Patents by Inventor Chung-Wei Lin

Chung-Wei Lin 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).

  • Publication number: 20190025584
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for providing augmented reality (“AR”) vehicular assistance for drivers who are colorblind. A method according to some embodiments includes identifying an illuminated light in a driving environment of a vehicle that includes an AR headset. The method further includes determining a vehicular action to be taken responsive to the illuminated light being identified in the driving environment of the vehicle. The method further includes displaying an AR overlay using the AR headset that visually depicts a word which describes the vehicular action to be taken responsive to the illuminated light being identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Siyuan Dai, Nikos Arechiga, Chung Wei Lin, Shinichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10134626
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a doped isolation structure formed above a substrate, and the doped isolation structure includes a first doped portion and a second doped portion, and a doped concentration of the second doped portion is different from a doped concentration of the first doped portion. The semiconductor device also includes a first fin partially embedded in the doped isolation structure, and a sidewall surface of the first fin is in direct contact with the first doped portion. The semiconductor device includes a second fin partially embedded in the doped isolation structure, and the doped isolation structure is between the first fin and the second fin, and a sidewall surface of the second fin is in direct contact with the second doped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Chiang, Chung-Wei Lin, Kuang-Hsin Chen, Bor-Zen Tien
  • Patent number: 10124779
    Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for supervising a data load for a vehicle. The method may include receiving report data that may describe a data load for the supervised component. The method may include retrieving specification data for the supervised component that describes a threshold for the data load. The method may include performing an analysis of the data load to determine whether the data load exceeds the threshold. The method may include providing graphical data to an electronic display panel to cause the electronic display panel to display a message responsive to the analysis indicating that the data load exceeds the threshold. The method may include providing an accommodation to the supervised component so that the data load does not exceed the threshold, where the accommodation includes stopping an operation of a device of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, Huafeng Yu, Bowen Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180309377
    Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a control signal generation circuit, a pre-attenuation circuit, and a gate driving circuit. The control signal generation circuit generates a control signal corresponding to a previous period of a secondary side of the power converter according to a detection signal corresponding to the previous period, a first reference voltage, and a second reference voltage when the secondary side is turned on. The control signal corresponding to the previous period corresponds to a discharge time of the previous period. The pre-attenuation circuit pre-attenuates agate control signal corresponding to a current period of the secondary side and generates a pre-attenuation signal corresponding to the current period according to the discharge time. The gate driving circuit drives the gate control signal according to the control signal corresponding to the current period, and stops driving the gate control signal according to the pre-attenuation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Chung-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 10075082
    Abstract: A power supply detects a falling rate of an output voltage for fast load-transient response. The power supply with a primary side and a secondary side isolated from each other comprises a primary-side control circuit and a secondary-side control circuit. The primary-side control circuit controls a power switch to convert an input power source on the primary side into an output power source on the secondary side. The output power source has the output voltage. The secondary-side control circuit detects the falling rate and sending information to the primary-side control circuit when the falling rate exceeds a predetermined rate. In response to the information, the primary-side control circuit starts anew switching cycle of the power switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: LEADTREND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ching-Tsan Lee, Chung-Wei Lin, Yang-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20180232156
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for improving a performance of a set of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (“ADAS systems”) included in a vehicle by decreasing a latency for processing a set of input/output (“I/O”) requests generated by one or more active ADAS systems from the set of ADAS systems. A method includes determining situation data describing a driving situation for the vehicle. The method includes identifying the one or more active ADAS systems from the set of ADAS systems for the driving situation. The method includes determining whether an input/output (“I/O”) communication conflict exists for the one or more active ADAS systems. The method includes applying at least one of a direct I/O strategy and a virtual I/O strategy to the set of I/O requests based on whether the I/O communication conflict exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: BaekGyu Kim, Chung-Wei Lin, Shinichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10001988
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for removing an incompatibility between an adaptive sensor system and an adaptive engine control unit system. The method may include detecting an update to one or more of an adaptive sensor system and an adaptive engine control unit system. The method may include identifying an incompatibility between the adaptive sensor system and the adaptive engine control unit system created by the update. The method may include determining one or more modifications for one or more of the first compatibility module and the second compatibility module. The modifications may be configured to remove the incompatibility. The method may include modifying one or more of the first compatibility module and the second compatibility module so that the incompatibility is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Inventors: Huafeng Yu, Bowen Zheng, Chung-Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20180150038
    Abstract: A prediction model building method for a processing machine is provided. While a workpiece is manufactured by the processing machine, a machine parameter set is generated. After the workpiece is manufactured, the workpiece is measured and a workpiece quality parameter set is generated. Then, a component status is determined according to the machine parameter set. Then, a workpiece quality prediction model in the component status is built according to the machine parameter set, the workpiece quality parameter set and the component status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, Te-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 9973100
    Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a power supply module, a control module, and a gate driving unit. The power supply module is used for generating a supply current according to an induced voltage generated from a secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply current is used for establishing a supply voltage, and the induced voltage corresponds to a control signal of a power switch of a primary side of the power converter. The control module is coupled to the power supply module for turning on or turning off the power supply module according to the supply voltage. The gate driving unit is coupled to the power supply module for generating a gate control signal controlling turning-on and turning-off of a synchronous switch of the secondary side of the power converter, wherein the supply voltage is used for driving the gate driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Leadtrend Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Chung-Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20180127059
    Abstract: A speed-changing method of bicycle suitable for controlling a gear ratio of a bicycle is provided. The bicycle has a front electronic derailleur, a rear electronic derailleur, a controller, and a controlling switch. The controller stores a gear-ratio table. The speed-changing method of bicycle includes the following steps. The controlling switch is triggered to generate a speed-increasing signal or a laborsaving signal. The controller controls the front and rear electronic derailleurs according to the speed-increasing signal or the laborsaving signal to increase the gear ratio along a speed-increasing path of the gear-ratio table or decrease the gear ratio along a laborsaving path of the gear-ratio table respectively. On the other hand, the front and rear electronic derailleurs are started simultaneously at a first switch point of the speed-increasing path or a second switch point of the laborsaving path, and the first switch point is different from the second switch point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, Min-Chang Chen
