Patents by Inventor Di Fan

Di Fan 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: 11984910
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes apparatuses and methods for implementing a reinforcement learning-enabled low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder. In aspects, an RL-enabled LDPC decoder processes, as part of a first decoding iteration, data of a channel to generate LDPC state information and provides the LDPC state information to a machine learning (ML) algorithm of an RL agent. The RL-enabled LDPC decoder is then configured with LDPC decoding parameters obtained from the ML algorithm and processes, as part of a second decoding operation, the data using the decoding parameters to generate subsequent LDPC state information. The RL-enabled LDPC decoder provides decoded data of the channel based on the subsequent LDPC state information. By using the LDPC decoding parameters provided by the ML algorithm of the RL agent, the RL-enabled LDPC decoder may decode channel data in fewer decoding iterations or with a higher success rate, thereby improving LDPC decoding performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Di Fan, Nedeljko Varnica, Xuanxuan Lu
  • Patent number: 11947372
    Abstract: A device includes a voltage regulator circuit configured to pull up a voltage at an output terminal to equal to half of a supply voltage; multiple first transistors coupled between the output terminal and a voltage terminal providing the supply voltage; and a control circuit configured to pull down gate voltages of the first transistors from the supply voltage to a voltage level between the supply voltage and a ground voltage at a first time. The first transistors are configured to pull up the voltage at the output terminal to the supply voltage at a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Liang Jin, Ya-Qi Ma, Wei Li, Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20230055721
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor has a first body. The first body of the first transistor is connected to receive a first reference voltage. The second transistor has a second body. The second body of the second transistor is electrically disconnected from the first body of the first transistor. The first transistor and the second transistor are electrically connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lei PAN, Di FAN, Yaqi MA
  • Patent number: 11561562
    Abstract: A device includes a voltage regulator circuit, a power switch circuit, and a control circuit. The voltage regulator circuit generates an output voltage at an output terminal. The power switch circuit is coupled to the voltage regulator circuit. The control circuit receives a first control signal and generates a second control signal that includes a first portion gradually declining between a first time and a second time later than the first time. When the voltage regulator circuit is turned off and a logic state of the first control signal changes at the first time, the power switch circuit is turned on at the second time, in response to the second control signal, to adjust the output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Liang Jin, Ya-Qi Ma, Wei Li, Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20220312614
    Abstract: An electronic device may have transparent housing structures such as walls formed of glass or sapphire. Housing structures such as transparent housing structures may have a colored coating. The colored coating may include an absorptive layer and a metal layer. The coating may exhibit a color that can be adjusted by adjusting the thickness of the thin absorptive layer. A colored layer such as a layer of colored polymer may be incorporated into the colored coating to further adjust the color of the coating. The colored coating may be formed on an inner or outer housing structure surface. The surface may have a texture to provide the coating with a matte appearance. When formed on an outer surface, a diamond-like carbon layer may protect the colored coating. When formed on an inner surface, a passivation layer may be used to prevent oxidation of the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Khadijeh Bayat, Yoshitaka Matsui, Naomi Sugawara, Daisuke Nozu, Xianwei Zhao, Avery P. Yuen, Martin Melcher, James R. Wilson, Di Fan
  • Patent number: 11399442
    Abstract: An electronic device may have transparent housing structures such as walls formed of glass or sapphire. Housing structures such as transparent housing structures may have a colored coating. The colored coating may include an absorptive layer and a metal layer. The coating may exhibit a color that can be adjusted by adjusting the thickness of the thin absorptive layer. A colored layer such as a layer of colored polymer may be incorporated into the colored coating to further adjust the color of the coating. The colored coating may be formed on an inner or outer housing structure surface. The surface may have a texture to provide the coating with a matte appearance. When formed on an outer surface, a diamond-like carbon layer may protect the colored coating. When formed on an inner surface, a passivation layer may be used to prevent oxidation of the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khadijeh Bayat, Yoshitaka Matsui, Naomi Sugawara, Daisuke Nozu, Xianwei Zhao, Avery P. Yuen, Martin Melcher, James R. Wilson, Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20220216787
    Abstract: A device includes a voltage regulator circuit, a power switch circuit, and a control circuit. The voltage regulator circuit generates an output voltage at an output terminal. The power switch circuit is coupled to the voltage regulator circuit. The control circuit receives a first control signal and generates a second signal that includes a first portion gradually declining between a first time and a second time later than the first time. When the voltage regulator circuit is turned off and a logic state of the first control signal changes at the first time, the power switch circuit is turned on at the second time, in response to the second control signal, to adjust the output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicants: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Liang JIN, Ya-Qi MA, Wei Li, Di FAN
  • Patent number: 11037035
    Abstract: The application discloses a multi-task learning incorporating dependencies method for bionic eye's face attribute recognition, which is as follows: Determine the first face attribute and the second face attribute for attribute recognition of facial image. Obtain the first recognition task branch and the second recognition task branch. Establish the task dependency between the first recognition task branch and the second recognition task branch to obtain the first transformed face attribute fully connected layer related to the second face attribute. and the second transformed face attribute fully connected layer related to the first face attribute. Feed the first transformed face attribute fully connected layer into the prediction layer to predict the first face attribute of facial image. And feed the second transformed face attribute fully connected layer into the prediction layer to predict the second face attribute of facial image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Qiang Huang, Xiaopeng Chen, Di Fan, Hyunwoo Kim, Xuechao Chen
  • Publication number: 20200387762
    Abstract: The application discloses a multi-task learning incorporating dependencies method for bionic eye's face attribute recognition, which is as follows: Determine the first face attribute and the second face attribute for attribute recognition of facial image. Obtain the first recognition task branch and the second recognition task branch. Establish the task dependency between the first recognition task branch and the second recognition task branch to obtain the first transformed face attribute fully connected layer related to the second face attribute. and the second transformed face attribute fully connected layer related to the first face attribute. Feed the first transformed face attribute fully connected layer into the prediction layer to predict the first face attribute of facial image. And feed the second transformed face attribute fully connected layer into the prediction layer to predict the second face attribute of facial image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Qiang Huang, Hyunwoo Kim, Di Fan, Xiaopeng Chen, Xuechao Chen
