US09705086B2
A blue fluorescent compound is disclosed. The blue fluorescent compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, where R1 and R2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of C0-C18 saturated hydrocarbon carbons, branched saturated hydrocarbons, and saturated ring hydrocarbons, and Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of C1-C20 aromatic compounds, heteroaromatic compounds, C1-C18 saturated hydrocarbons, C1-C18 branched saturated hydrocarbons, and C1-C18 saturated ring hydrocarbons.
US09705076B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetoresistive element, including a lower electrode having crystallinity on a substrate, a first conductive layer including an amorphous state on the lower electrode, a buffer layer on the first conductive layer, and an MTJ element on the buffer layer.
US09705075B2
The present invention relates to a cobalt (Co) and platinum (Pt)-based multilayer thin film having a novel structure and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and to a fabrication method thereof. More specifically, the invention relates to a cobalt and platinum-based multilayer thin film having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), which includes thin cobalt layers and thin platinum layers alternately deposited over a substrate, and has an inverted structure in which a thickness of the thin cobalt layers is greater than that of the thin platinum layers, and to a fabrication method thereof. The cobalt and platinum-based multilayer thin film has a new structure in which the thickness of a magnetic thin layer is greater than that of a non-magnetic thin layer. The multilayer thin film may be easily applied as a free layer and a pinned layer in a magnetic tunnel junction by controlling the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy depending on the thickness ratio of the layers. Also, the multilayer thin film has excellent thermal stability, and thus maintains its PMA energy density even after being subjected to a heat treatment process. In addition, it enables a fine amount of in-plane magnetic anisotropy to be formed by heat treatment so as to reduce the critical current density required for magnetization switching. Therefore, it may be advantageously used for high-performance and high-density MRAM.
US09705073B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory element includes a first magnetic unit, a second magnetic unit, a nonmagnetic unit, and a controller. The second magnetic unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first region and a second region. The controller performs a first operation and a second operation. In the first operation, the controller changes a direction of a magnetization of the first region by causing a first current to flow through the first portion in a first current direction. The first current has a first current value. In the second operation, the controller changes a direction of a magnetization of the second region by causing a second current to flow through the first portion in a second current direction. The second current has a second current value. The second current value is less than the first current value.
US09705065B2
There is provided a piezoelectric actuator including: a piezoelectric member having a multilayer structure; an external electrode formed on an outer surface of the piezoelectric member; and an intermediate electrode formed between layers of the piezoelectric members and having an area smaller than that of the external electrode.
US09705063B2
A technique relates to protecting a tunnel junction. A first electrode paddle and a second electrode paddle are on a substrate. The first and second electrode paddles oppose one another. A sacrificial shorting strap is formed on the substrate. The sacrificial shorting strap connects the first electrode paddle and the second electrode paddle; The tunnel junction is formed connecting the first electrode paddle and the second electrode paddle, after forming the sacrificial shorting strap. The substrate is mounted on a portion of a quantum cavity. The portion of the quantum cavity is placed in a vacuum chamber. The sacrificial shorting strap is etched away in the vacuum chamber while the substrate is mounted to the portion of the quantum cavity, such that the sacrificial shorting strap no longer connects the first and second electrode paddles. The tunnel junction has been protected from electrostatic discharge by the sacrificial shorting strap.
US09705052B1
An LED package structure includes a substrate, a circuit layer and an insulating layer both disposed on the substrate, a light-emitting unit, and a reflective housing integrally formed with the insulating layer. The light-emitting unit includes an LED chip and a fluorescent body encapsulating the LED chip. The light-emitting unit is mounted on the insulating layer and the circuit layer. The fluorescent body of the light emitting unit is spaced apart from the circuit layer with a gap in a range of 3˜10 μm. The reflective housing is formed on the insulating layer and the circuit layer and is further filled within the gap. A top plane of the reflective housing arranged away from the substrate is lower than or equal to that of the light-emitting unit, and a distance between the two top planes is in a range of 0˜30 μm.
US09705043B2
In a light-emitting diode, a plurality of dot-shaped ohmic contact electrodes are provided between a metal reflective film and a compound semiconductor layer, an ohmic electrode and a surface electrode composed of a pad portion and a plurality of linear portions connected to the pad portion are provided in that order on the opposite side of the compound semiconductor layer from the semiconductor substrate, the surface of the ohmic electrode is covered with the linear portions, the ohmic contact electrodes and the ohmic electrode are formed in positions that do not overlap with the pad portion in plan view, and among the plurality of ohmic contact electrodes, 5% or more and 40% or less of the ohmic contact electrodes are disposed in positions that overlap with the linear portions in plan view.
US09705035B1
A light emitting device, includes a substrate; a plurality of light emitting stacked layers, comprising a first surface and a second surface; a mesa structure; a current blocking (CB) layer; a transparent conductive layer; a first pad electrode and a second pad electrode; and a passivation layer, wherein the second surface is electrically opposite to the first surface, the transparent conductive layer is disposed on or above the first surface, the first pad electrode is disposed on the transparent conductive layer and on the first surface, and the second pad electrode is disposed on the second surface and on the mesa structure, the CB layer is disposed on the first surface, surrounded by the transparent conductive layer, and at a lower region of the first pad electrode, a portion of the first pad electrode is filling a first opening of the transparent conductive layer and the CB layer.
US09705020B2
A module structure is provided, which includes a front sheet, a back sheet opposite the front sheet, and a solar cell disposed between the front sheet and the back sheet. A first encapsulate film is disposed between the solar cell and the front sheet, and a second encapsulate film disposed between the solar cell and the back sheet. One or both of the front sheet and the second sheet includes a support layer and a light conversion layer on the support layer, wherein the light conversion layer includes a fluorescent molecule and hydrogenated styrene elastomer resin. The light conversion layer is disposed between the support layer and the solar cell.
US09705018B2
A photoelectric conversion element of an embodiment includes: a back electrode; a heterojunction-type light absorbing layer on the back electrode, containing Cu, selected from Al, In and Ga, and selected from Se and S, and having a chalcopyrite structure; a transparent electrode on the light absorbing layer, wherein aback electrode side-part of the light absorbing layer is of p-type, and a transparent electrode-side part of the light absorbing layer is of n-type, the light absorbing layer has a part with an average crystal grain size of 1,000 nm to 3,000 nm in the vicinity of the back electrode, and the light absorbing layer has apart with an average crystal grain size of at most 500 nm in the vicinity of the transparent electrode or the light absorbing layer has an amorphous part in the vicinity of the transparent electrode.
US09705015B2
A component intended for the detecting and/or the measuring of an electromagnetic radiation in a first range of wavelengths. The component includes a support including at least one first structure and a reception face in order to receive the electromagnetic radiation; an optical filter of the band-pass type in the first range of wavelengths arranged on the reception face of the support. The optical filter includes an adaptation zone covering the reception face of the support and with a refractive index less than 2; a first metal layer covering the adaptation zone and including regularly distributed through-holes. Each one of the through-holes contains a filling material.
US09705013B2
After forming an absorber layer containing cracks over a back contact layer, a passivation layer is formed over a top surface of the absorber layer and interior surfaces of the cracks. The passivation layer is deposited in a manner such that that the cracks in the absorber layer are fully passivated by the passivation layer. An emitter layer is then formed over the passivation layer to pinch off upper portions of the cracks, leaving voids in lower portions of the cracks.
US09705011B2
One embodiment of the disclosure relates to an unguarded Schottky barrier diode. The diode includes a cathode that has a recessed region and a dielectric interface surface that laterally extends around a perimeter of the recessed region. The diode further includes an anode that conforms to the recessed region. A dielectric layer extends over the dielectric interface surface of the cathode and further extends over a portion of the anode near the perimeter. Other devices and methods are also disclosed.
US09705010B2
The present examples relate to a Schottky diode having floating guard rings and an additional element isolation layer configured to further improve a breakdown voltage of the Schottky diode, while maintaining the turn-on voltage and current in the forward characteristic, compared to a related Schottky diode. The floating guard rings in the examples are located in a position between the anode and the cathode regions or under the anode.
US09705008B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method and a structure of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate, in which an oxide conductor layer is used to define a channel of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate. Since the oxide conductor layer is relatively thin and compared to the known techniques, the width of the channel can be made smaller and the width of the channel can be controlled precisely, the difficult of the manufacturing process of the oxide semiconductor TFT substrate can be reduced and the performance of the oxide semiconductor TFT substrate can be enhanced and the yield rate of manufacture can be increased. In a structure of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate manufactured with the present invention, since the oxide conductor layer and the oxide semiconductor layer are similar in structural composition, excellent ohmic contact can be formed; the oxide conductor does not cause metal ion contamination in the oxide semiconductor layer; and the oxide conductor layer is transparent so as to help increase aperture ratio.
US09705004B2
A transistor whose channel is formed in a semiconductor having dielectric anisotropy is provided. A transistor having a small subthreshold swing value is provided. A transistor having normally-off electrical characteristics is provided. A transistor having a low leakage current in an off state is provided. A semiconductor device includes an insulator, a semiconductor, and a conductor. In the semiconductor device, the semiconductor includes a region overlapping with the conductor with the insulator positioned therebetween, and a dielectric constant of the region in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the region is higher than a dielectric constant of the region in a direction parallel to the top surface.
US09704999B2
Thin film transistors (TFTs), including radiofrequency TFTs, with submicron-scale channel lengths and methods for making the TFTs are provided. The transistors include a trench cut into the layer of semiconductor that makes up the body of the transistors. Trench separates the source and drain regions and determines the channel length of the transistor.
US09704996B2
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor film and a gate electrode with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween, a conductive film, an insulating film over the gate electrode and the conductive film, and a gate wiring over the insulating film. The gate wiring extends across the conductive film.
US09704994B1
A fin field effect transistor (finFET) and a method of fabricating the finFET. The method includes forming one or more fins above a substrate in a channel region, depositing a first insulating material conformally on the one or more fins and the substrate, and depositing a second insulating material over the first insulating material in non-channel regions adjacent to the channel region. A selective etch of the first insulating material in the channel region is performed to form a trench. The trench is filled with the second insulating material. The second insulating material in the channel region is adjacent to the first insulating material in the non-channel regions.
US09704992B2
A Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor comprising a source-channel-drain structure, the source-channel-drain structure comprising a source region doped with a dopant element having a first dopant type and a first doping concentration; a drain region doped with a dopant element having a second dopant type opposite compared to the first dopant type, and a second doping concentration, a channel region situated between the source region and the drain region and having an intrinsic doping concentration, or lowly doped concentration being lower than the doping concentration of the source and drain regions, a gate stack comprising a gate electrode on a gate dielectric layer, the gate stack covering at least part of the channel region and extending at the source side up to at least an interface between the source region and the channel region, a drain extension region in the channel region or on top thereof, the drain extension region being formed from a material suitable for creating, and having a length/thickness ratio such that, in use, it creates a charged layer, in the OFF-state of the TFET, with a charge opposite to the charge of the majority carriers in the drain region.
US09704981B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a low resistance self-aligned contacts to devices formed in a semiconductor heterostructure. The techniques can be used, for example, for forming contacts to the gate, source and drain regions of a quantum well transistor fabricated in III-V and SiGe/Ge material systems. Unlike conventional contact process flows which result in a relatively large space between the source/drain contacts to gate, the resulting source and drain contacts provided by the techniques described herein are self-aligned, in that each contact is aligned to the gate electrode and isolated therefrom via spacer material.
US09704977B2
Energy-filtered cold electron devices use electron energy filtering through discrete energy levels of quantum wells or quantum dots that are formed through band bending of tunneling barrier conduction band. These devices can obtain low effective electron temperatures of less than or equal to 45K at room temperature, steep electrical current turn-on/turn-off capabilities with a steepness of less than or equal to 10 mV/decade at room temperature, subthreshold swings of less than or equal to 10 mV/decade at room temperature, and/or supply voltages of less than or equal to 0.1 V.
US09704976B2
An object is to provide a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer, in which contact resistance between the oxide semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers is reduced and electric characteristics are stabilized. The thin film transistor is formed in such a manner that a buffer layer including a high-resistance region and low-resistance regions is formed over an oxide semiconductor layer, and the oxide semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers are in contact with each other with the low-resistance region of the buffer layer interposed therebetween.
US09704975B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a well region situated on the semiconductor substrate, a floating gate situated on the well region, a floating gate channel region, a control gate situated on both sides of the floating gate, a control gate channel region, and an ion implantation area for regulating a program threshold voltage integrally formed between an area underneath of the floating gate and the control gate and a foreside of the well region, wherein a doping concentration of the ion implantation area for regulating a program threshold voltage is greater than a doping concentration of the well region. Therefore, the non-volatile memory device of examples integrally forms an ion implantation area for regulating a program threshold voltage irrespective of a channel region of a floating gate and a control gate so as to guarantee durability of a non-volatile memory device.
US09704970B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure over the substrate, a source/drain regions adjacent to the pair of spacers in the substrate, an etch stop layer next to the gate structure and overlying the substrate, a contact plug extending into the source/drain region and partially overlapping the gate structure, a protective layer over the etch stop layer overlying the substrate and covering the etch stop layer next to the gate structure without the contact plug, and an interlayer dielectric layer over the protective layer. The contact plug has no contact-to-gate short issue to the gate structure.
US09704969B1
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a plurality of insulators, a dielectric layer and a plurality of gates is provided. The substrate includes a plurality of trenches and a semiconductor fin between trenches. The insulators are disposed in the trenches. The dielectric layer covers the semiconductor fin and the insulators. A lengthwise direction of the gates is different from a lengthwise direction of the semiconductor fin. The gates comprise at least one first gate that is penetrated by the semiconductor fin and at least one second gate that is not penetrated through by the semiconductor fin. The second gate comprises a broadened portion disposed on the dielectric layer and a top portion disposed on the broadened portion, wherein a bottom width of the broadened portion is greater than a width of the top portion.
US09704968B2
A method of forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) that includes epitaxially growing a second III-V compound layer on a first III-V compound layer. A carrier channel is located between the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer. A source feature and a drain feature are formed on the second III-V compound layer. A p-type layer is deposited on a portion of the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature. A gate electrode is formed on a portion of the p-type layer.
US09704964B1
A device includes a substrate, a layer of graphene disposed over at least a portion of the substrate, at least one conductive trace proximate to the layer of graphene, one or more liquid metal contacts electrically connecting the layer of graphene and the at least one conductive trace, and an encasing material disposed over and enclosing the liquid metal contacts. The liquid metal contacts are in contact with a portion of the layer of graphene and an adjoining portion of the respective conductive trace. The liquid metal contacts may comprise a eutectic alloy in stable liquid form at between about −19° C. and about 1300° C., such as a gallium-based alloy. The conductive traces allow for external device connections and may be partially enclosed within the encasing material.
US09704961B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate dielectric layer over a bottom surface and sidewalls of the trench; forming a work function layer over the gate dielectric layer; recessing the work function layer, and forming a gate electrode which is positioned in the trench; and exposing the gate electrode to a thermal process, and forming a dipole induction layer between the gate electrode and the gate dielectric layer.
US09704955B2
Semiconductor devices are formed using a thin epitaxial layer (nanotube) formed on sidewalls of dielectric-filled trenches. In one embodiment, a method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first epitaxial layer on sidewalls of trenches and forming second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer where charges in the doped regions along the sidewalls of the first and second trenches achieve charge balance in operation. In another embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a termination structure including an array of termination cells.
US09704952B2
An object is to provide a technique that suppresses decrease in the breakdown voltage of a protective element. There is provided a semiconductor device that comprises a vertical MOS transistor and a protective element. A first nitride semiconductor layer has a convex that is protruded toward a second nitride semiconductor layer. The convex has a top face placed at a position to overlap with at least part of an ohmic electrode of a second conductive type when viewed from a stacking direction of a stacked body. The thickness of the second nitride semiconductor layer in a portion which a bottom face of a trench is in contact with is greater than the thickness of the second nitride semiconductor layer in a portion which the top face of the convex is in contact with.
US09704947B2
A semiconductor device including a terminal region that can suppress a resist collapse in manufacturing and effectively relieve a concentration of electric fields and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element formed in a semiconductor substrate made of a silicon carbide semiconductor of a first conductivity type and a plurality of ring-shaped regions of a second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor substrate while surrounding the semiconductor element in plan view. At least one of the plurality of ring-shaped regions includes one or more separation regions of the first conductivity type that cause areas of the first conductivity type on an inner side and an outer side of one of the ring-shaped regions to communicate with each other in plan view.
US09704946B2
A semiconductor device is provided. On one main surface side of an n-type semiconductor substrate, a p-type diffusion region to serve as an anode of a diode is formed. A guard ring formed of a p-type diffusion region is formed to surround the anode. On the other main surface side, an n-type ultrahigh-concentration impurity layer and an n-type high-concentration impurity layer to serve as a cathode are formed. In a guard-ring opposed region located in the cathode and opposite to the guard ring, a cathode-side p-type diffusion region is formed. Accordingly, concentration of the electric current on an outer peripheral end portion of the anode is suppressed.
US09704944B2
An integrated circuit contains three thin film resistors over a dielectric layer. The first resistor body includes only a bottom thin film layer and the first resistor heads include the bottom thin film layer, a middle thin film layer and a top thin film layer. The second resistor body and heads include all three thin film layers. The third resistor body does not include the middle thin film layer. The three resistors are formed using two etch masks.
US09704943B2
A manufacturing method of an inductor structure includes the following steps. A protection layer is formed on a substrate, such that bond pads of the substrate are respectively exposed form protection layer openings of the protection layer. A conductive layer is formed on the bond pads and the protection layer. A patterned first photoresist layer is formed on the conductive layer. Copper bumps are respectively formed on the conductive layer located in the first photoresist layer openings. A patterned second photoresist layer is formed on the first photoresist layer, such that at least one of the copper bumps is exposed through second photoresist layer opening and the corresponding first photoresist layer opening. A diffusion barrier layer and an oxidation barrier layer are formed on the copper bump. The first and second photoresist layers, and the conductive layer not covered by the copper bumps are removed.
US09704934B2
A thin film transistor includesa gate electrode including a gate pattern positioned on a substrate and a gate clad pattern covering the gate pattern. An oxide semiconductor layer is positioned on the gate electrode. A source electrode and a drain electrode are positioned on the oxide semiconductor layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are ach in contact with end portions of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09704929B2
A display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels, where each of the unit pixels has a hexagonal-shape and includes: a first sub-pixel configured to emit a first color light, where the first sub-pixel has a rhombus-shape; a second sub-pixel configured to emit a second color light, where the second sub-pixel has the rhombus-shape; and a third sub-pixel configured to emit a third color light, where the third sub-pixel has the rhombus-shape, where first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels or third sub-pixels of neighboring unit pixels in a same row are arranged to adjoin each other.
US09704920B2
A memory device includes at least one memory cell. The at least one memory cell includes a steering element, a resistive memory element, and a tunneling dielectric element located between the steering element and the resistive memory element.
US09704918B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a cell array including resistance change elements formed above a semiconductor substrate; first cell transistors formed on the semiconductor substrate and provided in association with the resistance change elements; first gate electrodes included in the first cell transistor and extending in a first direction; a first bit lines electrically connected to the resistance change elements respectively and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a second bit lines electrically connected to one end of a current path of the first cell transistors respectively and extending in the second direction; and first active areas in which the first cell transistors are formed, and which extend in a direction crossing the first direction at a first angle.
US09704916B2
Structures and techniques introduced here enable the design and fabrication of photodetectors (PDs) and/or other electronic circuits using typical semiconductor device manufacturing technologies meanwhile reducing the adverse impacts on PDs' performance. Examples of the various structures and techniques introduced here include, but not limited to, a pre-PD homogeneous wafer bonding technique, a pre-PD heterogeneous wafer bonding technique, a post-PD wafer bonding technique, their combinations, and a number of mirror equipped PD structures. With the introduced structures and techniques, it is possible to implement PDs using typical direct growth material epitaxy technology while reducing the adverse impact of the defect layer at the material interface caused by lattice mismatch.
US09704914B2
An array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, an X-ray flat panel detector and an image pickup system are provided. The array substrate is divided into a plurality of detection units, and each of the detection units has a first electrode and a photoelectric conversion structure provided therein. The first electrode is disposed on a side of the photoelectric conversion structure opposite to a light incident side, and is electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion structure. A reflective layer that is electrically conductive is further included between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion structure, and a surface of the reflective layer facing the photoelectric conversion structure is a reflection surface. The utilization rate of light can be enhanced by the array substrate as stated in embodiments of the invention, so that the detection accuracy of the X-ray flat panel detector is enhanced.
US09704907B1
An electro-optical sensor chip assembly (SCA) is provided and includes a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC), a detector including a substrate, a buffer layer, a pixel layer and an array of pixels disposed in the pixel layer and an interconnect layer interposed between the ROIC and the pixel layer and comprising cold welded interconnect posts respectively extendible to the ROIC from the pixels. The detector is penetrable by visible wavelength light propagating from a direct view window formed in the substrate and the buffer layer to one or more of the pixels.
US09704905B2
A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor, includes forming a first isolation region of a first conductivity type in a semiconductor layer having first and second surfaces, the forming the first isolation region including first implantation for implanting ions into the semiconductor layer through the first surface, forming charge accumulation regions of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor layer, performing first annealing, forming an interconnection on a side of the first surface of the semiconductor layer after the first annealing, and forming a second isolation region of the first conductivity type in the semiconductor layer, the forming the second isolation region including second implantation for implanting ions into the semiconductor layer through the second surface. The first and second isolation regions are arranged between the adjacent charge accumulation regions.
US09704897B1
A display panel, a preparing method thereof and a display device are provided. The method of preparing a display panel includes steps of: coating an alignment material on both a display region of an array substrate and an electrode region of the array substrate located around a periphery of the display region; aligning the alignment material; assembling the aligned array substrate and an aligned color filter substrate into an assembly; cutting the assembly of the array substrate and the color filter substrate into a plurality of display panel units, such that the electrode region of the array substrate is not covered by the color filter substrate in each of the display panel units; and removing the alignment material covering the electrode region of the array substrate so as to expose the electrode region.
US09704896B2
A manufacturing method includes forming a gate member and a common electrode line on a substrate. A gate insulating layer is formed on the gate member and the common electrode line. A semiconductor member and a data member are formed on the gate insulating layer. A first passivation layer is formed on the semiconductor member and the data member. A plurality of color filters is formed on the first passivation layer. A conductor layer and a second passivation layer are formed on the plurality of color filters. A first contact hole exposes a common electrode. A second contact hole exposes the drain electrode. The first and second contact holes are formed by a photolithography process. A pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode is formed through the first contact hole. A connecting member connected to the common electrode line and the common electrode is formed through the second contact hole.
US09704895B2
A display device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a light curable sealant. The first substrate has a displaying area and a non-displaying area, in which the displaying area includes a pixel array, and the non-displaying area includes a driving circuit. The driving circuit includes at least a capacitor which is made of transparent conductive material. The second substrate has an opaque area. The light curable sealant is located between the first substrate and the second substrate. When viewing from a normal vector of the first substrate or the second substrate, the light curable sealant, the capacitor and the opaque area are at least partially overlapped with each other.
US09704892B2
A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a display medium is provided. The first substrate includes a base substrate, a gate, an active layer, a source, a drain, and a shielding structure. The gate is disposed on the base substrate. The active layer is electrically insulated from and disposed correspondingly to the gate. The source and the drain are electrically connected to the active layer. The shielding structure is disposed on the active layer and covers at least part of the active layer. The shielding structure includes a metal layer and an anti-reflection structure. The display medium is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US09704887B2
The present invention provides a TFT substrate structure, comprising a Switching TFT and a Driving TFT, and the Switching TFT comprises a first active layer, and the Driving TFT comprises a second active layer, and the first active layer and the second active layer are made by the same or different materials and the electrical properties of the Switching TFT and the Driving TFT are different. According to the different functions of the different TFTs, the present invention employs different working structures for the Switching TFT and the Driving TFT to respectively implement deposition and photolithography, and employs different materials for the active layers of the Switching TFT and the Driving TFT to differentiate the electrical properties of different TFTs in the TFT substrate. Accordingly, the accurate control to the OLED with lowest cost can be realized.
US09704882B2
A retention circuit provided in a logic circuit enables power gating. The retention circuit includes a first terminal, a node, a capacitor, and first to third transistors. The first transistor controls electrical connection between the first terminal and an input terminal of the logic circuit. The second transistor controls electrical connection between an output terminal of the logic circuit and the node. The third transistor controls electrical connection between the node and the input terminal of the logic circuit. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor. In a data retention period, the node becomes electrically floating. The voltage of the node is held by the capacitor.
US09704879B2
A switch includes a graphene structure extending longitudinally between a pair of electrodes and being conductively connected to both electrodes of said pair. First and second electrically conductive structures are laterally outward of the graphene structure and on opposing sides of the graphene structure from one another. Ferroelectric material is laterally between the graphene structure and at least one of the first and second electrically conductive structures. The first and second electrically conductive structures are configured to provide the switch into “on” and “off” states by application of an electric field across the graphene structure and the ferroelectric material. Other embodiments are disclosed, including components of integrated circuitry which may not be switches.
US09704863B1
A method for fabricating a nanosheet semiconductor structure includes forming a first nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) structure having a first inner spacer of a first material and a second nanosheet FET structure having second inner spacer of a second material. The first material is different than the second material.
US09704857B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate and RF FEM formed over the substrate. The RF FEM includes an LC low-pass filter having an input coupled for receiving a transmit signal. A Tx/Rx switch has a first terminal coupled to an output of the LC filter. A diplexer has a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the Tx/Rx switch and a second terminal for providing an RF signal. An IPD band-pass filter has an input coupled to a third terminal of the Tx/Rx switch and an output providing a receive signal. The LC filter includes conductive traces wound to exhibit inductive and mutual inductive properties and capacitors coupled to the conductive traces. The IPD filter includes conductive traces wound to exhibit inductive and mutual inductive properties and capacitors coupled to the conductive traces. The RF FEM substrate can be stacked over a semiconductor package containing an RF transceiver.
US09704842B2
An interposer having a multilayered conductive pattern portion that is constructed by repeating the direct printing on a carrier of one or more conductive pattern layers and application of one or more insulating layers between the printed conductive pattern layers is described. Also, a method for manufacturing the interposer, a semiconductor package using the interposer, and a method for fabricating the semiconductor package are described.
US09704839B2
A semiconductor device includes an active region disposed in a semiconductor substrate and an uppermost metal level including metal lines, where the uppermost metal level is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. Contact pads are disposed at a major surface of the semiconductor device, where the contact pads are coupled to the metal lines in the uppermost metal level. An isolation region separates the contact pads disposed at the major surface. Adjacent contact pads are electrically isolated from one another by a portion of the isolation region. Reflective structures are disposed between the upper metal level and the contact pads, where each of the reflective structures that is directly over the active region completely overlaps an associated portion of the isolation region separating the contact pad.
US09704832B1
A die stack assembly includes first and second power semiconductor device dice. The first die has a P type peripheral edge separation structure that extends from the top planar semiconductor surface of the first die all the way to the bottom planar semiconductor surface of the die, and that is doped at least in part with aluminum. The backside of the first die is mounted to the backside of the second die. A metal feature that is not covered with passivation, and that can serve as a bonding pad, is disposed on part of the peripheral edge separation structure. A metal member (for example, a bond wire or metal clip) contacts the metal feature such that an electrical connection is established from the metal member, through the metal feature, through the peripheral edge separation structure of the first die, and to an electrode of the second die.
US09704831B2
A transistor chip formed from a wide band gap semiconductor, on which transistor elements for an upper arm are formed is mounted on a front surface of an insulating substrate. A transistor chip formed from a wide band gap semiconductor, on which transistor elements for a lower arm are formed is mounted on a rear surface of the insulating substrate.
US09704829B2
A stacked structure comprises a semiconductor chip which includes a substrate having at least one substrate via hole penetrating through the substrate; at least one backside metal layer formed on a backside of the substrate covering an inner surface of the substrate via hole and at least part of the backside of the substrate; at least one front-side metal layer formed on the front-side of the substrate and electrically connected to the at least one backside metal layer on a top of at least one of the at least one substrate via hole; at least one electronic device formed on the front-side of the substrate and electrically connected to the at least one front-side metal layer; and at least one metal bump formed on at least one of the backside metal layer and the front-side metal layer.
US09704827B2
The present disclosure relates to a multi-dimensional integrated chip having a redistribution layer vertically extending between integrated chip die, which is laterally offset from a back-side bond pad. The multi-dimensional integrated chip has a first integrated chip die with a first plurality of metal interconnect layers disposed within a first inter-level dielectric layer arranged onto a front-side of a first semiconductor substrate. The multi-dimensional integrated chip also has a second integrated chip die with a second plurality of metal interconnect layers disposed within a second inter-level dielectric layer abutting the first ILD layer. A bond pad is disposed within a recess extending through the second semiconductor substrate. A redistribution layer vertically extends between the first plurality of metal interconnect layers and the second plurality of metal interconnect layers at a position that is laterally offset from the bond pad.
US09704817B2
An apparatus, method and system for securing proprietary semiconductor IC components including a target semiconductor IC; at least one laser diode array disposed adjacent to the target semiconductor IC and coupled thereto; a power supply coupled to the at least one laser diode array; a sensor for sensing a predetermined parameter operatively coupled to the laser diode array through the power supply; wherein the sensor detects the existence of a predetermined event and as a result of the detection of the predetermined event activates the power supply and energizes the laser diode array, causing the laser diode array to project focused laser energy into the target semiconductor IC, damaging the target semiconductor IC.
US09704813B2
A device region (17) is formed at a central part of a semiconductor wafer (2) and a ring-shaped reinforced portion (18) which is thicker than the device region (17) is formed on an outer circumference of the device region (17). After forming the device region (17) and the ring-shaped reinforced portion (18), the semiconductor wafer (2) is subjected to wet treatment. After the wet treatment, the semiconductor wafer (2) is rotated and dried. A center position of the semiconductor wafer (2) is different from a center position of the ring-shaped reinforced portion (18).
