US09549207B2
Video data with both ultra-high definition (UHD) resolution and high or enhanced dynamic range (EDR) data are coded in a backward-compatible layered stream which allows legacy decoders to extract an HD standard dynamic range (SDR) signal. In response to a base layer HD SDR signal, a predicted signal is generated using separate luma and chroma prediction models. In the luma predictor, luma pixel values of the predicted signal are computed based only on luma pixel values of the base layer, while in the chroma predictor, chroma pixel values of the predicted signal are computed based on both the luma and the chroma pixel values of the base layer. A residual signal is computed based on the input UHD EDR signal and the predicted signal. The base layer and the residual signal are coded separately to form a coded bitstream. A compatible dual-layer decoder is also presented.
US09549204B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction comprises the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring block; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply the second filter.
US09549193B2
A video encoding method is provided, which includes: deciding a first search window of a first macroblock in a reference image, and deciding a second search window of a second macroblock in the reference image, wherein the first search window is at least partially overlapped with the second search window; reading the first search window and the second search window from a memory and executing a first encoding stage having motion estimation and binarization encoding; storing an encoding result of the first encoding stage in the memory; reading the encoding result from the memory and executing a second encoding stage. The second encoding stage has a context entropy coding, and an encoding order of the context entropy coding is different from that of the motion estimation, and the first encoding stage is executed in parallel with the second encoding stage. Accordingly, a bandwidth demand of the memory is decreased.
US09549191B2
A video decoder, encoder, and corresponding methods for processing video data for an image block and a particular reference picture index to predict the image block are disclosed that utilize adaptive weighting of reference pictures to enhance video compression, where a decoder includes a reference picture weighting factor unit for determining a weighting factor corresponding to the particular reference picture index; an encoder includes a reference picture weighting factor assignor for assigning a weighting factor corresponding to the particular reference picture index; and a method for decoding includes receiving a reference picture index with the data that corresponds to the image block, determining a weighting factor for each received reference picture index, retrieving a reference picture for each index, motion compensating the retrieved reference picture, and multiplying the motion compensated reference picture by the corresponding weighting factor to form a weighted motion compensated reference picture.
US09549184B2
A method is provided for computing a predicted frame from a first and a second reference frames, the method comprising, for each block of pixels in the predicted frame, the acts of defining a first block of pixels in the first reference frame collocated with a third block of pixels which is the block of pixels in the predicted frame; defining a second block of pixels corresponding, in the second reference frame, to the first block of pixels along the motion vector of the first block from the first to second reference frames; computing a first set of coefficients allowing the transformation of the pixels of the first block into pixels of the second block; computing pixels of the third block using the first set of coefficients and pixels from a fourth block collocated in the first reference frame with the second block of pixels.
US09549182B2
Techniques are described for coding residual data of a prediction residual block in either a lossy or lossless coding mode, in which a transform is skipped or bypassed. The techniques of this disclosure include determining whether to reposition, e.g., rotate or flip, residual data of a residual block prior to coding the residual data of the residual block. For both the lossy and lossless coding modes, a video coding device determines whether to reposition residual data of a residual block based on a prediction mode of the residual block and a size of the residual block. In some examples, the techniques disable repositioning for all residual blocks in the inter-prediction mode and the intra block copying prediction mode, and determine to reposition residual blocks in the intra-prediction mode when the residual blocks have block sizes that are less than or equal to a threshold size.
US09549180B2
In one example, a video coder (e.g., a video encoder or a video decoder) is configured to determine that a current block of video data is coded using a disparity motion vector, wherein the current block is within a containing block, based on a determination that a neighboring block to the current block is also within the containing block, substitute a block outside the containing block and that neighbors the containing block for the neighboring block in a candidate list, select a disparity motion vector predictor from one of a plurality of blocks in the candidate list, and code the disparity motion vector based on the disparity motion vector predictor. In this manner, the techniques of this disclosure may allow blocks within the containing block to be coded in parallel.
US09549177B2
A method determines a value for a first flag that controls whether a temporal motion vector is used for a slice. If the value of the first flag is a first value, the method performs: evaluating a first condition to determine whether to encode or decode a second flag; if the first condition indicates the second flag should be used, encoding or decoding the second flag in encoding or decoding the slice; evaluating a second condition to determine whether to encode or decode position information that indicates a position that contains the collocated reference picture; and if the second condition indicates the position information should be used, encoding or decoding the position information in encoding or decoding the slice. If the first flag is a second value, the method does not encode or decode the second flag and the position information.
US09549175B2
Systems and methods for analyzing the performance of a digital network include capturing a stream of digital data, e.g., internet protocol (IP) packets, that represent streaming video, identifying which of the IP packets include bit errors, determining to which of a plurality of pixels the IP packets including bit errors belong and identifying such pixels as corrupted pixels, and illuminating only the corrupted pixels on a display of a tool. Corrupted pixels in different time blocks can be displayed with different colors to gain a better appreciation of the bit error rate over time.
US09549167B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition mechanism acquiring image data of a 3D image including a left-eye image and a right-eye image, and superimposed-area information being information on a superimposed area included in the left-eye image and the right-eye image; and a disparity detection mechanism detecting an amount of disparity in an area excluding the superimposed area identified by the superimposed-area information of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.
US09549166B2
An image pick apparatus includes: an imaging element that includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group that respectively photo-electrically converts luminous fluxes that pass through different areas of a single imaging optical system, generates a first image formed by an output value of the first pixel group and a second image formed by an output value of the second pixel group, and is built therein with a pixel addition unit that adds a pixel value of the first pixel group and a pixel value of the second pixel group to generate a two-dimensional image; and an image processing section that matches a shading shape of the first image and a shading shape of the second image with a shading shape of the two-dimensional image by calculating correction coefficients stored in a memory for the output values of the first pixel group and the second pixel group.
US09549162B2
An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit that causes a content view which displays statistic information of characters appearing in video content and a relationship view which displays character-relation information of the characters appearing in the video content, to be displayed on a predetermined display unit.
US09549157B2
A defective pixel of an imaging device is detected. An output pixel value of the defective pixel is corrected to generate an output image. An imaging device, and a signal processing unit for analyzing an output signal from the imaging device and detecting a defective pixel are included. The imaging device receives incident light via, for example, a microlens placed in front of a pixel, inputs the same subject light on a local area basis including a plurality of pixels of the imaging device, and acquires an image signal lower than a pixel resolving power corresponding to the pixel density of the imaging device. The signal processing unit compares the pixel values of the same color pixels included in a local area on a local area basis including a cluster of the plurality of pixels of the imaging device, detects the defective pixel based on the comparison result, and corrects and outputs a pixel value of a pixel determined to be a defective pixel.
US09549156B2
Video transaction machines (VTMs) facilitate communications and transactions between customers of a financial institution and video transaction resources, such as video agents, by establishing a video session between a VTM and a video agent workstation. After a computing device of the financial institution receives information identifying the customer, VTM, or VTM location requesting the services of a video agent, the computing device may place the customer in one or more virtual queues based on an overall visit time at the VTM location. In order to maintain a visit time at the VTM location below a predetermined visit time threshold, the controller may prioritize transactions at VTMs with longer visit times over transactions at VTMs with shorter visit times.
US09549153B1
Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally include a system and a method of configuring and/or controlling one or more electronic devices using a portable electronic device based on the interaction of the portable electronic device with a beacon signal generating system that is disposed at a desired location. Embodiments of the disclosure may include a system and a method of collecting and analyzing useful information received by the portable electronic device based on the receipt of a beacon signal. The portable electronic device may then perform one or more desirable functions or processes based the portable electronic device's interaction with the beacon signal generating system. Some aspects of the invention may include an apparatus, method and/or one or more computing device software applications that are configured to more easily setup, configure and/or reliably control an additional electronic device based on the interaction of the portable electronic device with the beacon signal generating system.
US09549151B2
Provided is a video intercom device for suppressing electric power consumption. The video intercom device adopts a configuration where the video intercom device switches between a first communication method by which an indoor master unit or a telephone master unit and a front door slave unit performs wireless communication under a predetermined condition, and a second communication method with electric power consumption lower than that of the first communication method, the first communication method is switched to the second communication method when the indoor master unit registers the front door slave unit, and the second communication method is switched to the first communication method when a telephone master unit registers the front door slave unit.
US09549147B2
A system and method of producing a frame of a video image from an interlaced field. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) creating an equal-intensity trace from present samples in the field, (2) recognizing an equal-intensity path in the equal-intensity trace, (3) at least partially straightening the equal-intensity path and (4) using the equal-intensity path to determine an intensity value for a missing sample in the frame.
US09549143B2
A method in which a mobile terminal displays information is provided. The method includes: transmitting, to an external display device, a first signal for selecting an object displayed on the external display device based on a first input of a user through the mobile terminal; transmitting, to the external display device, a second signal for requesting additional information corresponding to the selected object based on a second input of the user through the mobile terminal; and displaying, on a screen of the mobile terminal, the additional information received from the external display device.
US09549141B2
A digital video signal has a frame rate and a resolution within a range of resolutions. If the resolution of the received digital video signal is in a lower resolution range then it is not compressed or if in a higher resolution range the video color data is compressed by a constant compression ratio. Frames of digital color samples are transmitted and frames of digital color samples are received at the same frame rate. The received compressed digital color samples are expanded by a constant expansion ratio when transmitted in a compressed format and not expanded if transmitted in the uncompressed video format. A digital video signal is output with a resolution the same as the resolution of the original digital video signal.
US09549137B2
There is provided an imaging apparatus including an A/D converting unit, wherein reset periods for a plurality of pixels are differentiated.
US09549135B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of unit cells each including at least one light receiving unit and an amplifying transistor which outputs an amplified signal corresponding to an amount of the signal charge photoelectrically converted by the light receiving unit; a plurality of vertical signal lines each for receiving an output signal from the amplifying transistor; a pixel power supply line for supplying a power supply voltage to the amplifying transistor; a plurality of constant current source transistors each connected to a different one of the vertical signal lines; and a bias circuit which controls an amount of current to be supplied to each of the constant current source transistors, based on a variation in the power supply voltage.
US09549134B2
Provided is a display apparatus and method. The display apparatus may sense light reflected from an object and passed through a display panel, and may control a power of a backlight unit depending on whether the light has passed through the display panel.
US09549133B2
An image capture device with a reduced number of line buffers. Based on an nth line of image data provided from an image sensor array and buffered data in the line buffers, a logic circuit determines defective candidates in an nth line of image data. When the (n+p)th line of image data is provided from the image sensor array, the logic circuit reexamines the defective candidates in the nth line of image data, for defective-pixel compensation, based on the (n+p)th line of image data and the buffered data in the plurality of line buffers. The buffered data in the line buffers contains the (n−p)th to (n−1)th lines of image data while the nth line of image data is provided from the image sensor array, and contains the nth to (n+p−1)th lines of image data while the (n+p)th line of image data is provided from the image sensor array.
US09549132B2
An imaging apparatus comprising: a dark image data imaging section that obtains dark image data in a state in which light beams entering an imaging surface of an image sensor are shielded before first image data is obtained or after second image data obtained lastly; and a correcting section that corrects a fixed pattern noise in cumulative relatively bright composite image data by using the dark image data, wherein the correcting section corrects the fixed pattern noise in the cumulative relatively bright composite image data by using the dark image data obtained at a time closest to the time in a temperature of the image sensor when the first image data or the second image data is obtained is assumed to be the highest, of the dark image data obtained before the first image data is obtained or the dark image data obtained after the second image data obtained lastly.
US09549123B2
Techniques are described to combine image data from multiple images with different exposures into a relatively high dynamic range image. A first image of a scene may be generated with a first operational mode of an image processing system. A second image of the scene may be generated with a second different operational mode of the image processing system. The first image may be of a first spatial resolution, while the second image may be of a second spatial resolution. For example, the first spatial resolution may be higher than the second spatial resolution. The first image and the second image may be combined into an output image of the scene. The output image may be of a higher dynamic range than either of the first image and the second image and may be of a spatial resolution higher than the second spatial resolution.
US09549119B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes an image capturing unit configured to obtain a plurality of images upon receiving one or more user inputs, a processor configured to process one or more of the plurality of images, and a display configured to display the one or more of the plurality of images, where the processor is further configured to select at least one image from the plurality of images, based on a facial expression of one or more objects recognized on the one or more of the plurality of images and a clarity of at least a portion of the one or more of the plurality of images.
US09549117B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for adjusting an optical center. The method includes fixedly installing a viewport cover plate in a terminal device; movably installing a camera in the terminal device; and adjusting a position of the camera; wherein adjusting the position of the camera comprises adjusting a position of an optical center of the camera by aligning the optical center of the camera with a center of an external viewport on the viewport cover plate to achieve concentricity between the optical center of the camera and the center of the external viewport. The apparatus for adjusting the optical center includes a projector, a computer, and an adjusting assembly. The apparatus of the present disclosure could provide an advantage of simple operation, and each terminal device can achieve an excellent centering effect by using the apparatus.
US09549116B2
A focus adjustment device has an image sensor for forming a subject image using light flux that has been received through a photographing lens, and generating image signals, and executes focus adjustment based on the image signals. This focus adjustment device comprises a focus detection region setting section for setting a plurality of focus detection regions of differing sizes, within a region in which an image is formed by the image sensor, a determination section, for detecting contrast of image signals within focus detection regions respectively relating to the plurality of focus detection regions, and determining change of a subject based on amount of change of the contrast and temporal change in amount of change of the contrast, and a control section for, in a case where the determination section has determined that there is subject change when a focus adjustment operation is stopped, starting the focus adjustment operation.
US09549107B2
Aspects relate to autofocus systems and techniques for an array camera having a low-profile height, for example approximately 4 mm. A voice coil motor (VCM) can be positioned proximate to a folded optic assembly in the array camera to enable vertical motion of a second light directing surface for changing the focal position of the corresponding sensor. A driving member can be positioned within the coil of the VCM to provide vertical movement, and the driving member can be coupled to the second light directing surface, for example by a lever. Accordingly, the movement of the VCM driving member can be transferred to the second light directing surface across a distance, providing autofocus capabilities without increasing the overall height of the array camera.
US09549105B2
A container scanning system comprises a rail, a camera/sensor unit and a control unit. The rail is mounted on a support or beam of a container handling crane. The camera/sensor unit is movably mounted along the rail. The camera/sensor unit comprises a camera and/or a sensor for scanning the exterior surface of a container. The control unit is operationally coupled to the camera/sensor unit. The control unit is able to obtain position information indicative for the operational position of the container handling crane, and the control unit is adapted to control movement of the camera/sensor unit along the rail in function of the position information. The rail contains space for wiring for power feeding the camera/sensor unit.
US09549104B1
A borescope having a miniature camera concealable within a hand-held casing, includes a casing, which is preferably a clam shell casing and is able to be held in a single hand of a user, along with a device for opening the casing. A flexible probe has a first end mounted in the casing and a second end being a distal end that is able to be moved from inside the casing to outside the casing with the miniature camera being located at, or proximate to, the distal end of the flexible probe for viewing structures outside of the casing after the casing is opened. The flexible probe with the miniature camera is able to be completely concealed within the casing when not in use. A display is located on a surface of the casing for viewing by the user that which is being seen by the miniature camera.
US09549101B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for image capture with infrared emitters, with associated computer control and processing for providing consistent and high quality image data. Image data of consecutive frames from a camera is obtained, with a first frame being taken during an emission of infrared light directed at a scene to be captured by the camera and a second frame being taken without an emission of infrared light. The consecutive frames provide a dynamic control image of the captured scene. The image data may be used to support photometric sampling techniques used in building geometric models for subject recognition in camera imagery in variable lighting environments.
US09549092B2
A printer includes a first determination unit, a first receiving unit, a second determination unit, a second receiving unit, and a controller. The first receiving unit receives a setting of a print type determined to be settable by the first determination unit and inhibits a setting of a print type determined to be unsettable by the first determination unit. The second receiving unit receives a setting of a print function determined to be settable by the second determination unit and inhibits a setting of a print function determined to be unsettable by the second determination unit. The controller controls a printing unit so that the printing unit prints an image on the paper sheet, in accordance with the data input by the input unit, the print type received by the first receiving unit, and the setting of the print function received by the second receiving unit.
US09549088B2
An image forming apparatus which logs into an external webmail server by using a web browser included in the image forming apparatus, the webmail is written on a webpage of the webmail server, a file to be attached to the webmail is selected, and the selected file is attached to the webmail so as to send the webmail to the webmail server.
US09549085B2
A method for proactively creating an image product includes storing a library of specification terms for image products by a computer system, receiving a command from a user, tokenizing the command into a plurality of tokens by the computer system, matching one or more of the tokens to the specification terms in the library to determine specification parameters for an image product by the computer system, automatically identifying images based on the specification parameters by the computer system, and automatically creating a design for the image product that incorporates at least some of the images identified based on the specification parameters.
US09549055B2
A method in a first electronic mobile device for adapting audio performance parameters is provided. The first electronic mobile device performs an audio interaction with a second electronic device. The first electronic mobile electronic device is associated with at least one earpiece comprising at least one speaker and at least one microphone. The method comprises detecting an acoustic echo between the at least one speaker and the at least one microphone, determining, based on the detected acoustic echo, position of the at least one earpiece in relation to a user of the first electronic mobile device, and adapting audio performance parameters, based on the detected position of the earpiece, whereby less echo during the audio interaction is achieved in the second electronic device.
US09549054B2
An information displaying method, a mobile phone, and a storage device are provided. The information displaying method comprises the following steps. Whether a communication process is started is determined. If the communication process is started, then telephone number information is received. Event information is obtained according to the telephone number information. The event information is displayed.
US09549053B2
An apparatus is disclosed for testing portable devices. The apparatus includes a base upon which the portable device is mounted, and a top mold which fits over the base to immobilize the portable device. Templates can also be formed on the top mold or base. The templates contain test patterns that are defined by a plurality of apertures. A stylus is used to test the portable device by engaging or contacting different locations through the apertures in the test pattern.
US09549052B2
A device for managing alcohol consumption of a user includes a camera that captures an image associated with a beverage container, a display unit, a memory unit that stores (a) a set of modules, and (b) a database, and (iv) a processor that executes (a) an alcohol content identification module, when executed by the processor, identifies (i) a type of drink in the beverage container and (ii) an alcohol content associated with the drink, (b) an alcohol consumption determination module, executed by the processor, determines an alcohol consumption by the user, (c) an alcohol consumption updating module, when executed by the processor, updates the alcohol consumption by the user in the database, and (d) an alert generation module, when executed by the processor, generates an alert when the alcohol consumption by the user is in proximity with the at least one of periodic threshold.
US09549044B1
A method and associated system. A user interest rating for a downloadable item stored outside a user device is computed, which includes: maintaining a user profile of a user's preference for types of items that include the downloadable item, identifying one or more characteristics of the downloadable item, and predicting a likely level of user interest for the downloadable item based on the identified characteristics of the downloadable item and the user profile. A data impact rating for the downloadable item is computed, which includes identifying parameters. A download decision, of whether to download the downloadable item, is computed in dependence on the user interest rating for the downloadable item and the data impact rating for the downloadable item.
US09549043B1
Allocating resources in a content delivery environment is disclosed. An initial demand from initial clients for content is serviced by assigning those initial clients a first content source. A determination is made that additional demand from additional clients is either present or anticipated for the first content source. The initial demand and the additional demand together have a potential to overload the first content source. An interaction with a first initial client is adjusted to allow the additional demand to be at least partially serviced without overloading the content source.
US09549039B2
HTTP responses are accelerated to optimize performance and response time when presenting content in a client/server environment. An optimization technique allows a client to begin requesting additional resources and/or rendering content before the entire response is completed on the server. When a request is received at a proxy device, the proxy device transmits, to the client, links to external resources that will be needed to render the page. This allows the client to begin obtaining external resources before the remaining content is sent to the client, and even before the content has been fully composed by the server, thus improving response time and overall performance.
US09549038B1
Systems and methods for rewriting code related to a network page are described herein. The systems and methods can determine whether the network page includes cacheable resources. Responsive to the determination, the systems and methods can rewrite the code for the network page to cause a user system to access the cacheable resource from a content distribution network. Further, the systems and methods can determine whether access to the cacheable resource should be provided via the content distribution network or a proxy server based at least partially on a relative location of the proxy server and the content distribution network to the user system requesting access to the network page.
US09549029B2
A subscriber device reports network operation conditions, such as network performance incidents, to receive feedback from the network related to the incident and available or possibly available solutions, and to produce network intelligence suitable for network planning and network performance enhancement. Reporting of network performance incidents can be characterized by location and time of occurrence, wherein this intelligence is provided by the user device. Feedback provided by the network is based on the network performance data received as part of reporting an incident. The reporting described herein enables a network operator to generate network planning intelligence based on actual network performance as experienced at the subscriber level.
US09549026B2
A non-transitory computer storage medium stores a set of instructions that, when loaded into and running in a plurality of logical computer systems, establishes a software-defined network attachable storage system. The storage system includes first and second sets of logical computer systems (which may be virtual computer systems) as namespace servers and dataspace servers respectively. Each namespace server is configured: (a) to store, in its memory, filesystem metadata, the metadata including file and directory names and information on where user data associated with the file and directory names resides, and to store in its storage system a dynamically updated copy of the filesystem metadata; and (b) to process storage system pathname requests, for a predetermined subset of the namespace, from at least one requesting client computer and to return in response to each request a handle for use by the requesting client computer; and (ii) each dataspace server is configured to store and retrieve user data in its storage system based on handles determined by the namespace servers.
US09549025B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data synchronization and provide a method, system and computer program product for protocol optimization for client and server synchronization. In one embodiment a protocol optimization method for client and server synchronization can be provided. The method can include receiving server updates from a synchronization server, and applying each update to a client data store in parallel to requesting additional ones of the server updates from the synchronization server before completing the application to the client data store. In one aspect of the embodiment, receiving server updates from a synchronization server can include receiving server update subsets of a singular server update for a synchronization conversation from a synchronization server.
US09549022B2
According to this disclosure, a proxy server is enhanced to be able to interpret instructions that specify how to modify an input object to create an output object to serve to a requesting client. Typically the instructions operate on binary data. For example, the instructions can be interpreted in a byte-based interpreter that directs the proxy as to what order, and from which source, to fill an output buffer that is served to the client. The instructions specify what changes to make to a generic input file. This functionality extends the capability of the proxy server in an open-ended fashion and enables it to efficiently create a wide variety of outputs for a given generic input file. The generic input file and/or the instructions may be cached at the proxy. The teachings hereof have applications in, among other things, the delivery of web content, streaming media, and the like.
US09549000B2
A method for preparing media content to be streamed to a client divides a stream of the media content at the server into multiple media segments. Each of the multiple media segments is to be stored as an individual file in a memory in a transfer protocol compliant format. A top-level manifest file is generated, which has a plurality of Universal Resource Locators (URLs). The plurality of URLs indicates an ordering of the multiple media segments to recreate the stream of media content. Responsive to a client request received over a network to present the media content in a trick play mode of operation, a modified manifest file is obtained based on the top-level manifest file. The modified manifest file includes a subset of the plurality of URLs indicating an ordering of media segments that create a representation of the stream of media content presentable in the trick play mode of operation.
US09548998B1
Data is asynchronously provided to a participant of a conversation. A temporal model is maintained for each of a plurality of client devices associated with the conversation. A temporal model describes a state of an associated client device. Data for sending to a client device is identified based on conversation context information describing a context of a conversation participant associated with the client device. A determination of whether to send the identified data to the client device is made based on the temporal model associated with the client device. The temporal model associated with the client device is updated based on the determination.
US09548988B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for attributing potentially malicious email campaigns to known threat groups may include (1) identifying a potentially malicious email campaign targeting at least one organization, (2) detecting, within the potentially malicious email campaign, an incriminating feature that has been linked to a known threat group, (3) determining, based at least in part on detecting the incriminating feature linked to the known threat group, that the known threat group is likely responsible for the potentially malicious email campaign, and then in response to determining that the known threat group is likely responsible for the potentially malicious email campaign, (4) attributing the potentially malicious email campaign to the known threat group. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09548985B2
User requests for a web application can be received at a reverse proxy. Web application code for a first application can be obtained. Data can be checked at the reverse proxy to determine whether to insert an element into the first application. If there is a match, a combined web application can be produced, including the first web application and the element.
US09548976B2
After an initial user sign-on with an identity provider, and in response to an intention of the user to use a third-party application executing on a client device of the user and requiring user sign-on, the identity provider provides a client script to the third-party application. The client script facilitates user and application authentication and invokes a trusted broker application that interacts with the identity provider to enable the user to use the third-party application. The use of the trusted broker application provided by the identity provider frees the authors of third-party applications from the need to modify their applications to explicitly sign in with the identify provider.
US09548971B2
A computer-implemented method for smart cipher selection may include (1) receiving, at a server and from a client, a request to communicate according to a cipher for encryption, the request containing a client list of ciphers available at the client, (2) identifying a server list of ciphers available at the server, (3) measuring, in response to receiving the request, a resource load at the server and a risk factor indicating a degree of risk posed by the client, and (4) selecting a common cipher, from the client list and the server list, for encrypted communication based on the measured resource load at the server and the measured risk factor indicating the degree of risk posed by the client. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09548966B2
A validating server receives from a client device a first request that does not include a cookie for a validating domain that resolves to the validating sever. The first request is received at the validating server as a result of a proxy server redirecting the client device to the validating domain upon a determination that a visitor belonging to the client device is a potential threat based on an IP (Internet Protocol) address assigned to the client device used for a second request to perform an action on an identified resource hosted on an origin server for an origin domain. The validating server sets a cookie for the client device, determines a set of characteristics associated with the first client device, and transmits the cookie and a block page to the client device that has been customized based on the set of characteristics, the block page indicating that the second request has been blocked.
US09548963B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising transmitting, by a controller comprising a processor, a request to a server to enable initiation of a virtual private network session on behalf of devices other than the controller. The controller transmits authentication information to enable the server to validate the request, and receives a first list of computing devices. The controller transmits a first selection of a target device from the first list to cause the server to initiate the virtual private network session between the target device and a service node providing services to the target device via the virtual private network session. The controller receives a second list of applications executable on each of the computing devices, and transmits to the server a second selection of an application from the second list that is executable by the target device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09548962B2
A security management capability enables migration of individual security rules between storage/application locations. The migration of a security rule may include selection of a location at which the security rule is to be applied and migration of the security rule to the selected location at which the security rule is to be applied. The selection of the location at which the security rule is to be applied may be performed based on security rule policies and/or security rule location selection information. The security rule is migrated from a current location (e.g., a location at which the security rule is currently applied, a management system, or the like) to the selected location at which the security rule is to be applied. In this manner, a fluid security layer may be provided. The fluid security layer may be optimized for one or more of security level, performance, cost, or the like.
US09548958B2
Establishing the likely duration and precision with which the post was written is disclosed. An analysis may be used to infer how confident the user is of the subject matter they are writing. A user's post (e.g., response, comment for, but not limited to, a thread, blog, community) may be monitored and its subject matter analyzed to determine benchmark style and speed with which a user can comment.
US09548952B2
In order to edit, in a transmission-efficient manner, multimedia news before sending or receiving such news, the existing user data volume (VOL) of a piece of multimedia news (MM) is determined prior to, during, and after putting together such piece of multimedia news (MM). At least one application reducing the original user data volume (VOL) of such piece of multimedia news (MM) is supplied and run in case a predefined user data volume threshold (SGx) or an upper price limit (SPx) is exceeded.
US09548951B2
Methods and apparatus related to providing additional information related to a vague term in a message. For example, in some implementations, one or more messages sent by a sender and received by one or more recipients may be identified, a vague term in the message may be identified, a user-restricted database may be identified that is associated with the sender or a recipient, and additional information related to the vague term may be determined from the user-restricted database. A vague term is a term which may have multiple meanings and that can be clarified with additional information. In some implementations, user-restricted databases may include additional information that is associated with the user that may be utilized to replace the vague term with a clarified term. In some implementations, a user-restricted database may be utilized to identify additional information in another database that may be utilized to clarify the vague term.
US09548950B2
Multiple camera angles of an interactive event are simultaneously transmitted as part of a broadcast. The simultaneous distribution of multiple synchronized streams of audio and/or visual information enables switching between cameras to be made by the audience members without interruption of the presentation of the event. In one embodiment, a performance studio might send out multiple synchronized concurrent streams. For example, a performance studio might transmit four distinct camera angles or streams, each at varying quality levels, such as the illustrated high-bandwidth and low-bandwidth encodings. Selection of the stream may also direct interactive feedback portions generated by the selecting audience member towards the selected object/individual. Alternatively, interactive feedback generated by the audience member may be directed globally to the producers of the event and selectively to the performers and other audience members of the event.
US09548946B2
A server application is executed on an active device within the SAS domain, the active device connected to a remote client via an Ethernet connection. At least one command is received from the remote client via the Ethernet connection. An Ethernet frame of the at least one command is converted to at least one SAS frame. The at least one SAS frame is routed via a SAS data path to a SAS target device connected to the active device, the SAS target device corresponding to a field of the command.
US09548945B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a scalable interconnection scheme of multiple processing engines on a single chip using on-chip configurable routers. The interconnection scheme supports unicast and multicast routing of data packets communicated by the processing engines. Each on-chip configurable router includes routing tables that are programmable by software, and is configured to correctly deliver incoming data packets to its output ports in a fair and deadlock-free manner. In particular, each output port of the on-chip configurable routers includes an output port arbiter to avoid deadlocks when there are contentions at output ports of the on-chip configurable routers and to guarantee fairness in delivery among transferred data packets.
US09548943B2
A dual communication-interface facility monitoring and management system, the system including a multiplicity of facility monitoring\management devices, the devices including at least one of at least one facility monitoring sensor and at least one facility management device, the facility monitoring sensors being operative to monitor at least a part of a facility, the facility management devices being operative to manage at last part of the facility, a facility communication gateway operative to facilitate electronic communication between a local area network (LAN) associated with the facility and an a wide area network (WAN) external to the facility, and a dual communication-interface facility monitoring and management subsystem operative to communicate with each of the multiplicity of devices via at least one of a first multiplicity of communication protocols and to communicate with the facility communication gateway via at least one of a second multiplicity of communication protocols.
