Patents by Inventor Chia-Lin Chang

Chia-Lin Chang 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: 9122580
    Abstract: A flash memory system and managing and collecting methods for flash memory with invalid page messages thereof are described. When the valid data pages of the flash memory are changed to invalid data pages, a recording area is used to record the message of the invalid data pages to effectively collect the occupied space of the invalid data pages in the flash memory. Further, while garbage collecting step is performed, a block is rapidly selected according to the message of the recording area and the valid data pages in the selected block are correctly identified, copied and removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: GENESYS LOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Po-chun Huang, Yuan-hao Chang, Jen-wie Hsieh, Yung-feng Lu, Chia-lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20150160707
    Abstract: A portable electronic device comprising a storage unit, an application processor and a wireless communication chip is provided. The storage unit stores multimedia data. The application processor coupled to the storage unit accesses the multimedia data stored in the storage unit and executes at least one application program. The wireless communication chip includes a WiFi/WiMax module and a digital signal processor integrated thereinto. The WiFi/WiMax module is configured to receive an audio stream data from a remote station, and the digital signal processor is configured to process the audio stream data from the WiFi/WiMax module or the multimedia data from the application processor and generate an audio output signal according to the processed audio stream data or the processed multimedia data. The wireless communication chip is configured to output the audio output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiu-Hung CHOU, Chia-Lin CHANG
  • Patent number: 8919665
    Abstract: An outdoor shower device, comprising a water storage module, a power supply module, a heating module, a control module, a water supply module and an alarm module, wherein the water storage module is employed for water source storage, the control module controls the heating module to heat the water based on the water temperature, and then the water supply module provides the heated water for use. Furthermore, the power supply module provides electric power required for integral operations and enables the alarm module to determine the water level; in case the water level is exceedingly low, it is possible to present blinking display signal and audio alarm sound to inform the user of such a low water level thereby allowing the user to more effectively apply the outdoor shower device of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: GDL International Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20140155329
    Abstract: Long-acting agonistic analogs for CLR/RAMP receptors are provided that have an extended half-live in vivo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Sheau Yu Hsu, Chia Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 8543400
    Abstract: Voice processing methods and systems are provided. An utterance is received. The utterance is compared with teaching materials according to at least one matching algorithm to obtain a plurality of matching values corresponding to a plurality of voice units of the utterance. Respective voice units are scored in at least one first scoring item according to the matching values and a personified voice scoring algorithm. The personified voice scoring algorithm is generated according to training utterances corresponding to at least one training sentence in a phonetic-balanced sentence set of a plurality of learners and at least one real teacher, and scores corresponding to the respective voice units of the training utterances of the learners in the first scoring item provided by the real teacher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Lin-Shan Lee, Che-Kuang Lin, Chia-Lin Chang, Yi-Jing Lin, Yow-Bang Wang, Yun-Huan Lee, Li-Wei Cheng
  • Publication number: 20120284450
    Abstract: A flash memory system and managing and collecting methods for flash memory with invalid page messages thereof are described. When the valid data pages of the flash memory are changed to invalid data pages, a recording area is used to record the message of the invalid data pages to effectively collect the occupied space of the invalid data pages in the flash memory. Further, while garbage collecting step is performed, a block is rapidly selected according to the message of the recording area and the valid data pages in the selected block are correctly identified, copied and removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Genesys Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: PO-CHUN HUANG, Yuan-hao Chang, Jen-Wei Hsieh, Yung-feng Lu, Chia-lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20120111971
    Abstract: An outdoor shower device, comprising a water storage module, a power supply module, a heating module, a control module, a water supply module and an alarm module, wherein the water storage module is employed for water source storage, the control module controls the heating module to heat the water based on the water temperature, and then the water supply module provides the heated water for use. Furthermore, the power supply module provides electric power required for integral operations and enables the alarm module to determine the water level; in case the water level is exceedingly low, it is possible to present blinking display signal and audio alarm sound to inform the user of such a low water level thereby allowing the user to more effectively apply the outdoor shower device of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventor: Chia-Lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20100227083
    Abstract: In various aspects, the present inventions provide methods for forming corrosion resistant oxide coatings on metals and/or improving the corrosion resistance of existing native oxide coatings. In various aspects, provided are methods for forming corrosion resistant oxide coatings on metals surfaces that are immersed in an aqueous solution. Various embodiments of various aspects of the present inventions can provide a scalable process for the formation of corrosion resistant coatings on metals in a manner that does not require high-vacuum technology, can be adapted to large structures, such as ships or aircraft, and in various aspects and embodiments can improve quality of existing oxide films on a metal or alloy surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Shriram Ramanathan, Chia-Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 7600727