US09704799B2
An ESD protection device includes a Si substrate and a rewiring layer. The rewiring layer includes Ti/Cu/Ti electrodes are electrically connected through contact holes to an ESD protection circuit with Al electrodes films, which is formed at the surface of the Si substrate. The Al electrode film is electrically connected to the Ti/Cu/Ti electrode, whereas the Al electrode film is electrically connected to the Ti/Cu/Ti electrode. A diode forming region is formed between Al electrode films, whereas a diode forming region is formed between Al electrode films. The Ti/Cu/Ti electrode has no overlap with the diode forming region, whereas the Ti/Cu/Ti electrode has no overlap with the diode forming region. Thus, a semiconductor device is provided which is able to reduce the generation of parasitic capacitance, and able to be applied up to a higher frequency band.
US09704790B1
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution layer (RDL) interposer having a first side, a second side, opposite to the first side. The RDL interposer comprises a first passivation layer, at least one dielectric layer on the first passivation layer, a metal layer in the at least one dielectric layer, a second passivation layer on the at least one dielectric layer, and a plurality of ball pads in the first passivation layer. At least one semiconductor die is mounted on the first side of the RDL interposer. A solder mask covers a lower surface of the first passivation layer and exposes the plurality of ball pads through a plurality of openings in the solder mask. An under-bump mettalization (UBM) layer is disposed at a bottom of each of the plurality of openings. A solder bump or solder ball is disposed on the UBM layer in each of the plurality of openings.
US09704786B2
A lead frame strip having a plurality of unit lead frames is provided. Each of the unit lead frames includes a die paddle, a plurality of leads extending away from the die paddle, and a peripheral ring delineating interior portions of the leads from exterior portions of the leads. An adhesion promoter plating material is selectively plated within a package outline area of a first unit lead frame. The die paddle and the interior portions of the leads are disposed within the package outline area and the exterior portions of the leads are disposed outside of the package outline area. Wire bond sides are processed such that, after selectively plating the adhesion promoter plating material, the wire bond sites are substantially devoid of the adhesion promoter plating material. The wire bond sites are disposed within the package outline area and are spaced apart from the peripheral ring.
US09704775B2
A thermal interface sheet includes a peripheral portion, in a surface direction, configured to have a melting point higher than the melting point of a central portion in the surface direction.
US09704774B2
A thermal management structure for a device is provided. The thermal management structure includes electroplated metal, which connects multiple contact regions for a first contact of a first type located on a first side of the device. The electroplated metal can form a bridge structure over a contact region for a second contact of a second type without contacting the second contact. The thermal management structure also can include a layer of insulating material located on the contact region of the second type, below the bridge structure.
US09704759B2
Disclosed herein is a method of forming a CMOS integrated circuit product (comprised of first and second opposite type transistors) that includes forming a first spacer proximate both the first and second gate structures, forming an initial second spacer proximate the first spacer of the first transistor and a layer of second spacer material above the second transistor, and forming first raised epi semiconductor material source/drain regions for the first transistor. Thereafter, performing a first surface oxidation process so as to selectively form a hydrophilic material on exposed surfaces of the first raised epi semiconductor material and performing an etching process on both the transistors so as to remove the initial second spacer and the layer of second spacer material.
US09704755B2
A structure and method for implementation of high voltage devices within multi-gate device structures includes a substrate having a fin extending therefrom and a fin-embedded isolation region. In some examples, the fin-embedded isolation region includes an STI region. In some embodiments, the fin-embedded isolation separates a first portion of the fin from a second portion of the fin. Also, in some examples, the first portion of the fin includes a channel region. In various embodiments, a source region is formed in the first portion of the fin, a drain region is formed in the second portion of the fin, and an active gate is formed over the channel region. In some examples, the active gate is disposed adjacent to the source region. In addition, a plurality of dummy gates may be formed over the fin, to provide a uniform growth environment and growth profile for source and drain region formation.
US09704748B2
A method of dicing a wafer includes providing a wafer and etching the wafer to singulate die between kerf line segments defined within an interior region of the wafer and to singulate a plurality of wafer edge areas between the kerf line segments and a circumferential edge of the wafer. Each one of the plurality of wafer edge areas is singulated by kerf lines that each extend between one of two endpoints of one of the kerf line segments and the circumferential edge of the wafer.
US09704746B1
A method of forming a metallization layer by ASAP is provided. Embodiments include forming an ULK layer; forming a SAC SiN layer over the ULK layer; forming mandrels directly on the SAC SiN layer; cutting the mandrels; selectively etching the SAC SiN layer across the cut mandrels, forming first trenches; filling the first trenches with a metal oxide; forming a conformal metal oxide layer over the cut mandrels, the metal oxide, and the SAC SiN layer; removing horizontal portions of the conformal metal oxide layer over the cut mandrels and the SAC SiN layer; removing the cut mandrels; removing exposed portions of the SAC SiN layer and etching the underlying ULK layer, forming second trenches; and stripping a remainder of the metal oxide, conformal metal oxide layer, and SAC SiN layer.
US09704739B2
Semiconductor device packages, packaging methods, and packaged semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a package for a semiconductor device includes a back side interconnect structure, and a winding of an inductor disposed in a material layer of the back side interconnect structure. A molding material is coupled to the back side interconnect structure. The package includes an integrated circuit die mounting region disposed within the molding material.
US09704738B2
Bonded semiconductor device structures and device structure fabrication processes to obviate the need for SOI wafers in many device fabrication applications are disclosed. In some examples, multiple etch stop layers are formed in situ during fabrication of an active device structure on a bulk semiconductor wafer. The etch stop layers are incorporated into in a layer transfer process to enable very thin high quality active device layers of substantially uniform across-wafer thickness to be separated from bulk semiconductor wafers and bonded to handle wafers. As a result, these examples can produce high-performance and low-power semiconductor devices while avoiding the high cost of SOI wafers.
US09704731B2
A plasma processing method is provided for a plasma processing apparatus which includes a plurality of upstream-side expansion valves and a plurality of downstream-side expansion valves connected to respective refrigerant inlets and respective refrigerant outlets to adjust a flow rate or a pressure of a refrigerant flowing into the respective refrigerant inlets and a flow rate or a pressure of a refrigerant flowing out from the respective refrigerant outlets. The method includes adjusting openings of the upstream-side expansion valves and openings of the downstream-side expansion valves so that no change in flow rate of the refrigerant occurs in a plurality of refrigerant channels between the plurality of upstream-side expansion valves and the plurality of downstream-side expansion valves via the plurality of refrigerant channels in a refrigeration cycle allowing the refrigerant to flow therein.
US09704724B2
Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which exhibits positive or negative photosensitivity and is used as a mask in an ion implantation step, the photosensitive resin composition including, as a resin, (A) a polysiloxane. The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention has high heat resistance and is capable of controlling a pattern shape, and also has excellent ion implantation mask performance, thus enabling application to a low-cost high-temperature ion implantation process.
US09704722B2
A method of forming a fine pattern includes forming pillar-shaped guides regularly arranged on a feature layer, forming a block copolymer layer on the feature layer around the pillar-shaped guides, phase separating the block copolymer layer, forming first domains regularly arranged on the feature layer with the pillar-shaped guides, forming a second domain on the feature layer surrounding the pillar-shaped guides and the first domains, removing the first domains, and forming holes corresponding with the first domains in the feature layer by etching the feature layer using the pillar-shaped guides and the second domain as etch masks. The block copolymer layer includes a polymer blend having first and second polymer blocks having first and second repeat units, respectively, a first homopolymer and a second homopolymer. The first domains include the first polymer block and the first homopolymer, and the second domain includes the second polymer block and the second homopolymer.
US09704720B2
An integrated circuit may be formed by forming a sacrificial silicon nitride feature. At least a portion of the sacrificial silicon nitride feature may be removed by placing the integrated circuit in a two-step oxidized layer etch tool and removing a surface layer of oxidized silicon from the sacrificial silicon nitride feature using a two-step etch process. The two-step etch process exposes the integrated circuits to reactants from a plasma source at a temperature less than 40° C. and subsequently heating the integrated circuit to 80° C. to 120° C. while in the two-step oxidized layer etch tool. While the integrated circuit is in the two-step oxidized layer etch tool, without exposing the integrated circuit to an ambient containing more than 1 torr of oxygen, at least a portion of the sacrificial silicon nitride feature is removed using fluorine-containing etch reagents, substantially free of ammonia.
US09704719B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate having an oxide layer is provided. At least a portion of the oxide layer is removed and forms a nitride layer. The nitride layer is removed, leaving nitride precipitates. The nitride precipitates are removed using phosphoric acid.
US09704709B2
A Method for producing a layer of strained semiconductor material, the method comprising steps for: a) formation on a substrate of a stack comprising a first semiconductor layer based on a first semiconductor material coated with a second semiconductor layer based on a second semiconductor material having a different lattice parameter to that of the first semiconductor material, b) producing on the second semiconductor layer a mask having a symmetry, c) rendering amorphous the first semiconductor layer along with zones of the second semiconductor layer without rendering amorphous one or a plurality of regions of the second semiconductor layer protected by the mask and arranged respectively opposite the masking block(s), d) performing recrystallization of the regions rendered amorphous and the first semiconductor layer resulting in this first semiconductor layer being strained (FIG. 1A).
US09704692B2
Each of multiple plasma processing chambers has an RF power input line connected to receive RF power from a common RF power source. An RF control module is connected to distribute RF power from the common RF power source to the RF power input lines of the multiple chambers. A voltage sensor and a current sensor are connected to a corresponding RF power input line. Each voltage sensor measures an instantaneous electrical voltage present on its RF power input line. Each current sensor measures an instantaneous electrical current present on its RF power input line. An analog multiplier module is connected to receive as inputs the instantaneous electrical voltage from its corresponding voltage sensor and the instantaneous electrical current from its corresponding current sensor. Each analog multiplier module generates an output signal that indicates an instantaneous RF power present on the corresponding RF power input line of the corresponding chamber.
US09704687B2
The charged particle beam application device is provided with a charged particle source and an objective lens that converges charged particle beam generated by the charged particle source onto a sample. In this case, the charged particle beam application device is further provided with an aberration generating element installed between the charged particle beam source and the objective lens, a tilt-use deflector installed between the aberration generating element and the objective lens, a deflection aberration control unit for controlling the aberration generating element, a first electromagnetic field superposing multipole installed between the aberration generating element and the objective lens, and an electromagnetic field superposing multipole control unit for controlling the first electromagnetic field superposing multipole. The aberration generating element has such a function that when the charged particle beam is tilted relative to the sample by the tilt-use deflector, a plurality of resulting aberrations are cancelled with one another. Moreover, the first electromagnetic field superposing multipole has a function to change the orbit of a charged particle beam having energy different from that of the main charged particle beam in the charged particle beam.
US09704677B2
Provided is a contact contacting structure that reliably prevents the development of arc discharge in a simple configuration regardless of the magnitude of electric energy accumulated between a pair of contacts that are connected and disconnected. An intermediate contact body disposed continuously with a first contact along a movement path of a second contact is formed from material with higher electric resistivity than the first contact in a shape such that the cross sectional area of a transverse section perpendicular to the movement path is gradually decreased in a separating direction along the movement path.
US09704673B2
A circuit breaker includes a main body case, an operating handle having a base portion and a knob portion protruding outwardly through a handle window frame opened in a cover of the main body case; a first shutter arranged between the base portion of the operating handle and the handle window frame, and disposed on the base portion, the first shutter being formed with a loose-fit hole to loosely fit the knob portion therethrough; and a second shutter disposed on the first shutter to move along with the knob portion. At ON and OFF positions of the operating handle, the first shutter extends beyond a front/rear edge of the handle window frame in a front-back direction to close the handle window frame, and the second shutter extends beyond a front/rear edge of the loose-fit hole in the front-back direction to close the loose-fit hole.
US09704665B2
A backlit keyboard including a reflective component. The backlit keyboard may include a top case forming a top portion of an exterior surface of the keyboard. The backlit keyboard may further include a set of keys positioned within the top case and a membrane positioned below the set of keys. The backlit keyboard may further include a light guide positioned below the membrane and a light source positioned on a portion of the light guide. The light source may be configured to emit light coupled into the light guide and emit stray light not coupled into the light guide. The backlit keyboard may further include a bottom case attached to the top case and forming a bottom portion of the exterior surface of the keyboard. Additionally, the backlit keyboard may include a reflector positioned on an interior surface of the bottom case below the light guide and separated from the light guide by a gap. In some embodiments, the reflector may be configured to redirect the stray light towards the set of keys and provide structural support for the light guide.
US09704655B2
The invention relates to compounds comprising a redox group, to the use thereof as an additive to an electrolyte composition, to an electrolyte composition including such an additive, and to electrochemical systems including such an electrolyte composition, in particular lithium or sodium batteries and supercapacitors having a double electric layer.
US09704652B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a capacitor element having good LC characteristics, wherein, after a chemical conversion process to form a dielectric layer on the surface layer of an anode body obtained by forming a powder mainly comprising tungsten, followed by sintering, a semiconductor layer and a conductor layer are sequentially formed on the dielectric layer; an etching process is conducted before forming the dielectric layer to remove a natural oxide film formed on the surface layer on the outer surface and on the surface inside the pores of the anode body so as to adjust the film thickness to a range of 0.5 to 5.0 nm; and the chemical conversion process is conducted at a temperature from −4 to 18° C. for 7 to 110 minutes after reaching a predetermined voltage.
US09704651B2
An interposer includes a plurality of first connection electrodes each of which is arranged on either of first- and second-side-surface sides of a first principal surface of a substrate; a plurality of second connection electrodes each of which is arranged on either of first- and second-side-surface sides of a second principal surface of the substrate; and a plurality of third connection electrodes each of which is arranged on either of first and second side surfaces. Each of the first connection electrodes has a first portion located away from an edge of the first principal surface, and a second portion extending from the first portion to the edge and connected to the third connection electrode. Each of the second portion of each first connection electrode and the plurality of third connection electrodes has a width smaller than a width of the first portion of each first connection electrode.
US09704649B2
In order to prevent the ingress of moisture into a void section of a component main body of a ceramic electronic component, at least the component main body of the ceramic electronic component is provided with water repellency using a water repellent agent. The water repellent agent is dissolved in a supercritical fluid such as, a supercritical CO2 fluid, as a solvent to provide at least the component main body with water repellency. After providing the water repellency, the water repellent agent on the outer surface of the component main body is removed. As the water repellent agent, a silane coupling agent may be used.
US09704648B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: a ceramic body having first and second main surfaces opposing each other in a thickness direction and first and second end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction, a thickness of the ceramic body being greater than a width thereof; a first external electrode disposed on the first end surface and having a greater thickness in a region thereof adjacent to the second main surface than in a region thereof adjacent to the first main surface; a second external electrode disposed on the second end surface and having a greater thickness in a region thereof adjacent to the second main surface than in a region thereof adjacent to the first main surface; and first and second internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body and connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively.
US09704645B2
A coil manufacturing apparatus 10 includes: a nozzle configured to feed a wire; a take-up jig configured to take up, through rotation, the wire fed from the nozzle; a cylindrical inner cutter tube that is provided coaxially with the take-up jig and is configured to rotate together with the take-up jig, the cylindrical inner cutter tube comprising a first slit that is formed so as to extend in an axial direction, the first slit being configured that the wire is inserted through; and an immovable outer cutter tube that is provided so as to be superimposed on an outside of the cylindrical inner cutter tube, the immovable outer cutter tube comprising a second slit that is formed so as to extend in the axial direction, the second slit being configured that the wire is inserted through.
US09704643B2
A power feeder of a contactless power transmission device includes a housing base member, a primary coil provided on the housing base member and configured to generate magnetic flux, a cover attached to the housing base member and configured to cover the primary coil, a capacitance sensor including a detection electrode between the primary coil and the cover, and configured to detect foreign matter around the cover based on a change in capacitance detected using the detection electrode, and a high-dielectric member embedded in the cover and having a permittivity higher than that of a material for the cover.
US09704635B2
An electromagnetic actuator, including: a ferromagnetic housing extending in a longitudinal direction with a height in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; two coils arranged inside the housing, each including at least one winding around the longitudinal direction; a ferromagnetic member arranged between the coils; and a ferromagnetic plunger subjected to a magnetic field generated by the coils, the plunger movable in the longitudinal direction and to be immobilized in three different longitudinal positions depending on the field generated by the coils. The ferromagnetic member is rigidly connected to the housing and has, in the vertical direction, a size greater than one sixth of the height of the housing, and located at a distance smaller than one fourth of a gap in the longitudinal direction between the two coils, relative to a median plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and located at the midpoint between the two coils.
US09704632B2
A mounting mechanism for mounting an electronic device, such as an electronic display device, to various surfaces, including ferrous surfaces. The mounting mechanism may include friction pads for attachment to the electronic display device. In one implementation a plurality of magnets are embedded within the friction pads. Alternatively, the magnets may be directly attached to the electronic display device and covered by the friction pads. When the mounting mechanism is used to mount the electronic device to a ferrous surface, the magnets and the friction pad respectively provide magnetic and frictional forces so as to enable secure mounting of the electronic display device to the ferrous surface. The mounting mechanism may also include a frame disposed to be affixed to a non-ferrous surface. The frame defines a ferrous surface to which the electronic display device may then be mounted using various configurations of magnets and friction pads.
US09704631B2
An apparatus includes first and second movable members for coupling force therebetween and a magnetic flux coupling element. Each of the first and second movable members has an array of magnetic poles. The first and second movable members are arranged concentrically for relative rotation therebetween. The magnetic flux coupling element is arranged between the first and second movable members, thereby providing a flux density region of relatively high magnetic flux density between a pole of the first movable member and a pole of the second movable member. The magnetic flux coupling element is split along an axis orthogonal to a direction of motion of the first and second movable members into a plurality of flux coupling parts.
US09704630B2
Provided superconducting magnet allowing the temperature of the permanent current switch to be quickly lowered and the excitation time of the superconducting magnet to be shortened, an MRI apparatus and an NMR apparatus having the superconducting magnet. A superconducting magnet structure is disclosed in which a superconducting coil 1 is connected to a second stage 22 of a refrigerating unit 2 through a low-temperature-side highly thermal conductor 3 and a permanent current switch 4 covered by a highly thermal conductor 5 is connected to a second stage 22 of the refrigerating unit 2 through a heat insulator 6 and a low-temperature-side highly thermal conductor 3. Gas is supplied from a gas bottle 8 disposed outside a vacuum vessel 16 to a condenser 11 in a thermal shield 12. In addition, a first pipe 14 that supplies condensate liquid to a liquid storage chamber 7 is provided. The liquid storage chamber 7 is disposed at an upper portion of the permanent current switch 4. A check valve 13 is connected to the first pipe 14.
US09704629B2
A coupled inductor includes a ladder magnetic core including two opposing rails extending in a lengthwise direction and joined by a plurality of rungs. The coupled inductor further includes a respective winding wound around each of the plurality of rungs. The plurality of rungs are divided into at least two groups of rungs, and a lengthwise separation distance between adjacent rungs in each group of rungs is less than a lengthwise separation distance between adjacent rungs of different groups of rungs.
US09704617B2
A production method for a headline sonar cable (20, 120) that exhibits a high breaking-strength and lighter weight than a conventional steel headline sonar cable. Producing the headline sonar cable (20, 120) is characterized by the steps of: a. providing an elongatable internally-located conductive structure (34, 134) that is adapted for data signal transmission; and b. braiding a strength-member jacket layer (52) of polymeric material around the structure (34, 134) while ensuring that the structure (34, 134) is slack when surrounded by the jacket layer (52). The structure (34, 134) of the cable (20, 120) retains conductivity upon stretching of the jacket layer (52) surrounding the structure (34, 134) that lengthens the cable (20, 120). For one embodiment of the method a conductor (20) wrapped around a rod (24) and enclosed within a sheath layer (32) forms the structure (34, 134). For another embodiment of the method a braided conductor (122) enclosed within a braided sheath (124) and a polymeric layer (132) forms the structure (34, 134).
US09704613B2
Polymer composites that are suitable for use as electromagnetic interference mitigaters include a lossy polymeric matrix, ceramic particles dispersed within the polymeric matrix, and conductive particles dispersed within the polymeric matrix. The lossy polymeric matrix may be a fluorocarbon-based polymer matrix, or an epoxy-based polymer matrix. The ceramic particles may be metal oxide particles, especially copper oxide (CuO) particles. The conductive particles may be carbon black. Other electromagnetic interference mitigating polymer matrices include a lossy polymeric matrix and copper oxide (CuO) particles dispersed within the polymeric matrix.
US09704603B2
A method of impacting liquid droplets onto a surface includes providing a series of liquid droplets, and directing the liquid droplets at a non-planar target surface to cause a shockwave in the droplets upon impact. An apparatus for impacting liquid droplets onto a surface includes a mechanism to produce a series of liquid droplets, and a mechanism to direct the liquid droplets at a non-planar target surface to cause a shockwave in the droplets upon impact. The non-planar target surface is shaped to intensify the shockwave in the droplets.
US09704601B2
Provided is a method for repairing one or more defective memory cells of a semiconductor memory device by a system management interrupt and a basic input/output system service routine. In the method, when an error has occurred in data read from the semiconductor memory device, the system management interrupt is generated to invoke the basic input/output system service routine. During execution of the basic input/output system service routine, a repair task is performed to one or more defective memory cells causing a read error in the semiconductor memory device using spare memory cells.
US09704597B2
A semiconductor device that includes a plurality of memory cells assigned with addresses that are different from each other, a redundant memory cell replacing a defective memory cell among the memory cells, a fuse circuit storing an address of the defective memory cell, an access control circuit accessing the redundant memory cell when the address of the defective memory cell stored in the fuse circuit is supplied, and a roll call circuit outputting the address of the defective memory cell to outside the semiconductor device in a serial manner.
US09704590B2
An operating method of a nonvolatile memory, which includes a plurality of cell strings, each cell string having a plurality of memory cells and a string selection transistor stacked on a substrate, includes detecting threshold voltages of the string selection transistors of the plurality of cell strings; adjusting voltages to be supplied to the string selection transistors according to the detected threshold voltages; and applying the adjusted voltages to the string selection transistors to select or unselect the plurality of cell strings during a programming operation.
US09704587B1
Provided herein are a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. The semiconductor memory device may include: drain select transistor coupled to a bit line; a source select transistor coupled to a source line; a plurality of memory cells coupled in series between the drain select transistor and the source select transistor; and a peripheral circuit configured to successively apply a discharge control voltage to memory cells in sequence from a memory cell adjacent to the source select transistor to a memory cell adjacent to the drain select transistor.
US09704586B1
A flash memory device. The flash memory device comprises a controller, a plurality of flash memories, and a voltage control circuit. The voltage control circuit comprises a boost converter, a buck converter, and a voltage controller. The boost converter receives a system voltage to generate a first high voltage. The buck converter receives the first high voltage and provides an output voltage to the controller and the flash memories. The voltage controller detects the output voltage generated by the buck converter, and therefore generates a feedback signal. When the voltage controller receives a physical destruction control signal from a host computer, the buck converter will generate an output signal with high level according to the control of the feedback signal. Afterwards, semiconductor physical elements of the controller and the flash memories will be burned by the output signal with high level.
US09704585B2
A method of erasing, during an erase operation, a non-volatile memory (NVM) cell of a memory device is disclosed. The erasing includes applying a first HV signal (VPOS) to a common source line (CSL). The CSL is shared among NVM cells of a sector of NVM cells. The first HV signal is above a highest voltage of a power supply. The erasing also includes applying the first HV signal to a local bit line (BL).
US09704581B2
Method, system and apparatus for detecting voltage ramping to a target voltage level in steady state, comprising, ramping a regulated voltage to a steady state target voltage for an operation of a load circuit, the steady state target voltage being a voltage level that enables the load circuit to perform the operation, generating an output signal indicating that the regulated voltage has reached the target voltage and generating a ready signal responsive to detecting the output signal.
US09704580B2
A non-volatile memory device using existing row decoding circuitry to selectively provide a global erase voltage to at least one selected memory block in order to facilitate erasing of all the non-volatile memory cells of the at least one selected memory block. More specifically, the erase voltage is coupled to the cell body or substrate of memory cells of the at least one selected memory block, where the cell body is electrically isolated from the cell body of non-volatile memory cells in at least one other memory block. By integrating the erase voltage path with the existing row decoding circuitry used to drive row signals for a selected memory block, no additional decoding logic or circuitry is required for providing the erase voltage to the at least one selected memory block.
US09704578B2
NAND string configurations and semiconductor memory arrays that include such NAND string configurations are provided. Methods of making semiconductor memory cells used in NAND string configurations are also described.
US09704561B2
A device includes a first data terminal, a second data terminal, a first switching buffer coupled between a data node and the first data terminal and a second switching buffer coupled between the data node and the second data terminal. The first switching buffer and the second switching buffer are arranged such that a distance between the first switching buffer and the second data terminal is shorter than a distance between the second switching buffer and the second data terminal and that a distance between the first switching buffer and the first data terminal is shorter than a distance between the second switching buffer and the first data terminal.
US09704559B2
An electronic device includes a mounting substrate, a first semiconductor component including a first semiconductor chip that operates in synchronization with a first clock signal and being mounted on a first semiconductor component mounting area of the mounting substrate, a second semiconductor component including a second semiconductor chip that operates in synchronization with a second clock signal and being mounted on a second semiconductor component mounting area of the mounting substrate, the second semiconductor component mounting area being next to the first semiconductor component mounting area, and a third semiconductor component including a third semiconductor chip that controls the first and second semiconductor chips and being mounted on a third semiconductor component mounting area of the mounting substrate, the third semiconductor component mounting area being next to the first and the second semiconductor component mounting areas.
US09704542B2
The present invention is a circuit and method for measuring leakage on the plurality of word lines in a memory device. In one embodiment, a memory device may include a leakage measurement circuit that is coupled to a plurality of word lines of the memory device. The leakage measurement circuit may be operable to generate a reference current and to determine whether a leakage current on one of the plurality of word lines is acceptable relative to the reference current. In another embodiment, a method may include determining whether leakage on one of a plurality of word lines of a memory device is allowable using a circuit in the memory device.
US09704541B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for simulating access lines in a memory. An example method can include receiving a first bit-vector and a second bit-vector in a format associated with storing the first bit-vector in memory cells coupled to a first access line and a first number of sense lines and storing the second bit-vector in memory cells coupled to a second access line and the first number of sense lines. The method can include storing the first bit-vector in a number of memory cells coupled to the first access line and a second number of sense lines and storing the second bit-vector in a number of memory cells coupled to the first access line and a third number of sense lines, wherein a quantity of the first number of sense lines is less than a quantity of the second and third number of sense lines.
US09704540B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to parity determinations using sensing circuitry. An example method can include protecting, using sensing circuitry, a number of data values stored in a respective number of memory cells coupled to a sense line of an array by determining a parity value corresponding to the number of data values without transferring data from the array via an input/output line. The parity value can be determined by a number of XOR operations, for instance. The method can include storing the parity value in another memory cell coupled to the sense line.
US09704532B2
Generating a movie preview can include generating a preview object from frames associated with a media object and encoding the preview object for display in a display area. Based on a position of a control device within the display area, a frame can be selected from the preview object for display in the display area. Additionally, generating the preview object can include concatenating the frames to form a single image.
US09704531B2
Disclosed is a master electronic device configured to create a composition based on content captured using a plurality of client electronic devices. The master electronic device may include each of a communication module, a playback module, a touch-enabled input module and a composition module. The communication module may be configured to receive a plurality of content streams from a plurality of client electronic devices. The playback module may be configured to synchronously playback the plurality of content streams. The touch-enabled input module may be configured to receive one or more composition-inputs during the playback of the content. The one or more composition-inputs may correspond to a selection of a content stream to be included in a composition. Accordingly, the composition module may be configured to create the composition based on the one or more composition-inputs.
US09704529B1
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head includes a reader, a writer, a writer heater, a laser, and a near-field transducer (NFT). A processor is coupled to the head and configured to perform laser writeability calibration of the head. The processor is also configured to concurrently while performing the laser writeability calibration, correct for laser induced writer protrusion (LIWP) at a writer/NFT region of the head using writer clearance calculations based on reader clearance measurements.
US09704527B2
The magnetic tape has on one surface of a nonmagnetic support a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and binder, and on the other surface of the nonmagnetic support, a backcoat layer containing nonmagnetic powder and binder, wherein the total thickness of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 4.80 μm, the backcoat layer contains one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide, and a C—H derived carbon, C, concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio in a C1s spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy conducted at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees on a surface on the backcoat layer side of the magnetic tape ranges from 35 to 60 atom %.
US09704523B1
Disclosed herein are hard disk drive sliders having one or more tunnels between the leading-edge surface of the slider and the air-bearing surface (ABS) that may be used to control the pitch and/or fly height of the slider. A slider comprises a leading-edge surface, an ABS, and a tunnel having an entry area at the leading-edge surface and an exit area at the ABS, the tunnel for directing gas impinging on the entry area through the slider and out the exit area toward a surface of a hard disk. The tunnel may be a convergent tunnel. The tunnel may include two or more branches.
US09704516B2
In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a current perpendicular to plane magnetic read transducer having a sensor and only a single magnetic shield. In another general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic read transducer having a sensor, a first magnetic shield, and a second magnetic shield. A portion of the second magnetic shield aligned with the sensor in an intended direction of tape travel thereacross has a thickness along the intended direction that is about 50% or less than a thickness of a portion of the first magnetic shield aligned in the intended direction with the portion of the second magnetic shield.
US09704515B2
A lateral spin valve reader includes a detector located proximate to a bearing surface of the reader, a spin injector located away from the bearing surface, and a channel layer that substantially extends from the detector to the spin injector. The channel layer and the detector are substantially in a same plane.
US09704511B2
The perpendicular magnetic recording head includes a magnetic pole including a first region and a second region, the first region having a first specific resistance and an end surface exposed on an air bearing surface, the second region having a second specific resistance higher than the first specific resistance and being located at a position recessed from the air bearing surface.
US09704510B2
A data writer can have at least a write pole separated from first and second side shields by a continuous dielectric gap layer. Each side shield may have first and second shield sub-layers configured with different magnetic moments that increase relative to the sub-layer's distance from the write pole. The side shields may wrap around a leading tip of the write pole to form a box shield.
US09704506B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for reducing noise in input data by performing a hysteresis operation followed by a lateral excitation smoothing operation. For example, an audio signal may be represented as a sequence of feature vectors. A row of the sequence of feature vectors may, for example, be associated with the same harmonic of the audio signal at different points in time. To determine portions of the row that correspond to the harmonic being present, the system may compare an amplitude to a low threshold and a high threshold and select a series of data points that are above the low threshold and include at least one data point above the high threshold. The system may iteratively perform a spreading technique, spreading a center value of a center data point in a kernel to neighboring data points in the kernel, to further reduce noise.