US09548938B2
Disclosed is a packet forwarding device which can reduce a development cost and realize desired QoS control.The packet forwarding device includes a second scheduler 2 including a second packet queue corresponding to each first packet queue included in a first scheduler, a second packet classification unit 22 which sorts a packet data to each second packet queue based on a second classification different from the classification set by the first scheduler, a throughput estimation unit 24 which estimates a throughput indicating an amount of the packet data forwarded to an information processing terminal from the first packet queue corresponding to the second packet queue, and a second packet scheduling unit 25 which forwards the packet data accumulated in each second packet queue based on the throughput and the priority of each second packet queue.
US09548936B2
Performance of transport protocols over a mobile data network is improved by a mobile accelerator, which performs protocol optimizations on-the-fly without requiring any modification to server or client protocol implementations in the operating systems of the server or client. The proposed mobile accelerator is compatible with existing TCP protocol implementations at the server and the client device, without server/client OS modification.
US09548932B2
Method and system for determining network-wide interactions between forwarding elements in a network
A method for detecting interactions on a forwarding element in a network, the element adapted to forward data according to rules, a rule set installed on the element, and including a match set and corresponding action set, the match set including at least one match field and the action set including one or more actions wherein action to be performed when matching a match set includes determining one or more relations between match sets based on match field relations, determining one or more relations between action sets, determining one or more interactions between rules based on determined relations between match sets and action sets, each rule being tested against another rule for determining the interaction, and reducing the rule set to an actual rule set according to determined interactions so that the actual rule set includes only rules with no interactions among them.
US09548928B2
A network system has a switch which transfers a packet and a controller which sets a flow entry to the switch. The controller has a heavy load switch detecting section which detects a heavy load switch with the heavy load of new flow entry setting processing; a storage section which stores a switch list; an alternate route searching section which searches an alternate route; and a flow entry setting section which assigns a flow of packets to be transferred by using a new flow entry of the heavy load switch to the switch on the alternate route, without changing the flow entry which is already set to the heavy load switch.
US09548924B2
Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that inspects the size of each of several packets in a data flow to determine whether the data flow is an elephant flow. The forwarding element inspects the size because, in order for the packet to be of a certain size, the data flow had to already have gone through a slow start in which smaller packets are transferred and by definition be an elephant flow. When the forwarding element receives a packet in a data flow, the forwarding element identifies the size of the packet. The forwarding element then determines if the size of the packet is greater than a threshold size. If the size is greater, the forwarding element specifies that the packet's data flow is an elephant flow.
US09548923B2
An information handling system includes a server having a management system module. The management system module broadcasts an address resolution protocol request including a unique identifier in the information handling system. The management system module also receives multiple address resolution protocol responses to the address resolution protocol request. Each of the multiple address resolution protocol responses includes a different media access control address associated with the unique identifier. The management system module also creates a unique identifier table correlating each of the media access control addresses with the unique identifier.
US09548920B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining an action to be performed with respect to a packet corresponding to a new flow received at a network device and determining whether a new entry comprising an indication of the determined action can be added to a flow table of the network device. The determination of whether a new entry can be added to the flow table is made with reference to reservation information specified in a port profile associated with the new flow. Responsive to a determination that the new entry can be added, the new entry is added to the flow table. In one embodiment, determining whether the new entry can be added comprises determining whether an existing entry can be aged out based on the reservation information specified in the associated port profile.
US09548919B2
A controller that is in communication with the plurality of network nodes establishes a service path for a service chain defined by an ordered sequence of service functions to be performed at respective ones of one or more of the plurality of network nodes. The controller assigns a predetermined service path identifier and a predetermined service index value for a segment of the service chain that includes only one or more network nodes not capable of decapsulating packets to extract a network service header so as to designate the one or more network nodes determined not capable of decapsulating packets to extract the network service header as a single service hop segment in the service chain.
US09548910B2
A system and method for performing event stream processing is described. A plurality of event streams are received from a plurality of input adapters, at least a first input adapter of the plurality of input adapters being located on a separate and distinct virtual machine than a second input adapter of the plurality of input adapters. Event stream data from the first input adapter and event stream data from the second input adapter are transformed into data of a single data type. The transformed data is stored in an in-memory database. Then real-time analysis is performed on the transformed data by accessing windows of the transformed data from the in-memory database based on rules defined in the event stream processing engine.
US09548901B2
A framework supporting content delivery includes a plurality of devices, each device configured to run at least one content delivery (CD) service of a plurality of CD services. The plurality of CD services include hybrid CD services.
US09548896B2
A controller implemented on computing equipment may be used to control switches in a network. End hosts and service devices may be coupled to the switches in the network. The controller may generate a virtual network topology of virtual switches and virtual routers. The controller may control the virtual routers and/or virtual switches to perform service insertion. The controller may perform service insertion by controlling the virtual routers and/or virtual switches to redirect network traffic through one or more selected service devices. The controller may determine which network traffic is to be redirected to which service devices based on a service insertion policy that identifies network traffic and services to be performed on the network traffic.
US09548886B2
Methods for automatically generating help desk tickets in response to detecting performance and/or availability issues that occur throughout multiple layers of a networked computing environment are described. In some embodiments, in response to detecting an alert corresponding with a performance issue affecting the networked computing environment, a root cause identification tool may aggregate a plurality of alarms from a plurality of performance management tools monitoring the networked computing environment, generate a failure graph associated with the performance issue, identify a first leaf node of the failure graph, determine a first remedy associated with the first leaf node, and automatically generate a help desk ticket corresponding with the first leaf node and the first remedy. The automatically generated help desk ticket may specify the failure associated with the first leaf node, the first remedy, a location associated with the first remedy, and an estimated time to fix the failure.
US09548881B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting data in a broadcasting system. Input data is encoded by an encoder. A first demultiplexer generates first transmission symbols using the encoded data. The first transmission symbols are modulated, and the modulated first transmission symbols are transmitted. A second demultiplexer generates second transmission symbols using at least a portion of the encoded data. The second transmission symbols are modulated and the modulated second transmission symbols are transmitted.
US09548872B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and system to reduce needless data traffic in leaf-spine switch fabric. In embodiments, in a static solution, data rates of data flows having a common destination port may be measured and responsive to the data flows having a combined data rate that exceeding a rate limit of the common destination port, one or more of the data flows may be limited. Embodiments may also comprise a global scheduler to provide dynamic data rate controls of traffic flows from source ports to destination ports in which to reduce the handling of data traffic that would otherwise be discarded due to oversubscription.
US09548867B2
A method and apparatus to securely distribute embedded firmware to a module in an industrial control system is disclosed. A security certificate corresponding to the firmware is generated utilizing a proprietary algorithm. The certificate includes an identifier corresponding to the module on which the firmware is to be loaded and an identifier corresponding to a removable medium on which the firmware is distributed. The removable medium is inserted into the module in the industrial control system on which the firmware is to be loaded. The module reads the security certificate and verifies that the firmware is intended for the module and verifies that the security certificate includes the identifier for the removable medium which was inserted into the module. If the firmware is intended for the module and the security certificate includes the identifier for the removable medium, the module loads the firmware from the removable medium.
US09548863B2
The invention relates to a method or system for unambiguous marking of an object (1), wherein unique features (3) are digitized and signed with a private key (9) and the unique features (3) themselves, in addition to the signature (8) of the digitized features (6), are arranged on the object (1) or a packaging (2) of the object (1), or are formed by at least a part of the object (1) or the packaging (2) thereof, and the authenticity of the object (1) is determined by comparison of the unique features (3) with the decrypted signature (8) of the digitized features (6), which signature is arranged on the object (1) or the packaging (2) thereof and decrypted with a public key (11). To create a secure method that can be implemented simply and cost-effectively, the unique features (3) are formed by optically detectable three-dimensional structures or materials with optical properties that differ depending on the viewing angle (15), and the digitized features (6) are generated by means of an algorithm (17) which is applied to at least two digital images (16, 16′) of the unique features (3) recorded with at least one digital camera (5).
US09548857B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for synchronizing LFSRs located on two compute devices. To synchronize the LFSRs, a first one of the compute devices may transmit a first training block that includes a predefined bit sequence. The training block is scrambled by a transmitting (TX) LFSR on the first compute device and then transmitted to the second compute device. The second compute device performs an XOR operation to recover the outputs of the TX LFSR that were used to scramble the data. The second compute device can use the outputs of the TX LFSR to determine future outputs of the TX LFSR. These future outputs are then used to initialize a receiving (RX) LFSR on the second compute device. Now, when subsequent training blocks are received, the second compute device can use the initialized RX LFSR to descramble the scrambled training blocks.
US09548841B2
The disclosure provides a method for transmitting traffic data over a paging channel, comprising: determining, by a network side, that a user equipment (UE) has a capability of transmitting a paging channel (PCH) beared on a High Speed-Physical Downlink Shared Channel (HS-PDSCH); informing, by the network side, the UE of information of a traffic control information bearer channel through a paging identifier, when the UE is in a PCH state; listening, by the UE, for the traffic control information bearer channel; and receiving, by the UE, the traffic data on a traffic channel indicated by the traffic control information. The disclosure provides a system and a UE for transmitting traffic data over a paging channel. The solution in the disclosure allow the UE to be still able to transmit data with highspeed when in the PCH state, so as to avoid the complex process in the conventional art, to reduce signaling cost and traffic delay and to improve user experience.
US09548838B2
A method for hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ signalling in a communications system is disclosed. The method includes defining, in a communications apparatus, a link-independent HARQ entity for one link direction, wherein the defined entity includes a resource allocation for one or more of forward link and reverse link data, the resource allocation including at least one HARQ process having a process identification, each HARQ process having a unique HARQ identification, a data allocation having a predetermined timing offset with respect to the resource allocation, and a HARQ acknowledgement allocation having a predetermined timing offset with respect to the data allocation, wherein the timing offset of the HARQ acknowledgement with respect to the data allocation is determined in terms of time division duplexing TDD frames and independently of a forward link-reverse link ratio.
US09548835B2
In one embodiment, the method includes sending a first transfer message to a target optical line terminal (OLT) corresponding to the target passive optical network (PON), the first transfer message including first identifier information of the first ONU; and sending a second transfer message to a source OLT corresponding to the source PON, the second transfer message including second identifier information of the first ONU and wavelength information of the target PON.
US09548829B2
A radio tuning method for a vehicle includes sensing that the vehicle is traveling out of a first broadcast range of a first radio station that a radio of the vehicle is currently tuned to. The first radio station broadcasts first content. A second radio station is identified having a second broadcast range that the vehicle will be in when the vehicle is no longer in the first broadcast range. The identifying includes determining that the second radio station broadcasts second content that is substantially similar to the first content broadcasted by the first radio station. A user of the vehicle is provided with an option to switch tuning of the radio from the first radio station to the second radio station.
US09548823B2
The present invention is generally a movable barrier system that employs a movable barrier operator with a signal translation module, which enhances the quality of communications between wired components of a movable barrier system, including long distance wired communications between controllers and position sensors. In an exemplary embodiment, position sensors comprising encoders are coupled to translation module for reducing electromagnetic interference or noise from various components that may otherwise interfere with the communication; error detection and error correction means may be further implemented to facilitate diagnostic monitoring of the system from a monitoring device.
US09548819B2
A method to control an optical receiver implemented with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is disclosed. The SOA has a p-n junction operable in a PD mode when it is supplied with a zero or reverse bias. The SOA detects the magnitude of the incoming light and the driving current supplied thereto is adjusted based on thus detected magnitude of the incoming light such that the outgoing light provided to the PD has a magnitude within a preset range.
US09548816B2
Method and devices of controlling wavelengths in two-channel DEMUX/MUX in silicon photonics are provided. The two-channel DEMUX/MUX includes a waveguide-based delay-line-interferometer at least in receiver portion of a two-channel transceiver for DWDM optical transmission loop and is configured to split a light wave with combined two-wavelengths into one light wave with locked one channel wavelength and another light wave with locked another channel wavelength. The waveguide-based delayed-line interferometer (DLI) is characterized by a free-spectral-range configured to be equal to twice of channel spacing. The method includes tuning heater of DLI in receiver of each two-channel transceiver by using either low-frequency dither signals added on MZMs associated with respective two channels as feedback signal or one DFB laser wavelength tapped from an input of transmitter portion at one channel before or after the MZMs as a direct wavelength reference to feed into an output of receiver portion at another channel.
US09548811B2
Methods and systems for encoding multi-level pulse amplitude modulated signals using integrated optoelectronics are disclosed and may include generating a multi-level, amplitude-modulated optical signal utilizing an optical modulator driven by two or more of a plurality of electrical input signals. The optical modulator may configure levels in the multi-level amplitude modulated optical signal. Drivers may be coupled to the optical modulator, and the plurality of electrical input signals may be synchronized before being communicated to said drivers. Two or more of said plurality of electrical input signals may be selected utilizing one or more multiplexers. The one or more multiplexers may select an electrical input or a complement of the electrical input. Phase addition may be synchronized in a plurality of optical modulator elements in the optical modulator utilizing one or more electrical delay lines. The optical modulator may be integrated on a single substrate.
US09548803B2
The present disclosure provides for an improved application of signal strength weightings in an SDMA sectored cellular network. The improved signal strength weightings application is conducted through the improved selection of weightings from a new codebook subset or by the selection of weightings from a larger codebook subset. In a further embodiment, an antenna beam index or bit map can be used to select the best beam(s) in an SDMA sectored cellular network. In another embodiment, a field or factor in an uplink or downlink transmission packet can designate which directional transmission beam is best suited for the transmission or when the directional transmission beam should be activated.
US09548802B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives a downlink transmission from an eNodeB including a plurality of spatial layers transmitted to a plurality of WTRUs paired for multi-user MIMO. The WTRU decodes the downlink transmission based on a corresponding WTRU-specific reference signal. WTRU-specific reference signals are multiplexed using a frequency and code division multiplexing. WTRU-specific reference signals for different sub-group of antenna ports are multiplexed onto different subcarriers in a frequency domain and the WTRU-specific reference signals of the same sub-group of antennas ports are multiplied by an orthogonal cover code. The resource elements used for the WTRU-specific reference signals on antenna ports in one sub-group may be muted on antenna ports in another sub-group. A WTRU may transmit the uplink demodulation reference signal without precoding. The number of resource blocks allocated for the demodulation reference signal may be greater than the number of resource blocks allocated for the payload.
US09548799B2
Dynamic, untethered array nodes are frequency, phase, and time aligned, and used to focus their transmissions of the same data coherently on a target, using time reversal. Alignment may be achieved separately for the radio frequency (RF) carriers and the data envelopes. Carrier alignment may be by phase conjugation. The data is distributed across the nodes. Data distribution and/or alignment may be performed by a Master node of the array. The nodes capture a sounding signal from the target, in the same time window. Each node converts the captured sounding signal to baseband, for example, using in-phase/quadrature downconversion. Each node stores the baseband samples of the sounding pulse. Each node convolves time-reversed samples of the sounding signal with the data, and upconverts the convolved data to radio frequency. The nodes emit their respective convolved and upconverted data so that the emissions focus coherently at the target.
US09548798B2
Method for determining the magnitude and phase of a signal received by the active antenna (3). From the group of method steps: ST1: only transmission (S1) of the transmission signal by the at least one transmitting antenna (6) and capture (S1_1) of a power value of the transmission signal received by the active antenna (3); ST2: only transmission (S2) of the transmission signal by the reference antenna (2) and capture (S2_1) of a power value of the transmission signal received by the active antenna (3); ST3: simultaneous transmission (S3) of the transmission signal by means of the at least one transmitting antenna (6) and the reference antenna (2) while generating superimposed transmission signals and capture (S3_1) of a power value of the superimposed transmission signals received by the active antenna (3); a sequence of at least three method steps (ST1, ST2, ST3) is carried out in any order and in any combination, with at least one method step (ST1, ST2, ST3) being carried out multiple times, wherein the sequence of the at least three method steps (ST1, ST2, ST3) always comprises the method step ST3 at least once.
US09548797B1
A lighting unit is described comprising: a microcontroller; and a near field communication (NFC)-enabled embedded device comprising NFC shared memory configured to be written to by both an external NFC reader/writer using near field communication and the microcontroller and configured to enable an operation of the lighting unit to be both monitored and controlled using NFC. In this manner, the operation of a lighting unit may be monitored using NFC and controlled by using one of two approaches, such as via a microcontroller within the lighting unit and/or a near field communication, NFC, via the NFC-enabled embedded device.
US09548796B2
Coupled coil systems and methods are disclosed in which transmitter and receiver inductors, or coils, are coupled in a configuration for wirelessly transferring power among them. In preferred implementations, power may be transmitted and received using temporarily paired coupled coils. One preferred aspect of the invention is that the coils are not permanently affixed in physical proximity to one another, but can be moved and/or interchanged, and that the coils may be used to transmit or receive power based on their real-time relationships to other coils.
US09548791B2
A remote operation and control system for a pressure filter; a PLC controller in a pressure filter body is connected to the interface of a GPRS-DTU communication network; the aerial of the GPRS-DTU communication network is linked to a communication tower via a signal; the communication tower is connected to a GGSN communication interface and an SGSN communication interface, forming a GPRS communication network; the GPRS communication network is connected to the wiring port of a router; a wire connects to a firewall via the router, and enters the wiring port of a switch; an industrial Ethernet is configured to connect to the wiring port of the switch. The remote operation and control system for a pressure filter achieves unattended operation on the working site of the pressure filter, thus improving the technical level of the control system.
US09548786B2
Radio-frequency (RF) modules are disclosed comprising an RF input port, an RF output port and an RF core configured operate in each of a plurality of operational states, the plurality of operational states including a first subset of operational states and a second subset of operational states. The RF module or device includes a decoder configured to receive an input signal indicating a first operational state of the RF core, the first operational state being of the first subset, generate an output control signal corresponding to the first operational state, detect a transition of the RF core to a second operational state, determine that the second operational state is of the second subset, and insert an intermediate output signal corresponding to an intermediate operational state of the RF core in response to said determination.
US09548782B1
A smart phone holder which is mounted to a fixed structure of a vehicle body at a front side of a vehicle to support a smart phone may include a fixing link fixedly mounted to the fixed structure of the vehicle body, and first, second, and third link members forming a four-node link structure with the fixing link together and configured to move the smart phone frontward or rearward of the vehicle by a linkage operation thereof.
US09548760B2
In one embodiment, a computer program product for providing header protection in magnetic tape recording includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable by a processor to cause the processor to: calculate or obtain, by the processor, codeword interleave designation (CWID) parity for all CWIDs in a codeword interleave (CWI) set header, the CWID parity including error correction coding (ECC) parity, and store, by the processor, the CWID parity to a magnetic tape in one or more fields which are repeated for each CWI header in the CWI set header without using reserved bits in the CWI set header to store the CWID parity. Other systems and methods for providing header protection in magnetic tape recording are described in more embodiments.
US09548753B1
The embodiments described herein provide calibration systems and methods for mixed-signal devices. Specifically, the embodiments provide systems and methods for calibrating mixed-signal devices that can facilitate effective calibration of such mixed-signal devices, including mixed-signal devices with poorly characterized nonlinearities that cannot be effectively calibrated with traditional calibration techniques. In general, the embodiments described herein calibrate by measuring output values from a mixed-signal device with a known calibration input values being applied. The measured output values are used to determine localized polynomial interpolants. Each of the determined localized polynomial interpolants is then evaluated at an uncorrected output value, and the evaluated localized polynomial interpolants are then used to generate correction values.
US09548750B2
A circuit according to an example includes a controllable oscillator configured to generate an output signal based on a control signal, an input signal processing circuit configured to receive a reference signal and configured to generate a sequence of digital values indicative of a phase relation between the reference signal and the output signal or a signal derived from the output signal, and a digital data processing circuit configured to generate a sequence of processed values at a lower frequency than a frequency of the sequence of the digital values, each processed value being based on a plurality of the digital values of the sequence of digital values, wherein the control signal is based on the sequence of processed values.
US09548746B2
A phase locked loop system comprises a phase locked loop and an oscillator that is coarse tuned and fine tuned according to coarse tuning operations and fine tuning operations. The system operates to calibrate the coarse tuning of the oscillator based on one or more characteristics related to the oscillator and determined by a characterization component, an interpolation function and one or more final measurements. An adjustment component is configured to adjust the coarse tuning value based on at least one final frequency measurement to generate a final coarse tuning value and set the coarse tuning of the oscillator based on the final coarse tuning value.
US09548721B1
The floating immittance emulator is presented in four embodiments in which four new topologies for emulating floating immittance functions are detailed. Each circuit uses three current-feedback operational-amplifiers (CFOAs) and three passive elements. The present topologies can emulate lossless and lossy floating inductances; capacitance, resistance, and inductance multipliers; and frequency-dependent positive and negative resistances.
US09548717B2
A deviation in mounting a temperature sensor unit is eliminated. In a second cavity 47 for mounting a temperature sensor unit 3 of a base 4, exposed electrodes 6 that intersect at least an internal wall surface 474 of a second wall portion 45 are formed so as to be exposed within the second cavity 47. The exposed electrodes 6 include a pair of temperature sensor electrode pads 621 and 622 to which the temperature sensor unit 3 is bonded via a solder 13. The solder 13 is formed so as to cover an entire surface of the exposed electrodes 6 including the temperature sensor electrode pads 621 and 622 to which the temperature sensor unit 3 is bonded.
US09548707B2
Apparatus and method for an output stage of an amplifier are disclosed. A current source circuit provides current to a transistor connected to the amplifier output node to produce output voltage, and the current source circuit has two current mirror paths, one of which replicates the output voltage at the output node. As the output voltage approaches rail, more current is steered to the current mirror path not replicating the output voltage and provides additional current or voltage necessary to keep the current source circuit operational.
US09548700B2
There is provided an output stage comprising: a phase splitter for receiving an input signal and for generating first and second drive signals of opposite phase in dependence thereon; a DC offset signal generator for generating a DC offset signal; an adder for adding the DC offset signal to the first drive signal to provide a first modified drive signal; a subtractor for subtracting the DC offset signal from the second drive signal to provide a second modified drive signal; a first drive transistor associated with a first power supply voltage, for generating a first output signal in dependence on the first modified drive signal; a second drive transistor associated with a second power supply voltage, for generating a second output signal in dependence on the second modified drive signal; and a combiner for combining the first and second output signals to generate a phase combined output signal.
US09548699B2
An oscillator includes a circuit board including a supporting substrate (base member), a first VCXO (a first oscillator circuit), a second VCXO (a second oscillator circuit), and a ground terminal (terminal for ground). The first VCXO and the second VCXO are configured such that a second output frequency that is output from the second VCXO is higher than a first output frequency that is output from the first VCXO. The second VCXO is placed closer to the ground terminal than the first VCXO.
US09548698B2
A solar energy system for collecting and converting solar energy to electricity using photovoltaic devices. The system further includes reflective panels to concentrate incident solar energy onto an array of solar panels, as well as an automated sun tracking system to rotate the solar and reflective panels to follow the sun.
US09548697B2
A passive solar tracking system to enhance solar cell output is provided. The passive solar tracking system includes a panel having at least one solar cell for solar-to-electric conversion and an actuator that is arranged for moving the panel to provide the variable facing direction of the panel. The actuator is directly driven by light such as sunlight to provide artificial heliotropism-type movements of the panel, so that the panel passively tracks and continuously faces the sun. The actuator may be made from a composite material including a matrix of liquid crystal elastomer material incorporating single-wall or multi-wall carbon nanotubes and an elastic skeleton defined by a 3D polyurethane fiber-network. An actuator housing may be arranged with respect to the actuator for enhancing delivery of stimulus to the actuator. The actuator housing may include a heat collector and a light concentrator for facilitating actuation of the actuator.
US09548696B2
A solar array with successive rows of photovoltaic modules angled in opposing directions forming peaks and valleys between the rows with the valleys (i.e.: lower sides of the photovoltaic module rows) being mounted close together and the peaks (i.e.: upper sides of the photovoltaic module rows) being mounted far apart to improve system aerodynamics and permit ease of access for installers. Included is a system for connecting the upper sides of the photovoltaic modules to connectors that slide on bars extending between upper and lower mounting bases and for pivot locking the lower sides of the photovoltaic modules to the lower mounting bases.
US09548691B1
A variable speed constant frequency (VSCF) power generator includes a rotating direct current (DC) power source, rotating multi-phase generator main field windings to generate a rotating alternating current (AC) power, and a rotating inverter configured to control alternating current (AC) generator field windings in response to output AC power generated by the VSCF power generator and DC power from the rotating DC power source. At least one generator main field sensor outputs a generator main field feedback signal based on the rotating AC power applied to the rotating multi-phase generator main field windings. Stationary multi-phase generator armature windings output constant voltage constant frequency AC power controlled by the rotating AC power. An electronic rotating power line communication (PLC) controller generates a control signal that adjusts the rotating AC power based on the rotating generator feedback signal, where the output AC power is controlled by adjusting the rotating AC power.
US09548686B2
A motor controller architecture and method of operating the same. The motor controller includes a function for estimating the low speed operation of the motor, for example by evaluating the response to a periodic excitation signal injected into the control loop of the controller architecture. Control logic for controlling the motor at transitional speeds between low speed control and high speed (back emf) control is provided in some embodiments.
US09548684B1
A method and apparatus for controlling a brushless direct current motor. An H-bridge is configured to couple a direct current power source to windings of the brushless direct current motor. The H-bridge comprises a plurality of switches. A motor controller is configured to close one of the plurality of switches to put the H-bridge in a coast configuration, wherein the windings of the motor are short circuited. A desired direction for a current impulse to the windings is identified. The one of the plurality of switches is opened in response to identifying a first desired direction for the current impulse to provide the current impulse in the first desired direction to the windings. Another of the plurality of switches is closed in response to identifying a second desired direction for the current impulse to provide the current impulse in the second desired direction to the windings.
US09548670B2
Methods and systems for calibrating an inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) resonant converter are provided herein. The method includes calculating input voltage mathematically as a function of at least one of an output voltage, a load current, and tolerances of components of the LLC resonant converter and operating the LLC resonant converter in an open loop mode at a nominal resonant frequency. The method also includes measuring output voltage of the LLC resonant converter and comparing the measured output voltage to the calculated input voltage.
US09548663B2
The present invention discloses a circuitry for adjusting output voltage, which is set between an input voltage source and an internal device, and the circuitry comprises an output voltage converter, a signal controller, and first and second switching transistors. Wherein, the output voltage converter comprises an input coil, a first output coil and a second output coil that are connected in series. The first switching transistor is coupled to the first output coil and the internal device. The second switching transistor is coupled to the second output coil and the internal device. The signal controller is coupled to the internal device, and is further coupled to the first and the second switching transistors. The invention satisfies usage requirement between different internal devices of which the output voltages are greatly different without changing voltage output mode, and the objects to have output voltage with wide range, and lower cost of design.
US09548650B1
Devices and methods for monitoring and determining alternating current (AC) power system parameters are provided. In some implementations, the device can include a processor; and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for implementing a number of components. The components include a monitor configured to: sense an AC line voltage signal and an AC current voltage signal; filter the AC line voltage signal; calculate average AC line voltage and current values based, at least, on a DC voltage and current values corresponding to the AC line voltage and current signals, respectively; determine fundamental AC line voltage and current signals based, at least, on zero crossings of the respective average AC line voltage value and the average AC line current value; and determine one or more AC power system parameters based, at least, on the fundamental AC line voltage signal and the fundamental AC line current signal.
US09548646B2
Disclosed herein is a linear vibration motor including: a stator part having an internal space formed therein and including a main magnet mounted therein; a vibrator part including a coil disposed to face the main magnet and accommodated in the internal space of the stator part; and an elastic member connecting to the stator part and the vibrator part to each other, wherein the vibrator part further includes an auxiliary magnet disposed to face the main magnet.
US09548644B2
A method of resin sealing a permanent magnet in a magnet insertion portion of a laminated body, the body formed by laminating plural core sheets and including the plural portions formed around a shaft hole in a center of the plural portions, the portion connected to an internal space via an opening. The method includes a first process of positioning a blocking member blocking the opening from a side of the space in a way that the member is vertically-placed in a lower die or an upper die, while the both dies hold the body from both sides in an axial direction and close the portion; and a second process of filling a resin extruded from a resin reservoir portion provided in the die or the die into the portion having the magnet inserted and having the opening closed by the member.
US09548642B2
A sensing apparatus (20) based on fiber optics including fiber gratings for monitoring stator slot temperatures in an electromotive machine (10) is provided. The apparatus may include a dielectric strip (22) to be received in a gap between a first stator bar (16) and a second stator bar (18) in a stator slot (14). One or more optical fibers (24, 25) may be disposed in the dielectric strip and extend along a longitudinal axis of the dielectric strip. A plurality of sites 28 in the optical fiber include a respective fiber Bragg grating arranged to have a respective optical response in a wavelength spectrum indicative of a value of temperature at the grating site.
US09548641B2
A linear and rotary actuator system includes a shaft member moving linearly in an axial direction and rotating around an axis line, a hollow rotor surrounding the shaft member, a stator of a rotary motor having a space for holding the rotor and which rotates the rotor around the axis line, linear bearings, that rotates together with the rotor to transmit rotation of the rotor of the rotary motor to the shaft member and accepts linear movement of the shaft member, an angle measuring unit for measuring a rotation angle of the rotor, and a rotary motor driver for controlling the rotary motor in such a manner that the rotation angle of the rotor of the rotary motor measured by the angle measuring unit conforms to a command value. The rotation angle of the shaft member is controlled by controlling the rotation angle of the rotor of the rotary motor.
US09548640B2
A rotor is disclosed, which includes a plurality of axially extending slots disposed about the rotor; a plurality of conductors radially stacked within each of the axial slots; and an axially extending subslot at a radially inward end of each of the slots. In each slot, a cooling path is provided, extending radially outward from the subslot. The cooling path includes at least one manifold, each manifold including at least one ingress passage, at least one egress passage axially distanced from the ingress passage, and a plurality of axially extending passages in fluid connection at a first end with one of the at least one ingress passages, and at a second end with one of the at least one egress passages. Each of the plurality of axially extending passages is disposed at a different radial depth in the slot from each other axially extending passage.
