992204B2	Rotary electrical machine with optimised cooling The invention relates mainly to a rotary electrical machine including: a bearing (12); a stator (11) including a stator body (13); and a tubular ring (27), said stator body (13) being mounted braced in the ring (27); a cooling chamber (28) for circulating coolant liquid defined by an outer periphery of said tubular ring (27) and an inner periphery of said bearing (12); said bearing (12) including an intake and an outlet of coolant liquid, said machine including a separating wall (42) for separating said cooling chamber (28) extending between said intake and said outlet of coolant liquid, said separating wall (42) being added relative to said tubular ring (27) and including at the ends thereof attachment members for holding said wall (42) on said tubular ring (27).
US10992200B2	Electric motor with a clamping element An electric motor (1) comprising an armature (10) having a plurality of teeth (20), and slots (30) configured between the teeth (20), at least one winding (40), which is constituted by a winding conductor (42), wherein at least part of the winding (40) is accommodated within one of the slots (30), a first guide (52) and a second guide (52), respectively having a spacer (56) and a guide slot (54), configured within the slot (30), wherein a winding conductor section (44) of the winding conductor (42) is guided at least in one of the guide slots (54), and wherein the spacer (56) separates the winding conductor section (44) from the winding (40), wherein the free ends of the spacer (56) and the openings in the guide slots (54) are configured in a mutually facing arrangement.
US10992199B2	Hydroelectrical machine coil insulation method An insulation system and method are disclosed for insulating formed coils of hydroelectric machines, such as a hydroelectric generator. The system includes strand/turn insulation that may include one or more layers of different materials, depending upon the dielectric requirements. A ground wall insulation is applied over the group of turns. The coil may be sized in a slot cell section. Additional insulation layers are provided, including a slot corona suppression insulation that extends just beyond stator slots, a voltage grading layer, and an armor layer. Time temperature profiles and preheating may be used to cure coil sections via press and heat. The resulting system is suitable for installation in situ, and affords superior resistance to degradation.
US10992198B2	Motor A motor includes a stator including a stator core and teeth respectively protruding from the stator core, and coils respectively wound onto the teeth n (n is an integer of 3 or greater) turns. In a cross section in a first direction representing each of directions of protrusion of the teeth from the stator core, a k-th (k is an integer, 1
US10992186B2	Wireless power transmission device and method The present specification discloses a wireless power transmission device and method thereof. Here, the wireless power transmission device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a laser light source unit; a light output unit which emits laser light generated from the laser light source to a light receiving unit of the wireless power receiving device; and a control unit which controls shaping of the emitted light according to the angle of arrival with the light receiving unit so that an overfill loss is less than a predetermined threshold value. Here, the control unit detects the point at which the power conversion efficiency of the light receiving unit is highest, and sets and controls the power density value of the emitted light at the detected point.
US10992179B2	Wireless charging system with multi-coil scanning and learning A system, recharge apparatus, and method includes transmit coils positioned in a pattern to allow at least one of the transmit coils to establish a wireless link with a receive coil positioned in proximity of the recharge apparatus. A power source is coupled to the transmit coils and configured to selectively energize ones of the transmit coils to transfer power to the receive coil. An energy efficiency detection circuit is configured to detect an electrical response of each one of the transmit coils when energized by the power source, the electrical response indicative of an energy efficiency between the one of the transmit coils and the receive coil. The power source selectively energizes ones of the transmit coils, selected according to a statistical analysis of an historical record and the electrical response indicative of the energy efficiency meeting a minimum efficiency criterion for energy transfer to the receive coil.
US10992172B2	Power supply circuit An improved power supply circuit which includes a utility power source, a plurality of silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR1-SCR6), a first battery, a second battery, a first inductor, a second inductor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor and a plurality of power switch elements (Q1˜Q4). When the utility power source is in a positive half cycle, the SCR1 and the SCR6 are turned on; the SCR2, the SCR3, the SCR4 and the SCR5 are turned off; the Q1 is activated to make the electrical energy directed to the first capacitor through the diode of the Q3, and the voltage on the first capacitor is maintained at a constant. Meanwhile, the Q2 is turned off, the Q4 is operated to let the current flow through the second inductor to charge the second battery.
US10992168B2	Apparatus of power distribution and method of power distribution The power distribution device includes a power regulating device and a first auxiliary power distribution component. The power regulating device has a first output end connected to an AC power grid and a second output end. The first auxiliary power distribution component has a first movable end electrically connected to a load, a first fixed end electrically connected to the AC power grid and a second fixed end electrically connected to the second output end, and a ground line of the second fixed end is grounded. When the AC power grid is normal, the first movable end is connected to the first fixed end, such that the AC power grid supplies power to the load. And when the AC power grid is abnormal, the first movable end is connected to the second fixed end, such that the power regulating device supplies power to the load through the second output end.
US10992166B2	Vehicle redundant energy system In general, one or more loads on a vehicle can be connected to both a first voltage source on the vehicle and a backup vehicle power system on the vehicle. If the voltage provided by the first voltage source to the one or more loads satisfies a voltage threshold, the backup vehicle power system does not provide power to the one or more loads. However, if the voltage provided by the first voltage source to the one or more loads falls below the voltage threshold, the backup vehicle power system provides power to the one or more loads.
US10992164B2	Electric system and method for energizing the electric system An electric system is disclosed. The electric system comprises first and second battery subassemblies, an interrupter, and a system controller. The interrupter connects the first battery subassembly in series to the second battery subassembly via a switched current-limiting path in parallel with a switched non-current-limiting path. The first battery subassembly causes closing of the switched current-limiting path when an energizing trigger is applied to the electric system. The system controller causes closing of the switched non-current-limiting path when energized by the first and second battery subassemblies. The electric system may be integrated in an electric vehicle. A method for energizing an electric system is also disclosed.
US10992163B2	Mobile terminal The present invention relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly, a mobile terminal for transmitting and/or receiving power and data to or from another mobile terminal connected thereto through a cable. A first mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a memory configured to store data, a display unit configured to enable information to be input or output therethrough, an interface unit connected to a cable through which at least one of data and power is transmitted, and a controller, wherein the controller may obtain, through the cable, connection information about the first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal and may transmit or receive at least one of the data and the power to or from the second mobile through the cable. Accordingly, the first mobile terminal may transmit or receive power to or from another mobile terminal connected to the cable and may select a mobile terminal supplied with power and a mobile terminal supplying power from among a plurality of mobile terminals.
US10992151B2	Bidirectional power management techniques Power management techniques are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a bidirectional voltage converter circuit, and a control module that selectively operates the bidirectional voltage converter circuit in a charging mode and a delivery mode. The charging mode converts a voltage provided by an interface (e.g., a USB interface) into a charging voltage employed by an energy storage module (e.g., a rechargeable battery). Conversely, the delivery mode converts a voltage provided by the energy storage module into a voltage employed by the interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10992144B2	Battery balancing and current control with bypass circuit for load switch A circuit provides for regulating charge and discharge current of a battery. A bypass circuit is connected to a terminal of the battery and connected in parallel with a load switch. The bypass circuit may selectively direct a bypass current around the load switch. A controller can operate in plural modes to control the bypass circuit. In a first mode, the controller controls one or more parameters of the bypass current based on values corresponding to a current at the terminal, a voltage at the terminal, and/or a temperature of the battery. In a second mode, the controller controls the bypass circuit to disable the bypass current.
US10992143B2	Power bank with a plurality of stacked battery modules A power bank has a station and a plurality of battery modules. When the battery modules are stacked on the station, rechargeable batteries of the battery modules are electrically connected in parallel. When a charging port of the station is electrically connected to an external power supply, a charging-discharging control circuit of the station receives electric energy from the external power supply via the charging port and uses the received electric energy to charge the rechargeable batteries. When a discharging port of the station is electrically connected to an external electronic device, the charging-discharging control circuit transfers electric energy received from the rechargeable batteries to the external electronic device. Each of the battery modules is replaceable, and the total number of the battery modules of the power bank is adjustable.
US10992134B2	Load shedding system for both active and reactive power based on system perturbation The present disclosure relates to shedding loads based on perturbation of active power and perturbation of reactive power. For instance, a method includes receiving electrical measurements of a power system. The method includes detecting a contingency in the power system. The method includes determining perturbation of the active power and perturbation of reactive power in the power system based on the electrical measurements. The method includes shedding one or more loads of the power system due to the contingency based on the perturbation of the active power and the perturbation of reactive power.
US10992128B2	Battery reverse voltage prevention system and method The present invention relates to a battery reverse voltage prevention system, and more particularly, to a battery reverse voltage prevention system, which prevents current of a battery from flowing to a resistor by connecting an additional P-type channel MOSFET to a P-type channel MOSFET gate terminal in the related art in order to prevent opening/closing of a P-type channel MOSFET from being delayed due to a resistor installed to limit capacitance and dark current generated by the P-type channel MOSFET in a battery reverse voltage prevention system in the related art, which includes the P-type channel MOSFET, thereby reducing an opening/closing delay time of the P-type channel MOSFET in the related art.
US10992123B2	Protected idle mode bypassing power stage Circuits, systems and methods are provided wherein a bypass circuit provides an auxiliary current path to supply current from a power supply line to an electrical load. The bypass circuit is used during a low-power mode, and consumes less quiescent power than a main current path that provides current from the power supply line to the electrical load during normal operation. The bypass circuit includes a current limiter and a comparator, and generates a high-current detection signal responsive to the comparator detecting that a current through the current limiter exceeds a maximum allowed or expected current.
US10992120B2	Sidewall closeout area assembly, system, and method for routing conductive elements in an aircraft There is provided a sidewall closeout area assembly for an aircraft. The assembly includes a raceway with a first end to attach to a sidewall assembly, a second end to attach to aircraft floor structure(s), and a raceway body with first access opening(s) providing access to one or more of, a crown area and an underfloor area, for conductive elements routed along the raceway. The assembly further includes a raceway cover removably coupled to the raceway and having second access opening(s) providing access to the cabin and to an overfloor area in the cabin for the conductive elements. The assembly further includes a closeout area formed between the raceway body and the raceway cover, to house and protect the conductive elements. The assembly facilitates accessibility to the conductive elements, and provides a routing path for the conductive elements that does not need to be reconfigured for different aircraft cabin layouts.
US10992118B1	Wire stripping tool A wire stripping tool includes a shaft having a handle at a distal end and a wire cutting device at a proximal end. The wire cutting device is a circular metallic form the plane of which is secured centrally and perpendicular to the shaft. A plurality of notches is disposed about the circumference of the circular metallic form.
US10992112B2	Fouling resistant spark plugs A spark plug includes an insulative sleeve. A glaze coating is disposed on an exterior surface of the insulative sleeve. The glaze coating includes a boric acid, a borosilicate glass, a barium borate glass, a phosphorous glass, a silicate glass, or a combination thereof. The glasses are independently modified with a modifier selected from the group consisting of alkali group metals, alkali earth group metals, aluminum, silicon, a halogen, or a combination thereof. The glaze coating has a softening point between about 650° C. and about 1100° C.
US10992111B2	Lightning strike suppression type lightning protection device and lightning arrestor The occurrence of an upward streamer is effectively suppressed by reducing a positively charged region formed around a lightning protection device as much as possible. The lightning protection device includes: an inner electrode body 2 which is grounded; an outer electrode body 3 which is provided so as to enclose the inner electrode body 2 with a predetermined gap G from the inner electrode body 2; an electrical insulator S which is provided in the gap G to hold the inner electrode body 2 and the outer electrode body 3 in a state of being electrically insulated from each other; and a support body for the inner electrode body, in which the inner electrode body 2 is formed in a substantially spherical shape, the outer electrode body 3 is formed in a spherical shell shape similar to an outer surface shape of the inner electrode body 2, and substantially an entire surface of the inner electrode body 2 is covered by the outer electrode body 3.
US10992109B2	Electrically isolating vertical-emitting devices A device includes a substrate, a first vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array on the substrate, a second VCSEL array on the substrate and adjacent to the first VCSEL array, and an isolation structure between the first VCSEL array and the second VCSEL array. The isolation structure provides electrical isolation between the first VCSEL array and the second VCSEL array.
US10992105B2	Strain control in optoelectronic devices A coating having a mismatched coefficient of thermal expansion is applied to an underlying light emitting diode (LED) or laser diode (LD), such that as the temperature of the device changes, a varying level of strain is introduced to the underlying LED or LD. Because strain can also adjust the effective bandgap energy (and hence emission wavelength) of the device, the external strain-inducing coating can act to either compensate for the wavelength shift due to temperature (resulting in reduced dλ/dT) or accentuate it (resulting in increased dλ/dT). By proper selection of coating material and geometry, full control over dλ/dT can be achieved.
US10992104B2	Dual layer grating coupler A system includes a grating coupled laser and a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The grating coupled laser includes a first waveguide and a transmit grating coupler optically coupled to the first waveguide. The PIC includes a second waveguide and a receive grating coupler optically coupled to the second waveguide. The receive grating coupler is in optical alignment with the transmit grating coupler. The receive grating coupler includes a first grating and a second grating spaced apart from and above the first grating within the PIC.
US10992103B1	Laser device A laser device includes a substrate including a principal surface and a recess provided in the principal surface; a laser oscillation unit fixed to the principal surface in direct contact with the principal surface or with an adhesive interposed between the laser oscillation unit and the principal surface, the laser oscillation unit having an emission surface from which laser light that diverges as the laser light travels is emitted along the principal surface; and a reflecting member fixed to a bottom surface of the recess and having an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the principal surface so as to reflect the laser light. At least a portion of the inclined surface is positioned in a space inside the recess.
US10992097B2	Apparatus and method for an optical resonator with an integrated Bragg grating An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: an optical resonator including a surface; wherein a Bragg grating is formed at least part of the surface of the optical resonator; and wherein the Bragg grating has a Bragg frequency substantially equal to a center frequency of an Nth order Brillouin gain region capable of generating an Nth order Stokes signal.
US10992093B1	Universal adapter structure A universal adapter structure comprises a housing, a socket unit, a first plug unit and a second plug unit. The first and the second plug units have a rocking base, two plug terminals and a driving member, respectively. The rocking base is pivotally disposed on the housing, the two plug terminals are fixed on the rocking base, and the driving member is movably disposed on the housing. By pressing the driving member, the rocking base can be pivoted, thereby driving an outer end of the plug terminal to pivot toward a direction away from the housing.
US10992092B2	Connector that connects to electric wires and to other connectors A connector is provided that is configured to mate with a second connector and a third connector includes a housing, terminals equipped in the housing that are configured to connect to third terminals provided in the third connector, and coupling terminals that can at least connect to a second terminal provided in the second connector. The terminals include an electric wire connecting part that is configured to connect to electric wires included in a cable connected to the housing and a contact part that is configured to make contact with the third terminals. The electric wire connecting part and contact part positions are offset with regard to a direction orthogonal to a mating direction.
US10992084B2	Electrical connector having separate front insulative shell and rear metallic shell An electrical connector includes: a housing having a base, a front tongue, and a rear mount; an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing and exposed respectively to two opposite surfaces of the tongue; an insulative shell mounted to the base and including a pair of mounting lugs, each mounting lug having a hole; and a metallic shell shielding the rear mount, wherein the metallic shell has a pair of securing arms fastened to the pair of mounting lugs.
US10992074B2	Electrical cable connector An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of passageways, a plurality of blade type contacts retained to the retaining grooves in the corresponding passageways, a spacer located in a rear receiving space of the housing with corresponding slits through which tails of the contacts rearwardly extend, and a plurality of wires having the inner conductors soldered upon the tails of the contacts behind the spacer. A waterproof glue plate fills the receiving space of the housing to enclose the exposed inner conductors and the corresponding tails. A plurality of passages are formed in one side of the peripheral wall, through which the wires extend in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction along which the contacts extend. The spacer forms a recess to receive a protrusion of the glue plate, and the protrusion is located adjacent to the passages for assuring sealing around said passages.
US10992072B2	Electrical connector with rotatably mounted cover member The electrical connector includes a main body comprising an insertion opening into which a connection target is inserted and an accommodation space to accommodate the connection target inserted into the insertion opening, a conductive contact held in the main body so as to be connected to the connection target in the accommodation space, and a cover member rotatably mounted on the main body so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis passing through the main body. The cover member comprises a shaft hole along the rotation axis. The main body includes a side face which intersects the rotation axis at an intersection, an auxiliary wall portion which faces the side face, an opening portion formed at the intersection of the rotation axis and the side face, and a rotation shaft. The rotation shaft extends from the wall portion protruding along the rotation axis toward the side face from the auxiliary wall portion and inserted into the opening portion via the shaft hole.
US10992068B2	Method for manufacturing solder with ground bar and coaxial cable array A solder with ground bar includes a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a first ground bar and a first solder layer attached to one side of the first ground bar. The second unit includes a second ground bar and a second solder layer attached to one side of the second ground bar. The first unit and the second unit are arranged in such a manner that the first solder layer and the second solder layer face each other. The first solder layer and the second solder layer are partially joined together.
US10992066B2	Broadband antenna A single polarized radiator operating within a frequency range, the radiator comprising multiple active dipoles configured to be arranged a predetermined distance from a ground plane. Each active dipole comprising a first active element having first electrical characteristics and a second active element having second electrical characteristics, which first and second active elements are equal in length and provided with a respective feeding point. In each active dipole, first electrical characteristics differs from second electrical characteristics, the length of each active element is selected based on an upper frequency of the frequency range, and the first active element and/or the second active element of each active dipole is/are configured to be capacitively coupled to an active element of an adjacent active dipole.
US10992064B2	Mobile device A mobile device includes a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) module, a WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) module, a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a third antenna element, a fourth antenna element, a first switch element, and a second switch element. The WLAN module has a first port, a second port, and a first control port. The WWAN module has a third port, a fourth port, a fifth port, and a sixth port. The first antenna element is coupled to the third port. The first switch element couples the second antenna element to the first port or the fourth port according to a first control signal. The second switch element couples the third antenna element to the second port or the fifth port according to a second control signal. The fourth antenna element is coupled to the sixth port.
US10992056B2	Slot antenna device A slot antenna device includes a first electrical conductor including first and second electrically conductive surfaces, a second electrical conductor including a third electrically conductive surface that opposes the second electrically conductive surface, a waveguide body on the second electrically conductive surface, and an artificial magnetic conductor extending on both sides of the waveguide body. The first electrical conductor includes a slot. The waveguide body includes a waveguide surface that opposes the third electrically conductive surface. The third electrically conductive surface, the waveguide surface, and the artificial magnetic conductor define a waveguide. The waveguide body includes a first ridge and a second ridge. As viewed from a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the waveguide surface, the slot is located between the one end of the first ridge and the one end of the second ridge.
US10992047B2	Compact folded dipole antenna with multiple frequency bands An antenna includes a first folded dipole, and a second folded dipole connected in parallel to the first folded dipole. The antenna further includes a conductor that extends across a first gap in the first folded dipole and a second gap in the second folded dipole to connect to a first central section of the first folded dipole and to a second central section of the second folded dipole.
US10992046B2	Low profile high gain dual polarization UHF/VHF antenna The system and method for a low profile high gain dual polarization UHF/VHF antenna. In some cases a spiral antenna over a small cavity, with arms attached on either side is provided. The antenna structure is a short distance above a ground plane (e.g., less than 1/10 wavelength at the high frequency of operation). The arms are terminated to ground and the values of the terminations can vary depending on installation and the value chosen for the spiral termination. In some cases, the spiral antenna is not limited to a two arm spiral only as any type of spiral antenna may be used.
US10992042B2	High-frequency transmission line An antenna is connected to a first end of a high-frequency transmission line, and a connector is connected to a second end of the high-frequency transmission line. A characteristic impedance of a microstrip line is higher than characteristic impedances of first and second strip lines, and a characteristic impedance of a coplanar line is higher than a characteristic impedance of the second strip line. Thus, at a certain frequency, a standing wave develops in which the position of the microstrip line and the position of the coplanar line are maximum voltage points and three-quarter-wavelength resonance is a fundamental wave mode. Thus, the cutoff frequency of the high-frequency transmission line is high, and an insertion loss of a signal is significantly reduced to be low over a wide band.
US10992041B2	Dual-frequency feed source assembly and dual-frequency microwave antenna The present invention discloses a dual-frequency feed-source module and a dual-frequency microwave antenna, wherein the dual-frequency feed-source module mainly comprises two coaxially arranged waveguides, the two waveguides respectively provide microwave energy of two different frequency bands to radiating portions for feeding, so that the antenna can be operated in different frequency bands at the same time. The combination of the two coaxial waveguides, a reflector and other structures can form different microwave antennas such as a feedforward dual-band microwave antenna and a feedback Cassegrain dual-band microwave antenna. The invention feeds microwave energy through the two waveguides, so that the antenna can be operated in two frequency bands at the same time, thus greatly expanding an application range of the microwave antenna.
US10992033B1	Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus includes a substrate, a transmission antenna disposed on the substrate, and an auxiliary substrate disposed in an upper portion of the transmission antenna and having a radio wave guide unit having a horn shape. The auxiliary substrate further includes an insulator and a second metal pattern disposed in the radio wave guide unit on the insulator.
US10992030B2	Ultra-wideband MIMO antenna and terminal The present disclosure provides an ultra-wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna, including a printed circuit board (PCB) and four mirror-symmetrical antenna components having a same structure and disposed on the PCB. The PCB includes a system ground and a circuit region, and an orthographic projection of the antenna components on the PCB falls within the system ground. The radiation portion is disposed parallel to and separately from the PCB. The connection portion includes a first grounding pin, a second grounding pin, and an antenna feed point pin respectively extending from the radiation portion toward the PCB and disposed separately from each other, the first grounding pin and the second grounding pin are connected to the system ground, and the antenna feed point pin is connected to an external power supply. The present disclosure further provides a terminal. The ultra-wideband MIMO antenna and the terminal have good antenna performance.
US10992020B1	Dielectrically boosted very low frequency antenna A very low frequency (VLF) antenna includes a metal monopole and a dielectric metamaterial cladding surrounding a periphery of the monopole.
US10992017B2	Semiconductor package comprising chiplets disposed on a substrate which are electromagnetically coupled by dielectric waveguides and a computing networks formed therefrom Embodiments may relate to a dielectric waveguide that includes a substrate and a waveguide material disposed within the substrate. The dielectric waveguide may further include a waveguide launcher electromagnetically and physically coupled with the waveguide material, wherein the waveguide launcher is exposed at a side of the dielectric substrate. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US10992016B2	Multiplexer and combiner structures embedded in a mmwave connector interface Embodiments of the invention include a mm-wave waveguide connector and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment the mm-wave waveguide connector may include a plurality of mm-wave launcher portions, and a plurality of ridge based mm-wave filter portions each communicatively coupled to one of the mm-wave launcher portions. In an embodiment, the ridge based mm-wave filter portions each include a plurality of protrusions that define one or more resonant cavities. Additional embodiments may include a multiplexer portion communicatively coupled to the plurality of ridge based mm-wave filter portions and communicative coupled to a mm-wave waveguide bundle. In an embodiment the plurality of protrusions define resonant cavities with openings between 0.5 mm and 2.0 mm, the plurality of protrusions are spaced apart from each other by a spacing between 0.5 mm and 2.0 mm, and wherein the plurality of protrusions have a thickness between 200 μm and 1,000 μm.
US10992014B2	Nonreciprocal circuit element and communication apparatus using the same Disclosed herein is a nonreciprocal circuit element that includes a permanent magnet, a magnetic material having an insulating property, a magnetic rotator sandwiched between the permanent magnet and the magnetic material, and an external terminal. The magnetic rotator includes a center conductor connected to the external terminal, and first and second ferrite cores sandwiching the center conductor. The external terminal covers a side surface of the magnetic material without covering a side surface of the permanent magnet.
US10992007B2	Battery, battery case, and electric vehicle A battery case includes a first cell accommodating portion that accommodates a first number of battery cells, and a second cell accommodating portion that accommodates a second number of battery cells, smaller than the first number. The second cell accommodating portion is shorter than the first cell accommodating portion in one of three directions parallel to sides of the battery case. The battery case further includes a board accommodating portion, which is adjacent to the second cell accommodating portion in the one of the three directions, and that accommodates a circuit board therein; a first partition wall arranged between the first cell accommodating portion and the board accommodating portion; and a second partition wall arranged between the second cell accommodating portion and the board accommodating portion. Thus, the thickness of the battery is reduced and the circuit board is separated from the battery cells.
US10992006B2	Output electrode base, battery module and battery pack Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery pack, a battery module and an output electrode base. The output electrode base includes a base body and a connector, and the connector is a metal structure; the connector includes a securing member and a connecting post, the securing member is secured in the base body, and the connecting post protrudes from the base body; an output electrode connection piece of the battery module is provided with a first installing hole, and the connecting post passes through the first installing hole to be connected with the output electrode connection piece.
US10992002B2	Secondary battery The present invention relates to a rechargeable battery, and a rechargeable battery including: a liquid cathode portion including a sodium-containing solution and a cathode current collector impregnated in the sodium-containing solution; an anode portion including a liquid organic electrolyte, an anode current collector impregnated in the liquid organic electrolyte, and an anode active material provided in the surface of the anode current collector; and a solid electrolyte provided between the cathode portion and the anode portion can be provided.
US10991985B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery of sealed structure disclosed herein is provided with a stacked electrode body inside a battery case. At a region closer to a lid body of the battery case when a rectangular positive electrode sheet and rectangular negative electrode sheet that make up the electrode body is bisected with respect to a direction from the lid body to a bottom surface of a case body, a positive electrode collector exposed portion and a negative electrode collector exposed portion, which do not have a positive or negative electrode active material layer, are formed, in the rectangular positive electrode sheet and negative electrode sheet, on the inward side of the rectangular positive and negative electrode sheets, in such a manner that one side of each exposed portion makes up part of an edge, of the positive and negative electrode sheets, neighboring and opposing the lid body.
US10991981B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery This nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains: a non-aqueous solvent that contains a fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate; an isocyanuric acid derivative such as triallyl isocyanurate; and a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride such as diglycolic acid anhydride.
US10991980B2	Electrolytic solution for secondary battery, secondary battery, battery pack, electrically-driven vehicle, electric power storage system, electrically-driven tool, and electronic device The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution including at least one kind of cyclic nitrogen compounds and at least one of a first nitrile compound and a second nitrile compound.
US10991978B2	Secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric power tool, and electronic apparatus A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer includes an electrolytic solution, a polymer compound, and a plurality of inorganic particles. The polymer compound includes a copolymer including vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene, and a ratio W2/W1 of a weight W2 of the electrolytic solution to a weight W1 of the polymer compound is from 2.5 to 50.
US10991971B2	Negative electrode active material, mixed negative electrode active material, negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, lithium ion secondary battery, and, production method of negative electrode active material The present disclosure relates to a negative electrode active material including: particles of negative electrode active material, wherein the particles of negative electrode active material contain particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.55≤x≤1.6), and the particles of silicon compound includes at least one or more kinds of Li2SiO3 and Li4SiO4; the particles of silicon compound contain nickel; and, a mass of the nickel to a mass of the particles of negative electrode active material is 2 mass ppm or more and 100 mass ppm or less. Thus, when used as the negative electrode active material of a secondary battery, a negative electrode active material capable of improving the initial charge/discharge characteristics and cycle characteristics is provided.
US10991968B2	Conveying device A conveying device includes a flat plate member including a through-hole and a first conveying head that sucks a conveyance object via the through-hole in a state of holding the flat plate member and conveys the flat plate member and the conveyance object to an accommodation case. Moreover, the flat plate member has a shape that prevents an end of the conveyance object from abutting an inner side surface of the accommodation case during placement into the accommodation case.
US10991967B2	Preparation of a new type of composite anode and microbial fuel cell based on nitrogen doped biological carbon and porous volcanic rocks A preparation method for a novel composite anode based on nitrogen-doped charcoal of sludge and porous volcanic, and a microbial fuel cell, relating to the technical field of resource utilization of new materials, new energy and wastewater. Active sludge is prepared into porous nitrogen-doped charcoal by using a nitrogen high-temperature pyrolysis baking method; and then, surface minerals are removed by using an acidification method to improve the electrical conductivity of the charcoal; finally, surface charcoal loading is performed by taking volcanic granules as a carrier to prepare and form nitrogen-doped charcoal granules on a volcanic surface. The novel granules have high porosity, high electrical conductivity and large specific surface area, and fully meet the performance requirement of the anode material of the microbial fuel cell. The anode of the novel nitrogen-doped porous charcoal can increase the loading capacity of electricity-producing bacteria and microorganisms of the anode of the microbial fuel cell, and improve the conversion rate of biomass energy in wastewater; by virtue of low-resistance characteristics, the electron transfer efficiency is also improved, and finally, the power of the microbial fuel cell is enhanced, so that both wastewater treatment and recycling and efficient biological power generation are achieved.
US10991959B2	Fuel cell stack A fuel cell stack includes: a cell stacked body in which a plurality of fuel cells are stacked in multiple layers; and an end plate by which the plurality of fuel cells are fastened, the end plate including an open end plate disposed at one end of the cell stacked body and a closed end plate disposed at another end of the cell stacked body, wherein the open end plate includes a gas inlet delivering a reactant gas supplied from an outside of the fuel cell stack to the cell stacked body, a gas outlet discharging the reactant gas having passed through the cell stacked body to the outside of the fuel cell stack, and a bypass channel connecting the gas inlet to the gas outlet to guide condensed water introduced to the gas inlet to the gas outlet, the bypass channel partially curved to allow the condensed water to be collected.
US10991957B2	Fuel cell assembly including multiple flow capacities in a condensation zone An illustrative example fuel cell assembly includes a plurality of cells respectively including at least an electrolyte layer, an anode flow plate on one side of the electrolyte layer, and a cathode flow plate on an opposite side of the electrolyte layer. At least one cooler is situated adjacent a first one of the cells. The cooler is closer to that first one of the cells than it is to a second one of the cells. The cathode flow plates respectively include a plurality of flow channels and the anode flow plates respectively include a plurality of flow channels. The anode flow plates respectively include some of the flow channels in a condensation zone of the fuel cell assembly. The flow channels of the anode flow plate in the condensation zone of the first one of the cells have a first flow capacity. The flow channels of the anode flow plate of the second one of the cells that are in the condensation zone have a second flow capacity. The second flow capacity is greater than the first flow capacity.
US10991952B2	Catalyst Catalysts comprising nanostructured elements comprising microstructured whiskers having an outer surface at least partially covered by a catalyst material having the formula PtxNiyAuz, wherein x is in a range from 27.3 to 29.9, y is in a range from 63.0 to 70.0, and z is in a range from 0.1 to 9.6. Catalyst described herein are useful, for example, in fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies.
US10991947B2	Battery A battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first electrode layer, a first counter electrode layer being a counter electrode of the first electrode layer, a first solid electrolyte layer located between the first electrode layer and the first counter electrode layer, and a first heat-conducting layer including a first region containing a heat-conducting material. The first region is located between the first electrode layer and the first solid electrolyte layer.
