Patents Assigned to CO
  • Reflectometer, spectrophotometer, ellipsometer or polarimeter system including sample imaging system that simultaneously meets scheimpflug condition and overcomes keystone error
    Patent number: 10859439
    Abstract: An imaging system, and method of its use, for viewing a sample surface at an inclined angle, preferably in functional combination with a sample investigating reflectometer, spectrophotometer, ellipsometer or polarimeter system; wherein the imaging system provides that a sample surface and multi-element imaging detector surface are oriented with respect to one another to meet the Scheimpflug condition, and wherein a telecentric lens system is simultaneously positioned between the sample surface and the input surface of the multi-element imaging detector such that an image of the sample surface produced by said multi-element imaging detector is both substantially in focus over the extent thereof, and such that substantially no keystone error is demonstrated in said image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: J.A. WOOLLAM CO., INC.
    Inventors: Martin M. Lihardt, Ping He, Galen L. Pfeiffer
  • Use of genic male sterility gene and mutation thereof in hybridization
    Patent number: 10856481
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of biotechnology, in particular to a hybrid breeding method for maize, which comprises sterile line reproduction and hybrid seed production, and more particularly to plant FL1 gene or alleles thereof, as well as mutant plants produced by the variation of the gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Xingwang Investment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junli Zhou, Ying Wang
  • Device and method of detecting leakage current generation condition in USB interface
    Patent number: 10859640
    Abstract: A device for detecting a leakage current generation condition in a universal serial bus (USB) interface including at least one pull-up circuit connected to the at least one power pin, and a port controller configured to detect at least one impedance between a ground pin and at least one power pin, detect a leakage current generation condition in the at least one power pin based on the at least one impedance detected, and activate a detection signal in response to the leakage current generation condition being detected, the port controller configured to detect the at least one impedance by controlling the at least one pull-up circuit to pull up the at least one power pin and detecting a voltage of the at least one power pin may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-hye Ko, Je-kook Kim
  • Systems and methods for UAV path planning and control
    Patent number: 10860040
    Abstract: A method for determining a target direction for a movable object includes providing an image on a computer-implemented display, obtaining a position of a selected point on the image in response to a user selecting the point on the image, and determining the target direction based on the position of the selected point on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Hu, Ang Liu, Litian Zhang, Ketan Tang
  • Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same
    Patent number: 10861408
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels for displaying an image; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature; an image data corrector for calculating correction parameters based on a grayscale change, calculating temperature parameters based on preset reference temperatures and the correction parameters, and correcting current image data to provide corrected image data based on the correction parameters and the temperature parameters; and a data driver for converting the corrected current image data into a data voltage and supplying the data voltage to the display panel. At least one of the correction parameters has a value that varies linearly with the sensed temperature and is based in part on the temperature parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Man Kim, Dong Hyun Yeo, Byung Kil Jeon, Yong Bum Kim, Woo Jung Jung
  • Flux and solder paste
    Patent number: 10857630
    Abstract: Provided are a flux having improved wetting and spreading properties and capable of suppressing the occurrence of dewetting and a solder paste using this flux. The flux includes a total amount of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Hiroyoshi Kawasaki, Takahiro Nishizaki
  • Flexible display device
    Patent number: 10860063
    Abstract: A flexible display device is provided, which includes a housing, a sliding assembly, and a flexible assembly. The flexible assembly includes a first section and a second section, and the second section is positioned in the housing. When the flexible display device is displayed on a small screen, the first section is in a display state, and the second section is in a non-display state. When the flexible display device is displayed on a large screen, the sliding assembly moves the second section from within the housing to a surface of the sliding assembly, the first section and the second section are in the display states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Han, Zhuo Zhang, Fang Wang
  • Synchronizer ring for a synchronization unit of a manual transmission and method for the production thereof
    Patent number: 10859124
    Abstract: A synchronizer ring for a synchronization unit of a manual transmission is produced from a sheet metal material and has a conical friction surface on the inner side thereof and has a device for radial centering of the synchronizer ring on the outer side thereof. The device for radial centering includes a plurality of separate arc-shaped centering collar portions spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Diehl Metall Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventor: Murat Arbak
  • Air gap formation between gate spacer and epitaxy structure
    Patent number: 10861753
    Abstract: A method includes forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, forming a first spacer layer on a sidewall of the gate stack, forming a sacrificial spacer film over the first spacer layer, forming an epitaxy structure on the semiconductor substrate, and performing an etching process on the sacrificial spacer film to form a gap between the first spacer layer and the epitaxy structure. An outer portion of the sacrificial spacer film has a topmost end higher than that of an inner portion of the sacrificial spacer film after performing the etching process. The method further includes forming a second spacer layer to seal the gap between the epitaxy structure and the first spacer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Yu Lai, Kai-Hsuan Lee, Wei-Yang Lee, Feng-Cheng Yang, Yen-Ming Chen
  • Access method, apparatus, device, and system
    Patent number: 10863555
    Abstract: The present application discloses an access method, apparatus, device, and system, and belongs to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a selection function entity SFE, an access request of user equipment UE sent by a radio access network node RAN node; determining a usage type of the UE based on the access request of the UE; and selecting, for the UE based on the usage type of the UE, a node that is in a dedicated core network and that can serve the UE, where the node that is in the dedicated core network and that can serve the UE corresponds to the usage type of the UE. Therefore, a node accessed by the UE is the node in the dedicated core network corresponding to the UE, and this ensures that the node can complete security verification of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuan Wang, Fenqin Zhu, Jingwang Ma
  • Uplink channel sending method and apparatus
    Patent number: 10863449
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the communications field, and provides an uplink data sending method and apparatus, so as to adapt to uplink channel sending in a case of a shortened transmission cycle. The method includes: performing, by a terminal, power control depending on whether a time domain resource on which an uplink channel is located carries a reference signal (RS) of the uplink channel; determining first transmission power of a first uplink channel; and sending, by the terminal, the first uplink channel at the first transmission power. The foregoing method improves accuracy of uplink channel demodulation by a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiafeng Shao
