Patents by Inventor Chao-Kuang Yang

Chao-Kuang Yang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11962743
    Abstract: A 3D display system and a 3D display method are provided. The 3D display system includes a 3D display, a memory, and a processor. The processor is coupled to the 3D display and the memory and is configured to execute the following steps. As a first type application program is executed, an image content of the first type application program is captured, and a stereo format image is generated according to the image content of the first type application program. The stereo format image is delivered to a runtime complying with a specific development standard through an application program interface complying with the specific development standard. A display frame processing associated with the 3D display is performed on the stereo format image through the runtime, and a 3D display image content generated by the display frame processing is provided to the 3D display for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Hsi Lin, Chih-Wen Huang
  • Publication number: 20240098183
    Abstract: A marking method on image combined with sound signal, a terminal apparatus, and a server are provided. In the method, a first image is displayed. A selection command is detected. A target sound signal is embedded into a speech signal so as to generate a combined sound signal. The combined sound signal is transmitted. The selection command corresponds to a target region in the first image, and the selection command is generated selecting the target region through an input operation. The target sound signal corresponds to the target region of the selection command, and the speech signal is obtained by receiving sound. Accordingly, all attendants in the video conference are able to make makings on a shared screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Po-Jen Tu, Ming-Chun Fang, Jia-Ren Chang, Kai-Meng Tzeng, Chao-Kuang Yang
  • Publication number: 20240020082
    Abstract: An electronic device including a working screen, a sharing screen and a processor is provided. The processor is electrically connected to the working screen and the sharing screen and is configured to: create a virtual desktop of the working screen; assign the virtual desktop to the sharing screen; executes an application; and share the virtual desktop containing a window frame of the application to a remote computer device or share the window frame itself to the remote computer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuan-Ju CHEN, Hung-Ming CHANG, Chao-Kuang YANG
  • Patent number: 11836875
    Abstract: An augmented reality screen system includes an augmented reality device and a host. The augmented reality device is configured to take a physical mark through a camera. The host is configured to receive the physical mark, determine position information and rotation information of the physical mark, and fetch a virtual image from a storage device through a processor of the host. The processor transmits an adjusted virtual image to the augmented reality device according to the position information and the rotation information, and the augmentation device projects the adjusted virtual image to a display of the augmented reality device. The adjusted virtual image becomes a virtual extended screen, and the virtual extended screen and the physical mark are simultaneously displayed on the display of the augmented reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Huei-Ping Tzeng, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Wen Huang, Chih-Haw Tan
  • Patent number: 11838491
    Abstract: A 3D display system and a 3D display method are provided. The 3D display system includes a 3D display, a memory and one or more processors. The memory records a plurality of modules, and the processor accesses and executes the modules recorded by the memory. The modules include a bridge interface module and a 3D display service module. When an application is executed by the processor, the bridge interface module creates a virtual extend screen, and moves the application to the virtual extend screen. The bridge interface module obtains a 2D content frame of the application from the virtual extend screen by a screenshot function. The 3D display service module converts the 2D content frame into a 3D format frame by communicating with a third-party software development kit, and provides the 3D format frame to the 3D display for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu
  • Patent number: 11805237
    Abstract: A display system is provided. The display system includes a virtual reality display apparatus, an autostereoscopic display apparatus, and a host. In response to a processing unit of the host receiving a specific input signal, the processing unit generates a display-mode control signal, executes an image-conversion software development kit of an OpenVR driver to convert a virtual-reality (VR) stereoscopic image, that is generated by a VR application executed by the host, into an autostereoscopic image, and writes the autostereoscopic image to a second image buffer of the host. In response to the display-mode control signal, the autostereoscopic display apparatus is switched to an autostereoscopic display mode, and a multiplexing circuit of the host selects the autostereoscopic image stored in the second image buffer as an output image signal, and sends the output image signal to the autostereoscopic display apparatus for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230244509
    Abstract: A virtual processing device, for controlling a displaying of a first operating interface of a first guest virtual machine, the virtual processing device comprises the following elements. A display and desktop generation unit, for receiving a graphic application and generating a virtual desktop creation command, the virtual desktop creation command is used to create a first virtual desktop to display the first operating interface with full-screen. A window management unit, for setting a display position at which the first operating interface is displayed on the first virtual desktop, according to the graphic application. A display and desktop management unit, for setting a display number and a desktop number related to the first guest virtual machine according to the virtual-desktop-creation-command, the desktop number corresponds to the first virtual desktop. The first operating interface and the host operating interface are switched to display on at least one displayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuan-Ju CHEN, Chao-Kuang YANG