US09704502B2
A cue, for example a facial expression or hand gesture, is identified, and a device communication is filtered according to the cue.
US09704495B2
A system and method for detection of sound of interest amongst plurality of other dynamically varying sounds is disclosed. In one embodiment, a spectrum detector identifies dominant spectrum energy frequency by detecting the dominant spectrum energy band present in spectrum of sound energy. A modified mel filter bank is designed by revising spectral positioning of the first mel filter bank and the second mel filter bank according to the identified dominant frequency. A feature extractor extracts the features from first mel filter bank, second mel filter bank and the modified mel filter bank which are further classified in order to detect the sound of interest.
US09704494B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking are disclosed. Example watermark embedding methods disclosed herein include determining a first attenuation factor associated with a first audio channel of a multi-channel audio signal based on first down-mixed audio samples obtained from down-mixing the first audio channel and a second audio channel of the multi-channel audio signal, determining a second attenuation factor associated with a third audio channel of the multi-channel audio signal based on second down-mixed audio samples obtained from down-mixing the second audio channel and the third audio channel of the multi-channel audio signal, selecting one of the first attenuation factor or the second attenuation factor to be a third attenuation factor associated with the second audio channel of the multi-channel audio signal, and embedding a watermark in the second audio channel based on the third attenuation factor.
US09704493B2
The present disclosure provides methods, devices and computer program products for encoding and decoding of a vector of parameters in an audio coding system. The disclosure further relates to a method and apparatus for reconstructing an audio object in an audio decoding system. According to the disclosure, a modulo differential approach for coding and encoding a vector of a non-periodic quantity may improve the coding efficiency and provide encoders and decoders with less memory requirements. Moreover, an efficient method for encoding and decoding a sparse matrix is provided.
US09704491B2
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for outputting an audio effect on a remote device are disclosed. Embodiments select a device from a plurality of devices within a physical environment for use in outputting an audio effect. Upon determining that transmitting the audio effect as uncompressed data to the selected device would violate a predefined performance criteria, the audio effect is modified by determining, for each of a plurality of portions of the audio effect, a respective priority. Additionally, upon determining that a first portion of the plurality of portions of the audio effect is a lower priority, relative to a second portion of the audio effect, embodiments compress the first portion of the audio effect, while the second portion of the audio effect remains uncompressed. The modified audio effect is then transmitted to the selected device for playback.
US09704490B2
Provided is a method for distributing voice channels, including: randomly selecting a preset quantity of voice servers at a preset time interval, and distributing at least one token to each of the voice servers selected herein; and said voice servers receiving said tokens, and when receiving uplink voice by any of the voice servers carrying at least one token, the voice server carrying the token processing said uplink voice as a priority. In this way, the channel is preempted by the uplink voice through the token, so that users corresponding to every voice servers have equal probability of acquiring channels; and voice servers will not suffer from channels taken up for a long time due to data being forwarded by other voice servers, thereby saving resources of voice channels. Also provided is a voice system.
US09704489B2
A portable acoustic unit is adapted for insertion into an electrical receptacle. The portable acoustic unit has an integrated microphone and a wireless network interface to an automation controller. The portable acoustic unit detects spoken voice commands from users in the vicinity of the electrical receptacle. The portable acoustic unit merely plugs into a conventional electrical outlet to provide an extremely simple means of voice control through a home or business.
US09704487B2
Disclosed herein are speech recognition apparatuses, vehicles having the speech recognition apparatuses, and methods for controlling vehicles. According to an aspect, a speech recognition apparatus includes a speech input unit configured to receive a speech command from a user, a communication unit configured to receive the result of processing for speech recognition acquired by at least one user terminal located near the user, and a controller configured to compare the result of processing for speech recognition acquired from the speech command received by the speech input unit to the result of processing for speech recognition acquired by the at least one user terminal, thus processing the speech command according to the result of the comparison.
US09704485B2
The present invention relates to a multimedia information retrieval method and electronic device, the multimedia information retrieval method comprising the steps of: extracting from a to-be-retrieved multimedia the voice of the to-be-retrieved multimedia; recognizing the voice of the to-be-retrieved multimedia to obtain a recognized text; and retrieving a multimedia database according to the recognized text to obtain the multimedia information of the to-be-retrieved multimedia. The present invention also relates to an electronic device. The multimedia information retrieval method and electronic device of the present invention can automatically, quickly, and comprehensively present to a user the multimedia information the user wants to know, thus greatly improving user retrieval efficiency and retrieval success rate.
US09704480B2
An information processing apparatus includes a specific-evaluation information acquisition unit that acquires an evaluation of a predetermined content item as a specific evaluation, the evaluation having been input by a user in accordance with an ordinal scale; a language-evaluation information extraction unit that acquires a language evaluation from language information regarding an evaluation sentence in which an evaluation of the predetermined content item is expressed in a language, the evaluation sentence having been input by the user; and a recommendation unit that recommends a content item that matches the user's preference in accordance with whether the specific evaluation is a positive or negative evaluation and whether the language evaluation is a positive or negative evaluation.
US09704463B2
A musical sound control apparatus includes: an operator which as an index portion and changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion; and a parameter control unit which executes processing of changing the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position as a position at which the index portion was moved from a standard position by an operation and processing of, when changing an assignment to the operator from a first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to a second parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters in a state in which the index portion is positioned at a position other than the standard position, setting a value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion.
US09704456B2
An apparatus is provided comprising a frame; an enclosure; a keyboard including a plurality of black and white keys; the plurality of black and white keys each having a top surface and a bottom surface; the enclosure having a surface finish; the enclosure encloses the frame and the keyboard, such each top surface of the plurality of black and white keys is exposed; the frame comprises a first beam, a second beam, a first keyboard support bar, a second keyboard support bar, a third keyboard support bar, a first guide pin rail, a second guide pin rail, and a third guide pin rail; the first, second, and third keyboard supports bars are perpendicular to the first and second beams.
US09704445B2
The present disclosure relates to a discharge circuit of a display panel and a display device, and the discharge circuit of the display panel includes a time-delay control module configured to output a discharge control signal for a predetermined time period after the display panel is powered off, and a grounding module configured to receive the discharge control signal and enable a signal line to be grounded for the predetermined time period based on the discharge control signal.
US09704442B2
Methods and systems are provided for displaying information on a hard disk drive assembly. One hard disk drive assembly includes a hard disk drive that includes a driver circuit coupled to a display and to a display memory. The driver circuit activates the display mounted on the hard disk drive assembly. In response to the activation of the display the driver circuit obtains information from the display memory of the hard disk drive. The driver circuit displays at least a portion of the information obtained from the display memory on the display mounted on the hard disk drive assembly.
US09704436B2
The present invention provides a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, an array substrate, and a display device. The pixel circuit comprises: a reset unit, configured to output a reference signal; a data writing unit, configured to output a data signal; a compensation unit, which is connected to the reset unit and the data writing unit as well as an output node, and receives a power voltage signal, and a light-emitting unit, which is connected to the output node and a cathode of a power supply and configured to emit light under the drive of the light emission drive signal in a light emission phase.
US09704433B2
An organic light emitting display and associated method includes: initializing a first node of a storage capacitor, connected between the first node and a second node, with a first driving voltage that is provided from a first power terminal; applying a sustain voltage to the first node and placing a driving transistor in a diode connection state, wherein the driving transistor comprises a gate electrode connected to the second node, an electrode connected to the first power terminal, and another electrode connected to an organic light emitting diode through a third node; applying a data signal, provided from the data line through a switching transistor comprising a gate electrode connected to a scan line, an electrode connected to the data line, and another electrode connected to a first node, to the first node; and generating a compensation voltage by applying the first driving voltage to the first node.
US09704425B2
A Gamma curve adjustment method and a Gamma curve adjustment apparatus for a display apparatus. The method includes: obtaining correspondence relationship between current grayscale voltages and first transmittances of the display apparatus, the first transmittances being the transmittances of the display apparatus driving by the current grayscale voltages; determining a target grayscale voltage corresponding to each gray scale based on the correspondence relationship between the current grayscale voltages and the first transmittances and an ideal Gamma curve; generating and outputting the target grayscale voltage corresponding to each gray scale to the display apparatus; and obtaining an actual Gamma curve of the display apparatus driven by the target grayscale voltages as a final Gamma curve. The Gamma curve adjustment method improves the speed and efficiency of adjusting the Gamma curve.
US09704420B2
A numerical display apparatus comprises a frame structure means and a numeric display means. The frame structure means may be comprised mainly of a base frame member and a display securing member. The display securing member is coupled to the base frame member so that it may be moved towards and away from the base frame member in a controlled manner. The numeric display means has multiple component members which are pivotally mounted to the frame structure means, and secured in place by the display securing member. Each component has at least two sides, with one side having a different feature, such as color, to distinguish between the two sides. Preferably, the non-distinguishing side should be have the same feature, such as color, of the display securing member. Some of the component members are mounted in a generally horizontal position upon the frame structure means, while others are mounted in a generally vertical position.
US09704419B2
A magnetic label stock tape that is less prone to damage during handling in labeling machines, storage, shipping, etc.
US09704411B1
A method and apparatus for calculating a log MAR value for a reading acuity test, including the steps of displaying words on a first computer monitor, where the words will be read aloud by a person taking the test; displaying the words on a second computer monitor, where words will be observable by a person administering the test, where the administrator can select words which are incorrectly read using a pointing device; measuring the amount of time the first person takes to read the words; calculating the reading rate based upon both the words correctly and those read incorrectly; measuring the distance between the first person and the monitor; and, calculating the log MAR value based upon the distance, the font size and the reading rate.
US09704405B2
A method for generating a flight display in an aircraft includes the steps of receiving an indication of an arrival or a departure procedure for the aircraft to follow, receiving an indication of a current position and altitude of the aircraft, and receiving a voice communication or information by digital data link regarding the arrival or departure procedure. The method further includes the steps of recognizing speech in the voice communication and transforming the speech to a restriction regarding the arrival or departure procedure and providing a flight display comprising a visual depiction of the arrival or departure procedure, the current position and altitude of the aircraft, and the restriction regarding the arrival or departure procedure. The method also provides improved situational awareness to pilots by providing appropriate alerts and indications in the context of these restrictions and the implications that these may have on the ownship with reference to the surrounding traffic and the emergent conditions.
US09704397B1
Apparatus for use in a warning system to notify a land vehicle or a motorist of the vehicle of an approaching or nearby emergency vehicle or train is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a docking station and a communication device which has a first receiver which receives RF warning signals transmitted from outside the land vehicle and a second receiver which receives perceptible warning signals transmitted by the emergency vehicle or train. The docking station supports the device within the passenger compartment so that the first and second receivers are capable of receiving the RF and perceptible warning signals, respectively. Control logic is coupled to the device to generate a notification signal based on the warning signals. The notification signal provides an advance warning to the motorist or land vehicle.
US09704394B2
Traffic at an intersection, or other portion of a road, is detected, and the stop/go traffic signal apparatus at the intersection, or other portion is controlled based on vehicle types in the detected traffic. A vehicle type may be determined based on information collected by that vehicle's onboard telematics unit, or with a user's device in communication therewith. An input may be received from a user device, onboard the vehicle, to request changing the current stop/go configuration of the traffic signal. The request may be processed based on the determined vehicle type to determine whether or nor to change the traffic signal in response to the request. The request may be accompanied by an offer of money, and if the request is not granted, the user device may forward another request associated with a different offer.
US09704392B2
The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for a parking zone mapping, storing and alerting a user for a legal parking to avoid parking violations. The system comprises a location identifier, an accelerometer, a unified database, a data processing module and a display apparatus. The unified database resides in a central server. The unified database is synchronized with the location identifier. The data processing module is connected to the location identifier and the unified database through a communication medium. The data processing module is further connected to the accelerometer. The display apparatus is connected to the data processing module.
US09704389B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an easy to use terminal device and remote control method. Provided is a terminal device having electric equipment remote control function, comprising a location information detection means for acquiring the present location of the terminal device, a near field communication means, and an information storage means. Upon acquiring identification information of electric equipment by the near field communication means, the location information is detected by the location information detection means, linked with the identification information of the electric equipment, and stored in the storage means. To carry out the remote control of the electric equipment, the location information is detected by the location information detection means, the distance between the location information and the location information stored in the storage means is computed, and the control is switched according to the distance.
US09704377B2
Systems and methods for managing an emergency situation are provided herein. According to some embodiments, the present technology may related to a security system and method for monitoring, detecting, and providing notification and/or response measures in response to an emergency situation regarding a user.
US09704373B2
A device includes a device body that further includes a first attachment mechanism for attaching to another object, structure, or item of equipment. The device also includes wireless communication circuitry affixed to the device body, and one or more sensor components affixed to the device body, coupled to the wireless communication circuitry, and configured to sense environmental parameters associated with the device or with the object, structure or item of equipment. The device may further include powering circuitry, affixed to the device body, and configured to provide electrical power to the wireless communication circuitry and/or the one or more sensor components. The device may include a lug, connector or terminal.
US09704372B2
A sleep posture alerting method, wherein the sleep posture of a person is detected. The person is automatically alerted by a stimulus generated by an alerting device when the sleep posture is out of a predetermined body posture range. A stimulus variation is effected by the alerting device.
US09704370B2
A fall impact signal transmitter device is associated with a fall arrest harness to provide an alert signal when a user has experienced a fall event and is suspended in the fall arrest harness. A transmitter is disposed within a housing and is caused to issue a distress signal when actuated by an engagement member when a fall event occurs. The transmitter may be Bluetooth® enabled to permit a distress signal to be communicated by the user's own cell phone, or to permit two-way communication through the cell phone between the user and a called number.
US09704366B2
Disclosed is an apparatus that embodies a method including a panic alert mobile application of a security system that protects a secured geographic area executing on a portable electronic device of an authorized user, the panic alert mobile application retrieving a predetermined word sequence associated with the authorized user, the panic alert mobile application continuously monitoring spoken words of the authorized user, the panic alert mobile application detecting the predetermined word sequence in the spoken words of the authorized user and the panic alert mobile application reporting a panic alert to a central monitoring station of the security system.
US09704358B2
A method and apparatus for producing a haptic sensation is disclosed. An acoustic transducer at a first cellular communication device is used to determine a gesture of a user object with respect to a first cellular communication device. The gesture is generally performed in a three-dimensional space of the first cellular communication device. A haptic signal is created that corresponds to the determined gesture and is sent from the first cellular communication device to a second cellular communication device. An actuator at the second cellular communication device is actuated according to the haptic signal to produce a haptic sensation at the second cellular communication device.
US09704356B2
An apparatus to set an output window includes an ambient condition detector from which non-alarm messages can be output at a pre-determined time. The ambient condition detector includes a real-time clock that can be set wirelessly by a real-time synchronizing message. A message emitting window can also be wirelessly pre-set. The non-alarm messages are emitted at respective times in the message emitting window.
US09704353B2
A method is provided for authenticating debit card transactions engaged in by a cardholder on a communications network. The method includes: a) establishing a connection over the network with a client being used by the cardholder to engage in a transaction on the network; b) providing over the connection to the client a web page containing a keypad (22) having a plurality of buttons (24) that collectively define a geometry of the keypad (22), the keypad (22) being employed by the cardholder to enter a PIN via selection of the buttons (24) with a pointing device of the client; c) obtaining over the connection the PIN enter by the cardholder; d) determining if the obtained PIN is correct for a debit card being used by the cardholder to engage in the transaction; e) repeating step a) through d) for each transaction the cardholder engages in on the network; and, f) with respect to two transactions engaged in by the cardholder, changing at least one of a location of the keypad (22) on the web page, the geometry of the keypad (22), a size of the buttons (24) and a spacing between neighboring buttons (24).
US09704348B2
An electronic device or entertainment gaming machine comprising: at least one betting terminal having a software program or plurality of software programs that allow at least a second player to place a bet on a jackpot if a first player declines the right to place a bet on the jackpot, wherein the second player is at a betting terminal that is apart from the conventional casino table game and the first player is playing at a conventional casino table game and is granted a right of first refusal to place a bet on jackpot by virtue of the first player's bet on the conventional casino table game, wherein the outcome of the jackpot is determined according to a combination of cards or dice in the conventional casino table game.
US09704343B2
In at least some aspects, a method includes the acts of operating a wagering game with a player on a first game platform, suspending the wagering game operating on the first game platform at a game state, automatically authenticating the player at a second game platform different than the first game platform, resuming the wagering game from the game state on the second game platform, and operating the resumed wagering game with the player differently on the second game platform than on the first game platform, the second game platform having one or more different components than the first game platform to cause the wagering game to be operated differently on the second game platform than the first game platform.
US09704337B2
A progressive gaming method may be conducted in a distributed fashion without a progressive controller. In such a method game play inputs are received through a respective player input system of each of two or more gaming machines. Each game play input defines a wager for a respective play of a wagering game. A progressive contribution value for each respective wager is calculated and a local progressive register value is incremented by that calculated amount. Calculating the progressive contribution value and incrementing the local progressive register value may each be performed at the gaming machine at which the respective wager is defined, and these calculated progressive contribution values are then communicated to each other gaming machine of the two or more gaming machines. Each gaming machine maintains a total progressive value based on the locally calculated progressive contribution values and the values communicated from other gaming machines.
US09704335B2
A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system or gaming platform via a network. The plurality of player terminals may be located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals may be configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals can include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.
US09704332B2
Disclosed are a game, gaming device, system and method for play of a reel-based feature game including a base matrix of reel indicia, one or more additional matrices of reel indicia and an expanding reel which replaces a portion of the base matrix and each of the additional reel matrices to simultaneously produce outcomes in each of the matrices.
US09704327B2
A mobile communication device may include one or more devices configured to: receive, from a server, identity information corresponding to transaction information stored on the server, the transaction information being associated with at least one transaction completed between the mobile communication device and a user device; send, to a transaction device, the identity information to establish a communication session to conduct a transaction between the transaction device and the mobile communication device; and receive, from the transaction device, a payment request associated with the transaction between the transaction device and the mobile communication device, and generated using the transaction information provided by the server.
US09704326B2
A paper sheet handling apparatus capable of effectively preventing a photodetector from malfunctioning due to external light is provided. The present invention is a paper sheet handling apparatus including a paper sheet handling port, a projector for emitting light within the paper sheet handling port, a photodetector for receiving the light emitted from the projector, and a light-shielding body that is formed along an optical path from the projector towards the photodetector and shields the photodetector against external light; wherein a projector-side end of the light-shielding body is formed to be retracted from an incident direction of the external light towards the photodetector.
US09704320B2
An intelligent door lock system is provided at a dwelling by a designated dwelling user. An intelligent door lock system has a remotely operable lock at a dwelling accessible by a user. A server is in communication with the intelligent door lock system. The server has a handshake key (Kh) with a key exchange that provides for a communication session between a mobile device and the intelligent door lock system, wherein the mobile device does not have the (Kh). A user mobile device is in communication with the server and uses a cipher to provide a secured communication between the mobile device and the intelligent door lock system.
US09704307B2
A diagnostics unit (10) for detecting a noise, vibration, harshness (NVH) type fault observed by a user of a vehicle (90). The diagnostics unit (10) comprising: a stud type attachment means (20) for rigidly attaching the diagnostics unit (10) to a test component (30) of the vehicle (90), for example a transfer case (30). The diagnostics unit (10) also comprises an accelerometer (28a, 28b) for detecting a force of acceleration in at least one axial direction (‘X’). A power source (27) is provided within the diagnostics unit (10) along with a Bluetooth® data transmitter (25) for transmitting data gathered by the accelerometer (28a, 28b) of the diagnostics unit (10) to a computing device (50), such as a lap-top disposed within the vehicle (90). The data is analysed by the lap-top (50) to identify which component of the transfer case (30) (for example, gear, chain, bearing) is faulty.
US09704306B2
In a method for monitoring the dynamics of gas sensors of an internal combustion engine, which gas sensors exhibit a low-pass behavior as a function of geometry, measurement principle, aging, or contamination, a dynamics diagnosis is carried out, upon a change in the gas state variable to be measured, on the basis of a comparison between a modeled and a measured signal. The parameters of the low-pass behavior are determined in direction-dependent fashion by minimizing direction-dependent error signals created by high-pass filtering and logical combination with direction-dependent saturation characteristic curves, the direction-dependent error signals being calculated by comparing the modeled and the measured signal for a rising and a falling signal component.
US09704304B2
A management system for a mining machine on which tires are mounted and which travels in a mine by operation performed by a driver includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a damaging operation damaging the tires has been carried out; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire damaging operation data indicating carrying out of the damaging operation, and one or both of driver identification data indicating a driver who has carried out the damaging operation and position data indicating a position of the mining machine on which the damaging operation has been carried out; and a data output unit configured to output association data containing the damaging operation data associated with one or both of the driver identification data and the position data.
US09704294B2
A curved slice is obtained from a three-dimensional tomographic image of an object based on a reference position in the three-dimensional tomographic image. A two-dimensional tomographic image corresponding to the curved slice is generated from the three-dimensional tomographic image.
US09704293B2
Method of providing the generic finite element mesh; providing a library of displacement shapes of generic mesh, each displacement shape being applicable to the generic mesh to generate altered mesh; providing a set of scanned data points which map the surface of the actual component, each scanned data point defining the spatial position of a respective location on the surface of the actual component; superposing the scanned data points on the surface of generic mesh; projecting scanned data points onto respective proximal surface locations of generic mesh to form a set of near data points, each near data point defining the spatial position of respective location on the surface of the generic mesh; determining a combination of the displacement shapes; and applying the combination of displacement shapes to the generic mesh to generate a customized finite element mesh for the actual component.
US09704291B2
Constructing a three dimensional (3D) model of a structure may involve receiving a 3D surface representing a geographic area, the surface having elevation values associated with points of the surface and the geographic area comprises a structure having a geographic footprint smaller than the geographic area. Constructing a 3D model may also involve projecting the elevation values into a two dimensional (2D) plane. Further, a 3D model may be constructed of the structure by assigning model heights based on the elevation values projected into points of the 2D plane.
US09704286B2
An information processing apparatus acquires viewpoint information indicating a viewpoint for which rendering of a 3D scene is performed and generates, by a predetermined calculation, a viewpoint independent map for an object included in a rendering scope based on the acquired viewpoint information. And then the apparatus stores each pixel of the generated viewpoint independent map in association with a distance between an object corresponding to the pixel and the viewpoint indicated by the acquired viewpoint information. The apparatus does not perform the predetermined calculation in a case where a pixel of the viewpoint independent map for the object included in the rendering scope corresponding to the distance from the viewpoint indicated by the acquired viewpoint information is already stored.
US09704279B2
In the image processing device, a display section displays, based on association information, association information between an icon indicating a central person and a character string corresponding to a voice of the central person. An instruction reception section receives a target person designation instruction for designating a central person corresponding to an icon selected by the user as a combination target person, and then, a combination section combines a frame image at an arbitrary time point when the target person is present with a character image of a character string corresponding to a voice of the target person in an arbitrary time period, according to the target person designation instruction, to generate a composite image.
US09704268B2
A device for determining information from images using sensor data may include at least one processor circuit. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to receive a series of images from an image capture device, where each image of the series of images includes a representation of a physical object. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to receive a series of sensor data items from at least one sensor device, where each of the series of sensor data items corresponds to one of the sequence of images. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to determine a physical length of the physical object based at least in part on the series of images and the corresponding series of sensor data items.
US09704264B2
A method for tracking a target in a sequence of images comprises: a step of detecting objects, a temporal association step, aiming to associate the objects detected in the current image with the objects detected in the previous image based on their respective positions, a step of determining a second target in the current image according to a search area determined for a previous image of the sequence, a step of determining the detected object that best corresponds to a dynamic of a final target, a step of updating the search area for the current image based on the position of the target that best corresponds to the dynamics of the final target, and a step of searching for the final target in the search area for the current image by comparing areas of the current image with a reference model representative of the final target.
US09704263B2
A method of detecting an edge of a geological characteristic in a borehole comprises, in respect of an image log of a length of a borehole, carrying out the steps of a gradient-based edge detection method, a phase congruence-based edge detection method or a combination of such methods as preliminary, pre-processing stages. Subsequent steps of the method may include operating a relatively computationally simple process to identify sinusoids among detected edge features; and a relatively computationally complex process for parameterizing the thus-identified sinusoids.
US09704252B2
A method for hierarchical disparity estimation on an image pair, wherein image pyramids are created by successively downscaling each image of the image pair, and an apparatus configured to perform the method are described. An initial disparity estimator applies a full search on a highest level of the image pyramids to determine initial disparity estimates, the highest level having the lowest resolution. A disparity propagator passes the initial disparity estimates to a next lower level of the image pyramids. An allocator then partitions the pixels of each remaining hierarchy level of the image pyramids into two or more groups of pixels, where each pixel in a group of pixels can be processed independently from remaining pixels of that group of pixels. A disparity estimator estimates disparity values for the pixels of a first group of pixels utilizing disparity estimates from a next higher level of the image pyramids. The disparity estimator further estimates disparity values for the pixels of remaining groups of pixels utilizing disparity estimates from a previously processed group of pixels in that hierarchy level.
US09704247B2
An identification code-based three-dimensional interactive technique includes acquiring an image including an identification-coded real object, the image being taken by video-capable equipment, identifying an identification code from the identification-coded real object, obtaining object information corresponding to the identification code, acquiring a reference image associated with the identification code and feature points of the reference image, obtaining a position, an orientation, or a combination thereof on the video-capable equipment relative to the identification-coded real object based on the reference image and the feature points of the reference image, and conducting a three-dimensional interaction based on the position, the orientation, or a combination thereof of the video-capable equipment relative to the identification-coded real object and the object information corresponding to the identification code.
US09704246B2
An image processing apparatus, includes a processor configured to obtain a marker image including a first pixel area including a first image indicating a shape of an outer frame and a second pixel area and a second image arranged within the outer frame, extract an intersecting point of a first line segment in parallel with a boundary between the first pixel area and the second pixel area which are adjacent to each other along a predetermined direction and a second line segment in parallel with a boundary between the first pixel area and the second pixel area which are adjacent to each other along a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a first apex indicating an apex of four corners of the outer frame, and a second apex included in the second image, and identify a display position using the intersecting point, the first apex, or the second apex.
US09704238B2
A method for correcting optical errors occurring in coordinates of positions of a plurality of targets measured via an imaging system comprising a field of view. The plurality of targets includes a first array of targets and a second array of targets overlapping the first array of targets, and a portion of the plurality of targets are outside of the field of view. The method broadly includes the following steps: a) placing the first array of targets in the field of view of the imaging system; b) measuring coordinates of each target within the first array of targets repeatedly via the imaging system; c) placing the second array of targets in the field of view of the imaging system; d) measuring coordinates of each target within the second array of targets repeatedly via the imaging system; e) determining an alignment function from the measurement results of step b, step d, or steps b and d, the alignment function being a function of coordinates of the field of view of the imaging system and giving an additive correction for optical errors of the coordinates of positions of the plurality of targets measured by the imaging system; f) correcting the coordinates of the positions of the plurality of targets measured by the imaging system by adding the respective value of the alignment function at the field-of-view coordinates at which the coordinates of the position of the respective target were measured; and, g) obtaining a final result for the position of each target of the plurality of targets by averaging over the corrected coordinates found in step f for the respective target at each relative position of the plurality of targets and field of view of the imaging system.
US09704237B2
A measuring unit (301) acquires measurement data for a plurality of lines by repeatedly executing, on a reference tire, a measurement process to acquire measurement data for one line. A first acquisition unit (311) generates height data for one line for each of the plurality of sets of measurement data measured by the measuring unit (301), arranges the generated plurality of values of one-dimensional height data into a matrix form, generates two-dimensional height data for the measured face, and generates reference shape data. A second acquisition unit (314) acquires object one-dimensional height data from one-line shape data measured by the measuring unit (301) for the object tire. The measuring method and measuring device are characterized in that a removal unit (315) compares the object one-dimensional height data and the one-dimensional height data of the reference shape data at the same position in the sub-scan direction for the object one-dimensional height data, and removes, from the object one-dimensional height data, the height component of the projection.
US09704226B2
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods to intelligently reduce the dynamic range of a signal. Using a histogram analysis of the signal, significant and insignificant portions of the original dynamic range can be identified. Compaction can then be focused on the insignificant portions of the dynamic range, resulting in significant dynamic range reduction with less signal loss. By compacting the little used portions of the original signal, the dynamic range of the rest of the signal can be largely maintained which results in little loss to signal fidelity, and thus mitigates saturation, quantization, signal mutual suppression, and other issues observed in prior art methods.
US09704216B1
Provided herein in some embodiments is an apparatus including a rendered information-adjustment module configured to cooperate with a display interface to dynamically size-adjust rendered information displayed on the display screen, a distance module, a vision properties module, and a display modification module. The distance module can be configured to periodically determine a facial proximity to the display screen for the user in accordance with a periodic algorithm. The vision properties module can be configured to collect vision properties and store the vision properties in a vision record for the user. The display modification module can be configured to determine a direction and a magnitude for adjusting the rendered information to a new size. The periodic algorithm conserves the battery power by periodically invoking the one or more facial proximity sensors, which, in turn, reduces otherwise continuous battery power-draining size adjustments to the rendered information on the display screen.
US09704210B2
In one example, a system including an isolation engine, a normalization engine, and a channel engine is described. In the example, the isolation engine generates mark data using a mark technique based on a first input color channel and a second input color channel, the normalization engine scales intensity values of a set of pixels of the mark data to a greater range, and the channel engine generates output channel data for a plurality of output color channels from normalized mark data based on the scaled intensity values.
US09704209B2
A system selects a user profile based on biometric information. A wearable device is provided with one or more sensors that detect or measure user biometric information selected from of at least one of, a user's activities, behaviors and habit information, and a user's health. The wearable device includes circuitry that provides at least identification of the wearable device, a communication system, and a pathway system. A telemetry system is in communication with the wearable device. The telemetry system includes a database of user profiles. The telemetry system uses one or more processors to compare received biometric information from the wearable device, perform a comparison, and determine a user profile stored in a database. The telemetry system selects records of user biometric data of one or more users.
