Patents by Inventor Franklin BIEN
Franklin BIEN 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).
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Patent number: 11384911Abstract: A solar-powered post light preferably designed to fit snugly within an outer end of a tubular member, such as a pipe. By being lit at nighttime hours, the light provides a guide to boaters at a boatlift while centering their boat, as well as providing light for various other nighttime conditions related to the water, as well as outside of a water environment. The light preferably provides for a “glow” effect, such that at whatever visible distance, the boater will know where the boat lift is located. An upper angled member of the guide light can be provided with a plurality of facet cuts which provide for prismatic reflection of sun rays for solar collection 180 degrees across a horizon.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Inventor: Franklin Bien
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Patent number: 10989379Abstract: A lighted piling cap that is preferably solar powered and which serves as a cap/marker for another water borne or water related structure. The device can serve as a nighttime marker to alert boaters of decks, docks, waterway obstructions, etc. that may not be visible during nighttime travels. The device includes a solar powered lighting element for nighttime visibility which can be a plurality of LED light bulbs. The outer enclosure can be constructed from a rugged and/or seaworthy material, to allow it to be able to preferably withstand the harsh environment of fresh and saltwater coastlines. The device preferably includes a sealed Lithium polymer battery, with flash, strobing and/or “on” modes and an automatic sunset on, sunrise off sensor. The angled top member of the enclosure can be provided with a plurality of facet cuts which provide for prismatic reflection of sun rays for solar collection 180 degrees across the horizon.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventor: Franklin Bien
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Patent number: 10877617Abstract: A touch panel includes a touch sensing circuit including a plurality of driving electrode lines and a plurality of sensing electrode lines, which intersect the driving electrode lines. The touch panel further includes a driving signal generation circuit that generates a plurality of driving signals and transmits the driving signals to the driving electrode lines, and a sensing circuit that receives a plurality of sensing signals from the sensing electrode lines. The driving signals have voltages that are not equal to zero during a first time zone, and the sum of driving signals generated at the same time is maintained to be equal to zero during the first time zone.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Won Sang Park, Seong Mun Kim, Yun Ho Kim, Il Nam Kim, Kyeong Min Park, Franklin Bien, Joo Hyeb Song, Keum Dong Jung, Eun Ho Choi, Sang Hyun Heo
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Patent number: 10622727Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a camera module configured to generate an input image, and a transceiving circuit configured to encode and modulate the input image and to provide an electric and/or magnetic first signal. Also, the camera apparatus includes an antenna attached to a metal body of a vehicle and configured to form an electromagnetic field on the metal body and to propagate the first signal received from the transceiving circuit by carrying the first signal in the electromagnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignees: ZN Technologies Co., Ltd., UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)Inventors: Chang Soo Kang, Chulgyun Park, Na Young Kim, Franklin Bien
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Publication number: 20200018455Abstract: A lighted piling cap that is preferably solar powered and which serves as a cap/marker for another water borne or water related structure. The device can serve as a nighttime marker to alert boaters of decks, docks, waterway obstructions, etc. that may not be visible during nighttime travels. The device includes a solar powered lighting element for nighttime visibility which can be a plurality of LED light bulbs. The outer enclosure can be constructed from a rugged and/or seaworthy material, to allow it to be able to preferably withstand the harsh environment of fresh and saltwater coastlines. The device preferably includes a sealed Lithium polymer battery, with flash, strobing and/or “on” modes and an automatic sunset on, sunrise off sensor. The angled top member of the enclosure can be provided with a plurality of facet cuts which provide for prismatic reflection of sun rays for solar collection 180 degrees across the horizon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventor: FRANKLIN BIEN
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Publication number: 20190339803Abstract: A touch panel includes a touch sensing circuit including a plurality of driving electrode lines and a plurality of sensing electrode lines, which intersect the driving electrode lines. The touch panel further includes a driving signal generation circuit that generates a plurality of driving signals and transmits the driving signals to the driving electrode lines, and a sensing circuit that receives a plurality of sensing signals from the sensing electrode lines. The driving signals have voltages that are not equal to zero during a first time zone, and the sum of driving signals generated at the same time is maintained to be equal to zero during the first time zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: WON SANG PARK, SEONG MUN KIM, YUN HO KIM, IL NAM KIM, KYEONG MIN PARK, FRANKLIN BIEN, JOO HYEB SONG, KEUM DONG JUNG, EUN HO CHOI, SANG HYUN HEO
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Patent number: 10424173Abstract: A lighted piling cap that is preferably solar powered and which serves as a cap/marker for another water borne or water related structure. The device can serve as a nighttime marker to alert boaters of decks, docks, waterway obstructions, etc. that may not be visible during nighttime travels. The device includes a solar powered lighting element for nighttime visibility which can be a plurality of LED light bulbs. The outer enclosure can be constructed from a rugged and/or seaworthy material, to allow it to be able to preferably withstand the harsh environment of fresh and saltwater coastlines. The device preferably includes a sealed Lithium polymer battery, with flash, strobing and/or “on” modes and an automatic sunset on, sunrise off sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Inventor: Franklin Bien