  • Publication number: 20230239450
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image generation box, a stereoscopic image display method and a stereoscopic image display system are provided. The stereoscopic image generation box includes an image receiving and detecting unit, a depth information analysis unit, an image processing unit, a synthesis unit and a data transmission unit. The image receiving and detecting unit is used for receiving a two-dimensional image from an image source. The depth information analysis unit is used for obtaining a depth information according to the two-dimensional image. The image processing unit is used for converting the two-dimensional image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image according to the depth information. The synthesizing unit is used for synthesizing the left-eye image and the right-eye image to generate a stereoscopic image. The data transmission unit is used for outputting the stereoscopic image to a display, so that the display can directly display the stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chao-Kuang Yang
  • Publication number: 20230071576
    Abstract: A 3D display system and a 3D display method are provided. The 3D display system includes a 3D display, a memory and one or more processors. The memory records a plurality of modules, and the processor accesses and executes the modules recorded by the memory. The modules include a bridge interface module and a 3D display service module. When an application is executed by the processor, the bridge interface module creates a virtual extend screen, and moves the application to the virtual extend screen. The bridge interface module obtains a 2D content frame of the application from the virtual extend screen by a screenshot function. The 3D display service module converts the 2D content frame into a 3D format frame by communicating with a third-party software development kit, and provides the 3D format frame to the 3D display for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu
  • Patent number: 11586304
    Abstract: A digital-pointer interaction system is provided, which includes a display apparatus, a host, a wireless receiving device, and a plurality of wireless pointer devices. The host plays a display screen on the display apparatus, and executes a digital-pointer application. The digital-pointer application renders a plurality of pointer cursors on the display screen according to a number of wireless pointer devices connected to the wireless receiving device, and each wireless pointer device corresponds to each pointer cursor. Each wireless pointer device periodically emits an indication signal to the wireless receiving device, and the wireless receiving device transmits the indication signal to the host. The indication signal includes displacement information of each wireless pointer device. The digital-pointer application controls movement of each pointer cursor on the display screen according to the displacement information of each wireless pointer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Chun-Wen Wang, Shu-Kuo Kao, Chao-Kuang Yang, Chien-Shan Wang, Shu-Wei Yeh, Chi-Hsiu Kao
  • Publication number: 20230031556
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an augmented reality (AR) system and an operation method thereof. The AR system includes a target device, an AR server, and an AR device. The target device displays a marker. The AR server provides a digital content corresponding to the marker. The AR device captures the target device and the marker to generate a picture. The AR device obtains the digital content from the AR server through a communication network. The AR device tracks the target device in the picture according to the marker for an AR application. During the AR application, the AR device overlays the digital content on the target device in the picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Yu Fu, Chao-Kuang Yang
  • Publication number: 20220414990
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) system and an operation method thereof are provided. The AR system includes a target device and an AR device. The target device senses an attitude of the target device to generate attitude information, and provides a digital content and the attitude information to the AR device. The AR device captures the target device to generate an image. The AR device tracks a target location of the target device in the image to perform an AR application. When performing the AR application, the AR device overlays the digital content on the target location in the image, and correspondingly adjusts an attitude of the digital content in the image based on the attitude information of the target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Yu Fu, Chao-Kuang Yang
  • Patent number: 11539933
    Abstract: A 3D display system and a 3D display method are provided. The 3D display system includes a 3D display, a memory and one or more processors. The memory records a plurality of modules, and the processor accesses and executes the modules recorded by the memory. The modules include a bridge interface module and a 3D display service module. When an application is executed by the processor, the bridge interface module creates a virtual extend screen, and moves the application to the virtual extend screen. The bridge interface module obtains a 2D content frame of the application from the virtual extend screen by a screenshot function. The 3D display service module converts the 2D content frame into a 3D format frame by communicating with a third-party software development kit, and provides the 3D format frame to the 3D display for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu
  • Publication number: 20220405984