US10991946B2	Polymerization process for forming polymeric ultrathin conformal coatings on electrode materials An electroactive material for use in an electrochemical cell, like a lithium ion battery, is provided. The electroactive material comprises silicon or tin and undergoes substantial expansion during operation of a lithium ion battery. A polymeric ultrathin conformal coating is formed over a surface of the electroactive material. The coating is flexible and is capable of reversibly elongating by at least 250% from a contracted state to an expanded state in at least one direction to minimize or prevent fracturing of the negative electrode material during lithium ion cycling. The coating may be applied by vapor precursors reacting in atomic layer deposition (ALD) to form conformal ultrathin layers over the electroactive materials. Methods for making such materials and using such materials in electrochemical cells are likewise provided.
US10991945B2	Electrode active material for nonaqueous secondary batteries, and nonaqueous secondary battery using same An electrode active material for non-aqueous secondary batteries containing a compound represented by formula (1) is a material that is less likely to dissolve in an electrolyte during charge and discharge, and that exhibits an excellent discharge capacity and excellent charge-and-discharge cycle characteristics: the compound represented by formula (1) wherein Y1 and Y2 are identical or different and represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a selenium atom, R1 to R8 are identical or different and represent an oxygen atom or a group represented by —OLi, R9 to R12 are identical or different and represent a hydrogen atom or an organic group, and bonds that are each represented by a solid line and a dashed line indicate a single bond or a double bond.
US10991933B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery according to the present invention includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a charging layer arranged between the first electrode (11) and the second electrode and containing a mixture of an insulating material and a first n-type oxide semiconductor material, an n-type oxide semiconductor layer arranged between the charging layer and the first electrode and containing a second n-type oxide semiconductor material, a p-type oxide semiconductor layer (16) arranged between the charging layer and the second electrode and containing a p-type oxide semiconductor material, a mixture layer arranged between the charging layer and the p-type oxide semiconductor layer and containing a mixture of silicon oxide and a third n-type oxide semiconductor material, and a conductive layer arranged between the first electrode and the n-type oxide semiconductor layer and containing a metal material.
US10991927B2	Separator and energy storage device The present application provides a separator and an energy storage device. The separator comprises: a first porous substrate; and a second porous substrate arranged on at least one surface of the first porous substrate; wherein the elongation at break of the second porous substrate is greater than the elongation at break of the first porous substrate in at least one of the machine and transverse directions of the separator. The separator has a high tensile strength and an elongation at break and good heat resistance, and may improve the safety performance of the energy storage device when the separator is applied to the energy storage device.
US10991921B2	Batteries comprising a multilayer dielectric and sealing film and method of making the batteries A multilayer dielectric and sealing film is disclosed. The multi-layer dielectric sealing film comprises a layer of dielectric material and at least one layer of sealing material. The multilayer film may be positioned between the current collector tabs and the packaging material of a thin film battery to prevent shorting between the tabs and the edge of a metal foil layer in the packaging material. The multi-layer film also provides additional sealant which can flow around and seal around the terminals. By combining the sealing material and the dielectric material into one multi-layer assembly, manufacturing steps can be eliminated.
US10991919B2	Method and apparatus for manufacturing flexible light emitting device According to a flexible light-emitting device production method of the present disclosure, after an intermediate region (30i) and a flexible substrate region (30d) of a plastic film (30) of a multilayer stack (100) are divided, the interface between the flexible substrate region (30d) and a glass base (10) is irradiated with lift-off light. The multilayer stack (100) is separated into the first portion (110) and the second portion (120) while the multilayer stack (100) is kept in contact with the stage (210). The first portion (110) includes a plurality of light-emitting devices (1000) which are in contact with the stage (210). The light-emitting devices (1000) include a plurality of functional layer regions (20) and the flexible substrate region (30d). The second portion (120) includes the glass base (10) and the intermediate region (30i). The step of irradiating with the lift-off light includes forming the lift-off light from a plurality of arranged light sources and temporally and spatially modulating a power of the plurality of lift-off light sources according to a shape of the flexible substrate region of the synthetic resin film such that the irradiation intensity of the lift-off light for at least part of the interface between the intermediate region (30i) and the glass base (10) is lower than the irradiation intensity of the lift-off light for the interface between the flexible substrate region (30d) and the glass base (10).
US10991913B2	Encapsulating structure capable of securing barrier characteristics with reduced thickness, display device having encapsulating structure and method of manufacturing the same Provided are an encapsulating structure, an organic light-emitting display device including the encapsulating structure, and a method of manufacturing the same. The encapsulating structure includes a first barrier layer including a first inorganic layer having a first thickness; a plasma polymer layer on the first inorganic layer, the plasma polymer layer having a second thickness smaller than or equal to the first thickness; and a second barrier layer including at least one second inorganic layer on the plasma polymer layer. The at least one second inorganic layer has a third thickness, and the third thickness is smaller than or equal to the second thickness.
US10991907B2	Display device having sealing grooves A display device includes: a resin layer on the circuit layer including a groove surrounding and separating a display area; light-emitting elements on an upper surface of the resin layer so as to emit light with luminances controlled by the currents; a sealing layer covering the light-emitting elements; a second substrate above the sealing layer; a sealing material provided between the sealing layer and the second substrate so as to surround the display area and the groove; and a filling layer surrounded by the sealing material between the sealing layer and the second substrate. The groove is formed along a line describing a shape that is inscribed in a rectangle and not in contact with corners of the rectangle as viewed in a direction vertical to the upper surface of the resin layer.
US10991905B2	Organic electroluminescent element An organic EL element includes a support substrate, an organic EL portion that is disposed on the support substrate and is formed by stacking a first electrode layer, an organic functional layer, and a second electrode layer, a sealing member that seals the organic EL portion, and one or more moisture absorbing portions that have moisture absorption characteristics. The moisture absorbing portion is disposed in an outer edge portion of a light emitting area of the organic EL portion in which the first electrode layer, the organic functional layer, and the second electrode layer are sequentially continuously superimposed when viewed in a stacking direction of the organic EL portion. An area of the moisture absorbing portion disposed on the light emitting area is smaller than an area of the light emitting area.
US10991900B2	Crosslinked emissive layer containing quantum dots for light-emitting device and method for making same A light-emitting device includes an anode; a cathode; and an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the emissive layer including quantum dots dispersed in a crosslinked matrix formed from one or more crosslinkable charge transport materials. A method of forming the emissive layer of a light-emitting device includes depositing a mixture including quantum dots and one or more crosslinkable charge transport materials on a layer; and subjecting at least a portion of the mixture to UV activation to form an emissive layer including quantum dots dispersed in a crosslinked matrix.
US10991894B2	Compound of organic semiconductor and organic semiconductor device using the same Disclosed are an organic semiconductor compound that exhibits chemical resistance and etch resistance while maintaining electrical characteristics and thus is applicable to an existing photolithography process, thereby increasing process efficiency, and an organic semiconductor device using the same.
US10991883B2	Deposition mask, method of manufacturing deposition mask device, and method of manufacturing deposition mask A deposition mask has a central axis extending in a first direction, arranged at a central position in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Spaced apart point P1 and Q1 are provided on one side of the central axis, and spaced apart points Q1 and Q2 are provided on another side of the central axis. When a dimension from point P1 to point Q1 is X1, a dimension from point P2 to a point Q2 is X2, and a design value is αx, the deposition mask satisfies the following.  α X - X ⁢ ⁢ 1 + X ⁢ ⁢ 2 2  ≤ 40 ⁢ ⁢ µm ⁢ ⁢ and [ Formula ⁢ ⁢ 1 ]  X ⁢ ⁢ 1 - X ⁢ ⁢ 2  ≤ 60 ⁢ ⁢ µm [ Formula ⁢ ⁢ 2 ]
US10991871B2	Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric actuator, ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic device, electronic apparatus, liquid jet head, and liquid jet device A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric element main body as a laminated body of a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the piezoelectric layer, and a metal layer disposed on the second electrode layer via an insulating layer, the piezoelectric layer extends from an inner side of at least a part of an overlapping part of an outer peripheral edge of the second electrode layer overlapping an outer peripheral edge of the piezoelectric element main body to an outer side, and the metal layer and the insulating layer extend from an inner side of at least a part of the overlapping part to an outer side to overlap the piezoelectric layer on an outer side of an outer peripheral edge of the second electrode layer.
US10991867B2	High-performance terbium-based thermoelectric materials A thermoelectric material, having a formula TbxM1y-xM2zOw where M1 is one of Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba and Ra, M2 is at least one of Co, Fe, Ni, and Mn, x ranges from 0.01 to 5; y is 1, 2, 3, or 5; z is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and w is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, or 14. The thermoelectric material is chemically stable within 5% for one year and is also non-toxic. The thermoelectric material can also be incorporated into a thermoelectric system which can be used to generate electricity from waste heat sources or to cool an adjacent region.
US10991861B2	Low optical loss flip chip solid state lighting device Flip chip LEDs incorporate multi-layer reflectors and light transmissive substrates patterned along an internal surface adjacent to semiconductor layers. A multi-layer reflector may include a metal layer and a dielectric layer containing conductive vias. Portions of a multi-layer reflector may wrap around a LED mesa including an active region, while being covered with passivation material. A substrate patterned along an internal surface together with a multi-layer reflector enables reduction of optical losses. A light transmissive fillet material proximate to edge emitting surfaces of an emitter chip may enable adequate coverage with lumiphoric material. An emitter chip may be elevated with increased thickness of solder material and/or contacts, and may reduce luminous flux loss when reflective materials are present on a submount. Methods for coating emitter chips with lumiphoric material include one or more of angled spray coating, fillet formation prior to spray coating, stencil island coating, and releasable tape coating.
US10991856B2	LED with structured layers and nanophosphors A device comprising a light emitting diode (LED) substrate, and a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer positioned within an emitted light path from the LED substrate, the a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer including a plurality of nanoparticles, the plurality of nanoparticles configured to increase a light path length in the wavelength converting layer.
US10991852B2	Transparent light-emitting display film, method of manufacturing the same, and transparent light-emitting signage using the same A transparent light-emitting display film includes a transparent substrate in a form of film, a transparent electrode on a first side of the transparent substrate, a through hole formed to penetrate the transparent substrate in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the transparent substrate, a light-emitting device mounted in the through hole, and a connection member configured to electrically connect the transparent electrode and the light-emitting device.
US10991847B2	Semiconducting devices containing quantum wells The present disclosure relates to a device that includes, in order, an emitter layer, a quantum well, and a base layer, where the emitter layer has a first bandgap, the base layer has a second bandgap, and the first bandgap is different than the second bandgap by an absolute difference greater than or equal to 25 meV.
US10991846B2	Method of manufacturing micro light-emitting element array, transfer carrier, and micro light-emitting element array A method of manufacturing micro light-emitting element array is disclosed. A transfer substrate and at least one metal bonding pad are provided, and the metal bonding pad is disposed on the transfer substrate. A growth substrate and a plurality of micro light-emitting elements are provided. The micro light-emitting elements are disposed on the growth substrate, and a surface of each of the micro light-emitting elements away from the growth substrate having at least one electrode. The metal bonding pad is molten at a heating temperature, and the electrode is connected to the metal bonding pad. Then, the growth substrate is removed.
US10991845B2	Method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component and optoelectronic semiconductor component A method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component and an optoelectronic semiconductor component are disclosed. In an embodiment the method include A) providing at least two source substrates, wherein each of the source substrates is equipped with a specific type of radiation-emitting semiconductor chip; B) providing a target substrate having a mounting plane, the mounting plane being configured for mounting the semiconductor chip; and C) transferring at least part of the semiconductor chips with a wafer-to-wafer process from the source substrates onto the target substrate so that the semiconductor chips, within one type, maintain their relative position with respect to one another, so that each type of semiconductor chips arranged on the target substrate has a different height above the mounting plane, wherein the semiconductor chips are at least one of at least partially stacked one above the other or at least partially applied to at least one casting layer.
US10991840B2	Multi-junction solar cell A stacked multi-junction solar cell having a first subcell and second subcell, the second subcell having a larger band gap than the first subcell. A third subcell has a larger band gap than the second subcell, and each of the subcells include an emitter and a base. The second subcell has a layer which includes a compound formed at least the elements GaInAsP, and a thickness of the layer is greater than 100 nm, and the layer is formed as part of the emitter and/or as part of the base and/or as part of the space-charge zone situated between the emitter and the base. The third subcell has a layer including a compound formed of at least the elements GaInP, and the thickness of the layer is greater than 100 nm.
US10991837B2	Configurations for solar cells, solar panels, and solar panel systems Embodiments of the disclosure are generally related to solar panel configurations. In some embodiments, the active surface area of the solar panel is increased compared to traditional flat solar cell arrays. The increase in active surface area may increase solar panel efficiency. For example, in some embodiments, a single light ray may have portions reflected onto a plurality of solar cell surfaces to provide further opportunities for light capture and conversion to electricity.
US10991836B2	Architectures enabling back contact bottom electrodes for semiconductor devices A semiconductor device and method for fabricating same is disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a semiconductor device and fabrication of same which include a polycrystalline or amorphous substrate. An electrically conductive Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition (IBAD) template layer is positioned above the substrate. At least one electrically conductive hetero-epitaxial buffer layer is positioned above the IBAD template layer. The at least one buffer layer has a resistivity of less than 100 μΩcm. The semiconductor device and method foster the use of bottom electrodes thereby avoiding complex and expensive lithography processes.
US10991829B2	Semiconductor device comprising oxide semiconductor Provided is a structure of a transistor, which enables a so-called normally-off switching element, and a manufacturing method thereof. Provided is a structure of a semiconductor device which achieves high-speed response and high-speed operation by improving on characteristics of a transistor, and a manufacturing method thereof. Provided is a highly reliable semiconductor device. In the transistor in which a semiconductor layer, source and drain electrode layers, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer are stacked in that order. As the semiconductor layer, an oxide semiconductor layer which contains at least four kinds of elements of indium, gallium, zinc, and oxygen, and has a composition ratio (atomic percentage) of indium as twice or more as a composition ratio of gallium and a composition ratio of zinc, is used.
US10991821B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a first semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a gate electrode pad. A first lower region opposing the gate electrode pad in a depth direction has a carrier recombination rate that is lower than that of a second lower region opposing the first electrode in the depth direction. With such a configuration, when high electric potential is applied to a source electrode and a built-in PN diode is driven, the generation of crystal defects may be suppressed.
US10991818B2	Nitride semiconductor device and fabrication method therefor A nitride semiconductor device includes an electron transit layer (103) that is formed of a nitride semiconductor, an electron supply layer (104) that is formed on the electron transit layer (103), that is formed of a nitride semiconductor whose composition is different from the electron transit layer (103) and that has a recess (109) which reaches the electron transit layer (103) from a surface, a thermal oxide film (111) that is formed on the surface of the electron transit layer (103) exposed within the recess (109), a gate insulating film (110) that is embedded within the recess (109) so as to be in contact with the thermal oxide film (111), a gate electrode (108) that is formed on the gate insulating film (110) and that is opposite to the electron transit layer (103) across the thermal oxide film (111) and the gate insulating film (110), and a source electrode (106) and a drain electrode (107) that are provided on the electron supply layer (104) at an interval such that the gate electrode (108) intervenes therebetween.
US10991814B2	Three-dimensional tunneling field-effect transistor and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are a three-dimensional tunneling field-effect transistor and a method of fabricating the same. A method of fabricating a three-dimensional tunneling field-effect transistor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes growing a buffer layer, an embedded source layer, an etch stop layer, an active source layer, a channel layer, and a drain layer on a substrate; depositing a metal layer on the drain layer, and then forming a pattern in a mesa structure shape; forming a vertical gate at one end of each of the etch stop layer, the active source layer, the channel layer, and the drain layer; isolating the active source layer from the substrate to form a first air bridge; isolating the drain layer from the substrate to form a second air bridge; and isolating the vertical gate from the substrate to form a third air bridge.
US10991813B1	Fabrication method of semiconductor device having SIGe shell channel and semiconductor device fabricated by the same A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is carried out so that silicon nanowires may be made of vertically stacked one or more floating silicon layers, and a silicon buffer layer may be surrounded on each surface of the silicon nanowires with a sufficient thickness, e.g., close to the diameter of the nanowire, and then a silicon germanium shell may be formed on it. Thus, a semiconductor device having a silicon germanium shell channel structure can be fabricated with a uniform thickness even on a bulk silicon substrate using a conventional silicon CMOS process.
US10991805B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacture A method of applying and then removing a protective layer over a portion of a gate stack is provided. The protective layer is deposited and then a plasma precursor is separated into components. Neutral radicals are then utilized in order to remove the protective layer. In some embodiments the removal also forms a protective by-product which helps to protect underlying layers from damage during the etching process.
US10991801B2	Semiconductor device with improved current flow distribution A semiconductor device is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate; a transistor section provided in the semiconductor substrate; and a diode section provided in the semiconductor substrate being adjacent to the transistor section, wherein the diode section includes: a second conductivity-type anode region; a first conductivity-type drift region; a first conductivity-type cathode region; a plurality of dummy trench portions arrayed along a predetermined array direction; a contact portion provided along an extending direction of the plurality of dummy trench portions that is different from the array direction; and a lower-surface side semiconductor region provided directly below a portion of the contact portion at an outer end in the extending direction.
US10991798B2	Replacement sacrificial nanosheets having improved etch selectivity Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of forming a nanosheet transistor. A non-limiting example of the method includes forming a nanosheet stack having alternating layers of channel nanosheets and sacrificial nanosheets, wherein each of the layers of channel nanosheets includes a first type of semiconductor material, and wherein each of the layers of sacrificial nanosheets includes a second type of semiconductor material. The layers of sacrificial nanosheets are removed from the nanosheet stack, and layers of replacement sacrificial nanosheets are formed in the spaces that were occupied by the sacrificial nanosheets. Each of the layers of replacement sacrificial nanosheets includes a first type of non-semiconductor material.
US10991782B2	Display device Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes a substrate having an active area and a non-active area, a thin film transistor arranged on the active area of the substrate, at least two planarization layers arranged on the thin film transistor, signal links arranged on the non-active area of the substrate, and an outer cover layer spaced apart from the at least two planarization layers and configured to overlap upper and side surfaces of the signal links, thus preventing or reducing damage to the signal links.
US10991776B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes a substrate, a pixel defining layer, a spacer, an auxiliary electrode, and an organic light emitting diode. The substrate includes a light emitting area and a non-light emitting area adjacent to the light emitting area. The pixel defining layer is disposed on the non-light emitting area of the substrate. The spacer is disposed on the pixel defining layer. The auxiliary electrode is disposed on the spacer. The organic light emitting diode is disposed on the substrate, and at least a portion thereof is disposed in the light emitting area. The organic light emitting diode includes a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer disposed on the pixel electrode and including an organic light emitting layer, and an opposite electrode disposed on the intermediate layer and electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode.
US10991770B2	Display device with display portion, light sensing portion, and connection bending portion An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is related to a display device, the display device including: a substrate which includes a display portion, a light sensing portion, and a connection portion located between the display portion and the light sensing portion, in which the connection portion is bent such that the light sensing portion overlaps the display portion by bending of the connection portion.
US10991769B2	Display apparatus having a color filter layer A display that includes a base layer having an emission area and a non-emission area adjacent to the emission area. A circuit element layer is disposed on the base layer. A display element layer is disposed on the circuit element layer. The display element layer includes an organic light emitting diode. An encapsulation layer is disposed on the display element layer and is configured to encapsulate the organic light emitting diode. A color filter layer is disposed in the encapsulation layer. The color filter layer includes a color shielding layer having a plurality of layers disposed in the non-emission area and a color filter disposed in the emission area.
US10991761B2	Three-dimensional cross-point memory device containing inter-level connection structures and method of making the same First electrically conductive lines, first pillar structures, second electrically conductive lines, second pillar structures, third electrically conductive lines, third pillar structures, fourth electrically conductive lines, and fourth pillar structures are formed over a substrate. Each pillar structure includes a memory element. Interconnection structures are formed on the first electrically conductive lines. The first electrically conductive lines may have thinned segments located outside the area of the arrays of memory elements, and the interconnection structures may be formed on the thinned segments. Alternatively or additionally, the interconnection structures may include a vertical stack of a first conductive via structure contacting a respective one of the first electrically conductive lines, a conductive pad structure, and a second conductive via structure. Fifth electrically conductive lines may be formed on top surfaces of the second two-dimensional array of memory elements and on top surface of the interconnection structures.
US10991760B2	Memory device having PUC structure A memory device includes first and second peripheral regions in which peripheral circuits related to data input/output are disposed, a normal cell region which is disposed on the first peripheral region, and in which a plurality of memory cells storing data are formed, and a dummy cell region which is disposed on the second peripheral region, and in which a plurality of dummy cells forming a plurality of capacitors are formed.
US10991755B2	Systems and methods for fabrication of superconducting integrated circuits Various techniques and apparatus permit fabrication of superconductive circuits and structures, for instance Josephson junctions, which may, for example be useful in quantum computers. For instance, a low magnetic flux noise trilayer structure may be fabricated having a dielectric structure or layer interposed between two elements or layers capable of superconducting. A superconducting via may directly overlie a Josephson junction. A structure, for instance a Josephson junction, may be carried on a planarized dielectric layer. A fin may be employed to remove heat from the structure. A via capable of superconducting may have a width that is less than about 1 micrometer. The structure may be coupled to a resistor, for example by vias and/or a strap connector.
US10991750B2	Active matrix substrate and imaging panel with same An active matrix substrate includes a photoelectric conversion element 12, a first planarizing film 107, a first inorganic insulating film 108a, and a bias wire 16. The first planarizing film 107 covers the photoelectric conversion element 12 and has a first opening 107h at a position at which the first opening 107h overlaps with the photoelectric conversion element 12 in plan view. The first inorganic insulating film 108a has a second opening on an inner side of the first opening h and covers a surface of the first planarizing film 107. The bias wire 16 is provided on a first inorganic insulating film 108a and is connected to the photoelectric conversion element 12 via the second opening CH2.
US10991743B2	Solid state image pickup device and production method, semiconductor wafer, and electronic apparatus The present technology relates to a solid state image pickup device and a production method, a semiconductor wafer, and an electronic apparatus by which the yield can be improved. On a semiconductor wafer, a chip region in which pixels and so forth that configure a solid state image pickup device are formed and a scribe region are formed. In the scribe region, a measuring region in which an inspection circuit for measuring a property of the chip region and measurement pads are formed and a dicing line to be cut upon fragmentation of the semiconductor wafer are provided. The measuring region is positioned between the dicing line and the chip region. The present technology can be applied to a solid state image pickup device.
US10991740B2	Narrow band filter with high transmission Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a narrow band filter with high transmission and an image sensor comprising the narrow band filter. In some embodiments, the filter comprises a first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR), a second DBR, a defect layer between the first and second DBRs, and a plurality of columnar structures. The columnar structures extend through the defect layer and have a refractive index different than a refractive index of the defect layer. The first and second DBRs define a low transmission band, and the defect layer defines a high transmission band dividing the low transmission band. The columnar structures shift the high transmission band towards lower or higher wavelengths depending upon a refractive index of the columnar structures and a fill factor of the columnar structures.
US10991735B2	Optical detection pixel unit, optical detection circuit, optical detection method and display device The present disclosure provides an optical detection pixel unit, an optical detection pixel circuit, an optical detection method and a display device. The optical detection pixel unit comprise a photosensitive element and a detection transistor, wherein the photosensitive element has a first electrode connected with a photovoltage terminal, and a second electrode connected with a gate of the detection transistor; the photosensitive element is configured to detect an optical signal under the control of the photovoltage terminal; and the detection transistor has a first electrode connected with a detection voltage line, and a second electrode connected with a reading line.
US10991734B2	Imaging device and electronic device The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that make it possible to obtain a better pixel signal. A photoelectric conversion part that converts received light into a charge, and a holding part that holds a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part are provided, the photoelectric conversion part and the holding part are formed in a semiconductor substrate having a predetermined thickness, and the holding part is formed with a thickness that is half or less of the predetermined thickness. A charge capturing region that captures a charge is further provided on a light incident side of a region where the holding part is formed. A light shielding part that shields light is formed between the photoelectric conversion part and the charge capturing region. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.
US10991731B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device The number of masks and photolithography processes used in a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device are reduced. A first conductive film is formed over a substrate; a first insulating film is formed over the first conductive film; a semiconductor film is formed over the first insulating film; a semiconductor film including a channel region is formed by etching part of the semiconductor film; a second insulating film is formed over the semiconductor film; a mask is formed over the second insulating film; a first portion of the second insulating film that overlaps the semiconductor film and second portions of the first insulating film and the second insulating film that do not overlap the semiconductor film are removed with the use of the mask; the mask is removed; and a second conductive film electrically connected to the semiconductor film is formed over at least part of the second insulating film.
US10991730B2	Active matrix substrate An active matrix substrate includes, in a peripheral region that is disposed around a display region, a connecting portion formation region in which a plurality of line connecting portions are arranged. Each line connecting portion includes: a lower connecting portion; an organic insulating layer disposed on the lower connecting portion so as to be in contact with the lower connecting portion, the organic insulating layer having at least one aperture through which a part of the lower connecting portion is exposed; and an upper connecting portion disposed on the organic insulating layer and in the at least one aperture, the upper connecting portion being directly in contact with the part of the lower connecting portion within the at least one aperture. The organic insulating layer extends into an adjoining region that adjoins the connecting portion formation region. In the adjoining region, the organic insulating layer has a plurality of dummy apertures that are disposed so as not to overlap the lower connecting portions when viewed from the normal direction of the substrate, each dummy aperture exposing a part of an underlying layer that is located on the substrate side of the lower connecting portion. The upper connecting portions are not provided in the plurality of dummy apertures.
US10991725B2	Active matrix substrate and method for producing same An active matrix substrate includes: a substrate (1); a peripheral circuit including a plurality of first TFTs (10); and a plurality of second TFTs (20), wherein each of the first and second TFTs (10, 20) includes: a gate electrode (3A, 3B); a gate insulating layer (5); an oxide semiconductor layer (7A, 7B) including a channel region (7Ac, 7Bc), a source contact region (7As, 7Bs) and a drain contact region (7Ad, 7Bd), wherein the source contact region and the drain contact region are located on opposite sides of the channel region; a source electrode (8A, 8B) that is in contact with the source contact region and a drain electrode (9A, 9B) that is in contact with the drain contact region; the oxide semiconductor layer of the first TFTs and the second TFTs is formed from the same oxide semiconductor film; a carrier concentration in the channel regions (7Ac) of the first TETs is higher than a carrier concentration in the channel regions (7Bc) of the second TETs.
US10991716B2	Semiconductor device having a vertical channel layer with an impurity region surrounding a dielectric core A semiconductor device includes a core insulating layer extending in a first direction, an etch stop layer disposed on the core insulating layer, a channel layer extending along a sidewall of the core insulating layer and a sidewall of the etch stop layer, conductive patterns each surrounding the channel layer and stacked to be spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and an impurity region formed in an upper end of the channel layer.
US10991715B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a stack body having a step structure body with a plurality of wire line layers and a plurality of interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked being set as one step on a substrate; and memory cells arranged three-dimensionally in the stack body, in which the step structure body includes: a plurality of terrace portions configured with the interlayer insulating layers, the plurality of terrace portions having different heights; a plurality of step portions connecting the respective terrace portions in a height direction; insulating layers covering the step portions; and a lead wire line leading out a lowermost wire line layer of a first step onto the terrace portion of a second step being a lower step of the first step.
US10991713B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: first and second signal lines; a first memory cell storing first information by applying voltage across the first signal line and a first interconnect layer; a second memory cell storing second information by applying voltage across the second signal line and a second interconnect layer; a first conductive layer provided on the first and second signal lines; third and fourth signal lines provided on the first conductive layer; a third memory cell storing third information by applying voltage across the third signal line and a third interconnect layer; and a fourth memory cell storing fourth information by applying voltage across the fourth signal line and a fourth interconnect layer.
US10991707B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed. A gate electrode is provided above a semiconductor substrate. A sidewall insulation film is provided to the gate electrode. Source and drain regions are provided in the substrate and contain first conductive impurities. A first semiconductor region is provided in the substrate, is on a source region side, and has a concentration of the first conductive impurities lower than the source region. A second semiconductor region is provided in the substrate, is on a drain region side, and has a concentration of the first conductive impurities lower than the drain and first semiconductor regions. A channel region is provided between the first and second semiconductor regions. A third semiconductor region is provided under the channel region, and includes second conductive impurities higher in concentration than the channel region. Information is stored by accumulating charges in the sidewall insulation film.
US10991700B2	Methods of forming semiconductor devices using aspect ratio dependent etching effects, and related memory devices and electronic systems A method of forming a semiconductor device comprises forming a patterned masking material comprising parallel structures and parallel trenches extending at a first angle from about 30° to about 75° relative to a lateral direction. A mask is provided over the patterned masking material and comprises additional parallel structures and parallel apertures extending at a second, different angle from about 0° to about 90° relative to the lateral direction. The patterned masking material is further patterned using the mask to form a patterned masking structure comprising elongate structures separated by the parallel trenches and additional parallel trenches. Exposed portions of a hard mask material underlying the patterned masking structure are subjected to ARDE to form a patterned hard mask material. Exposed portions of a semiconductive material underlying the patterned hard mask material are removed to form semiconductive pillar structures. Semiconductor devices and electronic systems are also described.
US10991688B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack, a first doped region, a second doped region, and a buried doped region. The first doped region has a first conductivity type and is located in the substrate at a first side of the gate stack. The second doped region has the first conductivity type and is located in the substrate at a second side of the gate stack. The buried doped region has the first conductivity type and is buried in the substrate, extended from the first doped region to the second doped region, and separated from the gate stack by a distance.
US10991686B2	Super CMOS devices on a microelectronics system A low cost IC solution is disclosed to provide Super CMOS microelectronics macros. Hereinafter, the Super CMOS or Schottky CMOS all refer to SCMOS. The SCMOS device solutions with a niche circuit element, the complementary low threshold Schottky barrier diode pairs (SBD) made by selected metal barrier contacts (Co/Ti) to P— and N—Si beds of the CMOS transistors. A DTL like new circuit topology and designed wide contents of broad product libraries, which used the integrated SBD and transistors (BJT, CMOS, and Flash versions) as basic components. The macros include diodes that are selectively attached to the diffusion bed of the transistors, configuring them to form generic logic gates, memory cores, and analog functional blocks from simple to the complicated, from discrete components to all grades of VLSI chips. Solar photon voltaic electricity conversion and bio-lab-on-a-chip are two newly extended fields of the SCMOS IC applications.
US10991676B2	Systems and methods for flash stacking A three-dimensional stacking technique performed in a wafer-to-wafer fashion reducing the machine movement in production. The wafers are processed with metallic traces and stacked before dicing into separate die stacks. The traces of each layer of the stacks are interconnected via electroless plating.
US10991671B2	Multi-piece wiring substrate, electronic component housing package, and electronic device A multi-piece wiring substrate includes a matrix substrate including a first main surface, a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, a third main surface disposed between the first main surface and the second main surface, an arrangement of a plurality of wiring substrate regions, a margin region surrounding the plurality of wiring substrate regions, and a dividing groove. The multi-piece wiring substrate further includes a through-hole disposed across the boundary between the wiring substrate regions or the boundary between the wiring substrate regions and the margin region, and which penetrates from the first main surface to the second main surface, and an external connection conductor at each corner of the wiring substrate regions on the second main surface. An auxiliary conductor is disposed around the through-hole on the third main surface.