US09548639B2
A power generation unit is connected with an engine rotary shaft via an accessory gearbox. A rotor extends through the accessory gearbox and a drive gear is disposed at an intermediate portion of the rotor for driving the latter. Permanent magnet elements are mounted on opposite side portions with the intermediate portion intervening therebetween, and stator coils are disposed so as to confront respective outer peripheries of the permanent magnet elements.
US09548634B2
A spin rotary member includes a substrate, a spin injector made of a ferromagnetic material magnetized in a substrate in-plane direction, and provided on the substrate, a spin rotor made of a ferromagnetic material having a magnetic moment rotatable in the substrate in-plane direction, and provided on the substrate, being separated from the spin injector, a channel part made of a non-magnetic material, arranged between the spin injector and the spin rotor, and bonded with the spin injector and the spin rotor directly or through an insulating layer, and a spin rotation control part configured to control a rotation direction of spin of the channel part.
US09548633B2
Provided is a stator of a motor which is capable of reducing an iron loss generated in a motor and thereby attaining a high-efficient motor. A stator of a motor comprises a yoke of a tubular shape; and teeth each of which includes an extending portion extending inward in a radial direction of the yoke from the yoke and an increased-width portion formed at a tip end of the extending portion so as to have a greater width than the extending portion in a circumferential direction of the yoke; wherein the extending portion has a narrower portion having a smaller width than a remaining portion of the extending portion.
US09548629B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, and the like, for an energy interface system for interfacing alternative energy sources with a utility power source on a premises. The energy interface system provides flexibility in the use and distribution of utility energy sources and alternative energy sources based on several measurements and criteria of the interface system. For example, the energy interface system may allow for the energy consumption to adapt to changing parameters, such as utility rate schedules, cost of alternative fuels and utility premiums for consumption or generation of energy at particular times. The energy interface system also allows for deferment of charging or other high-energy loads to be recognized by the system at otherwise low-energy times. In addition, the energy interface system allows for monitoring and communication with the system for ease of configuring the system based on one or more criteria or measurements.
US09548626B1
Power is provided to a remote device by receiving external energy from a laser source and storing the energy in a storage battery. A photovoltaic receiver capable of alignment in a preferred reception direction for receiving energy is used to receive energy from a source of excitement energy, and is configured to receive energy from a laser which is directed to the photovoltaic receiver. A charging circuit receives power from the photovoltaic receiver and is used to charge the storage battery.
US09548623B2
A communication module includes a communication module, having an inductive energy transfer unit, a transfer driver coupled to the inductive energy transfer unit and configured to generate driver signals for operating the inductive energy transfer unit, a charging processor coupled to the transfer driver and configured to control the inductive energy transfer unit to operate in an inductive power charging operation mode, and a communication processor coupled to the transfer driver and configured to control the inductive energy transfer unit to operate in a near field communication (NFC), operation mode.
US09548622B2
An apparatus is provided for wirelessly charging a mobile computing device and utilizing the mobile computing device as a power source. The apparatus includes: a first data and power interface; a second data and power interface; a wireless charging unit; and a control unit. The operation of the wireless charging unit and the control unit is configured to provide a first mode of operation of the apparatus when an external source connected to the apparatus via the second data and power interface is a load device in which power is delivered from the mobile computing device to the load device via the first and second data and power interfaces, and a second mode of operation of the apparatus in which power is delivered from a power receiver of the wireless charging unit to the mobile computing device via the first data and power interface.
US09548614B2
A tool discharges one battery pack and a charger simultaneously charges another battery pack to provide for continuous and circular operation of the tool. Tool system includes a tool and a lithium based battery pack having a nominal voltage of at least 56 volts for supplying power to the tool. A heat absorbing device is associated with the battery pack and includes a phase-change material.
US09548613B2
A system for sinking maintain power signature (MPS) current to a rectifier bridge from a powered device (PD) controller in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) network is disclosed. In one or more implementations, the system includes a rectifier bridge configured to electrically connect to Power over Ethernet power sourcing equipment for receiving power from the power sourcing equipment. The system also includes a powered device controller operatively connected to the rectifier bridge and configured to control power supplied to a load. The load is configured to receive power from the power sourcing equipment and a second power source. The powered device controller is configured to source maintain power signature current to the power sourcing equipment using an input of the rectifier bridge when the second power source is furnishing power to the load.
US09548611B2
Disclosed herein is a method for generating an injected current of a fuel cell stack performed in an apparatus for generating an injected current of a fuel cell stack, the method including: extracting a first frequency current and a second frequency current by passing alternating currents of different frequencies through a plurality of filters, respectively; generating a summed frequency current by summing the first frequency current and the second frequency current; and applying the summed frequency current to the fuel cell stack. Therefore, it is possible to operate the fuel cell stack by applying the summed current obtained by summing the alternating current for calculating the total harmonic distortion (THD) and the alternating current for calculating the impedance to the fuel cell stack.
US09548607B2
A system and method for monitoring and controlling an electrical network includes a plurality of peripheral units installed at various nodes along the branches of the electrical network, each peripheral unit including current meters and voltage meters to measure current of a phase wire, current of the neutral wire, current of the ground wire, current difference between a phase wire and the neutral wire, voltage between a phase wire and the neutral wire and voltage between the neutral wire and the ground wire; switches connected to the phase wires and the neutral wires; and a central processing unit configured to: collect data from the meters, analyze the data to detect faults at the electrical network, and control the switches of the plurality of peripheral units, so as to disconnect faulty branches of the electrical network.
US09548603B2
The invention is directed to a cable breakout assembly (1) comprising a first gland for a feeder cable (10) and several second glands (13) for power feeder subassemblies (12) and an enclosure (2) comprising at least one carrier (3). The at least one carrier is suitable to be interconnected to at least one second gland.
US09548602B2
A ruggedized electronic enclosure for in-ground installation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the ruggedized electronic enclosure comprises a top cover which is exposed above a top surface of the ground and a cylindrical base portion which is embedded within the ground. The top cover and the cylindrical base portion are configured to create a channel conveying an adhesive toward the center of the ruggedized enclosure when the top cover and the cylindrical base portion are coupled.
US09548600B2
A disk-shaped insulator contains a conductive block and an insulating body, wherein the conductive block is located in a central region of the disk-shaped insulator. The radial dimensions of the insulating body are adapted to those of a flange used for connecting. Multiple holes are distributed over an edge region of the disk-shaped insulator, and the edge region is covered by a conductive coating.
US09548599B2
A load module for a power module in which the power module includes a housing assembly. The load module includes an epoxy body and a number of elongated conductive strands. Each of the conductive strand are partially disposed in the epoxy body and each of the conductive strands includes a conductive member and a limited insulator. Each of the limited insulators is disposed on selected portions of an associated conductive member.
US09548590B2
Included are embodiments of a quantum cascade laser structure. Some embodiments include a plurality of quantum wells and a plurality of barriers, at least a portion of which define an active region. In some embodiments, a photon is emitted in the active region when an electron transitions from an upper laser state in the active region to a lower laser state in the active region. Additionally, a final quantum well in the plurality of quantum wells may define the active region, where the final quantum well extends below an adjacent quantum well in the active region. Similarly, the final quantum well may include a thickness that is less than a thickness of the adjacent quantum well in the active region.
US09548585B1
A multi-point laser device comprising a plurality of optical pumping sources. Each optical pumping source is configured to create pumping excitation energy along a corresponding optical path directed through a high-reflectivity mirror and into substantially different locations within the laser media thereby producing atomic optical emissions at substantially different locations within the laser media and directed along a corresponding optical path of the optical pumping source. An output coupler and one or more output lenses are configured to produce a plurality of lasing events at substantially different times, locations or a combination thereof from the multiple atomic optical emissions produced at substantially different locations within the laser media. The laser media is a single continuous media, preferably grown on a single substrate.
US09548584B2
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement to generate a coherent electromagnetic radiation containing at most a few optical cycles in the extreme ultraviolet/vacuum ultraviolet domain. The inventive method comprises the steps of providing an electron package (15) of relativistic velocity; modulating said electron package (15) with high intensity laser light (17) in an undulator (20) having an undulator period smaller than the undulator period (λu) satisfying the resonance condition, producing thereby an electron package formed of electron microbunches; and passing the electron package (15) of electron microbunches leaving said undulator (20) through a static magnetic field, and generating thereby a coherent electromagnetic radiation, wherein said static magnetic field is generated in conformity with the coherent electromagnetic radiation to be achieved. The arrangement comprises means for providing an electron package (15) of relativistic velocity; means for providing high-intensity laser light (17); a first undulator (20) arranged in the propagation direction of the electron package (15) of relativistic velocity, said first undulator being adapted to receive the electron package (16) and the laser light (17) simultaneously and to induce an interaction thereof, said interaction resulting in the microbunching of the electron package (15), wherein the undulator period of said first undulator (20) being smaller than the undulator period (λu) satisfying the resonance condition; and a second undulator (3) arranged in the propagation direction of the electron package (15) after said first undulator (20), said second undulator (30) generating a magnetic field in conformity with the coherent electromagnetic radiation to be generated.
US09548583B2
A fiber laser processing device includes: an air purge unit having a low-dew-pointizer section for changing compressed air for purging supplied from the exterior into dry air with a low dew point by means of a gas separation membrane module; a fiber laser oscillator having a combiner for combining and emitting the laser lights respectively outputted from the plurality of fiber laser modules to the exterior, and a distributor for distributing and supplying the dry air respectively to the plurality of fiber laser modules; and a laser processing machine for carrying out laser machining on a workpiece by means of the laser lights emitted from the combiner.
US09548577B2
Structures, methods, and apparatus that provide connector receptacles that have a reduced tendency to scratch and otherwise mar connector inserts, have an aesthetically-pleasing appearance, and have an improved tactile response when inserts are inserted. Various examples reduce scratches and wear by utilizing domes, cylinders, balls, or other structures as finger contacts in a connector receptacle. Another example provides aesthetically-pleasing connector receptacle enclosures by forming receptacle enclosures using the same type of material, or material having the same or similar color or texture, as is used for enclosing the electronic device that includes the receptacle. Another example provides an aesthetically-pleasing receptacle enclosure by forming receptacle enclosures that are, in part or in whole, contiguous or formed with the housing. Another embodiment provides a connector receptacle having a housing where a portion of the housing has been removed to save space.
US09548574B2
A power socket includes a main body and a photo-interrupter. The main body has a jack set, and the jack set has a first jack and a second jack. A partition region is formed between the first jack and the second jack. The photo-interrupter is disposed in the body and under the jack set. The photo-interrupter has a first sensing portion and a second sensing portion. The first sensing portion is under the partition region, and the width of the first sensing portion is less than the width of the partition region. A sensing region is formed between the first sensing portion and the second sensing portion. The sensing region is under the first jack, and the length of the sensing region is more than or equal to the width of the first jack.
US09548563B1
The finger loop for detaching a charging cable from an electronic device is a device that is attached to the plug of a cable that forms a loop. The loop is used as a grip that the user can use to withdraw the plug from the port it is plugged into. The finger loop for detaching a charging cable from an electronic device is attached to the plug of a cable using an adhesive. The finger loop for detaching a charging cable from an electronic device comprises an elastic tab, a third adhesive, and a fourth adhesive.
US09548560B2
A plug engagement pin provided on each side of the plug connector is inserted into an engagement section of a hook and locked there when the shaft is rotated. The hook is fixed to a rotatable shaft provided for the receptacle connector and includes a projection. If the plug connector is inserted in a slanted state, the projection of the hook prevents the pin from being rotated.
US09548558B1
An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector. The plug connector includes a first insulating body, a sleeve barrel and a spring. The first insulating body defines a first sliding slot penetrating a front surface thereof. The sleeve barrel is worn outside the first insulating body. The spring is disposed between the sleeve barrel and the first insulating body. A slider block is protruded from a front portion of an inner surface of the sleeve barrel, the slider block is capable of sliding in the first sliding slot. The receptacle connector includes a second insulating body. The second insulating body defines a second sliding slot corresponding to the first sliding slot which includes a longitudinal part penetrating a rear surface of the second insulating body and an inclined part extending sideward and inclining frontward from a front end of the longitudinal part.
US09548554B2
The connector for a card has a housing for accommodating a card provided with terminal members, and connecting terminals mounted in the housing and contacting the terminal members of the card. Here, at least one of the connecting terminals has a base portion provided along a rear edge of the housing, at least some of the base portion is embedded in a bottom wall portion of the housing, and a contact member forming a hoop along with the base portion. The contact member has a pair of spring portions connected to the base portion, a joining portion joining the pair of spring portions, and a contact portion connected to the leading end of the joining portion for contacting the terminal members of the card.
US09548553B2
An electric terminal includes a conductive portion with a base, a box supported on the base, and a plurality of contact arms extending therefrom. The electric terminal also includes a spring portion formed as a separate piece from and supported on the box of the conductive portion. The spring portion includes a contact arm that biases at least one of the plurality of contact arms of the conductive portion and a protective shroud that extends farther from the base of the conductive portion than the contact arms.
US09548545B2
A method for manufacturing a crimp terminal having a crimp portion adapted to allow crimp connection with a coated wire having a conductor and an insulating coating, the crimp portion being adapted to crimp connect along the coated wire from a portion of the conductor coated with the insulating coating to a portion of the conductor exposed from the insulating coating at a tip of the coated wire includes providing a barrel member formed by arranging edges of a copper alloy plate material side-by-side, the barrel member having a diameter reducing on an end portion side in a longitudinal direction from a coating crimp portion, forming the crimp portion by welding the edges by laser irradiation from a laser irradiation unit onto a position where the edges are arranged side-by-side, while moving a laser light irradiation position in a longitudinal direction of the barrel member, and irradiating laser light with an output power density and a sweep rate for causing fine molten metal particles having a diameter of 60 μm or less to ejected from the weld portion during laser welding to adhere to an inner surface of the barrel member.
US09548543B2
A method for fabricating an M×N, P-bit phased-array antenna on a flexible substrate is disclosed. The method comprising ink jet printing and hardening alignment marks, antenna elements, transmission lines, switches, an RF coupler, and multilayer interconnections onto the flexible substrate. The substrate of the M×N, P-bit phased-array antenna may comprise an integrated control circuit of printed electronic components such as, photovoltaic cells, batteries, resistors, capacitors, etc. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09548538B2
Antenna arrangement (10) comprising at least one parasitic element (12), a feed element (14), and at least one-tuning circuitry (16). The at least one-parasitic element (12) comprises a first connection (18) connected to ground (20), and a second connection (22) connected to said at least one-tuning circuitry (16), and is galvanically separated from said feed element (14) and electromagnetically coupled to said feed element (14).
US09548520B2
A system is disclosed for monitoring an electrolyte level in a battery cell and generating an indication of a fault condition when the electrolyte level drops below a predetermined acceptable level. The system may make use of a controller, an ultrasonic transmit circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic signal into an interior area of the battery cell, and an ultrasonic receive circuit for receiving the ultrasonic signal after it has been reflected from the interior area of the battery cell. The controller may use the reflected ultrasonic signal and a predetermined calibration signal representing the predetermined acceptable level of the electrolyte to determine when the electrolyte level has dropped below the predetermined acceptable level.
US09548518B2
A method for joining a ceramic component to a metallic component is described. At least one initial layer of an active metal is applied to one of the joining surfaces, by a cold spray technique. At least one second layer of a nickel-based braze composition is then applied over the initial layer by cold-spraying. The braze composition and components are then heated, so as to form an active braze joint between them. A method of sealing an open region of a sodium metal halide-based battery is also disclosed, using the brazing technique described herein to form braze joints that seal various components in the battery cells, such as metallic rings and ceramic collar structures.
US09548516B2
An electrolytic solution including a solvent including 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one. The content of 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one is preferably within a range from 5 wt % to 50 wt % In the case where 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one is mixed and used with 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one, the content of 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one is preferably within a range from 5 vol ppm to 2000 vol ppm.
US09548513B2
A multi-cell battery includes a negative current collecting substrate; at least two laminated electric cores arranged in parallel to each other on the negative current collecting substrate; and a positive current collecting substrate, wherein the two laminated electric cores sandwiches about the positive current collecting substrate, thereby forming two cells on opposite sides of the positive current collecting substrate.
US09548511B2
An energy storage device can include a cathode having a first plurality of frustules, where the first plurality of frustules can include nanostructures having an oxide of manganese. The energy storage device can include an anode comprising a second plurality of frustules, where the second plurality of frustules can include nanostructures having zinc oxide. A frustule can have a plurality of nanostructures on at least one surface, where the plurality of nanostructures can include an oxide of manganese. A frustule can have a plurality of nanostructures on at least one surface, where the plurality of nanostructures can include zinc oxide. An electrode for an energy storage device includes a plurality of frustules, where each of the plurality of frustules can have a plurality of nanostructures formed on at least one surface.
US09548510B2
A method of fabricating a fuel cell component for use with or as part of a fuel cell in a fuel cell stack, the method comprising: providing a fuel cell component, providing a deposition assembly for depositing loading material particles onto the fuel cell component, and actuating the deposition assembly to cause the deposition assembly to deposit said loading material particles onto said fuel cell component.
US09548508B2
The invention relates to copolymers comprising a chain of siloxane repeat units of at least two different types, a first type of siloxane repeat unit comprising at least one —OH group on the silicon atom of the siloxane repeat unit and a second type of repeat unit comprising at least one pendant chain on the silicon atom of said repeat unit, this pendant chain consisting of a polymer chain comprising a chain of repeat units carrying at least one group of formula —PO3R1R2 wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a cation.
US09548507B2
A storage system for storing hydrogen and providing controlled release of hydrogen gas includes a container having an outer wall defining an interior. The interior is configured to contain liquid lithium hydride, and a portion of the outer wall includes a thermally insulating layer. The storage system also includes a temperature control system configured to maintain the interior at a temperature such that the lithium hydride decomposes to produce hydrogen gas at a substantially equilibrium state.
US09548492B2
Articles and methods for forming protected electrodes for use in electrochemical cells, including those for use in rechargeable lithium batteries, are provided. In some embodiments, the articles and methods involve an electrode that does not include an electroactive layer, but includes a current collector and a protective structure positioned directly adjacent the current collector, or separated from the current collector by one or more thin layers. Lithium ions may be transported across the protective structure to form an electroactive layer between the current collector and the protective structure. In some embodiments, an anisotropic force may be applied to the electrode to facilitate formation of the electroactive layer.
US09548491B2
Disclosed are a positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery including a core including a lithium nickel-based oxide, a lithium iron phosphate-based compound, or a combination thereof; and carbon nanotube grown on the surface of the core, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same.
US09548487B2
A compound having the structure Red-R-M, wherein: Red is a redox center; R is a bridging group; and M is a monomer giving rise to an electronically conductive polymer, is provided. Also provides are polymers obtained by polymerization of such compounds and uses in electronic devices of such polymers, for example uses in batteries.
US09548483B2
A secondary battery 100 comprises a positive electrode current collector 221 and a positive electrode active material layer 223 applied on the positive electrode current collector 221 and containing at least a positive electrode active material. The lithium-ion secondary battery 100 further comprises a negative electrode current collector 241 provided so as to oppose the positive electrode current collector 221 and a negative electrode active material layer 243 applied on the negative electrode current collector 241 and containing at least a negative electrode active material. The lithium-ion secondary battery 100 is also formed with a porous insulating layer 245 which contains stacked resin particles having insulating properties and is formed so as to cover at least one of the positive electrode active material layer 223 and the negative electrode active material layer 243 (in this case, negative electrode active material layer 243). The lithium-ion secondary battery 100 further comprises, on the edge of the insulating layer 245, a molten part 246 where the resin particles are melted.
US09548482B2
Disclosed herein is an electrode assembly configured to have a structure in which two or more unit cells are sequentially stacked or a structure in which two or more unit cells are folded using a long sheet type separation film, wherein the unit cells include bi-cells, each of which includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator, at least one of the bi-cells includes a safety electrode configured such that an electrode active material is applied only to one major surface of an electrode current collector, the safety electrode includes a first surface, to which no electrode active material is applied, and a second surface, to which the electrode active material is applied, and the at least one of the bi-cells including the safety electrode is configured such that a safety separator, having a thickness equivalent to 110% to 220% of a thickness of a separator disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode or between a negative electrode and a positive electrode excluding the safety electrode, is added to the first surface and/or the second surface of the safety electrode.
US09548479B2
A battery pack includes a first battery and a second battery each having a bent part at one side; and an adhesion member interposed between the bent part of the first battery and the bent part of the second battery and adhering the bent part of the first battery to the bent part of the second battery.
US09548474B2
A radiant energy transfer panel is resized from an array of individually sealed segments by cutting the array along a cut line, thereby damaging some segments by breaking their seals. Other segments adjacent to the damaged segments are left intact. Each segment has two electrodes for power connection. Electrodes of the damaged segments remain electrically connected to electrodes of undamaged segments after cutting. An edge member may be positioned to overlap damaged segments and redirect light from undamaged segments to compensate for the damaged segments. In alternative embodiments, the edge member may be light-blocking. The radiant energy transfer panel may be an electroluminescent panel or a photovoltaic panel.
US09548473B2
There are provided a method of evaluating a reliable lifespan of an encapsulant film and a device for evaluating reliability of the film. The present application may provide a film that may be provided for an evaluation method in which reliability of an encapsulant film is simply and easily evaluated only by measuring a haze immediately before the encapsulant film is used, a failure of a product is determined and reliability may be predicted.
US09548471B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein the organic light emitting device is decreased in its thickness, and also decreased in its radius of curvature so as to realize the flexible device, and the organic light emitting device comprising a first component including a first plurality of layers, the first plurality of layers including a thin film transistor layer deposited on a surface of a first substrate, an emitting component layer deposited on the thin film transistor layer, and a passivation layer deposited on the emitting component layer; a second component including a second plurality of layers that are deposited on a surface of a second substrate without using an adhesive; and an adhesion layer between the first component and the second component, the adhesion layer coupling together the first component and the second component.
US09548470B2
In an aspect, an organic light emitting diode device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an emission layer positioned between the first electrode and second electrode, wherein the first electrode includes samarium (Sm) is provided.
US09548465B2
An electronic device includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are separately formed on a base; a functional layer which includes an organic semiconductor material layer, and is formed on the base between the first electrode and the second electrode; a functional layer extension portion which includes the organic semiconductor material layer, and extends from the functional layer; a protective film which is formed at least on the functional layer; and an insulating layer which covers an entire surface, in which the protective film is patterned to include at least two sides which intersect with each other at an acute angle, and a vertex portion of the protective film in which the two sides intersect with each other, is chamfered.
US09548464B2
An N-type semiconductor layer includes an insulating substrate, an MgO layer, a semiconductor carbon nanotube layer, a functional dielectric layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode. The semiconductor carbon nanotube layer is sandwiched between the MgO layer and the functional dielectric layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode electrically connect the semiconductor carbon nanotube layer. The gate electrode is on the functional dielectric layer and insulated from the semiconductor carbon nanotube layer.
US09548463B2
Example embodiments relate to an organic photoelectronic device including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the active layer includes a first compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and an image sensor including the organic photoelectronic device.
US09548455B2
A light emitting diode includes an insulating substrate, a first MgO layer, a semiconductor carbon nanotube layer, a second MgO layer, a functional dielectric layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The semiconductor carbon nanotube layer has a first surface and a second surface. The first MgO layer coats entire the first surface. The second surface is divided into a first region and a second region. The first region is coated with the second MgO layer. The second MgO layer is covered by the functional dielectric layer. The second region is exposed. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first region. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second region.
US09548448B1
The present invention is directed to a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of first level contacts arranged in a rectangular array with parallel columns directed along a first direction and parallel rows directed along a second direction. The rectangular array of the plurality of first level contacts have a first pitch and a second pitch along the first and second directions, respectively. The memory device further includes a first and second plurality of second level contacts formed on top of the first level contacts with the first plurality of second level contacts electrically connected to odd columns along the second direction of the first level contacts and the second plurality of second level contacts electrically connected to even columns of the first level contacts; and a first and second plurality of memory elements formed on top of the first and second plurality of second level contacts, respectively.
US09548444B2
Memory cells including cell cores having free regions are disclosed. The free regions exhibit a strain that affects a magnetization orientation within the cell core. A stressor structure may exert a stress upon at least a portion of the cell core to effect the strain state of the free region. Also disclosed are semiconductor device structures and systems including such memory cells as well as methods for forming such memory cells.
US09548443B2
A vertical Hall Effect element includes a low voltage P-well region disposed at a position between pickups of a vertical Hall Effect element to result in an improved sensitivity of the vertical Hall Effect element. A method results in the vertical Hall Effect element having the improved sensitivity.
US09548435B2
An electronic platform comprising a substrate made of a ABO3 crystal (2) and at least one layer of a two-dimensional conducting sheet of carbon atoms (1) of a thickness between one and four atoms, characterized in that the conducting layer(s) is (are) placed on top of a face of the crystal whose orthogonal axis is at an angle up to 35° of the crystal's spontaneous polarization or c-axis. The invention achieves a sheet resistance lower than 1 Ω/square at temperatures higher than 77K.
US09548430B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting diode package comprises steps of: scanning a light emitting diode chip mounted on a package substrate to acquire mounting image data; generating three dimensional (3D) image data by comparing the mounting image data with mounting reference data; and forming an optical structure including a plurality of layers on the package substrate on using the 3D image data.
US09548425B2
A light-emitting diode is provided to include: a transparent substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a side surface; a first conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first surface of the transparent substrate; a second conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer positioned between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first pad electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second pad electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the transparent substrate is configured to discharge light generated by the active layer through the second surface of the transparent substrate, and the light-emitting diode has a beam angle of at least 140 degrees or more. Accordingly, a light-emitting diode suitable for a backlight unit or a surface lighting apparatus can be provided.
US09548424B2
A light emitting diode includes a semiconductor stacked structure, a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode. The semiconductor stacked structure includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and a light emitting layer. A light extraction layer with a roughened structure is formed on the doped semiconductor layer to improve the light emitting efficiency of LED. Furthermore, the strength of the semiconductor stacked structure can be enhanced by the light extraction layer, to improve the reliability of the LED and the production yields of manufacturing process.
US09548419B2
A light emitting diode chip including a substrate and a light emitting diode element layer is provided. The substrate has a growth surface and a plurality of microstructures on the growth surface, wherein an area of the growth surface occupied by the microstructures is A1 and an area of the growth surface not occupied by the micro-structures is A2, wherein A1 and A2 satisfies the relation of 0.1≦A2/(A1+A2)≦0.5. The light emitting diode element layer is disposed on the growth surface of the substrate.
US09548411B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to assembling electronic devices into a microsystem. The electronic devices are disposed in a solution. Light can be applied to the electronic devices in the solution. The electronic devices can generate currents responsive to the light applied to the electronic devices in the solution, and the currents can cause electrochemical reactions that functionalize regions on surfaces of the electronic devices. Additionally or alternatively, the light applied to the electronic devices in the solution can cause the electronic devices to generate electric fields, which can orient the electronic devices and/or induce movement of the electronic devices with respect to a receiving substrate. Further, electrodes on a receiving substrate can be biased to attract and form connections with the electronic devices having the functionalized regions on the surfaces. The microsystem can include the receiving substrate and the electronic devices connected to the receiving substrate.
US09548409B2
A silicon solar cell has doped amorphous silicon contacts formed on a tunnel silicon oxide layer on a surface of a silicon substrate. High temperature processing is unnecessary in fabricating the solar cell.
US09548408B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to infrared detector devices incorporating a tunneling structure. In one embodiment, an infrared detector device includes a first contact layer, an absorber layer adjacent to the first contact layer, and a tunneling structure including a barrier layer adjacent to the absorber layer and a second contact layer adjacent to the barrier layer. The barrier layer has a tailored valence band offset such that a valence band offset of the barrier layer at the interface between the absorber layer and the barrier layer is substantially aligned with the valence band offset of the absorber layer, and the valence band offset of the barrier layer at the interface between the barrier layer and the second contact layer is above a conduction band offset of the second contact layer.
US09548405B2
A solar cell includes a semiconductor layer, a collecting layer for collecting free charge carriers from the semiconductor layer and a buffer layer which is arranged between the semiconductor layer and the collecting layer. The buffer layer is designed as a tunnel contact between the semiconductor layer and the collecting layer. The buffer layer essentially includes a material with a surface charge density of at least 1012 cm−2, preferably of at least 5×1012 cm−2, and more preferably of at least 1013 cm−2.
US09548402B2
A semiconductor radiation detector comprises a detector chip having a front side and a back side, and a support plate on the back side of the detector chip, having electric connections with said detector chip. A base plate has a thermoelectric cooler attached to it and contact pins protruding from the base plate towards said detector chip. A bonding plate is on an opposite side of said thermoelectric cooler than said base plate, and first wire bonded connections go between said contact pins and said bonding plate. A joint plate is between said bonding plate and said support plate, and electric connections between said support plate and said bonding plate go through said joint plate.
US09548400B2
A diode includes a semiconductor body, a first emitter region of a first conductivity type, a second emitter region of a second conductivity type, a base region arranged between the first and second emitter regions and having a lower doping concentration than the first and second emitter regions, a first emitter electrode electrically coupled to the first emitter region, a second emitter electrode in electrical contact with the second emitter region, a control electrode arrangement comprising a first control electrode section and a first dielectric layer arranged between the first control electrode section and the semiconductor body, and at least one pn junction extending to the first dielectric layer, or arranged distant to the first dielectric layer by less than 250 nm. The breakdown voltage of the diode is adjusted by applying a control potential to the first control electrode section.
US09548393B2
A change in electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating film over a transistor including an oxide semiconductor as a semiconductor film is suppressed. The structure includes a first insulating film which includes a void portion in a step region formed by a source electrode and a drain electrode over the semiconductor film and contains silicon oxide as a component, and a second insulating film containing silicon nitride, which is provided in contact with the first insulating film to cover the void portion in the first insulating film. The structure can prevent the void portion generated in the first insulating film from expanding outward.
US09548392B2
A method for manufacturing a thin film transistor include following steps. A substrate is provided. A gate electrode and an electrically insulating layer are formed on the substrate. An electric conducting layer is formed on the electrically insulating layer. A first photoresist pattern layer is formed on the electric conducting layer. A portion of the electric conducting layer which is not covered by the first photoresist pattern layer is etched to form an electric conduction layer. A semiconductor layer is formed on the electric conduction layer. A second photoresist pattern layer is formed. A portion of the semiconductor layer which is not covered by the second photoresist pattern layer is etched to form the channel layer covering the electric conduction layer. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed at the two lateral portions of the channel layer respectively. The thin film transistor is also provided.