  • Publication number: 20180107507
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed that computes, using one or more processors, a path slack value for each path of a set of paths of a functional computing model. Each path of the set of paths comprises a set of tasks and the path slack value of each path reflects a difference between a deadline and a latency of the path. The method further determines a priority of each task of the set of tasks of each path based on the path slack value of the path, and allocates, using the one or more processors and based on the priority of each task, the tasks of each of the paths of the set to corresponding computing units from a set of computing units of an architectural platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, BaekGyu Kim, Shinichi Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20180102278
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a doped isolation structure formed above a substrate, and the doped isolation structure includes a first doped portion and a second doped portion, and a doped concentration of the second doped portion is different from a doped concentration of the first doped portion. The semiconductor device also includes a first fin partially embedded in the doped isolation structure, and a sidewall surface of the first fin is in direct contact with the first doped portion. The semiconductor device includes a second fin partially embedded in the doped isolation structure, and the doped isolation structure is between the first fin and the second fin, and a sidewall surface of the second fin is in direct contact with the second doped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu CHIANG, Chung-Wei LIN, Kuang-Hsin CHEN, Bor-Zen TIEN
  • Patent number: 9941386
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure over the substrate. There is a gap between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure having a thin portion and a thick portion. A first upper portion of the first fin structure and a second upper portion of the second fin structure protrude from the thin portion. The thick portion is partially between the first upper portion and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a dummy gate electrode over the thick portion, the first upper portion, and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate electrode over the first fin structure and the thin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, Tsung-Yu Chiang
  • Patent number: 9932041
    Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for providing a personalized medical emergency autopilot system based on data from a portable medical device. A method may include receiving, by a communication unit of a vehicle, a wireless message from a wireless network. The wireless message includes sensor data describing one or more current physiological signals of a driver of the vehicle that are recorded by a portable medical device worn by the driver. The method may include analyzing the one or more current physiological signals of the driver to identify a medical emergency for the driver. The method may include overriding, by a personalized medical emergency autopilot system, one or more vehicle control inputs provided by the driver subsequent to identifying the medical emergency so that the driver cannot control the operation of the vehicle during the medical emergency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventors: BaekGyu Kim, Chung-Wei Lin, Shinichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9917504
    Abstract: A synchronous rectifier applied to a power converter includes a gate coupling effect suppressing unit. The gate coupling effect suppressing unit is used for suppressing an induced voltage coupled to a gate of a metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor coupled to a secondary side of the power converter to ensure that the metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor is turned off when the power converter operates in a start-up condition and a power switch of the power converter is turned on. When the power converter operates in the start-up condition, a driving voltage of the secondary side of the power converter for driving the synchronous rectifier is not enough to drive the synchronous rectifier yet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Leadtrend Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, Yang-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20180043901
    Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for providing a personalized medical emergency autopilot system based on data from a portable medical device. A method may include receiving, by a communication unit of a vehicle, a wireless message from a wireless network. The wireless message includes sensor data describing one or more current physiological signals of a driver of the vehicle that are recorded by a portable medical device worn by the driver. The method may include analyzing the one or more current physiological signals of the driver to identify a medical emergency for the driver. The method may include overriding, by a personalized medical emergency autopilot system, one or more vehicle control inputs provided by the driver subsequent to identifying the medical emergency so that the driver cannot control the operation of the vehicle during the medical emergency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: BaekGyu Kim, Chung-Wei Lin, Shinichi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9842761
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first fin partially surrounded by a first isolation structure and a second fin partially surrounded by a second isolation structure. The second isolation structure has a dopant concentration higher than that of the first isolation structure, and a height difference is between a top surface of the first isolation structure and a top surface of the second isolation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu Chiang, Chung-Wei Lin, Kuang-Hsin Chen, Bor-Zen Tien
  • Publication number: 20170353548
    Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for executing one or more computations for a vehicle. Some implementations of a method for a vehicle may include identifying one or more computations as being un-executable by any processor-based computing device of the vehicle. The method may include generating a query including query data describing the one or more computations to be executed for the vehicle. The method may include providing the query to a network. The method may include receiving a response from the network. The response may include solution data describing a result of executing the one or more computations. The response may be provided to the network by a processor-based computing device included in a hierarchy of processor-based computing devices that have greater computational ability than any processor-based computing devices of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, BaekGyu Kim, Shinichi Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20170352740
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure over the substrate. There is a gap between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure having a thin portion and a thick portion. A first upper portion of the first fin structure and a second upper portion of the second fin structure protrude from the thin portion. The thick portion is partially between the first upper portion and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a dummy gate electrode over the thick portion, the first upper portion, and the second upper portion. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate electrode over the first fin structure and the thin portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Wei LIN, Tsung-Yu CHIANG
  • Publication number: 20170336802
    Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for a connected vehicle receiving cached electronic control unit (“ECU” if singular or “ECUs” if plural) mapping solutions via a network. Some implementations of a method for a vehicle may include identifying a presence of one or more functions associated with a vehicle control system. The method may include generating a query including a mapping problem describing one or more questions about which of one or more ECUs should execute the one or more functions. The method may include providing the query to a network. The method may include receiving a response from the network. The response may include a mapping solution that describes which of the one or more ECUs should execute the one or more functions. The method may include mapping the one or more functions to the one or more ECUs as described by the mapping solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Lin, BaekGyu Kim, Shinichi Shiraishi