US10991670B2	Semiconductor device assemblies including spacer with embedded semiconductor die In a general aspect, a semiconductor device assembly can include a semiconductor die having a first surface including active circuitry, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a plurality of side surfaces. Each of the plurality of side surfaces can extend between the first surface of the semiconductor die and the second surface of the semiconductor die. The semiconductor device assembly can also include a conductive spacer having a cavity defined therein. The semiconductor die can be electrically and thermally coupled with the conductive spacer, the semiconductor die being at least partially embedded in the cavity.
US10991665B2	Package-level noise filtering for EMI RFI mitigation A semiconductor package and a packaged electronic device are described. The semiconductor package has a foundation layer and a planar filtering circuit. The circuit is formed in the foundation layer to provide EMI/RFI mitigation. The circuit has one or more conductive traces that are patterned to form an equivalent circuit of inductors and capacitors. The one or more conductive traces include planar metal shapes, such as meanders, loops, inter-digital fingers, and patterned shapes, to reduce the z-height of the package. The packaged electronic device has a semiconductor die, a foundation layer, a motherboard, a package, and the circuit. The circuit removes undesirable interferences generated from the semiconductor die. The circuit has a z-height that is less than a z-height of solder balls used to attach the foundation layer to the motherboard. A method of forming a planar filtering circuit in a foundation layer is also described.
US10991661B2	Radio-frequency isolation using backside cavities A method for fabricating a semiconductor device involves providing a transistor device formed over an oxide layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, removing at least part of the semiconductor substrate, applying an interface material below to at least a portion of the oxide layer, removing a portion of the interface material to form a trench, and at least partially covering the interface material and the trench with a substrate layer to form a cavity.
US10991658B2	Electronic element module and method for manufacturing the same An electronic element module includes: a substrate including ground wirings; at least one electronic element mounted on a first surface of the substrate; a sealing portion embedding the at least one electronic element therein and disposed on the substrate; connection conductors partially disposed on side surfaces of the substrate and having lower ends connected to the ground wirings; and a shielding portion disposed along the sealing portion, and connected to the connection conductors.
US10991657B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes obtaining a pattern density of an integrated circuit (IC) design layout; adjusting a density of an alignment mark pattern of the IC design layout according to the pattern density; and patterning a material layer according to the IC design layout after adjusting the density of the alignment mark pattern.
US10991656B2	Semiconductor device package A semiconductor device package includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed over the first substrate, and a surface mount device (SMD) component disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The SMD component includes a plurality of connection electrodes electrically connecting the first substrate to the second substrate, and the plurality of connection electrodes are electrically disconnected from each other.
US10991648B1	Redistribution layer structure and semiconductor package An RDL structure including a first pad, a second pad, a third pad, a fourth pad, a first switch device, a second switch device, a third switch device, and a fourth switch device is provided. The first pad, the second pad, the third pad, and the fourth pad are separated from each other. The first switch device includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer separated from each other. The second switch device includes a third conductive layer and a fourth conductive layer separated from each other. The third switch device includes a fifth conductive layer and a sixth conductive layer separated from each other. The fourth switch device includes a seventh conductive layer and an eighth conductive layer separated from each other.
US10991647B2	Printed circuit board and package structure having the same A printed circuit board including: an insulating material having a bump pad embedded in a first surface thereof; a first insulating layer stacked on the first surface of the insulating material and including an opening portion exposing the bump pad; a second insulating layer stacked on the first insulating layer and including a first cavity exposing the opening portion; and a bump disposed on the bump pad in the opening portion.
US10991646B2	Flexible circuit board for display A flexible circuit board for a display, having a chip-on-film structure, is disclosed. A connection pattern which is selected as a first connection pattern among connection patterns connected to panel contact pads does not reach a cutting line and is confined within a product region. As a consequence, the connection pattern selected as the first connection pattern may be prevented from being exposed on a cutting section along the cutting line, and thus, may be prevented from being changed in its electrical property due to penetration of moisture.
US10991639B2	Compliant Pin Fin heat sink with base integral pins A compliant pin fin heat sink includes a flexible base plate having a thickness of from about 0.2 mm to about 0.5 mm. A plurality of pins extends from the flexible base plate and is formed integral with the flexible base plate by forging. A flexible top plate is connected to and spaced from the flexible base plate. The plurality of pins is disposed between the flexible base plate and the flexible top plate.
US10991636B2	Semiconductor device and method A semiconductor device and method of manufacture comprise forming a channel-less, porous low K material. The material may be formed using a silicon backbone precursor and a hydrocarbon precursor to form a matrix material. The material may then be cured to remove a porogen and help to collapse channels within the material. As such, the material may be formed with a scaling factor of less than or equal to about 1.8.
US10991627B2	Methods for forming fin field-effect transistors A method includes forming a patterned etching mask, which includes a plurality of strips, and etching a semiconductor substrate underlying the patterned etching mask to form a first plurality of semiconductor fins and a second plurality of semiconductor fins. The patterned etching mask is used as an etching mask in the etching. The method further includes etching the second plurality of semiconductor fins without etching the first plurality of semiconductor fins. An isolation region is then formed, and the first plurality of semiconductor fins has top portions protruding higher than a top surface of the isolation region.
US10991622B2	Wafer processing method A wafer processing method includes the following steps: forming, on a back side of a wafer including a device layer, a mask to be used in forming grooves in a substrate along streets from the back side of the wafer; applying plasma etching from the back side of the wafer through the mask to form the grooves in the substrate along the streets and to define chip regions surrounded by the grooves; immersing the wafer in water, to which ultrasonic vibrations are being applied, after the etching step, whereby the device layer is cracked or ruptured along outer peripheral edges of the chip regions; and bonding a tape to a front side of the wafer before performance of the water immersion step.
US10991617B2	Methods and apparatus for cleaving of semiconductor substrates Methods and apparatus for cleaving a substrate in a semiconductor chamber. The semiconductor chamber pressure is adjusted to a process pressure, a substrate is then heated to a nucleation temperature of ions implanted in the substrate, the temperature of the substrate is then adjusted below the nucleation temperature of the ions, and the temperature is maintained until cleaving of the substrate occurs. Microwaves may be used to provide heating of the substrate for the processes. A cleaving sensor may be used for detection of successful cleaving by detecting pressure changes, acoustic emissions, changes within the substrate, and/or residual gases given off by the implanted ions when the cleaving occurs.
US10991608B2	Substrate coating apparatus for floating substrate and method Provided is a coating apparatus including: a stage unit which floats the substrate to a predetermined height by using wind pressure of gas; a droplet discharge unit which drops the droplet of the functional liquid on the substrate floated to the predetermined height from the stage unit; a main scanning direction moving unit which moves the substrate, which is floated to the predetermined height from the stage unit, in the main scanning direction while holding the substrate; and a sub-scanning direction moving unit which moves the droplet discharge unit in the sub-scanning direction with respect to the substrate floated to the predetermined height from the stage unit. The sub-scanning direction moving unit moves the droplet discharge unit in the sub-scanning direction while the main scanning direction moving unit repeatedly moves the substrate in the main scanning direction and the droplet discharge unit repeatedly drops the droplet.
US10991602B2	Substrate washing device A substrate washing device includes a substrate holding mechanism 70 that holds a substrate W, a substrate rotating mechanism 72 that rotates the substrate W held by the substrate holding mechanism 70, and a two-fluid nozzle 46 that ejects a two-fluid jet toward a surface of the rotating substrate W. The two-fluid nozzle 46 is formed of a conductive material. Accordingly, the electrification amount of droplets ejected as the two-fluid jet from the two-fluid nozzle 46 can be suppressed.
US10991591B2	Reactive ion etching apparatus The reactive ion etching apparatus of this invention has a stage provided with an electrostatic chuck having a pair of electrodes. At the time of etching a to-be-processed substrate, by applying DC voltage to the pair of electrodes, the to-be-processed substrate is electrostatically absorbed to the electrostatic chuck. In this reactive ion etching apparatus, a radio-frequency power source connected to the stage, through a first output line, applies bias potential to the to-be-processed substrate. The radio-frequency power source is also arranged to be connected through a second output line to the pair of electrodes so as to apply radio-frequency potential in a manner to be superposed on the DC voltage. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are respectively interposed in the first output line and the second output line. A capacitance ratio of the first capacitor to the second capacitor is set to a range of 2.5 to 25.
US10991586B2	In-situ tungsten deposition without barrier layer In-situ methods for depositing a metal film without the use of a barrier layer are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise forming an amorphous nucleation layer comprising one or more of silicon or boron and forming a metal layer on the nucleation layer. These processes are performed without an air break between processes.
US10991585B2	Trimming optical device structures A method of trimming the refractive index of material forming at least part of one or more structures integrated in one or more pre-fabricated devices, the method comprising: implanting one or more first regions of material of one or more pre-fabricated devices, encompassing at least partially one or more device structures, with ions to alter the crystal form of the material within the one or more first regions and change the refractive index of the material within the one or more first regions; and heat treating one or more second regions of material of the one or more devices, encompassing at least partially the one or more first regions, to alter the crystal form of the material within the one or more first regions encompassed by the one or more second regions and change the refractive index thereof, thereby trimming the refractive index of the material of at least part of the one or more device structures, such that the one or more device structures provide one or more predetermined device outputs.
US10991580B2	Laser crystallizing apparatus A laser crystallizing apparatus includes a first light source unit configured to emit a first input light having a linearly polarized laser beam shape. A second light source unit is configured to emit a second input light having a linearly polarized laser beam shape. A polarization optical system is configured to rotate the first input light and/or the second input light at a predetermined rotation angle. An optical system is configured to convert the first input light and the second input light, which pass through the polarization optical system, into an output light. A target substrate is seated on a stage and output light is directed onto the target substrate. A monitoring unit is configured to receive the first input light or the second input light from the polarization optical system and measure a laser beam quality thereof.
US10991576B2	Crystalline semiconductor layer formed in BEOL processes A crystalline channel layer of a semiconductor material is formed in a backend process over a crystalline dielectric seed layer. A crystalline magnesium oxide MgO is formed over an amorphous inter-layer dielectric layer. The crystalline MgO provides physical link to the formation of a crystalline semiconductor layer thereover.
US10991574B2	Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a three-dimensional (3D) structure on a substrate, forming an adsorption control layer to cover an upper portion of the 3D structure, and forming a material layer on the adsorption control layer and on a lower portion of the 3D structure that is not covered by the adsorption control layer, wherein a minimum thickness of the material layer on the adsorption control layer is less than a maximum thickness of the material layer on the lower portion of the 3D structure.
US10991571B2	High temperature atomic layer deposition of silicon oxide thin films Atomic layer deposition (ALD) process formation of silicon oxide with temperature>500° C. is disclosed.
US10991564B2	Mass spectrometry probes and systems for ionizing a sample The invention generally relates to mass spectrometry probes and systems for ionizing a sample. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a mass spectrometry probe including a substrate in which a portion of the substrate is coated with a material, a portion of which protrudes from the substrate.
US10991562B2	Low cross-talk fast sample delivery system based upon acoustic droplet ejection An ion source for a mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an ultrasonic transducer which focuses ultrasonic energy onto a surface of a sample fluid without directly contacting the sample fluid.
US10991558B2	Interactive analysis of mass spectrometry data including peak selection and dynamic labeling This invention relates to graphical user-interactive displays for use in MS-based analysis of protein impurities, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides a user-interactive display comprising interactive and dynamic selection of one or more masses and concurrent display of peaks (points) corresponding to that predicted mass value across other displays (MS1, deconvolved mass spectrum, etc.).
US10991553B2	Nanosecond pulser thermal management Some embodiments include a thermal management system for a nanosecond pulser. In some embodiments, the thermal management system may include a switch cold plates coupled with switches, a core cold plate coupled with one or more transformers, resistor cold plates coupled with resistors, or tubing coupled with the switch cold plates, the core cold plates, and the resistor cold plates. The thermal management system may include a heat exchanger coupled with the resistor cold plates, the core cold plate, the switch cold plate, and the tubing. The heat exchanger may also be coupled with a facility fluid supply.
US10991552B2	Cooling mechanism utilized in a plasma reactor with enhanced temperature regulation Embodiments of the invention generally provide a cooling mechanism utilized in a plasma reactor that may provide efficient temperature control during a plasma process. In one embodiment, a cooling mechanism disposed in a plasma processing apparatus includes a coil antenna enclosure formed in a processing chamber, a coil antenna assembly disposed in the coil antenna enclosure, a plurality of air circulating elements disposed in the coil antenna enclosure adjacent to the coil antenna assembly, and a baffle plate disposed in the coil antenna enclosure below and adjacent to the coil antenna assembly.
US10991546B1	Isolated LINAC resonator pickup circuit A monitoring circuit that includes a pickup loop to monitor a voltage applied to a cavity of a linear accelerator is disclosed. The monitoring circuit is electrically isolated from the linear accelerator and is also electrically isolated from the controller that receives input from the circuit and controls the linear accelerator. In certain embodiments, the monitoring circuit also includes an energy harvester so as to capture energy without any physical connection to the controller. This may be achieved using light energy or electromagnetic energy, for example. In certain embodiments, the monitoring circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter to convert the signals received from the pickup loop to digital values. In other embodiments, the monitoring circuit passes analog voltages to the controller. The outputs from the monitoring circuit may include the amplitude and phase of the voltage being applied to the respective cavity.
US10991534B1	Leakage protector A leakage protector comprises a housing, a rotating member, a MCU (Microprogrammed Control Unit), an electromagnet, and a leakage protection module. The rotating member, the MCU, the electromagnet and the leakage protection module are all disposed in the housing. The housing is provided with an input terminal and an output terminal. The MCU is configured to perform power supply through the input terminal. The leakage protector has a compact structure while reducing the cost, and effectively reduces the occupied space.
US10991531B2	Electromagnetic relay A stationary core is in an exciting coil. A yoke covers an outer periphery and an axial end of the exciting coil to form a magnetic circuit and has an opening portion. The movable core faces the stationary core through the opening portion and is attracted toward the stationary core on energization of the exciting coil. A return spring urges the movable core against the attraction direction. A first gap is formed between the stationary core and the movable core on deenergization of the exciting coil. A second gap is formed between the yoke and the movable core on deenergization of the exciting coil. The second gap allows the yoke and the movable core to generate an attractive force therebetween on energization of the exciting coil. The return spring is made of a magnetic material to magnetically bridge the first gap or the second gap.
US10991530B2	Portable object comprising a near-field connection device A portable object including a near-field communication device. The communication device includes an antenna, the ends of which are configured to be connected electrically to an electronic chip, forming, together with the chip, an electrical circuit. In an original manner, the portable object includes a control element which is able to be displaced between two predefined positions, i.e. an active position wherein the communication device is activated and a passive position wherein the communication device is deactivated. The portable object includes, furthermore, a mechanical switch which is able to switch between an open state and a closed state in response to a displacement of the control element from one to the other of its predefined positions.
US10991528B2	Gas-insulated load break switch and switchgear comprising a gas-insulated load break switch A load-break switch has a housing holding insulation gas at ambient pressure; a first main contact and a second main contact being movable relative to each other in an axial direction of the switch; a first arcing contact and a second arcing contact being movable relative to each other in the axial direction and defining an arcing region where an arc is formed during a current breaking operation, wherein the arcing region is located radially inward from the first main contact; a pressurizing system pressurizing a quenching gas during the current breaking operation; and a nozzle system arranged to blow the pressurized quenching gas onto the arc. The first main contact includes at least one pressure release opening to allow gas flow in a radial outward direction. A total area of the pressure release opening suppresses a reduction of gas flow out of the pressure release opening.
US10991525B2	Electrical switch The electric switch comprises at least one key (4) that pivots about a pivoting axis (5) and a base (2) provided with at least one electric connection and disconnection actuation point (3), so that the pivoting of the key 4 causes the application of pressure to at least one actuation point 3 and causes the electric connection or disconnection, and it is characterized in that the base (2) comprises at least one pivoting actuator (6). A low-cost mechanical type electric switch is obtained which automatically returns to its rest position, and which for the user has the same sensation as an electronic type electric switch.
US10991523B2	Keyboard device A keyboard device includes a base plate and a plurality of keyswitches disposed on the base plate. At least one of the keyswitches includes a keycap, two linkages, and two magnetic attraction members. The linkages are connected between the base plate and the keycap and configured to guide the movements of the keycap toward and away from the base plate. The magnetic attraction members are rotatably connected to the linkages, respectively, and are configured to attract each other. When the magnetic attraction members abut against each other, the keycap is at a highest position relative to the base plate. When the keycap moves toward the base plate from the highest position, the magnetic attraction members are separated from each other.
US10991522B2	Movable contact point, switch with movable contact point, and embossed tape for containing movable contact point A movable contact includes a conductive member having an outer end having substantially a rectangular shape when viewed from above the conductive member. The conductive member includes a dome portion, a flange extending in a direction away from the dome portion, a connection portions provided at each of four corners of the rectangular shape, and a contact portion extending away from the flange. The connection portion, a first boundary portion where the connection portion is connected to the flange, and a second boundary portion where the connection portion is connected to the contact portion may constitute a drawn portion. Alternatively, the first and second boundary portions may be curved to be concave toward the dome portion.
US10991521B2	Locking device for circuit breaker operation device A locking mechanism for a circuit breaker operation device includes a housing (1). A button (2) is mounted in a button slot (101) of the housing (1). The locking mechanism is characterized in that the housing (1) is provided with a locking member (3) therein, and the locking member (3) can lock or unlock the button (2). In the locking mechanism for a circuit breaker operation device, a locking member is added in the circuit breaker; only after a lock button is pressed, an operation button is pressed to close the circuit breaker; when the operation button is pulled out, the circuit breaker is disconnected; when the lock button is not pressed, the operation button is locked by the lock button, the operation button cannot be pressed down, the circuit breaker cannot be closed.
US10991518B2	Vacuum-capacitor apparatus and method An apparatus and associated method for an energy-storage device (e.g., a capacitor) having a plurality of electrically conducting electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode separated by a non-electrically conducting region, and wherein the non-electrically conducting region further includes a non-uniform permittivity (K) value. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a substrate; fabricating a first electrode on the substrate; and fabricating a second electrode such that the second electrode is separated from the first electrode by a non-electrically conducting region, wherein the non-electrically conducting region has a non-uniform permittivity (K) value. The capacitor devices will find benefit for use in electric vehicles, of all kinds, uninterruptible power supplies, wind turbines, mobile phones, and the like requiring wide temperature ranges from several hundreds of degrees C. down to absolute zero, consumer electronics operating in a temperature range of −55 degrees C. to 125 degrees C.
US10991517B2	Molecular photon upconversion using organic-inorganic hybrid interfaces Transmission of low energy light is one of the primary loss mechanisms of a single junction solar cell. Molecular photon upconversion via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA-UC)—combining two or more low energy photons to generate a higher energy excited state—is an intriguing strategy to surpass this limit. The present disclosure is directed to self-assembled multilayers, e.g., bi- or trilayers, on metal oxide surfaces as a strategy to facilitate TTA-UC emission and demonstrate direct charge separation of the upconverted state. A three-fold enhancement in transient photocurrent is achieved at light intensities as low as two equivalent suns. The multilayer structure comprises a substrate comprising a metal oxide surface and a bulk region, and a self-assembled bilayer film, the bilayer film comprising: (a) an acceptor molecule covalently bonded to the metal oxide surface; (b) a linking metal ion bonded to the acceptor molecule; and (c) one or more sensitizer molecule(s) bonded to the linking coordinating metal ion.
US10991516B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a plurality of capacitor elements laminated in parallel, and an exterior resin that seals the plurality of capacitor elements. Each of the plurality of capacitor elements includes a valve action metal base, an oxide film dielectric layer on a surface of the valve action metal base, and a cathode layer on a surface of the dielectric layer, and at least one capacitor element among the plurality of capacitor elements has a thicker oxide film dielectric layer than that of another capacitor element.
US10991515B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a plurality of laminated units each including a valve action metal substrate including a porous layer on a surface thereof, a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous layer, and a solid electrolyte layer on the dielectric layer. A metal foil is between the laminated units. The units and the conductor layers are sealed with a coating resin. The valve action metal substrate has an anode section-side end surface directly connected to an anode outer electrode on the surface of the coating resin, and the metal foil is directly connected to a cathode outer electrode on the surface of the coating resin.
US10991513B2	Composite electronic component, composite electronic component package, circuit board, and method of producing a composite electronic component A composite electronic component includes: a first electronic component including a ceramic body having a main surface caused to face a circuit board at a time of mounting and first and second end surfaces orthogonal to the main surface, and a first external electrode and a second external electrode respectively provided to the first end surface and the second end surface and respectively extending from the first end surface and the second end surface to the main surface; and a second electronic component including a functional film provided to the main surface, and a first electrode film and a second electrode film provided to both end portions of the functional film separately from the first external electrode and the second external electrode, the second electronic component being configured to fit within a thickness of each of the first external electrode and the second external electrode from the main surface.
US10991498B2	Sine pulse actuation, and associated systems and methods Sine pulse actuation, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for actuating an actuator includes: supplying a first input to the actuator, where the first input corresponds to a rising edge of a first sine function; supplying a second input to the actuator, where the second input corresponds to a generally constant amplitude plateau; and supplying a third input to the actuator, where the third input corresponds to a falling edge of a second sine function. The first, second and third inputs are control inputs or actuation inputs.
US10991495B2	Soft magnetic alloy and magnetic component A soft magnetic alloy which includes nanocrystal parts and amorphous parts is provided. The nanocrystal parts include αFe(—Si) as a main component, and include at least one of elements selected from B, P, C, Ti, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, V, W, Cr, Al, Mn, Zn, and Cu as a sub-component. When a total content ratio of the sub-component in the nanocrystal parts is set as α (at %), and a total content ratio of the sub-components of the nanocrystal parts included in the amorphous parts is set as β (at %), 0.01≤(α/β)≤0.40, and a crystallinity degree is 5% or more and 70% or less.
US10991492B2	R-T-B based permanent magnet The present invention provides an R-T-B based permanent magnet capable of improving a coercive force HcJ while maintaining a residual magnetic flux density Br. The R-T-B based permanent magnet includes Ga. R is one or more selected from rare earth elements, T is Fe or a combination of Fe and Co, and B is boron. The R-T-B based permanent magnet has main phase grains including a crystal grain having an R2T14B crystal structure and grain boundaries formed between adjacent two or more main phase grains, and 0.030≤[Ga]/[R]≤0.100 is satisfied in which [Ga] represents an atomic concentration of Ga and [R] represents an atomic concentration of R in the main phase grains.
US10991488B2	Shed housing A shed housing is disclosed. The shed housing covers an insulator including at least one shed. The shed housing includes a receiving cavity allowing an upper surface and a lower surface of the shed to be received in the receiving cavity. The shed housing is provided with a mounting hole through which the insulator passes, and an opening corresponding to the mounting hole. The opening communicates the mounting hole with an outer edge of the shed housing. The mounting hole communicates with the receiving cavity. A first connecting portion and a second connecting portion cooperating with the first connecting portion are arranged respectively on both ends of the opening. When the first connecting portion is connected to the second connecting portion, the shed housing is closed along a circumferential direction. The shed housing is able to receive the entire piece of shed, and can be assembled on the shed without any additional connecting components, which is convenient and high-efficient and has good effect on preventing pollution flashover and rain flashover.
US10991487B2	Cable and producing method therefor A cable is composed of a linear shape conductor, a first electrical insulating member coating a periphery of the conductor, a shield made of a plating layer coating a surface of the first electrical insulating member, a second electrical insulating member coating a surface of the shield, and an exposed shield portion provided in at least one end portion of the cable with the second electrical insulating member being removed therefrom and the shield being exposed therein during termination. An adhesion strength between the shield and the second electrical insulating member in the exposed shield portion is lower than an adhesion strength between the shield and the second electrical insulating member in an other part of the surface of the shield.
US10991482B2	Cable A cable includes a line for signal transmission or power source supply, a first metal wire having flexibility and a shape-retaining property, a plurality of yarns extending substantially in the same direction as that of the first metal wire, and a coating material for coating the line, the first metal wire, and the plurality of yarns.
US10991481B2	Polymer-coated wires The present disclosure provides insulated electrical conductors, e.g., wires, and methods for producing such insulated electrical conductors to combat partial discharge by enhancing bond strength between the electrical conductor and a base insulating thermoplastic layer (e.g., including a PAEK). Such insulated electrical conductors can include: an electrical conductor; an insulating coating on at least a portion of a surface of the electrical conductor; and an oxide layer between the electrical conductor and the insulating coating. Methods for producing such insulated electrical conductors can involve extrusion of an insulating polymer onto the electrical conductor under ambient atmosphere and a subsequent heat treatment step, which can also be conducted under ambient atmosphere.
US10991480B2	Wire harness An aluminum wire includes a strand main body, an inner layer, and an outer layer. The strand main body includes aluminum wire or an aluminum alloy wire. The inner layer includes Zn, a Zn alloy, Ni, or an Ni alloy and covers the outer circumferential surface of the strand main body. The outer layer includes Sn or an Sn alloy and covers the outer circumferential surface of the inner layer. In the aluminum wire, the pinhole ratio in the outer layer is no more than 4% and/or the thickness of the inner layer is at least 0.3 μm.
US10991465B2	Systems and methods for performing computer-simulated evaluation of treatments on a target population Methods and systems may be used for performing computer-simulated evaluation of treatments. For example, the method may include: for each of a plurality of patients, receiving one or more patient-specific anatomical and/or physiological models; selecting, from the plurality of patients, a set of patients that have one or more common characteristics; for each patient in an experimental group, modifying at least one model of the respective one or more patient-specific models to obtain at least one modified patient-specific model that models an effect of an evaluation treatment on the respective patient, and calculating a value of an evaluation endpoint based on the respective at least one modified patient-specific model; and comparing the calculated values of the evaluation endpoint with one or more control values of the evaluation endpoint for patients that satisfy the one or more selection criterion.
US10991463B2	Computer-implemented system and methods for predicting the health and therapeutic behavior of individuals using artificial intelligence, smart contracts and blockchain A computer implemented method of predicting the health and therapeutic behavior of patients and making treatment plan recommendations includes the steps of: receiving patient healthcare data having one or more conditions and limiting factors; determining a therapeutic behavior pattern of patient; determining unsuccessful therapies and successful therapies for each condition based on therapeutic behavior pattern; and calculating cost quote for successful therapies based on limiting factors for time period. A computer implemented method of providing cost effective therapy for a patient is also provided and includes the steps of: receiving patient healthcare data; determining unsuccessful therapies and successful therapies; calculating probability of disease progression; calculating possible therapies ranked by probability of successful treatment; calculate cost quote for possible therapies; and paying a smart contract for a selected therapy.
US10991453B2	Alignment of nucleic acid sequences containing homopolymers based on signal values measured for nucleotide incorporations Disclosed are new and improved methods and systems for nucleic acid sequence analysis that can analyze data indicative of natural by-products of nucleotide incorporation events without the need for exogenous labels or dyes to identify nucleic acid sequences of interest. In particular, the methods and systems of the present teachings can process such data and various forms thereof to align fragments of the nucleic acid(s) of interest, particularly those analyzed using an addition sequencing technique, for example, as occurs with the use of nucleotide flows.
US10991451B2	BamBam: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.
US10991448B2	Pathway recognition algorithm using data integration on genomic models (paradigm) The present invention relates to methods for evaluating the probability that a patient's diagnosis may be treated with a particular clinical regimen or therapy.
US10991444B1	Tiered read reference calibration Calibrating read reference voltages is disclosed. In an aspect, a control die calibrates read reference voltages for reading the non-volatile memory cells. The control die is bonded to a memory die that contains memory cells. In one aspect, a tiered approach to calibrating read reference voltages is taken. For example, first the control die may attempt to determine new values for read reference voltages. If the new read reference voltages are satisfactory, then the control die may use the new read reference voltages. The control die could use one or more different techniques to determine new read reference voltages. If the new read reference voltages determined by the control die are unsatisfactory, then a memory controller in communication with the control die may calibrate the read reference voltages. By the control die determining the new read reference voltages, the memory controller is substantially less burdened with such tasks.
US10991443B2	Memory apparatus and data read method A memory apparatus of an embodiment includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an error correction circuit, a memory circuit, a data distribution circuit, and a processing circuit. The error correction circuit performs error detection in data read from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device on a processing unit size basis and performs error correction on the data in response to its necessity. The memory circuit stores data on the processing unit size basis. The data distribution circuit transfers the data read from the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device to the error detection circuit and the memory circuit on the processing unit size basis. The processing circuit reads the data from the memory circuit and processes the data in response to the error correction circuit detecting an uncorrectable error in the data.
US10991442B2	Memory device with a fuse protection circuit A memory device includes a memory circuit and a fuse protection circuit. The memory circuit includes a program line and a fuse. The program line is configured to receive a program voltage for programming the fuse. The fuse protection circuit is coupled to the memory circuit and is configured to prevent unintentional programming of the fuse.
US10991419B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of handling data lifetime codes used therein A semiconductor device includes a latch circuit and a code comparison circuit. The latch circuit latches an output code generated based on an active command. The latch circuit outputs the latched output code as a latch code in response to a write command. The code comparison circuit compares the latch code with a write code to generate a detection signal.
US10991415B2	Semiconductor device performing implicit precharge operation Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a first semiconductor chip having a latency counter supplied with a first command and configured to generate a second command when a predetermined period is elapsed after the first command is activated; and a second semiconductor chip having an active control circuit configured to activate a state signal in response to the first command when the state signal is in an inactive state, deactivate the state signal in response to the first command when the state signal is in an active state, and activate the state signal in response to the second command generated based on the first command that is activated when the state signal is in the active state.
US10991413B2	Memory with programmable die refresh stagger Memory devices and systems with configurable die refresh stagger, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory system includes two or more memory dies. At least one memory die includes a fuse array storing refresh information that specifies a refresh group of the memory die. In these and other embodiments, at least one memory die includes a refresh group terminal and refresh group detect circuitry electrically connected to the refresh group terminal. The at least one memory die is configured to detect a refresh group of the memory die and to delay its refresh operation by a time delay corresponding to the refresh group. In this manner, refresh operations of the two or more memory dies can be staggered to reduce peak current demand of the memory system.
US10991387B1	Data storage device migrating data from non-energy assist disk surface to energy assist disk surface A data storage device is disclosed comprising a non-energy assist (NEA) head configured to access a first disk surface, and an energy assist (EA) head configured to access a second disk surface. The data storage device further comprises control circuitry configured to write data to the first disk surface, and migrate at least part of the data to the second disk surface.
US10991378B2	Method for reducing noise in an audio signal and a hearing device A method reduces noise in an audio signal. In the method a signal component subsequent to the prediction time is predicted for a plurality of prediction times with reference to signal components of the audio signal that are respectively prior to the prediction time. A predicted audio signal is formed from the signal components respectively following a prediction time, and a noise-reduced audio signal is generated based on the predicted audio signal.
