Patents Assigned to National Applied Research Laboratories
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Patent number: 10914855Abstract: A geomorphological structure monitoring system is disclosed, which comprises a supporting base having an accommodating space and a plurality of through holes, and at least a portion of the supporting base is embedded under a ground; a plurality of sensing devices arranged in the accommodating space vertically and embedded under the ground, the sensing devices may generate a sensing signal when the sensing devices are exposed from the ground due to the structural change of the ground; a signal processing device receiving and processing the sensing signal; and a transmission device connecting the sensing devices in series and the signal processing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Yung-Bin Lin, Tai-Shan Liao, Kuo-Chun Chang
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Patent number: 10914805Abstract: A signal error calibrating method is disclosed herein and includes following steps: filtering an error voltage in a sensor by a low pass filter in a calibration mode; converting the offset voltage to be a digital offset signal by an analog digital signal converter; converting the digital offset signal to be an offset calibrating signal by a digital analog signal converter; transmitting the offset calibrating signal to an input end of the sensor so as to offset an error voltage at the input end of the sensor. After calibrating the error voltage, the analog digital converter in the error calibrating circuit can be used for the need of signal output and the low pass filter is turned off at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: Chih-Yuan Yeh, Po-Chang Wu, Hann-Huei Tsai, Ying-Zong Juang
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Patent number: 10912948Abstract: The present invention provides a composite intelligent biological phototherapy device including a base structure, a plurality of white light fluorescent tubes arranged side by side on the base structure, a plurality of LEDs disposed between the white light fluorescent tubes, a housing having an opening and configured to accommodate the base structure and the white light fluorescent tubes and the LEDs thereon, a light-transmittable plate disposed on the housing corresponding to the opening, and an control module configured to respectively control the white light fluorescent tubes and the LEDs. The base structure includes a plurality of sections, and each of the sections has a first surface facing the light-transmittable plate. The white light fluorescent tubes and the LEDs are provided on the first surfaces, and the sections are bent relative to each other so an angle between the first surfaces of adjacent sections is less than 180 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Yi-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Yi Tsai, Min-Wei Hung, Kuo-Cheng Huang, Hsin-Su Yu, Chiou-Lian Lai, Chung-Yao Hsu, Chao-Hung Cheng, Li-Wei Kuo, Hung-Che Chiang, Chih-Yi Yang
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Patent number: 10912499Abstract: The present invention provides a detecting apparatus based on image for detecting blood glucose concentration and method thereof. The detecting apparatus comprising a lighting device, an image capture device, a thermal imager and an operating device. The lighting device including a first wavelength of light source and a second wavelength of light source, configured to illuminate skin. The image capture device disposed above the lighting device, configured to capture a first image and a second image corresponding to the first wavelength of light source and the second wavelength of light source illuminated on the skin respectively. The thermal imager is configured to detect temperature of the skin. The operating device is connected to the lighting device, the image capture device and the thermal imager, configured to calculate blood glucose concentration according to the first image, the second image and the temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Hsin-Yi Tsai, Kuo-Cheng Huang, Ching-Ching Yang, Tzu-Ting Wei
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Publication number: 20200371373Abstract: A Focal Plane Assembly (FPA) of a remote sensing satellite for receiving a focal plane image provided by an optical lens, comprises a sub-pixel shifting field separator, a first linear image sensor, and a second linear image sensor. The field separator split the focal plane image up into a first half focal plane image and a second half focal plane image, the first linear image sensor, located at an edge of a half focal plane, receives the first half focal plane image to generate a first image, the second linear image sensor, located at an edge of another half focal plane, receives the second half focal plane image to generate a second image, wherein a sub-pixel shifting relation is between the first image and the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: Jer Ling, Ming-Yuan Yeh
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Patent number: 10832054Abstract: A guidance seeking device for a satellite and a method of enhancing the performance of the same. The device includes a seeking device, at least one image-capturing device and a processing device. The seeking device and the at least one image-capturing device are for capturing an image to produce an image data. The processing device is configured to analyze the image data to determine a target and/or an obstacle therein, to produce an image-capturing path according to the target and/or the obstacle in the image data, and to produce a control signal to control the at least one image-capturing device to capture an image corresponding to one part of the image-capturing path. The method includes a seeking step, an analyzing step, a determination step and a controlling step.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Pei Hsuan Wu, Jer Ling, Po-Yen Huang