US09548391B2
A thin film transistor includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a semiconducting layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, an insulating layer and a gate electrode. The drain electrode is spaced apart from the source electrode. The first conductive layer is sandwiched between the source electrode and the semiconductor layer. The second conductive layer is sandwiched between the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer. The gate electrode is insulated from the source electrode, the drain electrode, the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, and the semiconductor layer by the insulating layer. A first work-function of a first material of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer is same as a second work-function of a second material of the semiconductor layer.
US09548380B2
A memory cell formed by forming a trench in the surface of a substrate. First and second spaced apart regions are formed in the substrate with a channel region therebetween. The first region is formed under the trench. The channel region includes a first portion that extends along a sidewall of the trench and a second portion that extends along the surface of the substrate. A charge trapping layer in the trench is adjacent to and insulated from the first portion of the channel region for controlling the conduction of the channel region first portion. An electrically conductive gate in the trench is adjacent to and insulated from the charge trapping layer and from the first region and is capacitively coupled to the charge trapping layer. An electrically conductive control gate is disposed over and insulated from the second portion of the channel region for controlling its conduction.
US09548377B2
Thermal treatment of a semiconductor wafer in the fabrication of integrated circuits including MOS transistors and ferroelectric capacitors, including those using lead-zirconium-titanate (PZT) ferroelectric material, to reduce variation in the electrical characteristics of the transistors. Thermal treatment of the wafer in a nitrogen-bearing atmosphere in which hydrogen is essentially absent is performed after formation of the transistors and capacitor. An optional thermal treatment of the wafer in a hydrogen-bearing atmosphere prior to deposition of the ferroelectric treatment may be performed.
US09548370B2
A transistor device includes an individual transistor cell arranged in a transistor cell field on a semiconductor body, the individual transistor cell having a gate electrode. The transistor device further includes a gate contact, electrically coupled to the gate electrode and configured to switch on the individual transistor cell by providing a gate current in a first direction and configured to switch off the individual transistor cell by providing a gate current in a second direction, the second direction being opposite to the first direction. The transistor device also includes a gate-resistor structure monolithically integrated in the transistor device. The gate-resistor structure provides a first resistance for the gate current when the gate current flows in the first direction, and provides a second resistance for the gate current, which is different from the first resistance, when the gate current flows in the second direction.
US09548369B2
Provided is a memory device including a substrate, a first stack structure, and a plurality of second stack structures. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The first stack structure is located on the substrate of the first region. The second stack structures are located on the substrate of the second region. A sidewall of the first stack structure and a sidewall of the second stack structure have a concave-and-convex surface respectively.
US09548358B2
A patterned stack of a first silicon-germanium alloy nanowire, a second silicon-germanium alloy nanowire, and a silicon-containing nanowire is formed on a substrate. After formation of a first dielectric isolation layer around the patterned stack, a disposable gate structure can be formed. End portions of the second silicon-germanium alloy nanowire are removed to form first cavities underlying end portions of the silicon-containing nanowire. Dielectric nanowires are formed in cavities concurrently with formation of a gate spacer. After recessing the first dielectric isolation layer, a second cavity is formed by removing the first silicon-germanium alloy nanowire. The second cavity is filled with a second dielectric isolation layer, and raised active regions can be formed by a selective epitaxy process. After formation of a planarization dielectric layer, the disposable gate structure and the remaining portion of the second silicon-germanium alloy nanowire with a replacement gate structure.
US09548346B2
A display unit includes: a display layer including a pixel electrode; a semiconductor layer provided in a layer below the display layer, the semiconductor layer including a wiring layer that includes a material removable by an etchant by which the pixel electrode is also removable; and a terminal section configured to electrically connect the semiconductor layer to an external circuit, the terminal section including a first electrically-conductive layer made of a material same as a material of the wiring layer.
US09548339B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes: a first substrate comprising red, green, and blue pixel areas; a first electrode on the first substrate; red, green, and blue organic light emitting layers on the first electrode at the red, green, and blue pixel areas, respectively; a second electrode on the red, green, and blue organic light emitting layers; a capping layer on the second electrode, and having a greater thickness at the red and green pixel areas than a thickness at the blue pixel area; a thin film encapsulation layer on the capping layer; and a red color filter on the thin film encapsulation layer at the red pixel area.
US09548338B2
A display substrate and a display device applying the same are provided. The display substrate includes a base plate and a display structure. The display structure is disposed on the base plate and includes first region. The first region includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and two third sub-pixels. One of the two third sub-pixels has a first light emitting region having a first end point and a second end point. The other one of the two third sub-pixels has a second light emitting region having a third end point and a fourth end point. The first sub-pixel has a third light emitting region and the second sub-pixel has a fourth light emitting region. The third light emitting region and the fourth light emitting region are inside a quadrilateral region enclosed by the first, second, third and fourth end points.
US09548335B2
The present disclosure includes methods and apparatuses that include resistive memory. A number of embodiments include a first memory cell coupled to a data line and including a first resistive storage element and a first access device, a second memory cell coupled to the data line and including a second resistive storage element and a second access device, an isolation device formed between the first access device and the second access device, a first select line coupled to the first resistive storage element, and a second select line coupled to the second resistive storage element, wherein the second select line is separate from the first select line.
US09548334B2
The present invention is directed to a spin transfer torque (STT) MRAM device having a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) memory element. The memory element includes a perpendicular MTJ structure in between a non-magnetic seed layer and a non-magnetic cap layer. The MTJ structure comprises a magnetic free layer structure and a magnetic reference layer structure with an insulating tunnel junction layer interposed therebetween, an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer formed adjacent to the magnetic reference layer structure, and a magnetic fixed layer formed adjacent to the anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer. At least one of the magnetic free and reference layer structures includes a non-magnetic perpendicular enhancement layer, which improves the perpendicular anisotropy of magnetic layers adjacent thereto.
US09548333B2
Systems and methods of integration of resistive memory elements with logic elements in advanced nodes with improved mechanical stability and reduced parasitic capacitance include a resistive memory element and a logic element formed in a common integration layer extending between a bottom cap layer and a top cap layer. At least a first intermetal dielectric (IMD) layer of high-K value is formed in the common integration layer and surrounding at least the resistive memory element, to provide high rigidity and mechanical stability. A second IMD layer of low-K value to reduce parasitic capacitance of the logic element is formed in either the common integration layer, a top layer above the top cap layer or an intermediate layer in between the top and bottom cap layers. Air gaps may be formed in one or more IMD layers to further reduce capacitance.
US09548332B2
A method of fabricating and transferring a micro device and an array of micro devices to a receiving substrate are described. In an embodiment, a patterned sacrificial layer is utilized to form a self-aligned metallization stack and is utilized as an etch stop layer during etching of a p-n diode layer to form a plurality of micro p-n diodes.
US09548318B1
Methods to connect to back-plate (BP) or well contacts or diode junctions through a RMG electrode in FDSOI technology based devices and the resulting devices are disclosed. Embodiments include providing a polysilicon dummy gate electrode between spacers and extending over a BP, an active area of a transistor, and a shallow-trench-isolation (STI) region therebetween; providing an interlayer dielectric surrounding the spacers and polysilicon dummy gate electrode; removing the polysilicon dummy gate electrode creating a cavity between the spacers; forming a high-k dielectric layer and a work-function (WF) metal layer in the cavity; removing a section of the WF metal layer, high-k dielectric layer, and STI region exposing an upper surface of the BP; filling the cavity with a metal forming a replacement metal gate electrode; and planarizing the metal down to an upper surface of the spacers.
US09548314B1
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a select gate over a substrate and forming a charge storage layer and a control gate over the select gate. The charge storage layer and control gate overlap a first sidewall of the select gate and the charge storage layer is between the select gate and the control gate. A protective spacer is formed, wherein the protective spacer has a first portion adjacent a first sidewall of the charge storage layer and on the substrate, and the protective spacer is thinned. After thinning the protective spacer, a sidewall spacer is formed over the protective spacer, wherein the sidewall spacer has a first portion on the substrate, and the first portion of the protective spacer is between the first sidewall of the control gate and the first portion of the sidewall spacer.
US09548308B2
A nonvolatile memory is provided. A semiconductor device (a nonvolatile memory) has a circuit configuration similar to that of a general SRAM. By providing a transistor whose off-state current is small between a stored data holding portion and a power supply line of the SRAM, leakage of electric charge from the stored data holding portion is prevented. As the transistor whose off-state current is small provided for preventing leakage of electric charge from the stored data holding portion, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film is preferably used. Such a configuration can also be applied to a shift register, whereby a shift register with low power consumption can be obtained.
US09548307B2
An integrated circuit includes a first well of the first conductivity type formed in a semiconductor layer where the first well housing active devices and being connected to a first well potential, a second well of a second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor layer and encircling the first well where the second well housing active devices and being connected to a second well potential, and a buried layer of the second conductivity type formed under the first well and overlapping at least partially the second well encircling the first well. In an alternate embodiment, instead of the buried layer, the integrated circuit includes a third well of the second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor layer where the third well contains the first well and overlaps at least partially the second well encircling the first well.
US09548305B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are disclosed. A representative transistor device includes two fins over a workpiece. An insulating material is over the fins. The insulating material is not disposed between the fins. A dielectric material is over sidewalls of the insulating material and over a portion of the workpiece between the fins. A gate is over the dielectric material. The gate includes a first conductive material and a second conductive material over the first conductive material. The second conductive material is recessed below a top surface of the insulating material. The second conductive material has a top surface with a rounded profile.
US09548292B2
An ESD protection element can have a high ESD protection characteristic which has a desired breakdown voltage and flows a large discharge current. A junction diode is formed by an N+ type buried layer having a proper impurity concentration and a P+ type buried layer. The P+ type buried layer is combined with a P+ type drawing layer to penetrate an N− type epitaxial layer and be connected to an anode element. An N+ type diffusion layer and a P+ typed diffusion layer connected to an surrounding the N+ type diffusion layer are formed in the N− epitaxial layer surrounded by the P+ type buried layer etc. The N+ type diffusion layer and P+ type diffusion layer are connected to a cathode electrode. An ESD protection element is formed by the PN junction diode and a parasitic PNP bipolar transistor which uses the P+ type diffusion layer as an emitted, the N− type epitaxial layer as the base, and the P+ type drawing layer etc. as the collector.
US09548285B2
Reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes a step of cutting a tab suspension lead from a tab suspension lead support portion connected to an outer frame of a lead frame by inserting a jig between two adjacent sealing bodies, the jig having almost the same width as a gap between the adjacent sealing bodies. And, a notch is formed in the tab suspension lead, and the notch is arranged at a position intersecting a side of a sealing body, so that the tab suspension lead is cut at a part of the notch in the step of cutting the tab suspension lead.
US09548273B2
Die (110) and/or undiced wafers and/or multichip modules (MCMs) are attached on top of an interposer (120) or some other structure (e.g. another integrated circuit) and are covered by an encapsulant (160). Then the interposer is thinned from below. Before encapsulation, a layer (410) more rigid than the encapsulant is formed on the interposer around the die to reduce or eliminate interposer dishing between the die when the interposer is thinned by a mechanical process (e.g. CMP). Other features are also provided.
US09548272B2
A semiconductor device has a through electrode formed in a through hole which penetrates a Si substrate from one surface to the other surface of the Si substrate, wherein a rectangular electrode pad is provided on the other surface with an insulation film laid between the electrode pad and the other surface, an opening of the through hole on the one surface side is circular, an opening of the through hole on the other surface side is rectangular, and the area of the opening on the other surface side is made smaller than the area of the opening on the one surface side.
US09548269B2
Self-aligned via and plug patterning using diagonal hardmasks for improved overlay in fabricating back end of line (BEOL) interconnects is described. In an example, a method of fabricating an interconnect structure for an integrated circuit involves forming a first hardmask layer above an interlayer dielectric layer disposed above a substrate. The first hardmask layer includes a plurality of first hardmask lines having a first grating in a first direction and comprising one or more sacrificial materials interleaved with the first grating. The method also involves forming a second hardmask layer above the first hardmask layer. The second hardmask layer includes a plurality of second hardmask lines having a second grating in a second direction, diagonal to the first direction. The method also involves, using the second hardmask layer as a mask, etching the first hardmask layer to form a patterned first hardmask layer. The etching involves removing a portion of the one or more sacrificial materials.
US09548266B2
A semiconductor package with an embedded capacitor and corresponding manufacturing methods are described. The semiconductor package with the embedded capacitor includes a semiconductor die having a first metal layer extending across at least a portion of a first side of the semiconductor die and a package structure formed on the first side of the semiconductor die. A first electrical conductor of the embedded capacitor is formed in the first metal layer of the semiconductor die. The package structure includes a second metal layer that has formed therein a second electrical conductor of the embedded capacitor. A dielectric of the embedded capacitor is positioned within either the semiconductor die or the package structure of the semiconductor package to isolate the first electrical conductor from the second electrical conductor of the embedded capacitor.
US09548259B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises forming a first layer on an impurity diffusion region in a semiconductor substrate by a selective epitaxial growth method, forming a second layer on the first layer by the selective epitaxial growth method, forming a contact hole penetrating an interlayer insulating film in a thickness direction thereof and reaching the second layer, and filling a conductive material into the contact hole to form a contact plug including the first and second layers and the conductive material.
US09548240B2
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor die including a conductive layer. A first insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor die and conductive layer. An encapsulant is disposed over the semiconductor die. A compliant island is formed over the first insulating layer. An interconnect structure is formed over the compliant island. An under bump metalization (UBM) is formed over the compliant island. The compliant island includes a diameter greater than 5 μm larger than a diameter of the UBM. An opening is formed in the compliant island over the conductive layer. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer and compliant island. A third insulating layer is formed over an interface between the semiconductor die and the encapsulant. An opening is formed in the third insulating layer over the encapsulant for stress relief.
US09548237B2
A method comprising the following steps: providing a support substrate and a donor substrate, forming an embrittlement region in the donor substrate so as to delimit a first portion and a second portion on either side of the embrittlement region, assembling the donor substrate on the support substrate, fracturing the donor substrate along the embrittlement region. In addition, the method comprises a step consisting of forming a compressive stress layer in the donor substrate so as to delimit a so-called confinement region interposed between the compressive stress layer and the embrittlement region.
US09548236B2
The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.
US09548228B2
Methods of depositing tungsten in different sized features on a substrate are provided herein. The methods involve depositing a first bulk layer of tungsten in the features, etching the deposited tungsten, depositing a second bulk tungsten, which is interrupted to treat the tungsten after the smaller features are completely filled, and resuming deposition of the second bulk layer after treatment to deposit smaller, smoother tungsten grains into the large features. The methods also involve depositing tungsten in multiple cycles of dep-etch-dep, where each cycle targets a group of similarly sized features using etch chemistry specific for that group, and depositing in groups from smallest sized features to the largest sized features. Deposition using methods described herein produce smaller, smoother grains with void-free fill for a wide range of sized features in a substrate.
US09548227B2
A microwave induced plasma decapsulation system and method for decapsulation a packaged semiconductor device applies a microwave induced plasma effluent along with etchant gases electrons, ions and free radicals that are chemically reactive to remove the epoxy molding compound encapsulating the semiconductor device. In one embodiment, the decapsulation system utilizes a microwave generator and a coaxial plasma source. In another embodiment, the decapsulation system utilizes a microwave generator, an electromagnetic surface wave plasma source, and a dielectric plasma discharge tube.
US09548223B2
A device and method for processing wafer-shaped articles comprises a process chamber and a rotary chuck located within the process chamber. The rotary chuck is adapted to be driven without physical contact through a magnetic bearing. The rotary chuck comprises a series of gripping pins adapted to hold a wafer shaped article in a position depending downwardly from the rotary chuck. The rotary chuck further comprises a plate that rotates together with the rotary chuck. The plate is positioned above an area occupied by the wafer-shaped article, and shields upper surfaces of the process chamber from liquids flung off of a wafer-shaped article during use of the rotary chuck.
US09548217B2
An etching method containing, at the time of processing a substrate having a first layer containing titanium nitride (TiN) and a second layer containing a transition metal, selecting a substrate in which a surface oxygen content of the first layer is from 0.1 to 10% by mole, and applying an etching liquid containing a hydrofluoric acid compound and an oxidizing agent to the substrate and thereby removing the first layer.
US09548211B2
The present invention provides a method for selectively removing silicon carbide from the surface of a substrate in preference to silicon dioxide. The method comprises abrading a surface of substrate with a polishing composition that comprises a particulate abrasive, at least one acidic buffering agent, and an aqueous carrier.
US09548208B2
A method for patterning an underlying layer is described, the method comprising providing a guiding layer on the underlying layer, the guiding layer comprising guiding structures and being substantially planar; providing a block-copolymer layer on the guiding layer; inducing phase separation of the block-copolymer layer in a regular pattern of structures of a first and a second polymer component, whereby one of the components aligns to the guiding structures, by chemo-epitaxy; thereafter, removing a first of the components of the block-copolymer layers completely, leaving a regular pattern of structures of the second component; providing a planarizing layer over the regular pattern of structures of the second component and the guiding layer; removing a portion of the planarizing layer, thereby leaving a regular pattern of structures of the planarizing layer at positions in between the structures of the second component, and exposing the structures of the second component; removing the structures of the second component, selectively with respect to the structures of the planarizing layer; and patterning the underlying layer, thereby using the structures of the planarizing layer as a mask.
US09548207B2
A method of etching a silicon substrate, in which a depressed portion is formed by etching a first surface of the silicon substrate with ions generated in plasma, the method including introducing a rare gas into a reaction system to ionize the rare gas.
US09548198B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including forming a thin film containing silicon, oxygen and carbon on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: supplying a precursor gas containing silicon, carbon and a halogen element and having an Si—C bonding, and a first catalytic gas to the substrate; and supplying an oxidizing gas and a second catalytic gas to the substrate.
US09548197B2
A substrate treatment method is provided, which includes a rinsing step of supplying a rinse liquid to a front surface of a rotating substrate after a chemical liquid step. The rinsing step includes a higher-speed rinsing step and a deceleration rinsing step to be performed after the higher-speed rinsing step. The deceleration rinsing step includes a liquid puddling step of reducing the rotation speed of the substrate within a rotation speed range lower than a rotation speed employed in the higher-speed rinsing step and supplying the rinse liquid to the front surface of the substrate at a flow rate higher than a maximum supply flow rate employed in the higher-speed rinsing step, whereby a puddle-like rinse liquid film is formed on the front surface of the substrate.
US09548196B2
A discharge lamp includes a cathode in a luminous tube, and an emitter, other than thorium, is added to the cathode. The emitter is prevented from being excessively vaporized from the cathode and depleted soon. Smooth lighting is enabled even at start-up. A main body part (31) of the cathode (3) is made from a metallic material having a high melting point and containing no thorium. A front end (32) is made from a metallic material having a high melting point and containing an emitter (excepting thorium). Inside a sealed space (33) formed in the main body part (31) and/or the front end part (32) is received a sintered compact (34) containing an emitter (excepting thorium) that is higher in concentration than the emitter contained in the front end part (32).
US09548191B2
Devices, systems, and methods for ion trapping with integrated electromagnets are described herein. One device includes a plurality of electrodes configured to trap an ion above a surface of the device, a medial coil and a plurality of peripheral coils, each positioned at a respective radial angle associated with the medial coil, wherein the medial coil is configured to generate a first magnetic field having a first orientation, and wherein the peripheral coils are configured to generate a second magnetic field having a second orientation that opposes the first orientation.
US09548181B2
A novel composition, system and method for improving beam current during boron ion implantation are provided. In a preferred aspect, the boron ion implant process involves utilizing B2H6, 11BF3 and H2 at specific ranges of concentrations. The B2H6 is selected to have an ionization cross-section higher than that of the BF3 at an operating arc voltage of an ion source utilized during generation and implantation of active hydrogen ions species. The hydrogen allows higher levels of B2H6 to be introduced into the BF3 without reduction in F ion scavenging. The active boron ions produce an improved beam current characterized by maintaining or increasing the beam current level without incurring degradation of the ion source when compared to a beam current generated from conventional boron precursor materials.
US09548177B2
A smart fuse for circuit protection includes a first shaft and second shaft separated by a gap. A heater is located inside portions of the first and second shafts, and the heater is held in place within the shafts by a solder alloy that fills the gap. The shafts and solder alloy form an electrical signal path through the fuse. A spring is attached to the heater. The spring is stretched such that the spring exerts a force on the heater. The solder alloy holds the heater in place and resists the force exerted by the spring. In an activation condition of the fuse, the heater increases in temperature and melts the solder alloy. The melted solder alloy no longer resists the force exerted by the spring, and the spring pulls the heater through the second shaft until the gap is open, thereby severing the electrical connection through the fuse.
US09548176B2
A fuse terminal includes a central body portion. A first arm extends from the central body portion and defines an arm space that is located on a fuse side of the central body portion. A connector portion also extends from the central body portion and includes a leg that extends on the fuse side of the central body portion.
US09548173B2
An electrical contactor has first and second terminals; a movable arm connected to the second terminal; and an actuator. The actuator has a magnet, first and second coils having a common connection and located either side of the magnet, a magnetic rocking armature pivotably attached between the coils and an actuation element connected to the first end of the rocking armature for actuating the movable arm. Driving the first coil causes a demagnetization of the first coil and a corresponding increase in magnetic flux in the second coil, latching the armature to the second coil and moving the movable arm in a first direction. Driving the second coil causes a demagnetization of the second coil and a corresponding increase in magnetic flux in the first coil, latching the rocking armature to the first coil and moving the movable arm in a second direction.
US09548170B2
A guard assembly is for an electrical switching apparatus of an electrical system. The electrical system includes a number of conductors each having an insulated portion and an exposed portion that meet at a junction. The electrical switching apparatus includes a housing and a number of terminals connected to the exposed portion of a conductor. The guard assembly comprises: an interconnect member coupled to the housing; and a number of guard members each comprising: a first portion coupled to the interconnect member, and a second portion extending from the first portion away from the housing, the second portion comprising: a first distal end located at the first portion, and a second distal end opposite and distal from the first distal end. Each of the guard members has an opening. The opening receives a conductor. Each junction is located between a second distal end and a terminal.
US09548155B2
A transformer filter arrangement (30) for passing signals at a fundamental frequency and suppressing signals at one or more interfering frequencies is disclosed. It comprises a transformer (100) having a first winding (110) and a second winding (120), wherein the first winding (110) has a first end (112a) and a second end (122b) and the second winding (120) has a first end (122a) and a second end (122b). It further comprises one or more capacitors (130a-e). For each capacitor (130a-c) of a first set of at least one capacitor of the one or more capacitors (130a-e), the capacitor (130a-c) is connected between a pair of taps (a1, a2; b1, b2; c1, c2) of the first winding (110), wherein each tap (a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2) of the pair of taps (a1, a2; b1, b2; c1, c2) is located between the first end (112a) and the second end (112b) of the first winding (110), and the capacitor (130a-c), together with an inductive sub segment (140a-c) of the first winding (110), which is connected in parallel with the capacitor (130a-c) between the pair of taps (a1, a2; b1, b2; c1, c2), forms a parallel LC circuit which is tuned to resonate at one of said interfering frequencies for suppressing signals at said one of the interfering frequencies. A corresponding integrated circuit, a corresponding radio receiver circuit, a corresponding radio transmitter circuit, and a corresponding radio communication apparatus are also disclosed.
US09548148B2
An R-T-B based sintered magnet maintains high magnetic properties and decreases usage of heavy rare earth elements. The magnet includes main phase grains and grain boundary phases, the main phase grain containing a core portion and a shell portion. X in the main phase LR(2-x)HRxT14B of the core portion ranges from 0.00 to 0.07; x in the main phase LR(2-x)HRxT14B of the shell portion ranges from 0.02 to 0.40; and the maximum thickness of the shell portion ranges from 7 nm to 100 nm. LR contains Nd and one or more light rare earth elements consisting of Y, La, Ce, Pr and Sm; HR contains Dy or/and Tb and one or more heavy rare earth elements consisting of Gd, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu; T contains Fe or/and Co and one or two kinds of Mn and Ni; and B represents boron partly replaced by C (carbon).
US09548142B2
The high-withstanding-voltage member includes an alumina sintered compact containing alumina as a main crystal. Furthermore, the alumina sintered compact exhibits a peak intensity of 5000 or less at a wavelength of about 330 nm when measured by a cathode luminescence method.
US09548140B2
A nuclear reactor vessel structure includes an inner peripheral tube-shaped steel plate, an outer peripheral tube-shaped steel plate, and an intermediate tube-shaped steel plate disposed between the inner and outer peripheral tube-shaped steel plates, and is configured to support a nuclear reactor vessel on the inner peripheral side of a tube-shaped structure with concrete placed between the steel plates. The nuclear reactor vessel structure includes a support having a tube-shaped plate disposed on the inner peripheral side of the intermediate tube-shaped steel plate, and an annular plate which protrudes to the inner peripheral side of the tube-shaped plate and to which a connection section is affixed. The support is affixed to the concrete, which is placed between the inner peripheral and the intermediate tube-shaped steel plates, by first bar members, and the support is also affixed to the inner peripheral tube-shaped steel plate by second bar members.
US09548132B2
According to one embodiment, a shift register memory device includes a shift register, a program/read element, and a rotating force application unit. The shift register includes a plurality of rotors arranged along one direction and provided with a uniaxial anisotropy. Each of the plurality of rotors has a characteristic direction rotatable around a rotational axis extending in the one direction. The program/read element is configured to program data to the shift register by causing the characteristic direction of one of the rotors to match one selected from two directions conforming to the uniaxial anisotropy and configured to read the data by detecting the characteristic direction. The rotating force application unit is configured to apply a rotating force to the shift register to urge the characteristic direction to rotate. The plurality of rotors are organized into a plurality of pairs of every two mutually adjacent rotors. A first force acts to urge the characteristic directions to be opposingly parallel for two of the rotors belonging to the same pair. A second force acts to urge the characteristic directions to be opposingly parallel for two mutually adjacent rotors belonging to mutually adjacent pairs.
US09548119B2
A memory cell comprising includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, an electrically floating body transistor fabricated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a charge injector region. The floating body transistor is configured to have more than one stable state through an application of a bias on the charge injector region.
US09548112B2
A semiconductor device including a memory device configured to take a plurality of resistance states that are distinguishable from one another; a bias application section configured to apply, in a bias application period, a bias signal to the memory device; and a determination section configured to determine a resistance state of the memory device on the basis of a detection signal, in which the detection signal is generated in the memory device to which the bias signal is applied. The bias application section sets a length of the bias application period in accordance with a resistance value of the memory device, when the resistance state determined by the determination section is predetermined one of the resistance states.
US09548110B2
A memory device for thermoelectric heat confinement and method for producing same. The memory device includes a plurality of phase-change memory cells, wherein each of the phase-change memory cells has a first electrode, a second electrode and a phase-change material. The first electrode and the phase-change material are arranged such that a surface normal of a dominating interface for a current flow between the first electrode and the phase-change material points on one side to the phase-change material of the phase-change memory cell and on an opposite side to a phase-change material of a neighboring phase-change memory cell. A method for producing a memory device for thermoelectric heat confinement is also provided.
US09548107B1
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell configured to hold 4-bit data according to a threshold. A first bit of the 4-bit data is established by reading operations using a first to a third read levels. A second bit different from the first bit is established by reading operations using a fourth to a seventh read levels. A third bit different from the first and second bits is established by reading operations using an eighth to an eleventh read levels. A fourth bit different from the first to third bits is established by reading operations using a twelfth to a fifteenth read levels.
US09548099B2
A memory device includes a counter suitable for counting the number of times that a periodic wave is enabled and generating a code, one or more memory banks each including a plurality of word lines, and one or more measurement blocks corresponding to the memory banks, respectively, and suitable for measuring an active period of an activated word line in a corresponding memory bank among the memory banks, wherein each of the measurement blocks measures the active period of the activated word line based on a first value of the code at an activation starting point of the corresponding memory bank and a current value of the code.
US09548093B2
A magnetic memory element includes a first magnetic unit, a second magnetic unit, a third magnetic unit, a read/write unit, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first current source, the second current source. The third magnetic unit is connected to one end in the first direction of the first magnetic unit and one end in the first direction of the second magnetic unit. The read/write unit includes a nonmagnetic layer and a pinned layer. The nonmagnetic layer is connected to the third magnetic unit. The pinned layer is connected to the nonmagnetic layer. The first current source causes a current to flow between the third electrode and at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode. The second current source causes a current to flow between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09548081B2
Systems, methods, devices, circuits for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for data processing to identify a defect on a medium.
US09548080B2
Methods, systems, and computer program product embodiments for improving track-follow control in a tape storage system, by a processor device, are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises, time-varying filtering an error feedback signal within a closed-loop tape controller to dampen varying motor and harmonic disturbances.
US09548079B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic recording medium, a recording unit and a reproducing unit. The magnetic recording medium includes a first track and a second track, the first track extending in a first direction, the second track extending in the first direction and being arranged with the first track in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first track includes first and second sub-tracks extending in the first direction. The second track includes third and fourth sub-tracks extending in the first direction. The second sub-track is disposed between the first and fourth sub-tracks. The third sub-track is disposed between the second and fourth sub-tracks. The recording unit records information in the first and second tracks. The reproducing unit reproduces first information recorded in the first track. The reproducing unit reproduces second information recorded in the second track.
US09548078B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a bit rate and an apparatus therefor, and more specifically to an apparatus for storing a bit rate changed according to a significant level in a memory and a method for determining the bit rate, which meets the requirements for the distortion according to the memory space limitation and the significant level of the image information so as to minimize the energy consumption.
US09548068B1
A change in an optical energy profile of energy emitted from a read/write head is determined. The read/write head includes an optical transmission path that emits the energy to heat a heat-assisted recording medium during writing. A change in optical efficiency of the read/write head is also determined. Based on the change in the optical energy profile and the change in the optical efficiency, a change in the effectiveness of the read/write head is determined, and in response a mitigation is performed.