US09704195B2
A system and method for multiple funding account payment instrument analytics is disclosed. A payment instrument profile is generated for a payment instrument that characterizes past activity on the payment instrument and past activity across one or more funding accounts associated with the payment instrument. Current activity on the payment instrument and current activity across one or more funding accounts associated with the payment instrument are monitored to detect an abnormality against the payment instrument profile. A fraud score for the current activity on the payment instrument and current activity across one or more funding accounts associated with the payment instrument is generated. The fraud score is based on a quantified extent of the abnormality.
US09704193B2
A system and method for virtually displaying on-line a gallery, a showroom, a store, a mall or any other room or space and the objects contained in said room or space, wherein the data displayed is comprised of a virtual reality data packet. The system displays still photographs of virtual reality shots and textual materials, and plays virtual reality video clips and audio stores about the room and/or the objects contained therein. Links are associated with each object and are stored external to the virtual reality data packet can be retrieved on demand from an external database for presentation of the viewer. The system also provides on-line controls that enable the viewer to move around the space, and a feature that enables a viewer to view an object from 360° around the object.
US09704192B2
A computer-implemented method for providing instructions for displaying items. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to display items at a device; and providing instructions for displaying the items on a three-dimensional shape such that a manageable number of items are able to be displayed for browsing.
US09704189B2
A system and method for a graphical user interface having recommendations. The method includes accessing, within a mobile device, a data store corresponding to a multimedia container. The multimedia container comprises a first object and a second object and the data store comprises metadata associated with the first object and the second object. The method further includes sending the metadata associated with the first object and the second object and receiving a data structure corresponding to a plurality of items. The data structure comprises a respective image and a respective location for each of the plurality of items. The plurality of items is related to the first object and the second object based on the metadata associated with the first object and the second object. The method further includes displaying, on the mobile device, each respective image for each of the plurality of items. Each respective image is operable to be selected.
US09704186B1
A mobile electronic device is described that is configured to upload a commercial application to a centralized server. In an implementation, the mobile electronic device includes a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The mobile electronic device also includes an aggregator module stored in memory and executable by the processor. The module is also configured to instruct the processor to aggregates the product information with applicant information to generate a commercial application relating to the product, the commercial application comprising an application for services from at least one a lending entity, an insurance entity, or a third-party service entity. The module is also configured to instruct the processor to cause transmission of the commercial application to a central server. The commercial application is accessible to the at least one of the lending entity, the insurance entity, or the third-party service entity.
US09704183B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for creating an interactive advertisement. The interactive advertisement is configured to convey a brand message to a user while at the same time provide website security by reducing unauthorized website access by Internet bots. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, users are required to adequately respond to the interactive advertisement in order to access certain website content. The user responses to the interactive advertisements are collected and utilized to generate marketing reports which illustrate the effectiveness of an interactive advertisement in conveying an advertiser's message.
US09704172B2
The systems and methods of the present disclosure simulate the intuitive visualization of a host organization's experienced personnel by graphically portraying business relationships with external and internal business entities including clients, vendors, prospects, service resources, agents, and company personnel in universally recognizable caricatured scenes and images, including animations, based on transactional events that are passively accumulated from the accounting, phone, email, and management operations of a host system, delivering objectively-based graphical renditions of business relationships reflecting tenure, volume, frequency, demeanor, profitability, reliability, and many other relationship attributes thus enabling new, learning disabled, or unfamiliar personnel who possess varying degrees of first-person experience with the subject entities to respond instinctively and accurately to the current occurrence with the subject business entity while preserving invaluable relationship intuition that is otherwise lost when veteran personnel are absent or removed from their position or that takes new personnel weeks, months, or years to acquire.
US09704165B2
Systems and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of social media pages. Users of social media systems review and publish various kinds of content on social media pages, including various messages, audio clips, video clips, polls, web links, etc. A social media page evaluation system hosted on a physical server or a cloud receives a social media page that is to be evaluated, and provides results of an evaluation process. The evaluation process involves processing of various criteria and parameters that characterize engagements and interactions between users of social media pages. Results of an evaluation process include qualitative and quantitative attributes in connection with evaluating the effectiveness of published content on social media pages. Such results are useful for purposes of enriching content in social media pages, resulting in greater network traffic due to increased engagements and interaction among users of social media pages.
US09704158B2
Techniques are disclosed for authenticating transactions conducted over computer networks, e.g., online banking transactions or other transactions performed by a financial institution at a customer's request. After receiving a transaction request (and associated transaction details), the transaction signing service signs the transaction data and sends the resulting blob to the user requesting the transaction. After being transmitted to the user, the signed transaction data itself is then signed using PKI credentials of the user, which then returns the twice-signed bundle to the financial institution. Rather than rely on the cryptographic signature of the client, the financial intuition (or other replying party) validates that the transaction data signed using its own highly trusted key has not been altered prior to being signed and returned by the client.
US09704153B2
A method and system are disclosed for wireless payment and information collection. A central system generates a personalized application including unique application and transaction identifiers, security keys, and signatures for a user device. The user device implements the personalized application in order to access the services of the associated network. Tags, capable of short-range communication with the user devices, are deployed to service access points of the associated network. The tags and user device mutually authenticate and share identifiers. Validation of the user device results in the tag updating an irreversible counter, generating transaction certificate, and logging this transaction information. The transaction certificate and a portion of the log are communicated to the user device, and service is granted. The user device transmits the transaction information and log to the central system for billing when a network connection is available.
US09704149B2
Systems and methods are provided for configuring a user device to provide a preferred payment method for payments. When a user carries their device into a store, the device may receive information from a beacon at the store that informs the device that the user is at the store. The user device may the use the information to determine which of several payment methods will provide a maximum benefit to the user if used for a payment at that store. The benefits to the user may include points, store rewards, miles, cash back rewards or other rewards associated with a particular payment method that, at a particular time or location provide more benefit to the user than other payment methods. The user device may be configured to provide the preferred payment method prior to a communication between the user device and a point of sale device of the store.
US09704143B2
The present disclosure is directed to security settlement in financial markets and cryptographic currencies. Particular portions of the present disclosure are directed to a cryptographic currency protocol and to a cryptographic currency that includes a positional item. The cryptographic currency protocol supports a virtual wallet that, in various embodiments, is a security and cash account for storing and managing the cryptographic currency. Opening a transaction via the virtual wallet to transfer the cryptographic currency is a strong guarantee of the availability of funds in the virtual wallet because, e.g., funds are not transacted unless the commit phase is successful.
US09704140B2
A metal fabrication resource performance monitoring method, includes accessing data representative of a parameter sampled during a metal fabrication operation of a metal fabrication resource, the resource being selectable by a user from a listing of individual and groups of resources. Via at least one computer processor, the accessed parameter is processed to determine an analyzed system parameter, and a user viewable dashboard page is populated with graphical indicia representative of the analyzed system parameter, and transmitted the user viewable dashboard page to a user.
US09704127B2
In a method for reproducing an original copy of a work of authorship, processing information received from a data input device relating to authentication of the original copy of the work of authorship, identifying information in a database corresponding to the information received from the data input device, determining whether an authorization for reproduction of the work of authorship should be granted, and if authorization is granted, reproducing the work of authorship.
US09704124B2
One maintains a first historical record that correlates each of a plurality of items that each have a unique identifier with one of a plurality of locations with a facility. Upon then determining that a given one of those items is leaving the facility (for example, by detecting that the item is literally exiting a building that comprises the facility and/or that the item is being purchased), that item's unique identifier and that first historical record are used to update a second historical record with respect to which locations within the facility are moving which items. By one approach the aforementioned unique identifier can comprise an electronic product code as comprises a part of a corresponding RFID tag.
US09704117B1
An aspect provides a method, at a handheld portable information handling device with a touch screen display, communicating to a hospital transport management system information sufficient to authenticate the user of the handheld portable information handling device; obtaining information from the hospital transport management system relevant to the user of the handheld portable information handling device; displaying the information from the hospital transport management system in a manner that is related to the workflow of the user of the handheld portable information handling device; and communicating to the hospital transport management system information about the workflow of the user of the handheld portable information handling device; and communicating to the hospital transport management system information about the workflow of the user of the handheld portable information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09704111B1
A system for transcription is controlled and optimized by computer software which implements a competitive market for jobs is presented. Jobs are characterized by type, deadline, domain, difficulty, pay rate, customer and other factors. Editors are given credentials to perform jobs based on a complex of editor and job characteristics, and all editors qualified for a given job may then perform actions to preview and to claim the job. Job characteristics are adjusted dynamically to ensure that they are completed accurately and according to schedule.
US09704108B2
A computer-implemented system, a method thereof, and a computer-readable medium comprising a supply chain visualizer providing a plurality of graphical elements in a multi-dimensional supply chain network view and a plan display providing a plurality of graphical elements in a multi-dimensional tabular view, a multi-directional capability for traversing between the supply chain visualizer and the plan display operable to receive input from a planner during a planning session specifying a plan problem, reflecting changes to data associated with the plan display back to data associated with the supply chain visualizer, reflecting changes to data associated with the supply chain visualizer back to data associated with the plan display, traversing the multi-dimensional supply chain network via a real-time interaction between the multi-dimensional tabular view of the plan display and the visual representation of the graphical view of the supply chain visualizer, and providing the planner the ability to generate a plan.
US09704106B2
Systems and methods for the annotation of source data using confidence labels in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining confidence labels for crowdsourced annotations includes obtaining a set of source data, obtaining a set of training data representative of the set of source data, determining the ground truth for each piece of training data, obtaining a set of training data annotations including a confidence label, measuring annotator accuracy data for at least one piece of training data, and automatically generating a set of confidence labels for the set of unlabeled data based on the measured annotator accuracy data and the set of annotator labels used.
US09704102B2
A mechanism for discerning user preferences for categories of provided content. A computer receives response data including a set of preference values that have been assigned to content items by content users. Output data is computed based on the response data using a latent factor model. The output data includes at least: an association matrix that defines K concepts associated with the content items, wherein K is smaller than the number of the content items, wherein, for each of the K concepts, the association matrix defines the concept by specifying strengths of association between the concept and the content items; and a concept-preference matrix including, for each content user and each of the K concepts, an extent to which the content user prefers the concept. The computer may display a visual representation of the association strengths in the association matrix and/or the extents in the concept-preference matrix.
US09704099B2
A computer-based system includes a computer-processable definition of a region in a data set. The system identifies a region of the data set based on the definition of the region. The system provides output to a user representing a question and the identified region of the data set. The system may also automatically generate an answer to the question based on the question and the data set, and provide output to the user representing the answer. The system may generate the answer based on a subset of the data set, and provide output to the user representing the subset of the data set. The user may provide feedback on the first answer to the system, which the system may use to improve subsequent answers to the same and other questions, and to disable the system's automatic question-answering function in response to disagreement between the user and the system.
US09704096B2
The one or more embodiments disclosed herein provide a method for automatically assembling multiple compounds into a single edible custom composition, in which each compound is individually customized to proportions formulated from a profile of an individual or group. The single custom mixture can contain a plurality of compounds including foods or flavors, nutritional additives, herbals, biologics, or pharmacologically active substances. Using the method and a related algorithm, the formulation of a custom mixture is suggested.
US09704093B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a memristor having a first electrode, a second electrode and a memristive layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. Thereby, the memristor is adapted to obtain an asymmetrical current density distribution in the memristive layer.
US09704086B2
A system includes a beacon device including a communication strip having a plurality of directed light emitters distributed along the communication strip. The beacon device can transmit a directed light signal via the directed light emitters. The system further includes a tag including a processor, a radio frequency transmitter coupled to the processor, a directed light receiver coupled to the processor, and a lens having first and second major surfaces and a side surface, the tag to receive the directed light signal via the side surface and to transmit a radio frequency tag message via the radio frequency transmitter. The system also includes a radio frequency reader to receive the radio frequency tag message.
US09704082B2
A marker generation apparatus includes code acquisition means for acquiring N-bit code information (N is a natural number no less than two) for superimposing the code information on a marker defined in a plurality of areas, multiplication means for multiplying each bit value of the code information acquired by the code acquisition means by an M-sequence matrix respectively, color information calculation means for calculating color information by adding up multiplication results obtained by the multiplication means, the color information being used for performing a color arrangement for each area of the marker, and color arrangement means for performing a color arrangement for each area of the marker based on the color information calculated by the color information calculation means.
US09704080B2
The present invention is the security element for sensitive documents characterized in that it includes at least one graphene layer arranged on a polymer layer where the graphene layer is heterogeneous and forms a pattern characterized by different levels of absorption of electromagnetic radiation, especially infrared radiation, visible light radiation or ultraviolet light passing through the pattern at its various points.
US09704078B2
An information processing apparatus including an acquisition portion that acquires a diameter of roll paper on which images are formed by an image forming apparatus and which is rolled by a roll apparatus; and a first display controller that causes, when image formation of an image group is instructed to the image forming apparatus, a roll paper image indicating a position where the image group is formed in the rolled roll paper to be displayed on a display portion, on a basis of a first diameter acquired when image formation of the image group is started and a second diameter acquired when image formation of the image group is completed.
US09704075B2
An image processing system for sequentially executing processes includes a process execution control apparatus to control an execution of the processes, and an image generation-output control apparatus to control an execution of image generation-output operation. The process execution control apparatus includes a control-side drawing information generator to generate drawing information to be referred when an image forming apparatus performs the image generation-output operation. The image generation-output control apparatus includes an output-side drawing information generator corresponding to the control-side drawing information generator. The control-side drawing information generator excludes an execution result of a designated process item from execution results of a plurality of process items, to be executed for generating the drawing information, to generate designated-information-excluded image information. When process contents of the designated process item is set at the image generation-output control apparatus, the output-side drawing information generator executes the plurality of process items based on the designated-information-excluded image information.
US09704074B2
An image processing apparatus has an acquisition unit configured to acquire first multi-valued data corresponding to a first colored ink to be precedently applied to a same area of the print medium, and second multi-valued data corresponding to a second colored ink to be applied to the print medium succeedingly to the first colored ink; and a quantization unit configured to convert the first multi-valued data to first quantized data designating printing or non-printing of dot using the first colored ink, and converts the second multi-valued data to second quantized data designating printing or non-printing of dot using the second colored data. The quantization unit quantizes the first multi-valued data and the second multi-valued data so as to, on the print medium, make dispersibility of dots to be printed based on the first quantized data higher than dispersibility of dots to be printed based on the second quantized data.
US09704073B2
A color conversion apparatus includes a storage section configured to store a look-up table specifying a correspondence relationship between an used amount of a first color material used for a formation of a printing material in a printing device and an used amount of a second color material used for a formation of a color reproduction image in an image-forming apparatus, with the look-up table further specifying the correspondence relationship indicating a first output characteristic for a first region included in an input color space represented by a color of the first color material, and further specifying the correspondence relationship indicating a second output characteristic, which is different from the first output characteristic, for a second region, which is different from the first region, included in the input color space, and a color conversion section configured to perform a color conversion in reference to the look-up table.
US09704063B2
A method of sampling feature points, an image matching method using the same, and an image matching processor are disclosed. The method of sampling feature points for image matching includes: dividing a first image into a plurality of regions corresponding to a number of feature points to be sampled; extracting a sampled feature point from each of the regions such that a distance between a sampled feature point of one region and a sampled feature point of another region satisfies a predetermined condition; and estimating a homography on the basis of the extracted sampled feature points and corresponding sampled feature points of a second image to be matched with the first image.
US09704061B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to detecting the number, position, and orientation of objects when a plurality of recognition target objects are present in a search target image. Dictionary image data is provided, including a recognition target pattern, a plurality of feature points of the recognition target pattern, and an offset (Ox, Oy) from the coordinates at the center of the image to the coordinates of the feature point. The sizes (Rt) and directions (θt) of feature vectors for the coordinates (Tx, Ty) of a plurality of feature points in the target image are also provided. The coordinates (Fx, Fy) of a virtual center point in the target image is derived. Additional virtual center points within a radius of the coordinates (Fx, Fy) is counted. Presence of a recognition target object is recognized near the virtual center point coordinates of the search target image.
US09704055B2
A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to render point cloud data. After obtaining point cloud data, polygons are fit to the point cloud data. A texture atlas is created for each of the polygons. A lookup table is generated from the texture atlases and maps each pixel to a corresponding texture location. When a scene is loaded for rendering/processing, the polygons and texture atlas are loaded and projected into an off-screen buffer that defines a depth map of the scene with approximations of a depth per pixel in screen space. The off-screen buffer is used as a lookup table to determine texture data to be rendered for the scene.
US09704052B2
An image processing method of processing a gray-scale image of character strings arranged in a plurality of lines of text, for character recognition, includes setting at least a part of a range, in which the character strings in the gray-scale image area are distributed, as a search area, and setting, for each of a plurality of points arranged along one of two axes, representing coordinates in the image, corresponding to an arrangement of the line of text, a plurality of lines extending across the search area, with the point as a starting point, and accumulating, for each of the lines, pixel data in the line within the search area.
US09704045B2
One or more systems and/or methods for providing content to a user are provided. An image, associated with a user, may be evaluated utilizing an image classifier to identify an object within the image. The object may be utilized to identify a predicted class for the user. In an example, the predicted class may correspond to a life event (e.g., graduating college, having a baby, buying a house, etc.) and/or a life stage (e.g., adolescence, retirement, etc.). Locational information (e.g., a geotag) for the image may be evaluated to determine an image location (e.g., a location where the image was generated). Responsive to the image location corresponding to a home location of the user, the predicted class may be determined to be a class associated with the user. Content (e.g., promotional content) may be selected from a content repository based upon the class and subsequently provided to the user.
US09704039B2
This invention concerns apparatus and a method for authenticating a subject using their eye as an identifying biometric, in particular the shape of their cornea. The apparatus comprises an image projection device to generate and project an image of a pattern, made up of plural discrete points, onto at least a part of the cornea of an eye of the person. An image capture device to capture an image of the pattern of plural discrete points, after reflection in at least a part of the cornea of an eye of the person. And, a computer processor to extract a data set defining the locations of the discrete points in the captured image. The method comprises capturing an image of an illuminated pattern, made up of plural discrete points, after reflection in at least a part of the cornea of an eye of the subject. Comparing the locations of the discrete points in the pattern of the captured image against the locations of the discrete points in the pattern of a reference image. And, authenticating the identity of the subject depending on the similarity of comparison. In a further aspect the invention is software for performing the method.
US09704036B2
A device for performing eyetracking on a handheld device includes and eyetracking camera and an eyetracking camera boom mount. The eyetracking camera boom mount physically and electrically connects a handheld device and the eyetracking camera. The eyetracking camera boom mount includes an extension boom that positions the eyetracking camera behind the user's hands. The extension boom provides the eyetracking camera with a view of the user's eyes that is unobstructed by the user's hands. The device can further include an operating scene camera for monitoring a person's hand operations on the handheld device. The operating scene camera can be mounted on the same extension boom as the eyetracking camera or on a separate extension boom.
US09704029B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a first image including a representation of a first user. A second image including a representation of a second user can be received. A first set of poselets associated with the first user can be detected in the first image. A second set of poselets associated with the second user can be detected in the second image. The first image including the first set of poselets can be inputted into a first instance of a neural network to generate a first multi-dimensional vector. The second image including the second set of poselets can be inputted into a second instance of the neural network to generate a second multi-dimensional vector. A first distance metric between the first multi-dimensional vector and the second multi-dimensional vector can be determined.
US09704019B2
In an example embodiment, may be embodied in a a data analysis apparatus comprises a control unit configured to provide data representative of a three dimensional image, the three dimensional image including at least a three dimensional coordinate space which includes at least one plane that divides the three dimensional coordinate space into at least two regions, a display unit configured to produce the three dimensional image based on the data representative of the three dimensional image, and an input unit configured to provide data representative of at least one of a movement and a position of the at least one plane. In other example embodiments, the present disclosure may be embodied in a data analysis server, a data analysis system, and/or a computer readable medium.
US09704018B2
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of selecting a region of cancer cells in any tissue sample image and easily and accurately counting the number of the cancer cells. The information processing apparatus is an information processing apparatus 100 including: an acquisition unit 110 for acquiring image data obtained by reading a tissue sample image 150 obtained by putting a mark 151 specifying a selected area 152 on an image obtained by immunostaining and then imaging a biological tissue; and a counting unit 120 for counting the number of cancer cells in the selected area 152 specified by the mark 151 based on the image data of the tissue sample image 150 acquired by the acquisition unit 110, wherein a diagnosis based on the tissue sample image 150 is supported.
US09704016B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes an outputter configured to output a content including a plurality of content parts, a signal processor configured to extract a first fingerprint corresponding to a first content part among the plurality of content parts of the content from at least one of a video signal and an audio signal constituting the content while the content is output, a communicator configured to transmit the first fingerprint to a server, and receive a second fingerprint corresponding to a second content part among the plurality of content parts of the content and first event information corresponding to the second fingerprint from the server, a storage configured to store the second fingerprint and the first event information, and a controller configured to control the outputter to output the first event information in coordination with the second content part of the content being output.
US09704011B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an array substrate, a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. A fingerprint recognition module can be arranged within a display region, so as to achieve a purpose of simplifying operations and manufacturing processes. The present disclosure provides an array substrate, the array substrate comprises a base on which gate lines and data lines as well as pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines are formed, and the plurality of fingerprint recognition circuits for performing fingerprint recognition are further formed on the base, the fingerprint recognition circuits are arranged within the pixel unit.
US09704010B2
A computer-implemented method for determining the position of a lift cabin in a lift shaft with the aid of a coding device, in which method is at least one of a section of the code band and the bearing device is recorded with an optical detection device as a pixel image in which the pixel image is larger than the position marker, the pixel image is processed and a binary code is decoded by means of an algorithm and converted into a position indication, a checksum of the position marker, which is formed by at least one of the binary code and grayscale values of the position marker, is compared to a predetermined value, and one of a barcode and a 2D code calculated from the position indication using an inverse of the algorithm and is compared with at least one recorded row outside of the position marker.
US09704006B2
An image processing apparatus includes a 2D code detecting unit, a 2D code decoding unit, and an invalidation processing unit. The 2D code detecting unit is configured to detect a 2D code in a document image. The 2D code decoding unit is configured to try to decode the detected 2D code. The invalidation processing unit is configured to perform invalidation of the 2D code so as to make this 2D code undetectable by the 2D code detecting unit if the 2D code decoding unit failed to decode the 2D code.
US09704005B2
Reader for an electronic UHF access control system, wherein the reader in operation cooperates with corresponding UHF tags and is provided with a housing, in which an antenna system for creating an electromagnetic interrogation field is arranged, wherein the antenna system comprises a first antenna for generating an interrogation field with a first polarization direction, and a second antenna for generating an interrogation field with a second polarization direction, wherein the first and the second polarization directions are substantially orthogonal to each other, and wherein the first antenna is a loop antenna with an open central area, and the second antenna is an antenna of the inverted F type (IFA), which is placed in the open central area of the loop antenna.
US09704004B1
Systems and methods of assigning an RFID chip and/or a participant number to an event participant who has preregistered for the event. The assignment of the RFID chip and/or participant number to the participant occurs in real-time while the event participant or a designated representative thereof is present at a designated pick-up location to pick up the RFID chip and/or participant number.
US09704002B2
In one aspect where a load or a subset of one or more tags is in motion relative to an RFID reader system, the RFID system obtains tag readings and derives tag scalar or vector motional data e.g. tag velocity, tag acceleration, and/or rate of change of tag acceleration which can be compared to known tag motional information to distinguish true tags of interest from false positives which are unavoidably also within the field of the reader system. An antenna system may also make readings during distinctive movement patterns of true tags, such as vertical or arcuate movement and utilize computed tag motional data based on the tag readings to distinguish true tags from false positives. Two components of the RFID system may communicate information on identified tags, and/or interact (e.g. by silencing tags), so as to cooperate in identifying true positive tags.
US09704001B2
A file searching system includes a file storage device and a terminal device. The file storage device defines a plurality of slots for storing files having radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, the file storage device has a plurality of antennas and associated indicators mounted to a corresponding slot one to one. The terminal device wirelessly communicates with a first transceiver of the file storage device. The terminal device includes a user interface (UI) unit. Each antenna receives RFID tag self-identifying information from an RFID tag stored in the corresponding slot and transmit the RFID tag self-identifying information along with antenna self-identifying information to the first transceiver for transmission to the terminal. The first transceiver receives control commands from the terminal and the file storage device actuates one of the plurality of indicators based on a received control command. A file searching method of the file searching device is also provided.
US09704000B2
A transportable container is enabled with radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technologies to maintain automated inventory levels of those items that are inside the container. The inventory data is communicated via wireless methods, such as cellular or Wi-Fi, to a remote device such as enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system. The ERP system may use the inventory data received from the remote device to automatically update appropriately and generate appropriate records (e.g., container inventory, restocking, invoicing, etc.). In some embodiments, automated RFID scans are triggered when the container is opened and subsequently closed. The container may include RF containment/screening to prevent inadvertent scanning of RFID tags outside of the container. The container may also include a location device to allow the location of the container to be readily determined.
US09703996B2
The device is equipped with several protocol decoding means (DCDi) corresponding respectively to various communication protocols so as to be capable of dialoguing with the said communication apparatus during transactions selectively according to one of these communication protocols; the method comprises an automatic protocol detection comprising a) an activation (40) of all the decoding means at the start of a transaction, b) a delivery of the signal received by the electronic device to all the decoding means, c) an analysis (41) of at least one signal delivered by at least one of the decoding means and d) a selection (42) of one of the decoding means on the basis of the result of the said analysis, and a conducting of the said transaction with the selected decoding means.
US09703992B2
A card reader for use with a mobile phone includes a flat body having an upper side, a lower side and at least one side wall, a connector for connecting the card reader to a mobile phone, a chip card reader, including an elongated opening in a side wall of the card reader, adapted to read a chip card, positioned in a first plane, in the opening; and a magnet stripe reader including a slot in a side wall of the card reader, the slot being adapted to read a magnet stripe slid in the slot along a second plane; wherein the first plane and the second plane intersect.
US09703990B2
A system for protecting content includes a mobile device screen including a plurality of pixels, whereby each of the plurality of pixels have first sub-pixel units that include a first viewing angle and second sub-pixel units that include a second viewing angle. Within each of the plurality of pixels, the first sub-pixel units are adjacent to the second sub-pixel units. A processing unit is coupled to the mobile device screen and determines a portion of the mobile device screen that displays sensitive content. The processing unit obscures the sensitive content displayed on the portion of the mobile device screen by deactivating the first sub-pixel units at the portion of the mobile device screen that displays the sensitive content and activates the second sub-pixel units at the portion of the mobile device screen that displays the sensitive content.
US09703982B2
An electronic signature comprises an authenticated audio and/or visual recording of a spoken assent that conforms to a pre-established phrase. Alternatively, an electronic signature comprises an authenticated visual recording of a series of physical gestures that conforms to a pre-established sequence. Rules are established with respect to how the assent is to be recorded and authenticated. These rules, as well as the document itself, are provided to a document recipient. If the document recipient assents to the document, an audio and/or visual recording of the assent is generated. Location information that defines or approximates the geographical location where the document recipient recorded the assent is also optionally recorded as well. Once recorded, the assent can be authenticated using any of a variety of suitable authentication processes. An authenticated assent can be considered a legally binding electronic signature that forms a part of, or is otherwise associated with, the document.
US09703968B2
A tag and a method of writing data to memory of a tag are provided. The tag includes memory that stores data elements as well as an access control list that maps access keys to the data elements. An authentication protocol is employed by the tag to determine whether a data element received from a writing device will be written to the memory.
US09703966B2
A data processing system includes a single instruction multiple data register file and single instruction multiple processing circuitry. The single instruction multiple data processing circuitry supports execution of cryptographic processing instructions for performing parts of a hash algorithm. The operands are stored within the single instruction multiple data register file. The cryptographic support instructions do not follow normal lane-based processing and generate output operands in which the different portions of the output operand depend upon multiple different elements within the input operand.
US09703962B2
A computing device processor may be configured with processor-executable instructions to implement methods of using behavioral analysis and machine learning techniques to identify, prevent, correct, or otherwise respond to malicious or performance-degrading behaviors of the computing device. As part of these operations, the processor may generate user-persona information that characterizes the user based on that user's activities, preferences, age, occupation, habits, moods, emotional states, personality, device usage patterns, etc. The processor may use the user-persona information to dynamically determine the number of device features that are monitored or evaluated in the computing device, to identify the device features that are most relevant to determining whether the device behavior is not consistent with a pattern of ordinary usage of the computing device by the user, and to better identify or respond to non-benign behaviors of the computing device.
US09703958B2
A file stored in a first portion of a computer memory of a computer is determined to be a malicious file. A duplicate of the file is stored in a quarantine area in the computer memory, the quarantine area being in a second portion of the computer memory that is different from the first portion of the computer memory. One or more protection processes are performed on the file. The determination that the file is a malicious file is determined to be a false positive and the file is restored, during a boot sequence, to a state prior to the one or more protection processes being performed on the file.
US09703953B2
Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. An end-user device interacts and communicates with a server of a computerized server (a banking website, an electronic commerce website, or the like). The interactions are monitored, tracked and logged. User Interface (UI) interferences or irregularities are introduced; and the server tracks the response or the reaction of the end-user to such interferences. The system determines whether the user is a legitimate user, or a cyber-attacker or automated script posing as the legitimate user. The system utilizes classification of users into classes or groups, to deduce or predict how a group-member would behave when accessing the service through a different type of device. The system identifies user-specific traits that are platform-independent and thus can be further monitored when the user switches from a first platform to a second platform.
US09703949B2
Time-based configuration profile toggling of a client device can be provided. A computing device in data communication with a client device over a network can be configured to identify an enterprise configuration profile associated with a client device stored in a memory. Further, the computing device can determine whether a current time associated with the client device complies with a compliance rule that specifies at least one time period during which the client device is authorized to enable the enterprise configuration profile. In response to the current time associated with the client device complying with the compliance rule, the computing device can remotely enable the enterprise configuration profile on the client device.
US09703939B2
A mobile terminal having a face recognition function and a control method thereof are provided. A mobile terminal includes a display unit, a memory, a photographing unit and a controller. The memory stores first photographing distance information mapped to a plurality of coordinates in a previously obtained first face image, as reference information for releasing a lock mode in which a touch input applied to the display unit is restricted. The photographing unit obtains a second face image by photographing a subject, when a face recognition function is performed in the lock mode. The controller computes second photographing distance information mapped to the plurality of coordinates in the second face image, and releases the lock mode, based on a result obtained by comparing the first photographing distance information and the second photographing distance information.