US10991377B2	Method and system for speaker loudness control A mechanism to adjust far-end signal loudness based on environmental noise levels and device speaker characteristics has a noise-level analyzer that receives feedback from an intelligent speaker-boosting logic circuit that provides a signal to a class-D amplifier to drive the speaker. The noise-level analyzer analyzes near-end environmental noise levels and far-end speech input signal levels across critical frequency bands. The noise-level analyzer performs a masking analysis of the far-end and near-end signals, and guides the speaker-boosting logic circuit to apply determined signal boosting levels over selective bands. The speaker-boosting logic circuit monitors system activity along with the selective band boosting guidance from the noise-level analyzer. Using device speaker information and the speaker excursion pattern, the speaker-boosting logic circuit adjusts far-end speech signal loudness without over excursion of the speaker and damage to the speaker hardware.
US10991366B2	Method of processing dialogue query priority based on dialog act information dependent on number of empty slots of the query A method, performed by a dialogue processing device, of processing dialogue associated with a user based on dialog act information, the method comprises receiving speech information, corresponding to speech of the user, including a plurality of sentence units; identifying a first sentence unit and a second sentence unit, of the plurality of sentence units, based on receiving the speech information; extracting a first dialog act indicative of an intention of the first sentence unit and extracting a second dialog act indicative of an intention of the second sentence unit; extracting a first dialog act indicative of an intention of the first sentence unit and extracting a second dialog act indicative of an intention of the second sentence unit; processing the first sentence unit and the second unit in a sequence according to respective priority orders assigned based on a number of empty slots of dialogue frames of the sentence units.
US10991357B2	Surgical tool having integrated microphones Communication apparatus and devices for surgical robotic systems are described. The communication apparatus can include a user console in communication with a communication device having a surgical tool. The communication device can include a microphone to convert a sound input into an acoustic input signal. The communication device can transmit the acoustic input signal to the user console for reproduction as a sound output for a remote operator. The surgical tool can include an endoscope having several microphones mounted on a housing. The surgical tool can be a sterile barrier having a microphone and a drape. The microphone(s) of the surgical tools can face a surrounding environment such that a tableside staff is a source of the sound input that causes the sound output, and a surgeon and the table side staff can communicate in a noisy environment. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10991354B2	Hull-fitted electronic device for a vessel A hull-fitted electronic device (2) for a vessel is provided. The hull-fitted electronic device is adapted to be attached to a seat (10) having a through hole (11), the seat being attachable to a hull (20) of the vessel such that the through hole of the seat is aligned with a through hole (12) of the hull. The hull-fitted electronic device comprises a transducer (16) adapted to generate a signal to be transmitted into the water outside the hull, and a housing (14) encapsulating the transducer and having a lower portion (3) and a flange portion (4). The lower portion and at least the portion of the flange portion located closest to the lower portion are covered by a surface (5) of a material (17) being watertight and transparent to the signal generated by the transducer. A portion of the surface forms a window (13) of the housing arranged to transmit the signal of the transducer.
US10991351B2	Electronic keyboard instrument and keyboard device An electronic keyboard instrument includes at least one panel supporting member which supports a panel, the at least one panel supporting member is disposed in spaces formed on an upper surface of a chassis, and the spaces are spaces generated behind rear ends of white keys between two adjacent black keys by arranging a plurality of keys in a manner that rear ends of a plurality of black keys are positioned behind rear ends of a plurality of white keys.
US10991349B2	Method and system for musical synthesis using hand-drawn patterns/text on digital and non-digital surfaces The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for creating and synthesizing music. The disclosed method comprises obtaining at least one image including at least one object related to at least one first musical instrument, identifying a user input associated with the at least one object, mapping the at least one object to at least one second musical instrument, and generating sound based on the user input and sound data of the at least one second musical instrument.
US10991347B2	Leg of keyboard instrument and leg attachment structure A leg attachment structure for a keyboard instrument including leg main bodies that support a keyboard portion from both sides, the keyboard portion in which plural keys are arranged on a key bed, wherein the leg attachment structure has plates installed on upper surfaces of the leg main bodies, the plates and the leg main bodies are fixed by inserting rod-shaped portions formed on lower surfaces of the plates into hole portions provided in the leg main bodies, and the plates are formed to be larger than an area of the upper surfaces of the leg main bodies, and installed at positions eccentric to the inner side and the rear side of the keyboard portion with respect to the upper surfaces of the leg main bodies.
US10991346B2	Controller, related display apparatus, and related method for controlling display panel A controller includes a bit shifter and a stain compensator. The bit shifter may determine a bit shift value corresponding to a stain compensation value according to an area of a display panel. The bit shift value represents a quantity of integer bits and a quantity of decimal bits. At least one of the quantity of integer bits and the quantity of decimal bits corresponds to a quantity of stain compensation steps. The stain compensator may compensate a grayscale value of input image data using the stain compensation value and the bit shift value to generate compensated image data.
US10991345B2	Managing transitions of adaptive display rates for different video playback scenarios To manage dynamic adjustment of the refresh rate of a computer display, the operating system defines at least two playback modes: one or more custom modes that can be selected by applications, and a standard mode which is a default setting for the system that can be expected by applications. The operating system provides an application programming interface that enables an application to request using a custom mode. If approved to use the custom mode, then the application presents frames for display based on the custom mode. The operating system stores timing data for each buffered frame indicating how to play the frame in both standard mode and the custom mode. If a transition back to the standard mode occurs, the operating system uses the timing data to properly present frames of video until the application stops generating frames of video in the custom mode.
US10991342B2	Terminal apparatus, system, and method of displaying image A terminal apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive image data of an object and three-dimensional computer graphics (3DCG) data transmitted from an image distribution apparatus, and display, on a display, a specific region image corresponding to a specific region within an image of the object as a background image, and an image of the 3DCG data as a superimposed image to be superimposed on the background image. The specific region image corresponding to the specific region is generatable from the image data of the object and the image of the 3DCG data is generatable from the 3DCG data.
US10991327B2	Method of driving pixel arrangement structure and display panel and display apparatus associated therewith A pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of pixel repeating units arranged in a matrix in a row direction and a column direction. Each of the plurality of pixel repeating units includes a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit sequentially arranged in the column direction. The first pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel which are sequentially arranged in the row direction. The second pixel unit includes a third sub-pixel, a fourth sub-pixel, a first sub-pixel, and a second sub-pixel which are sequentially arranged in the row direction. Each column of sub-pixels is divided into a first subset of sub-pixels connected to a first data line and a second subset of sub-pixels connected to a second data line.
US10991316B2	Display device and driving method thereof A display device includes: a display panel to display an image; a signal controller to determine whether an input image signal is a still image signal, and if the input image signal is a still image signal, further determine whether image switching occurs, and if image switching occurs, to compensate image data according to frame data after the image is switched by using data values of two pieces of frame data between which the image switching occurs; and a data driver to generate a data signal based on the image data and to output the data signal to the display panel.
US10991314B2	Scan driver and display device having the same A scan driver includes stages for outputting scan signals. An nth stage includes: a first driving controller for controlling a voltage of a first node and a voltage of a second node in response to a previous carry signal; a second driving controller for controlling a voltage of a first driving node, based on a sensing-on signal, a next carry signal, the voltage of a first power source, the voltage of the first node, and a voltage of a sampling node, and controlling a voltage of a second driving node, based on the voltage of the sampling node and a sensing clock signal; an output buffer for outputting a carry signal and the scan signal; and a connection controller for electrically coupling the first node and the first driving node and electrically coupling the second node and the second driving node, in response to a display-on signal.
US10991309B2	Display device A light emitting element display device with a narrow frame and high light emission efficiency is provided even when high definition is achieved. The light emitting element display device includes: a light emitting element which emits light at each of a plurality of subpixels forming one pixel; a drive transistor in which one of a source and a drain is connected to an anode of the light emitting element; and an output control circuit which selectively sets the other of the source and the drain of the drive transistor into one of a state of being connected to a power-supply voltage, a state of being connected to a reset voltage that is a lower voltage than the power-supply voltage, and a high-impedance state of not being connected to any of these voltages.
US10991307B2	Pixel circuit and driving method thereof, display device The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a data switching circuit configured to transmit a data voltage signal received from a data line in response to an on-signal; a data storage circuit configured to store the data voltage signal and output a first voltage and a second voltage according to the data voltage signal, wherein the first voltage is lower than the second voltage; a first light emitting circuit configured to emit light when turned on by a voltage difference between the first voltage and a power supply voltage; and a second light emitting circuit configured to emit light when turned on by a voltage difference between the second voltage and the power supply voltage.
US10991291B2	Test device and test method The present disclosure provides a test device and a test method. The test device includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit drives a first pixel to emit light by using a first set of test signals according to the control of a first switch signal and a second switch signal, the second circuit drives a second pixel to emit light by using the first set of test signals according to the control of the first switch signal and the second switch signal, and the third circuit drives a third pixel to emit light by using a second set of test signals according to the control of the first switch signal or the second switch signal, wherein the first pixel, the second pixel and the third pixel are mutually different.
US10991284B2	Method for color calibrating multiple displays and system therefor A system includes a monitor stand configured to mount two or more display devices. The monitor stand includes an extension arm having an integral color calibration device. The extension arm can be manipulated to selectively position the color calibration device in contact with a light-emitting portion of each display device, and can be collapsed for stowage adjacent to the monitor stand. The system further controls the color calibration device to determine initial color attributes of each display device.
US10991278B2	Configurable display apparatus and methods Display module mounting apparatus and methods provide mounting features enabling ease of installation and service. The apparatus may have one or more releasable frame couplers and pivoting releasable frame couplers coupled to a display module having a display plane defined in relation to a substrate. One or more adjustable linkages may adjustably define a standoff distance between the display plane and a support frame to which the module may be mounted by the mounting apparatus. Concave and convex adjustments to the display plane may be made. Operation of pivoting action to tilt the display plane enables installation, removal, and serviceability of large displays constructed with a tiled plurality of display modules.
US10991268B2	Tool simulation system, simulation workpiece, and method of operation A simulator system for use in simulating fabrication or construction comprises a simulation tool with a magnet mounted on a working end, a simulation workpiece comprising a substrate with an alignment location and at least one tool path indicator; and a sensor device with a corresponding alignment location and at least one magnetic sensor. The simulation tool may comprise a pivotable attachment block mounted on a handle. Different welding accessories may be mounted to the attachment block, and the orientation of the attachment block may be altered to simulate a particular type of welding tool.
US10991267B2	Systems and methods providing a computerized eyewear device to aid in welding Systems and methods to aid a welder or welding student. A system may provide a real-world arc welding system or a virtual reality arc welding system along with a computerized eyewear device having a head-up display (HUD). The computerized eyewear device may be worn by a user under a conventional welding helmet as eye glasses are worn and may wirelessly communicate with a welding power source of a real-world arc welding system or a programmable processor-based subsystem of a virtual reality arc welding system.
US10991266B2	Dynamic operator behavior analyzer Dynamic industrial vehicle monitoring for modification of vehicle operator behavior comprises identifying a metric that characterizes an event associated with the operator of an industrial vehicle, the metric having a pre-action trigger that defines when the event is predicted to occur, a performance parameter to evaluate against the event and a behavior modification action that corresponds to a desired operator behavior in response to the event. Monitoring operation of the industrial vehicle is carried out for the event. Upon detecting an occurrence of the event, event data is recorded that characterizes a response of a vehicle operator to the event. The recorded event data is evaluated against at least one performance parameter associated with the corresponding metric to determine whether the vehicle operator demonstrated appropriate behavior for the event. A vehicle operator score is updated based upon the evaluation and the updated vehicle operator score is communicated.
US10991260B2	Intelligent non-disruptive automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) integration for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) A system for intelligent non-disruptive airspace integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is disclosed. The system includes an onboard positioning system and altimeter that determine a current position and altitude of the UAS. Under normal conditions, the UAS remains in inert mode: a transceiver listens for and decodes transmissions from nearby aircraft and ground-based traffic and control facilities. If certain conditions are met (e.g., proximate aircraft, altitude ceilings, controlled or restricted airspaces) the system may declare an alert mode. When in alert mode, the transceiver broadcasts position and identifier information of the UAS to alert neighboring aircraft to its presence. Intelligent transmission strategies regulate the power level or rate of alert-mode transmissions to reduce spectrum congestion due to high UAS density. Alert-mode transmissions continue until the underlying conditions change and inert mode is resumed.
US10991255B2	Providing an open interface to a flight management system Providing an open interface to a navigation system is provided herein. A single partition (or more than one partition) of a partitioned operating system can be utilized to provide connectivity between a navigation system and one or more user equipment devices. Thus, the navigation system and the one or more user equipment devices can be communicatively coupled via the at least one partition. Further, a Software Development Kit (SDK) can be configured to enable bi-directional communication between the navigation system and the one or more user equipment devices. In addition, the SDK can provide security for the navigation system when communicating with the one or more user equipment devices.
US10991253B2	Systems and methods for autonomous mobile food preparation and delivery Methods and systems are provided for delivering food. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, a food delivery request; autonomously preparing food, by the processor and at least one robot or task specific device, based on the food delivery request in a compartment configured to be sterile of an autonomous vehicle; and autonomously delivering the prepared food by the autonomous vehicle.
US10991242B2	Sustained vehicle velocity via virtual private infrastructure A secure vehicle navigational system managing recorded vehicular and human movements transmitting encrypted communications between secure interconnected devices configured along road-ways within network-topology of two or more domains interconnected within a configured infrastructure communicating with a plurality of encrypted telemetry communication devices con figured within or attached to vehicular apparatus and humans, recording received and transmitted data-content between interconnected ecomm-devices and navigational command centers, continuous calculating forecasted positional phase-change positional points determined from a plurality of algorithms and techniques, map tracking a plurality of mechanisms, performing a plurality of calculations comprised of spatial density in proportion to velocity changes, analyzing a plurality of detected guidance drive-ability and interoperability factors, forecasting programmed space time position compared with future time in space positions from a configured subnaysys network-topology, navigational directives and communications are viewable and audibly heard on a augmented VIR Inter-Face, and other embodiments are claimed and described.
US10991241B2	Dynamic layers for navigation database systems In one embodiment, a layer application generates navigation-related data based on observations associated with vehicles. In operation, the layer application generates an attribute based on a first observation associated with a vehicle and an observation type. The layer application then compares the attribute to an existing road database to generate a dynamic layer. Subsequently, the layer application causes the dynamic layer to be transmitted to a navigation subsystem. After receiving the dynamic layer, the navigation subsystem performs navigation operation(s) based on the road database and the dynamic layer. Because the layer application may receive and operate on real-time observations, providers of road databases may produce dynamic layers at a frequency that enables navigation applications to continually provide accurate navigation data.
US10991238B2	Reversible roller shades with light reflective and heat absorbing roller fabric We disclose a roller shade which may move the roller fabric to position either a light reflecting section or a heat absorbing section of the roller fabric toward a window. The two sections may be on opposite sides of a sheet of roller fabric which is connected to the roller tube at one end. The roller shade may wind the roller fabric around the roller tube then reverse the side of the roller fabric which faces the window. Alternatively, the roller fabric may be a continuous loop of fabric that includes a light reflecting section and connected to a heat absorbing section. The roller shade may move the continuous loop of fabric to position either section toward the window. The roller shade may include sensors, a motor, and a controller. The controller may be programmed to reverse the roller fabric in response to a sensor measurement.
US10991234B2	Shutter test device for flame/fire detectors A shutter test device is provided for determining whether or not detectors detecting flame spectrum at UV and IR wave lengths by forming virtual flame/fire spectrum work, and estimating detection time per milliseconds, estimating the time period in which tubes explode, as well as the time period in which the fire extinguishing system works. The shutter provides or prevents delivery of light source radiations to the detector under control of the control unit. The control unit receives alarm signal generated by detectors detecting sent radiation via cable or wireless estimates response time activated as a result of alarm signal and tests working of the fire extinguishing system subject to said alarm, and the activation period, and calculates the time period of activation.
US10991222B2	Active kitchen safety monitoring system and control method thereof An active kitchen safety monitoring system includes a fire prevention alarm device, a gas safety valve, a multifunctional gateway, a server and a user terminal. The fire prevention alarm device sends temperature data of multiple locations on the kitchen stove and kitchen stove usage safety alarm information, both of which are monitored in real time, to the multifunctional gateway. The gas safety valve sends internal pressure data of the gas pipeline, working state information of the motor valve and gas usage safety alarm information to the multifunctional gateway. The multifunctional gateway sends all of the received data to the user terminal through the server, receives and executes operation instructions from the user terminal. The server stores various data and transmits the operation instructions. Through the user terminal, the user is able to view data information and control the gas safety valve and the multifunctional gateway.
US10991217B2	System and methods for computerized safety and security Systems and methods are provided for measuring, assessing, predicting, improving and presenting the state of physical object temperatures using imaging devices, e.g., a thermal infrared camera, and/or intruders in a region of interest to an operator, such that little or no operator effort is required to install, use or receive reports from the system. The invention also includes, for example, means and methods for exploiting autonomous operation and configuration, placement at remote sites, enhancement of image resolution and estimation of range such that accuracy of results and autonomy of operation is enhanced.
US10991208B1	Gaming systems and methods for adaptive social distancing A gaming system comprises a plurality of gaming machines configured to conduct one or more games and a management computing device communicatively coupled to the gaming machines. The management computing device receives indication of a gaming session initiating at a first gaming machine of the gaming machines, identifies one or more gaming machines associated with the first gaming machine from the gaming machines, transmits a disable command to the one or more associated gaming machines that prevents the one or more gaming machines from initiating gaming sessions, and in response to determining that the gaming session at the first gaming machine has concluded, transmits an enable command to the one or more associated gaming machines that enables the one or more gaming machines to initiate gaming sessions.
US10991206B2	Skillfull multi-level games and gaming machines configured to encourage exploration of game levels, stages, areas A computer-implemented method of operating a regulated gaming machine may comprise enabling the player to play a wager-based game having a plurality of stages. Game play and wagers may then be enabled in a first stage of the plurality of stages of a game. A determination may be made that game play in the first stage has reached a first stage complete state in which all requirements necessary for transitioning game play from the first stage to a second stage have been completed. The player may be provided with an opportunity to win one of a plurality of prizes, a highest one of which being a first top prize. The player may then be awarded a random one of the plurality of first prizes. Game play and wagers may then be enabled in a second, later stage of the plurality of stages of the game. It may then be determined that game play in the second stage has reached a second stage complete state in which all requirements necessary for transitioning game play from the second stage to a third stage have been completed and the player may be provided with an opportunity to win one of a plurality of a second prizes, a highest one of which being a second top prize that is higher than the first top prize. The player may then be awarded a random one of the plurality of second prizes.
US10991195B2	Information processor, recording medium, and game control method An information processor displays a slot game on a display and stores the detail of a bet in a flash memory in accordance with an input indicating the bet. When the slot game is finished, the information processor determines whether an item for automation is valid. When the item for automation is valid, the information processor starts the next execution of the slot game with the detail of the bet stored in the flash memory. When the item for automation is not valid, the information processor waits for an input of a bet on the next execution of the slot game.
US10991193B2	Vending machine for dispensing heated granular foodstuffs A vending machine for dispensing heated granular foodstuffs includes a receptacle dispensing assembly for dispensing a receptacle into a receiving zone. A cooled storage hopper stores granular foodstuffs, and has an open bottom end. A discharge assembly is in communication with the open bottom end for transporting the quantity of the granular foodstuffs away from the cooled storage hopper. A heating assembly receives the quantity of the granular foodstuffs from the discharge assembly, heats the quantity of the granular foodstuffs with a heating fluid, and dispenses the quantity of the granular foodstuffs into the receptacle in the receiving zone. A heating fluid generator supplies heating fluid to the heating assembly. A condiment dispenser dispenses at least one condiment into the receptacle in the receiving zone.
US10991192B2	Commercial granular material dispensing apparatus, method, and system A device, system, and method are provided for grinding, dispensing, and packaging a granular material into a receptacle to be obtained by a user. The device can include: a user interface; a canister comprising a dispensing mechanism and a grinder; a packaging system configured to physically manipulate and position a receptacle within the device, thereby eliminating the need for manual handling by the user; a receptacle-storage configured to house a plurality of receptacles and from which the packaging system can obtain a receptacle; a capping station configured to apply a covering onto a filled receptacle to prevent spillage and waste; an inventory database to store inventory information; a communication system to facilitate internet connectivity; and a recommendation system to recommend various recipes to the user. The description also discloses a system of interconnected kiosks for automatically grinding, dispensing, and packaging granular materials.
US10991191B2	Payment application initiated generation of payment instruments In some examples, a system and method for generating a payment instrument are described. The method includes receiving a unique signature that a recipient intends to associate with the payment instrument; verifying that the received feature meets an acceptability criterion; generating a representation of the received signature, wherein the representation is in a form capable of being physically associated with the payment instrument, and wherein association is established by embedding or exposing the representation on the payment instrument; and causing physical generation of the payment instrument having associated therewith the representation of the signature.
US10991188B2	Using a vehicle to provide home security Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to using a vehicle to provide building security. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer that is provided in a vehicle is communicatively coupled to various sensors included in an anti-theft security system of the vehicle. The computer automatically activates a building security procedure upon determining that the vehicle has entered, or is located inside, a geofence of a residence. The sensors are configured to detect a security event that may take place near the residence. For example, a motion sensor may be used to detect a burglar approaching the residence or a sound detector may be used to detect shattering of a glass window of the residence. Upon detecting such a security event, the anti-theft security system of the vehicle may transmit a security alert to an individual and/or a monitoring service.
US10991184B2	Device enabling coffee preparing apparatus to provide user with ordered coffee and method for operating same Disclosed are a device enabling coffee preparing apparatus to provide user with ordered coffee and method for operating same, which may enable the coffee preparing apparatus to block a user other than an orderer from picking up the prepared coffee and provide the prepared coffee to the orderer by generating identification information matched to a coffee order requested from each of user terminals to enable picking-up of the coffee corresponding to the coffee order, transmitting the identification information matched to the coffee order requested from each of the user terminals to each of the user terminals, transmitting an identification information input request message to a user terminal requesting a coffee order corresponding to a coffee preparation completion message from the coffee preparing apparatus, comparing identification input from a user of the user terminal in response to the identification information input request message with identification information transmitted to the user terminal, and requesting the coffee preparing apparatus to perform a provision operation on the coffee corresponding to the identification information transmitted to the user terminal when the input identification information is the same as the transmitted identification information.
US10991179B2	Abnormality notifying apparatus, vehicle, abnormality notifying method, and non- transitory recording medium Safety around a vehicle can be improved when there is a disagreement between an operation state of the vehicle and the notification contents notified from the vehicle. Abnormality notifying apparatus includes a determiner that determines whether or not there is a disagreement in correspondence relationship between operation control and notification control based on a first signal related to the operation control of vehicle and a second signal related to the notification control for notifying notification information according to the operation control to outside vehicle. When there is a disagreement in correspondence relationship, abnormality notifying apparatus notifies information indicating that the vehicle is in an abnormal state to outside vehicle.
US10991171B2	Information processing device and information processing method In an information processing device, an acquisition unit acquires information on a position of an occupant from a vehicle that is in an accident. A reception unit receives a manipulation input from an operator. A determination unit determines directivity of a microphone in a vehicle cabin of the vehicle based on the manipulation input received by the reception unit.
US10991170B1	Vehicle sensor collection of other vehicle information A method, implemented in an electronic processing system that includes a memory and one or more processors, includes receiving, at the electronic processing system, sensor data representing information collected by a sensor (i) located on or in a first vehicle and (ii) configured to sense an environment external to the first vehicle, and storing the received sensor data in the memory. The method also includes processing the stored sensor data to determine conditions in which the second vehicle was driven, driving habits of a driver of the second vehicle, and an identifying characteristic of the second vehicle. The method further includes identifying the driver of the second vehicle using the identifying characteristic, and determining a risk level for the driver of the second vehicle using the determined conditions and driving habits.
US10991169B2	Method for determining a mean time to failure of an electrical device A method for determining a mean time to failure of an electrical device, and a method for adjusting a predetermined mean time to failure of an electrical power supply and for evaluating the adjusted mean time to failure. The method determines the mean time to failure by taking into account both operating conditions and operational load.
US10991166B2	Electric appliance control method, terminal, electric appliance, electronic equipment and storage medium An electric appliance control method, a terminal, an electric appliance, an electronic equipment and a storage medium. The method includes displaying a three-dimensional model configured to simulate an electric appliance, where the three-dimensional model includes a manipulation unit configured to simulate a manipulation component on the electric appliance; obtaining simulated manipulation information, where the simulated manipulation information is generated after a user performs a simulated manipulation on the manipulation unit, and the simulated manipulation information is the same as information generated by the manipulation component after an actual manipulation corresponding to the simulated manipulation is performed; transmitting the simulated manipulation information to a network device, so that the network device transmits the simulated manipulation information to the electric appliance and controls the electric appliance to execute a control instruction corresponding to the simulated manipulation information. The present disclosure further improves the convenience of manipulation.
US10991160B1	Depth hull for rendering three-dimensional models Approaches described and suggested herein relate to generating three-dimensional representations of objects to be used to render virtual reality and augmented reality effects on personal devices such as smartphones and personal computers, for example. An initial surface mesh of an object is obtained. A plurality of silhouette masks of the object taken from a plurality of viewpoints is also obtained. A plurality of depth maps are generated from the initial surface mesh. Specifically, the plurality of depth maps are taken from the same plurality of viewpoints from which the silhouette images are taken. A volume including the object is discretized into a plurality of voxels. Each voxel is then determined to be either inside the object or outside of the object based on the silhouette masks and the depth data. A final mesh is then generated from the voxels that are determined to be inside the object.
US10991159B2	Providing a virtual reality transportation experience The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for a virtual reality transportation system. In particular, the systems and methods described herein present a virtual reality experience including a virtual environment for display to a passenger including virtual inertial interactions that correspond to real-world inertial forces that a passenger experiences while riding in a vehicle. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical sensory data to predict inertial forces that the passenger will experience while riding in the vehicle. The systems and methods also generate a virtual sensory view for display to a passenger to represent what an autonomous transportation vehicle sees by way of a sensor suite used for navigation.
US10991157B2	Method and apparatus for matching 3-dimensional terrain information using heterogeneous altitude aerial images Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for matching 3D terrain information based on aerial images captured at different altitudes. The method includes receiving a high-altitude numerical height model based on a terrain image captured at a specific high altitude; receiving 3D terrain information observed from a low altitude, which is generated based on a terrain image captured at an altitude lower than the specific high altitude; generating a low-altitude numerical height model by converting the 3D terrain information into a numerical model in the same form as the high-altitude numerical height model; measuring the cross-correlation between the high-altitude numerical height model and the low-altitude numerical height model, thereby calculating matching parameters for enabling the low-altitude numerical height model to match the high-altitude numerical height model; and adjusting the geospatial coordinates of the 3D terrain information based on the matching parameters and outputting georeferenced 3D terrain information in the same coordinate system as the high-altitude numerical height model.
US10991149B2	Embedded virtual light source in 3D volume linked to MPR view crosshairs An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system has an array probe for acquiring a 3D image dataset of a subject. Volume rendering is performed to produce a volume image of the subject, and MPR reconstruction is performed to produce three orthogonal 2D images of the subject. The point of intersection of the three 2D image planes is locationally marked by a crosshair or other graphic in each 2D image. The corresponding location in the volume image is marked with a virtual light source which illuminates the interior of the 3D volume and is positionally linked to the location markers in the MPR images.
US10991145B2	Pose-variant 3D facial attribute generation A system is provided for pose-variant 3D facial attribute generation. A first stage has a hardware processor based 3D regression network for directly generating a space position map for a 3D shape and a camera perspective matrix from a single input image of a face and further having a rendering layer for rendering a partial texture map of the single input image based on the space position map and the camera perspective matrix. A second stage has a hardware processor based two-part stacked Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) including a Texture Completion GAN (TC-GAN) stacked with a 3D Attribute generation GAN (3DA-GAN). The TC-GAN completes the partial texture map to form a complete texture map based on the partial texture map and the space position map. The 3DA-GAN generates a target facial attribute for the single input image based on the complete texture map and the space position map.
US10991137B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system for display of medical images An information processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit, an accepting unit, a second acquiring unit, and a display control unit. The first acquiring unit acquires a processed image, wherein the processed image is acquired by processing at least one medical image. The accepting unit accepts a display instruction for the processed image based on a user's operation input. The second acquiring unit acquires information regarding a type of the processing and the medical image used for the processing. The display control unit displays the processed image, instructed by the display instruction and the medical image used for the processing, in a medical image display region based on the information regarding the type of the processing.
US10991133B2	Volume rendering from three-dimensional medical data using quantum computing To reduce complexity and corresponding run time, quantum computation is used for rendering a volume. The quantum computation may search for voxels along a ray or the minimum or maximum. The quantum computation may orient (e.g., rotate) data for more efficient searching for the maximum or minimum. Due to the superposition in quantum computing, the efficiency in volume rendering medical images is increased as compared to traditional binary approaches.
US10991126B2	Information processing device and method, and program, for gamut conversion of content A device, method and program may properly perform gamut conversion of content and be applied to a gamut conversion device. A restoration conversion state confirming unit performs confirmation such as gamut conversion state of image data read out from an optical disc and the existence or not of restoration metadata. An information exchange unit communicates with an output device via a communication unit and performs information exchange such as the existence or not of restoration processing functionality and gamut conversion functionality and the like. A determining unit determines whether or not restoration processing is performed with a playing device based on information obtained by the restoration conversion state confirming unit and the information exchange unit. Similarly, the determining unit determines whether or not to perform gamut conversion processing with the playing device based on information obtained by the restoration conversion state confirming unit and the information exchange unit.
US10991118B2	Device, process and computer program for detecting optical image data and for determining a position of a lateral limitation of a patient positioning device Exemplary embodiments provide a device (10), a process and a computer program for detecting optical image data of a patient positioning device (100). The device (10) is configured to detect optical image data of a patient positioning device (100) and to determine a position of at least one lateral limitation (110) of the patient positioning device (100) based on the image data. The device (10) is configured to determine at first a position of art least one partial segment (120) of the patient positioning device (100) based on the image data, and to determine the position of the at least one lateral limitation (110) of the patient positioning device (100) based on the position of the at least one partial segment (120).
US10991116B1	Three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging systems and methods for automatically determining shipping container fullness based on imaging templates Three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging systems and methods are disclosed for automatically determining shipping container fullness based on imaging templates. A 3D-depth camera captures 3D image data of a shipping container located in a predefined search space during a shipping container loading session. A container fullness application (app) receives the 3D image data, and determines therefrom a 3D container point cloud representative of a shipping container. An imaging template that defines a 3D template point cloud corresponding to a shipping container type of the shipping container is loaded into memory. A fullness value of the shipping container is determined based on a 3D mapping that is generated from alignment of a 3D container front portion of the 3D container point cloud with a 3D template front portion of the 3D template point cloud.