US09548066B2
A voice-based system may comprise a local speech interface device and a remote control service. A user may interact with the system using speech to obtain services and perform functions. The system may allow a user to install applications to provide enhanced or customized functionality. Such applications may be installed on either the speech interface device or the control service. The control service receives user speech and determines user intent based on the speech. If an application installed on the control service can respond to the intent, that application is called. Otherwise, the intent is provided to the speech interface device which responds by invoking one of its applications to respond to the intent.
US09548063B2
Embodiments of method and apparatus for acoustic echo control are described. According to the method, an echo energy-based doubletalk detection is performed to determine whether there is a doubletalk in a microphone signal with reference to a loudspeaker signal. A spectral similarity between spectra of the microphone signal and the loudspeaker signal is calculated. It is determined that there is no doubletalk in the microphone signal if the spectral similarity is higher than a threshold level. Adaption of an adaptive filter for applying acoustic echo cancellation or acoustic echo suppression on the microphone signal is enabled if it is determined that there is no doubletalk in the microphone signal through the echo energy-based doubletalk detection, or there is no doubletalk through the spectral similarity-based doubletalk detection.
US09548059B2
The present invention relates to a new method and apparatus for improvement of High Frequency Reconstruction (HFR) techniques using frequency translation or folding or a combination thereof. The proposed invention is applicable to audio source coding systems, and offers significantly reduced computational complexity. This is accomplished by means of frequency translation or folding in the subband domain, preferably integrated with spectral envelope adjustment in the same domain. The concept of dissonance guard-band filtering is further presented. The proposed invention offers a low-complexity, intermediate quality HFR method useful in speech and natural audio coding applications.
US09548056B2
The present document relates to coding. In particular, the present document relates to coding using linear prediction in combination with entropy encoding. A method (600) for determining a general prediction filter for a frame of an input signal (111) is described. The z-transform of the general prediction filter comprises an approximation to the z-transform of a finite impulse response, referred to as FIR, filter with the z variable of the FIR filter being replaced by the z-transform of an allpass filter. The FIR filter comprises a plurality of FIR coefficients (412). The allpass filter exhibits a pole defined by an adjustable pole parameter. The method (600) comprises determining the pole parameter and the plurality of FIR coefficients, such that an entropy of a frame of a prediction error signal (414) which is derived from the frame of the input signal (111) using the general prediction filter defined by the pole parameter and the plurality of FIR coefficients (412) is reduced.
US09548052B2
A user device receives audio data of a user reading aloud a displayed portion of an ebook, and converts a portion of the audio data to spoken-text data. The user device determines one or more similarity scores based on a comparison between the spoken-text data and text data associated with the displayed portion of the ebook, and ranks the one or more similarity scores to determine a reading location in the text data that corresponds to the spoken-text data. The user device determines a pronunciation score using the spoken-text data and pronunciation data associated with the text data at the reading location. The user device performs an action based in part on the reading location and the pronunciation score.
US09548049B2
A method of managing speech data in a system is provided. The method includes receiving speech data that is generated by a speech recognition module; searching data structures of a definition file for a speech tag based on the speech data, wherein the data structures define features of a display screen; and determining an action associated with the speech tag; and at least one of communicating data to an application of the system and generating display data based on the action.
US09548048B1
A speech recognition computer system uses video input as well as audio input of known speech when the speech recognition computer system is being trained to recognize unknown speech. The video of the speaker can be captured using multiple cameras, from multiple angles. The audio can be captured using multiple microphones. The video and audio can be sampled so that timing of events in the video and audio can be determined from the content independent of an audio or video capture device's clock. Video features, such as a speaker's moving body parts, can be extracted from the video and random sampled, to be used in a speech modeling process. Audio is modeled at the phoneme level, which provides word mapping with minor additional effort. The trained speech recognition computer system can then be used to recognize speech text from video/audio of unknown speech.
US09548042B2
Methods and systems for providing and utilizing responsive document breakpoints are provided. An electronic canvas in a first state is displayed, and an object is displayed on the electronic canvas in a first manner according to the first state. A request to resize the electronic canvas is received, where the request indicates a second state of the electronic canvas. A second manner of displaying the object according to the second state is identified. The electronic canvas in the second state is displayed, which includes displaying the object in the second manner according to the second state.
US09548029B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus, a light source driving apparatus and a driving method thereof, the display apparatus including: an image processor which is configured to process an image; and a controller which is configured to set a plurality of current levels corresponding to a plurality of screen modes for a display and control the display to perform a dimming by receiving a current level of a current which corresponds to a screen mode of the display.
US09548018B2
An optical switch, e.g. a display cell based on layer displacement or layer break up having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids e.g. oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate and in the second state the other fluid at least partly adjoins the first support plate. Part of an otherwise homogeneous electrode is removed to realize oil motion control.
US09548010B2
Disclosed is a support post for supporting roadway signs. In one embodiment, a polymer support post is formed of a composition of high density polyethylene—HDPE—, ground rubber and ‘XLPE’/Polycure. All these materials may be sourced from recycled materials. Additionally, the support may include ultra-violet materials and flame retardant materials. In one embodiment, the ultra-violet materials and flame retardant material are included in recycled XLPE material. One or more support rods may be disposed within the polymer support post. Additionally, one or more fragility apertures may extend through the support post to allow the support post to collapse upon impact.
US09548008B1
The present inventor devised, among other things, one or more exemplary systems, kits, methods, devices, assemblies, components, and/or software and related graphical interfaces related to signs with interchangeable illumination elements. One exemplary embodiment includes an illuminated sign assembly of two or more alphanumeric lighting elements formed of a transparent or translucent injection- or blow-molded plastic and including a number of surface-mounted light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Each of the alphanumeric elements plugs into power track, and can be independently rotated to a desired orientation relative the power track. In some embodiments, the each of the elements can be wireless controlled or programmed via a smartphone to blink or change colors according to a desired pattern or in response to ambient conditions. In still other embodiments, the lighting elements vertically stack onto a recharge station, and in yet others the elements are powered or recharged via resonant inductive coupling.
US09548006B2
An adhesive-backed printed pressure sensitive cut label assembly with easy temporary removability is disclosed, wherein the portion of the label forming the label stock may be printed on the back- or reverse-side of the label face stock and whereby the printed surface is applied with a hot melt or acrylic adhesive that ensures easy short-term removability from a container surface and reapplication thereto. The label stock is laminated to a base stock comprising a paper or polymeric release liner coated with silicone or other adhesive release coating. During manufacturing of the label assembly, the label stock and base stock are simultaneously fed to laminating rollers following a die-cutting process, whereby the two are joined.
US09548005B2
Card holders for personalized and customized display of interchangeable cards are disclosed.
US09548003B2
The present invention is a medical training simulation apparatus for training of medical professionals in medical examinations involving body parts with concealed geometry. The apparatus may comprise a physical model of a body part having an opening and structure that simulates the concealed geometry of a body part and may receive an inserted medical tool. A video display may be disposed within the structure of the apparatus to display at least one image of a physical defect or medical condition for the body part. The at least one image may e be alterable such that its appearance simulates the appearance of the defect or medical condition within the concealed geometry when viewed using the medical tool in relation to an applicable human or animal subject patient. The training apparatus is operable for one or more simulations for training a trainee in a medical examination or procedure for a body part in accordance with a training method.
US09548001B2
A molecular modeling kit provides a system for molecular modeling that represents exclusion between resonance structures in a molecule and permits their rotation, providing an informative tool for describing resonance in a classroom or other learning environment. The kit includes atom modeling components and bond connector components that are connected together to form models of molecules. The atom modeling components or the bond connector components include a mechanical exclusion feature that prevents simultaneous connection of two bond connector components to represent two pi-bonds formed with a single atom in a single plane.
US09547997B2
Multi-user portable electronic devices for improving reading ability and/or comprehension for a plurality of subjects are provided. The multi-user portable electronic devices may include a pitch shifter circuit configured to generate frequency altered auditory speech feedback (FAF) signals corresponding to respective auditory speech signals received from respective active microphones, and to transmit the respective FAF signals to the plurality of subjects while one or more of the plurality of subjects are respectively reading aloud, to improve the plurality of subjects' reading ability and/or comprehension. The multi-user portable electronic devices may also include a switch configured to activate the microphones selectively, serially. Related methods and systems are also described.
US09547987B2
Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for conveying vehicle driving information. A server computing device generates a hazard index for a plurality of road segments in a predefined coverage area. The server computing device determines a current hazard value for each of the plurality of road segments based on (i) weather conditions data associated with the road segments, (ii) road conditions data associated with the road segments, and (iii) physical attributes of the road segments. The server computing device determines a predicted hazard value for each of the plurality of road segments and assigns the present hazard value and predicted hazard value to the corresponding road segment. The server computing device receives location data associated with a remote device and transmits hazard information associated with one or more of the plurality of road segments based on the location data and the hazard index.
US09547982B2
A controlling device such as a remote control has programming for transmitting a signal response to a plurality of control environments, each environment including a signaling device. Each signaling device in receipt of the signal request sends a signal response having a unique ID which is chosen to be characteristically attenuated by the surroundings of the environment. Because the controlling device can only be in one environment at a given time, and given the attenuation characteristics of the signal response from each signaling device, only one signal response will be received by the controlling device in each environment. Location definitions associated with the received unique ID may be used by programming in the controlling device to recall saved devices states, commands sets, macros, and even to dynamically generate commands based on the location information.
US09547980B2
A smart controlling method applied to a smart home system for controlling a number of home appliances of the smart home system is able to learn the habits of the user in relation to the home appliances, deeming a control operation a habit when a certain controlling command is repeated for more than a predetermined number of times in a predetermined period. When the current certain condition value matches one of the habit certain conditions, the smart home system calls the corresponding habit controlling command to control the relative home appliance to execute the habitual operation. A smart gateway and a smart home system are also provided.
US09547976B1
A device designed to help people from forgetting objects in vehicles. The device includes a central unit, a power cable, and a conducting insert that closes a circuit. The central unit includes a. case that houses the circuit with an internal power source, a buzzer, a switch, and a relay. The circuit is disconnected and when the conducting insert is inserted, it bridges the switch and completes the circuit. The power cable has a plug on one end and a car charger plug on the other. When the vehicle is running and the car charger plug is plugged into the cigarette charger socket, the plug is powered. When the plug is plugged into the relay in powering mode, the circuit is opened. If the plug is in non-powering mode, the relay will remained closed and the circuit will remain completed at this point.
US09547975B2
A safety rail monitoring system, and associated methods of operation, for monitoring use of a safety rail that borders a footpath to help prevent injuries while the user traverses the footpath. The safety system includes a sensor system for detecting the presence of a user on the footpath and the presence of a contact by the user on the safety rail. A sensor observation system in communication with the sensor system receives signals indicating whether the user is present on the footpath and whether the user is holding on to the safety rail. If the user is not holding on to the safety rail, the sensor observation system generates an alert signal to the user to remind the user to hold the safety rail. In some embodiments, the safety system may include a barrier that prevents the user from continuing along the footpath without contacting the safety rail.
US09547971B2
Technologies for determining a threat assessment based on fear responses comprises monitoring sensor data received from a sensor array located at a monitored site. The sensor data may include behavioral sensor data indicative of a physical behavior of individuals within the monitored site and physiological sensor data indicative of physiological characteristics of individuals within the monitored site. The threat assessment may be based on the behavioral sensor data and physiological sensor data. In some embodiments, context data related to the monitored site may be utilized analyze the behavioral sensor data and physiological sensor data and determine a threat assessment based thereon.
US09547969B2
Systems and methods to detect and warn proximate entities of interest are described herein. An example method for assessing a possibility of a collision between entities of interest, each having their own characteristics of movement, includes sampling movement of each entity at least two points in time, generating a trajectory vector for each entity based on the movement sampling, expanding the trajectory vector of each entity based on at least one characteristic of movement of that entity, and analyzing the expanded trajectory vector of each entity for overlap to assess a possibility of a collision between the entities of interest.
US09547966B2
A removal device for a security tag attached to an article, including an identification of the security tag, offered for sale in a commercial establishment; where the removal device can be connected to a processor device configured, in turn, to supply an activation signal from the removal device, once the payment transaction has been completed, in order to remove the security tag in the event that there is a positive match between the security tag read by an identification reading device and a machine-readable identification tag read by a device for reading machine-readable identification tags prior to the completion of the sales transaction.
US09547963B1
Techniques are described for providing control of a monitoring system (e.g., a home alarm or security system) using one or more mobile devices. In some implementations, a native mobile device application enables use of a mobile device as a security/automation system keypad and controller for a home security system. In these implementations, the mobile device, using the native mobile device application, checks real time status of system and sensors, arms/disarms system, turns lights on/off, looks in on live video of security cameras, reviews history of system events, reviews saved video clips, monitors/changes thermostat settings, and performs other features of a traditional security keypad in a home security system.
US09547958B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a video poker game with additional winning opportunities. Upon receiving a primary wager, the gaming system provides the player with a quantity of player cards. The gaming system enables the player to discard zero, some, or all of the player cards. The discarded cards are replaced. The player cards are compared to a paytable to determine an award, if any, won by the player. In addition to the player cards, the player is provided five card indicators. If one or more of the player cards matches with corresponding card indicators, then the player is provided an additional win opportunity.
US09547957B2
A system and computer implemented method for conducting play of Internet-based lottery games includes providing players with a plurality of different Internet-based lottery games playable on an Internet enabled device in communication with an Internet game site, wherein the games have different game themes and mechanics of play by the player. A selection is accepted from a player for play of a particular one of the Internet-based lottery games. The plurality of different Internet-based games are linked to a common predetermined prize structure associated with a defined set of data files loaded in a secure game outcome generator such that the data files determine the outcome and prize structure of a defined number of game plays regardless of the particular game selected for play by the player from the plurality of different games.
US09547956B1
A method for executing a slots adventure game comprises the steps of displaying a virtual path for the slots adventure game and presenting to a player a first level (unlocked level) linked to the virtual path and subsequent levels (locked levels) linked to the same virtual path. Further, a selected slots game with the current quest task is initiated based on a player's selection. The player is then enabled to pass game levels by unlocking each of the subsequent levels sequentially.
US09547946B2
The present invention provides a universal control device for controlling sensors and controllers incorporated in a separate room. The universal control device includes a control logic analyzer adapted to receive a control logic, decompose the control logic into at least one condition and at least one instruction, and identify at least one sensor for the condition(s) and at least one controller for the instruction(s) correspondingly; a control center adapted to retrieve data from the at least one identified sensor, determine whether the at least one condition is met or not based on the retrieved data, and send the at least one instruction to the at least one identified controller for execution when the at least one condition is met; and a uniform interface adapted to couple the sensors and the controllers to the universal control device, and implement communications between the universal control device and the sensors, and the controllers.
US09547939B2
There is provided techniques for improved visualization of wireless devices in a communication network. The techniques include receiving, via an identification device, real-time display data, determining, via the identification device, a location of a network device and displaying, via a display of the identification device, the real-time display data and an indication of the location of the network device relative to the real-time display data.
US09547938B2
Techniques for augmenting an image of an object captured and displayed in real time with associated content are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for augmenting the image includes receiving information defining a sampled frame of a video being captured by an electronic device in substantially real time, determining information representative of an object captured in the sampled frame based on the received information, causing the determined information to match stored information defining a plurality of items to locate an item matched to the captured object, retrieving content associated with the matched item, and providing the retrieved content for display with the captured image on the electronic device. The retrieved content may be rendered in an overlay element that overlays the captured image displayed on the electronic device. The rendered content is configured to enable a user to interact with the content.
US09547937B2
Embodiments enable a three-dimensional annotation system and method that accepts desired depths for regions of input images and annotates two-dimensional/three-dimensional images with three-dimensional annotations for viewing at the desired depth(s) in any three-dimensional manner. Enables rapid and intuitive specification of desired depth and application of depth to regions in the two-dimensional images, or when editing three-dimensional images, as annotated by the three-dimensional annotations having at least one depth associated with the annotation. Enables rapid and intuitive depth augmentation or editing of an input image.
US09547934B2
A method and system for culling a patch of surface data from one or more tiles in a tile based computer graphics system. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of tiles and a patch of surface data read. Then, at least a portion of the patch is analyzed to determine data representing a bounding depth value evaluated over at least one tile. This may comprise tessellating the patch of surface data to derive a plurality of tessellated primitives and analyzing at least some of the tessellated primitives. For each tile within which the patch is located, the data representing the bounding depth value is then used to determine whether the patch is hidden in the tile, and at least a portion of the patch is rendered, if the patch is determined not to be hidden in at least one tile.
US09547928B2
A method and an apparatus for authoring stereoscopic 3D video information comprising a 3D video stream and 3D overlay graphics are described. A depth range in z-space for the stereoscopic presentation of the 3D video stream is determined for a plurality of time codes. A reference plane in z-space for placing the 3D overlay graphics is then determined such that depth conflicts between the 3D video and the reference place are reduced. A comfort zone surrounding a display screen plane and comprising the reference plane is defined, wherein the comfort zone specifies a depth range in z-space for preferable presentation of the stereoscopic 3D video information. It is then determined whether a depth conflict between the reference plane and the 3D video stream remains for the respective time codes and/or whether a depth conflict exists between the comfort zone and the 3D overlay graphics for the respective time codes. In this way a set of conflict intervals is generated, which is stored on a media source comprising the 3D video stream and the 3D overlay graphics. The set of conflict intervals is used during playback to adapt a presentation of the 3D video stream or a presentation of the 3D overlay graphics.
US09547926B2
[Object] To facilitate user's operations.[Solution] An editing apparatus is provided including: a component output unit for outputting a display screen on which a plurality of components are displayed; a node output unit for outputting a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of components on the display screen so that the nodes are displayed along with the plurality of components so as to overlap the display of the plurality of components; and a setting unit for setting, in response to a user's instruction of association between two or more of the nodes, an association between two or more of the components corresponding to the two or more of the nodes.
US09547919B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a transparent display, a scanner comprising a lens array and attached to the transparent display and a controller configured to control the scanner to scan an object viewed through the transparent display using the lens array being slid from a side of the transparent display to another side opposite to the side, and control the transparent display to display information in response to the scanning of the object.
US09547914B2
A computer-implemented technique for feature extraction includes obtaining an electronic image of an object and performing an edge detection algorithm on the electronic image. The technique further includes performing an edge pooling algorithm and sampling the electronic image edge patches, color patches and texture patches. A set of patches is selected from the edge patches, color patches and texture patches by selecting an (ith+1) patch to be within the set of patches based on a Euclidean distance from an ith patch of the set of patches for each of the set of edge patches, the set of color patches and the set of texture patches. A part selection algorithm and a part pooling algorithm is performed to obtain parts that are registered to the object.
US09547909B2
The edge detection method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: convolving pixels to be processed, based on templates in respective predetermined directions for edge detection operators and a logarithm of grayscale values for respective pixels adjacent to the pixels to be processed, so as to obtain brightness differential approximations in the respective predetermined directions for the pixels to be processed; calculating gradient magnitudes of the pixels to be processed, based on the brightness differential approximations in the respective predetermined directions for the pixels to be processed; comparing the gradient magnitudes of the pixels to be processed with a gradient magnitude threshold, and selecting the pixels to be processed whose gradient magnitudes are larger than or equal to the gradient magnitude threshold as edge pixels; and extracting a contour of a target within an image, based on the resultant edge pixels.
US09547907B2
Image segmentation utilizing 3D image data. A plurality of pixels of an image frame may be segmented based at least on a function of pixel color and a pixel depth over the spatial positions within the image frame. A graph-cut technique may be utilized to optimize a data cost and smoothness cost in which at least the data cost function includes a component that is a dependent on a depth associated with a given pixel in the frame. In further embodiments, both the data cost and smoothness functions are dependent on a color and a depth associated with each pixel. Components of at least the data cost function may be weighted for each pixel to arrive at most likely segments. Segmentation may be further predicated on a pre-segmentation label assigned based at least on a 3D spatial position clusters.
US09547904B2
A system includes a sensor to generate a first image having a first two-dimensional image pixel data set. A database provides a second image having a second two-dimensional image pixel data set that includes a three-dimensional positional data set describing a navigational position of each pixel in the second two-dimensional image pixel data set. A vision module includes an edge extractor to extract image edge features from the first two-dimensional pixel data set and image edge features from the second two-dimensional image pixel data set. The vision module includes a feature correlator to determine a navigational position for each pixel in the first two-dimensional data set based on an image edge feature comparison of the extracted edge features from the first and second two-dimensional image pixel data sets.
US09547900B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit and a determination unit. The acquiring unit acquires information of a relative position between a radiographic space where a subject is radiographed by an X-ray diagnosis apparatus and a scanning space where the subject is scanned by an ultrasound probe. The determination unit determines a position almost the same as the position scanned by the ultrasound probe in the radiographic space, according to the information of the relative position acquired by the acquiring unit. The acquiring unit acquires the information of the relative position based on an X-ray image radiographed by the X-ray diagnosis apparatus.
US09547893B2
Patient radiation exposure during computerized tomography (CT) scans is estimated. More specifically, efficient approaches for generating a suitable patient model which may be used to make an estimate of a radiation dose received at specific anatomical landmarks or organs of the patient are provided. Further disclosed are approaches for estimating the patient dose by interpolating the results of multiple simulations, and for enabling a service provider to host a dose estimation service made available to multiple CT scan providers.
US09547880B2
Methods and systems may include logic to identify a plurality of blocks in image data having one or more top-left dependent pixels, and select the plurality of blocks in a wavefront order for processing. In addition, the logic may process a plurality of pixels in each block in the wavefront order. The system may also include a display device to output a result associated with processing the plurality of pixels.
US09547875B2
Various techniques can be used to customize payroll element templates. One method involves accessing a predefined payroll element template; receiving a template modification value, which is input by a payroll user in response to a question in a predefined payroll questionnaire; customizing the predefined payroll element template, based upon the template modification value, to create a customized payroll element template; and storing the customized payroll element template.
US09547872B2
Systems and methods to provide search results along a corridor are discussed. In an example, a method for providing search results along a corridor can include displaying an interface enabling a user to define a route of travel, accessing a search corridor, filtering a plurality of search results, and displaying the search results. The search corridor encompassing at least a portion of the route of travel, and based at least in part on the route of travel, a mode of transportation, and a route deviation threshold. The plurality of search results including an associated geographic location, and filtered based at least in part on the search corridor. Displaying the search results can include a representation of the search corridor, the route of travel, and the filtered set of search results.
US09547870B1
A system and method of selective advertising where an advertiser can decide whether or not to advertise to a certain user based on credential information submitted by that user. The user provides his or her credential information to a search engine and enters a search query. In response, the search engine evaluates the user's credential information and compares that information to criteria provided by advertisers that participate with that search engine. The search engine determine which advertisers have indicated a willingness to advertise to a user with the submitted credentials and selectively provides matching search results.
US09547868B2
Selecting a content filler from a plurality of content fillers in a satellite broadcast comprises receiving a content in a first broadcast frequency channel, and a plurality of content fillers in a respective plurality of second broadcast frequency channels, wherein the content includes a gap in content to be filled by one of the plurality of content fillers, the gap in content defined by a start indicator and an end indicator. The receiver transmits the content to a display device. The receiver determines a second broadcast frequency channel, from among the plurality of second broadcast frequency channels and responsive to receiving the start indicator, switches to the determined second broadcast frequency channel, transmits the content filler in the determined second broadcast frequency channel to the display device. Responsive to receiving the end indicator, the receiver switches to the first broadcast frequency channel and transmits the content to the display device.
US09547862B2
Methods and systems are provided for facilitating control of a child's purchasing of products from a merchant using a credit card, debit card, gift card, secure token, mobile device, or the like. A payment provider, such as Paypal, Inc., can authorized the purchase of a product from the merchant if both the child and the parent are checked in with the same merchant via one or more social networks (thereby indicating that the child and the parent are in or near the same store). This requirement for proximity between the child and the parent can provide the parent with an opportunity to more closely monitor purchases made by the child.
US09547856B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for chopping up a gift card/code into smaller multiple gift card/codes. The system receives a request from a user to convert a closed-loop card/code having a value amount into two different closed-loop cards/codes and divides (or “chops up”) the closed-loop card/code into a first closed-loop card/code having a first value amount and a second closed-loop card/code having a second value amount, wherein the first value amount and the second value amount add up to no more than the value amount. The system offers the first closed-loop card/code and the second closed-loop card/code to one of the user and a third party.
US09547854B2
Methods and systems for facilitating electronic transactions on a user device are described. User-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are provided with minimal text and more pictures and images. The GUIs detect or receive various gesture inputs, such as swiping, tapping, and dragging and dropping, and display a corresponding screen or page. The gesture inputs allow a user to select or specify payers/payees, transaction amounts, and funding sources, without having to type numbers or letters.
US09547851B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for shelf life expiration date management for smart refrigerators. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for shelf life expiration date management for smart refrigerators is provided. The method includes identifying a consumer during a point of sale transaction for purchasing different food items by a point of sale computer system, for example by scanning a bar code or reading a magnetic strip of a loyalty program card or reading a radio frequency identification (RFID) dongle. A list of the different food items can be provided to the smart refrigerator, for example from storage in the loyalty program card or RFID dongle, or as transmitted from the point of sale computer system to the smart refrigerator over a computer communications network. Finally, expiration dates can be determined for the food items in the list and stored in the smart refrigerator.
US09547848B2
After loss of communications between a cash handling device and a financial institution, transactions may continue to be processed. In one configuration, the transactions may be processed up to a predefined transaction limit. Transaction limits may be defined by a number of transactions, a dollar amount transacted or to be transacted, an amount of time and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, the transaction limit may be specific to one or more types of transactions. Transaction data may be stored in memory until communication has been re-established, at which time the data may be transmitted to the financial institution for processing.
US09547847B2
A system for determining presence of and authorizing a quorum to transact business over a network includes a first set of machine-readable instructions resident on a digital medium accessible to a computing machine, the instructions causing the machine to monitor a network for active presence of individual ones of communications devices associated with members of an authorized team of individuals from which the quorum may be determined, a second set of machine-readable instructions resident on the medium for causing the computing machine to make a confirmation of the quorum against a set of rules, and to authorize one or more of the individual communications devices making up the quorum to perform one or more tasks based on quorum consensus, and a user configuration, scheduling, and notification application resident on the digital medium for enabling a user to configure, schedule, and notify team members of a pending quorum event.
US09547839B2
A system and method for providing customer service to a website user online, includes downloading a user-state-monitoring object and a user profile from a website to a client site when a website user loads up any web page through the website, wherein the user-state-monitoring object is configured to monitor and analyze the website user's behavioral patterns in real time by comparing the user's actions to a set of pre-defined business rules, and utilizing the user-state-monitoring object to notify an available customer service representative and enable communication between the customer service representative and the website user.
US09547831B2
A system for monitoring use of a tool. The system may include an RFID tag coupled to the tool. A collar may be removably coupled to the tool and configured to be de-coupled from the tool prior to the tool being used. An RFID reader may be coupled to the collar and configured to transmit a first alert signal when the RFID reader is out of transmission range from the RFID tag.
US09547828B2
In one embodiment, a machine learning model for predicting one or more metrics is run in a network which includes a centralized controller device interconnected with a plurality of edge devices. A batch version of the machine learning model that operates in batch mode is hosted at the centralized controller device. Then, an incremental version of the machine learning model that operates in incremental mode is pushed to an edge device of the plurality of edge devices, such that the incremental version of the machine learning model is hosted at the edge device. As a result, the batch version and the incremental version of the machine learning model run in parallel with one another.
US09547826B2
Quantum processor architectures employ unit cells tiled over an area. A unit cell may include first and second sets of qubits where each qubit in the first set crosses at least one qubit in the second set. Angular deviations between qubits in one set may allow qubits in the same set to cross one another. Each unit cell is positioned proximally adjacent at least one other unit cell. Communicatively coupling between qubits is realized through respective intra-cell and inter-cell coupling devices.
US09547825B2
A system for selecting diversion techniques includes a memory storage device and a processor. The processor is configured to, for each of several well characteristics, assign a weight to each of the several well characteristics, where the weight is indicative of the importance of the well characteristic to the selection of a diversion technique, and where not all of the weights are the same. The processor is further configured to calculate a desirability of each of several diversion techniques based upon, at least partially, the weights and the several well characteristics, and select a diversion technique based upon, at least partially, the calculated desirability of the several diversion techniques.
US09547815B2
A logo-added two-dimensional code creation device determines the color of a two-dimensional code to be superimposed on a logo image by adjusting the L value indicating the color lightness, whereby a logo-added two-dimensional code readable regardless of influence of post-printing processing and/or ambient light can be created. The logo-added two-dimensional code has smaller cells superimposed on the tiger character that can easily lose the design integrity than the cells superimposed on the background part, ensuring the design integrity of the logo image without impairing the readability of information.
US09547814B2
A metal transaction card is provided having a metal core layer with metal cladding layers connected thereto on opposing sides thereof. The metal core layer may have a density and/or thickness that is significantly greater than the density and/or thickness of the metal cladding layers. The density of the metal core layer may be at least 2.5 times greater than the density of the metal cladding layers. The density of the metal core layer may be at least 7.5. The outward facing lateral surface of one or both of the metal cladding layers may be anodized, or anodized and colorized. The anodized lateral surface(s) may be coated to increase the performance of a one or more hot-stamped elements attached to the coated surface(s).
US09547807B2
A method for classifying objects from one or more images comprising generating a trained classification process and using the trained classification process to classify objects in the images. Generating the trained classification process can include extracting features from one or more training images and clustering the features into one or more groups of features termed visual words; storing data for each of the visual words, including color and texture information, as descriptor vectors; and generating a vocabulary tree to store clusters of visual words with common characteristics. Using the trained classification process to classify objects can include extracting features from the images and clustering the features into groups of features termed visual words; searching the vocabulary tree to determine the closest matching clusters of visual words; and classifying objects based on the closest matching clusters of visual words in the vocabulary tree.
US09547800B2
A stand-alone computer-camera system capable of extracting car-plate information. This is achieved by using an on-board computer in order to analyze the video stream recorded by the camera sensor, and can be used with any type of camera sensor. The system features specific characteristics making it extremely fast and able to catch plates of cars moving at high-speed. The special algorithms incorporated in this system, are specially implemented, in order to be able to be ported on an embedded computer system, which has usually lower capabilities in terms of processing power and memory than a general-purpose computer.