US09703933B2
A system and method for transferring ownership of disc storage media utilizing unique disc identification includes a disc storage medium with a permanently recorded disc identification, a user console with a set identification, a network, and a host server managing a user database and a disc database. Upon purchase of software stored on a disc storage medium, the unique disc identification and user identification are transmitted over the network from the user console to the host server. The host server grants the user console access permission to the programs residing on the disc storage medium and performs the disc ownership transfer transactions.
US09703932B2
The present disclosure provides identification and continuous monitoring of content, such as broadcast content, in real time, using a hierarchical, distributed approach to content identification. Identification, synchronization and verification are provided. Identification may be performed by an identification server using a reference database of fingerprints. The same or another computing device may be used perform synchronization, such that at least some portion of each fingerprint generated by client devices that form a verification group are synchronized for verification. Verification used to determine whether a client device continues to receive the same content identified during identification compares at least a portion of each fingerprint generated by each client device of a verification group. If a mismatch occurs, identification may be repeated to identify the new content being received by a client device.
US09703931B2
A system uses a multi-pass authentication method to authenticate the presence of a health care provider co-located with an assigned patient at a specific time and in a specific place that includes a data reader and transmitter with particular capabilities held by the health care provider, a token held by the patient, and a back-end database and internet-based interface. The system includes an object that includes a wirelessly detectable patient identification (ID) and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a provider ID and is configured to receive the patient ID from the object, retrieve, from a database, healthcare intervention data. The electronic device selectively locks and unlocks access to clinical data recording functions of the electronic device based on the healthcare intervention data.
US09703930B2
A method and data processing device for automatically generating a user-specific measuring data recording routine for discontinuous blood glucose measurement with a blood glucose measuring device in a data processing device. The method comprises the steps of providing of process data indicating an expected continuous course of the blood glucose value of a user, in the calculation unit based on blood glucose measuring values from continuous blood glucose measurement, generating of user-specific measuring routine data, which indicate a measuring routine with user-specific measuring events for discontinuous blood glucose measurement with a blood glucose meter taking into account the process data by means of the calculation unit, and providing of the user-specific measuring routine data to the data output interface for data transmission.
US09703928B2
An information processing apparatus includes a clipping section that clips, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images, and a grouping section that groups the generated food images for each identical subject.
US09703926B2
Methods for customization of a user interface of a microprocessor controlled medical apparatus for extracorporal blood treatment are disclosed, whereby the medical apparatus comprises a software component driving the user interface on a touch screen of the medical apparatus, and the software component has a technical support and maintenance mode and a treatment mode. At least one target window is displayed on the touch screen during therapy in the treatment mode, and such target window shows at least data regarding measured and/or set values of the therapy, whereby at least the appearance of one target window is modified by a customization procedure that is performed within the target window in the treatment mode. The invention further relates to a medical apparatus for extracorporal blood treatment that uses the method.
US09703924B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide efficient systems and methods for creating an optimal set of partitions across replica blocks using two checkpoints during the design process. The two checkpoints group a set of macros according to a timing constraint and a location proximity to the other macros. Clustering of the macros is iteratively performed until a distance parameter exceeds a pre-defined threshold.
US09703919B2
A method of generating a set of defect candidates for a wafer is disclosed. The wafer comprises at least one die manufactured according to a mask, and the mask being prepared by combining a plurality of layout areas. The method includes receiving an initial defect information from a wafer scanning device indicating potential defects of a semiconductor wafer and determining a boundary region on the semiconductor wafer. The method further includes creating an exclusion region from the boundary region, the exclusion region having a first set of defects in the potential defects of the semiconductor wafer, and creating filtered defect information by removing the first set of defects from the initial defect information.
US09703906B2
A circuit simulation device includes a measurement unit, a calculation unit, and a processing unit. The measurement unit measures first spaces between adjacent contacts of a plurality of first contacts provided on a source diffusion layer in a line in a direction along which a gate electrode of a transistor extends and also a space between adjacent contacts of a plurality of second contacts provided on a drain diffusion layer in a line in the direction, based on layout design data, and second spaces between the first contacts and the gate electrode and spaces between the second contacts and the gate electrode. The calculation unit calculates a fringe capacitance between the gate electrode, the source diffusion layer, and the drain diffusion layer of the transistor, based on the first and second spaces. The processing unit executes layout simulation based on the fringe capacitance of the transistor.
US09703903B2
It is provided a computer-implemented method for designing a folded sheet object, comprising the steps of providing (S10) panels separated by bend lines, including at least four adjacent panels forming a cycle and separated by concurrent bend lines, with predetermined angles between successive bend lines; and determining (S20) a control law linking the angles between the adjacent panels of the cycle, as a function of the predetermined angles between successive bend lines. Such a method improves the design of a folded sheet object.
US09703900B1
A system level simulation wrapper includes a plurality of port interfaces configured to provide pin accurate and bus cycle accurate communication. The system also includes a switch coupled to the plurality of port interfaces. The switch is selectively configured to communicate with a Cycle Accurate hardware description language (HDL) model of an intellectual property (IP) block or a system level model of the IP block.
US09703899B1
A product synthesizer has a core CPU, power distribution, and a plurality of selectable interfaces, each interface having an associated schematic symbol, PCB symbol, mechanical model, power dissipation, and power requirement. A set of constraints identifies performance metrics including low power, high performance, battery or mains power, battery life, and other constraints. The product synthesizer receives as inputs the interfaces and constraints, and generates as outputs a schematic diagram, a bill of materials, a routed printed circuit board, and a solid model of an enclosure, all of which satisfy the constraints and include the identified interfaces.
US09703894B2
A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
US09703889B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides auto-focus for a search field in a user interface, where the focus of the user interface specifies where in the user interface user input will be directed. During operation, the system receives an input from a user. The system then determines from characteristics of the input whether the input is directed to a search field in the user interface. If so, and if the focus is not already on the search field, the system automatically moves the focus of the user interface to the search field. Hence, the system can automatically direct the input and subsequent input to the search field without the user having to explicitly navigate to the search field.
US09703887B2
A computer implemented method and system for managing browser tabs includes identifying a plurality of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator(s)) in response to detecting the URLs in a web browser running on a computer. The plurality of URLs are organized based on each of the URLs, and each of the plurality of URLs correspond to a tab opened by the web browser. The tabs of the web browser are grouped based on the URLs.
US09703883B2
A system for social bookmarking of a resource provided through a Web application that doesn't follow the representational state transfer architectural style (REST). When processing a request for a social bookmarking operation, the system searches for a URL and potentially other resource information within the document object model of a currently loaded Web page. If such resource information is found, it is used to process the requested social bookmarking operation. Otherwise, if such resource information is not found in the document object model, the system uses the URL stored in the location bar of the Web browser to process the requested social bookmarking operation. The system includes semantic information in the DOM of a Web page that is used to identify subsets of content within the Web page that can be socially bookmarked. The semantic information may be stored in what is generally referred to as “microformatting”.
US09703881B2
A system, apparatus and method for generation of content for distributed heterogeneous computers is provided. A server can connect to a network, which in turn is connected to a plurality of client computing devices, a plurality of fixed display computers and a plurality of administration computers. The server is configured to receive content form the administration computers, and to adjust the received content for one or more of the respective fixed display computing and to also adjust the received content for one or more of the client computing devices.
US09703879B2
An online social network is managed using one server for database management tasks and another server, preferably in a distributed configuration, for CPU-intensive computational tasks, such as finding a shortest path between two members or a degree of separation between two members. The additional server has a memory device containing relationship information between members of the online social network and carries out the CPU-intensive computational tasks using this memory device. With this configuration, the number of database lookups is decreased and processing speed is thereby increased.
US09703850B2
A computer determines a business glossary, wherein the business glossary includes one or more business terms that correspond to one or more assets. The computer receives a request to create an ETL job associated with a business term. The computer creates an ETL job for the business term, wherein the ETL job includes a business glossary stage.
US09703839B2
A plurality of streams of tuples is received by processing elements operating on computer processors, the processing element having one or more stream operators. A first stream of tuples is processed at a receiving stream operator. A streaming condition is then identified. The streaming condition is determined to be satisfied and an alternate stream of tuples is processed at the receiving stream operator.
US09703837B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including determining an affinity score representing an affinity of a user with respect to a contact of the user, wherein the affinity score is an indication of a strength of a relationship between the user and the contact, determining an engagement score of the user with respect to the contact, wherein the engagement score in an indication of a probability of the user engaging with a content item associated with the contact, determining an interest score of the user with respect to the contact based on the affinity score and the engagement score and providing a plurality of content items posted by the contact display in an activity stream, the content items being ordered based on the interest score. Other aspects can include corresponding systems, apparatus and computer program products.
US09703836B2
Techniques for managing tactical query to continuous query conversion are provided. In some examples, a tactical query configured to enable the pulling of business event data from a database to a query engine may be determined. For example, a query engine may be configured with the tactical query. The configuration may be based at least in part on an indication of the business event data to be displayed. Further, in some examples, a conversion of the tactical query to a continuous query may be enabled. The conversion or enablement of the conversion may be based at least in part on a request.
US09703834B2
Each node of a topological database that represents an information technology environment with multi-tenancy capability represents a configuration item within the environment and is characterized by a tenant authorization rule that indicates a list of tenants that are authorized to access the corresponding configuration. An unrestricted result to an unrestricted query is obtained, the unrestricted query being representable as a sub-graph isomorphism. The unrestricted result includes groups of nodes of the database that satisfy the isomorphism. A tenant query is applied to the unrestricted result to obtain an authorized result, the tenant query being representable by the same sub-graph isomorphism as the unrestricted query. The authorized result includes identification of any of the groups whose component nodes are each characterized by a TAR that authorizes access by the querying tenant. A notification is issued to the querying tenant on the basis of the obtained authorized result.
US09703830B2
In the processing of a query while being translated from the SPARQL language to the SQL language, a manner of navigation through the one or more graphs is provided. The plurality of the nodes in the one or more graphs generated from the query is identified. The plurality of the nodes are assigned a priority and arranged in the priority queue based on the assigned priorities. The node with a highest assigned priority is selected each time for execution of the query from the selected node. The one or more graphs are navigated from the selected node to traverse to the one or more nodes connected with the selected node. An access plan element is generated corresponding to the selected nodes and the one or more traversed nodes.
US09703824B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for managing a distributed database. A data management application can obtain a query. The data management application can analyze the query to determine a number of data structures relevant to the query. The data management application also can analyze data stores storing the data structures and move or assign data structures to other data stores within a distributed database. The movement of the data structures within the distributed database can be based upon greedy algorithms for moving data and/or executing queries.
US09703813B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosures, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums having program instructions thereon, provide for process of segregating data from database tables into different layers depending on the frequency of access to the data—so that each layer of the data can be stored in an appropriate storage mechanism. For example, infrequently-accessed data can be stored in a hard disk drive (HDD) and frequently-accessed can be stored in random-access memory (RAM). Further, the data can also be stored in a sold-state drive (SSD) or other memory-storing devices. In an embodiment, grading attributes are used to layer the data and, accordingly, segregate the data into appropriate storage mechanisms.
US09703807B2
A method and a computer system for WAMI discovery are provided. The method includes issuing a request to a WAMI collection service in one or more WAMI collection services to retrieve an entire collection tree metadata at said WAMI collection service; receiving a response from the WAMI collection service, the response comprising the entire collection tree metadata, the response being in a first format; and translating the response from the first format into KML format, wherein the translating includes mapping a one-to-one of WAMI collection tree nodes from the first format into KML nodes.
US09703804B2
Systems and methods are provided for ranking points of interest (POIs). According to one implementation, a computer-implemented method may be provided that includes receiving geographic information from a user device, and selecting a plurality of points of interest within the geographic region. The method may also include generating an initial ranking of the selected points of interest based on voting information received from the user device, viral input from a user's social network, and/or additional input based on searches for maps and travel directions for traversing a route. In addition, the method may include calculating a modified ranking of the selected points of interest.
US09703800B1
A method and system for sharing and synchronizing content between a content repository and a file sharing service. A connector engine is configured between the content repository and the file sharing service. A new snapshot of the content repository is divided into smaller snapshots, and each smaller snapshot is paired and compared with the prior snapshot to identify new and changed objects. Likewise, the prior snapshot is divided into smaller snapshots, and each smaller snapshot is paired and compared with the new snapshot to identify deleted objects.
US09703793B1
Systems and methods aggregate data and use caching techniques. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method aggregates data. A server receives a request for data that includes one or more identifiers. Based on at least one of the one or more identifiers, at least one template defining a view of the data is retrieved. One or more modules are identified based on the at least one template and one or more services are invoked to obtain the one or more modules. The one or more modules are received and processing by applying one or more business logic rules. At least a portion of the one or more processed modules are stored in a data store. The view of the data is generated based on the processed one or more modules and a response is transmitted to a client that includes the view of the data.
US09703783B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting news articles for presentation to a user. One method includes an operation for measuring dwelltimes for a first set of news items, where the dwelltime for a news item is based on the amount of time that the news item is displayed to a viewer. Further, the method includes an operation for training a classifier of news items based on the measured dwelltimes and based on features associated with the first set of news items. Additionally, the method includes an operation for ranking with the classifier a second set of news items for presentation to the user, the ranking also using the profile of the user for delivery of customized news to the user. The ranked second set of news item is then presented to the user.
US09703781B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to one or more configured computing systems identifying companion content and supplemental content for a base content. Companion content may include, for example, video adaptations of the base content. Supplemental content may include content referenced or related in subject matter to the base content. Information regarding companion content may be utilized to enable a user to interchangeably or synchronously present either a base content (e.g., an eBook or audio book) with the companion content (e.g., a movie adaptation). Information regarding supplemental content may be utilized to present the supplemental content during consumption of a base content, or to save supplemental content for later viewing.
US09703777B2
Embodiments relate to translating textual information of an application. In one aspect, a method includes running the application based on a source language and receiving a request for translating the textual information from the source language into a target language. In response to the request, the method includes acquiring a text location identifier of the textual information of the application, and translating the textual information from the source language to the target language based on a text location identifier-target language content mapping table.
US09703773B2
An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager analyzes multiple document phrases using a natural language processing model and generates multiple interpretations based upon the analysis. The knowledge manager identifies misinterpretation patterns by comparing the multiple interpretations with multiple corrections that include corrections to the multiple interpretations. In turn, the knowledge manager generates interpretation rules based upon the identified patterns and applies the interpretation rules to the natural language processing model.
US09703770B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, a first metadata defining how a user interface associated with an application under test should appear is generated using one or more computer processors. An image of the user interface associated with the application under test that is invoked during a test run is captured using one or more one or more computer processors. The captured image is converted, using one or more computer processors, into one or more of a second metadata and text. The first metadata is compared, using one or more computer processors, to the second metadata and the text. In response to the comparison resulting in a difference between the first metadata and the second metadata, the image is stored, using one or more computer processors, and an assessment request is generated using one or more computer processors.
US09703768B1
An object storage system having object metadata query capability. Clients can pose queries to the object system in a high-level, declarative language. A query is evaluated against stored object metadata, and only objects satisfying the query's predicates are returned. The object storage system can evaluate alternative logical and physical query plans using a cost model. Queries can be posed using familiar REST-based APIs.
US09703767B2
A spreadsheet file and a dashboard structure file characterizing a dashboard are received. These files are then analyzed to determine dependencies. Subsequently, for each determined dependency, an event listener is registered for a dependent component that corresponds to the determined dependency. These event listeners are notified of an event from an event source when a corresponding dependee is changed. Dependent components are then updated using data from a corresponding dependee in response to event notifications so that each updated dependent component can be rendered within the dashboard. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US09703763B1
A method for automatic document citations includes outputting, by one or more computing devices and for display, a first interface area in which an editable document is displayed and a second interface area outside of the first interface area. The method also includes, in response to a paste command, inserting copied content into the editable document and defining, in the second interface area, an interface element that includes source information regarding the copied content.
US09703761B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for delaying code parsing. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a resource that includes markup language code and executable code embedded within the markup language code, invoking the markup language code without parsing the executable code, extracting the executable code from within the markup language code, and invoking the executable code.
US09703759B2
Footnote detection is provided. When converting a fixed format document to a flow format document, footnotes, which may include a footnote description and a footnote reference mark, may be detected and linked with a corresponding footnote reference mark in a main document flow on a page. Additionally, a footnote numbering scheme may be determined and applied to detected footnotes. By providing footnote detection when converting a fixed format document to a flow format document, footnotes may be statically positioned at the end of a page containing the corresponding footnote reference mark.
US09703757B2
Systems and methods for automatically determining a content item size may be based on a size of a viewport and a width of a parent element. A script may be configured to determine a size of a viewport, determine a width of a parent element of a resource, and determine a content item size based, at least in part, on the size of the view port and the width of the parent element. A dimension of the determined content item size may be used by a content item selection system to determine a set of content items. A content item selection system may select a content item from the determined set of content items and serve data to effect display of the selected content item in the parent element with the resource.
US09703753B2
An apparatus for updating a device, includes: a card configured to include a first device; a controller configured to acquire first circuit data from the card and to update a second device by using the first circuit data; and a storage unit configured to store, from the card, second circuit data for updating the first device, wherein the controller acquires the second circuit data stored in the storage unit and updates the first device by using the second circuit data.
US09703742B2
The present disclosure is directed to a unified device interface for a multi-bus system. In at least one embodiment, a system may comprise more than one data bus. Each data bus may be to convey data between an operating system (OS) and at least one device in the system, wherein a plurality of driver instances may facilitate interaction between the OS and a device via one or more of the data buses. In one embodiment, a main driver instance may be determined from the plurality of driver instances to present the device to the OS and coordinate operation of other driver instances. The other driver instances may map addresses in the memory of processing entities corresponding to each of the data buses and report these mappings to the main driver instance. Alternatively, a supervisory driver may be loaded to present the device and to control operation of the driver instances.
US09703738B2
A system and method for making and using a computing system framework with unified storage, processing, and network switching fabrics are provided. Processing nodes, either physical or virtual, are associated with intra-module ports, inter-module ports, and local storage spaces. A plurality of processing nodes are linked through intra-module ports to form processing modules. A plurality of the processing modules are connected through inter-module ports to form the computing system. Network switch can be incorporated into intra-module or inter-module connections. Several inter-module connection schemes, which can be adapted to use with existing network packet routing algorithms, are disclosed. Each processing node needs only to keep track of the states of its directly connected neighbors, obviating the need for a high-speed connection to the rest processing nodes within the system. Dedicated network switching equipment can be flexibly employed and network capacity grows naturally as processing nodes are added.
US09703730B2
In an arbitration circuit, transactions output from a plurality of master circuits are stored in a first-in-first-out type first buffer, and when a high-priority transaction higher in priority than one of the stored transactions is output from one of the plural master circuits, a cancel request of a low-priority transaction lower in priority than the high-priority transaction, out of the stored transactions, is output to a second buffer in a slave circuit, and when the cancel request is successful, the high-priority transaction is output to the slave circuit, and after the high-priority transaction is output to the slave circuit, the low-priority transaction whose cancel request is successful is output to the slave circuit.
US09703728B2
A bus system includes a functional unit to which a unit identifier is assigned, a memory module for storage of data that has a storage region, and a bus. The functional unit is connected to the memory module via the bus. The storage region is configured such that one or more multiple global authorized identifiers are assigned thereto, so that the functional unit only has reading or writing access to the storage region if the unit identifier assigned to the functional unit corresponds to one of the global authorized identifiers assigned to the storage region.
US09703719B2
Sensing techniques and associated circuitry are provided for use with a memory device. The techniques are suited for sensing operations involving even-numbered or odd-numbered bit lines. In one approach, the sensing circuitry includes left and right hand portions which have separate cache access lines, but are connected to a common output bus. A full data word can be output at a time by using a half word from the left hand portion and a half word from the right hand portion. Or, the sensing circuitry can be configured so that a full data word is output at a time from the left or right hand portion. One implementation provides an N-bit bus and N input paths for each of the left and right hand portions. Another implementation provides an N-bit bus and N/2 input paths for each of the left and right hand portions.
US09703713B2
Methods and arrangements for providing cache management in a hierarchical virtualized storage system. A contemplated method includes: for each layer in the storage system, designating a relative position with respect to at least one other layer in the storage system; imparting a caching policy to be applied collectively to all layers, the caching policy being based on the relative position of each layer with respect to at least one other layer in the storage system; and upon an attempt to cache data in at least one of the layers, maintaining communication between the layers to permit application of the caching policy. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09703709B2
A multithreaded processor can concurrently execute a plurality of threads in a processor core. The threads can access a shared main memory through a memory interface; the threads can generate read and write transactions that cause shared main memory access. An incoherency detection module prevents incoherency by maintaining a record of outstanding global writes, and detecting a conflicting global read. A barrier is sequenced with the conflicting global write. The conflicting global read is allowed to proceed after the sequence of the conflicting global write and the barrier are cleared. The sequence can be maintained by a separate queue for each thread of the plurality.
US09703708B2
Systems and methods for efficiently utilizing reconfigurable processor cores. An example processing system includes, for example, a control register comprising a plurality of inhibit bits, each inhibit bit indicating whether a corresponding processor core is allowed to merge with other processor cores; and dynamic core reallocation logic to temporarily merge a first processor core and a second processor core to speed execution of a first thread executed on the first processor core responsive to determining that a second thread executed on the second processor core has completed execution prior to a quantum associated with the second thread being reached and to determining that the inhibit bits indicate that the first and second cores may be merged.
US09703707B2
A NOC comprises a die having a cache and a core area, a plurality of core tiles arranged in the core area in a plurality of subsets, at least one cache memory bank arranged in the cache area, whereby the at least one cache memory bank is distinct from each of the plurality of core files. The NOC further comprises an interconnect fabric comprising a request tree to connect to a first cache memory bank of the at least one cache memory bank, each core tile of a first one of the subsets, the first subset corresponding to the first cache memory bank, such that each core tile is connected to the first cache memory bank only, and a reply tree to connect the first cache memory bank to each core tile of the first subset.
US09703700B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for efficient buffering for a system having non-volatile memory (“NVM”). In some embodiments, a control circuitry of a system can use heuristics to determine whether to perform buffering of one or more write commands received from a file system. In other embodiments, the control circuitry can minimize read energy and buffering overhead by efficiently re-ordering write commands in a queue along page-aligned boundaries of a buffer. In further embodiments, the control circuitry can optimally combine write commands from a buffer with write commands from a queue. After combining the commands, the control circuitry can dispatch the commands in a single transaction.
US09703694B2
A technique for testing software includes monitoring whether a predefined event occurs in a software test instance. In response to occurrence of the predefined event, different types of snapshots of the software test instance are generated according to a property of the event. The snapshots are used to record a state of the software test instance when the predefined event occurs. The different types of snapshots are stored in information related to the predefined event.
US09703668B2
A system for interacting with a person browsing a web site has an Internet-connected server and a connected data repository, and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium. The software provides an identity function identifying the person, a selection function checking the data repository for stored information regarding the identified person, including any tracking rules associated with the identified person, and one or more tracking functions monitoring and recording behavior of the person browsing the web site. The one or more tracking functions follow the tracking rules, if any, associated with the identified person in monitoring and recording behavior of the browsing person.
US09703665B1
The present disclosure generally provides a design system and process to improve the traditional ways of determining the requirements for, and estimated costs of, building a new data center from the ground up or retrofitting an existing facility. The design system and process automates the conceptual design phase for a data center facility. Requirements associated with a proposed data facility may be determined based on current and future needs of an organization, and from those requirements, various feasibility and financial scenarios may be explored. This system and design more easily enable users to evaluate the feasibility, complexity, as well as cost of the proposed data center design.
US09703657B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium for reliable messaging between two or more servers. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. Primary applications runs on primary hosts and one or more replicated instances of each primary application run on one or more backup hosts. The reliable messaging ensures consistent ordered delivery of messages in the event that messages are lost; arrive out of order, or in duplicate. The messaging layer operates over TCP or UDP with our without multi-cast and broad-cast and requires no modification to applications, operating system or libraries.
US09703654B2
A redundancy method, system, and apparatus, which can acquire first description information of a cloud application needing redundancy, where the first description information includes information about a source virtual machine and a source network which are used at a production site by the cloud application needing redundancy; and can generate second description information of the cloud application needing redundancy at a redundancy site based on the first description information that gives an overall description about the cloud application needing redundancy, where the second description information gives an overall description about the deployment of the cloud application needing redundancy at the redundancy site; and the redundancy site is capable of acquiring the second description information, to recover the cloud application needing redundancy at the redundancy site, thereby implementing redundancy based on a cloud application.
US09703652B2
Techniques for virtual machine (VM) management function availability during management network failure in a first host computing system in a cluster are described. In one example embodiment, management network failure is identified in the first host computing system. The management network being coupled to virtual management software in a management server and used for VM and host management functions. VM and host management functions on the first host computing system are then initiated via a failover agent associated with an active host computing system that is connected to the management network in the cluster and a shared storage network.
US09703644B1
Systems and methods for generating synthetic backups and for consolidating a chain of related backups. The chain of related backups is merged on the fly to create a backup stream. A block allocation table (BAT) may be identified for each backup to be consolidated into a synthetic backup, and BAT entries from each backup may be merged or combined to create a new BAT table associated with the synthetic backup. The data included in the related backups may be reformatted on the fly from big endian to little endian or vice versa. The backup stream is stored on a target device or volume.
US09703640B2
A system, method, and medium for performing incremental backups of a Microsoft SQL server database. A snapshot of the database is created, and then a map identifying the changed extents is retrieved from the snapshot. The changed extents are then retrieved from the snapshot and stored in a backup storage device. For a restore operation, a full database backup file is written to a storage device and then the changed extents from a stored incremental backup file may be merged with the full backup file. Next, the database server is notified of the reconstructed file and then the reconstructed file is mounted by the database server as a live instance of the database.
US09703633B2
One example apparatus includes a first circuit configured to receive first and second data words, to correct one or more errors in the first data word, to merge the corrected first data word and the second data word responsive to a control signal to generate a final merged data word, and to provide the final merged data word to a write circuit. The apparatus also includes a second circuit configured to also receive the first and second data words, to preliminarily merge the first and second data words responsive to the control signal to generate an initial merged data word, to generate an initial parity code for the initial merged data word, to correct the initial parity code, and to provide the corrected parity code to the write circuit.
US09703631B2
A method of operating a storage controller is provided. The method includes receiving first host data traffic from a host, for storage in a first partition within a storage system, the first host data traffic formatted for storage in a first type of data storage, and translating the first host data traffic into storage data, the storage data formatted for storage in a second type of data storage. The method further includes storing the storage data in the first partition, receiving a read request from the host through the host interface, and retrieving some or all of the storage data from the first partition. The method also includes formatting the some or all of the storage data into a format compatible with the first host data traffic, and transferring the formatted data to the host in a configuration corresponding to the first type of data storage.
US09703627B2
A self-test method of a flash memory device includes: generating input data; encoding the input data to generate an error correction code; utilizing the input data and the error correction code to simulate to read a page of a flash memory of the flash memory device to generate soft information; and decoding the soft information to generate a decoding result.
US09703623B2
An electronic system comprises: a pin sensor; and an integrated management module, wherein the integrated management module: identifies a location of a damaged connector between a semiconductor chip and a hardware socket, wherein the location of the damaged connector is described by one or more readings from the pin sensor, and wherein the damaged connector prevents a particular signal from being supplied to the semiconductor chip via the hardware socket; identifies the particular signal as an input for a particular semiconductor function; determines whether the semiconductor chip provides the particular semiconductor function; and adjusts a use of the semiconductor chip based on whether or not the semiconductor chip uses the particular signal to provide the particular semiconductor function.
US09703617B2
Software that preserves information provided by a user in a first application utilizing a first interaction mode for use by a second application utilizing a second interaction mode, by performing the following steps: (i) generating a natural language log describing an interaction between a user and a first application, where the user interacts with the first application utilizing a first interaction mode; (ii) analyzing the natural language log using natural language processing to determine first user data; and (iii) utilizing the first user data by a second application, where the user interacts with the second application utilizing a second interaction mode different from the first interaction mode, and where the second application does not receive the first user data from the user via the second interaction mode.
US09703611B1
Technologies are described herein for isolating tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container. Mechanisms for resource isolation allow tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container to be isolated in order to prevent resource starvation by one or more of the tenants. Mechanisms for dependency isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant executing in a multi-tenant software container from using another tenant in the same container in a manner that requires co-tenancy. Mechanisms for security isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant in a multi-tenant software container from accessing protected data or functionality of another tenant. Mechanisms for fault isolation may be utilized to prevent tenants in a multi-tenant software container from causing faults or other types of errors that affect other tenants executing in the same software container.
US09703602B1
Burst throttling methods may be used manage computing resources of a data storage service. Tokens may represent I/O operations executed by a customer of the data storage service. A global token bucket may contain a set of tokens representing the overall I/O operation capacity of the data storage service. Additionally, a work token bucket may contain a set of tokens for a given logical volume maintained by the data storage service. When I/O request are received tokens may be charged the global token bucket and the work token bucket. Furthermore, if there is sufficient capacity the data storage service may charge a reduced number of tokens to the work token bucket.
US09703595B2
There is provided a multi-core system that includes a lower-subsystem including a first processor and a number of slave processing cores. Each of the slave processing cores can be a coprocessor or a digital signal processor. The first processor is configured to control processing on the slave processing cores and includes a system dispatcher configured to control transactions for execution on the slave processing cores. The system dispatcher is configured to generate the transactions to be executed on the slave processing cores. The first processor can include a number of hardware drivers for receiving the transactions from the system dispatcher and providing the transactions to the slave processing cores for execution. The multi-core system can further include an upper sub-system in communication with the lower-subsystem and including a second processor configured to provide protocol processing.
US09703588B2
An example method to deploy a web client plugin in a virtualized computing environment may include obtaining information identifying a virtual machine at a management entity and generating configuration information that includes the information identifying the virtual machine. The method may further include registering, with the management entity, the configuration information to deploy the web client plugin as a web client extension. The registration is performed such that, in response to an access to the virtual machine via the web client plugin, the web client plugin is able to automatically identify the virtual machine based on the configuration information.