  • Semiconductor device with negative capacitance structure and method for forming the same
    Patent number: 10861968
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate having a fin structure that includes a negative capacitance (NC) material. The semiconductor device structure also includes a gate electrode layer, a gate dielectric structure, a source feature, and a drain feature. The gate dielectric structure covers the top surface and the opposing sidewall surfaces of the fin structure. The gate electrode layer is formed over the gate dielectric structure. The source feature and the drain feature are formed in and protrude from the fin structure, and separated from each other by the gate electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Feng Young, Chih-Yu Chang, Sai-Hooi Yeong, Chi-On Chui, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Elastic wave filter device
    Patent number: 10862452
    Abstract: An elastic wave filter device includes a ladder filter that includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators. In one series arm resonator in which the acoustic velocity in a first and second edge area is lower than in a central area, each first electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the second edge area, and each second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the first edge area. In at least one of remaining series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators, each first and second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in both of the first and second edge areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Okada
  • System and method for blockchain-based cross-entity authentication
    Patent number: 10862674
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for blockchain-based cross-entity authentication are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining an authentication request by a first entity for authenticating a user, wherein the authentication request comprises a decentralized identifier (DID) of the user; in response to determining that the first entity is permitted to access authentication information of the user endorsed by a second entity, generating a blockchain transaction for obtaining an authentication result of the user by the second entity, wherein the authentication result is associated with the DID; and transmitting the blockchain transaction to a blockchain node for adding to a blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shubo Li, Jiawei Liu, Renhui Yang
  • Apparatus and method for controlling auto focus function in electronic device
    Patent number: 10863076
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for performing an Auto Focus (AF) function in an electronic device which does not perform the AF function while performing a camcorder function are provided. The apparatus includes a camera for receiving a photographing data, a camera processing unit for performing any one of a still picture acquisition function and an AF function, a recording processing unit for performing a function for recording the photographing data, a camera driver for operating the camera under control of the camera processing unit and the recording processing unit, and a processor for controlling the camera processing unit and the recording processing unit when detecting an AF request while photographing a moving picture to focus on the photographing data automatically and to record the focused photographing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Heum Cho, Gi-Ung Jung
  • Method and device for generating far-field speech data, computer device and computer readable storage medium
    Patent number: 10861480
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for generating far-field speech data, a computer device and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes obtaining environmental noise in real environment and adjusting near-field speech data in a near-field speech data set based on the environmental noise, further includes generating far-field speech data based on adjusted near-field speech data and the environmental noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianwei Sun, Chao Li, Xin Li, Weixin Zhu, Ming Wen
  • Majority voting processing device, semiconductor memory device, and majority voting method for information data
    Patent number: 10861510
    Abstract: A majority voting processing device performs majority voting on respective bits of information data piece including r-number of bits (r is an integer of 2 or greater). The device includes a memory including a plurality of memory element groups each including r-number of memory elements that store data for the corresponding r-number of bits, respectively, the plurality of memory element groups each being provide for one address. A memory access unit writes each bit of the information data piece in k-number (k is an odd number of 3 or greater) of the memory elements in the memory element group corresponding to one address, and reads out the k-number of bits written in the k-number of the memory elements corresponding to that one address. A majority voter that performs majority voting on the k-number of bits read out from the memory by the memory access unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobukazu Murata
  • Method of forming a low-k layer and method of forming a semiconductor device
    Patent number: 10861695
    Abstract: A method of forming a low-k layer includes forming a layer by providing a silicon source, a carbon source, an oxygen source, and a nitrogen source onto a substrate. The forming of the layer includes a plurality of main cycles, and each of the main cycles includes providing the silicon source, providing the carbon source, providing the oxygen source, and providing the nitrogen source, each of which is performed at least one time. Each of the main cycles includes sub-cycles in which the providing of the carbon source and the providing of the oxygen source are alternately performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Minjae Kang, Se-Yeon Kim, Teawon Kim, Yong-Suk Tak, Sunjung Kim
  • Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10861938
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes: a substrate, an n-type drift region formed on a main surface of the substrate; a p-type well region, an n-type drain region and an n-type source region each formed in the drift region to extend from a second main surface of the drift region opposite to the first main surface of the drift region in contact with the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the second main surface; a gate groove extending from the second main surface in the perpendicular direction and penetrating the source region and the well region in a direction parallel to the first main surface of the substrate; and a gate electrode formed on a surface of the gate groove with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween, wherein the drift region has a higher impurity concentration than the substrate, and the well region extends to the inside of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Ni, Tetsuya Hayashi, Toshiharu Marui, Yuji Saito, Kenta Emori
  • Transmitting BGP message
    Patent number: 10862792
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a BGP message and a routing device are provided. According to an example of the method, a queue for holding BGP messages to be transmitted is partitioned into more than two subqueues according to types of BGP routes, where each of the subqueues is used to hold a BGP message carrying a corresponding type of BGP route. A BGP message carrying a BGP route to be advertised is placed into one of the more than two subqueues according to the type of the BGP route. A target subqueue is selected from the more than two subqueues according to a first scheduling algorithm, and a BGP message in the target subqueue is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NEW H3C TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Wu, Liang Wang, Yuelei Chao