US09547799B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for automatically determining the content boundaries in a digital image. A gradient field may be generated using an edge detector, and the gradient field may be thresholded, by magnitude, to retain strong edges. The resulting localized edge positions may be projected onto a first direction and a second direction to form two projection histograms. The projection histograms may be analyzed to determine the boundaries of the image content. Corners of a cropping rectangle may be computed, and the digital image may be cropped according to the content boundaries.
US09547795B2
An image based obstacle detection method. A camera mounted on a vehicle provides a set of image frames while the vehicle is in motion. The image frames define an image plane having a vertical aspect and a horizontal aspect. The relevancy of an object is determined by (i) selecting first and second feature points from the object that are spaced apart vertically in a first image frame; (ii) tracking the positions of the first and second feature points over at least a second image frame; and (iii) deciding the object to be relevant if the first and second feature points move dissimilar distances in physical space, within a tolerance, and deciding the object to be irrelevant otherwise. The motion of relevant objects is then estimated to determine if any relevant object is likely to become an obstacle to the vehicle.
US09547788B1
A fingerprint sensor-compatible overlay which uses anisotropic conductive material to enable accurate imaging of a fingerprint through an overlay is disclosed. The anisotropic conductive material has increased conductivity in a direction orthogonal to the fingerprint sensor, increasing the capacitive coupling of the fingerprint to the sensor surface, allowing the fingerprint sensor to accurately image the fingerprint through the overlay. In one embodiment, the overlay is configured to enclose a device which includes a fingerprint sensor. In another embodiment, the overlay is configured as a glove. Methods for forming a fingerprint sensor-compatible overlay are also disclosed.
US09547786B2
A service provider receives, from a user, picture information captured by a user device from a picture mark associated with a product or service of a merchant. It determines a matching picture image by comparing the picture information with picture images in a server, previously registered by the merchant. It also determines, out of attributes previously registered by the merchant, a matching attribute set uniquely associated with the matching picture image. The attributes may be web links, mobile APPs, or any media files that the merchant desires to communicate to users about its products or services. The service provider then communicates to the user the matching attribute set to be loaded on the user device and direct the user to the web links, mobile APPs, or media files that the merchant predetermined.
US09547785B2
A barcode scanner comprises a compensating light source, an image capturing module and a processor. The compensating light source is used to emit a compensating light. The image capturing module is used to capture an original image including an object and to capture a second image under the compensating light. The processor is coupled with the compensating light source and the image capturing module. The processor generates a depth information of the object according to the original image, controls intensity of the compensating light according to the depth information, controls the image capturing module to capture a second image when the compensating light source emits the compensating light, obtains a target information corresponding to a target object according to the depth information, obtains a target image by mapping the target information onto the second image, locates a barcode and analyzes an information of the barcode according to the target image.
US09547783B2
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags may be affixed to one or more personal objects, such as a key, a watch, a wallet, a purse, a medicine container, or the like. A mobile telephone may be associated with the plurality of RFID tags. A display of the mobile telephone may indicate whether each of the RFID tags is in communication with an RFID reader. For example, the RFID reader may be embedded in a drawer lining, embedded in the mobile telephone itself, or embedded in a handheld wand. The mobile telephone may generate an alert when at least one of the plurality of RFID tags is not in communication with the RFID reader. For example, a trigger RFID may be affixed to a doorway. The trigger RFID may cause the mobile telephone to alert the user to a missing item.
US09547774B2
The present disclosure relates to an advantageous system and related methods for distributed deduplication of encrypted chunks. One embodiment relates to a method for storing encrypted chunks in which an encryption key is generated independently from a chunk payload. With this method, two encrypted chunks are identifiable as having identical chunk payloads even when the chunk payloads are encrypted with different encryption keys. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US09547768B2
System(s) and method(s) to provide privacy measurement and privacy quantification of sensor data are disclosed. The sensor data is received from a sensor. The private content associated with the sensor data is used to calculate a privacy measuring factor by using entropy based information theoretic model. A compensation value with respect to distribution dissimilarity is determined. The compensation value compensates a statistical deviation in the privacy measuring factor. The compensation value and the privacy measuring factor are used to determine a privacy quantification factor. The privacy quantification factor is scaled with respect to a predefined finite scale to obtain at least one scaled privacy quantification factor to provide quantification of privacy of the sensor data.
US09547762B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for combining authentication and application shortcut. An example method includes detecting, by a device having a touchscreen, a gesture by a user on the touchscreen while the device is in a sleep mode; classifying the gesture, by the device, as an intentional gesture or an accidental gesture; maintaining the device in the sleep mode if the gesture is classified as an accidental gesture; responsive to determining, by the device, that the gesture matches one or more confirmed gestures stored on the device based at least in part on a set of predefined criteria, if the gesture is classified as an intentional gesture: recognizing the user as authenticated; and without requiring additional user input, selecting an application, from a plurality of different applications, according to the gesture and launching the application on the device.
US09547752B2
A graphical user interface for controlling and configuring a remote catheter guidance system having the graphical user interface is displayed concurrently with the mapping and navigation display of the remote catheter guidance system and the graphical user interface being configured to allows a user full control of all the remote catheter guidance system movement functions without leaving the mapping and navigation display. The graphical user interface further allows the physician to quickly configure and calibrate a remote catheter guidance system prior to or during a procedure.
US09547749B2
Systems and methods for visualization, sharing and analysis of large data sets are described. Systems and methods may include receiving an input data set, wherein the input data set includes data that can be classified in classification dimensions wherein a first classification dimension is a linear ordering of data entries and a second classification dimension represents analysis criteria, traits of the data entries, or aspects of the data entries; obtaining an unabridged data table listing results for each combination of coordinates in the first classification dimension and the second classification dimension; and displaying contents of the unabridged data table as a visual array wherein two axes correspond to the coordinates and a third axis corresponds to a third classification dimension, wherein the third classification dimension represents an actual value of the respective data point for the coordinates. Methods may also assess the visual array, such as by identifying one or more regions of high density of signals.
US09547731B2
Disclosed is a method of merging a first set of data objects and a second set of data objects for displaying on a display screen, the method comprising: retrieving a first identifier associated with a first memory location, the first memory location for storing the first set of data objects; retrieving a second identifier associated with a second memory location, the second memory location for storing the second set of data objects; comparing the first identifier and the second identifier; and grouping one or more first data objects from the first set of data objects and one or more second data objects from the second set of data objects based on the comparison.
US09547730B2
A query processor determines if an initial query results in a query system having a search engine coupled to a database to identify a limited maximum number of records deliverable by the query system. This limitation is indicative of an incomplete result because records are includable in the query may not be included in the result. In response the query processor generates a plurality of queries that cause the query system to generate results that identify less than the maximum number. The results of the plurality of queries are combined as a response to the initial query. Duplicate records caused by any overlap in the plurality of queries may be eliminated from the combination. Determining a median value of a query range that causes the query system to deliver the maximum number of records may be utilized in the generation of the plurality of queries.
US09547707B2
For synchronizing replication status, a copy module continuously replicates data from a first device designated with a device status of primary to a second device designated with a device status of secondary. A first peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC) relationship is established between the first and second devices. The first and second devices store replication information comprising a bitmap with a replication status for each data block of the first device. The copy module further copies an instant point-in-time copy of the data from the second device to a copy device. In addition, the copy module copies the replication information from the second device to the copy device and links the replication information of the second device and copy devices.
US09547706B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that uses colocation hints to facilitate storing data blocks in a distributed data storage system, which includes a plurality of data centers. During operation, the system receives a write request from a client to write a data block to the distributed data storage system, wherein the write request includes a colocation hint that identifies a colocation group associated with the data block. In response to the write request, the system uses the colocation hint to identify one or more data centers associated with the colocation group. Next, the system writes copies of the data block to the one or more identified data centers. In this way, the system situates copies of data blocks associated with the colocation group in the same data centers when possible.
US09547703B2
Methods and systems for efficient file replication are provided. In some embodiments, one or more coarse signatures for blocks in a base file are compared with those coarse signatures for blocks of a revised file, until a match is found. A fine signature is then generated for the matching block of the revised file and compared to a fine signature of the base file. Thus, fine signatures are not computed unless a coarse signature match has been found, thereby minimizing unneeded time-consuming fine signature calculations. Methods are also provided for determining whether to initiate a delta file generation algorithm, or whether to utilize a more efficient replication method, based upon system and/or file parameters. In accordance with additional embodiments, the lengths of valid data on physical blocks are obtained from physical block mappings for the files, and these lengths and mappings are utilized for delta file generation, to minimize unnecessary signature computations.
US09547686B1
A method may include applying periodically a data validation rule to data transformed through a data processing system, wherein the data validation rule applies aspects selected from a group consisting of data value range, specific data values, and relationship with other data entries; responsive to detecting a violation of the data validation rule, identifying a portion of the transformed data for lineage assessment; examining the identified transformed data iteratively upstream at a previous transformation node in a lineage graph, until the method detects a node where the violation of the data validation rule can't be reproduced; creating a separate node in a distributed network for each of the previous transformation nodes in the lineage graph; and identifying the separate node in the distributed network introducing the violation of the data validation rule.
US09547685B2
Mitigating problems related to the Halloween problem including where update operations potentially allow the record to be visited more than once during the operation. A method includes accessing an instance of a data store operation statement. The instance of the data store operation statement is executed causing an update or delete to an old version of data store record or creation of a data store record resulting in a new version of the data store record in the case of an update or creation of a data store record and a deleted version of the data store record in the case of a delete in the data store. The instance of the data store operation statement is correlated with the new version of the data store record or the deleted version of the data store record.
US09547676B2
A cloud computing operating system is described. The system, in one aspect, includes a plurality of core data structures (100) each configured to define basic attributes that elements of the system contain. The system also including an indexing data structure (104) inherited from one of the core data structures (100) configured to index any number of core data structures (100) or elements inherited from a core data structure (100) and an encapsulating data structure (110) inherited from the indexing data structure (104) and configured to encapsulate any number of core data structures (100) or elements inherited from a core data structure (100). Each core data structure (100) is encapsulated within one encapsulating data structure and includes a reference to its encapsulating data structure. Other aspects of the cloud computing operating system are also described.
US09547674B2
A data normalization system is described herein that represents multiple data types that are common within database systems in a normalized form that can be processed uniformly to achieve faster processing of data on superscalar CPU architectures. The data normalization system includes changes to internal data representations of a database system as well as functional processing changes that leverage normalized internal data representations for a high density of independently executable CPU instructions. Because most data in a database is small, a majority of data can be represented by the normalized format. Thus, the data normalization system allows for fast superscalar processing in a database system in a variety of common cases, while maintaining compatibility with existing data sets.
US09547659B1
A first request may be received to update a first set of values. The first set of values may be stored at a first location within a first data page of a database. The first location may be read-only. In response to the receiving of the first request, a first set of records may be inserted into a second data page. The first set of records may include the update of the first set of values. In response to the inserting, a forward pointer may be stored in the first data page that points to the first set of records on the second data page. One or more committed values may be identified on the second data page. In response to the identifying, the one or more committed values may be merged from the second data page to a third data page.
US09547650B2
Systems are provided to enable users of a streaming media playback system to share playlists. A user can select a first play-list corresponding to a play-list identifier and can use the messaging component executable from a first playback interface to send a message to a second user that allows the second user to playback the selected play-list. The play-list identifier may be packaged with arguments or other coding. The system further includes a streaming media clips rating system that includes a database management component that maintains an organizational data structure describing rating information for media resources, and a dynamic playlist generator adapted to automatically and dynamically generate at least one play-list for a user based on rating information in the organizational data structure comprises identifiers of one or more media resources that have similar attributes to one or more media resources that have received a positive rating selection from a user.
US09547647B2
Methods and systems for searching for media items using a voice-based digital assistant are described. Natural language text strings corresponding to search queries are provided. The search queries include query terms. The text strings may correspond to speech inputs input by a user into an electronic device. At least one information source is searched to identify at least one parameter associated with at least one of the query terms. The parameters include at least one of a time parameter, a date parameter, or a geo-code parameter. The parameters are compared to tags of media items to identify matches. In some implementations, media items whose tags match the parameter are presented to the user.
US09547640B2
An approach for determining a combination of terms that represents subject matter of a natural language sentence is provided. Numbers of words from a beginning of the sentence to terms in the sentence that match terms in the combination of terms are determined. The sentence is divided into natural language phrases including a complex phrase and first and second simple phrases extracted from the complex phrase. Based in part on (a) the numbers of words from the beginning of the sentence to the terms in the sentence that match terms in the combination of terms, (b) whether all terms of the combination are contained in the first and/or second simple phrases, and (c) whether all terms of the combination are contained in the complex phrase but not contained in the first and/or second simple phrases, how well the combination of terms represents the subject matter is determined.
US09547638B2
At least one rule specification is received for a graph-based computation having data processing components connected by linking elements representing data flows. The rule specification defines rules that are each associated with one or more rule cases that specify criteria for determining one or more output values that depend on input data. A transform is generated for at least one data processing component in the graph-based computation based on the received rule specification, including providing an interface for configuring characteristics of a log associated with the generated transform. At least one data flow is transformed using the generated transform, including: tracing execution of the data processing components in the graph-based computation at run time, generating log information based on the traced execution according to the configured log characteristics, and storing or outputting the generated log information.
US09547632B2
Disclosed is a system for playing multimedia for a PDF document-based e-book. According to one embodiment of the present invention relating to the system for playing multimedia for a PDF document-based e-book, it is possible to map an object, such as text and an image, of an e-book document having multimedia content, and to play/stop the multimedia content of the document according to the request of a user.
US09547631B1
An approach for creating a clickable link within a presentation during a live collaborative web meeting is provided. The approach identifies one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation. The approach retrieves metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators within the presentation. The approach presents the metadata for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with a corresponding image from the presentation. The approach creates the clickable link for each of the one or more uniform resource locators with the corresponding image.
US09547625B2
An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.
US09547623B2
A flexible memory interface system includes a control module, instruction memory, a command processing unit, an address processing unit, and a data processing unit. The control module controls storing and retrieving of a command portion, an addressing portion, and data of an instruction to access memory to and from the instruction memory and the command processing unit, the address processing unit, and the data processing unit, respectively. The command processing unit is operably coupled to process a command portion of an instruction to access memory. The address processing unit is operably coupled to process an addressing portion of the instruction to access the memory. The data processing unit is operably coupled to process data conveyance to or from the external memory based on the instruction to access the memory.
US09547622B1
In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system on chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. In an example, the device has a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device.
US09547620B2
A computing device including a printed circuit board. A docking port coupled to the printed circuit board. Wherein the docking port can receive a docking connector that either passes through an aperture in the printed circuit board or passes by the edge of the printed circuit board.
US09547617B2
A physical layer integrated circuit (PHY), including an accessory charger adapter (ACA) bridge circuit to communicate with an ACA via a universal serial bus (USB) cable having at least an ID pin and a VBUS pin. The PHY is also to communicate with an ACA-agnostic USB controller configured to act as an A-device or as a B-device. The ACA comprises a USB accessory port. The ACA bridge circuit comprises detection and control logic configured to detect, based on a resistance sensed on the ID pin, that a B-device is connected to the USB accessory port of the ACA and, as a result of such a detection, generate a signal to the USB controller that causes the USB controller to act as an A-device and ignore a VBUS drive signal from the USB controller that, if not ignored, would cause the PHY to drive the VBUS pin. The detection and control logic is also configured to detect, based on a resistance sensed on the ID pin, that an off/idle A-device or nothing is connected to the USB accessory port of the ACA and, as a result of such a detection, modify a signal to the USB controller that prevents the USB controller from being aware of a voltage on the VBUS pin.
US09547615B2
Systems and methods of operating a computing system may involve utilizing at least one of a peripheral protocol negotiation and a universal connector to determine a peripheral device protocol, and reconfiguring a computer device to accommodate that peripheral device protocol. Upon such a reconfiguration, the peripheral protocol negotiation may “step aside”, and one or more subsequent communications between a host computer and the peripheral device utilizing the peripheral device protocol may start.
US09547609B2
A data interface is provided for point-to-point communications between two devices, such as a read channel and a disk controller in an HDD system. An interface for communications from a transmitting device to a receiving device comprises a data bus configured to communicate m bits of data and a corresponding n bit data tag, wherein a given n bit data tag identifies a data type of a corresponding m bits of data on the data bus. An acknowledge signal from the receiving device optionally indicates that data on the data bus has been received and that the data on the data bus can be changed to a new value. A valid flag optionally indicates when a new predefined m-bit data value and corresponding n-bit tag value are on the data bus.
US09547607B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for brokering access to peripheral devices and/or device models associated with a computing system. An access broker evaluates requests for access to peripheral devices/models on behalf of a plurality of applications. The access broker evaluates requests for access to peripheral devices including scanners, point-of-sale devices, and devices using ubiquitous device protocols (e.g., USB, HID, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth LE) utilizing application declarations and user consents based upon device model identifiers and/or device-specific identifiers associated with the various devices. Applications may be notified of consent changes at runtime and/or application firmware updates for peripheral devices may be conducted upon receipt of user consent, for instance, to ensure adequate battery power before performing a peripheral device firmware update.
US09547606B1
A peripheral device connected to a local electronic device which is connected to at least one communication network can communicate with a peripheral device attached to a remote electronic device as if the remote peripheral device was locally attached. Data designated for the remote peripheral device is received by a local virtual device object and transmitted to the remote electronic device via at least one of the electronic devices communication interfaces or peripheral devices. Data received by the remote electronic device's communication interface or peripheral device is written to the peripheral device at the remote electronic device by a virtual device object. For compensation of different transfer speeds or outages between the peripheral device and the communication interface or another peripheral device the virtual device provides the ability to utilize the virtual devices emulation driver that is attached to the virtual device object as an I/O buffer.
US09547604B2
Data operations, requiring a lock, are batched into a set of operations to be performed on a per-core basis. A global lock for the set of operations is periodically acquired, the set of operations is performed, and the global lock is freed so as to avoid excessive duty cycling of lock and unlock operations in the computing storage environment.
US09547602B2
Presented systems and methods can facilitate efficient information storage and tracking operations, including translation look aside buffer operations. In one embodiment, the systems and methods effectively allow the caching of invalid entries (with the attendant benefits e.g., regarding power, resource usage, stalls, etc), while maintaining the illusion that the TLBs do not in fact cache invalid entries (e.g., act in compliance with architectural rules). In one exemplary implementation, an “unreal” TLB entry effectively serves as a hint that the linear address in question currently has no valid mapping. In one exemplary implementation, speculative operations that hit an unreal entry are discarded; architectural operations that hit an unreal entry discard the entry and perform a normal page walk, either obtaining a valid entry, or raising an architectural fault.
US09547595B2
A transactional memory system salvages hardware lock elision (HLE) transactions. A computer system of the transactional memory system records information about locks elided to begin HLE transactional execution of first and second transactional code regions. The computer system detects a pending cache line conflict of a cache line, and based on the detecting stops execution of the first code region of the first transaction and the second code region of the second transaction. The computer system determines that the first lock and the second lock are different locks and uses the recorded information about locks elided to acquire the first lock of the first transaction and the second lock of the second transaction. The computer system commits speculative state of the first transaction and the second transaction and the computer system continues execution of the first code region and the second code region non-transactionally.
US09547592B2
A method and system of selecting and migrating relevant data from among data associated with a workload of a virtual machine and stored in source storage cache memory in a dynamic computing environment is described. The method includes selecting one or more policies, the one or more policies including a size policy defining a default maximum size for the relevant data. The method also includes selecting the relevant data from among the data based on the one or more policies in a default mode, and migrating the relevant data from the source storage cache memory to target storage cache memory.
US09547591B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for associating a heatmap file with a multi-portion data file located on a data array. The heatmap file is configured to monitor the usage of each portion of the multi-portion data file. At least one portion of the multi-portion data file is used via a virtual machine executed on a first physical machine. The heatmap file is updated to reflect the usage of the at least one portion of the multi-portion data file.
US09547588B1
Flash memory is subject to a wear out failure mechanism which may depend on the number of times each cell of the memory is programmed and erased. The higher the programming voltage used, the more rapidly the cell degrades. A system and method for reducing the average programming voltage for data sets is disclosed.
US09547587B2
A mechanism is provided for dynamic power and thermal capping in a flash storage system. A set of measurement values are received for the flash storage system, the set of measurement values comprising one or more of a set of current (I) measurement values, a set of voltage (V) measurement values, or a set of temperature (T) measurement values. An average current (Iavg) value from the set of current (I) measurements and, responsive to the average current (Iavg) value being greater than a predetermined maximum current (Imax) value, a determination is made as to whether a rate at which erase operations are performed for the flash storage system is greater than a predetermined minimum erase rate. Responsive to the rate at which erase operations are performed for the flash storage system being greater than the predetermined minimum erase rate, the rate at which erase operations are performed for the flash storage system are decreased by a predetermined value.
US09547583B2
A method for executing a system application test case of a runtime system in an integrated server environment is provided. The method includes establishing a transmission control protocol connection between a client development environment and an integrated server environment, to initiate execution of the system application test case in the integrated server environment. The method further includes issuing a data transfer protocol transmission request to the integrated server environment for a description script of the system application test case. The method further includes transmitting an extensible markup language of the requested description script. The method further includes issuing a data transfer protocol transmission request to execute a test of the system application test case. The method further includes executing the system application test case in the integrated server environment. The method further includes transmitting the extensible markup language document of the compiled test results to the client development environment.
US09547574B2
A method includes, in a host that stores data in a storage device, detecting an event that is indicative, statistically and not deterministically, of an imminent power shutdown in the host. A notification is sent to the storage device responsively to the detected event, so as to cause the storage device to initiate preparatory action for the imminent power shutdown.
US09547561B1
A computer readable medium and method for providing checkpointing to Windows application groups. The checkpointing may be triggered asynchronously using Asynchronous Procedure Calls. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for reviewing one or more command line arguments to determine whether to start at least one of the application groups, and when determining to start the at least one of the application groups, creating a process table in a shared memory to store information about each process of the at least one of the application groups. Further, the instructions may be for registering with a kernel module to create an application group barrier, creating a named pipe for applications of the application group to register and unregister, triggering a checkpoint thread to initiate an application group checkpoint; and launching an initial application of the applications of the application group.
US09547542B1
A system, method, computer program, and/or computer readable medium for providing application isolation and live migration to one or more applications and their associated resources. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for creating a new isolated environment, for creating a copy of an isolated environment, live migrating applications within and between isolated environments, and for deploying an isolated environment Further, the instructions may be for launching one or more applications within one or more isolated environment, for terminating one or more applications within one or more isolated environments, for configuring resource mappings, exceptions and policies, for triggering a live migrate, and for delivery of one or more applications within isolated environments over the network.
US09547541B2
A method and associated system for interfacing between a caller application and a service module. Upon receiving a request for performing a transaction that includes at least one caller application attribute describing the request, the service module builds a service module data structure pursuant to the received request. The service module data structure includes a generic service document and at least one service module attribute. Each service module attribute is stored in a relational table of the service module data structure. The request is serviced within the service module data structure, resulting in instantiating the generic service document. The generic service document is returned to the caller application. Storing each service module attribute in the relational table includes: determining a category and a level of a first service module attribute; and storing in the relational table a first container pursuant to the category and the level.
US09547533B2
Improved utilization of connections that can be either available or blocked is provided by associating an atemporal connection state with each connection. If a connection is available, messages are transmitted on the connection normally. If a connection is blocked, the atemporal connection state is updated to reflect the changes that were made but not transmitted. In this manner, a record is kept that allows correct transmission of the information when the connection comes back up. More specifically, after a connection status changes from blocked to available, recovery messages are automatically generated from the atemporal connection state and transmitted on the connection.
US09547527B2
A method and apparatus for scheduling processing jobs is described. In one embodiment, a scheduler receives a request to process one or more computation jobs. The scheduler generates a size metric corresponding to a size of an executable image of each computation job and a corresponding data set associated with each computation job. The scheduler adjusts a priority of each computation job based on a system configuration setting and schedules the process of each computation job according to the priority of each computation job. In another embodiment, the scheduler distributes the plurality of computation jobs on one or more processors of a computing system, where the system configuration setting prioritizes a computation job with a smaller size metric than a computation job with a larger size metric. In another embodiment, the scheduler distributes the computation jobs across a network of computing systems with one or more computation jobs distributed over one or more computing systems, where the system configuration setting prioritizes a computation job with a smaller size metric than a computation job with a larger size metric.
US09547525B1
Aspects of the subject technology relate to switching tabs in an application. A system is configured to provide for the display an application interface. The application interface includes a toolbar and content associated with a first tab from a plurality of tabs open in the application. The system is further configured to receive, via an input device, a swipe gesture on the toolbar in the application interface and enter, in response to the receiving of the swipe gesture, a tab switching mode in the application in which a tab switching interface is displayed on the touch screen.
US09547519B2
A host-side overcommit value is set upon a physical node that implements virtual machines (VM Node). The overcommit value is determined by receiving a selected enablement template that includes a selected computing capacity and a selected overcommit value. A user-side normalization factor is determined that normalizes the selected computing capacity against a reference data handling system. A comparable computing capacity of the VM Node is determined. A host-side normalization factor is determined that normalizes the comparable computing capacity against the reference data handling system. The host-side overcommit value is determined from the selected overcommit value, the user-side normalization factor, and the host-side normalization factor. The host-side overcommit value may indicate the degree the comparable computing capacity is overcommitted to virtual machines deployed upon heterogeneous VM Nodes as normalized against the reference system.
US09547496B2
A processor is described herein that is configured to switch between a first instruction issue mode of the processor and a second instruction issue mode of the processor based at least in part on a characteristic associated with a plurality of instructions. The first instruction issue mode and the second instruction issue mode are associated with different energy consumption characteristics. Also, the first instruction issue mode may be an out-of-order instruction issue mode and the second instruction issue mode may be an in-order instruction issue mode.
US09547493B2
A processor for executing configurable instructions and a method of configuring the processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, the processor includes (i) a processor core to execute preconfigured instructions and (ii) a processor core extension to execute user-defined extension instructions that are configurable instructions. The user-defined extension instructions may include an autonomous instruction with varying execution cycles based on source data and an operation performed. The processor core extension employs extension interface signals as a handshake protocol to operate together with the processor core without knowing any priori knowledge of how many processor clock cycles that the autonomous instruction will take to complete.
US09547490B1
Design time artifacts ordered in a dependency tree according to a call order defined by a database application accessing data in a database can be classified as source and/or sink artifacts. The dependency tree can be traversed in a direction reverse of the call order to determine, for each sink artifact, one or more required source artifacts upon which the sink artifact depends and that is needed to provide correct data inputs for operation of the sink artifact. Based on the traversing, implicitly dependent sink artifacts positioned earlier in the call order that their required source artifacts can be identified, and a new call order can be defined in which all of the required source artifacts for the implicitly dependent sink artifact are called before the implicitly dependent sink artifact.
US09547487B2
An image forming apparatus capable of updating firmware appropriately. An update means obtains update firmware for updating the applied firmware, expands the update firmware, and applies the expanded update firmware to the image forming apparatus. A first determination means determines whether the update firmware is secure firmware. The update means performs the obtaining, the expansion, and the application sequentially, when the first determination means determines that the update firmware is secure firmware.
US09547486B2
A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product creates a virtual resource package. Metadata related to a machine is captured, where the machine is a physical machine and/or a virtual machine. A constraint definition describing a configuration constraint of the machine is generated based on the captured metadata. A disk image file of the at least one machine, the captured metadata and the generated constraint definition are packaged to generate the virtual resource package.
US09547481B2
A device receives a state chart that includes a state block, and receives a time-based or an event-based operator (time-based/event-based operator) associated with the state block. The time-based/event-based operator includes textual code understood by a textual engine of technical computing environment (TCE), and a portion of the time-based/event-based operator is not understood by a graphical engine of the TCE. The device transforms the portion of the time-based/event-based operator into a form that is understood by the graphical engine, and initiates execution of the state chart. The device processes, during the execution of the state chart, the transformed portion of the time-based/event-based operator and the state block with the graphical engine to generate graphical results. The device processes, during the execution of the state chart, the textual code of the time-based/event-based operator with the textual engine to generate textual results, and combines the graphical results with the textual results.
US09547480B2
An application model build processor generates one or more application model build artifacts based on an application model. In one example, a method includes receiving inputs identifying application model subsets and audiences, and associating application model subsets with the audiences. The method further includes receiving inputs identifying semantic constructs of the application model with the application model subsets. The method further includes generating application model build artifacts based on the application model and defined subsets. The method further includes generating documentation topics for semantic constructs in the application model based on the semantic construct, the subsets to which it belongs, the audiences associated with those subsets, and other semantic constructs in those subsets.
US09547476B2
Various embodiments are described that relate to random number generation. When a desire arises for a random number a circuit can be completed with a reverse biased semiconductor junction element. When the circuit is completed an analog voltage spike can be produced that is random due to properties of the reverse biased semiconductor-junction element. This analog voltage spike can be converted into a digital value that serves as the random number. The digital value can be outputted and used as the random number.
US09547474B2
A computer system is operable to identify subfields that differ in two data elements using a bit matrix compare function between a first matrix filled with pattern elements and a reference pattern.
US09547468B2
A system running on a mobile device such as a smartphone is configured to expose a user interface (UI) to enable a user to specify web pages that can be pinned to a start screen of the device. Once pinned, the user may launch a web page by voice command from any location on the UI or from within any experience that is currently being supported on the device. Thus, the user can be on a call with a friend talking about a new video game and then use a voice command to launch a web browser application on the mobile device that navigates to a pinned web page having information about the game's release date. Web pages can be readily pinned and unpinned from the start screen through the UI. When a web page is unpinned from the start screen, the system disables voice web navigation for it.
US09547467B1
In an approach for determining relative positioning in a multiple display grid, a processor receives positioning information from sensors operably affixed to at least a first display and a second display. A processor analyzes the positioning information to determine a relative positioning between at least the first display and the second display. A processor generates an extended display on the at least the first display and the second display, based on the analyzed positioning information.