US09703585B2
A method and system for an assisted live migration of virtual machines are provided. The method monitoring, by an advisory server, at least a workload of physical machines in a datacenter; determining if at least one physical machine is overloaded based on the monitored workload; for each of the at least one physical machine determined to be overloaded, selecting at least one virtual machine resides in the respective physical machine, wherein the selection is based at least on a current load of the virtual machine; and initiating a live migration of the selected virtual machine when the current load is lower than a comfort load level.
US09703584B2
Virtual machine (VM) proliferation may be reduced through the use of Virtual Server Agents (VSAs) assigned to a group of VM hosts that may determine the availability of a VM to perform a task. Tasks may be assigned to existing VMs instead of creating a new VM to perform the task. Furthermore, a VSA coordinator may determine a grouping of VMs or VM hosts based on one or more factors associated with the VMs or the VM hosts, such as VM type or geographical location of the VM hosts. The VSA coordinator may also assign one or more VSAs to facilitate managing the group of VM hosts. In some embodiments, the VSA coordinators may facilitate load balancing of VSAs during operation, such as during a backup operation, a restore operation, or any other operation between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system.
US09703582B1
A method or network system able to efficiently redistribute information, data, and/or context between virtual machines (“VMs”) using an in-memory file system (“IMFS”) is disclosed. After requesting memory access by an application program, a process of VM using IMFS is able to forward the memory allocation request from a VM kernel operating under a VM environment to an emulator. The emulator, which operates between the VM kernel and the hypervisor, again redirects the memory allocation request to the hypervisor for storage allocation. The hypervisor subsequently allocates at least a portion of storage space in the IMFS in accordance with the memory allocation request.
US09703579B2
Technologies for debugging hardware errors discovered during hardware assisted software verification processes are provided. For example, in one embodiment, a concurrent emulation debug environment including a concurrent emulation system, an emulation trace module and a model state module is provided. The concurrent emulation system includes an emulator and an emulation control station configured to allow simultaneous emulation of multiple electronic designs. The model state module is configured to record the state of the electronic designs during emulation and the emulation trace module is configured to capture trace data associated with the emulation. A backup and capture module is also disclosed that is configured to store the recorded state and the captured trace data for use during a hardware debug process.
US09703577B2
Provided are a method and system for executing an application installed in a device, the device and a recording medium thereof. The method includes: receiving a mapping request signal for requesting a mapping between application execution information and a short run indicator, acquiring the application execution information from an execution starting point of the application up to the receiving of the mapping request signal; generating mapping information comprising a mapping of the acquired application execution information with the short run indicator; and storing the mapping information in at least one of the device and an external device.
US09703572B2
The detection of whether a local application is managed by a management service is described. In one example, depending upon whether an installation token includes a unique token value, detection logic can determine whether an application is managed or unmanaged based on additional factors. The additional factors include whether a keychain installation token includes a unique token value, the value of the keychain installation token, and a value of a launched flag for the application. Various combinations of those factors and the identification of either a managed or unmanaged status for the application are described. Using the concepts described herein, an unmanaged application can proceed to execute with limited functionality, present a notification that it should be reinstalled by the management service, stop executing, or take other measures.
US09703569B1
A new and useful method is provided, for harvesting drivers for deployment in an operating systems environment.
US09703564B2
A processor to perform a string comparison instruction. The processor includes a decoder to decode the string comparison instruction. The packed comparison instruction is to have an immediate that is to be used to control performance of the string comparison instruction. The immediate includes a first set of two bits, a second set of two bits, a third set of two bits, and a fourth bit. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decoder to execute the packed comparison instruction.
US09703556B2
The present invention relates to a method (50) for controlling an integrated circuit (20) comprising a microprocessor, in which the integrated circuit (20) is configured to execute by default a general program, said integrated circuit being controlled by activation of a mode of operation of the integrated circuit, called “bootstrap mode”, in which said integrated circuit (20) executes a program for loading a specific program to be executed. The method (50) comprises: i) a step (51) of sending at least one bootstrap mode activation message to a test module (200) of the integrated circuit (20) via a test bus (310), ii) a step (52) of activating the bootstrap mode of the integrated circuit (20), executed by the test module (200) of the integrated circuit (20), and iii) a step (53) of loading the specific program via a communication bus (320) different from the test bus (310). The present invention also relates to an integrated circuit (20) and a computer (30) including such an integrated circuit (20).
US09703541B2
Systems and methods are provided for suggesting actions for entities discovered in content on a mobile device. An example method can include running a mobile device emulator with a deep-link for a mobile application, determining a main entity for the deep link, mapping the main entity to the deep link, storing the mapping of the main entity to the deep link in a memory, and providing the mapping to a mobile device, the mapping enabling a user of the mobile device to select the deep link when the main entity is displayed on a screen of the mobile device. Another example method can include identifying at least one entity in content generated by a mobile application, identifying an action mapped to the at least one entity, the action representing a deep link into a second mobile application, and providing a control to initiate the action for the entity.
US09703533B2
A computer-usable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for using an application platform for designing an application. An interface for developing an application is provided at a computer system. A plurality of components are provided at the interface for use in visually designing the application. A selection of a component from the plurality of components is received at the interface. A placement of the component in the application is received within the interface. The application is compiled with the component and the placement of the component such that the application executes natively on a target processor, and wherein the application is bound directly to a native graphics library associated with the target processor.
US09703530B2
Mathematical functions are computed in a single pipeline performing a polynomial approximation (e.g. a quadratic approximation, or the like) using data tables for RCP, SQRT, EXP or LOG using a single pipeline according and opcodes. SIN and COS are also computed using the pipeline according to the approximation ((−1)^IntX)*Sin(π*Min(FracX, 1.0−FracX)/Min(FracX, 1.0−FracX). A pipeline portion approximates Sin(π*FracX) using tables and interpolation and a subsequent stage multiplies this approximation by FracX. For input arguments of x close 1.0. LOG 2(x−1)/(x−1) is computed using a first pipeline portion using tables and interpolation and subsequently multiplied by (x−1). A DIV operation may also be performed with input arguments scaled up to avoid underflow as needed. Inverse trigonometric functions may be calculated using a pre-processing stage and post processing stage in order to obtain multiple inverse trigonometric functions from a single pipeline.
US09703529B2
A data processing system performs processing operations upon input operand(s) having a programmable bit significance. Exception generating circuitry generates exception indications representing exceptions such as overflow, underflow and inexact in respect of a result value having the programmable bit significance.
US09703522B2
Embodiments described herein provide for detecting movement in proximity to a playback device and responsively modifying the audio that is output from one or more playback devices. In an example implementation, a playback device detects, via one or more proximity detectors of a playback device while the playback device is playing back given media via one or more speakers, presence of an object in proximity of the playback device. After detecting the presence of the object, the playback device pauses playback of the given media. After pausing playback of the given media, the playback device receives, via a network interface of the playback device from a controller device, a command to resume playback of the given media. After receiving the command to resume playback, the playback device resumes playback of the given media.
US09703520B1
Negotiation of a future communication through a personal virtual assistant is provided. A trigger command is received. The trigger command identifies a communication received for a recipient from a sender. Schedule information is accessed. The schedule information is related to the recipient of the received communication. A plurality of options is presented to the sender. The plurality of options are for arranging a future communication between the sender and the recipient, and include at least one option determined based on the accessed schedule information. A selection of an option for arranging a future communication is received. The selected option is executed to arrange the future communication.
US09703512B2
There are provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a storage medium storing a program for achieving the image processing apparatus and the image processing method. The image processing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of processing modules for processing a plurality of types of PDLs; a determination unit configured to determine a type of PDL of a print job; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of enabling at least one processing module corresponding to the determined type of PDL, interpreting a rendering command described in the PDL of the print job by using the at least one processing module that is enabled, and generating page data. The processing unit does not reserve work memory for PDL processing for a type of PDL other than the type of PDL determined by the determination unit.
US09703508B2
A managing apparatus controls the power status of an image forming apparatus in accordance with a notification of event occurrence from the image forming apparatus. Upon receiving the notification, it is determined whether the first power status of the image forming apparatus according to a schedule and the second power status of the image forming apparatus controlled based on the notification match each other. Upon determining that the power statuses do not match, the first power status or the second power status is selected based on priority information. When the first power status is selected, the managing apparatus prohibits control of the power status of the image forming apparatus. When the second power status is selected, the managing apparatus invalidates control of the power status of the image forming apparatus according to the schedule.
US09703497B2
In a storage system, a controller prevents the same chunk data from being stored in a storage device in an overlapped manner, on the basis of data block information showing an association of each data block and a plurality of chunk data configuring each data block, chunk group information showing an association of each chunk data not to be overlapped and a chunk group which each chunk data belongs to, and reference data block information showing an association of each chunk group and a data block having any chunk data belonging to each chunk group as constituent elements.
US09703487B2
A memory system includes: a non-volatile memory device; and a controller for checking operation information of a requested ISP operation, performing a first ISP operation when the requested ISP operation is not requested in the past, and performing a second ISP operation when the requested ISP operation is also requested in the past. During the first ISP operation, the controller may read out two or more requested data from the non-volatile memory device in response to the operation information of the requested ISP operation, generate resultant data by performing a predetermined operation to the read-out requested data, output the resultant data to a host, and store the resultant data in the non-volatile memory device. During the second ISP operation, the controller may read out the resultant data corresponding to the requested ISP operation from the non-volatile memory device, and output the read-out resultant data to the host.
US09703477B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a touch input within a particular region of a display area of the computing device. The display area presents a user interface (UI) including a number of views and an outside view. Each of the views corresponds to one or more regions of the display area. One or more of the views has a gesture recognizer configured to process a touch input detected within the regions of the display area associated with each of the views. The outside view has a gesture recognizer configured to process the touch input detected within the display area. The views are organized in a hierarchy. The method also includes determining whether a particular one of the views from among the views is set as a modal view.
US09703476B1
A system and method for controlling an aircraft system. An operator interaction with a control is received. The control comprises an image representing a hardware control for controlling the aircraft system. The image representing the hardware control is changed to represent a change in a state of the control in response to receiving the operator interaction. The aircraft system is operated in the manner indicated by the state of the control as represented in the image.
US09703471B2
A selectively coordinated audio playback system is disclosed. The audio playback system includes multiple audio players serving, receiving and rendering audio content audio content. A controller is in communication with the audio players and controls the audio content provided on each audio player. The controller includes a touchscreen user interface to receive user inputs and is configured to selectively coordinate the audio content from the multiple audio players according to gestures detected via the touchscreen interface.
US09703469B2
A touch-sensitive surface for a computer animator to create or modify a computer-generated image includes processes for differentiating between click and drag operations. The included processes also beneficially reduce input errors. When a touch object (e.g., finger or stylus) touches the drawing table, information regarding the duration of the touch and the movement of the touch are used to determine whether the touch input represents a (graphical user interface) click or a drag operation.
US09703466B2
Disclosed are a method, device and terminal for implementing rotation of a floating window. The method comprises: providing, by user equipment, a picture container supporting a rotation attribute for a user interface (UI) floating window view; adding the UI floating window view to the picture container; when the orientation is changed, acquiring a rotation angle of the UI floating window view, redrawing the rotated UI floating window view, and acquiring a rotation reduction matrix; and when a user click event is detected, performing rotation reduction conversion on the coordinates at the user click position. The technical solution of the present invention has the beneficial effects of low calculation quantity, high processing efficiency and natural appearance of a floating window UI component.
US09703465B2
An electronic device that increases both visibility and selectability of executable programs. The electronic device includes a touch panel display having an elongated shape, a memory storing programs, and a processor controlling program execution and the display. The touch panel includes a first display region and a second display region contiguous with and narrower than the first display region. The display displays an execution image of a first program in the first display region and an icon image of a second program in the second display region in a smaller display area than the execution image. When the processor detects contact at the icon image and detects that the contact moves towards the first display region, the processor causes the display to display an execution image of the second program in the first display region.
US09703463B2
Methods and systems for content aggregation and distribution are described. Video content may be received from a plurality of sources. The video content may be associated with metadata identifying items included within the video content. A video player may be provided which enables video content to be displayed on a user terminal, and a control may be provided enabling the user to quickly navigate to specific portions of the video content. The video player may be embeddable. Tags associated with a given item of video content may be stored and accessed remotely from the system hosting the item of video content.
US09703462B2
A method for display-independent recognition of a graphical user interface (GUI) control, the method comprising capturing a screenshot of a GUI of a computerized application, determining a cursor position in the screenshot, analyzing an area surrounding the cursor position, to identify a GUI control, and storing an image of the GUI control.
US09703461B2
A method and apparatus for creating media content. The method comprises recording a video; while the video is being recorded, automatically analyzing the content of the video; and creating media content by editing the video, assisted by the results of the content-analysis. A user may not need to select in advance (that is, before the video is recorded) the type or format of media content to be created.
US09703457B2
Computer-implemented methods for allowing users to specify interactive graphical designs are provided. The graphical designs can comprise multiple dimension versions—such as a tablet dimension version or a phone dimension version. Some of the methods involve an inheritance structure that defines a first dimension version of the design as a child of a second dimension version of the design. Specifications for properties of widgets in the graphical design are applied to the design in accordance with the inheritance specification. Some of the methods involve an inheritance characterization that determines how properties of a widget are affected by the inheritance structure across different dimension versions. Some of the methods involve an existence property for the widgets.
US09703456B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal, if a memo-writing function is activated during video play, assigns at least one part of a touchscreen as an area for handwriting inputs while displaying a video on the touchscreen and obtains a first play timing corresponding to a memo-start time; and if a memo-saving function is carried out, obtains a second play timing which corresponds to the memo-saving time and stores a memo generated based on handwriting inputs received through the handwriting input area in association with the video by reflecting at least one of the first and the second play timing.
US09703452B2
A mobile communications device user interface is described. In an implementation, a method is implemented by a computing device that includes displaying content in conjunction with a first level of a hierarchical menu in a user interface on a display device of the computing device. Responsive to receipt of an input to navigate to a second level of the hierarchical menu that is a sublevel of the first level, the second level in displayed conjunction with the content on the display device, the content having a reduced display richness when displayed in conjunction with the second level than when displayed in conjunction with the first level.
US09703446B2
A method is provided to display an image frame sequence comprising: displaying an image frame sequence on a display screen; and in the course of displaying the image frame sequence, displaying a zooming user interface (ZUI) frame sequence on the display screen.
US09703444B2
A multi-user computer system may distribute user windows across multiple monitors. Some of the user windows may span two or more monitors. Some user windows may share a monitor. Each user window may be associated with a set of user input devices for each user. The user window configuration may be changed on the fly by an administrative user, who may reposition, rotate, scale, or perform other changes to the windows.
US09703441B2
Disclosed is a touch screen device. The touch screen device includes a touch screen panel configured to include a plurality of driving electrodes, which are disposed in parallel in a first direction, and a plurality of sensing electrodes which are disposed in parallel in a second direction, and a touch circuit unit configured to, when a touch type of a previous touch sensing period is a finger touch, sequentially apply a driving pulse to a plurality of second driving electrodes but not to a plurality of first driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes, and receive a plurality of sensing signals based on the driving pulse from the plurality of sensing electrodes.
US09703440B2
A self-capacitive touch display panel and an array substrate thereof are provided in the disclosure. The array substrate includes a substrate, where gate lines, data lines, and a common electrode layer are provided on the substrate, and the gate lines and the data lines are insulated from each other and cross each other to define a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array; the pixel unit includes a pixel thin film transistor and a pixel electrode; the common electrode layer includes a plurality of touch-control units; a plurality of touch-control-driving thin film transistors are further provided on the substrate; and the touch-control unit is connected to drains of at least two touch-control-driving thin film transistors, the gates of the two touch-control-driving thin film transistors are connected to different gate lines, and the sources of the two touch-control-driving thin film transistors are connected to different data lines.
US09703437B2
The present disclosure provides a touch panel and a display device. The touch panel includes a glass substrate and a conductive film arranged on the glass substrate. The conductive film includes a base material and a conductive layer arranged on the base material. The conductive layer includes first conductive patterns and second conductive patterns, each of which includes a plurality of meshes formed by conductive wires crossing each other. The first conductive patterns are each of an X-shaped structure and arranged in an array form, and the second conductive patterns are each formed at a region surrounding by the adjacent first conductive patterns, arranged adjacent to and insulated from the first conductive pattern, and arranged in an array form.
US09703430B2
In an example, a processing system includes: a sensor module comprising sensor circuitry, the sensor module configured to: drive, during a first time period, a first sensor electrode of a first plurality of sensor electrodes for absolute capacitive sensing, a second sensor electrode of the first plurality of sensor electrodes with a reference signal, and at least one sensor electrode of a second plurality of sensor electrodes with a guard signal, to acquire first changes of capacitance between the first sensor electrode and at least one input object in proximity with the first sensor electrode; and a determination module configured to determine positional information for the at least one input object based at least in part on changes of capacitance acquired by the sensor module.
US09703424B2
The present invention relates to an electrode pattern of a touch panel and a forming method of the electrode pattern of a touch panel. The electrode pattern of a touch panel according to the present invention includes a plurality of electrode pattern cells which are arranged on a substrate in a space, a dielectric layer formed on the electrode pattern cell, and a bridge electrode which is formed on the dielectric layer by using conductive material of black color and connects the electrode pattern cells.
US09703422B2
A touch sensitive device that detects the occurrence of an electrostatic discharge event on the device by analyzing one or more ESD sensors located in various locations on the touch sensitive device is provided. A touch controller can scan touch nodes on the touch sensitive device while simultaneously scanning one or more ESD sensors to detect if a possible ESD event has occurred during the acquisition of a touch image. If an ESD event has occurred during the acquisition of touch data, the touch controller can act to either ignore the data, or compensate the data to account for effects on the touch data caused by the ESD event.
US09703421B2
The present disclosure provides a touch positioning method for a touch display device, and the touch display device. When it is detected that a touch operation has been made on a touch panel, whether or not the touch operation is effective is determined. When the touch operation is effective, coordinate information about a touch point are sampled multiple times, so as to acquire a plurality of initial coordinates of the touch point. A grouping calculation is performed on the plurality of initial coordinates of the touch point, so as to determine final coordinates of the touch point.
US09703416B2
There is provided a touch circuit, a touch panel and a display apparatus. In the touch circuit, an input module (01) is used for pulling up the potential of a first node (P1), a reset module (02) is used for pulling down the potential of the first node (P1), a pull-up module (03) is used for pulling up the potential of a control signal output terminal (OUT), a pull-down module (04) is used for pulling down potentials of the first node (P1) and the control signal output terminal (OUT), a touch signal output control module (05) is used for controlling a touch signal output terminal (TX) to choose to output a high-frequency signal (TH) or a common voltage signal (VCOM) so as to achieve the function of outputting a touch signal by the touch circuit.
US09703414B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit, an organic electroluminescent display panel and a display apparatus, and during a reset phase, under a control of a reset signal terminal (Rst), a touch detection unit and a light emitting control unit in the pixel circuit are reset respectively; during a touch read phase, under a control of a scanning signal terminal (Scan), the touch detection unit outputs a touch detection signal to a touch signal read terminal (Read), so as to implement a touch detection function, meanwhile the light emitting control unit is charged; and during a light emitting phase, under a control of a light emitting signal terminal (Em), the light emitting control unit drives a light emitting device to emit light, so as to implement a display driving function.
US09703399B2
A data entry stylus for entering data onto an entry pad. The stylus includes a body having a housing. The stylus includes: a reference element, having two distinct portions, a first portion sitting within the housing and a second portion, including a tip the end of which is at least hemispherical; and a damper forming a cladding around at least a part of the reference element, including an external wall.
US09703396B2
A three dimensional (3D) cursor maneuvering system for use by a computer or electro-mechanical system requiring 3D control, includes a tinted 2D planar or locally planar reference surface and a color sensitive mobile device that moves along the tinted reference surface and generates high sensitivity and high resolution absolute positional and motional data by accurately determining variations in the tint. Color index data (e.g. CIE 1931 RGB, etc.) on the tinted reference plane varies from place to place and methods are disclosed for imprinting the reference plane with that data in the form of dyes and pigments that may be reflective, refractive or emissive. When the mobile device moves on or over the reference surface, it captures a series of images whose data (e.g. CIE 1931 RGB) varies in correspondence with the movement of the device. The color index data measured by the mobile device can be mathematically converted into 3D positional and motional data. Hence, the color index data provides an ideal method for generating 3D positional and motional data as compared with the 2D data provided by the conventional optical mouse and mouse pad system.
US09703394B2
In some examples, a method includes outputting a graphical keyboard (120) for display and responsive to receiving an indication of a first input (124), determining a new character string that is not included in a language model. The method may include adding the new character string to the language model and associating a likelihood value with the new character string. The method may include, responsive to receiving an indication of a second input, predicting the new character string, and responsive to receiving an indication of a third input that rejects the new character string, decreasing the likelihood value associated with the new character string.
US09703391B2
A keyboard is provided having 26 letters assigned to only 16 to 21 keys, and preferably 21 keys. This advantageous system of typing makes use of either one or two hands. The 26 letters of the English alphabet are all displayed. Five keys have two letters—those letters are PQ, JK, UW, VX and YZ for a total of ten letters. Sixteen keys have one letter assigned to each key—namely the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, O, N, R, S and T for a total of sixteen letters assigned to a specific key—for a total of 26 letters.
US09703386B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a terminal device by using a headset wire connected to the terminal device. The method includes: recognizing a user's gesture based on a current detected in a specific region of the headset wire; acquiring control instruction corresponding to the user's gesture; and executing the control instruction. According to the present disclosure, when a current is detected in the specific region of the headset wire, a user's gesture is recognized based on the current, control instruction corresponding to the user's gesture is acquired, and the control instruction is executed to control the terminal. In the whole procedure, the user only needs to touch the specific region of the headset wire without using pressure button to produce current signal, thereby the operation of controlling the terminal device is convenient and fast.
US09703381B2
A multimodal haptic device operating as a closed-loop system, the device including a pipeline configured to allow a closed-loop flow of a fluid medium, a manifold operatively connected to the pipeline, the manifold having a pump and a valve to control and regulate a flow of the fluid medium along the pipeline, and a display unit operatively connected to the pipeline, the display unit having a tactile display and a valve operatively connected to the tactile display for regulating an efflux of the fluid medium from the tactile display into the pipeline.
US09703379B2
The present disclosure described methods and systems for multimedia tactile augmentation. At least one method includes identifying media content loaded on a first computer, locating instructions stored on a second computer (said instructions corresponding to the content), initiating playback of the content, and synchronizing the instructions with the content. Said method further includes parsing and converting the instructions into one or more electrical signals, driving one or more haptic feedback devices with the electrical signals in synchronization with the playback of the content, and presenting the content to the user. The haptic feedback devices provide physical stimulation to a user accessing the content.
US09703377B2
The wearable triggering device of the disclosure includes a base, a pressing element, a key structure and a wearable element. The pressing element is pivotally disposed on the base. The key structure is disposed between the base and the pressing element. The wearable element is disposed on the base, so that the wearable triggering device is adapted to be fixed at a body through the wearable element. When the body contacts another body through the wearable triggering device, the body provides an external force to the pressing element, so as to make the pressing element move toward the base and trigger the key structure.
US09703367B2
Examples of electronic circuits and methods are provided. A power adapter is coupled to load device such that a power node and a signal node and a ground node are common to both entities. A supply voltage is regulated and provided by the power adapter to the load device in accordance with a voltage sensed at the signal node. Electrical current drawn by the load device is limited in accordance with a voltage sensed at the signal node.
US09703363B2
The present disclosure provides a power supply module and a power supply system. The power supply module is used as a first power supply module in a computing system which further includes a second power supply module. The first power supply module and the second power supply module are cascaded in sequence. The first power supply module is in a power supplying state and the second power supply module is in an off state. The first power supply module itself is capable of automatically determining whether to turn on another power supply module or not, without any human intervention. In this way, the power distribution board can be simplified, or even eliminated, in which case the individual power supply modules can be connected by wire to reduce the cost.
US09703361B2
There is provided a memory control apparatus including a deciding unit deciding, among a first main storage apparatus that is a main storage apparatus with low power consumption and a second main storage apparatus with power consumption higher than the power consumption of the first main storage apparatus as memory devices of multiple CPU cores, whether the second main storage apparatus is capable of being suspended, and a power managing unit suppressing a power supplied to the second main storage apparatus and at least one of the multiple CPU cores in a case where the deciding unit decides that the second main storage apparatus is capable of being suspended.
US09703347B2
A motherboard with backup power providing an output voltage to at least one computer information apparatus and including a first power connection unit and an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is provided. The first power connection unit is configured to receive DC power. The DC power is provided by a power supply. The UPS provides the output voltage and detects the DC power. When the DC power is stable, the UPS provides the DC power as the output voltage. When the DC power is unstable, the UPS provides battery power as the output voltage.
US09703346B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with durable storage to provide memory write persistence, for example, in the event of power loss. The system may include a processor to host the firmware interface which may be configured to control access to system variables in a protected region of a volatile memory. The system may also include a power management circuit to provide power to the processor and further to provide a power loss indicator to the firmware interface. The system may also include a reserve energy storage module to provide power to the processor in response to the power loss indicator. The firmware interface is further configured to copy the system variables from the volatile memory to a non-volatile memory in response to the power loss indicator.
US09703338B1
A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switch selectively controls the supply of power to the PoE output ports on a user-specific basis, based on a network port authentication protocol. The PoE switch includes an accounting information unit storing power usage information on a per-user basis. The PoE switch uses a protocol such as the 802.1x network port authentication protocol.
US09703337B2
A method for controlling the temperature of a component is disclosed. The component is part of a drive configured to drive an electrical machine via an electrically conductive member. The method comprises determining a value of an attribute of the electrically conductive member; configuring a model to calculate the temperature of the component, the model being configured based on the determined value of the attribute of the electrically conductive member; using the model to calculate the temperature of the component; and if the calculated temperature of the component does not meet a predetermined temperature condition, issuing a command to control the operation of the drive such that the temperature of the component is changed to meet the predetermined temperature condition.
US09703333B1
A removable storage cartridge system includes a rack and pinion gear reduction mechanism that assists in extending an eject spring and may assist in engaging a pair of data interface connectors as a cartridge is inserted into the system, and that may further function as a gear multiplication mechanism that assists in disengaging the pair of data interface connectors as the cartridge is ejected from the system.
US09703329B2
A device dock of a vehicle may receive a one-time key over a data connection between the device dock and a vehicle computing system (VCS), and send the one-time key over a location-identifying connection to a nomadic device placed within proximity to the dock, to cause the nomadic device to send the one-time key to the VCS to integrate with the VCS as a driver device. The VCS may receive, from a nomadic device in a device dock, via a data connection between the VCS and the nomadic device, a one-time key provided from the VCS to the device dock over a data connection between the VCS and the device dock, and responsive to receipt of the one-time key from the nomadic device, integrate the nomadic device with the VCS as a driver device.
US09703328B2
A hinge assembly of a computing device may be provided, for example. The hinge assembly may include a first hinge member and a second hinge member. The first hinge member may include a first mounting plate attached to a first gudgeon member via a first tongue portion. The second hinge member may include a second mounting plate attached to a second gudgeon member via a second tongue portion. The first and second mounting plates may be shaped so that they can be stacked in parallel along an axis such that the first and second gudgeons may be aligned perpendicular to the axis to allow a pintle member to be inserted through the first and second gudgeons and such that the first and second tongue portions may be spaced apart along the axis.
US09703327B2
The present disclosure includes a fastenerless hinge system which enables a thin form factor low cost design. A hinge system described herein may include a hinge bracket and a hinge wing. The hinge bracket includes an elevated portion thereby providing a hollow region and one or more spring tabs. The hinge wing is slidably coupled to the hinge bracket through the hollow portion. Advantageously, a hinge system consistent with the present disclosure does not include fasteners such that the “Z” height of the computing device may be minimized in addition to reducing costs.
US09703326B2
Provided is an electric shock protection device disposed between a human body contactable conductor and an internal circuit unit of an electronic device. The electric shock protection device includes: a sintered body where a plurality of sheet layers stacked; an electric shock protection unit including at least one pair of inner electrodes disposed spaced a predetermined interval apart from each other inside the sintered body and a pore disposed between the inner electrodes; and at least one capacitor layer configured to pass communication signals flowing from the conductor.
US09703320B2
Techniques for operating a personal communication structure (PCS) are described. A personal communication structure (PCS) may include a frame, a housing, and a mounting system coupling the housing to the frame. The mounting system may include a plurality of four-bar linkages. Each of the four-bar linkages may include two links, first pin joints coupling first ends of the respective links to the frame, and second pin joints coupling second ends of the respective links to the housing. Rotation of the links of the mounting system results in displacement of the housing relative to the frame along an arcuate path.
US09703314B2
A clock generation circuit generates clock signals of a requested frequency and relative phase by dividing a reference clock signal by counting reference clock signal pulses in a counter circuit. The clock generation circuit changes the frequency, and optionally also the phase, of an output clock signal upon request, without generating glitches or missing pulses. The clock generation circuit does not alter the frequency of the output clock signal until a phase pulse associated with the requested phase is asserted, and the counter circuit is in a predetermined state, such as a reset state.
US09703312B2
A stop mechanism for a drive system includes a one-way clutch, a brake, a stop feature, and a linkage. The one-way clutch couples with a drive shaft of the system when the drive shaft is rotating in a first direction but not in an opposite direction. The brake is connected to the drive shaft through the first one-way clutch and is operable to stop drive shaft rotation in the first direction. The stop feature is carried by an output element driven by the drive shaft and actuates the linkage to operate the first brake when the output element reaches a predetermined limit position when moving in a direction corresponding to the first drive direction of the drive shaft. A bidirectional stop mechanism is provided by adding a second one-way clutch, a second brake, and a second stop feature arranged to act in the opposite rotational direction of the drive shaft.
US09703305B2
A power circuit includes an input terminal to which an input voltage is applied; a control element which generates an output voltage obtained by regulating the input voltage; an output terminal from which the output voltage is output; a discharge circuit which discharges by extracting an electric charge from the control element on a side of the output terminal; a drive circuit which generates a drive current for causing the discharge circuit to operate using power of the control element on the side of the input terminal; a detection circuit which detects the output voltage; and a discharge control circuit which decreases a current value of the drive current to a current value enabling the discharge circuit to continuously operate in a case where the detection circuit detects that the output voltage reaches a setup voltage by an operation of the discharge circuit.