US10991115B2	Image processing device, image processing method, server, and computer program A technology is required in which clothing can be accurately classified, regardless of a posture of a subject. An image processing device, includes: an acquisition means for acquiring an image to be processed including an image of clothing worn by a subject on a lower body; a specifying means for specifying a position of an end portion of the clothing, in the image to be processed; an extraction means for extracting a connected region which is positioned to be adjacent to the end portion of the clothing and is configured by connecting prescribed pixels, from the image to be processed; and a determination means for determining a type of the clothing, on the basis of the connected region.
US10991113B2	Gyroscope-based system and method for assisting in tracking heat source on mechanical arm A gyroscope-based system and method is disclosed. Image information data is collected; a mechanical arm working environment image is modeled; a heat source supply apparatus and a gyroscope are provided at the mechanical arm proximal end; the position of the proximal end is accurately measured by accurately tracking the heat source at the proximal end; the relative position of the mechanical arm distal end is accurately calculated by using high-precision angle information measured by the high-precision gyroscope in combination with a number-theoretic formula. The disclosure provides separately determining the position of the distal end, or for assisting other algorithms or apparatuses that track the position of the mechanical arm distal end in error correction and calibration of the position of the mechanical arm distal end. The position of the mechanical arm distal end can be continuously and dynamically tracked in real time, and virtualized in the corresponding image system.
US10991111B2	Method and apparatus for refining depth image A method of refining a depth image includes extracting shading information of color pixels from a color image, and refining a depth image corresponding to the color image based on surface normal information of an object included in the shading information.
US10991103B2	Method for extracting person region in image and apparatus using the same A method for extracting a person region includes detecting a face from a raw image input in real time; configuring a search range based on the detected face; extracting an outline of a person region by performing preprocessing on an image within the search range; configuring watershed markers on a background and a foreground of the image within the search range based on the extracted outline; performing a watershed transform based on the configured watershed markers; and separating the person region from the raw image using a result of the watershed transform.
US10991102B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to select a specified cross section from three dimensional (3D) image data. And the processing circuitry is configured to perform control so as to form a curve corresponding to a curve delineated on the specified cross section, from the specified cross section to a cross section within a specified range, so as to form curved ace on the 3D image data.
US10991100B2	Disease detection algorithms trainable with small number of positive samples Disease detection from medical images is provided. In various embodiments, a medical image of a patient is read. The medical image is provided to a trained anatomy segmentation network. A feature map is received from the trained anatomy segmentation network. The feature map indicates the location of at least one feature within the medical image. The feature map is provided to a trained classification network. The trained classification network was pre-trained on a plurality of feature map outputs of the segmentation network. A disease detection is received from the trained classification network. The disease detection indicating the presence or absence of a predetermined disease.
US10991094B2	Method of analyzing dental image for correction diagnosis and apparatus using the same Provided is a method of analyzing a dental image for a correction diagnosis and an apparatus using the same. The method includes the steps of obtaining a dental image of an examinee and detecting at least some of a plurality of landmarks for a correction diagnosis in the dental image using a landmark detection module, wherein the landmark is an anatomical reference point indicative of a relative position of at least one of a facial skeleton, a tooth and a face contour necessary for t correction diagnosis, and the landmark detection module may include a machine learning module based on an artificial neural network.
US10991093B2	Systems, methods and media for automatically generating a bone age assessment from a radiograph In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for generating a bone age assessment. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving an x-ray image of a subject's left hand and wrist; converting the image to a predetermined size; identifying, without user intervention, a first portion of the image corresponding to the hand and wrist; processing the first portion of the image to increase contrast between bones and non-bones to generate a processed image; causing a trained convolution neural network to determine a bone age based on the processed image; receiving an indication of the bone age; causing the bone age to be presented to a user as the result of a bone age assessment; and causing the bone age and the image to be stored in an electronic medical record associated with the subject.
US10991090B2	Gas detection-use image processing device, gas detection-use image processing method, and gas detection-use image processing program A gas detection-use image processing device includes a first processing part that acquires a first image including a first region image indicating a region where a gas candidate has appeared, extracted from an infrared image, on each of a plurality of infrared images captured in time series in a predetermined period to acquire a plurality of first images. The gas detection-use image processing device also includes a second processing part that generates a second image including a second region image in at least a part of the predetermined period, by using the plurality of first images. The first processing part acquires first images in each of at least two predetermined periods. The second processing part generates at least two second images. The gas detection-use image processing device further includes a calculation part that calculates similarity of the at least two second images.
US10991075B2	Display engine surface blending and adaptive texel to pixel ratio sample rate system, apparatus and method Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to blend two or more of the scene surfaces based on the focus area and an offload threshold. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to blend, by a display engine, two or more of the focus area scene surfaces and blended non-focus area scene surfaces. The systems, apparatuses and methods may include a graphics engine to render the focus area surfaces at a higher sample rate than the non-focus area scene surfaces.
US10991068B2	Projection image construction method and device The present application provides a method and device for constructing a projection image. The method for constructing a projection image comprises: performing projection on an equirectangular panoramic image with a cylindrical surface equal-area projection model to obtain a cylindrical surface equal-area projection image; obtaining a two-dimensional coordinate of each of pixels in the cylindrical surface equal-area projection image; obtaining a two-dimensional coordinate in the equirectangular panoramic image corresponding to each of pixels in the cylindrical surface equal-area projection image; performing pixel interpolation on the cylindrical surface equal-area projection image based on color information of each of pixels in the equirectangular panoramic image and the obtained two-dimensional coordinate in the equirectangular panoramic image corresponding to each of pixels in the cylindrical surface equal-area projection image to generate a panoramic image subjected to the cylindrical surface equal-area projection transformation. The resolution and bit rate of the panoramic image or video can be reduced by the method of the present application.
US10991067B2	Virtual presentations without transformation-induced distortion of shape-sensitive areas A technique for transforming an image of an article for virtual presentation without transformation-induced distortion of a shape-invariant area of the article. In an embodiment, a first region of the article image may be identified using automated image processing. The first region may represent a shape-sensitive area of the article whose aspect ratio needs to be controlled when the article image is transformed for use in the virtual presentation. The article image may be transformed to provide a transformed article image for use in the virtual presentation. The transformation of the article image may include a differential transformation that transforms a shape or size of the first region of the article image differently than a shape or size of a second region of the article image representing an area of the article outside the shape-sensitive area. The differential transformation prevents distortion of the first region of the article image.
US10991063B2	System and method for optimization of on-demand microtransit A system and method for optimization of on-demand microtransit is provided. A list of possible stops of one or more vehicles is maintained. A plurality of requests for transportation are received, each of the requests associated with at least one traveler. Travelers to be transported by one of the vehicles are selected. A set of a minimal number of the stops is selected, the set comprising at least one stop that is within a predefined walking distance of the origin location of each of the selected travelers and at least one stop within the predefined walking distance of the destination location of each of the selected travelers. Potential routes are identified for the vehicle that include the stops in the set. The potential routes are evaluated using a plurality of constraints and one of the routes is selected for fulfilling the requests of the selected travelers.
US10991061B2	System and method of identity verification A system and method of verifying the identity of a user or registrant. The user or registrant provides identification information and registration information. The identification information may be a visual representation of an identifying item associated with location information. In some embodiments, the identification information may be a visual representation of a government issued identity. An identification module verifies the identification information and compares the verified identification information to the registration information.
US10991055B1	System for recommending social media metadata tags and related methods A system for recommending social media metadata tags may include a user device configured to accept, as an input, a keyword associated with social media content to be published. A metadata tag recommendation server may obtain the keyword from the user device, and generate recommended social media metadata tags based upon the keyword. The server may also determine a respective relevance of each recommended social media metadata tag within a given social media platform based upon at least one property of the recommended social media metadata tag, and determine a respective reach characteristic of each recommended social media metadata tag within the given social media platform. The server may also assign a respective score to each of the recommended social media metadata tags based upon the respective relevance and respective reach characteristic thereof, and communicate the recommended social media metadata tags and respective scores to the user device.
US10991053B2	Long-term healthcare cost predictions using future trajectories and machine learning The disclosed technology includes a system for modeling progression of lifetime healthcare expenses, including healthcare events resulting in an out-of-pocket expenditure per a given healthcare plan, wherein each healthcare event is associated with a group of healthcare events. Each group of healthcare events is associated with different sets of certainty with different groups of individuals. A central computing device communicates with healthcare event data generation sources to obtain the healthcare event data. A static database module stores the healthcare event data in hierarchical layered graphs. A dynamic database module dynamically generates data that depicts different future expenditures over a life span based on the healthcare event data in the static database module. A computer modeling module generates the most likely set of future expenditures using the different future expenditures data in the dynamic database module.
US10991052B2	System for multi-platform data processing Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means to improve dynamic data processing associated with one or more automated rating applications are provided. In some embodiments, an apparatus may include a communication device to receive a business type and a business location. The apparatus may also include a business owner's policy coverage or standalone general liability coverage platform to query a rating database, the query resulting in at least a first price for an entity. The apparatus may further include a professional liability coverage platform operating in parallel with a business owner's platform.
US10991051B2	Vehicle repair cost estimate acquisition system and method A computer-based method for obtaining repair estimates for a vehicle, and a related network server, are provided. The method comprises receiving a vehicle identification number (VIN) over a network from a customer computer, retrieving vehicle information, associated with the VIN, from a database, sending the vehicle information and a graphical representation of the vehicle, including a plurality of selectable vehicle damage locations, over the network to the customer computer, receiving a selection of at least one vehicle damage location over the network from the customer computer, receiving at least one image of the vehicle over the network from the customer computer, storing the vehicle information, the selected damage location and the vehicle image as a repair job in a non-volatile memory or the database, and sending a notification, indicating that the new repair job is available for review, over the network to at least one repair provider computer.
US10991050B1	Using standby generator data to determine data associated with terms of residential insurance coverage A computer-implemented method of providing insurance discounts to risk averse home owners having standby generators. The method may include, with customer permission or affirmative consent, (1) receiving, at an insurance provider remote server, data that is indicative of whether a standby generator is associated with a home; (2) receiving, at the insurance provider remote server, data indicative of the current operational condition of the standby generator; and (3) determining, by the insurance provider remote server, data associated with the terms of the residential insurance coverage for the home based upon the data indicative of whether the standby generator is associated with the home and the data indicative of the current operational condition of the standby generator. The standby generator data may be generated or collected by a smart home controller, and transmitted to the insurance provider via wireless communication over one or more radio links or communication channels, for instance.
US10991047B2	Systems and methods for measuring relationships between investments and other variables The systems and methods described herein can identify meaningful relationships between variables, such as particular investments or general asset classes. Unlike conventional correlation analysis, these systems and methods provide an improved technique of comovement analysis that implements a threshold to eliminate data “noise” and then discretizes the remaining observations to normalize any outliers. Such comovement analysis has numerous advantages over known techniques for characterizing relationships between variables. In some embodiments, this improved comovement analysis can be used to calculate a covariance matrix for purposes of mean-variance optimized portfolio construction.
US10991045B2	Blockchain-based settlement method, apparatus, and electronic device Computer-implemented methods, non-transitory, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented systems for blockchain-based payment settlement are provided. A payment settlement request transaction of a payee system whose certificate has been stored on a blockchain is monitored. A target payment transaction is obtained that corresponds to the last node of a payment transaction linked list comprising payment transactions whose certificates have been stored on the blockchain in a payment order. A target payment write-off transaction is obtained that corresponds to the last node of a payment write-off transaction linked list comprising payment write-off transactions whose certificates have been stored on the blockchain in a payment write-off order. If an accumulated value in the target payment transaction is identical to an accumulated value in the target payment write-off transaction, fund settlement is performed based on the accumulated value in the target payment transaction or the target payment write-off transaction.
US10991044B2	Stock price forecast assist system and method The technology allows to assist the stock price forecast by referring to the past business performance and stock price based on the business performance forecast of the company by the user himself/herself. The system includes a server having a processor, a client configured to transmit a user's forecast value of the company's performance to the server, and a database configured to store the company's current and past performances and stock prices, which are retrievable by the server, wherein the server is configured to retrieve from the database a past performance of the company within a predetermined range from the user's forecast value received from the client, and a stock price at the time, calculate a multiple using the retrieved past performance and the stock price, calculate a theoretical stock price using the user's forecast value and the multiple, and transmit an alert to the client if the current stock price retrieved from the database deviates from the theoretical stock price by a predetermined value or more.
US10991037B1	Analyzing tracking requests generated by client devices based on metadata describing web page of a third party website An online system receives tracking requests from client devices interacting with a website. The online system analyzes user interactions with websites using the tracking requests. The online system identifies missing parameters in the tracking requests and predicts values of the missing parameters. The online system may also identify parameters that are populated incorrectly and predicts their correct values. The online system uses the predicted parameter values for generating reports describing user interactions with the website. The online system predicts the values of the missing parameters based on metadata extracted from previous tracking requests received from client devices and also via web crawling of websites. The online system generates accurate reports based on the predicted parameters values.
US10991034B2	Stylist locator The present invention relates to a method for on-demand beauty services that (1) considers the time and expense of the stylist traveling to meet the customer at her present location or another location, (2) provides a specific recommendation based on the user's requirements and schedules, the stylist's skills, and availability, and (3) provides the necessary other steps of the transaction, such as scheduling the appointment, handling the billing, resolving disputes, and integrating reviews back into the model. The present invention interprets the customer's location from either the customer's input or the GPS on the customer's smart phone to determine the location for the services. The stylist's location may also be determined based on the stylist's inputted location or the GPS on the smart phone of the stylist. The distance between the customer and the stylist is determined by receiving the GPS location from the smart phones of the customer and the stylist and interpreting this data.
US10991029B2	Background content suggestion for combination with identified items Background content suggestion for combination with identified items is described. Initially, a system receives digital visual content depicting an item, e.g., a product for purchase. The system identifies various content items that are available for suggesting as replacement backgrounds for the item and then determines a compatibility of these identified content items with the item depicted in the received digital visual content. In particular, the system determines compatibility based on both a scene compatibility and a color compatibility of the identified content items with the depicted item. Based on a combination of the scene and color compatibility, the system surfaces at least one of the identified content items (e.g., a highest scoring content item) as a suggested replacement background for the depicted item.
US10991023B2	Multiple format search result sets A search application can return results including items listings posted to a website. An item listing can be posted to the website in a first format for a first time period and posted to the website in a second format for a second period of time. Responsive to a query for an item, results can be displayed in both the first format and the second format in a user interface.
US10991016B2	System and method for real-time integrated credit card management A method and system for managing a plurality of credit card transactions within an integrated accounting environment. Embodiments of the present disclosure enable integration between financial institutions, organizational accounting systems, and disparate user workflows to overcome deficiencies of the prior art. Specific embodiments enable tracking of credit card charges, credits, and payments directly within an accounts payable interface, enabling the ability to view activity on the credit card account record, register, and vendor record. Methods and systems are operable to establish a real-time data transfer protocol between a financial institution and an organizational accounting application to integrate transaction data in real-time, define vendor association for transactions, and create a real-time credit card register to drive decision making across disparate user roles.
US10991013B2	Presentation of media content based on computing device context Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining a context of a client device and selecting media content items to present at the client device based on their compatibility with the context. The context is based at least on the co-presentation rules associated with the content previously presented at the client device. Available media content items, such as invitational content items are evaluated with respect to the context, and presented according to their compatibility with at least a present context at the client device.
US10991004B2	Utilizing population density to facilitate providing offers Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices of a method for facilitating providing offers utilizing population densities are provided. In embodiments, a population density for a geographical space is determined based on locations of a plurality of user devices. The population density associated with the geographical space is used to determine to provide an electronic offer to a user. The electronic offer may be associated with an item in the geographical space to entice the user to move to the geographical space. In accordance with determining to provide an electronic offer to the user, the electronic offer is provided for viewing by the user via a user device.
US10990999B1	System including communication interface based sending of digital promotions and related methods A system may include a memory that includes a database of retailer-supplied promotions associated with a first plurality of brand items, and a database of promotions associated with a second plurality of brand items. The system also includes a communications interface configured to communicate with a remote device and a processor coupled to the memory and the communication interface. The processor is configured to determine whether a given promotion matches any retailer-supplied promotion, and when the given promotion matches, then not send a corresponding digital promotion via the communications interface to the remote device. The processor is also configured to, when the given promotion does not match, then send the corresponding digital promotion via the communications interface to the remote device for redemption.
US10990993B2	Securing lender output data A multi-lender architecture is configured to provide a loan applicant with automated pre-qualification and automobile loan eligibility evaluation for multiple candidate lenders. Lender output data may include sensitive data. The lender output data is stored in a data object of a first format and one or more fields of the data object are encrypted at the field level. The encrypted data object may be transmitted through multiple application layers or terminals. The encrypted data object may be reformatted at one or more application layers or terminals without decryption. A reformatted encrypted data object containing the lender output data may be decrypted at the last layer before forwarding the lender output data to the loan applicant.
US10990992B1	Systems and methods for assisting users in assessing costs of transactions Systems and methods are disclosed for assisting users in assessing costs of transactions. For instance, method may include: determining a cost value of at least one transaction associated with a user; classifying the user into a category, based on consumer interest characteristics of the user and consumer interest characteristics associated with the category; determining a relatable product based on the consumer interest characteristics associated with the category, the relatable product being a product purchased by a plurality of persons classified in the category; determining a relatable cost value, the relatable cost value being a representation of the cost value of the at least one transaction using a quantity of the respective relatable product; and presenting the relatable cost value to the user.
US10990988B1	Finding business similarities between entities using machine learning A method identifies a plurality of product categories by applying a categorization model to product data that includes product names and product descriptions. The product data is obtained from internal sources and external sources. The method creates a knowledge graph for a plurality of business entities from inputs that include the plurality of product categories, published data that includes merchant categorizations, and geographical data. The method generates cohort clusters of similar business entities by applying a clustering algorithm to the knowledge graph. The method uses the cohort clusters to learn a first extrapolation model for predicting inventory. And the method provides access to the first extrapolation model to predict inventory level at a specific point in time. The access is provided via a merchant application that runs on an online merchant platform.
US10990983B2	Managing internet advertising and promotional content Methods, systems and articles having machine-readable instructions can be implemented to manage advertising content using a computing device, for example, by retrieving a page of content from a network, the retrieved page including at least some advertising content, presenting the retrieved page of content to the user of the computing device, receiving user input via a user interface identifying at least a portion of the presented advertising content to be saved, saving the identified portion of advertising content, receiving user input via the user interface identifying some or all of the saved advertising content to share with another user, and causing the identified saved advertising content to be shared with the other user.
US10990970B2	Automated fraud detection Transaction information for a card transaction is automatically and selectively rendered to a screen of a display presented to a user. The user can edit zero or more operators and selected values provided in the screen and save any such edits. When saved, the transaction information and any edited operators and/or selected values are used to generate a rule for a fraud detection system for immediate application. Subsequent card transactions are evaluated in view of the generated rule to automatically detect any fraudulent transactions present in the card transactions.
US10990962B2	System, method, and apparatus for a dynamic transaction card A dynamic transaction card with a display for providing barcodes is described. The barcodes can be generated by driving individual light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the display at frequencies of greater than 50 Hz. Due to the high frequency, the barcode can be readable by a barcode scanner, while remaining invisible to the human eye. The barcode can also be generated by driving a first set of LEDs at a different frequency and/or time interval than a second set of LEDs. Light waves from the first set of LEDs can constructively interfere with light waves from the second set of LEDs to create spatial voids readable by the barcode scanner.
US10990955B2	Method and system for contactless withdrawal from an ATM A method for contactless withdrawal at an automated teller machine includes: receiving, by a receiver of a computing device, a first signal indicating proximity to a first predetermined geographic location; displaying, by a display interfaced with the computing device, a prompt associated with the predetermined geographic location; receiving, by an input device interfaced with the computing device, one or more parameters and a credential selection; receiving, by the computing device, a second signal indicating proximity to a second predetermined geographic location; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the computing device, at least the one or more parameters and credentials associated with the credential selection to an automated teller machine located at the second predetermined geographic location.
US10990953B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for payment terminal management Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for remote management of payment terminals. Public keys, or other security elements can be received from a certification authority and distributed to the payment terminals. A merchant, or other entity affiliated with the payment terminals, can monitor the status of the software and security elements of the payment terminals.
US10990950B2	Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.
US10990939B2	Method and device for voice broadcast A voice broadcast method includes: acquiring at least one piece of voice information; delivering the at least one piece of voice information to a voice broadcast device, wherein, the at least one piece of voice information includes voice identification information and a voice content; determining a first voice content to be broadcast by the voice broadcast device, wherein the first voice content is included in the at least one piece of voice information stored at the voice broadcast device; and sending, to the voice broadcast device, a first voice identification information corresponding to the first voice content, wherein the first voice identification information is used by the voice broadcast device to obtain the first voice content stored at the voice broadcast device, and to broadcast the first voice content when a preset voice broadcast condition is met.
US10990931B2	System and method for work period scheduler A work period scheduler includes one or more data processors configured to receive performance data relating to the performance of one or more individual workers from a database. The performance data is then analyzed to identify one or more workers as a leader, a leader being a worker whose presence in a group of the individual workers results in an improvement in overall performance of said group. Work periods, e.g. shifts, may then be scheduled based on one or more skills attributed to one or more workers wherein the one or more skills includes leader.
US10990930B2	Autonomous event generator Computerized devices search each of a group of different calendars of a group of attendees of a proposed event for an available timeslot within each of the calendars that meets boundary conditions specified for the proposed event. In response to failing to find an available time slot in common to all attendee calendars that meets the boundary conditions, the devices autonomously identify a common existing event scheduled within the calendars of the attendees that can accommodate the boundary conditions and add the new event to the existing event, or reschedule a previously scheduled event of one or more of the attendees to create a common, free timeslot for the new event where the event cannot be accommodated within an existing event.
US10990925B2	Document event brokering and audit system A system for managing business to business communications may include an event generation unit configured to create a first event based on receiving a purchase order from a client. The system may also include an event detection unit in communication with the event generation unit, the event detection unit configured to detect the first event. The system may also include an action unit in communication with the event generation unit. The action unit may be configured to determine a first action to perform based on the detection of the first event, and perform the first action. The event generation unit may be further configured to create a second event based on the performance of the first action.
US10990922B1	Continuous inventory management A system, including, associating a wireless tracker with an asset, wherein the wireless tracker emits a tracker identification and a sensor payload including a fixed identification, receiving by at least one of a plurality of mobile devices the tracker identification, the sensor payload and an associated location of the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices and monitoring the tracker identification and the associated location of the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices.
US10990921B2	Integrated warehouse management, shipping, and inventory control system A computer-implemented inventory and shipping management system may include a plurality of dedicated modules integrated with a common central data store. The modules may be configured to communicate with each other only through the central data store. Item records may be stored in the central data store, including information relating to a packaging tier structure of each respective item. A user interface for entering inventory information may be dynamically updated by the system based on a selected measurement category.
US10990913B2	System and method for electronic assignment of issues based on measured and/or forecasted capacity of human resources A method for capacity forecasting may include determining expected issues by averaging a number of each issue type submitted per a time period to predict a quantity of each issue type that will be submitted in a next time period, determining an expected issue capacity need in the future for each skill level of the assignees based on the expected issues, and determining assignee demand by averaging a number of each issue type assigned to each assignee per the time period. For each assignee, the method may include determining an expected assignee demand by identifying a number of the expected issues on which each assignee will be expected to work based on the expected issues and the assignee demand, determining an expected individual capacity based on the expected assignee demand, and determining assignments of issues to the assignee based on the expected issue capacity and the expected individual capacity.
US10990903B2	Self-learning log classification system A self-learning system for categorizing log entries may be provided. The system may display a first log entry and receive a categorical identifier for the first log entry. The system may parse the first log entry for predetermined text information and predetermined image information. The predetermined text information may be included in a datafield classifier and the predetermined image information included in a metadata classifier. The system may identify the predetermined text information in the log entry and adjust a first prioritization of respective categorical identifiers included in the datafield classifier. The system may identify the predetermined image information in the first log entry and adjust a second prioritization of the respective categorical identifiers included in the metadata classifier. The system may map a second log entry to the categorical identifier based on adjustment of the first prioritization or adjustment of the second prioritization.
US10990894B2	Situation forecast mechanisms for internet of things integration platform A method of consolidating Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected via an IoT network is disclosed. An IoT integration platform implemented by a computer system can collect data from one or more of IoT devices, IoT solution specific server systems, third-party server systems, general-purpose user computing devices, or any combination thereof. The IoT integration platform can label the data based on entity-specific context. The entity-specific context can correspond to a user account, a device, a location, or any combination thereof. The IoT integration platform can generate an entity-specific profile based on the labeled data. The IoT integration platform can generate, based on the entity-specific profile, a situation forecast associated with a target entity and with a timeframe yet to occur.
US10990893B1	Search results based on a conformance analysis of analysis references that form a library of agreements, in which each analysis reference corresponds to an agreement and indicates intellectual property document A computer-enabled system, method, and medium provides intellectual property analyses, for example, patent claim charts, respective to the analyzed intellectual property and a target product or other intellectual property. Analyses are stored to enable searching/reporting across multiple analyses. Units of the analysis are associated with context, inherited, e.g., from the intellectual property document's assignment to a relative role within the organizational hierarchy; and associated with a context derived from the analysis itself. The analysis and respective documents and/or targets of the analysis can be searched/retrieved/analyzed from the hierarchical analysis, the context analysis, and/or the content of the analysis. Each analysis need not be stored as a separate document. The representation of the analysis may by static or dynamic. The target or annotations may be visually represented by an item such as a thumbnail or hyperlink, and the system associates the item with the appropriate application program.
US10990891B1	Predictive modeling for aggregated metrics A computing resource monitoring service obtains access to aggregated metrics data from computing resources of a computing resource service provider. The computing resource monitoring service may then generate a predictive model based at least in part on the aggregated metrics. The predictive model may then be used to generate a prediction associated with the computing resource and, based at least in part on the prediction, one or more alarms may be triggered. The alarm may be triggered based at least in part on a confidence interval determined based at least in part on the prediction.
US10990889B2	Generating a predictive behavior model for predicting user behavior using unsupervised feature learning and a recurrent neural network Certain embodiments involve a model for predicting user behavior. For example, a system accesses user behavior data indicating various users' behaviors during intervals over various periods of time and target behavior data indicating a particular user behavior. The system associates each user with a label that indicates whether a user performed a particular action during or after a time period based on the target behavior data. The system uses the user behavior data to train various deep Restricted Boltzmann Machines (“RBM”) to generate representations of each user over each period of time that indicate the user behavior over the time period. The system generates a predictive model by connecting the RBMs into a deep recurrent neural network and uses the target behavior data associated with each user, along with the representations of each user, as input data to train the deep recurrent neural network to predict user behavior.
US10990872B2	Energy-efficient time-multiplexed neurosynaptic core for implementing neural networks spanning power- and area-efficiency A multiplexed neural core circuit according to one embodiment comprises, for an integer multiplexing factor T that is greater than zero, T sets of electronic neurons, T sets of electronic axons, where each set of the T sets of electronic axons corresponds to one of the T sets of electronic neurons, and a synaptic interconnection network comprising a plurality of electronic synapses that each interconnect a single electronic axon to a single electronic neuron, where the interconnection network interconnects each set of the T sets of electronic axons to its corresponding set of electronic neurons.
US10990869B2	Tag system implementing a normal-on antenna and methods of use Systems and methods for operating a tag system. The methods comprising: wirelessly communicating, from a tag, a first signal at a first frequency spectrum that allows a tag reader to detect the first signal, when the tag is not proximate to an antenna modulation marker or when the antenna modulation marker has a first orientation relative to the tag; and performing operations by the tag to wirelessly communicate a second signal at a second frequency spectrum that does not allow the tag reader to detect the first signal, when the tag is proximate to the antenna modulation marker or when the antenna modulation marker has a second different orientation relative to the tag.
US10990867B1	Systems and methods for advanced communication mechanisms for magnetic cards and devices A card may detect variations (e.g., position, velocity, acceleration and direction) of a read head in relation to the card. Based on certain parameters (e.g., card length, initially detected read head position, and read head velocity) the card may change communicated bit parameters (e.g., bit period) so that a total number of data bits may be communicated by the card to the read head while the read head remains within a communication distance of the card.
US10990863B1	Direct deposit ink estimation mechanism A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive a histogram for each of a plurality of color planes, receive uncalibrated ink deposition data for a printing system, perform a direct conversion of the uncalibrated ink deposition data to generate first calibrated ink deposition data and generate estimated ink usage data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the histograms and the first calibrated ink deposition data.
US10990862B2	Printing on a web of a printing substrate Method and apparatus for printing on a printing substrate which is a web which is elongate in a longitudinal direction, wherein frames of a maximum printing format can be printed in a sequence on the web. The printing includes arranging a number of pages on sheets of a given sheet format, wherein the maximum printing format is larger in the longitudinal direction of the web than the sheet format, wherein pages which are adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the web are separate from each in the longitudinal direction of the web, imposing pages of more than one sheet into printing frames which are larger in the longitudinal direction of the web than the sheet format but not larger than the maximum printing format, printing the frames, and grouping the pages from the printed frames to sheets on which the pages are arranged as originally.
US10990860B2	Calibration chart based image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image former to change a transfer condition while printing a calibration chart in which patches of different colors are repeatedly arranged in a sub-scanning direction, a scanner to scan the printed calibration chart, and a processor to determine an image defect under each transfer condition using the scanned calibration chart, and to set a transfer condition of the image former based on the determined image defect.
US10990848B1	Self-paced adversarial training for multimodal and 3D model few-shot learning A method for generating synthetic data is provided. The method includes retrieving, from a database, a set of authentic base class images. The method further includes generating a three dimensional mesh of a base class. The method further includes retrieving, from the database, a set of textual descriptions. The method further includes retrieving a set of authentic novel class images. The method further includes generating, at a first neural network, a set of synthetic novel class images, the generating based on at least the three dimensional mesh, the set of textual descriptions, and/or the set of authentic novel class images. The method further includes training, based on at least the set of synthetic novel class images, a second neural network, the second neural network ranking the set of synthetic novel class images and outputting a set of highest ranked synthetic images from the set of synthetic novel class images.
US10990838B2	Occupant monitoring systems and methods Various implementations include a vehicle occupant imaging system that is disposed within a vehicle. The system includes an automotive clock spring, at least one imaging unit, and a first processing unit. The automotive clock spring includes a rotor to which a rotatable portion of the steering wheel assembly is coupled, a stator coupled to a stationary portion of the vehicle, and a set of wires extending between the rotor and stator. The imaging unit is coupled to the rotatable portion of the steering wheel assembly. The first processing unit is disposed within the rotor and is configured for electrically receiving image signals captured by the imaging unit and selecting at least a portion of the image signals for communicating to a second processing unit disposed outside of the rotor. The selected image signals are electrically communicated to the second processing unit via the set of electrical wires.
US10990836B2	Method and apparatus for recognizing object, device, vehicle and medium Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for recognizing an object, a device, a vehicle and a medium. The method includes: selecting a target camera matched with a target object from at least two cameras according to position information of the target object in a map and photographing parameters of the at least two cameras, in which, the at least two cameras has at least two focal lengths; controlling the target camera to photograph an image of the target object; and obtaining the image photographed by the target camera, and performing recognition on the image to recognize the target object.