    Abstract: The invention discloses an equipment including a main body and N multi-threaded shafts. The main body has a bottom, and N multi-threaded holes are formed on the bottom of the main body, wherein N is a natural number. Each of the N multi-threaded shafts is screwed into one of the N multi-threaded holes via a head end thereof. Each of the N multi-threaded shafts has a manual part at a tail end thereof, wherein the manual part of each of the N multi-threaded shafts is capable of being operated to rotate the shaft relative to the bottom of the main body, so as to adjust a height of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Inventors: Shu-Mei Chien, Chia-Lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20080306738
    Abstract: Voice processing methods and systems are provided. An utterance is received. The utterance is compared with teaching materials according to at least one matching algorithm to obtain a plurality of matching values corresponding to a plurality of voice units of the utterance. Respective voice units are scored in at least one first scoring item according to the matching values and a personified voice scoring algorithm. The personified voice scoring algorithm is generated according to training utterances corresponding to at least one training sentence in a phonetic-balanced sentence set of a plurality of learners and at least one real teacher, and scores corresponding to the respective voice units of the training utterances of the learners in the first scoring item provided by the real teacher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lin-Shan Lee, Che-Kuang Lin, Chia-Lin Chang, Yi-Jing Lin, Yow-Bang Wang, Yun-Huan Lee, Li-Wei Cheng
  • Publication number: 20070205351
    Abstract: The invention discloses an equipment including a main body and N multi-threaded shafts. The main body has a bottom, and N multi-threaded holes are formed on the bottom of the main body, wherein N is a natural number. Each of the N multi-threaded shafts is screwed into one of the N multi-threaded holes via a head end thereof. Each of the N multi-threaded shafts has a manual part at a tail end thereof, wherein the manual part of each of the N multi-threaded shafts is capable of being operated to rotate the shaft relative to the bottom of the main body, so as to adjust a height of the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Shu-Mei Chien, Chia-Lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20070146651
    Abstract: A projector with a rotatable lens module is provided in this invention. The projector includes a lens module, a base module, and a connecting module. The connecting module connects the lens module and the base module such that the lens module and the base module are relatively rotatable with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Hsing-Cheng Lee, Chia-Lin Chang
  • Patent number: 6906917
    Abstract: A web pad module has a portable web pad and a pedestal. The portable web pad has a housing including a front side and a rear side, a processing circuit installed inside the housing, a display panel installed on the front side of the housing, and a first coupling device installed on the rear side of the housing that has a first connector electrically connected to the processing circuit. The pedestal has a second coupling device detachably coupling with the first coupling device. The second coupling device includes a second connector corresponding to the first connector. When the first coupling device is coupled with the second coupling device, the first connector is connected to the second connector so as to transmit signals between the portable web pad and a peripheral device through the pedestal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: AboCom Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Ching Lo, Chia-Lin Chang, Chyi-Yong Sy
  • Publication number: 20040189886
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a structure for absorbing the shock. The structure comprises a buffer assembly and a screen device. The buffer assembly is combined with the screen device, and the buffer assembly can avoid the screen device cracking in the structure for absorbing the shock colliding. Another, the present invention provides an electric device structure for absorbing the shock. The electric device structure comprises a set of LCD bracket having a plurality of buffer cushions, a Liquid Crystal Display Module (LCM) combining with the set of LCD bracket, and an electric device mainframe for being fixed by the Liquid Crystal Display Module. The plurality of buffer cushions of the set of LCD bracket can avoid the Liquid Crystal Display Module cracking in the electric device colliding. The electric device includes but not limits a WEBPAD or a related product of Tablet PC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Chia-Lin Chang, Chun-Chung Pai, Ming-Xia Yang
  • Publication number: 20030189556
    Abstract: A touch pen for inputting to a touch panel includes a contact body, an intra-body including a pillared front section, a heavyweight section near the front section for increasing ability to hold weight, and a pillared rear section. The touch pen has a front tube having a narrow opening formed at one end of the tube for clipping the contact body, and a hole formed at an opposite end of the tube for packaging the front section of the intra-body. The pen includes a pillared rear tube for packaging the rear section of the intra-body, the rear tube further including a pillar fixed at one end of the rear tube, a rear pen sheath for packaging the pillar, and a rubber pen sheath for packaging the heavyweight section and for increasing comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Chia-Lin Chang, Chun-Chung Pai, Ya-Chi Chang
  • Publication number: 20020186546
    Abstract: A web pad module has a portable web pad and a pedestal. The portable web pad has a housing including a front side and a rear side, a processing circuit installed inside the housing, a display panel installed on the front side of the housing, and a first coupling device installed on the rear side of the housing that has a first connector electrically connected to the processing circuit. The pedestal has a second coupling device detachably coupling with the first coupling device. The second coupling device includes a second connector corresponding to the first connector. When the first coupling device is coupled with the second coupling device, the first connector is connected to the second connector so as to transmit signals between the portable web pad and a peripheral device through the pedestal. The wed pad module has the advantages of simple structure, facile fabrication, and convenient use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Chia-Ching Lo, Chia-Lin Chang, Chyi-Yong Sy
  • Patent number: D466500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chia-Ching Lo, Chia-Lin Chang, Chyi-Yong Sy