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Patent number: 10803603Abstract: Disclosures of the present invention describe a moving object detection system and method, wherein a pre-processer module, a feature extraction module, an image optical flow estimation module, a feature points grouping module, and a moving object determination module are provided in a controlling and processing module of the system by a form of library, variables, or operands. Moreover, a feature difference calculation unit, a matrix establishing unit and a corner feature point acquiring unit are provided in the feature extraction module, and that is helpful for enhancing computing speed of the controlling and processing device in verifying corner feature points from image frames. Therefore, after the corner feature points are applied with a cluster labeling process, the moving object determination module can achieve motion detection of at least one object locating in a monitoring area by determining whether corner feature point groups move or not.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Pei-Jun Lee, Zheng-Kai Chiu, Kuang-Zhe Liu, Chia-Ray Chen, Hsin-Chia Lin
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Patent number: 10786326Abstract: A surgical image pickup system utilizes an adjustable lens set and a complex lens set to change the direction of the incident light emitted from the light source and the position of the surgical site on which the incident light projects. The eyepiece and the sensor have the same field of view and the same optical axis such that first image generated by the sensor and a second image generated by the eyepiece are the same. The sensor transmits the first image to the external display for display by wireless communication. By means of the foregoing configuration, the second image which doctor utilizes the eyepiece to see and the first image which the external display displays are the same, thereby facilitating the operation of surgery.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: Rui-Cian Weng, Yih-Sharng Chen, Te-I Chang, Chi-Hung Huang, Yen-Pei Lu, Yen-Song Chen, Kuan-Yin Yu
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Patent number: 10768414Abstract: The present invention discloses a lens device suitable for the large-diameter lenses (with diameter ?100 mm) of a vertical setup, and its adjustment method. The aberration caused by the self-gravity of lenses and the deformation generated by the clamping stress of the fixing device is compensated.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Cheng-Fang Ho, Wei-Jie Peng, Wei-Yao Hsu
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Patent number: 10727231Abstract: A heterogeneously integrated semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a first material; a recess formed within the substrate and having a bottom portion with a first width, a top portion with a second width and a middle portion with a third width larger than the first width and the second width; and a first semiconductor layer filled in the bottom portion and including a second material different from the first material.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignees: National Applied Research Laboratories, EPISTAR CorporationInventors: Shih-Pang Chang, Guang-Li Luo, Szu-Hung Chen, Wen-Kuan Yeh, Jen-Inn Chyi, Meng-Yang Chen, Rong-Ren Lee, Shih-Chang Lee, Ta-Cheng Hsu
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Publication number: 20200178878Abstract: The present invention provides a method for swallow safety monitoring and a device thereof, which can monitor eating safety in real-time. By means of the real-time records of fundamental breath sound, the feeding safety for patients or weakness persons with dysphagia can be real-timely monitored and alarmed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: HUNG-MIN SUN, TZU-I TSENG, SHU-HUI HUNG
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Patent number: 10670109Abstract: The vertical vibration isolation system of the present invention includes a bearing base, a guide rail assembly and a plurality of buckling elements. The bearing base has an upper platform that can move along a vertical direction. The guide rail assembly surrounds the bearing base and has a plurality of arc-shaped sliding channels. The top portion of each buckling element can move with the upper platform, while the bottom portion of each buckling element is slidably connected to the corresponding arc-shaped sliding channel. The vertical displacement of the upper platform would cause different degrees of buckling of the buckling elements and also induces sliding motion of the bottom portion of the buckling elements along the arc-shaped sliding channels. Accordingly, the vertical vibration isolation system can provide nonlinear restoring force by buckling and sliding mechanisms so as to exhibit vertical vibration isolation effect.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Chia-ming Chang, Cho-Yen Yang, Shieh-Kung Huang, Chen-Hao Hsu
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Patent number: 10656184Abstract: A signal process circuit includes a signal modulation unit, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first discharge unit, a second discharge unit and a discharge detection unit. The signal modulation unit is used to modulate an input signal for generating a modulated signal. The first resistor is coupled between the signal modulation unit and an operation node. The second resistor is coupled between the operation node and the signal modulation unit. The first discharge unit is coupled to the signal modulation unit. The discharge unit is coupled to the signal modulation unit. The discharge detection unit is coupled to the first discharge unit, the operation node and the second discharge unit for detecting an output common voltage and control a discharge path accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Ying-Zong Juang, Hann-Huei Tsai, Po-Chang Wu, Yu-Chen Liu, Chih-Yuan Yeh