US09547458B2
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include detecting multiple sets of storage objects stored in a data facility including multiple server racks, each of the server racks including a plurality of server computers, each of the storage objects in each set being stored in a separate one of the server racks and including one or more data objects and one or more protection objects. A specified number of the storage objects are identified in a given server rack, each of the identified storage objects being stored in a separate one of the server computers, and one or more server computers in the given server rack not storing any of the identified storage objects are identified. Finally, in the identified one or more server computers, an additional protection object is created and managed for the identified storage objects.
US09547454B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for selecting first data sets in a first storage group to swap with second data sets in a second storage group. First data sets are stored in a first storage group and second data sets are stored in a second storage group. A determination is made for a value for each of at least one of the first data sets based on at least one priority of at least one job processing I/O activity at the first data set. At least one of the first data sets for which the value was determined is selected to migrate to the second storage group based on the value.
US09547451B2
A memory system including parent data and clone data is disclosed, where the clone data represents a clone of the parent data. The system determines whether clone data to be accessed is different from corresponding data in the parent. The system also determines a physical location of the data to be accessed based on whether the data to be accessed is different from the corresponding parent data. The system also accesses the data based on the physical location.
US09547435B2
A graphical user interface is generated at a mobile communication terminal having a first touch screen of a first size, the graphical user interface including one or more touch screen input options. The generated graphical user interface is transmitted from the mobile communication terminal and to a vehicle communication terminal having a second touch screen of a second size. An indication of touch screen input received at the second touch screen of the vehicle communication terminal is received at the mobile communication terminal and from the vehicle communication terminal. A function corresponding to the touch screen input received at the second touch screen of the vehicle communication terminal is executed at the mobile communication terminal.
US09547433B1
The disclosed technology includes using horizontal components and vertical components of a velocity vector associated with movement of an input gesture to determine a user's intended, dominant direction of movement and corresponding control function at various points during the input gesture. Thresholds may be dynamically adjusted to prevent a user from unintentionally changing control functions during the input gesture. By adjusting the sensitivity associated with changes in a direction of movement of a continuous input gesture, it can be made effectively more difficult for the user to unintentionally cause a change in control functions. In example implementations, one or more thresholds associated with changing a control function may be increased or decreased during a continuous input gesture. For example, the thresholds may be increased or decreased in proportion to an increase or decrease in a velocity vector component.
US09547432B2
A mobile terminal including a terminal body; a display unit configured to display a lock screen including a plurality of regions in a lock mode in which an input of a control command with respect to an application is limited; and a controller configured to, when a touch input applied to a region among the plurality of regions of the lock screen to release the lock mode is sensed, detect information regarding a home screen corresponding to the touched region, and display the home screen corresponding to the touched region based on the detected information regarding the home screen corresponding to the touched region on the display unit.
US09547423B1
A system and method automatically generating one or more message view windows or panes based on an analysis of the execution behavior of a model, such as a computer-generated, executable graphical model. A model analyzer examines execution instructions including schedules generated for the model and the sending and receiving of messages by model components or elements. An auto diagram builder generates the one or more message view windows that includes graphical affordances representing at least some of the messages. The messages may be presented in the one or more message view windows in the order of the occurrence of the messages during execution of the model.
US09547419B2
An electronic device with a camera invokes a wireless communications pairing mode for pairing the electronic device with an external device. The electronic device obtains an image via the camera. The image contains a pattern displayed on a display screen of the external device, and the pattern comprises identifying information of the external device. The electronic device receives data from the external device, determines whether the received data corresponds with the identifying information, and, in response to a determination that the received data corresponds with the identifying information, registers the external device as a paired device. In some examples, the electronic device is a smartphone and the external device is a wearable electronic device. Pairing the electronic device and the external device may allow the devices to exchange information and operate interactively with one another.
US09547418B2
An electronic device includes a control unit, an environment sensor unit configured to detect working environment of the electronic device to get a detected environment information, a storage unit configured to store a preset environment threshold, and a display unit. The control unit is configured to compare the detected environment information with the preset environment threshold, determine a type of the working environment of the electronic device, and controls the display unit to adjust user interface or interaction mode of the electronic device, according to the type of the working environment of the electronic device. A method of adjusting a user interface of an electronic device is also provided.
US09547416B2
In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a plurality of images stacked into a pile; visually indicating that there are multiple images stacked in the pile; and in response to a first user input in connection with the pile, expanding the pile to display the images in a series. In one embodiment, the method further includes in response to a second user input in connection with the series, collapsing the series to display the image in the pile.
US09547415B2
Novel tools for navigating among a suite of business applications, including without limitaion menu systems for business application suites. In some cases, the menu is customized for a particular user of the business application suite. Hence, for example, a menu might comprise only items necessary to that user's job function and/or access level, as defined by one or more user roles that the user possesses. In another example, menu items may be provided only for actions that the user has appropriate permissions to take and/or pages that the user has appropriate permissions to view.
US09547410B2
Techniques are disclosed for selecting a targeted portion of a digital image. In one embodiment, a selection cursor having central and peripheral regions is provided. The central region is used to force a selection or a deselection, and therefore moving the central region over a portion of the image causes that portion of the image to be selected or deselected, respectively. The peripheral region of the cursor surrounds the central region and defines an area where a localized level set algorithm for boundary detection is performed. This provides more accurate boundary detection within the narrowly-focused peripheral region and eliminates the need to apply the level set algorithm across the entire image. Thus moving the peripheral region of the selection cursor over a boundary of the targeted portion of the image applies the level set algorithm in that boundary region and increases the likelihood that the boundary will be detected accurately.
US09547407B2
A system and method of assisting a user include displaying a status of a configuration. A point of progress is detected before completion of a web based configuration. Data associated with the point of progress is sent to a server to perform a query of a knowledgebase with the data to identify information associated with the point of progress. Information is received from the server in response to the server performing the query of the knowledgebase and provided to a user to assist the user with completing the web based configuration.
US09547406B1
Methods and devices for providing a user-interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving data corresponding to a first position of a wearable computing device and responsively causing the wearable computing device to provide a user-interface comprising a view region and a menu. The method further comprises receiving movement data corresponding to an upward movement of the wearable computing device to a second position above the first position and, based on the movement data, making a first determination that the upward movement has an upward angular velocity along an upward direction. The method further includes making a second determination that the upward angular velocity exceeds a threshold upward angular velocity and, responsive to the first and second determinations, causing the wearable computing device to move the menu such that the menu becomes more visible in the view region.
US09547403B2
According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
US09547402B2
A display device includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, the display unit including a first emission layer, a second emission layer, and a third emission layer having different emission colors, a sealing part covering and sealing the display unit, and a touch sensor on the sealing part, the touch sensor including a detection electrode adjacent to the first emission layer, the second emission layer, and the third emission layer, and the detection electrode maintaining different distances from each of the first emission layer, the second emission layer, and the third emission layer in a surface direction of the substrate.
US09547397B2
Disclosed is a touch window. The touch window includes a substrate in which an active area and an unactive area are defined; and a sensing electrode on the active area to sense a position, wherein the active area includes a first active area; and a second active area adjacent to the first active area and driven in a driving scheme different from a driving scheme for the first active area.
US09547381B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a touch sensor configured to sense a touch input to a screen, a storage configured to store different firmware corresponding to a plurality of input modes supported by the touch sensor, and a controller configured to sense the touch input according to a selected input mode among the plurality of input modes, through execution of one of the different firmware corresponding to the selected input mode.
US09547376B1
A magic cube input system comprises a control module, a page module, a quick pick module, and a function module; the function module performs selection of a character input mode or a screen keyboard change mode. Under the character input mode, the control module receives voice instructions or motion instructions to control page scrolling of the page module, pick an initial character and subsequent characters successively after the initial character being picked, and the quick pick module presents commonly used characters or vocabularies to be picked up quickly through the control module. Under the screen keyboard change mode, the control module receives the voice instructions or motion instructions to control the page scrolling of the page module and select a suitable screen keyboard via the page scrolling so as to perform character or symbol input or the screen keyboard quick change.
US09547373B2
Vehicle operating systems for operating a vehicle having a driving seat for a vehicle driver and at least one passenger seat for passengers are described. The vehicle operating system may include one or more camera devices for shooting images of hand actions of the driver or images of hand actions of a passenger, and a storage device for storing operating signals corresponding to hand actions. A processing device may be configured to select the driver or the passengers as a gesture command operator, and to control the camera device to shoot hand action images of the selected gesture command operator. The command system may also be configured to convert the shot hand action images into corresponding operating signals according to hand action indicia stored in the storage device. The operating signals may be sent to execution devices, that execute the corresponding operations.
US09547371B2
The present disclosure relates to a multi-dimensional user interface apparatus that selects an object by sensing a motion of a user and a control method thereof.The user interface apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an eye gaze sensing unit to sense eye positions and eye gaze directions of a user, and a hand shape sensing unit to sense a hand shape of the user, wherein the user interface apparatus calculates a position factor related to a location of an object from the eye positions and the eye gaze directions, calculates at least one conformity factor related to a conformity between the hand shape and the object from the hand shape, and determines the object as a target selected by the user based on the calculated position factor and the at least one conformity factor.
US09547368B2
A view may be displayed on a multi-touch display based on force or pressure from a detected touch and a detected indentation of a clear layer. A detailed view related to the view may also be provided on the multi-touch display based on a detected further indentation.
US09547365B2
An example method includes receiving, by a head-mountable device (HMD), data corresponding to an information event, and providing an indication corresponding to the information event in response to receiving the data. The method further includes determining a gaze direction of an eye and determining that the gaze direction of the eye is an upward direction that corresponds to a location of a display of the HMD. The display is located in an upper periphery of a forward-looking field of view of the eye when the HMD is worn. The method further includes, in response to determining that the gaze direction of the eye is the upward direction, displaying graphical content related to the information event in the display.
US09547363B2
A power-saving method and associated electronic device are provided. The electronic device is connected with a first external electronic device and a second external electronic device, and a first sensor and a second sensor are deployed on the first external electronic device and the second electronic device, respectively. The electronic device includes: a third sensor, and a processor, wherein the first, second, and third sensors have the same type. The processor gathers information from the first pedometer sensor, the second pedometer sensor, the first external electronic device, and the second external electronic device, and determines whether to turn off at least one of the first, second, and third pedometer sensors according to the information gathered.
US09547360B2
A main memory system includes a main memory device including a first memory device implemented with a volatile memory and a second memory device implemented with a non-volatile memory, the main memory system being configured such that, when entering a sleep mode, the memory device reads a portion of data stored in the first memory device to store the read data in the second memory device, and, after the portion of data is read, the first memory device and the second memory device are powered off.
US09547359B2
An information handling system includes a processor, a controller hub, a shared higher bandwidth path coupling the processor to the controller hub, and an exclusive lower bandwidth path coupling the processor to the controller hub. The processor communicates system management information over the bandwidth path in response to a first set of criteria and communicates the information over the lower bandwidth path in response to the second set of criteria.
US09547346B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for executing a process within a virtual machine. A module is injected into an operating system for the virtual machine to form an injected module. The injected module is executed to load an agent process within an application space within the virtual machine. Execution of the agent process is initiated by the injected module.
US09547336B2
A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure includes a body having a front surface and a rear surface, a display unit disposed on the front surface, a cover formed to allow at least part thereof to cover the front or rear surface, a window portion provided on the cover to expose at least part of the display unit in a state that the cover covers the front surface, and expose at least part of the rear surface in a state that the cover covers the rear surface, and a sensor unit provided with at least one sensor disposed at an edge portion of the window portion, wherein the sensor unit senses a user motion with respect to an inner side of the window portion in a state that the cover covers the rear surface.
US09547334B2
One aspect of the invention discloses an apparatus for mating computing device structures. The apparatus comprises one or more rotatable latches, the one or more rotatable latches each including a respective screw mechanism housed within the one or more rotatable latches. The apparatus further comprises one or more spring assemblies, the one or more spring assemblies each including a respective thread assembly housed within the one or more spring assemblies. The respective thread assemblies comprise threading that is capable of receiving a corresponding screw mechanism of the one or more rotatable latches.
US09547332B1
A method includes requesting a time maintained in a first clock domain, receiving, in a second clock domain, a first time value from the first clock domain in response to requesting the time maintained in the first clock domain, determining, in the second clock domain, a latency associated at least with receiving the first time value from the first clock domain, and determining a second time value based on the first time value and the determined latency.
US09547317B2
An information processing device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to obtain data including a temperature in a space where each of a plurality of air conditioning apparatuses is installed, a temperature outside the space, and power consumption of the plurality of air conditioning apparatuses, calculate a factor to obtain relationship between the temperature in the space, the temperature outside the space, and the power consumption related to each of the plurality of the air conditioning apparatuses based on the obtained data, and calculate, in a case of changing a setting temperature of the plurality of air conditioning apparatuses, a change width of each of the setting temperatures of the plurality of air conditioning apparatuses in such a manner that variation in the change width becomes a control unit using an objective function expressing a cost of a power supplier and the calculated factor.
US09547314B2
A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes an acceleration delta module and a remedial action module. The acceleration delta module determines an acceleration delta of a vehicle based on a difference between an actual acceleration of the vehicle and a desired acceleration of the vehicle. The acceleration delta module also determines an average value of the acceleration delta corresponding to at least one of a first predetermined period and a predetermined number of samples of the acceleration delta. The remedial action module, based on the average value of the acceleration delta and independent of a torque command generated to accelerate the vehicle, selectively takes a remedial action by adjusting operation of at least one of an engine and an electric motor.
US09547309B2
A transport arrangement system operates to receive a transport request from a user, and to make a selection of a vehicle type for the user based at least in part on a set of criteria associated with the transport request or user information. For example, the determination of whether an autonomous vehicle is to be provided can be based at least in part on the destination specified with the transport request.
US09547306B2
A voice-based method to control unmanned vehicles (UV) or robots that makes use of the UV or robot state and context information to constrain the output of automatic speech recognition (ASR) language models (LM) to improve the ASR accuracy and robustness in controlled and adverse environments. The voiced interaction between the human user and the machine provides a natural human-machine interface that is easy and straightforward for the human being, and reduces users' training requirements.
US09547291B2
A system manages human machine interface (HMI) applications for industrial control and automation. Software instructions stored on a tangible, non-transitory media and executable by a processor receive data indicative of a manufacturing/process control system being monitored and display a user interface indicative of a status of the manufacturing/process control system being monitored wherein the status is based on the received data.
US09547287B1
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.
US09547283B2
An electronic device includes a communication unit that performs communication with an external apparatus; a timekeeping unit that performs timekeeping of time; and a control unit, after completion of a connection with the external apparatus using the communication unit, updates time of the timekeeping unit using time information when being in a state where time can be set by obtaining the time information from the external apparatus.
US09547282B2
The present invention provides a wearable device with wireless transmission. The wearable device includes: a first exterior member configured to operate at a first frequency band; a second exterior member configured to operate at a second frequency; and a connecting member configured to electrically insulate the first exterior member from the second exterior member, so the wearable device is able to operate at the first frequency band and the second frequency band simultaneously. A frame structure of the wearable device is formed by stacking the first exterior member, the connecting member and the second exterior member in sequence from top to bottom. In addition, a method for manufacturing the same is also provided in the present invention.
US09547273B2
When an outer diameter of a charging member is defined as Hc, a ratio of the circumferential velocity of the charging member to the circumferential velocity of an image bearing member is defined as Rc, an outer diameter of a developer bearing member is defined as Hd, and a ratio of the circumferential velocity of the developer bearing member to the circumferential velocity of the image bearing member is defined as Rd, the relationship Hc/Rc≧Hd/Rd is satisfied.
US09547270B2
An image forming apparatus includes a humidity sensor element, a resistor, a clock supply section, a detection section and a determination section. The detection section detects a humidity on the basis of a divided voltage value obtained by the humidity sensor element and the resistor. The determination section acquires the divided voltage value at a first timing within a period from a rising edge to a falling edge of a first clock signal and at a second timing within a period from a falling edge to a rising edge of the first clock signal, and determines, on the basis of the divided voltage values thus acquired, whether or not the humidity detected by the detection section is normal.
US09547269B1
An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming section, a detection section, a variation calculation section, a user setting acquisition section, an adjustment ratio calculation section, and an adjustment section. The toner image forming section forms a toner image. The detection section detects a toner density of the formed toner image. The variation calculation section obtains a variation in toner density based on the detected toner density. The user setting acquisition section acquires a user setting concerning a degree of adjusting the toner density. The user setting is set by a user. The adjustment ratio calculation section calculates an adjustment ratio which is a ratio at which the user setting is reflected, in accordance with the variation in toner density. The adjustment section adjusts the toner density based on the variation in toner density, the user setting, and the adjustment ratio.
US09547265B2
A fixing device includes a heating unit including an endless belt and a heating plate, a fixing roller to form a nip portion, a frame including a first sidewall and a second sidewall, a first shaft that the fixing roller has, a second shaft disposed upstream of the nip portion, and a third shaft disposed downstream of the nip portion. One end portion of the first shaft, one end portion of the second shaft and one end portion of the third shaft are supported by the first sidewall. The other end portion of the first shaft, the other end portion of the second shaft and the other end portion of the third shaft are supported by the second sidewall. When viewed from the longitudinal direction, the nip portion is positioned in a triangle defined by imaginary lines connecting the first, second and third shafts to each other.
US09547250B2
Electroconductive member for electrophotography, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus
The present invention relates to an electroconductive member including an electroconductive support layer and a surface layer formed on a circumference thereof and having a network structure containing fibers, in which an arithmetic mean value dU10 of top 10% fiber diameters is 0.2 μm or more and 15.0 μm or less, rigid structural body having a height of 1.0×10−2 to 1.0×101 times as large as a thickness of the surface layer are present on the outer circumferential portion of the electroconductive support layer, and the surface layer satisfies specific conditions.
US09547249B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station, an intermediate transfer body, a transfer device, a transfer pressure applicator, and a controller. The image forming station forms a toner image. The toner image formed by the image forming station is transferred onto the intermediate transfer body. The transfer device transfers the toner image from the intermediate transfer body onto a recording medium. The transfer pressure applicator applies a secondary transfer pressure to the recording medium upon transfer of the toner image and to apply a lower secondary transfer pressure upon transfer of a toner image including a special color toner than that upon transfer of a toner image without the special color toner. The controller is operatively connected to the transfer pressure applicator to control the transfer pressure applicator.
US09547237B2
Provided is a colored photo-sensitive composition having a high sensitivity and a good developablity, even if the ratio of content of a pigment, relative to the total solids of the colored photo-sensitive composition, is 20% by mass or more. The colored photo-sensitive composition includes (A) a resin which is increased, by action of an acid, in solubility into an alkali developing solution; (B) a pigment; (C) a compound which produces an acid upon irradiated by active light or radial ray; and (D) a solvent, wherein the ratio of content of the (B) pigment, relative to the total solids of the colored photo-sensitive composition, is 20% by mass or more.
US09547235B2
An imprint lithography method is disclosed for forming a patterned layer from an imprintable liquid medium on a substrate by means of an imprint template having a patterned surface. The method involves contacting the patterned surface and imprintable liquid medium together for a filling period. Light emergent (e.g., scattered or reflected) from an interface between the medium and the patterned surface is collected and measured during the filling period to obtain data concerning one or more voids at the interface, and an estimated end time for the filling period is derived from a relationship between the data and time. The method may allow subsequent process steps to be undertaken more rapidly, with reduced risk of defects arising from remnants of unfilled voids. An imprint lithography apparatus and component for putting the method into effect are also disclosed.
US09547234B2
An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an imprint template arrangement for use in imprinting a pattern into a substrate provided with an amount of imprintable medium, a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate, and a chamber having an inlet to allow gas to flow into the chamber and an outlet to allow gas to flow out of the chamber, wherein the imprint template arrangement and the substrate holder are located within the chamber, the chamber, in use, being arranged to contain a gaseous atmosphere. The chamber may be part of a gas circulation system, the inlet and outlet of the chamber being connected to further components of the gas circulation system, the further components of the gas circulation system including: a gas circulation driver configured to drive gas around the gas circulation system; and/or a gas purification unit configured to purify the gas as it circulates around the gas circulation system.
US09547230B2
A method being performed by a processor includes, acquiring data of patterns of a plurality of cells that include an identified pattern for which an evaluation value of an optical image falls outside a first allowable range among patterns in which each a pattern being single cell alone, creating the pattern of a mask by arranging the patterns of the plurality of cells that include the identified pattern, and evaluating an optical image of the identified pattern in the created pattern of the mask.
US09547226B2
To provide a light source device and a projection-type image display device which can improve light emitting efficiency and service life of a fluorescent material. The light source device includes: an excitation light source for emitting excitation light; a fluorescent material for emitting fluorescent light when excited by the excitation light; and an optical member for directing the excitation light to the fluorescent material. The optical member has a curvature that is set such that a light-condensing position of the excitation light is positioned on a light-emitting side of the excitation light relative to the fluorescent material. An optical fiber is disposed between the excitation light source and the light source, so that the excitation light from the excitation light source may be made incident on the optical fiber.
US09547224B2
A projector includes an apparatus casing, a light source module, a flow generating device, a sensing module, and a power module. The light source module is disposed inside the apparatus casing and includes a light-emitting part and a lampshade surrounding the light-emitting part. The flow generating device can generate an air flow for dissipating heat by the light source module. The sensing module is disposed in the apparatus casing and includes a thermo-sensitive component disposed near the lampshade and located in a flowing path of the air flow. The power module is disposed in the apparatus casing and electrically connected to the light source module and the sensing module. The power module selectively stops powering the light source module according to an electric parameter of the thermo-sensitive component. Thereby, the invention protects the projector from being overheated by use of the thermo-sensitivity of the thermo-sensitive component.
US09547221B2
A video projection device includes an optical engine which projects video light, an aspherical mirror which reflects the video light projected by the optical engine with a reflective surface formed in a rotationally symmetrical shape centering on an optical axis, a reflective screen on which the video light reflected by the aspherical mirror is projected, a shielding housing which houses the optical engine, the aspherical mirror, and an electric circuit portion which electrically drives the optical engine, and a strut member which connects a rear surface portion of the shielding housing, and a rear surface portion of the reflective screen in a state where the rear surface portion of the shielding housing and the rear surface portion of the reflective screen are positioned.
US09547215B1
There is provided a device for performing an optical function, the device comprising one or more reflectionless potential wells in an array of waveguides; and one or more control solitons injected into the one or more reflectionless potential wells; wherein the one or more potential wells have potential well design parameters comprising a potential well number, and wherein the one or more control solitons have control soliton design parameters comprising a control soliton number and power; and wherein the optical function of the device is set by the potential well design parameters and the control soliton design parameters. There is also provided a method of manufacturing the device.
US09547209B2
A liquid crystal display includes: an insulating substrate; gate lines and data lines disposed on the insulating substrate; pixels disposed on the substrate substantially in a matrix form, each pixel including a thin film transistor connected to a corresponding gate line of the gate lines and a corresponding data line of the data lines, a first electrode disposed on the thin film transistor, and a second electrode disposed on the first electrode; a first insulating layer disposed on the gate lines, the data lines and the thin film transistor, and under the first electrode; and a second insulating layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which each of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer include an inorganic insulating layer, and a thickness of the first insulating layer is greater than a thickness of the second insulating layer.
US09547192B2
A display device includes a front panel wholly bonded on a display part of a display module via OCR (a transparent optical elastomeric resin). If a dam for preventing the OCR from being infiltrated is overflowed, the OCR is inhibited from being infiltrated and diffused into an inside of the module. The display device includes a display module including upper and lower substrates, a case receiving the upper and lower substrates, and a bezel with an opened display part, mounted in the case part, and further including a front panel wholly bonded on a display part of the display module described above via a transparent optical elastomeric resin, and a resin dam disposed on a surface of the upper substrate along an open end of a reverse side of the bezel part, wherein at least a part of the resin dam is apart from the bezel part.
US09547183B2
The invention relates to a method for determining an ophthalmic lens wherein: a first and a second reference axes are determined, the first reference axis is comprised between [γT−20°, γT+20° ] with γT being the mean axis of astigmatism over a first temporal portion, and the second reference axis is comprised between [γN−20°, γN+20° ] with γN being the mean axis of astigmatism over a second nasal portion; a combined reference axis is determined as a linear combination of the first and second reference axes; over the first portion, the sphere value along the combined reference axis is greater than the sphere value along a perpendicular axis to the combined reference axis; and over the second portion, the sphere value along the combined reference axis is greater than the sphere value along a perpendicular axis to the combined reference axis.
US09547176B2
The invention relates to a device for generating laser radiation (3) having a linear intensity distribution (11), comprising a plurality of laser light sources for generating laser radiation (3) and optical means for transforming laser radiation (3) exiting from the laser light sources into laser radiation (14) that has a linear intensity distribution (11) in a working plane (9), wherein the laser light sources are constructed as fundamental mode lasers and the device is designed such that each of the laser beams (3) exiting from the laser light sources does not overlap with itself.
US09547160B2
Methods and apparatus for capturing or generating images using multiple optical chains operating in parallel are described. Pixel values captured by individual optical chains corresponding to the same scene area are combined to provide an image with at least some of the benefits which would have been provided by capturing an image of the scene using a larger lens than that of the individual lenses of the optical chain modules. By using multiple optical chains in parallel at least some benefits normally obtained from using a large lens can be obtained without the need for a large lens. Furthermore in at least some embodiments, a wide dynamic range can be supported through the use of multiple sensors with the overall supported dynamic range being potentially larger than that of the individual sensors. Some lens and/or optical chain configurations are designed for use in small handheld devices, e.g., cell phones.
US09547156B2
An imaging lens is essentially constituted by five lenses, including: a first lens having a positive refractive power and is of a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens of a biconcave shape; a third lens of a biconcave shape; a fourth lens of a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side; and a fifth lens of a biconcave shape having at least one inflection point on the surface thereof toward the image side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional formula (2).
US09547150B2
An object is to provide a lens device that can share a cable and can prevent the unnecessary exposure of the cable, and an imaging apparatus that includes the lens device.A lens device according to an embodiment of the invention, which is replaceably mounted on an imaging apparatus main body, includes a lens barrel, a control unit that is provided on the lens barrel so as to protrude, a cable of which one end is connected to the control unit and the other end is connected to the imaging apparatus main body, a plurality of length regulating members that are provided in a longitudinal direction of the cable, and a housing portion in which the cable is housed and which is provided with an opening through which the cable is led out.
US09547149B2
An assembling device for a guide pole of a camera actuator includes: a pedestal, a frame, a plurality of guide pole receiving units and a cover. The pedestal includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface defines a plurality of first receiving holes, each the first receiving hole arranged with a magnet, the second surface defines a plurality of first bump. The frame locates on the second surface and defines a plurality of through holes. Each guide pole receiving unit defines a second receiving hole configuring for receiving a guide pole, each guide pole receiving unit is received in each through hole and locating on the first bump. The cover locates on the frame and comprises a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface defines a plurality of dispensing holes, the dispensing hole extends through the cover.
US09547138B2
A light receiving module having a built-in wavelength-tunable wavelength-selective filter that can selectively receive light with a specific wavelength from laser light with various wavelengths emitted from an optical fiber and tune the specific wavelength. In the light receiving module including a light receiving element having a built-in wavelength-tunable wavelength-selective filter that receives laser light from an optical fiber according to the present invention, a flat plate-shaped window (240) transmitting laser light from an optical fiber (600) is formed in the light receiving element (22), a wavelength-tunable wavelength-selective filter for separating wavelengths of laser light traveling as parallel light is disposed in the light receiving element (22), and a lens (400) converting laser light from the optical fiber (600) into parallel light is disposed between the optical fiber (600) and the light receiving element (22).
US09547126B2
An optical waveguide sheet, includes: an optical path; and a clad member that covers the optical path, wherein the clad member has a portion formed by removing a part of the clad member which is on a first surface of an optical waveguide sheet on which the optical component is to be mounted and is provided within an area which is unused for propagation of light input to and output from the optical component.
US09547123B2
An apparatus for treating a hollow anatomical structure can include a light delivery device. The light delivery device comprises an optical fiber that is located in a lumen of a shaft suitable for insertion into the hollow anatomical structure and has a fiber tip located proximal of a distal end of the shaft during treatment of the hollow anatomical structure. The apparatus can further include a liquid source for providing a liquid flow over the optical fiber at a predetermined liquid flow rate.
US09547121B2
A cladding stripper includes a plurality of transversal notches or grooves in the outer surface of an exposed inner cladding of a double clad optical fiber. Position and orientation of the notches can be selected to even out cladding light release along the cladding light stripper, enabling more even temperature distributions due to released cladding light. The notches on the optical fiber can be made with a laser ablation system.
US09547114B2
In various embodiments, an illumination apparatus includes an air gap between a sub-assembly and a waveguide attached thereto at a plurality of discrete attachment points, as well as a bare-die light-emitting diode encapsulated by the waveguide.
US09547104B2
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for oil field downhole sensing and communication during drilling and/or production, wherein such methods and systems utilize coaxial cable to transmit electromagnetic (EM) energy, continuously or as a pulse, to passive downhole sensors.
US09547093B2
A radiation camera system and method incorporating a radiation sensor/detector (RSD) and automated operation of coded camera aperture masks (CAMs) is disclosed that may be advantageously applied to real-time tracking of radiological hot spots in crisis, maintenance, decontamination, and/or maintenance scenarios. The system/method integrates automated camera RSD positioning, CAM identification, and CAM rotation. The system incorporates computerized controls in conjunction with remotely controlled horizontal/vertical tilting motors to direct the RSD aperture position and view of the RSD. CAMs may be installed in the camera manually and are automatically identified by the system via the use of encoding magnets that are detected using a Hall-effect sensor. The CAMs may be rotated after installation in the camera by computer control to predefined positions such as “mask” and “anti-mask” to affect the desired degree of radiation screening to be applied to the RSD.
US09547084B2
The invention relates to a method of classifying one or several watercraft using the sound waves emitted or transmitted by these vehicles. The sound waves are thereby received using an array of underwater sound sensors of a sonar receiving system and processed into received signals. At least one amplitude spectrum is generated from these received signals consisting of one or more sets of frequency lines and any individual lines, from which the characteristic vehicle parameters are automatically determined in a frequency line pattern detection module or determined manually. Subsequently, the vehicle characteristic parameters are compared with the database parameters, where this comparison is evaluated with a matching factor. Considering the matching factor, one or several watercraft are determined as the result of the classification. In addition, the invention relates to a corresponding device for carrying out the process.