US09703304B2
A voltage booster circuit includes a reference voltage generation circuit that generates a first potential and supplies the first potential to a first potential line; a booster section that supplies a second potential to a second potential line, the second potential being boosted from the first potential; a booster control section, connected to the second potential line, that controls the booster section in accordance with the second potential; a switch connected to the first potential line and the second potential line; and a control circuit that controls the switch in accordance with a potential difference between the first potential and the second potential.
US09703294B2
A method of controlling a deflection angle of pitching stabilizer means for an aircraft. The method includes a preliminary stage for preparing at least one control relationship delivering a setpoint angle that is to be reached by the deflection angle as a function of at least one flight parameter of the aircraft and of an incidence parameter of the pitching stabilizer means. During an operational stage an operational stage (STP2), a “flight” value is determined for each of the flight parameters, a “setpoint” value is determined for the incidence parameter, a setpoint angle is determined by inputting the flight values and setpoint value into the control relationship, and at least one actuator is actuated in order to cause the deflection angle of the pitching stabilizer means to reach the setpoint angle.
US09703293B2
An aircraft stall protection system and method include calculating a first angle of attack and a second angle of attack based on aircraft configuration and environmental conditions, the first angle of attack being greater than the second angle of attack. The system and method limit the actual aircraft angle of attack to the first angle of attack for a predetermined period of time and thereafter the system and method limit the actual aircraft angle of attack to the second angle of attack. The system and method allow the aircraft operator or pilot to extract maximum performance from the aircraft for any given set of flight conditions, without the risk of stalling or remaining in a high drag state for a prolonged period of time. This system and method are suitable for use in conjunction with a stall warning system.
US09703292B2
According to one embodiment, a limited section controller includes a traffic information update unit, a determination unit, a standby position setting unit, and a traveling restart setting unit. The traffic information update unit updates delay information of the traveling vehicle near the junction. The determination unit determines whether to permit the traveling vehicle to pass based on whether there is the traveling vehicle in the limited section. The standby position setting unit sets a standby position of each of the traveling vehicles of a limited number or less present in a standby section. The traveling restart setting unit determines an approach direction into the limited section.
US09703290B1
A method for operating a machine on a worksite is disclosed. The method includes detecting a forward worksite condition and a rearward worksite condition relative to the machine, respectively by a first image capturing module and a second image capturing module. Thereafter, the method includes determination of a measure of effect of the machine on the worksite by comparing the rearward worksite condition with the forward worksite condition. The measure of effect is one of a deviation of an actual machine path with a baseline operational path or an impression left by the machine on the worksite. Finally, controlling one or more parameters related to a movement of the machine over the worksite, based on the measure of effect, is carried out.
US09703281B2
A tool path generation device that calculates a tool path to be used by a machine tool device, and that provides a high machining efficiency with suppressed occurrence of chatter vibration by calculating machining conditions in consideration of a chatter vibration increase and decrease affecting value that affects increase and decrease in chatter vibration.
US09703279B2
A handheld field maintenance tool is provided. The handheld field maintenance tool includes a process communication module configured to communicate with a field device. The handheld field maintenance tool also includes a display and a user input device. A controller is coupled to the process communication module, the user input device and the display and is configured to generate a listing of task-based field maintenance operations on the display and receive a user input selecting a task-based field maintenance operation. The controller is configured to automatically traverse a menu of the field device using a fast-key sequence relative to the selected task. A method of creating a task-based field maintenance operation is provided. A method of interacting with a field device menu is also provided.
US09703277B2
A method and apparatus for tracking changes in an industrial controller is disclosed. A project for the industrial controller is developed that includes multiple components. Each of the components may be arranged at varying levels. Authorized personnel are able to access the components, or a portion thereof, within the industrial controller to change settings and or programming of the industrial controller. As each change is made, the industrial controller maintains a log of the changes. The change may initially be recorded in each module and/or at each level of the project. The change is then rolled up to a top level of the project. A revision log at the top level of the project stores each of the changes within the industrial controller. The industrial controller may then access the revision log to determine whether any action needs to be taken within the industrial controller.
US09703266B2
A reference management apparatus includes a reference signal housing, a fixed length propagation device, an oscillator device, and a reference management computing device. The reference signal housing having a propagation signal output and a propagation signal input. The fixed length propagation device is coupled between the propagation signal output and the propagation signal input. The reference signal management computing device is coupled to the oscillator device and the propagation signal input. The reference signal management computing device also comprises at least one of configurable hardware logic configured to implement or a memory coupled to the processor which is configured to be capable of executing programmed instructions comprising and stored in the memory to: detect a start and an end of a transmission of at least one pulse signal through the fixed length propagation device; measure propagation time of the at least one pulse signal through the fixed length propagation device; and utilize the measured propagation time for managing a reference signal.
US09703265B2
To provide a measurement apparatus and measurement method capable of shortening the measurement time, a measurement apparatus 10 includes: an acquisition section 21 that acquires the data of a plurality of slots; a setting unit 12 that sets measurement items for each slot; an additional time table 23 that stores additional time set in advance for each measurement item; a measurement period setting section 22 that sets a measurement period for measuring the data of a slot by adding additional time before and after time assigned to the slot; and a measurement section 30 that measures the characteristics of the data of the slot in a measurement period.
US09703255B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body and a paper feed unit. The paper feed unit is detachably fitted to the apparatus main body. The paper feed unit has: a first spring being pressed against and thereby brought into contact with a plate at a bottom surface of the apparatus main body when the paper feed unit is fitted to the apparatus main body; a holding section holding the first spring; and a second spring being stretched in a state such as to be extended between the first spring and a plate at a bottom surface of the paper feed unit, and the plate of the apparatus main body and the plate of the paper feed unit are connected together through the first spring and the second spring.
US09703249B2
When fixing is not necessary in a printing apparatus including a fixing unit, a sheet to be conveyed is allowed to avoid the fixing unit. Specifically, a fixing unit-bypass path is provided on a conveying path corresponding to the fixing unit. Further, when a surface treatment material is not applied to a sheet from a surface treatment material applying head, that is, when fixing processing is not performed by the fixing unit, a sheet is conveyed along a fixing unit-bypass path. Since a sheet is conveyed along an bypass path when fixing processing is not performed as described above, it is possible to prevent a sheet from being affected by heat or the like while the sheet passes through the fixing unit.
US09703241B2
A fixing device includes: an endless fusing belt; a heater; a nip member; and a backup member. The endless fusing belt has a width in a widthwise direction. The nip member is disposed spaced apart from the heater. The nip member has a contact surface. The contact surface has widthwise end portions in the widthwise direction. The backup member is configured to nip the fusing belt in cooperation with the nip member. The fusing belt is configured to move in a moving direction at a position where the fusing belt is nipped between the nip member and the backup member. The contact surface has at least two grooves one formed in corresponding one of the widthwise end portions and another formed in the other of the widthwise end portions and extending at an angle equal to or smaller than 10 degrees with respect to the moving direction.
US09703237B2
A multipolar magnet is arranged inside a developer bearing member. A partitioning wall is arranged such that an apex position thereof is located between the developer bearing member and a first conveying member, and is extended up to a position which is located below an upper end position of a zone. A plurality of concaved portions is formed on the surface of the developer bearing member at an interval. Each of the plurality of concaved portions has such an opening shape that a maximum diameter of an inscribed circle is equal to or greater than a diameter of an average grain size of a carrier, and is formed such that the carrier with the average grain size is able to enter each of the concaved portions by a depth that is equal to or greater than a radius thereof.
US09703236B1
A powder transport member includes a rotation shaft, a spiral wire; and holding parts disposed near opposite ends of the rotation shaft, wherein one end portion of the spiral wire includes a terminal end circular arc portion formed in a circular arc shape, and the holding part configured to hold the one end portion of the spiral wire includes protrusions of a paired configuration at symmetrical positions with the center of the rotation shaft being interposed therebetween, a concave portion configured to accommodate an inner peripheral surface of the terminal end circular arc portion is formed at a protruding end portion of each of the protrusions, and a size of the protruding end portion of the protrusion in a direction of the rotation shaft is less than ½ of an inter-wire distance obtained by subtracting a wire diameter from a pitch of the spiral wire.
US09703229B2
An optical writing device writes an image on a photoconductor with light emitted from a light-emitting element array including a plurality of light-emitting elements lined in one direction. The optical writing device includes: a thinning unit that thins pixels in input binary image data depending on a pattern of the image data; a thinning rate setting unit that sets a thinning rate by the thinning unit for each predetermined range of the image data; and a light-emitting time changing unit that changes a light-emitting time of the light-emitting element array for each predetermined range of the binary image data thinned by the thinning unit depending on the thinning rate set by the thinning rate setting unit and a set toner saving rate.
US09703228B2
An image forming apparatus includes multiple light emitting elements (LDs) as a light source, controls the light source such that laser beams emitted from LD1 and LDN are sequentially incident on a BD sensor in a non-image-forming period, and measures a time interval between two BD signals output sequentially from the BD sensor. When image formation is performed subsequent to the non-image-forming period, the image forming apparatus controls the light source such that a laser beam from the LD1 is incident on the BD sensor. Furthermore, using a single BD signal output from the BD sensor as a reference, the image forming apparatus controls timings at which the LDs emit laser beams based on the image data, according to the measurement value of the time intervals between the BD signals.
US09703226B2
A charging member, one embodiment of which includes a conductive support; a conductive elastomer layer stacked on the conductive support; and a conductive resin layer stacked on the conductive elastomer layer, wherein the conductive resin layer includes: a matrix material; and a plurality of particles dispersed in the matrix material, wherein the particles include first particles, and when a thickness of a portion formed of the matrix material alone of the conductive resin layer is referred to as A [μm], an average particle size of the first particles is referred to as B1 [μm], and an interparticle distance of the particles is referred to as Sm [μm], then A is in a range of 1.0 μm to 7.0 μm, B1/A is in a range of 5.0 to 30.0, and Sm is in a range of 50 μm to 400 μm.
US09703225B2
A semiconductive roller (1) is provided, which is formed from a rubber composition and has an outer peripheral surface (4) irradiated with electron radiation in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, wherein the rubber composition contains a rubber component including an epichlorohydrin rubber and a diene rubber, the epichlorohydrin rubber being present in a proportion of 50 mass % to 80 mass %, a thiourea crosslinking agent and/or a triazine crosslinking agent, and a sulfur crosslinking component.
US09703217B1
MICR toner compositions for use in offset lithography (or offset printing). Such MICR toner compositions exhibit desirable magnetic properties.
US09703196B2
A method for producing a resist composition includes at least a step of filtering a solution obtained by dissolving (A) a resin having a monocyclic or polycyclic cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon structure, the resin increasing its solubility in an alkali developer by an action of acid, (B) a compound generating acid upon irradiation with one of an actinic ray and a radiation, and (C) an alkali soluble compound having an alkyl group of 5 or more carbon atoms into (D) a solvent, through a filter.
US09703192B2
New onium salt compounds and methods for synthesis of such compounds are provided. Preferred methods of the invention include (a) providing an onium salt compound comprising a sulfonate component having an electron withdrawing group; and (b) treating the onium salt compound with a halide salt to form a distinct salt of the onium compound. The present onium compounds are useful as an acid generator component of a photoresist composition.
US09703191B2
A method of manufacturing a color conversion substrate includes preparing a substrate including a first pixel region, a second pixel region, and a third pixel region, forming a first color conversion portion corresponding to the first pixel region, forming a second color conversion portion corresponding to the second pixel region, and forming a third color conversion portion corresponding to the third pixel region. The providing the first color conversion portion includes providing a first color filter of a first color corresponding to the first pixel region, providing a first transparent pattern corresponding to the first pixel region, and providing a first pattern layer corresponding to the first pixel region and including a first material which converts light incident thereto into light of the first color, where the first transparent pattern is provided between the first color filter and the first pattern layer.
US09703186B2
Provided is a mask. The mask may include a mask substrate, mask patterns on the mask substrate, frames disposed on an edge of the mask substrate outside the mask patterns, and a pellicle spaced apart from the mask patterns, the pellicle being disposed on the frames, wherein the pellicle includes protection layers each of which has a nanometer thickness.
US09703182B2
A projection apparatus has an optical device capable of diffusing coherent light beams, an irradiation unit to irradiate coherent light beams to the optical device so that the coherent light beams scan the optical device, a light modulator to generate a modulated image using coherent light beams incident on and diffused at respective points of the optical device from the irradiation unit, and a projection optical system to project a modulated image generated by the light modulator onto a scattering plane. The light modulator has a plurality of micromirrors provided for each pixel, to switch a reflection angle of each coherent light beam from the optical device, and a reflection angle controller to control a timing of switching a reflection angle of each of the plurality of micromirrors so that the timing becomes irregular for each frame period that is a time unit for generating the modulated image.
US09703181B2
A projector includes: an optical unit as an image projection device which forms and projects an image; a support member which supports the optical unit; an exterior casing which forms an exterior and houses the optical unit and the support member; and at least one of a foot portion and a handle which is provided on the support member and exposed outside the exterior casing and supports the support member.
US09703179B2
Modular shelving systems and display shelves for modular shelving systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a modular shelving system includes a shelf support frame comprising a back plane portion and a base portion. At least one display shelf module is removably coupled to the back plane portion of the shelf support frame such that the display shelf module is vertically and horizontally positionable on the back plane portion of the shelf support frame. The display shelf module may include a top and bottom panels, and side panels that define an interior volume. A display panel may be affixed to a front of the display shelf module. A projector may be disposed in the interior volume of the display shelf module. The projector projects an optical signal onto a rear surface of the display panel such that image data is visible on a front surface of the display panel.
US09703176B2
A camera module includes a lens holder, a base coupled to the lens holder and integrally formed with a cable by being molded with the cable, and a sealing member positioned at a coupled surface between the lens holder and the base. The lens holder includes a lens barrel including a first concave unit formed at a front surface with a hollow hole part to accommodate a first O-ring, and a second concave unit formed at a periphery to accommodate a second O-ring. A lens unit includes a front lens arranged at a front surface of a lens barrel and includes at least one lens arranged at the hollow hole part of the lens barrel, and a retainer including a recess groove configured to accommodate a third O-ring configured to fix the front lens by being formed at a periphery to be coupled at an inner surface to the periphery of the lens barrel.
US09703166B2
A method is provided for laser ablation that reduces or eliminates a diffraction effect produced by damage to a surface from which an ablated material is removed. The method includes at least one of reducing the amount of surface damage produced and altering the damage structure produced such that it is irregular.
US09703162B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, as well as a display device. The substrate comprises: a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines arranged in parallel, a first insulating layer that covers the gate lines, a plurality of data lines located on the first insulating layer and perpendicular to the gate lines, a second insulating layer that covers the data lines, and pixel electrodes of sub-pixel areas enclosed by the data lines and the gate lines; polarizing films that cover the pixel electrodes; and first auxiliary gate lines arranged on the second insulating layer and parallel to the gate lines, at least two portions on each of the first auxiliary gate lines being electrically connected with at least two corresponding portions on the gate line through via holes that penetrate the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the first auxiliary gate lines and the polarizing films are formed by performing a same patterning process to a same layer of transparent conductive material. The embodiments of the present invention can reduce signal delay in a display device, and can be used for manufacture of a display.
US09703157B2
In order to take advantage of the properties of a display device including an oxide semiconductor, a protective circuit and the like having appropriate structures and a small occupied area are necessary. The protective circuit is formed using a non-linear element which includes a gate insulating film covering a gate electrode; a first oxide semiconductor layer over the gate insulating film; a channel protective layer covering a region which overlaps with a channel formation region of the first oxide semiconductor layer; and a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer each of which is formed by stacking a conductive layer and a second oxide semiconductor layer and over the first oxide semiconductor layer. The gate electrode is connected to a scan line or a signal line, the first wiring layer or the second wiring layer is directly connected to the gate electrode.
US09703149B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a columnar spacer. The array substrate includes a wiring including projection portion which form a dot pattern with light-blocking properties, and a first horizontal alignment film. The counter-substrate includes a second horizontal alignment film. The columnar spacer is disposed between the array substrate and the counter-substrate and is located within the dot pattern.
US09703147B2
A liquid crystal display device filled with a liquid crystal according to one drop filling prevents the liquid crystal from penetrating between a sealant and a TFT substrate or a counter substrate so as to reduce bonding strength in a seal part. The seal part has a wall spacer around the periphery of the sealant. In a terminal-side seal part, a second sealant is formed outside the wall spacer while a second wall spacer is formed outside the second sealant. Thus, the sealant, the wall spacer, and the sealant are sequentially formed in a plan view of a motherboard including liquid crystal display panels to be separated. This configuration can prevent the liquid crystal from penetrating into the seal part according to an internal pressure.
US09703138B2
Provided are a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device. The polarizing plate has lighter weight, a smaller thickness, and excellent physical properties such as water resistance, workability, durability, and light leakage preventing ability. In addition, the polarizing plate prevents curling occurring at the polarizing plate or a polarizer in formation thereof, and has excellent thermal resistance or thermal shock resistance.
US09703137B2
The present invention involves a rear projection display screen, including: a transmissive diffuser; a liquid crystal layer arranged on the rear surface side of the diffuser; and on the side of a first surface of said layer, first and second alternated parallel conductive strips regularly distributed across the entire surface of the screen, the first strips being interconnected, and the second strips being interconnected without being connected to the first strips.
US09703134B2
A liquid crystal display device equipped with a built-in touch panel includes a second substrate on which a wiring pattern for configuring a touch panel is formed, and a flexible wiring substrate joined to the second substrate with an overlap portion, and electrically connected to the wiring pattern. The flexible wiring substrate is formed of a multilayer substrate having a first conductive pattern layer having a plurality of terminal portions electrically connected onto the wiring pattern, a second conductive pattern layer, an insulating layer interposed between the first conductive pattern layer and the second conductive pattern layer, and a plurality of contact portions that penetrates through the insulating layer, and electrically connects the plurality of terminal portions to the second conductive pattern layer. The plurality of contact portions is arranged to overlap with the plurality of terminal portions.
US09703133B2
A display module, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including the same, includes a guide panel surrounding a side surface of a liquid crystal panel. The guide panel and a cover bottom are fastened to each other by hooks.
US09703120B2
This invention discloses a media substrate for incorporation into ophthalmic lenses that has been formed by the stacking of multiple functionalized layers. Additionally, methods and apparatus for providing a stacked functional layer insert for incorporation into an ophthalmic lens are also provided. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is cast molded from a silicone hydrogel and the lens includes at least one stacked functional layer insert portion.
US09703113B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards a curved image sensor that is rotated in one or more rotational directions to compensate for camera movement, e.g., camera shake. In one aspect, sensors such as gyroscopes output camera movement data, which a controller uses to rotate the curved (e.g., hemispherical) image sensor about its center of curvature, e.g., via signals to electrical and/or magnetic movement mechanisms. Image processing may be used by the controller to rotate the image sensor.
US09703104B2
As an electro-optical device, a liquid crystal device includes micro lenses ML each of which is provided as a light-gathering element for the corresponding one of pixels, and further includes a light-shielding portion. Red (R), green (G), and blue (B) beams enter the micro lens ML at angles different from one another. The light-shielding portion partitions off a first opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel, a second opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel, and a third opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel from one another. When the width of the first opening portion in the predetermined direction (X direction) is defined as L1 and when the width of the second opening portion or the third opening portion in the predetermined direction is defined as L2, a relationship of L1
US09703098B2
An optical system has a housing with a mount and an opening to a receiving region, the receiving region being located within the housing and including the mount. At least one optical element is inserted into and removed from the receiving region through the opening, and at least one gas supply device provides a flow of gas in the receiving region. An associated method of inserting or removing an optical element into or from a receiving region in a housing is also disclosed.
US09703080B2
Systems and apparatuses provide for an imaging optical system that facilitates aberration reductions while ensuring brightness and a proper angle of view. Embodiments provide for (i) an imaging optical system that allows for a simple structure of a focusing mechanism and (ii) an imaging apparatus incorporating such an imaging optical system. The imaging optical system may include, from the object side to the image side, a first lens group having positive refracting power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having positive power, in which the first lens group consists of three lens subgroups, having positive, negative and positive refracting powers, respectively, from the object side to the image side.
US09703068B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to an imaging module comprising an electromagnetic actuator to provide focus-related and image stabilization-related functionality.
US09703067B2
A lens barrel includes a base barrel holding a first guide portion, a movable barrel protrudable/retractable with respect to the base barrel and holding a second guide portion such that when the movable barrel is protruded the second guide portion protrudes with respect to the first guide portion a lens holding member including first and second held portions being respectively held by the first and second guide portions, a lock portion to set a positional relationship between the first and second guide portions, an initial position detector to detect an initial position of the lens holding member, and a controller. The controller controls movements of the movable barrel and the lens holding member so that a movement of the lens holding member toward the initial position detector is started before start of setting of the positional relationship by the lock portion.
US09703057B2
An inventive opto-electric hybrid board includes: opto-electric module portions respectively provided on opposite end portions of an elongated insulation layer and including a first electric wiring of a first electrically conductive pattern and an optical element provided on a front surface of the insulation layer; and an interconnection portion provided on a portion of the insulation layer extending from the opto-electric module portions, and including an elongated optical waveguide on a back surface of the insulation layer optically coupled with the optical elements, and having a light signal transmission core. Further, an electrically conductive dummy pattern is provided on the front surface of the insulation layer in the interconnection portion for reinforcing the interconnection portion. The electrically conductive dummy pattern reinforces the interconnection portion to protect the waveguide from bending and twisting, while ensuring the flexibility of the interconnection portion. This suppresses increase in light transmission loss.
US09703056B2
A method and apparatus are provided for fabricating an electro-optical interconnect on an integrated circuit (101, 114) in which an optical circuit element (102) is formed by forming a cylinder-shaped conductive interconnect structure (120, 122, 126, 128) with one or more conductive layers formed around a central opening (129) which is located over an optically transparent layer (118) located over the optical circuit element (102).
US09703053B2
An optical transceiver is configured to use, as an electric signal, a digital modulation signal having a predetermined bit rate. The optical transceiver includes a case having a space for storing a component therein and a resistor being arranged between upper and lower surfaces of the space and having conductance of from 1 S/m to 1,000 S/m. The space has a height equal to or less than a wavelength in a free space of an electromagnetic wave of a frequency corresponding to the predetermined bit rate. At least a part of the height of the space is larger than a half of the wavelength. The height of the space is smaller than a width of the space. The width of the space is smaller than a depth of the space.
US09703050B2
Light streams are routed. A transparent plate can be provided in which at least 2 waveguides converge on an active region, wherein the active region comprises a switching element, which can be utilized to extract a portion of the light stream or combine two or more wavelength portions for form a subsequent light stream. Cladding material constrains a light stream to a waveguide. Ion bombardment can be utilized to form micropores in the cladding material, and subsequent etching can enlarge the micropores to form larger diameter pores (of nanometer scale) in the switching element. The pores can be filled with liquid crystal, which can be in a passive state with a first refractive (RI) index, and a second active state (electrical voltage applied) with a second RI. By adjusting the RI. the light stream can be diverted by operations of refraction, diffraction, reflection, etc.
US09703049B2
An optical fiber core butting apparatus comprises a butting panel (1) with multiple butting devices including butting holes (11), optical fiber core butting connectors and mechanical hands (3); the optical fiber core butting connectors comprise a wire-line connector (21) and a cord-line connector (22); the wire-line connector (21) comprises a first slide bar (211), a first wire-line core connector (212) and a second wire-line core connector (213), and the input terminals and the output terminals of the first and second wire-line core connectors (212, 213) are both connected by connecting fibers; the cord-line connector (22) comprises a second slide bar (221), a first cord-line core connector (222) and a second cord-line core connector (223), and the first and second cord-line connector (222, 223) are connected by a connecting fiber; the mechanical hands (3) are used for holding the core connectors and driving the core connectors to move.
US09703037B2
A device comprising: a substrate; a plurality of resonators on the substrate, each of the resonators of the plurality of resonators being resonant at a predetermined wavelength of electromagnetic radiation and at least some of the resonators being arranged to operate in different resonance orders; a waveguide on the substrate, the waveguide being coupled to the plurality of resonators for guiding the electromagnetic radiation to the plurality of resonators, wherein the resonance order of each resonator along the waveguide is optimized to maximize the coupling of light into the resonators.
US09703036B2
Disclosed are structures with an optical waveguide having a first segment at a first level and a second segment extending between the first level and a higher second level and further extending along the second level. Specifically, the waveguide comprises a first segment between first and second dielectric layers. The second dielectric layer has a trench, which extends through to the first dielectric layer and which has one side positioned laterally adjacent to an end of the first segment. The waveguide also comprises a second segment extending from the bottom of the trench on the side adjacent to the first segment up to and along the top surface of the second dielectric layer on the opposite side of the trench. A third dielectric layer covers the second segment in the trench and on the top surface of the second dielectric layer. Also disclosed are methods of forming such optoelectronic structures.
US09703034B2
The disclosure provides a light guiding plate comprising a main body and an extending plate. The main body comprises an incident surface, an illuminating surface adjacent with the incident surface, and a bottom surface opposite to the illuminating surface. The extending plate extends from the incident surface toward the direction away from the main body. The disclosure also provides a backlight module and a display device.
US09703032B2
A planar light source including a light guide plate (LGP) and a light source device is provided. The LGP includes a plate portion and at least one prism portion. The plate portion has a light incident surface, a reflective surface, a bottom surface, and a light exiting surface. The prism portion is disposed on the bottom surface of the plate portion, and has a first plane and a second plane. An included angle between the first plane and the bottom surface is smaller than an included angle between the second plane and the bottom surface, and a shortest distance between the first plane and the light incident surface is smaller than a shortest distance between the second plane and the light incident surface. The light source device is disposed adjacent to the light incident surface. The disclosure provides planar light source with good light uniformity.
US09703025B2
Provided are a polarizer that resists red discoloration in a heat resistance test even when it has a small thickness, and a polarizing plate including the polarizer. The polarizer has a thickness less than or equal to 10 μm and a retardation Rpva variation within 0.2 nm/mm in the transmission axis direction.
US09703023B2
Cube corner articles such as retroreflective sheeting utilize multiple cube corner arrays in a tiled configuration, each tile containing one array of canted cube corner elements. The tiles may be long and narrow, and the array in each of at least two or three adjacent tiles, or even in every tile, may include at least one lengthwise groove that is parallel to an edge of the tile and parallel to a fixed in-plane axis. Each tile may have a width that is narrow (e.g. 0.2 to 5 mm), and equal to an integer multiple of a lengthwise groove pitch to avoid or reduce ineffective fragmented cube corners along the tile edge. Each array may have a plane of cant and a primary plane of entrance angularity, and the primary planes of entrance angularity for the multiple tiles may be more evenly distributed in azimuthal angle than the planes of cant.
US09703021B1
Embodiments include various plasmonic devices. The plasmonic devices may include: a conductor layer, an insulator layer, and a hybrid layer. The conductor layer may include an input segment, a manipulation segment, and an output segment. The conductor layer is disposed on a surface of a substrate. The insulator layer is disposed on a top surface of the conductor layer. The hybrid layer is disposed on top surface of insulator layer. The manipulation hybrid layer may include an input segment and a semiconductor segment, output segment on one or two or multiple sides of the active channel. When a positive gate voltage is applied between the conductor segment of the conductor layer and the semiconductor segment of the hybrid layer, the semiconductor segment is turned into accumulated semiconductor, surface plasmons polaritons (SPP) propagate along the insulator layer freely. When the gate voltage is negative, the semiconductor segment is turned into depleted semiconductor, and SPP propagation ceases.
US09703019B2
According to some aspects, an adaptive lens is provided. One such adaptive lens comprises at least one fluid-filled chamber located within an optical and/or acoustic path of the lens, and at least one elastomeric and substantially optically and/or acoustically transparent membrane, located within an optical and/or acoustic path of the lens and at least partially bounding one or more of the at least one fluid-filled chambers, wherein one or more of the at least one membranes is configured such that a shape of the membrane is altered upon receipt of an electric field. Some aspects provide a method of producing a lens comprising providing at least one chamber bounded at least in part by first and second membranes, and providing a fluid into the at least one chamber such that the fluid is located within an optical and/or acoustic path of the lens.
US09703015B2
A photomask for an optical element array includes first and second optical elements. A light transmission rate distribution includes a first area where the first optical element is to be formed, a second area where the second optical element is to be formed, and a third area between the first and second areas, has a first light transmission rate at an end portion of the first area. A second light transmission rate is higher than the first light transmission rate at another end portion. A third light transmission rate at an end portion corresponds to a boundary between the second and third areas. A fourth light transmission rate is higher than the third light transmission rate at another end portion of the second area. The light transmission rate distribution along a first direction is higher than a segment connecting the second and third light transmission rates in the third area.
US09703004B2
A method and system for acquiring spectral information from an energy sensitive nuclear detector is disclosed. The method includes detecting nuclear radiation at a detection device and generating an electronic input pulse indicative of energy deposited in the detection device. The method further includes integrating the electronic input pulse at an integrating device to produce an integrated output signal and digitally sampling the integrated output signal of the integrating device at intervals to produce a stream of digital samples. The method further includes resetting the integrator synchronously with a sampling clock when a limit condition is reached.
US09702996B2
Automated systems and methods that provide robust identification of regions of interest for reservoir modeling are disclosed herein. One embodiment includes: obtaining a seismic image of a subsurface region; performing full-volume horizon picking and deriving an instantaneous isochron attribute (IIA) value for each point in the seismic image; identifying one or more geobodies within the seismic image based at least in part on the IIA values; and representing the one or more geobodies in a geocellular model. The identifying of geobodies may include: applying IIA value filtering to isolate intervals of rapid or slow deposition in the seismic image; determining a reservoir-non-reservoir indicator attribute value for each point in the seismic image; applying reservoir-non-reservoir indicator value filtering to isolate subintervals of presumed reservoirs or non-reservoirs in said isolated intervals; determining a pay indicator attribute value for each point in the seismic image; and applying pay indicator value filtering to isolate presumed pay zones in said isolated subintervals.