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) system and an operation method thereof are provided. The AR system includes a target device and an AR device. The AR device captures the target device to generate a picture. The target device provides a digital content to the AR device. The AR device tracks the target device in the picture for an AR application. During the AR application, the AR device overlays the digital content on the target device in the picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Yu Fu, Chao-Kuang Yang
  • Patent number: 11503106
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a data transmission method thereof are provided. The data transmission method is adapted to the electronic apparatus including a touch screen, and the data transmission method includes the following steps. An image frame is displayed through the touch screen. A connection with another electronic apparatus placed on the touch screen is established. Position information of said another electronic apparatus on the touch screen is detected through the touch screen, to capture a partial frame from the image frame according to the position information of said another electronic apparatus. Feature information of data to be transmitted is obtained from the partial frame. The data to be transmitted is sent to said another electronic apparatus via the connection according to the feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yen-Shuo Huang, Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chao-Kuang Yang, Ling-Fan Tsao, Chueh-Pin Ko, Chih-Chiang Chen, Tai Ju, Yu-Shan Ruan, Yu-Chieh Huang
  • Patent number: 11494045
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and an object information recognition method by using touch data thereof are provided. Touch sensing is performed in the case where no object touches a touch panel to obtain a specific background frame through the touch panel. A current touch sensing frame is obtained through the touch panel. Touch background data of a plurality of first frame cells in the specific background frame is respectively subtracted from touch raw data of a plurality of second frame cells in the current touch sensing frame to obtain a background removal frame including a plurality of cell values. The background removal frame is transformed into a touch sensing image. The touch sensing image is inputted to a trained neural network model to recognize object information of a touch object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Huang, Eric Choi, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chao-Kuang Yang, Yen-Shuo Huang, Ling-Fan Tsao, Chueh-Pin Ko, Chih-Chiang Chen, Tai Ju
  • Patent number: 11489944
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a data transmission method thereof are provided. The data transmission method is adapted to an electronic apparatus including a screen, and the data transmission method includes the following steps. An image frame is displayed through the screen. A selection marquee is displayed on the image frame through the screen, and the selection marquee is configured for selecting a partial image frame from the image frame. Connection information is displayed within the selection marquee through the screen, and feature information of data to be transmitted is recognized from the partial image frame selected by the selection marquee. A connection with another electronic apparatus is established according to the connection information. The data to be transmitted is sent to the another electronic apparatus via the connection according to the feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu-Chieh Huang, Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chao-Kuang Yang, Ling-Fan Tsao, Chueh-Pin Ko, Chih-Chiang Chen, Tai Ju, Yu-Shan Ruan
  • Publication number: 20220345679
    Abstract: A 3D display system and a 3D display method are provided. The 3D display system includes a 3D display, a memory, and a processor. The processor is coupled to the 3D display and the memory and is configured to execute the following steps. As a first type application program is executed, an image content of the first type application program is captured, and a stereo format image is generated according to the image content of the first type application program. The stereo format image is delivered to a runtime complying with a specific development standard through an application program interface complying with the specific development standard. A display frame processing associated with the 3D display is performed on the stereo format image through the runtime, and a 3D display image content generated by the display frame processing is provided to the 3D display for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Hsi Lin, Chih-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11481875
    Abstract: A method for processing an image that can be played on a virtual device, including obtaining a super-resolution deep learning network model, which is trained to learn to reconstruct an image from low resolution to high resolution; wherein the super-resolution deep learning network model includes a plurality of feature filters to extract features of the image; modifying the resolution of the feature filters from a preset value to an established value, wherein the established value is higher than the preset value; inputting a low-resolution image into the super-resolution deep learning network model; and increasing the resolution of the low-resolution image to become a high-resolution image through the super-resolution deep learning network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Lin, Chao-Kuang Yang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Liang-Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20220284701
    Abstract: A side by side image detection method and an electronic apparatus using the same are provided. The side by side image detection method includes the following steps. A first image with a first image size is obtained. A second image with a second image size that conforms to a side-by-side image format is detected within the first image by using a convolutional neural network model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Sergio Cantero Clares, Chih-Haw Tan, Shih-Hao Lin, Chih-Wen Huang, Wen-Cheng Hsu, Chao-Kuang Yang