US10990835B2	Road sign recognition method and system Road sign recognition method and system. The method includes performing HSV space color threshold binarization on a single frame image in a road image, obtaining a sign connected region through localization; calculating a length-to-width ratio of the sign connected region to eliminate a false target, calculating a distance from a contour edge to a target center position in the sign connected region, obtaining a target localization region with a circular contour of the sign connected region; intercepting a corresponding grayscale image and calculating an average grayscale value of the grayscale image, performing binarization on the grayscale image in the target localization region, obtaining a binary image of each target localization region; extracting connected regions in the binary images, sorting the connected regions according to coordinates; calculating and determining number or character inside the target localization region by using a neural-network mode recognition algorithm; and calculating confidence.
US10990831B2	Method to create a VR event by evaluating third party information and re-providing the processed information in real-time Creating a list of available data sources for an event selected by a user, displaying one or more icons as an overlay on a first video stream indicating a position of a camera capturing a second video stream, and displaying a map as an overlay on the first video stream in which the map indicates levels of crowd excitement or other mappable data in different regions of a real world environment captured by the first video stream. Some embodiments may include receiving information indicating a user selection of the second video stream. For some embodiments, the levels of crowd excitement may be generated from sensor data, such as audio, video, or heart rate data collected by sensors at the event.
US10990827B2	Imported video analysis device and method The invention relates to the area of computer vision video data analysis, in particular to the technologies aimed to search the required objects or events in the analyzed video originally received from a third-party device. An imported video analysis device consists of memory, database for metadata storage, a graphical user interface, and a data processing module. The data processing module is configured to upload a video in any available format into the memory and to import the uploaded video into software of the imported video analysis device. Software decompresses and analyzes the imported video to generate metadata characterizing the data in all objects in the video and to save the metadata in database. The search speed for the required event or object in the imported video received from a third-party device is increased.
US10990825B2	Image processing method, electronic device and computer readable storage medium An image processing method, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium are described. The image processing method may include: obtaining an image to be detected, and inputting the image to be detected to a neural network; detecting the image to be detected via the neural network to obtain confidence levels of image categories for a background image in the image and confidence levels of object categories for a foreground target in the image; determining an image category of the background image according to the confidence levels of the image categories for the background image and a confidence level threshold; and determining an object category of the foreground target according to the confidence levels of the object categories for the foreground target and the confidence level threshold.
US10990824B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and recording medium In the image processing apparatus, the image processing method, and the recording medium of the invention, an image analysis unit analyzes the contents of each of a plurality of images acquired by an image acquisition unit, and an evaluation value calculation unit calculates an analysis evaluation value of each image based on the analysis result of each image. A group forming unit forms one or more groups, each of which includes a plurality of similar images, by specifying similar images among the plurality of images. The evaluation value calculation unit calculates an overall evaluation value by adding a value to an analysis evaluation value of each of the plurality of similar images based on evaluation information, which indicates high evaluation for the plurality of similar images, for each of the groups.
US10990822B2	Methods and apparatus to generate an augmented environment including a weight indicator for a vehicle Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate an augmented environment including a weight indicator for a vehicle. An example disclosed apparatus includes a sensor interface to receive load data associated with a vehicle, and receive live video data from a camera, the live video data including a location of an object in the vehicle, a load mapper to generate a map of loads on the vehicle based on the load data, an object-to-weight correlator to correlate a load of the map of loads with the object, and an augmented reality generator to generate an augmented environment identifying the location of the object and the load correlated with the object.
US10990811B2	Image classification and information retrieval over wireless digital networks and the internet A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user. The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.
US10990802B2	Imaging apparatus providing out focusing and method for controlling the same An imaging apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The method for controlling the imaging apparatus includes acquiring images having a same focal length by performing continuous imaging in a predetermined time when a user's imaging command is input, calculating motion vectors using the images and separating a foreground and a background of a first image among the images based on the calculated motion vectors and color information of the first image, and performing out focusing based on the separated foreground and the separated background.
US10990801B1	System and method for multidimensional gradient-based cross-spectral stereo matching A hardware system is configured for, and a method of, generating detail-rich gradient-based disparity maps in real-time using an automated gradient-based disparity map classification process that is scalable, can be used under different environment conditions with little to no restrictions, and whose level of precision can be adjusted in a scalable manner. Highly accurate cross-spectral stereo matching methods may be used for search and rescue operations and work at day time and night time using current and past visual and full infrared imaging to generate, classify, and identify scenes in real-time with minimum constraints. Such system and methods may be used to improve operations of existing search and rescue equipment.
US10990797B2	Method of characterizing and imaging microscopic objects Microscopic object characterization system (1), comprising a computer system (2, 2a, 2b), a microscope (4) with a computing unit (5) connected to the computer system, and an object characterization program (17) executable in the computer system configured to receive refractive index data representing at least a spatial distribution of measured values of refractive index (RI) or values correlated to refractive index of said microscopic object. The object characterization program is operable to execute an algorithm applying a plurality of transformations on said refractive index data. The transformations generate a distribution of two or more parameters used to characterize features of the microscopic object. The computer system further comprises a feedback interface configured for connection to one or more data servers in a network computing system, via a global communications network such as the internet, and configured to receive feedback data from the data servers for processing by the object characterization program to calibrate, refine or enhance a characterization of said features.
US10990791B2	Fingerprint detection circuit, fingerprint identification apparatus and terminal device A fingerprint detection circuit includes: a pixel region and a power grid. The pixel region includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region. The second pixel region is arranged on a periphery of the first pixel region, the first pixel region is provided with a plurality of first pixels, and the second pixel region is provided with a plurality of second pixels. The power grid is arranged below the pixel region, and configured to provide a driving electrical signal for pixel electrodes of the plurality of first pixels and pixel electrodes of the plurality of second pixels, to detect a coupling capacitance formed between the pixel electrodes of the plurality of first pixels and a biological tissue and to cause, via the plurality of second pixels, capacitances of the pixel electrodes of the plurality of first pixels to ground to be consistent.
US10990789B2	Display apparatus including light-receiving pixel area A display apparatus including a plurality of display pixel areas and a plurality of light-receiving pixel areas which are arranged in a display area in which an image is displayed, comprises an image-displaying unit configured to display the image and including a plurality of electro-luminescence devices which corresponds to the plurality of display pixel areas; and a light-sensing unit disposed below the image-displaying unit, wherein the light-sensing unit comprises a plurality of light-receiving devices corresponding to the plurality of light-receiving pixel areas; a light shielding film disposed on a transparent film that covers the plurality of light-receiving devices; and a plurality of opening patterns corresponding to the plurality of light-receiving devices and formed in the light shielding film.
US10990782B2	Operating method of an optical fingerprint capture apparatus and operating method of an optical fingerprint recognition system An operating method of an optical fingerprint capture apparatus includes: by the apparatus upon receipt of a scan command from a host, entering an exposure mode where an image sensor thereof is exposed to light carrying information of a fingerprint; by the apparatus upon complete exposure of the image sensor to the light, entering a sample mode where multiple pieces of pixel data that cooperatively represent an image of the fingerprint are obtained and written to a data buffer thereof; and by the apparatus at a predetermined output time point that is later than a start of the sample mode and earlier than an end of the sample mode, outputting an interrupt request to cause the host to start reading the pieces of pixel data from the data buffer.
US10990777B1	Method for interactive training in the cleaning of a room A method for interactive training in the cleaning of a room. The method includes the steps of providing a room having a plurality of locations to be cleaned; providing pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products for each of the locations to be cleaned; providing a reader programmed to recognize surface characteristics of the locations to be cleaned and link to a website having information about one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products and the use thereof at the locations to be cleaned; operating the reader to recognize surface characteristics of the locations to be cleaned to create a spatial map of the room; locating a trainee with the reader in the room and operating the reader to display to the trainee the room and selectively display to the trainee displayed information comprising information from the website about the one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products and the use thereof at the locations to be cleaned; and having the trainee interact with the displayed information to select amongst the one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products for each of the locations and thereby selectively access the displayed information for training in selection and use of the pre-selected cleaning and janitorial products for each of the locations in the room.
US10990735B2	System and method for generating a cluster-based power architecture user interface A system and method generates cluster-based power architecture interfaces for an integrated circuit (IC) design under test (DUT) debugging by receiving design data for an IC DUT, determining power characteristic data for the IC DUT, generating display components within a graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to individual components encompassed within a power intent hierarchy corresponding with the IC DUT, generating graphical links between displayed components, overlaying interactive elements corresponding with generated violation clusters over graphical links, and providing root-cause interactive elements within the generated GUI having visual associations with the interactive components corresponding with particular violation clusters.
US10990725B2	Clock-gating phase algebra for clock analysis A design tool can implement phase algebra based design evaluation to evaluate a circuit design with a compact representation of numerous waveforms without simulating the individual waveforms. The design tool can determine an input sequence of signal transition representations associated with an input net of a component in RTL circuit design, where each signal transition representation represents a nondeterministic transition from a previous signal state to possible signal state(s). Determining the input sequence of signal transition representations includes determining that the input sequence of signal transition representations indicates an input gated clock waveform. The design tool also can determine, based on the indicated component and on the input gated clock waveform, an output sequence of signal transition representations derived from the input sequence of signal transition. Determining the output sequence includes determining whether signal transition representation(s) of the output sequence indicate an output gated clock waveform.
US10990719B2	Assimilating a soil sample into a digital nutrient model In an embodiment, agricultural intelligence computer system stores a digital model of nutrient content in soil which includes a plurality of values and expressions that define transformations of or relationships between the values and produce estimates of nutrient content values in soil. The agricultural intelligence computer receives nutrient content measurement values for a particular field at a particular time. The agricultural intelligence computer system uses the digital model of nutrient content to compute a nutrient content value for the particular field at the particular time. The agricultural intelligence computer system identifies a modeling uncertainty corresponding to the computed nutrient content value and a measurement uncertainty corresponding to the received measurement values. Based on the identified uncertainties, the modeled nutrient content value, and the received measurement values, the agricultural intelligence computer system computes an assimilated nutrient content value.
US10990718B2	Method and device for generating physical design parameters of an object This disclosure relates generally to machine design, and more particularly to method and system for generating physical design parameters of an object. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a graphical design of the object along with a desired axis of rotation, categorizing the object into an object type based on the graphical design of the object and the desired axis of rotation of the object, and determining a regression weight and a regression estimate for each of the plurality of physical design parameters based on the object type, determining a plurality of proximity metrics based on the regression estimate for each of the plurality of physical design parameters, adjusting the regression weight for each of the plurality of physical design parameters based on the plurality of proximity metrics, and generating a value for each of the plurality of physical design parameters based on the corresponding adjusted regression weight.
US10990705B2	Index creation for data records A computer-implemented index creation method includes obtaining, by a server storing data in a blockchain ledger, an identifier, in which the identifier identifies an attribute value of a data record; determining location information of the data record in the blockchain ledger, in which the location information includes a block height of a data block in which the data record is located and an offset of the data record in the data block; and writing the location information into an index, in which the index stores a correspondence between the location information and the attribute value, the attribute value being used as a primary key in the index.
US10990702B1	Method and apparatus for authorizing API calls Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for defining, distributing and enforcing policies for authorizing API (Application Programming Interface) calls to applications executing on one or more sets of associated machines (e.g., virtual machines, containers, computers, etc.) in one or more datacenters. This system has servers that act as a logically centralized resource for defining and storing policies and parameters for evaluating these policies. The servers enforce these policies and distribute the policies and parameters to policy-enforcing local agents that execute near the applications that process the API calls. From an associated application, a local agent receives API-authorization requests to determine whether API calls received by the application are authorized. In response to such a request, the local agent uses one or more parameters associated with the API call to identify a policy stored in its local policy storage to evaluate whether the API call should be authorized. To evaluate this policy, the agent also retrieves one or more parameters from the local policy storage.
US10990690B2	Disk encryption A computer implemented method of providing whole disk encryption for a virtualized computer system including providing a hypervisor having a data store and instantiating a disk image of the virtualized computer system as a first virtual machine (VM) having a virtual disk from which an operating system of the first VM can be booted; instantiating a second VM in the hypervisor including a software component executing therein, wherein the data store is a shared data store accessible by both the first and second VMs, the method further comprising: the software component accessing the first VM using privileged credentials to install a software agent in the first VM and to replicate the virtual disk of the first VM in the hypervisor data store as a duplicate disk, wherein the software agent is adapted to encrypt data written to, and decrypt data read from, the disk of the first VM at a runtime of the first VM; and the software component encrypting the duplicate disk and unmounting the copied disk and mounting the encrypted duplicate disk in the first VM so as to provide an encrypted disk for the first VM.
US10990689B1	Data governance through policies and attributes Systems and methods for governing access to or use of assets in an analytics platform. Access to assets is controlled with policies that reference attributes. A context of an access request is defined by collecting attributes associated with an access request. The context is then evaluated in light of attributes referenced by the policy applicable to the asset or with a class of the asset. The access request is granted, denied, or partially granted based on whether the attributes defined by the context of the access request comport with the policy.
US10990686B2	Anonymous links to protect consumer privacy A method and system for bringing together online and offline advertising uses anonymous links that are associated with consumer data. The anonymous links allow processing without personally identifiable information (PII) in a secure environment. Data is matched using the anonymous links. The method and system allows a marketer to utilize offline data to precisely target advertisements without the use of PII, and to perform analytics concerning the use of the online advertisements to more precisely determine the effectiveness of multichannel marketing efforts.
US10990682B2	System and method for coping with fault injection attacks A security system dynamically, depending on processor core execution flow, controls fault injection countermeasure circuitry protect processor core from fault injection attacks. Includes a processor core which, when in use, executes instructions and concurrently, generates, in real time, output indications of instructions to be executed; a fault injection detector having selectable sensitivity levels; and a sensitivity level control module operative, in real time, to receive the output indications, select a next sensitivity level using sensitivity level selection logic which receives the output indications as inputs, and set the fault injection detector to the next sensitivity level, thereby to provide fault injection countermeasure circuitry which is differentially sensitive, when protecting the processor core from fault injection attacks, depending on the output indications of the instructions, and/or avoids false alarms which would result if processor core protection were provided at a sensitivity level unrelated to the output indications of the instructions.
US10990675B2	Methods and systems for detecting a ransomware attack using entropy analysis and file update patterns This disclosure and the exemplary embodiments described herein, provide methods and systems for detecting a ransomware infection in one or more files. According to an exemplary embodiment, a low frequency encryption analysis and a high frequency encryption analysis of a plurality of received files is performed to determine if the one or more of the files are encrypted. If a file is encrypted, a watcher is utilized to monitor file events associated with the files for determining if one or more of the files are infected with ransomware.
US10990652B2	Systems and methods for identifying and modeling unresolved vessels in image-based patient-specific hemodynamic models Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying and modeling unresolved vessels, and the effects thereof, in image-based patient-specific hemodynamic models. One method includes: receiving, in an electronic storage medium, one or more patient-specific anatomical models representing at least a vessel of a patient; determining, using a processor, the values and characteristics of one or more patient-specific morphometric features in the one or more patient-specific anatomical models; modifying the patient-specific anatomical model using the determined patient-specific morphometric features; and outputting, one or more of, a modified patient-specific anatomical model or a patient-specific morphometric feature to an electronic storage medium or display.
US10990646B2	System for dynamic user interface generation A computer-implemented method of generating a form definition for a user interface form is disclosed. The method involves retrieving form definition data for a requested form from a database. One or more overrides are optionally applied to the form definition data to modify properties of form elements. Form instance data for the modified form is generated and stored for reuse. The form instance data is transmitted to a rendering module at a client device for generation of a user interface form based on the form instance data.
US10990645B1	System and methods for performing automatic data aggregation Systems, apparatuses, and methods for automated data aggregation. In some embodiments, this is achieved by use of techniques such as natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to enable the automation of data aggregation from websites without the use of pre-programmed scripts.
US10990644B2	Systems and methods for contextual vocabularies and customer segmentation Contextual vocabulary and methods of use are provided herein. A method may include obtaining contextual properties for a plurality of end users and device related information for computing devices used by the plurality of end users, the contextual information being obtained from a plurality of ambient information sources, including selection from a plurality of contextual repositories. Also, the method may include calculating a trust level for each of the plurality of customer analytic information sources and each of the plurality of device information databases, and building a contextual vocabulary from the contextual information and the device related information selected based upon their trust levels.
US10990627B1	Sharing character data across lookups to identify matches to a regular expression Integrated circuits may implement a filter to identify items in a data store that match a regular expression by sharing character data across lookups in the filter. The NFA states of the may be programmed responsive to a query that includes a regular expression. The NFA states may include a character decode stage that operates on one portion of character bits, while another portion of character bits is evaluated at a state detection stage that also evaluates an output value of the character decode stage.
US10990611B1	Adaptive data processing system and method A method for adaptively providing processed data to elements of a distributed network, includes a processor partitioning data from a plurality of data sources, including big data from a plurality of big data sources based on defined needs of the elements; the processor storing the partitioned data in a central data source and a subset of the partitioned data in one or more cache memories in proximity to the elements; receiving a data request from a network element; determining a time-sensitivity of data responsive to the data request; supplying a response to the data request for non-time-sensitive data; and supplying the response to the data request for time-sensitive data.
US10990600B1	Trustworthiness score engine The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of providing trust recommendations. The innovation receives fidelity data of an advisor. The fidelity data can include audio or visual data of the advisor in which the advisor is providing advice. A trust score for the advisor is determined based on a biometric or other analysis of the fidelity data. The trust score is compared to a threshold trust score to determine a recommendation to the user. The recommendation can be to trust or distrust the advisor or the advice. The recommendation is communicated or otherwise provided to the user.
US10990592B2	Querying of profile data by reducing unnecessary downstream calls The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing a query of profile data. During operation, the system obtains a set of profile fields requested in a query of profile data and one or more profile view settings associated with the query. Next, the system determines, based on the set of profile fields and the profile view setting(s), one or more downstream calls to omit from a set of downstream calls available to generate a result of the query. The system then generates one or more additional downstream calls in the set of downstream calls to resolve a parameter used to generate a result of the query. Finally, the system uses the parameter to generate the result of the query without making the downstream call(s).
US10990587B2	System and method of storing and analyzing information A system and method of storing and analyzing information is disclosed. The system includes a compiler layer to convert user queries to data parallel executable code. The system further includes a library of multithreaded algorithms, processes, and data structures. The system also includes a multithreaded runtime library for implementing compiled code at runtime. The executable code is dynamically loaded on computing elements and contains calls to the library of multithreaded algorithms, processes, and data structures and the multithreaded runtime library.
US10990583B1	Synthesized predicate driven index selection for partitioned table A system and method for receiving a query of a partitioned table, the query including a first index predicate associated with a first partition key column; determining that one or more of the query is missing a second index predicate and the first index predicate is unusable for index probing; responsive to determining that one or more of the query is missing the second index predicate and the first index predicate is unusable for index probing, generating one or more synthesized predicates used to process the query using an index scan.
US10990582B2	General, flexible, resilent ticketing interface between a device management system and ticketing systems Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate synchronizing data between a device management system and ticketing systems. In some embodiments, the system includes an update module, a mapping module, and a service board selection module. The update module may be configured to update ticketing information about a ticketing ticket on the ticketing system to match device management information about a device management ticket on the device management system. The mapping module may be configured to select a ticket category for a device management ticket on the device management system responsive to the device management information about the device management ticket. The service board selection module may be configured to select a service board for a ticketing ticket on the ticketing system.
US10990572B1	Scalable indexing service An indexing service uses a distributed data storage service to store a file comprising a subset of a plurality of data points. The indexing service also stores metadata indicative of a range of keys associated with the data points, and a data structure comprising information indicative of a probability that the file comprises data points associated with a first key. A client device, in response to a query for data points associated with the first key, downloads the file based on the range of keys and the probability. The client device searches the downloaded file for data points associated with the first key.
US10990569B2	Sorting system A sorter sorts a list of elements using a plurality of registers. Each register stores a value of at most one element. Each register receives an input from a previous one of the registers indicating whether the previous one of the registers is storing a value of a list element before storing a value of a list element. Each register supplies an indication to a next register whether the register is storing a list element value. A register sends a stored value and the register identification to a register stack. The register stack uses the value as an index to store a pointer to the register. In that way a sorted list is created in the register stack. A register stores list location information for one or more occurrences of a value stored by the register. Overflow of list location information is handled in a duplicate values stack.
US10990560B2	USB type-C sideband signal interface circuit A USB-C controller, disposed on an integrated circuit (IC), comprises a first pair of terminals to communicate with a first communication protocol that is other than USB, a second pair of terminals to communicate with a second communication protocol that is other than USB, and a third pair of terminals, each of which is to be coupled to a corresponding SBU1 terminal or SBU2 terminal of a Type-C receptacle. The USB-C controller further includes: a multiplexer to selectively couple the first pair of terminals to the third pair of terminals and the second pair of terminals to the third pair of terminals: and logic to control the multiplexer according to a mode enabled within a configuration channel (CC) signal.
US10990559B2	Serial communication protocol A serial communication protocol for daisy-chained slave devices does away with the requirement for an entire byte of dummy clocks to be cycled between a slave's input and output, instead requiring a shorter set of dummy clock cycles which improves efficiency of a serial communication system. According to a specification of a serial communications protocol, data is exchanged between master and slave devices in communication frames. Each communication frame has a command portion and a data portion, and each respective portion may comprise packages of one or more bytes.
US10990540B2	Memory management method and apparatus A memory management method and apparatus to resolve a problem that a memory reclaiming rate is relatively low, severely affecting memory allocation performance in a scenario in which system memory is insufficient. The method includes determining a memory page that needs to be swapped out of a memory, for each memory page that needs to be swapped out, generating, based on the memory page, a work task reclaiming the memory page, and allocating each work task to a dedicated worker thread for execution. In this way, a plurality of central processing units (CPUs) process memory reclaiming in parallel, thereby accelerating memory reclaiming, and improving user experience.
US10990538B2	Arithmetic processing device, information processing apparatus, and method for controlling arithmetic processing device A TLB receives an access request with respect to a first address and access authorization assigned to the request from an arithmetic operation control unit, translates the first address to a second address, determines the suitability of the access authorization, and outputs the access request with respect to the first address when the access authorization is not suitable. An MMU receives the access request with respect to the first address output from the TLB, translates the first address to the second address, determines the suitability of the access authorization, and outputs a notification of access prohibition to the arithmetic operation control unit when the access authorization is not suitable.
US10990532B2	Object storage system with multi-level hashing function for storage address determination A method performed by a first hardware element in a hierarchical arrangement of hardware elements in an object storage system is described. The method includes performing a hash on a name of an object of the object storage system. The name is part of a request that is associated with the object. A result of the hash is to identify a second hardware element directly beneath the first hardware element in the hierarchical arrangement. The request is to be sent to the second hardware element to advance the request toward being serviced by the object storage system.
US10990522B2	Electronic devices relating to a mode register information signal An electronic device may include an information signal storage circuit and a write data selection circuit. The information signal storage circuit may be configured to store an information signal during a mode register set operation, and may be configured to output the stored information signal as a mode register information signal. The write data selection circuit may be configured to receive the mode register information and output the mode register information signal as write data.
US10990510B2	Associating attribute seeds of regression test cases with breakpoint value-based fingerprints Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for associating regression test cases with corresponding test fingerprints via a translation table or other suitable storage mechanism. A test fingerprint indicates a collection of breakpoints encountered as part of traversal of a code path during execution of a test case, and thus, provides an indication of an extent of code coverage of the test case. Test fingerprints can be evaluated to determine cumulative code coverage of sets of test cases. Specific sets of test cases can be selected based on the cumulative code coverage they provide. Sets of test cases that provide greater cumulative code coverage and/or that target specific areas of interest can be prioritized for execution particularly when having to adhere to execution constraints.
US10990509B2	Debugging systems There is provided a system for debugging a computer program comprising computer readable program code. The system comprises, debugging data indicating an execution of the computer program, first and second user devices, configured to display a first and second graphical user interface respectively, each graphical user interface comprising data indicative of an execution of a debugger processing the debugging data. The first and second graphical user interfaces are each configured to display data indicative of a temporal position of the execution of the computer program associated with the other one of said graphical user interfaces, and display data indicative of a position within the computer readable program code associated with the other one of said graphical user interfaces.
US10990508B2	Computing system with GUI testing device and related methods A computing system may include a client computing device configured to execute a software application with an associated GUI. The GUI includes fields, and each field is to hold a text string. The computing system may include a GUI testing device in communication with the client computing device and configured to execute a testing framework for interacting with the software application to generate versions of the GUI, each of the versions being in a different language, and defining expected text strings in the fields. The GUI testing device may be configured to extract the fields from the versions of the GUI, perform OCR processing on the fields to generate actual text strings, and compare the actual text strings with the expected text strings.
US10990505B2	Stipulated overrides with violation resolution A method for composing a scene using a data module includes: receiving, from a user, an instruction to instantiate the data module to produce at least a first instance of the data module in a second data module; receiving, from the user, a first override for modifying the first instance of the data module; receiving, from the user, a second override for modifying the data module; identifying a conflict introduced by the first override or the second override; configuring a display interface to display an indication informing the user of the identified conflict; configuring the display interface to display one or more options for resolving the identified conflict; receiving, from the user, a selection of an option of the one or more options; and in response to the selection of the option, resolving the identified conflict by deleting the first override or the second override.
US10990491B2	Storage control apparatus and recovery method of a failed track An I/O result receiving unit receives, from a storage device control unit, a result of I/O to a logical device with respect to an I/O request from an I/O control unit, a format target determining unit considers a failed track to be a format target when the failed track corresponds to a control area or an unallocated area, and a format requesting unit requests the storage device control unit to format a storage area of storage devices which corresponds to a page allocated to the failed track having been considered a format target.
US10990486B2	Data storage system with repair of mid-level mapping blocks of internal file system A technique for repairing an indirect addressing structure of a file system damaged by corruption of a mid-level mapping (MID) page includes scanning selected leaf pages to identify leaf pages associated with the corrupted MID page, then recreating the MID page by recreating pointers to the identified leaf pages. The scanning includes (1) based on an association of groups of leaf pages with corresponding sets of families of storage objects, scanning the leaf pages of only those groups of leaf pages associated with the family of storage objects for the corrupted MID page. The scanning further includes (2) performing a two-pass process including first identifying all leaf pages for the logical offset range of the corrupted MID page and then pruning those identified leaf pages that are reachable via non-corrupted MID pages, yielding the leaf pages for the corrupted MID page only, usable to recreate the corrupted MID page.
US10990484B2	Performing backup operations and indexing backup data In certain embodiments, a tiered storage system is disclosed that provides for failover protection during data backup operations. The system can provide for an index, or catalog, for identifying and enabling restoration of backup data located on a storage device. The system further maintains a set of transaction logs generated by media agent modules that identify metadata with respect to individual data chunks of a backup file on the storage device. A copy of the catalog and transaction logs can be stored at a location accessible by each of the media agent modules. In this manner, in case of a failure of one media agent module during backup, the transaction logs and existing catalog can be used by a second media agent module to resume the backup operation without requiring a restart of the backup process.
US10990483B2	Minimizing a footprint of incremental backups Systems and methods for backing up data. A backup operation can identify blocks that have changed since a most recent backup operation. The blocks that have changed since the most recent backup operation are compared with the blocks that are being used. Only the blocks that are both used and have changed are backed up. This can reduce the size of the backup be excluding blocks that may have changed but are no longer used.
US10990482B2	Partition level restore Disclosed is a method, apparatus, and system for partition level restore, the operations comprising: determining a restoration source virtual machine disk image and a restoration target virtual machine disk image; determining partition information for the restoration source and target virtual machine disk images; determining whether the partition information for the restoration source virtual machine disk image matches the partition information for the restoration target virtual machine disk image; and in response to determining that the partition information for the restoration source virtual machine disk image matches the partition information for the restoration target virtual machine disk image, copying all data from a partition to be restored on the restoration source virtual machine disk image to a corresponding partition on the restoration target virtual machine disk image.
US10990481B2	Using alternate recovery actions for initial recovery actions in a computing system Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using alternate recovery actions for initial recovery actions in a computing system. An initial recovery table provides initial recovery actions to perform for errors detected in the computing system. An alternate recovery table is received including at least one alternate recovery action for at least one of the initial recovery actions. An alternative recovery action provided for an initial recovery action specifies a different recovery path involving at least one of a different action and a different component in the computing system than involved in the initial recovery action. A determination is made as to whether to use the initial recovery action in the initial recovery table for a detected error or the alternate recovery action in the alternate recovery table. The determined initial recovery action or alternate recovery action determined is used to address the detected error.
US10990467B2	Accessing computing resource attributes of an external service provider Synchronization techniques for computing systems that interface with external service providers. A method for accessing status and other attributes of an external service provider commences upon identifying an external service such as a firewall appliance or backup repository that provides computing-related functions to computing entities of the computing system. One or more access mechanisms such as an application programming interface is exposed to the external service. The external service is registered with the computing system to use the access mechanism. When the external service detects a change of its state, the external service can communicate that change to the computing system through a “push” operation. The computing system processes the “pushed” data from the external service by verifying the status of the registration and authorization permissions, and then modifies one or more entity attributes of the computing resource entity.
US10990463B2	Semiconductor memory module and memory system including the same A semiconductor memory module may include a random access memory, a nonvolatile memory, a buffer memory, and a controller configured to execute a reading operation on the buffer memory in response to an activation of a control signal. The controller may be further configured to execute a flush operation of storing first data, which are stored in the random access memory, in the nonvolatile memory, according to a result of the reading operation.
US10990456B2	Methods and systems for facilitating application programming interface communications Method and systems for facilitating communications using application programming interfaces (“APIs”) by interpreting a received command based on the command and an image of the user interface that was displayed on a display screen when the command was received.
US10990451B2	Efficient handling of trigger transactions in a workload management environment Techniques for handling transactions are provided. A first transaction is received at an application system of a distributed system. The first transaction is completed, where completing the first transaction comprises writing a record to a queue. A response is generated by an application resource monitor (ARM) of the application system, where the response identifies the record and the application system. The response is transmitted to a transaction distribution system, where the transaction distribution system distributes transactions among application systems in the distributed system. A second transaction is received at the application system. Upon determining that the second transaction is a trigger transaction, the ARM determines a plurality of records that are associated with the second transaction, where the plurality of records includes the record. The ARM retrieves the record from the queue, and completes the second transaction based at least in part on the record.
US10990447B1	System and method for controlling a flow of storage access requests A method and a system for controlling the access of a plurality of client computers to storage media, the system including: a processor, a Random-Access Memory (RAM) device; and a Network Interface Controller (NIC), configured to establish a plurality of connections with the clients. The processor may dynamically allocate a buffer memory space to each connected client computer on the RAM device, and the NIC may be configured to receive at least one storage access request from at least one client, over at least one computer network connection. The RAM device may accumulate data of the at least one storage access request in the buffer allocated to the respective connected client computer, and the processor may be configured, upon completion of the accumulation of data, to propagate the buffered data to at least one storage device of the storage media.