US09702992B2
In one aspect, an apparatus is disclosed comprising: a housing; a proof mass movable within the housing; an optical element mounted on one of the housing and the proof mass; a reflective element on the other one of the housing and the proof mass; a light source configured to illuminate grating and minor; and one or more detectors configured to detect light incident from the reflective element and the diffractive element and generate a signal indicative of the relative displacement of proof mass and the housing.
US09702990B2
Prior to actual use in a downhole application, gamma spectrum shape for a gamma detector can be quantified, and a relationship established between detector gain and spectrum shape. Given this relationship, the shape of a gamma spectrum measured after downhole deployment of the detector within a wellbore, for example as part of a tool in a drill string, can be quantified and compared to the pre-established relationship to determine whether the detector gain has drifted due to temperature or operating time effects. Using this relationship, a gain-affecting voltage across the detector (e.g., the photocathode voltage across the photomultiplier tube) can be adjusted to compensate for such drifts and thus to compensate for variations caused by temperature or operating time. With such compensation applied to the detector, resulting gamma spectra reliably indicate actual differences in radiation levels, thus enabling an inference of the composition of the formation at various times/depths.
US09702989B2
A portable radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a radiation conversion panel configured to output image information on the basis of applied radiation, a casing housing the radiation conversion panel therein, and a plurality of support members on which the radiation conversion panel is supported in the casing. The support members have slot structures housing wires therein.
US09702988B1
A method for detecting both gamma-ray events and neutron events with a common detector, where the detector includes a layer of semiconductor material adjacent one side of a glass plate and a Gd layer on an opposite side of the glass plate, between the glass plate and a layer of silicon PIN material to form an assembly that is bounded by electrodes, including a semiconductor anode on one side of the semiconductor layer, a cathode connected to the glass plate, and a Si PIN anode on a side of the Si PIN layer opposite the semiconductor anode. The method includes the steps of: (1) monitoring the electrical signal at each of the semiconductor anode and the Si PIN anode, and (2) comparing signals from the semiconductor anode and the SI PIN anode to differentiate between gamma-ray events and neutron events based on predetermined criteria.
US09702980B2
A method for reducing the positioning time of a GPS receiver is disclosed. In response to a request from a user function for positioning data, a GPS management section instructs a device control section to lower the functions of a group of components. The lowering of the functions of the components reduces the noise level. The GPS management section operates the GPS receiver. The GPS receiver executes an acquisition process in an environment with a low noise level. After completion of the acquisition process, the functions of the component are restored.
US09702976B2
A CW-TOF camera that uses a piecewise constant or linear discretized indicator function of first and second modulation frequencies of light that the camera transmits to illuminate a scene and a round trip time tR for light from and back to the camera for features in the scene to disambiguate wrapped phase shifts that the camera acquires for the features.
US09702969B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces audio Doppler from detected Doppler signals. The Doppler signals are detected in a band of frequencies which corresponds to the velocity of blood flow signals, and Doppler information is displayed based on the detected band of frequencies. The audio Doppler system produces Doppler audio in a frequency band which is shifted in pitch from the detected band of frequencies. The operator of the ultrasound system is provided with a user control by which the degree of pitch shifting can be controlled. The ultrasound system displays Doppler blood flow velocities referenced to a transmit Doppler frequency f0, with the audio Doppler being shifted in pitch from the frequencies corresponding to the blood flow velocities.
US09702966B2
A synthetic underwater visualization system (SUVS) comprising a real-time graphics software engine, a sophisticated underwater environmental sensor, a fixed-base database, and a retrieval system designed to accept and assimilate into a common database bathymetric and environmental information acquired from around the world by components of other deployed SUVS sensing systems. SUVS is capable of sensing, modeling, and realistically displaying underwater environments in real-time, and will foster widespread utilization in the areas of homeland security, commercial and recreational maritime navigation, bathymetric data collection, and environmental analysis. The technology will also be readily adaptable and highly desirable in non-marine applications.
US09702962B2
A vehicle information providing method and a terminal applying the same are provided. The vehicle information providing method includes communicably connecting to a Global Positioning System (GPS) mounted on a vehicle, receiving location information from the GPS and receiving vehicle information from a vehicle information system based on the received location information. Accordingly, the terminal may receive the location information of the vehicle inside the vehicle even though the terminal has no GPS.
US09702961B2
Systems, methods, means and computer program products for determining a position of an object in an environment are disclosed. Certain systems, methods, means and computer program products carry out position determination for asset tracking, emergency evacuations, navigation and other uses.
US09702948B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprises, a main magnet, a gradient coil and an RF coil. The main magnet generates a static magnetic field, the gradient coil which is formed inside the main magnet and generates a gradient magnetic field and the RF coil. The RF coil is formed inside the gradient coil and comprises a plurality of different components including: a former supporting the plurality of different components including windings and having a first area and a second area and a groove formed in the second area and in which a component of the RF coil is installed and inset, reducing thickness of the RF coil.
US09702942B2
A measurement device includes an electric current generation circuit and a monitor device. The electric current generation circuit supplies an electric current whose electric current amount monotonically increases during a setup period of time to the electric circuit including a power supply. The monitor device detects a voltage of the power supply via the electric circuit. A frequency of the detected voltage having a waveform is a frequency at which the impedance of the electric circuit becomes high.
US09702939B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for charging or maintaining a battery that includes power conversion circuitry configured to provide output power for charging or maintaining the battery. The system also includes electrical conductors coupled to the power conversion circuitry and configured to be coupled to the battery for charging or maintaining the battery. Additionally, the system includes control circuitry coupled to the power conversion circuitry and configured to monitor charging or maintaining of the battery. The control circuitry is further configured to determine whether the battery may be defective or failing based upon the output power and a time threshold.
US09702937B2
A contactor control system having a primary microprocessor, a secondary microprocessor, a high side contactor control circuit, and a low side contactor control circuit is provided. The primary microprocessor sends a first command signal to the secondary microprocessor. The secondary microprocessor sends a command signal to the secondary grounding circuit for outputting a ground level voltage to a logical OR circuit to induce the logical OR circuit to output a ground level voltage to a second end of the contactor coil. The primary microprocessor sends a command signal to the secondary microprocessor, and in response the secondary microprocessor sends a command signal to the secondary pull-in circuit to activate the secondary pull-in circuit for energizing the contactor coil.
US09702935B2
Apparatus and method for testing an integrated circuit. An integrated circuit includes circuitry to be tested, scan chain logic, and a test adapter. The scan chain logic is configured to transfer test data to and test results from the circuitry. The test adapter is configured to extract the test data from a packet received from an automated test control system and to transfer the test data to the scan chain logic. The test adapter is also configured to receive the test results from the scan chain logic, and to packetize the test result for transmission to the automated test control system.
US09702932B2
A testing system and method for an arithmetic logic unit are provided. The system includes: a control unit, a data providing unit, a first input unit, a second input unit, an arithmetic logic unit, an expected result unit, a comparator and a test result storage unit. The control unit controls the testing process. The data providing unit provides data for the first input unit, the second input unit and the expected result unit. The first input unit and the second input unit provide test data for the arithmetic logic unit. The arithmetic logic unit performs an operation and provides an operation result for the comparator. The expected result unit generates an expected result and provides the expected result of this round of testing for the comparator. The comparator compares the operation result with the expected result, and provides a comparison result for the test result storage unit.
US09702930B2
A wafer probing system includes a probe card assembly having a plurality of individual probe structures configured make contact with a semiconductor wafer mounted on a motor driven wafer chuck, with each probe structure configured with a pressure sensing unit integrated therewith; and a controller configured to drive the probe card assembly with one or more piezoelectric driver units response to feedback from the pressure sensing units of the individual probe structures.
US09702922B2
A method and a device for locating internal arcing that occurs in a compartment (CPi) of a gas-insulated line (L), each compartment being provided with at least one pressure sensor (Pi). The method comprises: triggering pressure measurements in a compartment as soon as the difference between the currents that flow through two current toroids (TCi) around two adjacent compartments exceeds a threshold value indicating the occurrence of internal arcing in the compartment; calculating a period Δt that separates the time at which the pressure detector began to detect a pressure variation and the time at which the internal arcing occurred; and calculating a distance d that separates the place at which the internal arc is formed from the position of the pressure sensor using the equation d=V/Δt in which V is the speed of sound in the gas.
US09702921B2
A multi-purpose tool singularly provides all functions necessary to remove a blade-type fuse, clean the male blades of a fuse, and clean contact points of a female fuse receptacle. The tool also may provide a battery-powered circuit to check the continuity of a fuse. The tool includes a pair of abrasive tabs for cleaning female fuse receptacles, a slot with at least one abrasive surface for cleaning male fuse blades, and a pair of picking arms for grasping a fuse.
US09702920B2
Systems and methods presented herein are generally directed to the location and/or identification of a circuit within a circuital system. In one embodiment, a transmitter is configured for inducing signals upon a plurality of circuit lines (e.g., power lines, communication lines, lighting circuits, etc.) with each circuit line having a unique signal to identify it from other circuit lines. Each signal may be induced upon an individual circuit line by means of a inductive coupling clip coupled about the circuit line. The transmitter may be used at a distribution point of the circuit lines, such as circuit breaker box. A receiver can then receive a signal from a distal point on the circuit line to acquire the unique signal induced thereon and identify determine which inductive coupling clip is coupled thereto. For example, the signal may be decoded to display a number of the circuit line being tested.
US09702917B2
A system includes an isolation detection unit (IDU) having a first leakage detection circuit and being configured to determine an isolation characteristic for a voltage bus; and a circuit detection and response unit (CDRU) configured to determine whether the first leakage detection circuit is coupled to a second leakage detection circuit by a common ground. The CDRU can use a change in isolation characteristic of the voltage bus to determine whether a second detection circuit is coupled, and can characterize a coupled circuit. IDU operation and fault detection thresholds can be altered to mitigate confounding effects caused by simultaneous operation of both circuits. A system can be disposed at an electric vehicle to detect coupling of a detection circuit at a charging apparatus, or disposed at a charging apparatus to detect coupling of a leakage detection circuit at an electric vehicle.
US09702909B2
A manufacturing method is used for a current sensor including a current measurement circuit configured to include magnetoelectric conversion elements, a first amplification-and-correction circuit configured to amplify an output of the current measurement circuit and correct, based on a set first correction amount, a temperature characteristic of an offset, a second amplification-and-correction circuit configured to amplify an output of the first amplification-and-correction circuit, adjust a sensitivity, and correct, based on a set second correction amount, a magnitude of the offset, and a substrate in which the current measurement circuit, the first amplification-and-correction circuit, and the second amplification-and-correction circuit are provided, wherein after the first correction amount is set based on characteristics of the magnetoelectric conversion elements, the magnetoelectric conversion elements are mounted in the substrate and the second correction amount is set.
US09702903B2
A connector and an electronic device for connecting an electronic component and a testing apparatus are provided. The connector includes a substrate and a plurality of conductive resilient sheets. The substrate includes a surface and a plurality of recesses disposed on the surface. Each of the conductive resilient sheets is disposed on the surface and has an end portion sunk in the recess. And the electronic device includes the aforesaid connector and an electronic component, which is disposed on the connector and has a plurality of bumps disposed on a surface of the electronic component. The bumps touch the end portions of the conductive resilient sheets and partially sunk in the recesses. Therefore, the touching connection between the electronic component and the conductive resilient sheets can be more stable.
US09702896B2
An acceleration sensor is provided. The acceleration sensor contains a first electrically conductive element and a second electrically conductive element. An electrically insulative element is connected to the first electrically conductive element and the second electrically conductive element, where at least a portion of the first electrically conductive element and at least a portion of the second electrically conductive element make contact with the electrically insulative element. At least one electrically conductive spring is located within a cavity of the sensor, wherein the cavity is defined by at least one surface of the first electrically conductive element, at least one surface of the electrically insulative element, and at least one surface of the second electrically conductive element.
US09702888B2
A sample analyzer capable of preventing the loss of lids of liquid containers used in the sample analyzer is provided. The sample analyzer 1 has liquid suctioning units 11 and 17 which are provided with suction tubes for suctioning liquid, container setting units 13 through 15 for setting a plurality of liquid containers 5 through 8 holding liquid, and lid placing sections 16a through 16c and 32 through 34 for placing lids 5a through 8a of liquid containers 5 through 8.
US09702881B2
The invention generally relates to antibodies that bind to human folate receptor 1 and diagnostic assays for folate receptor 1-based therapies. Methods of using the antibodies to monitor therapy are further provided.
US09702876B2
Subject matter of the present invention is a method for predicting the risk of getting cancer in a female subject that does not suffer from cancer or alternatively diagnosing cancer in a female subject comprising: determining the level of Pro-Enkephalin or fragments thereof including Leu-Enkephalin and Met-Enkephalin of at least 5 amino acids in a bodily fluid obtained from said female subject; and correlating said level of Pro-Enkephalin or fragments thereof with a risk for getting cancer, wherein a reduced level is predictive for an enhanced risk of getting cancer or alternatively diagnosing cancer wherein an reduced level is correlated with the diagnosis of cancer.
US09702874B2
The invention provides methods for characterizing cellular physiology by incorporating into an electrically excitable cell an optical reporter of, and an optical actuator of, electrical activity. A signal is obtained from the optical reporter in response to a stimulation of the cell. Either or both of the optical reporter and actuator may be based on genetically-encoded rhodopsins incorporated into the cell. The invention provides all optical methods that may be used instead of, or as a complement to, traditional patch clamp technologies and that can provide rapid, accurate, and flexible assays of cellular physiology.
US09702866B2
The present invention relates to a method to determine the potency of a batch of glatiramer acetate comprising stimulating human monocytic cell line cells with an effective amount of interferon (IFNγ), exposing the cells to a batch of glatiramer acetate, and determining the expression of the monocyte anti-inflammatory cytokine sIL-1Ra or the viability of the cells induced by glatiramer acetate.
US09702855B2
A system is provided including an acoustic interface device, configured for coupling to a transducer and to a specimen, the acoustic interface device comprising a material composition having a shear wave attenuation coefficient αS of at least about 5 dB/cm when subjected to an acoustic signal at a frequency between about 200 to 500 kHz. The acoustic interface device may be formed of polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon®), a perfluoroalkoxy alkane (PFA), polycarbonate (Lexan®), or polyether ether ketone (PEEK). Methods of using the acoustic interface device with a transducer for ultrasonic measurement of a specimen are also disclosed.
US09702854B2
In accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a photoacoustic probe includes: at least one optical fiber irradiating laser to a target; an ultrasonic probe collecting a photoacoustic signal generated by the target having absorbed the laser; and a fluid-type light reflector reflecting laser reflected, scattered, or deflected from the target.
US09702850B2
To provide an electrophoresis method and an electrophoresis device which can reduce difficulty in operation while implementing sufficient staining. An electrophoresis device includes a temperature gradient tank, a dispenser, a holder storage cabinet, a photographing unit, a PCR device, a chip rack, a chip disposal box, a DC power unit, a control unit, an arm, and a liquid feeder. A holder and a cassette removably attached to the holder are put on the temperature gradient tank. The control unit controls a carrying device, the arm, the liquid feeder, the temperature gradient tank, an excitation light source and a camera in the photographing unit, and the DC power unit. The control unit prestores a program for executing the control operation in its internal memory.
US09702849B2
There is provided a nanopore disposed in a support structure, with a fluidic connection between a first fluidic reservoir and an inlet to the nanopore and a second fluidic connection between a second fluidic reservoir and an outlet from the nanopore. A first ionic solution of a first buffer concentration is disposed in the first reservoir and a second ionic solution of a second buffer concentration, different than the first concentration, is disposed in the second reservoir, with the nanopore providing the sole path of fluidic communication between the first and second reservoirs. An electrical connection is disposed at a location in the nanopore sensor that develops an electrical signal indicative of electrical potential local to at least one site in the nanopore sensor as an object translocates through the nanopore between the two reservoirs.
US09702842B2
Provided are an amperometric sensor and device for electrochemically quantifying nitrosothiol (RSNO), which is associated with storage and delivery of nitric oxide (NO) in the human body. The amperometric sensor for measuring a concentration of RSNO includes an electrode configured to measure an electric current generated by an oxidation reaction of NO, and a means configured to start and stop photo-induced decomposition of RSNO. Here, the electric current is measured by the oxidation reaction of NO before and after the photo-induced decomposition of RSNO. The amperometric sensor may measure separate signals of RSNO and NO, which are present in the sample at the same time, using one electrode, thereby preventing an inhibition action caused by NO during the measurement of RSNO. Also, the amperometric sensor is simple in structure and easy to manufacture and may be applied to manufacture of a small electrode, and thus may be developed as a sensor for in vivo measurements.
US09702841B2
The present invention relates devices and methods using swipe detection. A swipeable computer of the present invention comprises a capacitive detector having an output, a switchable magnetic field sensor having an output, a memory unit, and a logic unit. The memory unit stores a standard capacitance change and a standard magnetic field change. The logic unit is electrically connected to the capacitive detector output, the switchable magnetic field sensor, the switchable magnetic field sensor output, and the memory unit. The logic unit of the swipeable computer is adapted to determine if the capacitive detector output corresponds to the standard capacitance change, to enable the switchable magnetic field sensor if the change in capacitance corresponds to the standard capacitance change, and to determine if the switchable magnetic field sensor output corresponds to the standard magnetic field change.
US09702838B2
A sample composed of a nickel-based metal is immersed in a corrosive solution (aqueous solution containing an acid and sodium chloride). The sample that has been immersed in the corrosive solution is exposed to a flame of engine oil, and further heated. By immersing the sample in the particular corrosive solution, a Ni-enriched phase which is deficient in additional elements and in which the Ni concentration increases is formed in a surface layer region of the sample. By exposing the sample having the Ni-enriched phase to the flame of the engine oil, components in the engine oil are activated and brought into contact with the sample to form a low-melting point phase in the surface layer region of the sample. By heating the sample having the low-melting point phase to melt the low-melting point phase and resolidifying the low-melting point phase, particles and the like can be formed depending on the type of material of the sample. The ease of the generation of particles can be evaluated by using simple equipment instead of an engine for testing.
US09702830B1
In an approach to determining pavement markings, a computer determines a location of a first computing device based on data received from one or more location devices associated with the first computing device. The computer then retrieves pavement marking data for one or more pavement markings for the location and determines whether one or more existing pavement markings are present at the location. Responsive to determining that one or more existing pavement markings are present at the location, the computer determines whether each of the one or more existing pavement markings meet one or more pre-determined thresholds for an acceptable pavement marking quality. Furthermore, responsive to determining each of the one or more existing pavement markings do not meet the one or more pre-determined thresholds for an acceptable pavement marking quality level, the computer provides pavement marking data to the first computing device.
US09702817B2
Method and apparatus testing engine component, for blockage of one or more through-holes in a portion of a wall. The method including (i) providing a supply of test fluid, (ii) causing or permitting flow of test fluid to occur from first to second region, (iii) illuminating the second region with electromagnetic radiation to cause scattering of electromagnetic radiation by material exiting substantially non-blocked through-holes in wall portion having passed therethrough from the first to second side, (iv) detecting said scattering of electromagnetic radiation from said substantially non-blocked through-holes; and (v) comparing said detected scattering of electromagnetic radiation from said substantially non-blocked holes with known pattern of through-holes in component wall portion to determine the presence and/or location and/or identity of any blocked or partially blocked through-holes in component wall portion.
US09702810B1
The invention provides a dual cell holder system that allows for the identical match of temperature conditions for both sample and reference simultaneously by providing two cells and a dual cell holder. The system is heated by a heating element and cooled by a Peltier, thus eliminating a significant source of humidity and the potential for leak from a water-cooling device or any of its hoses.
US09702809B2
A method and a device measure tribological values of samples with a rheometer. Wherein measuring parts of the rheometer are replaced by the samples and the surfaces of the samples are moved into frictional contact relative to each other. Accordingly, it is provided that all parts of the rheometer supporting the samples in frictional connection or frictional contact and forming the rheometer power circuit, including a spring unit pressing the samples against each other, are regarded as an oscillatory circuit. Oscillation properties of the spring unit are relevant to oscillation properties of the oscillatory circuit. The oscillation properties of the spring unit are adjusted taking into consideration resonance oscillations or effects produced by changing or different measurement conditions expected with the respective measurement.
US09702799B2
A method of performing a static gel strength test on a composition can include placing the composition into a static gel strength test instrument, stirring the composition with at least one helical blade of the instrument, and measuring resistance to rotation between a stator and a rotor of the instrument. A static gel strength test instrument can include a rotor, and a stator having at least one helical blade. The static gel strength test instrument characterizes gelation of a composition. Another static gel strength test instrument can include a stator having at least one helical blade, and a rotor having at least one helical blade.
US09702795B2
The invention provides methods and devices for preparing frozen vitrified samples for transmission electron microscopy. By reducing the volume of sample from microliter scale to picoliter scale, the requirement for blotting of excess fluid is minimized or eliminated.
US09702793B2
Improvements in a variable volume capture device are disclosed to capture a variable amount of sample. The variable amount is controlled by a linear actuator that produces a variable and adjustable stroke length that capture the programmed amount of fluid in the syringe barrel. Air or other supernatant fluid can be separated and expelled at this point. The captured fluid is then dispensed out of the syringe barrel for further testing and analysis. The capture device is then able to drain or flush the sample. Valves located on each side of the syringe barrel allow for sample collecting, dispensing and draining to ensure that the capture device is free to collect new samples. The variable volume capture device can have changeable syringe and barrel diameters and lengths to accommodate larger or smaller ranges of samples.
US09702784B2
An apparatus including a first spindle group for chucking a first gear, whereby the first gear is mountable on the first spindle group so that it is rotatable, and a second spindle group for chucking a second gear, whereby the second gear is mountable on the second spindle group so that it is rotatable. The apparatus further defining a first linear axis oriented to perform a first linear displacement of the first spindle group relative to the second spindle group; a second linear axis oriented to perform a second linear displacement of the first spindle group relative to the second spindle group; and at least one of a swivel axis oriented to perform pivoting of the first spindle group thereabout, and a swivel axis oriented to perform pivoting of the second spindle group thereabout.
US09702782B2
It is proposed a method for detecting a leak in a fuel system of a combustion engine comprising a fuel tank. The method is such that it comprises the steps of: obtaining a first set of data comprising at least a pressure data measured in the fuel system at a first time; adding energy to fluids contained in the fuel system, said energy being produced or wasted by means already present on board the vehicle for other purposes; obtaining a second set of data comprising at least a pressure data measured in the fuel system at a second time; determining the presence/absence of a leak in said fuel system by calculating a predetermined function on the basis of said first and second sets of data.
US09702781B2
There is provided a leakage detection device which can be reduced in size and attached to a leakage detection target member, such as a fluid controller, all the time, and thus, can monitor leakage of fluid all the time, and a fluid controller having the same. A fluid controller is configured by a fluid controller main body and a leakage detection device which is attached to the fluid controller main body. In the fluid controller main body, a leakage port for detecting the leakage is provided. The leakage detection device includes a sensor holding body which is attached to the fluid controller main body; an ultrasonic sensor which is held by the sensor holding body to face the leakage port; an ultrasonic passage provided between a sensor surface of the ultrasonic sensor and the leakage port; and a processing circuit for processing an ultrasonic wave obtained by the ultrasonic sensor.
US09702770B2
A signal compensation unit includes an adjustment section configured to adjust temporal variation characteristics of a detection signal obtained by a bend sensor. The adjustment section includes: a signal amplifier including a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, and an output terminal, and amplifying the detection signal; and a resistor for adjustment of the temporal variation characteristics disposed between the positive input terminal and the negative input terminal of the signal amplifier.
US09702754B2
In general, according to one embodiment, an inspection apparatus includes a disposition; a vibration detector configured to output a signal corresponding to vibration of the inspection object; a determination module configured to determine presence/absence of abnormality of the inspection object and configured to Fourier-transform an output result of the vibration detector at a time when the inspection object is disposed on the disposition section, to create vibration information indicative of vibration power of a characteristic frequency of each of structural elements of the disposition section, and to determine presence/absence of abnormality of the inspection apparatus, based on the vibration information; and a transmission module configured to transmit an output signal of the vibration detector to the determination module.
US09702753B2
A method of calibrating a mass flow sensor while harvesting grain includes sensing an accumulated mass of a portion of grain within the grain tank with a first sensor. A mass flow rate sensor is calibrated based at least in part on a signal of the first sensor.
US09702751B2
Disclosed is a dual measurement tank comprising a first tank with an open top defining a first tank volume and a second tank defining an open top and defining a second tank volume that is smaller than the first tank volume. The second tank is disposed inside the first tank so that when fluid is pumped into the top of the second tank until such fluid overflows, the fluid overflow flows into the first tank. The dual tank is placed on a scale to measure the weight of the water in the two tanks where such weight is converted to a volume.
US09702750B1
A material level indicator includes a probe, first and second signal compensating units, arranged at first and second ends of the probe respectively, and a controlling module arranged at the first end and includes a signal processor, a signal emitter, and a signal receiver. The second end is opposite to the first end. The signal processor is connected to the signal emitter and the signal receiver. The signal emitter emits an electromagnetic signal from the first end to the second end of the probe. The first and second signal compensating units reflect the electromagnetic signal, and the signal processor generates first and second time interval differences according to the reflected electromagnetic signal received by the signal receiver. The signal processor calibrates an environmental coefficient and indicates a dielectric coefficient of the material according to the first and second time interval differences respectively.
US09702747B2
A temperature-sensitive mass flowmeter includes a detecting element, a signal receiving element, and a signal processing element. The detecting element includes a first sensing element and a second sensing element. The first sensing element and the second sensing element are each a nanotube composite wire. The carbon nanotube composite wire includes a carbon nanotube wire and a metal layer. The carbon nanotube wire includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes spirally arranged along an axial direction of the carbon nanotube wire and the metal layer is coated on a surface of the carbon nanotube wire.
US09702746B2
A device for monitoring a mass or volume flow, in a gas stream with a feed line and with a plurality of electrical components, includes a flow generator, a heat-sensitive element and a data processing unit. The flow generator generates a gas stream flowing in a direction of flow through the feed line. At least one of the electrical components comprises at least one electrical element for power data supply, which is arranged in the feed line such that a waste heat of the electrical element heats the gas stream generated by the flow generator. The heat-sensitive element is arranged behind the electrical element in the direction of flow in the feed line and detects a temperature of the gas stream heated by the waste heat of the electrical element. The data processing unit determines a mass or volume flow from the temperature detected by the heat-sensitive element.
US09702745B2
A method and apparatus for determining multiphase flow characteristics inside production equipment containing at least two fluids. A pulse of heat from a heat source adjacent to the production equipment is provided, and a thermal response to the pulse is measured at each of a plurality of temperature sensors located adjacent to the production equipment. The thermal response measurement includes a time constant obtained from a measured decline in the temperature after the pulse of heat has been provided. The measured thermal responses are used to determine parameters of a fluid contained in the production equipment in proximity to each of the temperature sensors. The determined fluid parameters are in turn used to determine multiphase flow characteristics.
US09702738B2
An apparatus for measuring state variables with at least one fiber-optic sensor, containing at least one optical coupler, at least one filter element and at least one photoelectric converter, where the optical coupler, the filter element and the photoelectric converter are integrated on a substrate, and the filter element contains at least one Bragg grating which is designed to supply the light portion reflected by the Bragg grating to the photoelectric converter.
US09702733B2
A rotation angle sensor for detecting a rotation angle of a shaft of the motor or shaft of a machine which is driven by a motor, equipped with a detected part at an outer circumferential part of a rotary body attached to the shaft and a detection element facing the detected part provided on a pedestal which is surrounding the shaft, wherein a recessed part which is provided at the pedestal is formed with an abutting surface which abuts against an end face of the detection element at the side far from the shaft of the detection element, the distance of the abutting surface from the axial line is made different along the peripheral direction of the pedestal, and a position of the detection element abutting against the abutting surface is moved in the peripheral direction so as to adjust the difference between the rotary body and the detection element.
US09702731B2
A system and method for measuring and reporting the renewable and non-renewable resources usage in an automated manner is provided. The system includes an AMI Meter for measuring resources usage and communicates to an AMI Server through multiple inbuilt communication facility. The AMI Server stores and process the data received from the AMI Meter for producing billing and control information. The informational messages are sent to the corresponding consumer AMI Meters and get updated in payment nodes by the AMI Server. The AMI Meter is also facilitated with auto registration (registering with server) and bi-directional metering features.
US09702726B2
A system and method for providing the information contained in instrument procedure charts in a more intuitive and easier to comprehend manner is provided. The provided enhanced instrument procedure visualization system displays a dynamic three-dimensional view of a selected instrument procedure, and incorporates time-relevant information from weather and traffic sources. The provided enhanced instrument procedure visualization system further allows a pilot to scroll forward and backward in time to review and study the complete instrument procedure.
US09702724B2
Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a transit map including a group of transit lines. The mapping application receives a request to display a transit route in the transit map. The mapping application also, in response to the received request, displays the transit route by modifying portions of transit lines along the route to emphasize the portions of the transit lines while modifying other transit lines not along the route to de-emphasize the transit lines not along the route.
US09702723B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to provide navigational instructions in a manner that does not require the user to view the navigational instructions. In the context of a method, user input is received that is representative of an estimation by the user of a navigational instruction. The method also determines whether the estimation by the user matches the navigational instruction. Further, the method causes feedback to be generated at least in an instance in which the estimation by the user fails to match the navigational instruction. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09702721B2
On a mobile device a “live” network-based query for search is performed (e.g., performed automatically) in response to a map display update or other trigger event. In some implementations, when the map display is updated (or other trigger event occurs) a network-based map service is queried to obtain information related to the current location of the mobile device. The information can be presented on the map display. In some implementations, when multiple search results matching the query are provided by the map service, a confirmation request is presented on the mobile device to allow the user to select a search result. The selected search result (e.g., a destination) can be presented on the map display. A route from the current location of the mobile device to a destination can be drawn on the map display.
US09702712B2
An on-board system includes at least one execution unit executing an operation for eliminating an inattentive state of a driver of a vehicle, an information acquiring section acquiring driver state information, a state determination section determining whether the driver is in the inattentive state, a position specifying section specifying a present position of the vehicle, a searching section searching for a resting place at which the driver can have a rest based on the present position and information stored in a resting place database when the driver is in the inattentive state, and an execution unit control section calculating a necessary travel time to the resting place and activates at least one target execution unit to start operation when the necessary travel time is equal to or longer than a predetermined threshold period.