  • Publication number: 20200015390
    Abstract: An electronic device may have transparent housing structures such as walls formed of glass or sapphire. Housing structures such as transparent housing structures may have a colored coating. The colored coating may include an absorptive layer and a metal layer. The coating may exhibit a color that can be adjusted by adjusting the thickness of the thin absorptive layer. A colored layer such as a layer of colored polymer may be incorporated into the colored coating to further adjust the color of the coating. The colored coating may be formed on an inner or outer housing structure surface. The surface may have a texture to provide the coating with a matte appearance. When formed on an outer surface, a diamond-like carbon layer may protect the colored coating. When formed on an inner surface, a passivation layer may be used to prevent oxidation of the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Khadijeh Bayat, Yoshitaka Matsui, Naomi Sugawara, Daisuke Nozu, Xianwei Zhao, Avery P. Yuen, Martin Melcher, James R. Wilson, Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20160227015
    Abstract: A method for speed dial is disclosed. The method includes generating a transparent or semitransparent mask layer on a region of a currently displayed page according to a designated trigger instruction; obtaining input information of a user on the mask layer; determining dial information according to the input information; and dialing a number according to the dial information. The present disclosure further provides a dial apparatus and a mobile terminal for speed dial correspondingly. The present disclosure is able to implement speed dial without exiting a page that is currently browsed, thus being more convenient in use and improving user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Di Fan
  • Patent number: 9369593
    Abstract: Provided are a VOIP terminal and a ringing parameter setting method therefor. An application scenario detecting module of the VOIP terminal detects an application scenario of the VOIP terminal, and sends a detection result to a parameter matching module of the VOIP terminal, the parameter matching module matches a ringing parameter according to the detection result, and then a parameter setting module of the VOIP terminal sets the VOIP terminal according to the ringing parameter obtained by the matching. Manual setting according to experience is not involved. The set ringing parameter can better meet requirements of various voice user terminals under the VOIP terminal compared with an existing manual setting manner. Abnormal conditions that some voice user terminals ring briefly all the time, some voice user terminals are muted after ringing a sound, even some voice user terminals have no ringing all the time, and so on under the same VOIP terminal can be reduced, and user experience can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Di Fan, Kun Jiang
  • Patent number: 9369418
    Abstract: Determining additional information associated with geographic location information included in a message is disclosed, including: receiving a message including geographic location information from a first device; extracting the geographic location information from the message; determining additional information associated with the geographic location information; and sending the message and the additional information to a second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20150365539
    Abstract: Provided are a VOIP terminal and a ringing parameter setting method therefor. An application scenario detecting module of the VOIP terminal detects an application scenario of the VOIP terminal, and sends a detection result to a parameter matching module of the VOIP terminal, the parameter matching module matches a ringing parameter according to the detection result, and then a parameter setting module of the VOIP terminal sets the VOIP terminal according to the ringing parameter obtained by the matching. Manual setting according to experience is not involved. The set ringing parameter can better meet requirements of various voice user terminals under the VOIP terminal compared with an existing manual setting manner. Abnormal conditions that some voice user terminals ring briefly all the time, some voice user terminals are muted after ringing a sound, even some voice user terminals have no ringing all the time, and so on under the same VOIP terminal can be reduced, and user experience can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Di Fan, Kun Jiang
  • Publication number: 20150310116
    Abstract: Providing search results corresponding to displayed content is disclosed, including: receiving a search command associated with a selected piece of displayed content, wherein the displayed content is presented at a user interface; determining a search query from the selected piece of displayed content; determining a plurality of target search categories associated with the search query; performing a respective search using the search query in each target search category of the plurality of target search categories to obtain a corresponding set of one or more search results; and causing the corresponding set of one or more search results obtained for each target search category of the plurality of target search categories to be presented in a corresponding section associated with that target search category in a separate window at the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventor: Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20140074950
    Abstract: Determining additional information associated with geographic location information included in a message is disclosed, including: receiving a message including geographic location information from a first device; extracting the geographic location information from the message; determining additional information associated with the geographic location information; and sending the message and the additional information to a second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20140025406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for an electronic identification system to identify formats of electronic certificate and identification. At least one ticket holder can buy an electronic certificate through a web site certified by the electronic identification system and use the electronic certificate to check-in or for identity confirmation. The electronic identification system can also analyze statistical data, verify the electronic certificate, and notify at least one ticket supplier about current attendance and the consumer information immediately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: ACCUVALLY INC.
    Inventors: XIAO-PING ZHANG, XIAO-DI FAN, YAO-HUEI SIE, TZU-WEN LO
  • Patent number: 8112447
    Abstract: A method for parsing a text file defines a tree pattern and a plurality of character string patterns. A tree structure corresponding to the text file is determined according to the tree pattern, and the desired data are retrieved from the text file according to the character string patterns. The retrieved desired data are output into a storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignees: Hon Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-I Lee, Chien-Fa Yeh, Chiu-Hua Lu, Xiao-Di Fan, Xiao-Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: D1001835
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Di Fan
  • Patent number: D1003320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Fan, Xiaodong Li