US10990443B2	Utilization profiling and scheduling operations using thread specific execution units usage of a multi-core multi-threaded processor A method for utilization profiling of thread specific execution units and scheduling software on a multi-core processor is provided. To perform the method, the multi-core processor profiles a workload received for execution by a core of the multi-core processor and logs an execution unit sensitivity to an operating system with respect to the workload. Further, the multi-core processor utilizes the execution unit sensitivity for subsequent workload scheduling to minimize sharing of hardware threads on the same core between workloads with similar execution unit sensitivities.
US10990441B2	Multi-level job processing queues Systems and methods for scheduling job requests in a virtualization system. A method embodiment commences upon initialization of a pair of multi-level queues comprising a high priority job queue and a low priority job queue. A plurality of virtual machines issue job requests. Queue management logic receives incoming job requests from the virtual machines and locates or creates a job request group corresponding to the virtual machine of the incoming job request. The incoming job request is positioned into the job request group and the job request group is positioned into a queue. When a job executor is ready for a next job, then a job for execution can be identified by locating a next job in a next job request group that is at the front of either the high priority queue or at the front of the low priority queue. When a job finishes, the queues are reorganized.
US10990437B2	Interface data display optimization during device operation There is provided systems and methods for interface data display optimization during critical device operations. A user may utilize a device to perform various device or application functionalities, which may include critical computing tasks at times. These critical processes may include certain GUI data display that the user and/or device requires to be displayed during the critical processes. To prevent the GUI data display from being obscured by other banners, pop-up notifications, or other interface data displays, the device may determine whether the current displayed interface data on the GUI is critical or has a higher priority for display than a new request for data display. This may be based on preferences within the application, where the requested data display may occur on the GUI, current device or application data, and/or information for the requested data display. The device may then block the data display.
US10990429B2	Rule-based reallocation of hosted compute resources Herein, rule-based handling of request for resource re-allocations provides for automated re-allocations, reducing the need for administrator intervention. The resources available to a reservation can be increased, decreased, or otherwise modified by forming and breaking selected connections between reservations and hosts. The rules herein determine which connections are to be formed or broken. Each rule associates a connection-modification criterion with a condition. In the event, the condition for a rule is satisfied by a reallocation request (and its context), the criterion is applied to the request plus its context to generate a list of connection modification plans. Each connection-modification plan identifies one or more connections between hosts and reservations to be formed or broken. Implementing the plan yields the desired re-allocation.
US10990425B2	Simulated change of immutable objects during execution runtime A system for executing software, wherein a computing device stores first software instructions for a code execution module such that, when the first software instructions are executed, the computing device will: receive, for execution by the code execution module, second software instructions; create one or more immutable software nodes described in the second software instructions; determine that the second software instructions comprise an instruction to begin a simulated change at runtime of the one or more immutable software nodes; store the simulated change in a simulated change apparatus; using the simulated change apparatus, perform one or more operations of the second software instructions as if the one or more immutable software nodes had been changed in memory, during a period of time where each of the one or more immutable software nodes is guaranteed to retain logical immutability; and output results of the one or more operations.
US10990421B2	AI-driven human-computer interface for associating low-level content with high-level activities using topics as an abstraction An artificial intelligence (“AI”) based system is disclosed for associating low-level user content, such as documents, email messages, and calendar invites, with high-level user activities using topics as an abstraction. The associations can enable a computing system to provide, among other things, activity-specific views that present a specific selection of low-level user content that is most relevant to a user at a particular point in time. The activity-specific views present the right information to users at the right time based on a context of a user and a user's past activities.
US10990415B2	Disk management method and apparatus in ARM device and ARM device A disk management method and apparatus in an advanced reduced instruction set computing (RISC) Machine (ARM) device and an ARM device, where the method includes receiving, by the ARM device, configuration information, where the configuration information includes a mapping data between a startup sequence of each of a plurality of disks and a respective slot number, creating a device tree block (DTB) file including the configuration information, and starting each of the disks in a sequence based on the DTB file. Hence, problems of inflexible configuration and poor versatility in disk management method in an ARM device are resolved.
US10990413B2	Mainframe system structuring A mainframe of an organization includes a transaction layer and a middleware layer and an operating system layer is structured by steps including identifying that transactions of the transaction layer are related to a classification of the organization. The steps further include identifying resources of the mainframe for executing the transactions, wherein the resources includes a processor and a memory. The steps include identifying transaction access paths between the transaction layer and the middleware layer resources that are associated with the middleware layer. The steps include identifying resources that are associated with the operating system layer and generating a service model of the mainframe that includes a visual representation of the transactions and the resources that are related to the classification across the middleware layer and the transaction layer and the operating system layer of the mainframe.
US10990412B2	Software deployment in disaggregated computing platforms Software configuration deployment techniques for disaggregated computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, a method includes instructing a communication fabric to establish a first partitioning in the communication fabric between a first processor and a storage element, and deploying at least a software configuration to the storage element using the first partitioning. The method includes instructing the communication fabric to de-establish the first partitioning, and instructing the communication fabric to establish a second partitioning in the communication fabric between a second processor and the storage element comprising the software configuration, wherein the second processor operates using the boot image.
US10990403B1	Predicting an outcome of an instruction following a flush An apparatus is described, comprising processing circuitry to speculatively execute an earlier instruction and a later instruction by generating a prediction of an outcome of the earlier instruction and a prediction of an outcome of the later instruction, wherein the prediction of the outcome of the earlier instruction causes a first control flow path to be executed. The apparatus also comprises storage circuitry to store the outcome of the later instruction in response to the later instruction completing, and flush circuitry to generate a flush in response to the prediction of the outcome of the earlier instruction being incorrect. When re-executing the later instruction in a second control flow path following the flush, the processing circuitry is adapted to generate the prediction of the outcome of the later instruction as the outcome stored in the storage circuitry during execution of the first control flow path.
US10990400B2	Memory apparatus and data processing system including the same A memory apparatus may include at least one memory, and a memory controller configured to receive an address signal and a command through shared pins and store data, provided from an external source, within the memory controller when a write command is inputted without the address signal.
US10990392B2	Efficient loop execution for a multi-threaded, self-scheduling reconfigurable computing fabric Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an interconnection network; a processor; and a plurality of configurable circuit clusters. Each configurable circuit cluster includes a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array; a synchronous network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array; and an asynchronous packet network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array. A representative configurable circuit includes a configurable computation circuit and a configuration memory having a first, instruction memory storing a plurality of data path configuration instructions to configure a data path of the configurable computation circuit; and a second, instruction and instruction index memory storing a plurality of spoke instructions and data path configuration instruction indices for selection of a master synchronous input, a current data path configuration instruction, and a next data path configuration instruction for a next configurable computation circuit.
US10990388B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a first processor having a first register, the first processor configured to perform region of interest (ROI) calculations using the first register; and a second processor having a second register, the second processor configured to perform arithmetic calculations using the second register. The first register is shared with the second processor, and the second register is shared with the first processor.
US10990383B2	Constructing software delta updates for controller software and abnormality detection based on toolchain Disclosed embodiments relate to generating an update package for updating software on an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in a vehicle. Operations may include accessing a plurality of attributes of a software update to be stored on the ECU in the vehicle; accessing a corresponding plurality of attributes of current software stored on the ECU in the vehicle; comparing the plurality of attributes with the corresponding plurality of attributes; generating a delta file representing differences between the plurality of attributes and the corresponding plurality of attributes determined in the comparison; and providing the delta file to the ECU, wherein the delta file is configured to be processed by startup code in the ECU that enables the delta file to execute in the ECU in the vehicle.
US10990381B2	Method and device for updating a program A method updating a program in a flash memory includes executing a first image of the program while an address space of the program is imaged onto the memory blocks, which are operated in a single-level mode; copying part of the first image from a range within the address space, which is imaged onto one of the blocks, into a backup block; setting the one of the blocks to a multi-level mode; while the address range is imaged onto the backup block, programming the one of the blocks with part of the second image besides for the part of the first image; switching the address range back to the block while the block remains in the multi-level mode; as long as the second image is incomplete, repeating the copying, programming, and switching with further parts of the second image; and subsequently executing the second image instead of the first image.
US10990376B2	Local over the air update of an embedded system A processing device executing a wide area network (WAN) accessible service receive an encrypted digital image comprising a firmware update for an embedded system of a device having a specific device serial number (DSN). The processing device additionally receives device related information from a computing device, wherein the device related information comprises the DSN of the device comprising the embedded system and a version number of a current firmware component installed on the embedded system. The processing device determines, using the device related information, that the encrypted digital image for the device is available. The processing device then provides the encrypted digital image to the computing device for use by the computing device to update a firmware version of the embedded system.
US10990373B2	Service managers and firmware version selections in distributed computing systems Examples of systems and methods are described for selecting firmware versions of multiple components for a distributed computing system (e.g., a cluster). Multiple selection interfaces may be presented to a user who may select at least one firmware version of at least one component. Based on the user selection(s), a service manager may evaluate firmware component dependencies and identify compatible firmware versions of other components for installation. In this manner, a set of firmware versions may be installed and/or upgraded which may be different than a current set of versions and/or a set of versions recommended in a wholly automated manner.
US10990365B2	Container image building using dependency container images Container image building using dependency container images. First dependency information that identifies a first set of dependencies necessary to generate a first application container image is accessed. A dependency container image index that identifies dependencies contained in one or more dependency container images is accessed. A first dependency container image of the one or more dependency container images is selected based on the dependency container image index and the first dependency information. The first dependency container image lacks at least one dependency identified in the first set of dependencies. A new dependency container image is generated using the first dependency container image and the at least one dependency. A new entry is stored in the dependency container image index that identifies the new dependency container image and each dependency contained in the new dependency container image.
US10990359B2	Use and advancements of assistive technology in automation for the visually-impaired workforce A method of simplifying automated testing within an integrated development environment (IDE) for a user having a visual impairment is disclosed. An access mechanism is provided for selecting automated testing scripts from within the IDE by responding to audio communications describing one or more access commands. An execution mechanism is provided to the user for executing one or more of the selected automated testing scripts. A result mechanism is provided to the user, the result mechanism including a summary of a result of the executing of the one or more selected testing scripts, the summary based on an analysis of console output of the IDE, the analysis including performing feature extraction and natural language processing on the console output to generate a natural language description of the result. An action mechanism is provided to perform an additional action that is selected based on the type of the result.
US10990357B2	Application build automation An example application build automation system can include a management engine configured to receive a first set of definitions corresponding to a first configuration file, receive a second set of definitions corresponding to a second configuration file, generate a first VSCI image using the first configuration file, and generate a second VSCI image using the second configuration file. The example system may further include a build engine configured to receive the first VSCI image and the second VSCI image, generate a build configuration based on the first VSCI image and the second VSCI image, and deploy the build configuration to generate a plurality of build artifacts.
US10990346B2	Electronic blackboard system, electronic blackboard, and electronic blackboard method An electronic blackboard system including an electronic blackboard and an information processing system is disclosed. The information processing system stores content data created based on data displayed on the electronic blackboard, sets of user information each specifying one of users of the electronic blackboard, and a time period indicating a schedule to display the content data on the display part. The electronic blackboard reads out identification information associated with the user information from a storage device of the user, sends the identification information and information indicating a time when the identification information has been read out, to the information processing system, a receiving part that receives, from the information processing system, content data included in content management information, of which the time period includes the time and of which user identification matches user information corresponding to the identification information, and, and displays the content data on the display part.
US10990340B2	Display apparatus and control device A display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels arranged in a matrix, each of the image display panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein an AC voltage is sequentially applied to the plurality of drive electrodes of a first display panel, and the plurality of detection electrodes of a second display panel adjacent to the first display panel detect a signal output from the plurality of drive electrodes of the first display panel.
US10990333B1	Methods and systems for providing an alternate media size option for a print job and handling the same According to aspects illustrated herein, a method of printing a document is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for printing a document and one or more print parameters, the one or more print parameters include at least a primary media size selected by a user for printing. While submitting the document for printing, an option is provided to the user to select an alternate media size to be used for printing the document. The document, the one or more print parameters along with the alternate media size as selected by the user are sent to a printer. Before printing the document, a count of the primary media size sheets available with the printer is estimated. Based on the estimated count, the document is printed with the alternate media size sheets.
US10990323B2	Flash memory controller, memory device and method for accessing flash memory module The present invention provides a flash memory controller, where the flash memory controller includes a read-only memory, a processor and a cache, the read-only memory stores a program code, and the processor executes the program code to perform access a flash memory module. When the processor receives first data from a host, the processor stores the first data into a region of the cache, and the processor builds or updates a binary tree according to the first data, wherein the binary tree is used when the processor receives a read command from the host.
US10990307B2	System and method for providing a configurable storage media interface A semiconductor device, memory system, and method are provided. One example of the semiconductor device is disclosed to include a host interface that enables bi-directional communications with a host computer, a processor subsystem that enables processing of read or write requests received at the host interface, and one or more storage media interfaces, each of the one or more storage media interfaces being convertible between a first configuration and a second configuration, where the first configuration of a storage media interface enables a direct connection with a computer memory device, and where the second configuration of the storage media interface enables a connection with a plurality of computer memory devices via an expander and/or re-timer.
US10990306B1	Bandwidth sharing for paired storage systems Applying a rate limit across a plurality of storage systems, including: determining a rate limit for paired storage systems; receiving, by a first storage system, an amount of I/O operations serviced by the second storage system during a previous predetermined period of time; determining whether the amount of I/O operations serviced by the second storage system is less than half of the rate limit for the paired storage systems; if so, setting local a rate limit for a next predetermined period of time for the first storage system to the difference between the rate limit for the paired storage systems and the amount of I/O operations serviced by the second storage system during the previous predetermined period of time; and otherwise, setting a local rate limit for a next predetermined period of time for the first storage system to half of the rate limit for the paired storage systems.
US10990304B2	Two-dimensional scalable versatile storage format for data storage devices The present disclosure, in various aspects, describes technologies and techniques for use by a data storage device that includes a controller of a non-volatile memory (NVM). In one example, the controller applies a default storage format to a storage region of the NVM, the default storage format configuring the storage region as a number of distinct storage regions logically arranged along a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension. The controller modifies the default storage format using a combination of horizontal dimension scaling and vertical dimension scaling based on a performance capability of the storage region to obtain a modified storage format. The controller applies the modified storage format to the storage region.
US10990298B2	Implementing data requests with quality of service information A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes sending a data request from a host to a storage drive, where the data request includes quality of service (QoS) information, receiving, in response to the data request, a response from the storage drive at the host, and performing one or more actions at the host, based on the response.
US10990289B2	Data storage systems using time-based read ahead A data storage system includes a host system configured to provide an I/O request stream and a data storage subsystem. The data storage subsystem has a data storage device and a processor. The processor is configured to provide streaming data in response to the I/O request stream, determine a current streaming rate of the I/O request stream, and determine a time-based read ahead size based on a time ahead duration and the current streaming rate of the I/O request stream. The time-based read ahead size may be updated while streaming, for example, after a delay period.
US10990283B2	Proactive data rebuild based on queue feedback A storage cluster is provided. The storage cluster includes a plurality of storage nodes, each of the plurality of storage nodes having nonvolatile solid-state memory and a plurality of operations queues coupled to the solid-state memory. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can access the user data with a failure of two of the plurality of storage nodes. Each of the plurality of storage nodes is configured to determine whether a read of 1 or more bits in the solid-state memory via a first path is within a latency budget. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to perform a read of user data or metadata via a second path, responsive to a determination that the read of the bit via the first path is not within the latency budget.
US10990278B2	Method and device for controlling information flow display panel, terminal apparatus, and storage medium Provided are a method and device for controlling information flow display panel, a terminal apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: determining, in response to detecting a sliding gesture on the information flow display panel and in a case where the sliding gesture is determined as a set sliding gesture, a sliding starting point of the sliding gesture according to a region where the sliding gesture is located; determining, in response to detecting a release operation of the sliding gesture, a sliding distance of the sliding gesture; and closing the information flow display panel based on a determination that the sliding distance is greater than or equal to a set threshold.
US10990273B2	Ultra touch functions and systems incorporating the same A computer system with ultra touch functions comprises a pointing input device with an ultra touch control button and a computer input device application program configured to execute the ordinary input device function when ultra_Mode=“Ordinary”; select specific ultras touch type and set ultra_Mode=“Gesture” when the movement pattern of the type-select operation matches a predefined type pattern; specify a plurality of ultra touch gestures from the operations on the input device button and movement; specify a plurality of ultra touch gesture functions for every ultra touch type wherein each ultra touch gesture function is driven by its respective ultra touch gesture; execute the specific ultra touch gesture function for the selected ultra touch type when detected its respective ultra touch gesture during ultra_Mode=“Gesture”; set ultra_Mode=“Ordinary” whenever detected an ultra touch end operation.
US10990271B2	Method of inputting user command and electronic apparatus using the same A method of inputting user commands, and an electronic apparatus using the same. A method of inputting user commands includes setting a function of an apparatus implemented with a touch screen based on a pressure level input to the apparatus, and if the touch is sensed after setting the function of the apparatus, executing the set function based on the touch. Accordingly, user commands can be input using touch and pressure.
US10990270B2	Context-specific user interfaces Context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
US10990269B2	Data communication method A data communication method executed by a system including: a stylus including a pen point electrode and a pen integrated circuit; a sensor controller; and a host processor. The data communication method includes: executing, by the stylus, transmission of a pen signal with an electric field by capacitive coupling between the pen point electrode and a sensor electrode group; reporting, by the sensor controller, a position of the stylus in an operation surface to the host processor in response to detection of the pen signal by the sensor electrode group; supplying, by the host processor, data to the sensor controller; and transmitting, by the sensor controller, the data to the stylus in a stylus detection period in which the pen signal that is detected by the sensor electrode group indicates that the stylus is present within a predetermined distance from the operation surface.
US10990253B1	Predictive navigation and fields platform to reduce processor and network resources usage A navigation prediction tool tracks and analyzes a user's navigation through a software application to predict the interfaces that are most desired by the user. The tool then dynamically changes the presentation of the software application to present these interfaces to the user. The tool may further conserve resources by predicting how the user will fill certain fields in the interface.
US10990252B2	Multi-use resource interaction interface projection system Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for projecting an interaction machine interface used for performing interactions onto a user device. The system is typically configured for receiving a trigger from a user device to access an interaction machine via a projection application, in response to receiving the trigger, authenticate the user device via a customized authentication method, determine that the authentication is successful and establish a communication link between the interaction machine and the user device, transmit control signals, via the projection application, to the user device to project the interaction machine display onto the user device, receive an interaction request from the user device via the interaction machine display and the projection application, and process the interaction request received from the user device.
US10990250B2	Organized timeline Some embodiments of the invention provide a GUI for a media editing application that provides visual cues (e.g., colors and/or lane sets) for media clips that are assigned different tags (or roles) in a media presentation. The GUI of the media application of some embodiments displays media clips of a composite media presentation, in which at least some of the media clips are associated with tags. The GUI also provides GUI controls for associating media clips associated with different tags with different colors and for displaying the media clips based on the clips' associated color. In some embodiments, the GUI includes a tool for arranging clips into groups based on assigned tags. The tool of some embodiments, upon selection, defines a set of lanes for each tag and displays any anchored clip that is associated with a tag in the set of lanes associated with the tag.
US10990249B2	Method for anomaly detection in clustered data structures A method for generating visual representations of financial interests includes: receiving an input data set including one or more data structures storing data fields and data values representative of financial interests; extracting, from the input data, one or more extracted features from the funds, the extracted features collectively indicative of a distance between different funds; generating one or more clusters of funds, based on the extracted features of the funds; determining, based on identified differences between one or more funds relative to at least one other fund in a corresponding cluster of funds, one or more fund anomalies based on the one or more extracted features; generating one or more adjustment recommendations based on the one or more fund anomalies, the one or more adjustment recommendations representing control instruction sets for automatically modifying characteristics of the corresponding fund.
US10990244B2	Navigation apparatus and method for displaying a navigation tree on a display unit A navigation apparatus displays nodes of a navigation tree stored in a storage device in a manner that one selected node is displayed in an expanded display form and further nodes are displayed in a reduced display form on a display unit. In response to a selection of a subordinate node, the previously selected node is converted into the reduced display form and the newly selected node is converted into an expanded display form.
US10990240B1	Artificial reality system having movable application content items in containers An artificial reality system is described that renders, presents, and controls user interface elements within an artificial reality environment, and performs actions in response to one or more detected gestures of the user. The artificial reality system captures image data representative of a physical environment and outputs artificial reality content. The artificial reality system renders a container that includes application content items as an overlay to the artificial reality content. The artificial reality system identifies, from the image data, a selection gesture comprising a configuration of a hand that is substantially stationary for a threshold period of time at a first location corresponding to a first application content item within the container, and a subsequent movement of the hand from the first location to a second location outside the container. The artificial reality system renders the first application content item at the second location in response.
US10990234B2	Touch sensor including antenna The present invention relates to a touch sensor having an antenna. The touch sensor comprises: a touch sensor part including a sensing electrode part; and an antenna part formed on the touch sensor part. The antenna part is formed in a state of being insulated from the sensing electrode part on the sensing electrode part composing the touch sensor part. According to the present invention, even when mounting the antenna on a display region in which a touch sensor is installed, noise due to interference between a touch sensor signal and an antenna transmission/reception signal can be minimized.
US10990232B2	Touch panel and manufacturing method thereof, and touch display device A touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device are provided. The touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to each other, and the first substrate and the second substrate have an interval therebetween. The first substrate includes a first base substrate and a force touch electrode layer disposed on the first base substrate, the force touch electrode layer includes a plurality of independent force touch electrodes. The second substrate includes a second base substrate and a capacitance reference layer disposed on the second base substrate.
US10990230B2	Circuit, touch chip, and electronic device for capacitance detection Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a circuit, touch chip, and electronic device for capacitance detection, the circuit for capacitance detection comprising: a control module, a charge transfer module, a processing module, a driving module, and an offsetting module, the control module being configured to charge a detection capacitor by controlling the driving module, the offsetting module being configured to charge an offset capacitor, and control the offset capacitor to perform charge offsetting on the detection capacitor; the charge transfer module being configured to convert charge of the detection capacitor after the charge offsetting to generate an output voltage; and the processing module being configured to determine, based on the output voltage, a capacitance variation of the detection capacitor before and after the detection capacitor is affected by an external electric field.
US10990223B2	Method and apparatus for variable impedence touch sensor array force aware interaction in large surface devices The present invention relates to interpolated variable impedance touch sensor arrays for force-aware large-surface device interaction. An exemplary system for detecting a continuous pressure curve includes a plurality of physical variable impedance array (VIA) columns connected by interlinked impedance columns and a plurality of physical VIA rows connected by interlinked impedance rows. The system also includes a plurality of column drive sources connected to the interlinked impedance columns and to the plurality of physical VIA columns through the interlinked impedance columns as well as a plurality of row sense sinks connected to the interlinked impedance rows and to the plurality of physical VIA rows through the interlinked impedance rows. Further, the system includes a processor configured to interpolate the continuous pressure curve in the physical VIA columns and physical VIA rows from an electrical signal from the plurality of column drive sources sensed at the plurality of row sense sinks.
US10990222B2	Calibration of trackpad A method includes: placing a first physical object at each of a first plurality of locations on a trackpad; while the first object is at each of the first plurality of locations, registering respective first readings from each of a second plurality of force sensors of the trackpad, the first plurality greater than the second plurality; selecting a first plurality of sensitivity parameters for the trackpad based at least in part on the first readings; and providing the first plurality of sensitivity parameters to force sensing circuitry of the trackpad, the force sensing circuitry coupled to the second plurality of force sensors.
US10990202B2	Stylus having distance meter A handheld stylus for the precise operation of a touch-sensitive display screen, comprising an oblong housing, which is designed in such a way that the stylus is provided to be held in one hand like a pen, and a tip, which is designed for touching the display screen, wherein the stylus comprises a laser distance meter integrated into the housing for measuring distances to spatial points along an emission direction.
US10990190B2	Hand sensing controller Disclosed is a touch-sensitive controller system employing a controller comprising a plurality of separate FMT sensor patterns adapted to detect a variety positions of the human hand. The controller system outputs both touch events as well as data reflective of the hand interaction with the controller. The FMT sensors may be driven by a common signal generator, and can look at body-generate crosstalk to aid in understanding the position, orientation and grip of a hand on the controller. In an embodiment, signal injection can supplement FMT sensor data. Fusion among the data transmitted and received by the plurality of FMT sensors and additional injected signals may provide improved fidelity in both touch and hand modeling.
US10990183B2	Interactive display with tactile feedback An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.
US10990182B2	Force sense presenting object A force sense is presented to a person who has operated an input device, without using an electromagnet. A force sense presenting object includes a first object and a second object. The first object includes a first surface, which is preliminarily magnetized with a first texture including an S-pole region and an N-pole region, and is disposed on an input surface of a touch panel. The second object includes a second surface, which is preliminarily magnetized with a second texture including an S-pole region and an N-pole region, and is worn, gripped, or supported by an acting subject performing an input operation with respect to the touch panel.
US10990177B2	Tactile transmission device and user interface system including the same Provided is a tactile transmission device, which includes a base unit forming one surface of the tactile transmission device, a tip-tilt elastic member stacked on the base unit and configured to transmit a tactile feel to a finger of a user in a first direction oriented upward from a bottom surface of the finger and a second direction intersecting the first direction at a predetermined angle, and a cover disposed at an upper side of the tip-tilt elastic member to form another surface of the tactile transmission device.
US10990172B2	Pupil tracking device and pupil tracking method for measuring pupil center position and proximity depth between object and pupil moving by optokinetic reflex Provided is a pupil tracking device, which measures a pupil center position of an eye moving according to an optokinetic reflex, and a proximity depth between a pupil and an object, the pupil tracking device including a light source configured to output infrared light, a display configured to output object light, a waveguide configured to guide the infrared light and the object light towards a direction to the pupil, a film configured to separate the infrared reflected by a cornea of the eye into a plurality of light beams, and an optical pickup configured to detect the plurality of light beams and measure the pupil center position and the proximity depth.
US10990163B2	Content interaction system and method A content interaction system and method allow a user to simultaneously interact with a piece of content using three senses (sound, sight and smell) of the user. In one embodiment, the content interaction system may have a plurality of devices wherein the user may integrate one or more of the devices together.
US10990161B2	Processor having accelerated user responsiveness in constrained environment In one embodiment, a processor includes at least one core to execute instructions and a power controller coupled to the at least one core. The power controller may include a first logic to cause the at least one core to exit an idle state and enter into a maximum performance state for a first time duration, thereafter enter into an intermediate power state for a second time duration, and thereafter enter into a sustained performance state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10990160B2	Method and system for providing a sleep mode to a configurable logic block using an intermittent power saving logic A programmable semiconductor integrated circuit fabricated on a single microchip device capable of being selectively programmed to perform one or more logic functions provides a sleep mode using an intermittent power saving logic. The circuit includes configurable logic blocks (“LB”), memory, switch, and sleep controller. While LB can enter a power saving sleep mode (“PSSM”) in accordance with its power supply, the memory stores the configuration information for the LB. The switch is configured to manage the LB power supply based on a configurable sleep signal for facilitating the PSSM. The sleep controller facilitates generation of the configurable sleep signal in response to the signal from a power saving output port associated with the LB.
US10990154B2	System, apparatus and method for loose lock-step redundancy power management A processor includes a plurality of cores, at least two of which may execute redundantly, a configuration register to store a first synchronization domain indicator to indicate that a first core and a second core are associated with a first synchronization domain, and a power controller having a synchronization circuit to cause a dynamic adjustment to a frequency of at least one of the first and second cores to cause these cores to operate at a common frequency, based at least in part on the first synchronization domain indicator.
US10990150B2	VCONN in power delivery chargers A circuit comprising a first processing element having a first output configured to couple to a voltage control circuit, a second output configured to couple to a gate terminal of a first transistor, and a third output configured to couple to a first node and a control circuit. The control circuit comprises a second processing element having multiple outputs, a second transistor having a gate terminal configured to couple to one of the outputs of the second processing element, a first terminal configured to couple to a second node and to a drain terminal of the first transistor, and a second terminal, and a third transistor having a gate terminal configured to couple to a second of the outputs of the second processing element, a first terminal configured to couple to a third node, and a second terminal.
US10990140B2	Touchpad device A touchpad device is fixed to a chassis. The touchpad device includes a base plate. The base plate is fixed to the chassis. The base plate includes a body portion and fixed portions. The body portion has holes. Each of the fixed portions is connected to the body portion and extends into a corresponding one of the holes. Each of the fixed portions includes a fixed segment and at least one connecting arm. The fixed segment is fixed to the chassis. The connecting arm is connected between the fixed segment and the body portion.
US10990136B2	Wireless communication device and case assembly A wireless communication device and a case assembly are provided. The wireless communication device includes main body, kickstand structure and antenna module. The main body includes display portion, back portion and RF signal module. The display and back portions are opposite, which the RF signal module is disposed between. The kickstand structure is rotationally pivoted to the back portion of main body. The antenna module is disposed on the kickstand structure and electrically connected to the RF signal module of main body. The case assembly is partially covered the wireless communication device and includes case covering the back portion of wireless communication device, kickstand structure rotationally pivoted to the case and antenna module disposed on the kickstand structure and electrically connecting to the RF signal module of wireless communication device. Thus, rotation of kickstand structure can change orientation of antenna module to transmit and receive wireless signals, so as to improve wireless signal transmission.
US10990132B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided, including: a display screen provided with a first surface and a second surface arranged oppositely, the display screen including: a primary display screen comprising a first portion disposed on the first surface and a second portion extending from a portion connected to the first portion to the second surface, wherein the second portion is connected to a portion of the first portion; and a secondary display screen connected to a remaining portion of the first portion, the secondary display screen being bent from a first surface of the portion connected to the first portion to the second surface.
US10990130B2	Flexible display panel and film-like structure A flexible display panel and a film-like structure are provided according to the present disclosure. The flexible display panel includes a flexible display structure and a film-like structure arranged on at least one side of the flexible display structure. The film-like structure includes: a first flexible layer, a second flexible layer, a filler sealed between the first flexible layer and the second flexible layer, and a heater configured to heat the filler. A hardness of the filler varies with a temperature of the filler.
US10990122B2	Secure real-time clock update in an access control system A method according to one embodiment includes communicating a wireless advertisement that identifies a clock status of a real-time clock of the access control device, wherein the clock status includes a clock status value indicating that the real-time clock has not been set, establishing a wireless communication connection with a computing device in response to the wireless advertisement, transmitting a session random value to the computing device, receiving a clock update token from the computing device, wherein the clock update token is indicative of an authority of the computing device to update the real-time clock of the access control device, authenticating the clock update token based on at least the session random value, and updating the real-time clock based on a received update time in response to successful authentication of the clock update token.
US10990117B2	P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) low drop-out (LDO) regulator Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a low drop-out (LDO) regulator. The LDO regulator generally includes a first p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor (PMOS) having a drain coupled to an output node of the LDO regulator, a first amplifier having an input coupled to a reference voltage node and an output coupled to a gate of the first PMOS transistor, a second PMOS transistor having a source coupled to the output node, and a second amplifier having an input coupled to the output node and an output coupled to a gate of the second PMOS transistor.