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Patent number: 10655704Abstract: The geometrically nonlinear isolation system of the present invention includes a bearing platform, an isolator and a damper. The isolator is connected with the bearing platform and used for providing resilience against horizontal relative displacement between the bearing platform and the isolator. The damper is pin-jointed to the bearing platform and has an axis orthogonal or oblique to the horizontal direction. Accordingly, when the bearing platform and the isolator move with respect to each other along the horizontal direction, the angle between the axis of the damper and the horizontal direction would change with the horizontal displacement, and the damper provides damping force along a direction parallel to the axis of the damper so as to enhance horizontal vibration isolation effect.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: Chia-Ming Chang, Shieh-Kung Huang, Cho-Yen Yang
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Patent number: 10656129Abstract: The present invention provides a miniature gas sensor, which comprises a gas sensor chip. The gas sensor chip includes a hollow structure on the back. An insulating layer is disposed below the sensing material. A miniature heating device is disposed surrounding the sensing material. The sensing material is adhered to the sensing electrodes. The sensing material includes two metal oxide semiconductors or a compound structure of the sensing layer having a metal oxide semiconductor and a reaction layer with a rough surface. An interface layer is sandwiched between the two metal oxide layers for increasing the efficiency in sensing gas. The gas sensor according to the present invention can be implemented on silicon substrate with hollow structures. In addition, the size of the chip can be miniaturized.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Ting-Jen Hsueh, Yu-Jen Hsiao, Yu-Te Lin, Yen-Hsi Li, Yung-Hsiang Chen, Jia-Min Shieh
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Patent number: 10620230Abstract: A system for analyzing velocity distribution of water flow includes a water outlet, a thermographic camera and a processing device. The water outlet is disposed above a water body for discharging sample water thereto, the sample water having a temperature higher than that of the water body. The thermographic camera is disposed above the water body for capturing first and second thermographic images of the water body at different time instances after the discharge of the sample water. The processing device calculates a flow velocity of the sample water in the water body based on the first and second thermographic images, and to analyze the velocity distribution of the water body according to the flow velocity of the sample water.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventor: Shi-Wei Lo
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Patent number: 10600915Abstract: A flexible substrate structure including a flexible substrate, a first dielectric layer, a metal-containing layer and a second dielectric layer is provided. The first dielectric layer is located on the flexible substrate. The metal-containing layer has a reflectivity greater than 15% and a heat transfer coefficient greater than 2 W/m-K. The metal-containing layer is disposed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer is an inorganic material layer. A flexible transistor including the above-mentioned flexible substrate structure and a method for fabricating the same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: Wen-Hsien Huang, Jia-Min Shieh, Chang-Hong Shen
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Patent number: 10572741Abstract: An image-based vehicle classification system includes a camera and an image server connected to the camera. The camera captures images of a road to result in an image stream. The image server includes a processor for receiving the image stream from the camera. For each of the images of the image stream, the processor performs image segmentation, a thinning process, an erosion process and a dilation process, and classifies, by a neural network classifier, a vehicle image part contained in the image into one of a large-size car class, a passenger car class and a motorcycle class when it is determined that the vehicle image is crossing an imaginary line set in advance in the image for counting vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Chung-I Huang, Chien-Hao Tseng, Fang-Pang Lin
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Patent number: 10543367Abstract: The invention provides transcranial electrostimulation by combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and theta burst stimulation (TBS) to achieve an unexpected therapeutic effect in various brain or neural diseases. Accordingly, the invention provides a mode of direct current with biphasic square wave pulses in the treatment of brain or neural diseases. Also provided are methods of employing the transcranial electrostimulation of the invention and applications of the transcranial electrostimulation of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignees: TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Chih-Wei Peng, Shih-Ching Chen, Yu Ting Li, Hsiang Ching Lee, Jia-Jin J. Chen, Tsung-Hsun Hsieh, Chien-Hung Lai, Jiunn-Horng Kang
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Patent number: 10533962Abstract: The present invention provides a gas sensor structure comprising a gas sensing chip. The back of the sensing material is a hollow structure. An insulating layer is below the sensing material. A micro heating is disposed surrounding the sensing material. The sensing material adheres to sensing electrodes. The sensing material is a complex structure including a metal oxide semiconductor and a roughened lanthanum-carbonate gas sensing layer. The thickness of the metal oxide semiconductor is between 0.2 ?m and 10 ?m; the thickness of the roughened lanthanum-carbonate gas sensing layer is between 0.1 ?m and 4 ?m; and the size of the back etching holes is smaller than 1*1 mm. By using the gas sensor structure according to the present invention, a suspended gas sensing structure can be fabricated on a silicon substrate and the chip size can be minimized.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: National Applied Research LaboratoriesInventors: Yu-Jen Hsiao, Ting-Jen Hsueh, Yu-Te Lin, Yen-Hsi Li, Jia-Min Shieh, Chien-Wei Liu, Chi-Wei Chiang