US09547069B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a transmitter within a single integrated chip substrate, which is capable of continuous beam steering of a transmitted radar beam as well as an option to change the physical position of the origin of the transmit radar beam. The transmitter has a signal generator that generates an RF signal. The RF signal is provided to a plurality of independent transmission chains, which contain independently operated vector modulators configured to introduce an individual phase adjustment to the high frequency input signal to generate separate RF output signals. A control unit is configured to selectively activate a subset of (e.g., two or more) the independent transmission chains. By activating the subset of independent transmission chains to generate RF output signals with separate phases, a beam steering functionality is enabled. Furthermore, the subset defines a changeable position of the transmitted radar beam.
US09547066B2
An antenna system including at least one antenna connected to a captured signal processing receiver, an antenna protection radome; and a plurality of electro-optical probes distributed on or inside of the radome.
US09547064B2
A method for the control of a magnetic resonance system is provided. In a test phase before a magnetic resonance measurement, a test high-frequency pulse with several parallel individual high-frequency pulses is transmitted with a transmitter antenna arrangement over various different high-frequency transmitter channels. At lower transmitter power, the test high-frequency pulse generates essentially the same field distribution as an excitation high-frequency pulse to be transmitted during a subsequent magnetic resonance measurement. A high-frequency field generated by this test high-frequency pulse is measured in at least one area of a local pulse arrangement, and on the basis of the high-frequency field measured, a high-frequency field value that is to be anticipated at the local coil arrangement during the subsequent magnetic resonance measurement is determined. The control of the magnetic resonance system during a later magnetic resonance measurement includes taking the high-frequency field value into account.
US09547063B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, MRI method and a computer readable medium are configured to determine a specific absorption rate (SAR) for the patient based on at least (a) NMR signal strength at a phantom when the at least one RF coil is loaded with the patient for an MRI scan, and (b) NMR signal strength at the phantom when the at least one RF coil is not loaded with the patient for an MRI scan.
US09547061B2
A medical imaging system (5) includes a workstation (20), a coarse segmenter (30), a fine segmenter (32), and an enclosed tissue identification module (34). The workstation (20) includes at least one input device (22) for receiving a selected location as a seed in a first contrasted tissue type and a display device (26) which displays a diagnostic image delineating a first segmented region of a first tissue type and a second segmented region of a second contrasted tissue type and identified regions which include regions fully enclosed by the first segmented region as a third tissue type. The coarse segmenter (30) grows a coarse segmented region of coarse voxels for each contrasted tissue type from the seed location based on a first growing algorithm and a growing fraction for each contrasted tissue type. The seed location for growing the second contrasted tissue type includes the first coarse segmented region and any fully enclosed coarse voxels, and each coarse voxel includes an aggregation of voxels and a maximum and a minimum of the voxel intensities. The fine segmenter (32) grows a segmented region of voxels for each contrasted tissue type from the seed location and bounded by the second coarse segmented region based on a second growing algorithm and a growing fraction for each contrasted tissue type initially set to the growing fraction for the corresponding region. The seed location for growing the second contrasted tissue type includes the first segmented region and any identified regions. The enclosed tissue identification module (34) identifies any regions of voxels fully enclosed by the first segmented region as being of the third tissue type. The coarse segmenter, the fine segmenter, and the enclosed tissue identification module are implemented by an electronic data processing device.
US09547052B2
There is disclosed an NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spinner having a turbine structure and a rotor whose spinning rate can be increased. A vortical channel (44) is formed around the rotor (12). The vortical channel (44) consists of a chamber (66) and a nozzle array (68) mounted inside the chamber (66). The chamber (66) has a cross-sectional area that decreases in an upstream to downstream direction. The cross-sectional area of each nozzle also decreases in an upstream to downstream direction. Gas is introduced into the chamber (66), creating a rotating flow (76, 78, 80) in the chamber (66). Plural inwardly swirling streams are created from the inside of the rotating flow. The inwardly swirling streams are ejected from the exits of the nozzles. This results in jet streams, which are blown against the impeller of the rotor, spinning the rotor at high speed.
US09547050B2
An integrated system of sensors that can be used to detect a direction of an externally applied magnetic field is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system can be incorporated into a compact package that can be used within an electronic device. A processor can use signals provided by the sensor system to provide an indication of the direction of the externally applied magnetic field. In one embodiment, the sensors can take the form of analog sensors such as Hall Effect sensors configured in such a way that the direction of the externally applied magnetic field can be deduced based in part upon detection signals provided by the Hall Effect sensors. In one embodiment, the Hall Effect sensors can be stacked one atop the other in such a way that relative signal strength of the detection signals from the sensors can indicate the direction of the externally applied magnetic field.
US09547047B2
A leakage current detection device coupled to AC power supply wires carrying an AC signal, which includes: a leakage current detection circuit including a leakage current detector, the leakage current detection circuit operating during first half-cycles among positive and negative half-cycles of the AC signal to detect a leakage current of the power supply wires and to disconnect the power supply wires from an output side when a leakage current exceeding a first threshold value is detected; and a self-detecting circuit coupled to the leakage current detection circuit, operating during second half-cycles among the positive and negative half-cycles of the AC signal to test whether the leakage current detection circuit is functioning normally.
US09547045B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for determining a characteristic of an energy source. One exemplary method involves obtaining a measured current associated with the energy source using a current sensor and obtaining a measured voltage associated with the energy source. In response to identifying an absence of an anomalous condition of the current sensor based on the measured current, the method determines a current-compensated value for the characteristic based at least in part on the measured voltage and the measured current. In response to identifying the anomalous condition of the current sensor based on the measured current, the method determines an uncompensated value for the characteristic based at least in part on the measured voltage.
US09547037B2
A method of evaluating a capacitive interface including discharging the capacitive interface to a lower voltage, timing while applying a unit charge to the capacitive interface until a voltage of the capacitive interface rises to a reference voltage and determining a corresponding charge time value, charging the capacitive interface to an upper voltage that is greater than the reference voltage, and timing while removing the unit charge from the capacitive interface until a voltage of the capacitive interface falls to the reference voltage and determining a corresponding discharge time value. The charge and discharge time values may be used to evaluate the capacitive interface by determining capacitance and leakage current. The time values may be determined using a counter. A capacitive interface evaluation system for evaluating the capacitive interface may include a charge circuit, a comparator, a counter and a controller.
US09547029B1
Detecting electromagnetic waves derived from bacterial DNA, by extracting and purifying nucleic acids from a sample; diluting the extracted purified nucleic acids in an aqueous solvent; measuring a low frequency electromagnetic emission over time from the diluted extracted purified nucleic acids in an aqueous solvent; performing a signal analysis of the low frequency electromagnetic emission over time; and producing an output, based on the signal analysis, in dependence on the DNA in the sample. The DNA may be extracted from at least one of blood, feces, urine, saliva, tears, seminal fluid, sweat, seminal and vaginal fluids of a patient, or water to determine, e.g., potability. The samples may be frozen. The extracting and purifying may include diluting the sample with an aqueous buffer and mixing; degrading proteins in the diluted sample; precipitating DNA from the buffer solution; and resuspending the precipitated DNA in an aqueous solution.
US09547026B1
The magnetic field in the vicinity of a conductor can be sensed by wire loops to measure the current in the nearby conductor. A sensor in a printed circuit board can detect and measure currents flowing through the PCB itself, yielding a thin, inexpensive, scalable solution for energy monitoring.
US09547023B2
A method of fabricating a test probe includes a first conductive providing operation in which a first conductive member formed of a conductive metal material is provided, the first conductive member including a probe portion that has a probe shape and is formed in an upper portion of the first conductive member by a micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) process, a second conductive member providing operation in which a second conductive member formed of a conductive metal material is provided, the second conductive member having an insertion portion formed in an upper portion of the second conductive member for inserting the first conductive member to be coupled to the insertion portion, an insertion operation in which the first conductive member is inserted into the insertion portion of the second conductive member, and a fixing and coupling operation in which the first conducive member is fixedly coupled to the second conductive member by deforming a part of the second conductive member.
US09547019B2
A tunneling accelerometer that can be implemented as a MEMS micro sensor provides differential sensing that minimizes large forces resulting from undesired environmental effects. Used as a seismic sensor, for example, the accelerometer exhibits maximum sensitivity for small seismic waves and suppresses very large seismic activities occurring at shallower depths. In one embodiment, detected current decreases from its maximum for stronger forces and is maximized for small vibrations. In another embodiment, separation of columns of top and bottom tunneling tip pairs, one column from the next, increases gradually so that the tunneling accelerometer suppresses sensitivity to large accelerations such as large seismic activity. A manufacturing process for the accelerometer provides reduced complexity for better yield.
US09547018B2
Devices and methods for using changes in the defects in micrometer sized dispersed liquid crystal domains to detect or quantify analytes in a test sample, including endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), are disclosed. The dispersed liquid crystal microdomains are exposed to the test sample, and any changes in the number of defects in the liquid crystal microdomains are detected by detecting changes in the anchoring configuration of the microdomains. Such changes in anchoring configuration indicate the presence of analyte in the test sample.
US09547017B2
Described herein are novel fluorescent sensors for Diacyl Glycerol (DAG) and hosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) that are based on circularly permuted fluorescent proteins. These sensors use less visible spectrum than FRET-based sensors, produce robust changes in fluorescence, and can be combined with one another, or with other sensors, in a multiplex assay on standard fluorescent plate readers or live cell imaging systems.
US09547013B2
This invention provides methods and biomarkers for diagnosing autism by identifying cellular metabolites differentially produced in autistic patient samples versus non-autistic controls. Methods for identifying a unique profile of metabolites present of secreted in brain tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, plasma, or biofluids of autistic samples are described herein. The individual metabolites or a pattern of secreted metabolites provide metabolic signatures of autism, which can be used to provide a diagnosis thereof.
US09547008B2
Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.
US09547007B2
The invention includes compositions, methods and kits for the in vivo identification of an enzyme that binds to a substrate. The invention comprises, in part, a photoreactive moiety to aid in identification of such an enzyme.
US09547001B2
The present invention provides a method of detecting or measuring trans-Resveratrol (tRV) in a sample, comprising: contacting a sample to be tested with an antibody against tRV, or an antigen binding fragment of such an antibody; and detecting or measuring any tRV bound by the antibody or antibody fragment. The invention also provides an antibody against trans-Resveratrol.
US09546993B2
The invention provides a method for detecting objects in samples. The sample is held in the transmission path of light source to a detector, whereby light from the light source interacts with objects in the sample. The patterns of light incident on the detector subsequent to its interaction with the objects are directly used to determine the presence of objects in the sample.
US09546987B2
A liquid chromatograph control system for controlling an operation of a liquid chromatograph which uses a mobile phase composed of a mixture of solvents and which has the function of performing a gradient analysis while temporally changing the mixture ratio of the solvents. The system initially requests a user to set a basic gradient profile (Step S12), and subsequently, to set the number of steps to change the mixture ratio of the mobile phase at the beginning and/or at the end of the gradient process as well as the amount of change in the mixture ratio per step (Step S13). After that, based on the possible combinations of the mixture ratios of the mobile phase at the beginning and at the end of the gradient process computed from the contents of information entered in the previous steps, a plurality of gradient profiles corresponding to those combinations are created (Step S14).
US09546976B2
Method and apparatus for measurement of the oxygen partial pressure or the oxygen content in a measurement gas in at least one measurement cycle using a solid electrolyte cell having at least one oxygen-conducting solid electrolyte, and having at least one reference electrode as well as at least one measurement electrode, wherein the at least one measurement electrode is in communication with the measurement gas and the at least one reference electrode is in communication with a reference gas or reference volume separated from the measurement gas, wherein a current is imposed via the electrodes on the solid electrolyte cell for pump operation and a measurement voltage (UM) is tapped at the electrodes.
US09546975B2
An examination method for detecting abnormal electrochemical testing strip includes the steps of: applying a trigger voltage to a testing strip; injecting a target sample to the testing strip; obtaining a trigger current which is generated by injecting the target sample to the testing strip; comparing the trigger current with a first threshold, and determining whether the trigger current is lager than or equal to the first threshold; and when the trigger current is less than the first threshold, displaying a message for abnormality.
US09546971B2
A diagnosis device for a temperature sensor provided to a power transmission device transmits driving force generated by a driving power source of a vehicle. The diagnosis device includes: an output voltage estimating unit to calculate an output voltage estimation value of the temperature sensor, based on the operating state of the vehicle; and an output voltage stuck malfunction determining unit to determine an output voltage stuck malfunction of the temperature sensor, in a case where the amount of change of the output voltage estimation value is equal to or above a first threshold value, and the amount of change of output voltage of the temperature sensor is equal to or below a second threshold value.
US09546967B2
An apparatus for identifying defects within the volume of a transparent sheet, such as a glass sheet, is provided. The apparatus includes an illumination device that directs incident light onto at least a portion of a surface of the sheet so as to illuminate the sheet, and an image detector onto which the light backscattered from the sheet is directed to image the sheet. The apparatus generates at least two interference images under different capturing conditions in order to perform identification of defects by evaluating the at least two interference images.
US09546965B2
Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for identification of wood species based on one or more pitch characteristics. A workpiece may be exposed to a beam of radiation from a radiation source. The beam of radiation may cause pitch on or within the workpiece to emit visible light. The emitted light may be imaged and used to determine pitch content, pitch location. a pitch deposition pattern, pitch emission wavelength, and/or other characteristics of the workpiece. One or more of these characteristics may be used to identify a tree species or group of tree species from which the workpiece was cut or manufactured.
US09546958B2
The present disclosure relates the use of a stamping surface enhanced Raman scattering (S-SERS) technique with nanoporous gold disk (NPGD) plasmonic substrates to produce a label-free, multiplexed molecular sensing and imaging technique. A NPGD SERS substrate is stamped onto a surface containing one or more target molecules, followed by SERS measurement of the target molecules located between the surface and SERS substrate. The target molecules may be deposited on the surface, which may be a carrier substrate such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS).
US09546956B2
An inspection method for a semiconductor light-emitting device includes an image capturing step for capturing an image of photoluminescence released from the active layer, an inspection region extracting step for extracting an inspection region from the captured image; a luminance average determination step for, determining the semiconductor light emitting device as defective when a luminance average is smaller than a predetermined threshold, a luminance variance determination step for determining the semiconductor light emitting device as defective when a luminance variance is larger than a predetermined threshold, a color determination step for determining the semiconductor light-emitting device as defective when a pixel in which a color component indicating a photoluminescence intensity of light released from the active layer and having a wavelength shorter than the original emitting wavelength, and a total determination step for totally determining the semiconductor light-emitting device as defective when determined in at least one of these determination results within the inspection region.
US09546945B2
A vibration damper assembly that may be attached and moved about a payload or optical mount surface of an optical structure such as an optical table. The vibration damper assembly may include a sensor and an actuator that may be disposed within a housing. In some embodiments, the vibration damper assembly or components thereof may be incorporated into an optical structure in the form of an optical component to be disposed or mounted on an optical mount surface of an optical structure such as an optical table. Embodiments of the vibration damper system may include a controller in communication with the damper assembly Embodiments of the controller may use adaptive tuning, auto-ranging selection of gain factors and other features in order to optimize damping performance.
US09546939B2
In a force waveform of an assembled body having an elastic component assembled thereto, in order to specify a deformation start point or a deformation end point of the elastic component as easily as possible, an inspecting device includes: a force-waveform detection system that applies a load to a workpiece having an elastic component in the direction of action of the elastic component and acquires a force waveform; an inspection-parameter designation unit that acts as reception unit in order to receive an input of an arbitrary designated point during a process of deformation; and an inspection unit that calculates a local slope of the force waveform at the designated point, thereby specifying, on the basis of the local slope at the calculated designated point, a physical characteristic change point including the deformation start point or the deformation end point.
US09546936B2
In a method for processing biological materials for flow cytometry evaluation for virus particles, a mixture including biological material and purification particles is centrifuged to prepare a centrifuged composition including a supernatant that may be further processed prior to the flow cytometry evaluation. The purification particles include porous cores functionalized to capture smaller-size impurities in a biological material sample and a porous size-exclusion shell surrounding the core to exclude larger-size components of the biological material from entering into the core. Multiple samples may be processed in multi-sample processing units. A product may contain a sealed container with the unit quantity of purification particle in a storage liquid and a kit may include such a sealed container and a centrifugal filter.
US09546933B2
Provided are methods for testing aerosol material compatibility of various samples to disinfectants, decontaminants, and other such materials that are used as aerosols. A test is performed in a controlled environment, such as an aerosol chamber, using a specific set of test parameters representative of actual use of tested materials, such as dispensing parameters and exposure parameters. During the test, a test surface of the sample is exposed to an aerosol mist. Other surfaces may be protected. After exposure to the aerosol mist, the sample may be allowed to sit for a period of time. The sample is later cleaned and tested to determine effects of various materials in the mist on the sample. In some embodiments, some or all operations may be repeated for the same sample or different samples. The test parameters may be varied to determine compatibility limits.
US09546925B2
A mechanism is provided to field adjust offset values for packaged sensors incorporated in devices. Embodiments provide for a processor in the sensor package to measure current environmental conditions and set a zero offset for the sensors in the package in light of those current environmental conditions. In this manner, any changes in the sensor over the sensor's lifetime and current environmental conditions that can affect functioning of the sensor can be accounted for in operational measurements taken by the device.
US09546914B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed to estimate temperature at one or more critical points in a data processing system comprising modeling a steady state temperature portion of a thermal model at the one or more critical points using regression analysis; modeling the transient temperature portion of the thermal model at the one or more critical points using a filtering algorithm; and generating a thermal model at the one or more critical points by combining the steady state temperature portion of the thermal model with the transient temperature portion of the thermal model. The thermal model may then be used to estimate an instantaneous temperature at the one or more critical points or to predict a future temperature at the one or more critical points.
US09546912B2
A time-temperature indicator (TTI) uses polymer hardening properties to “set” or retain indications of temperature history. The TTI includes a mesh layer affixed to a thermo-conductive adhesive layer and a photonic crystal patterned film affixed to the mesh layer. The photonic crystal shows a property of bandgap shift vs temperature and responds to a predetermined range of temperatures to provide a visible indication of the range of temperatures. A hardener pouch is affixed to one end of the mesh layer and releases hardener in response to an initiating event, so that the photonic crystal material responds to the hardener by presenting a fixed state.
US09546910B2
A system kit and a method for creating a thermal imaging camera by connecting an infrared radiation capturing device to an external platform are provided herein. The kit may include a front end module which may include an image capturing device comprising a micro bolometer detector; and a universal serial bus (USB) interface connected to the image capturing device. The kit may further include a backend module, comprising data sets which are specific to said micro bolometer detector and computer readable code which is executable by a computer processor located at a physical location other than the front end module, wherein said front end module is configured to obtain raw data from the micro bolometer detector and deliver it over the USB interface to said backend module, wherein said backend module code turns the raw data into thermal imagery and temperature readings.
US09546905B1
A method and apparatus for measuring diffuse and specularly reflected light from a sample to provide a reflection spectrum as a function of wavelength and as a function of position on a sample is disclosed. The apparatus includes a MIR light source that generates an illumination beam of linearly polarized light. An illumination system illuminates a location on a specimen with part of the illumination beam. A linear polarization filter characterized by a polarization axis that defines a direction of polarization of linearly polarized light that is reflected by the linear polarization filter, a first detector that measures an intensity of light leaving the linear polarization filter and a light collection system collects light reflected from the location on the specimen and directs that light to the linear polarization filter. A controller measures an output from the first detector for each of a plurality of different polarization axis positions.
US09546900B2
An optical sensor device for the detection of ambient light is adapted to be coupled to a pane (10), in particular to a windshield of a vehicle. The optical sensor device has a sensor unit which includes at least one light receiver (22) for ambient light and a lens plate (12) for directionally coupling an ambient light beam (26) out of the pane (10) onto the light receiver (22). The lens plate (12) has a surface (18) facing the light receiver (22) and oriented substantially parallel to the pane (10) in the coupled condition of the optical sensor device. The surface (18) includes a prism structure (20) having a plurality of single prisms (24) which are designed to direct the rays of a specific ambient light beam (26) defined by a principal direction (A) and an aperture angle onto the light receiver (22).
US09546896B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for measuring ash deposit levels in a particulate filter comprising at least one cell. One or more indicator components is inserted into the at least one cell so as to lie upon any deposits contained therein. Radiation is emitted from a radiation source into the cell, and the position of the one or more indicator components is detected on the basis of the emitted radiation. The deposit level within the cell is then calculated on the basis of the position of the one or more indicator components.
US09546894B2
A method for a fuel system, comprising: monitoring a fuel tank pressure during a refueling event; determining a fuel flow rate based on a steady-state portion of the monitored fuel tank pressure; and indicating an amount of fuel added to a fuel tank based on the fuel flow rate. In this way, a fuel tank fill level can be determined following a refueling event, even in a scenario where the fuel level indicator is stuck or malfunctioning.
US09546893B2
Device (1) for measuring a liquid level, comprising: —a body (2) extending along a longitudinal axis (X) and having at least one open portion (5) in which at least one aperture (A) is formed in the wall of the body (2), —a loop (10) of electric wire positioned at least in the open portion (5) so that it can be in contact with the liquid and run substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis (X) of the body (2), —an electric power supply circuit (15, 16) for powering the loop of wire arranged in the body, the circuit comprising two end fittings (16) positioned in the open portion (5), each end fitting (16) being connected to one of the open ends (11) of the loop (10), the end fittings (16) being arranged in an offset manner along the longitudinal axis (X) of the body (2).
US09546888B2
A retrofittable system for automatic reading of a utility meter having a meter housing with at least one transparent meter housing part. The system includes an optical sensor unit adapted to detect a signal from the consumption indication of the meter. The optical sensor unit includes a sensor unit housing adapted to be mounted on the transparent meter housing part of the utility meter housing using an adhesive. The optical sensor unit includes an electrical cable connection adapted to connect the sensor unit to a data processing unit remote from the sensor unit. The processing unit includes a wireless transmission device adapted to transmit processed data from the data processing unit to a further remote device for further processing and/or display. Also disclosed is a template for aligning the optical sensor housing.
US09546886B2
A fiber optic sensor for use in environments containing darkening agents, e.g., hydrogen. The sensor includes a multicore fiber or a fiber optic cable containing a number of optical signal paths. Each path includes a sensing core segment and one or more transmission core segments. The sensing core segment is configured to (i) produce optical perturbation signals (e.g., Raman or Rayleigh) at one or more locations along the segment, the perturbation signals corresponding to environmental conditions (e.g., temperature) sensed by the segment at a corresponding location, and (ii) allow the perturbation signals to be detected by measurement equipment coupled to the sensor when light signals from a given source excite the path. The transmission core segments in a selected path subject the perturbation signals to little if any further attenuation relative to the attenuation induced in the sensing core segments in reaction to the darkening agents.
US09546879B2
A user terminal generates position information regarding a position of the user terminal, generates target recognition information for recognizing a target, communicates with a counterpart terminal, and determines whether the target recognition information conforms with first reference information. If so, the user terminal transmits the target recognition information and the position information to the counterpart terminal, and if the information does not conform, the terminal determines whether the target recognition information conforms with second reference information. Accordingly, the user terminal easily provides route guidance to a destination.
US09546878B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of accessing a cloud server and a cloud system using the same. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a user input unit configured to select an external terminal for receiving route information stored in a cloud server, a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with the cloud server using radio signals, and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit to transmit a route information transmission request message to the cloud server so as to transmit the route information to the external terminal from the cloud server.
US09546871B2
We have disclosed systems and methods for portable performance monitoring of an individual during a physical activity. The systems and methods may include a portable sensor component configured to be carried by the individual during the physical activity and configured to obtain movement data for the athlete individual during the physical activity. The systems and methods may also include a portable output component configured to be carried by the individual during the physical activity and configured to provide an output to the individual during the physical activity. The systems and methods may further include a portable processing component in communication with the portable sensor component and the portable output component, where the portable processing component is configured to be carried by the individual during the physical activity. The portable processing component may be configured to identify movement of the individual during the physical activity.
US09546867B2
An apparatus and method for measuring and marking level and plumb is providently disclosed herein. The multi-function level includes: modular ends that allow attachment of mating levels for linear extension in one direction. The modular, or jointed, end includes a structure to hold a connector or to selectively receive a connector from another level such that that only applies a load to the jointed end and not the body of the level.
US09546864B2
The present invention relates to an alignment inspecting system for liquid crystal substrate, comprises an alignment mechanism located on corners of the substrate, and the alignment mechanism including a horizontal alignment device for exerting pressure to edges of the substrate, wherein a flattening device for applying longitudinal pressure to the substrate is further included. The present invention can be concluded with the following advantages: this alignment inspecting system for liquid crystal substrate can be used to correct the bending of the substrate during alignment process, so as to reduce the bending and deformation of the substrate which in turn creates poor contact between the probe and the substrate. As a result, incorrect reading can be avoided.
US09546863B2
According to the invention, reliability is calculated in consideration of an uncertain error due to noise in three-dimensional measurement, thereby obtaining correct reliability as compared with a conventional technique. To achieve this, a three-dimensional measuring apparatus includes a projector which projects a striped light pattern onto an object, a camera which captures a reflected light pattern from the object onto which the striped light pattern is projected, and a calculation processing unit which executes various arithmetic operations. The calculation processing unit includes a noise calculating unit and a reliability calculating unit.
US09546862B2
Systems and methods for improving results of wafer higher order shape (HOS) characterization and wafer classification are disclosed. The systems and methods in accordance with the present disclosure are based on localized shapes. A wafer map is partitioned into a plurality of measurement sites to improve the completeness of wafer shape representation. Various site based HOS metric values may be calculated for wafer characterization and/or classification purposes, and may also be utilized as control input for a downstream application. In addition, polar grid partitioning schemes are provided. Such polar grid partitioning schemes may be utilized to partition a wafer surface into measurement sites having uniform site areas while providing good wafer edge region coverage.
US09546858B2
A trajectory display device, by which an operator can visually and easily compare actual trajectories of a motor end and a machine end, and can easily determine a reason for deviation between the trajectories. The device has a motor-side position obtaining part which obtains positional information of a motor at predetermined sampling periods of time; a motor end actual coordinate calculating part which calculates an actual coordinate value of the motor end based on mechanical information and the positional information of the motor; a machine end data obtaining part which obtains point sequence data on an actual trajectory of the machine end; and a displaying part which displays and overlaps the actual coordinate of the motor end and the point sequence data of the machine end, as actual trajectories of the motor end and the machine end, so that central coordinates of the trajectories coincide with each other.
US09546851B2
A lighted arrow nock capable of easily turning on or off a light, and being easily connected to an arrow shaft includes a light emitting unit including a light and a battery and turning on or off the light by moving the light toward the battery or away from the battery; an arrow adaptor which includes a cylindrical structure so that an outer surface is inserted into a rear end of an arrow, in which the battery is inserted into an inner space of the arrow adaptor; and a light operator which is inserted in an upper portion of the arrow adaptor, while a lower portion of the light operator receives the light, and is moved up and down to turn on or off the light in a state in which the light operator is inserted in the arrow adaptor.
US09546846B2
A shock absorbing mount on a gun using a camera system for training a shooter. The mount includes a mounting bracket with an upper portion having an opening defined therein for firmly mechanically attaching to at least one barrel of a gun and a lower portion for firm mechanically attaching to a tube assembly. The tube assembly is adapted to slidably mount carriage assembly of a camera therein. The tube assembly includes a first end with a first captive cap holding a lens window directed toward a gun front sight when mounted on the gun, the first end including a load transfer ring positioned between the first captive cap and a carriage assembly body of the camera. A programming system is also disclosed to translate a relative position of the generated reticule overlay relative to a generated graticule overlay using the offset previously stored.
US09546842B2
A device for launching using compressed fluid, comprises: a projectile, a barrel having two ends, the projectile being positioned inside the barrel, a first of the two ends allowing the compressed fluid to enter the barrel, a second of the two ends allowing the projectile to leave, a reservoir of compressed fluid connected to the first of the two ends of the barrel. A connecting device comprises a first tape, able to make the transition from a configuration in which it is wound about an axis Z around a support to a configuration in which it is deployed along an axis X substantially perpendicular to the axis Z, the tape having an end fixed to the projectile, and wherein the support is fixed in the barrel.
US09546833B2
The invention relates to a semi-automatic firearm comprising a hand stock nut (1), bracket (6), piston (7), magazine tube plug (8), magazine tube (9), gas tube (10), mechanism (11), lock bolt (12), body (13), lock (14); bolt arm (15), hand stock (16), barrel cap (17) and barrel (18). In order to enable the use of cartridges with different loads and to reduce the recoil, said firearm comprises a valve piston (5) connected with the piston (7) between the gas tube (10) and magazine tube (9) and the hand stock nut (1). Depending on the pressure generated by the cartridge the valve piston (5) is able to release excess gas through discharge holes (20).
US09546830B2
A composite hanger grid for supporting splash bars in a cooling tower uses separate vertical suspension members and horizontal beams by which all of the operational loads imposed on the splash bars are transferred to the horizontal beams, which then transfer the load to the vertical suspension members. Since all of the horizontal beams are independent of each other and separate components from the vertical suspension members, the horizontal beams will be loaded equally throughout the entire hanger grid. Also disclosed are components of the composite hanger grid, splash bars adapted for use with specific embodiments of the composite hanger grid, assemblies of the composite hanger grid with its supported splash bars, a method of assembling a composite hanger grid and a method of assembling an evaporative cooler fill assembly, including hanger grids and splash bars, in a cooling tower.
US09546828B2
The invention relates to an assembly of two parts crimped together by folding at least one portion of peripheral edge (12) of one so-called first part (8) over the other so-called second part (9). Said first part (8) has a hinge-forming region facilitating the folding of said portion of peripheral edge (12). The invention also relates to a manifold comprising said assembly and a heat exchanger comprising said manifold.
US09546826B1
A heat transport structure is provided having a structural microtruss wick with a thermal transport medium associated with the microtruss wick for thermal energy transport by fluid and vapor transport between a heat source and a heat sink.