US10990116B2	Power management device and power management method There is provided a power management device including a load current control unit that sets an upper limit on a load current received from a connected feeding device and controls the load current on the basis of the upper limit, and a determination unit that, when the load current control unit has reset the upper limit to a higher value, determines if the upper limit has exceeded a current capacity of the feeding device on the basis of a voltage drop level of an input voltage. The load current control unit resets the upper limit in increments or decrements of a predetermined value, and the load current control unit, when the determination unit has determined that the upper limit had exceeded the current capacity of the feeding device, controls the load current by resetting the upper limit to a value not exceeding the current capacity.
US10990111B2	Position determination apparatus and method for vehicle A position determination apparatus for a vehicle may include: a first sensing unit configured to sense driving state information of the vehicle; a GNSS module configured to acquire position data of the vehicle; a first core unit configured to generate a first driving trajectory of the vehicle based on the driving state information sensed by the first sensing unit, and estimate the current position of the vehicle based on the generated first driving trajectory; a second sensing unit configured to detect driving environment information of the vehicle; and a second core unit configured to generate a second driving trajectory of the vehicle, generate map matching data by performing map matching on the driving environment information sensed through the second sensing unit, and generate fused position determination information by fusing the position data received from the GNSS module, the second driving trajectory and the map matching data.
US10990109B2	Integrated connectivity of devices for resource transmission The preset invention relates to a system for integrated connectivity of devices to provide dynamic control and real-time routing of a vehicle for item transfer and vehicle performance. The system is configured for constructing a dynamic item file comprising one or more items associated with a user. The system is configured to identify an item collection initiation trigger and transmit an order placement control signal to an entity system of an item entity to initiate item transfer of the one or more items at a predetermined time interval. The system is configured to direct the vehicle to a first parking location associated with the geographic location parameter of the item entity. In addition, using a sensor device of the vehicle such as a weight sensor, an RFID sensor and/or a visual capture device, the system is structured to identify that the one or more items are located in the vehicle.
US10990099B2	Motion planning methods and systems for autonomous vehicle Disclosed herein are methods and systems for motion planning in an autonomous vehicle (AV) that separate path planning and velocity planning and may use reference lines in combination with motion planners to determine paths. The method may include reference lines to project planning data into a S-L coordinate system. A motion planner algorithm uses the reference lines and previous path planning history to generate a path in the S-L coordinate system. A velocity is determined for the path. An AV controller is updated with the path and the velocity. Motion planning computations use a dynamic vehicle look-up table to determine possible vehicle motions based on an initial state and control input.
US10990098B2	Vehicle control apparatus A vehicle control apparatus including a surrounding circumstances detector detecting surrounding circumstances of a self-driving vehicle and a microprocessor generating an action plan including a target path of the self-driving vehicle based on the surrounding circumstances detected and controlling a driving component so that the self-driving vehicle travels by self-driving in accordance with the action plan. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a hindrance time a first action plan is hindered when a second action plan is generated, determining whether the hindrance time is shorter than a predetermined time period, and controlling the driving component to keep a first state according to the first action plan when the hindrance time is shorter than the predetermined time period, while to change to a second state according to the second action plan when the hindrance time is longer than or equal to the predetermined time period.
US10990095B2	Disaster mitigation system for connected vehicles having hidden vehicle functionality The disclosure includes embodiments for providing disaster mitigation for connected vehicles having hidden vehicle functionality. In some embodiments, a method includes determining, by an onboard vehicle computer of a connected vehicle, that an extreme event is occurring. In some embodiments, the method includes automatically unlocking, by the onboard vehicle computer, hidden vehicle functionality of the connected vehicle responsive to determining that the extreme event is occurring.
US10990090B2	Apparatus and method for automatic detection and classification of industrial alarms An occurrence of a predetermined event is detected within a stream of data and a classification for the event is determined. A message is sent to an application when the predetermined event is detected. The message is received at the application and the message is visualized to a user of the application. The stream of data from the industrial machine to the transceiver circuit, to the control circuit, and to the application occurs in real-time without substantial interruption allowing the user of the application to make decisions and determine insights concerning the industrial machine in real-time.
US10990087B2	Parallel control method and system for intelligent workshop A parallel control method for an intelligent workshop is provided, comprising the following steps: step A: constructing a parallel control simulation platform; step B: establishing a parallel execution mechanism; and, step C: correcting and optimizing a parallel control system. A parallel control system for an intelligent workshop is provided, comprising: an MES module configured to issue production instructions to unit management modules; the unit management modules configured to convert the received production instructions into machine instructions and synchronously issue the machine instructions to underlying PLCs by a bus control network module, and drive the parallel control simulation platform and a field device to move by a soft PLC and a hard PLC; the bus control network module configured to establish a communication network among the MES module, an SCADA module, an industrial personal computer, physical devices and a whole-line simulation model; and, the SCADA module.
US10990066B2	Systems, methods and devices for vector control of induction machines using artificial neural networks Described herein is a neural network-based vector control method for the induction motor. The disclosure includes an approach to implement optimal vector control for an induction motor by using an NN; a NN controller to substitute two decoupled proportional-integral (PI) controllers in current loop; and, a mechanism to train the NN controller by using a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM)+forward accumulation through time (FATT) algorithm.
US10990055B2	Image forming apparatus including a conveyance guide for guiding a recording medium conveyed from a registration roller pair to a transfer nip An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a registration roller pair, and a conveyance guide which includes a first conveyance guide and a second conveyance guide. The second conveyance guide has a main body portion and a shaft member. The shaft member is held by a shaft holding portion of the main body portion so as to be reciprocatable between a first position which is a most downstream-side position and a second position on an upstream side of the first position. When a first recording medium is conveyed, the shaft member is arranged at the first position such that a distance between the shaft member and the first conveyance guide is a predetermined distance. When a second recording medium is conveyed, the shaft member is arranged at the second position such that the distance between the shaft member and the first conveyance guide is increased.
US10990038B2	Apparatus for use in an electrographic printer In one aspect an apparatus (200) for use in an electrographic printer (100) is described. The apparatus includes a housing (210) defining a cavity (220), a developer roller (250), a developer electrode (240) for developing printing substance onto the developer roller, the electrode being arranged within the cavity, and a heater (260) for heating printing substance to be developed onto the developer roller, the heater being arranged in the cavity.
US10990034B2	Powder storage height detection device and powder replenishing device A powder storage height detection device includes: a main body that includes a transport path along which powder is transported; a powder transport unit that is disposed to rotate in the transport path and includes a transporter provided spirally around a rotational shaft; a swinging unit that comes into contact with a surface of the powder transported in the transport path, and swings by following at least a storage height of the surface; a detection unit that detects a state of swinging of the swinging unit; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of the powder based on a detection signal outputted from the detection unit. The transport unit includes a non-transport portion in which the transporter is not present, and which is formed as an eccentric shaft having a shaft center displaced from the rotational shaft, the swinging unit is located and disposed to swing in the non-transport portion, and the determination unit samples the detection signal at an interval, and when a proportion of the detection signal lower than or equal to an output level becomes greater than or equal to a threshold value, outputs a signal indicating determination of absence of the powder, the interval being obtained by dividing a required time for one rotation of the transport unit by a predetermined number, the output level defining that the storage height is relatively low.
US10990032B2	Image-forming apparatus capable of controlling separation/contact timing between developing rollers and photosensitive drums in timed relation to sheet conveyance An image-forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a cam, a switching mechanism, a sheet tray, a sheet feed mechanism, a sheet sensor, and a controller. The switching mechanism rotates the cam to move the developing roller from a contact position in contact with the photosensitive drum to a separated position away from the photosensitive drum after development for the first sheet, if feeding of a second sheet is not started after elapse of a prescribed time period since detection of a first sheet. If image data for the second sheet is ready and upon elapse of a predetermined standby time period from elapse of the prescribed time period, the sheet feed mechanism starts feeding the second sheet toward the photosensitive drum and the switching mechanism rotates the cam to move the developing roller to the separated position in accordance with conveyance of the second sheet.
US10990029B2	Image forming apparatus correcting exposure amount of photosensitive member An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a scan unit configured to scan the photosensitive member with light based on image data, and form a latent image on the photosensitive member; a developing unit configured to form an image on the photosensitive member by attaching toner to the latent image formed on the photosensitive member; and a correction unit configured to correct an exposure amount of the photosensitive member such that a density change of the image in a main scanning direction due to a configuration of the scan unit and a density of the image to be formed is reduced.
US10990028B2	Information processing apparatus, image forming system, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to control a display to display a setting screen for a background pattern that allows a user to designate a special consumable material as a color to be used for information specified as the background pattern; generate print data using the designated special consumable material; and transmit the print data to an image forming apparatus.
US10990015B2	Debris mitigation system, radiation source and lithographic apparatus A debris mitigation system for use in a radiation source. The debris mitigation system comprises a contamination trap. The contamination trap comprises a debris receiving surface arranged to receive liquid metal fuel debris emitted from a plasma formation region of the radiation source. The debris receiving surface is constructed from a material that reacts with the liquid metal fuel debris to form an intermetallic layer on the debris receiving surface.
US10990007B2	Multi function photoacid generator and chemically amplified photoresist composition for thick layer comprising the same The present invention relates to a photoacid generator, and a chemically amplified photoresist composition for a thick film including the same, wherein the photoacid generator has excellent solubility and sensitivity, and also has an anti-corrosion effect, in addition to the effect as a photoacid generator. Thus, a chemically amplified photoresist composition for a thick film including the photoacid generator reduces scum and/or footing at the exposed part after development. The photoacid generator represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: In Chemical Formula 1, the definition of each substituents is the same as the detail description of the specification.
US10989990B2	Image capturing apparatus and accessories An image capturing apparatus on which, and from which, an accessory is mountable and dismountable includes a plurality of terminals disposed in a circumferential direction of a mount, and a terminal holder. The terminal holder has a height level difference for holding the terminals at different positions in a center-axis direction of the mount. The terminals include a first terminal configured to be used to supply power for driving an internal component of the accessory, and a second terminal configured to indicate a ground level corresponding to the first terminal. The second terminal is disposed nearer in a mount direction of the accessory than the other terminals on a predetermined stage of the terminal holder, and is connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of terminals of the accessory first among the terminals when the accessory is mounted on the image capturing apparatus.
US10989979B2	Low power semi-reflective display A semi-reflective display and a method for fabricating and assembling a semi-reflective display are presented, where the display may be comprised of visible light rectifying antenna arrays tuned to four different colors, which when forward biased may use electric power to amplify reflected colored light, and when reversed biased may generate electric power by absorbing light. TFT-tunnel diode logic may be used to control each sub-pixel.
US10989978B1	Selectively transparent and opaque keyboard bottom An information handling system peripheral keyboard sized to rest on an information handling display to accept key inputs has a bottom surface with a selectively opaque layer that transitions between transparent and opaque states based upon a usage scenario. For instance, the keyboard has a transparent state when placed on the display to allow light to pass through the keyboard and illuminate the keys. When removed from the display, an opaque state hides keyboard internals so as not to detract from the keyboard appearance. In one embodiment, the selectively opaque layer is an electronic ink that presents a product brand on the keyboard bottom surface when in the opaque state.
US10989975B2	Electrochromic components and methods associated therewith A glazing including an electrochromic component and a coating coupled to the electrochromic component. In an embodiment the coating includes a non-transparent element. In a further embodiment, the non-transparent element includes a plurality of non-transparent elements. In another aspect, a method of displaying an image includes providing an electrochromic component and a coating coupled to the electrochromic component and projecting the image onto the coating from a light emitting source.
US10989970B2	Display panel having electrostatic discharge circuit and display device The present application disclose a display panel and display device, including a substrate, and an electrostatic discharge circuit disposed on the substrate and including a voltage gate high terminal (VGH terminal), a voltage gate low terminal (VGL terminal), an electrostatic input end and a common voltage terminal (VCOM terminal) coupled with components of the display panel; and a first discharge circuit, where an output end of the first discharge circuit is respectively connected to the voltage gate high terminal and the voltage gate low terminal, and a control end and an input end of the first discharge circuit are connected to the electrostatic input end; and a second discharge circuit, where an input end of the second discharge circuit is connected to the electrostatic input end, and an output end of the second discharge circuit is connected to the common voltage terminal.
US10989964B2	Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can retain a favorable VHR and a low residual DC voltage and minimize display unevenness such as stains and image sticking, in long-term use at high temperatures. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; an aromatic polyimide-based alignment film disposed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a radical generator capable of supplying a radical to the liquid crystal layer upon being irradiated with light, the liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal compound with an alkenyl group, the aromatic polyimide-based alignment film containing at least one polymer selected from a polyimide and a polyamic acid and being in no contact with the pixel electrode, the at least one polymer containing an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride monomer unit.
US10989959B2	Backlight unit, display device including the same, and manufacturing method thereof A backlight unit includes a first substrate, a plurality of LED chips on one surface of the first substrate and configured to emit light of a first color, a second substrate located opposite to the one surface of the first substrate, and a plurality of light modulation patterns on one surface of the second substrate facing the one surface of the first substrate so as to overlap the plurality of LED chips, respectively. Each of the plurality of light modulation patterns includes a first wavelength conversion pattern that converts the light of the first color into light of a second color. The first wavelength conversion pattern includes a first wavelength conversion layer on the one surface of the second substrate, a first organic encapsulation layer on the first wavelength conversion layer, and a barrier structure covering the first wavelength conversion layer and the first organic encapsulation layer.
US10989958B2	Display device comprising a control substrate configured to control drive of display pixels A display device includes a display panel in which display pixels including colored pixels of a plurality of colors are arranged, an illumination device including a light source and configured to illuminate the display panel with light, and a control substrate configured to control drive of the display pixels, wherein the control substrate includes a display data generation circuit configured to generate display data for driving the display pixels, based on image data supplied from an external image signal supply source, a detection circuit configured to detect a change in luminance light modulation data for modulating luminance of the light source, supplied from an external image signal supply source, and a display data correction circuit configured to correct the display data, based on an output value of the detection circuit.
US10989956B2	Display device A display device includes a light source, a light-directing element, a reflective display element, and a microlens array. The light-directing element is disposed on the transmission path of a lighting beam provided by the light source for projecting the lighting beam toward the first direction. The reflective display element includes a plurality of micro-image units, wherein each micro-image unit converts the lighting beam projected from the light-directing element into an sub-image beam and reflects the sub-image beam. The microlens array is disposed on the transmission path of the sub-image beams, wherein the light-directing element is located between the microlens array and the reflective display element. The microlens array includes a plurality of microlenses. Each sub-image beam pass throughs the light-directing element and is projected to an aperture by the corresponding microlens, and the sub-image beams pass through the aperture to form an image beam.
US10989954B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes in the following order from a viewing surface side a first polarizer, a first positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 80 nm or greater and 100 nm or smaller, a first substrate, a second positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a horizontally aligned liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a viewing angle compensation layer, and a second polarizer. The device further includes between the first polarizer and the first positive A plate a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 30 nm or greater and 80 nm or smaller.
US10989952B2	Display device A display device includes a display region, a peripheral region outside the display region, a control circuit, driving circuits, a clock line connecting the control circuit to one of the driving circuits and in which a first clock signal is supplied, and another clock line connecting the control circuit to the other of the driving circuits and in which a second clock signal is supplied. A light shielding layer includes extension portions each extending along a Y direction, and bent portions between the extension portions. A length of one of the extension portions is longer than a length of the other of the extension portions. In plan view, one of the bent portions overlaps with one of the clock lines, and the other of the bent portions is located between termination portions of the clock lines.
US10989937B2	Method and system for integrated differential electro-absorption modulator device An integrated differential Electro-Absorption Modulator (EAM) device. The device includes a substrate, an electrical driver, and two EAM modules. The electrical driver circuit is configured overlying the substrate member and has one output electrically coupled to the first EAM module and the other output electrically coupled to the second EAM module. The first and second EAM modules have a first and a second output, respectively. A beam splitter can be configured to split an optical input into two optical outputs, each of which can be optically coupled to the optical inputs of the first and second EAM modules.
US10989932B2	Progressive spectacle lens having a variable refractive index and method for the design and production thereof A product includes a progressive power spectacle lens or a representation, stored on a data storage medium, of the progressive power spectacle lens. The progressive power spectacle lens has a front surface and a back surface and a spatially varying refractive index, wherein the front surface and/or the back surface is embodied as a progressive surface. The front surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the maximum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the front surface lies in the intermediate corridor and/or the back surface is formed as a free-form surface in such a way that the minimum of the absolute value of the mean curvature of the back surface lies in the intermediate corridor. Further, a computer-implemented method for planning a progressive power spectacle lens with a spatially varying refractive index and a progressive surface is disclosed.
US10989926B1	Polarization-selective diffusive combiner and near-eye display based thereon A near-eye display based on a polarization-selective diffusive combiner includes a polarizer for polarizing impinging ambient light to have a first polarization state, and a polarization-selective scatterer downstream of the polarizer, for passing through the ambient light having the first polarization state substantially without scattering, while scattering impinging display light having a second polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state. The display light at the second polarization state may be provided by a projector, the polarization-selective scatterer playing the role of a projector screen. A polarization-selective ocular lens may be disposed downstream of the polarization-selective scatterer for viewing images generated by the projector while propagating through orthogonally polarized light from outside environment.
US10989923B2	Achromatic freeform prism for near eye displays A near eye display includes a main freeform prism lens and a micro-display corrector lens, where the main freeform prism lens includes a first freeform surface, a second freeform surface, and a third freeform surface, the first freeform surface refracting a light from a micro-display into a body of the main freeform prism lens, and the main freeform prism lens having an exit pupil diameter greater than 12 millimeter (mm), and a lateral color aberration of less than 4 micrometer (um)) across a diagonal field of view (FOV), where the micro-display corrector lens is positioned between the main freeform prism lens and the micro-display, the micro-display corrector lens including a first corrector lens surface and a second corrector lens surface, and each surface of the main freeform prism lens and the micro-display corrector lens comprises a surface sag.
US10989921B2	Augmented reality optics system with pinpoint mirror Approaches presented herein enable displaying an augmented reality virtual image in a real-world environment. More specifically, a virtual image is transmitted, via a virtual image projection component, through a substantially transparent medium onto a set of pinpoint mirrors in contact with the substantially transparent medium. A view of the virtual image transposed on a real-world image is then provided, via the set of pinpoint mirrors, to a user looking through the substantially transparent medium. While light forming the virtual image is perceived by the human eye, because each pinpoint mirror of the set of pinpoint mirrors is smaller than the pupil of the human eye, none of the set of pinpoint mirrors is perceivable by the human eye due to their size.
US10989915B2	Expanding a pupil using replication A pupil expansion apparatus includes: a beam splitter, configured to receive light from an optic and to replicate a pupil formed by the optic; and a waveguide, optically coupled to the beam splitter, the waveguide configured to receive light from the beam splitter and further expand the pupil.
US10989909B2	Method for providing an overview image A method for providing an overview image of an object that is arranged in a sample plane and includes generating a light sheet, capturing detection light coming from the sample plane, imaging the captured detection light by means of a detector in a detection plane in the form of image data of at least one captured image, wherein the captured image extends in an image plane that is inclined with respect to the sample plane, capturing a number of images of at least one region of the object, in the form of an inclined stack, and transforming the inclined stack to a normalized Z-stack, in which image data of the captured images are assigned with correct orientation with respect to the reference axis. A maximum intensity projection in the normalized Z-stack, wherein a resulting overview image is generated by way of selected image points being imaged as a virtual projection into a projection plane that is parallel to the image plane of the detector.
US10989902B2	Camera lens The present disclosure provides a camera lens, constituted by eight lenses, and featuring excellent optical characteristics, an ultra-thin appearance, a wide angle and a bright Fno. The camera lens is configured with, sequentially from an object side: a 1st lens having a positive refractive power, a 2nd lens having a negative refractive power, a 3rd lens having a negative refractive power, a 4th lens having a positive refractive power, a 5th lens having a negative refractive power, a 6th lens having a positive refractive power, a 7th lens having a positive refractive power and an 8th lens having a negative refractive power, and satisfies specified conditional features.
US10989901B2	Optical imaging system An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed on an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. A distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of an image sensor is TTL, an overall focal length of an optical system including the first to sixth lenses is F, and TTL/F≤0.83. An optical axis distance between the second lens and the third lens is D23, an optical axis distance between the third lens and the fourth lens is D34, and 2.2
US10989899B2	Optical imaging lens An optical imaging lens may include a first, a second, a third, and a fourth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the four lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide improved imaging quality and optical characteristics, and have the ability to cooperate the demand of present smaller-sized electronic product while the optical imaging lens may satisfy TTL/TL≥1.700 and EFL/ImgH≥2.500, wherein a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image plane along the optical axis is represented by TTL, a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the fourth lens element along the optical axis is represented by TL, an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens is represented by EFL, and an image height of the optical imaging lens is represented by ImgH.
US10989896B2	Adjustable mirror assembly with leaf spring element An adjustable mirror assembly comprising a mirror, a support, a leaf spring element biased between the support and a planar reverse side of the mirror, said leaf spring element generating a spring force, as well as at least two adjusting units mounted in the support and acting on the mirror in opposition to the spring force. The leaf spring element is mounted to the reverse side of the mirror via at least one mirror mounting point by a substance-to-substance bond and to the support via at least one support mounting point. The spring force is directed toward the support.
US10989893B2	Camera module with foreign objects inhibiting structure A camera module is disclosed, the camera module including a lens barrel including more than one sheet of lens receiving an optical image of an object, an actuator moving the lens barrel, a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) formed with an image sensor at a bottom surface of the lens barrel for converting the optical image to an electrical signal, and a holder for supporting the lens barrel and the actuator and formed with a terminal electrically connected to the actuator, wherein an electrical contact point between the actuator and the terminal is formed with two or more tiers of coated layers.
US10989882B2	Optical connector The present embodiment relates to an optical connector capable of reducing a pressing force applied to each of a plurality of optical fibers simultaneously held by a ferrule and effectively reducing fiber damage. The optical connector includes a ferrule including a plurality of through holes and a plurality of optical fibers held by the ferrule with end faces of the optical fibers protruding from the ferrule. The maximum curvature of the end face of each of the optical fibers and a variation amount of a protrusion amount of each of the optical fibers are adjusted to enable excellent many-to-many PC connection.
US10989873B1	Waveguide crossings having arms shaped with a non-linear curvature Structures for a waveguide crossing and methods of fabricating a structure for a waveguide crossing. A waveguide crossing includes a central section and an arm positioned between a waveguide core and the central section. The arm and the waveguide core are aligned along a longitudinal axis. The arm is coupled to the waveguide core at a first interface, and the arm is coupled to a portion of the central section at a second interface. The arm has a first width at the first interface, a second width at the second interface, and a third width between the first interface and the second interface. The third width is greater than either the first width or the second width.
US10989869B2	High-density energy directing devices for two-dimensional, stereoscopic, light field and holographic head-mounted displays Disclosed are high-density energy directing devices and systems thereof for two-dimensional, stereoscopic, light field and holographic head-mounted displays. In general, the head-mounted display system includes one or more energy devices and one or more energy relay elements, each energy relay element having a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is disposed in energy propagation paths of the one or more energy devices and the second surface of each of the one or more energy relay elements is arranged to form a singular seamless energy surface. A separation between edges of any two adjacent second surfaces is less than a minimum perceptible contour as defined by the visual acuity of a human eye having better than 20/40 vision at a distance from the singular seamless energy surface, the distance being greater than the lesser of: half of a height of the singular seamless energy surface, or half of a width of the singular seamless energy surface.
US10989864B2	Optical fiber, coated optical fiber, and optical transmission system The optical fiber has an effective area that is greater than or equal to 110 μm2 and less than or equal to 180 μm2 at a wavelength of 1550 nm and a cable cut-off wavelength of less than or equal to 1530 nm. An average value of a glass outer diameter in a longitudinal direction is 125±0.5 μm. When σ is a standard deviation of the glass outer diameter in the longitudinal direction, 3σ is greater than or equal to 0.1 μm and less than or equal to 0.5 μm.
US10989859B2	Backlight unit and display apparatus including the same A display apparatus includes a light guide member disposed below a display member. A light source configured to generate light is disposed adjacent to the light guide member. The light guide member includes a plurality of diffraction on the light guide member. The diffraction patterns are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The plurality of diffraction patterns diffract incident light, which is incident at an incident angle, to change the incident light to diffraction light having a diffraction angle. The incident angle is defined as an angle between the incident light and a normal line that is perpendicular to a top surface or a bottom surface of the light guide member. The diffraction angle, which is defined as an angle between the diffraction light and the normal line, has a magnitude less than that of the incident angle.
US10989848B2	Heat-blocking filter and monitoring system Heat-blocking filter is a heat-blocking filter to be installed in a window glass of a vehicle. The heat-blocking filter substantially transmits visible light and infrared light in a first wavelength range, and substantially blocks infrared light outside the first wavelength range.
US10989837B2	Method in connection with a radiosonde and system According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method in connection with a radiosonde, the method comprising measuring a humidity of the atmosphere at several different altitudes in the atmosphere, measuring a pressure at several different altitudes in the atmosphere or calculating the pressure from an altitude of the radiosonde obtained from GPS or other satellite navigation system, measuring or estimating a temperature of a humidity sensor, and measuring a relative humidity by a capacitor with a polymer insulator, wherein the relative humidity value is corrected based on a correction factor, which is a function of pressure, humidity sensor temperature, and relative humidity, such that the humidity value decreases when pressure decreases.
US10989832B2	Pad alignment with a multi-frequency-band and multi-window semblance processing A method and system for pad alignment may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, taking a measurement with the electrode with at least one operating frequency, correcting the measurement to account for local formation dip, constructing a window with a predetermined size H, identifying a number of adaptive filters to be utilized, extracting one or more frequency components from the measurement with the adaptive filters, identifying a semblance value of a reference dataset and a target dataset, assembling the semblance values for the reference dataset and the target dataset, identifying the semblance values of the reference dataset and target datasets over the range of relative pad shifts, identifying a pad shift, and forming one or more images of the pad shirt or the semblance of the reference dataset and target data set. The system may comprise a mandrel, one or more pads, and electrodes.
US10989831B2	Determining permeability in subsurface anisotropic formations A method and system can include a sensor positioned in a borehole, characteristics of the earthen formation can be measured and logged by the sensor, and an effective permeability can be determined based on the logged characteristics. Multi-component induction (MCI) data can be measured by a logging tool, 3D resistivity components can be determined by inverting the MCI data, and the 3D resistivity components can be logged. Tri-axial permeability components can be determined based on the effective permeability and the 3D resistivity component logs. A permeability of sand in the earthen formation can be determined based on the tri-axial permeability components, the effective permeability, and a laminated shale volume. The sand permeability can be logged and modifications to operation(s) can be initiated based on the sand permeability.
US10989826B2	Seismic data acquisition using designed non-uniform receiver spacing The invention relates to an arrangement for seismic acquisition the spacing between each adjacent pairs of receiver and sources lines is not all the same. Some receiver and/or source lines and/or receiver and/or source spacings are larger and some are smaller to provide a higher quality wavefield reconstruction when covering a larger total area or for a similar total area of seismic data acquisition while providing a wavefield that is optimally sampled by the receivers and sources so that the wavefield reconstruction is suitable for subsurface imaging needs.
US10989815B2	Method for positioning underwater objects and system for the implementation thereof The present group of inventions relates to methods and systems for positioning underwater objects, and more particularly to methods and systems in which satellite signals are received by receivers disposed on sonar buoys, the coordinates of the sonar buoys are determined by means of computation modules on the sonar buoys, location data and identification data are transmitted in the form of sonar signals emitted by transmitters on the sonar buoys, the signals are received with the aid of a receiver disposed on an underwater object, and the coordinates of the underwater object are determined according to the time delay of receipt of the sonar signals from the sonar buoys, the location of which is known. The present solution can be used in simultaneously determining the geographical position of an unlimited number of mobile underwater objects, remotely operated underwater vehicles, divers, marine animals, etc. in motion. According to the invention, signals from the aforementioned sonar buoys are encoded in the form of periodic signals tethered to GPS/GLONASS clocks, all transmitters of the sonar signals are disposed at the same depth, and during decoding of the signals from the sonar buoys, direct signals from the sonar buoys are isolated from reflected signals. The system implements the aforementioned method. The achieved technical result is more accurate positioning of the underwater objects.
US10989814B2	Method for managing dynamic range of an optical detection device, and corresponding device A method for managing a dynamic range of an optical detection device illuminated by a modulated optical radiation, the method including: generating a detection signal from the modulated optical radiation; generating, based on the detection signal, a histogram including a plurality of histogram classes; comparing a chosen maximum value and a value of each histogram class of the plurality of histogram classes; and stopping a generation of the histogram in response to a determination that the value of any one of the plurality of histogram classes is equal to the maximum value.
US10989804B2	Method and apparatus for optical distance measurements A method for optical distance measurements is suggested which comprises carrying out Radar measurements, building a grid map comprising a plurality of elements based on the Radar measurements, extracting information about the dynamic state of each element and assigning the information to the respective element. The method further comprises carrying out Lidar measurements resulting in a Lidar point cloud and associating the Lidar point cloud with the grid map.
US10989799B2	Radar and antenna built in radar A radar includes a transmitter antenna unit that includes multiple transmitter antennas; a receiver antenna unit that includes a first receiver antenna group including multiple first receiver antennas and multiple second receiver antennas arranged at a first horizontal interval and a second receiver antenna group including multiple third receiver antennas arranged at one or more second horizontal intervals; a transceiver that transmits sending signals through the transmitter antenna unit and receives returning signals reflected from a target object trough the receiver antenna unit; and a processing unit that derives information about the target object by processing the received returning signals.
US10989795B2	System for surface analysis and method thereof A system and method for analyzing a surface of an object is provided. The system includes a 3D measurement device operable to acquire a plurality of points on the surface of the object and determine 3D coordinates for each of the points. The system further includes processors operably coupled to the 3D measurement device. The processors are responsive to computer instructions when executed on the processors for performing a method comprising: generating a point cloud from the 3D coordinates of the plurality of points; extracting a first set of points from the plurality of points; defining a first reference geometry through the first set of points; measuring at least one first metric from each of the points in the first set of points to the first reference geometry; and identifying a nonconforming feature based at least in part on the at least one first metric.
US10989789B2	Method system and device for obtaining location information using neighbor awareness networking, NAN The present invention relates to a method for obtaining a location using Neighbor Awareness Networking, NAN, and a corresponding system as well as a method carried out by a NAN device and a corresponding NAN device so that a location can be obtained in a simple way. In particular, the method for obtaining a location using neighbor awareness networking, NAN, comprises requesting the location of a target NAN device; determining a cluster of wireless NAN devices comprising the target NAN device as well as one or more anchor NAN devices having predetermined locations to serve as positioning nodes; performing range measurements using the travel times of radio signals between the target NAN device and each of the one or more anchor NAN devices; and obtaining the location of the target NAN device based on the range measurements.

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