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Patent number: 10234989Abstract: A touch panel includes a first touch electrode disposed on a base substrate and a second touch electrode disposed on an insulating layer, which is disposed over the first touch electrode. The first touch electrode includes a first linear pattern disposed along a first direction and a first protrusion pattern extending from the first linear pattern. The second touch electrode includes a second linear pattern disposed along a second direction crossing the first direction and a second protrusion pattern extending from the second linear pattern. Wires connect the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode to a driving circuit. The second protrusion pattern partially overlaps the first protrusion pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)Inventors: Jun Il Kwon, Franklin Bien, Jae Joon Kim, Sanghyun Heo, Hyunggun Ma, Kyungmin Na
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Publication number: 20180241134Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a camera module configured to generate an input image, and a transceiving circuit configured to encode and modulate the input image and to provide an electric and/or magnetic first signal. Also, the camera apparatus includes an antenna attached to a metal body of a vehicle and configured to form an electromagnetic field on the metal body and to propagate the first signal received from the transceiving circuit by carrying the first signal in the electromagnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Chang Soo KANG, Chulgyun PARK, Na Young KIM, Franklin BIEN
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Patent number: 9846144Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a defect of a press panel includes: an acoustic emission sensor unit configured to detect at least one elastic wave signal emitted from the press panel as a detection target during press work, a period measurer configured to measure a period as a section in which there are consecutive signals with a greater voltage than a threshold voltage among the at least one detected signals, and a defect existence determination unit configured to determine that a defect is generated in the press panel when the measured period is greater than a first reference value, and to determine that the press panel is in a normal state when the measured period is smaller than a second reference value which is smaller than the first reference value.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, UNIST Academy-Industry Research CorporationInventors: Jae Ryeon Hwang, ByungHun Kim, Franklin Bien, Hyon Gi Yoo, Chan Woo Jeong, Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Liu Zhenyi, Seul Ki Rom Kim
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Publication number: 20170205954Abstract: A touch panel includes a first touch electrode disposed on a base substrate and a second touch electrode disposed on an insulating layer, which is disposed over the first touch electrode. The first touch electrode includes a first linear pattern disposed along a first direction and a first protrusion pattern extending from the first linear pattern. The second touch electrode includes a second linear pattern disposed along a second direction crossing the first direction and a second protrusion pattern extending from the second linear pattern. Wires connect the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode to a driving circuit. The second protrusion pattern partially overlaps the first protrusion pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Jun Il KWON, Franklin BIEN, Jae Joon KIM, Sanghyun HEO, Hyunggun MA, Kyungmin NA
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Publication number: 20170205933Abstract: A touch sensor including a touch sensing unit including drive electrodes and sensing electrodes, a drive signal generation unit that applies parallel drive signals to the drive electrodes, differential amplifiers that receive sensed output values output from the sensing electrodes according to the parallel drive signals and a reference output value, and a touch processing unit that determines an occurrence of a touch according to differential output values of the differential amplifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Jun Il Kwon, Franklin Bien, Jae Joon Kim, Sanghyun Heo, Hyunggun Ma
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Patent number: 9377910Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus includes a touch screen panel including first electrodes along a first direction and second electrodes along a second direction crossing the first direction to form capacitances with the first electrodes, a driving circuit configured to supply a driving signal to the first electrodes; and a sensing circuit configured to detect output sensing signals from the second electrodes and recognize a touch input based on the output sensing signals. The sensing circuit includes a switching unit configured to modulate the output sensing signals by providing codes as respective input sensing signals to the second electrodes, an amplifying unit configured to amplify the modulated sensing signals, an analog-digital conversion unit configured to convert the amplified sensing signals into digital sensing signals, and a controller configured to demodulate the digital sensing signals and detect a touch input and its position from the demodulated sensing signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Soon-Sung Ahn, Franklin Bien, Jae-Joon Kim, Sang-Hyune Heo, Kyeong-Hwan Park
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Publication number: 20160097745Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a defect of a press panel includes: an acoustic emission sensor unit configured to detect at least one elastic wave signal emitted from the press panel as a detection target during press work, a period measurer configured to measure a period as a section in which there are consecutive signals with a greater voltage than a threshold voltage among the at least one detected signals, and a defect existence determination unit configured to determine that a defect is generated in the press panel when the measured period is greater than a first reference value, and to determine that the press panel is in a normal state when the measured period is smaller than a second reference value which is smaller than the first reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Jae Ryeon Hwang, ByungHun Kim, Franklin Bien, Hyon Gi Yoo, Chan Woo Jeong, Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Liu Zhenyl, Seul Ki Rom Kim
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Patent number: 9166578Abstract: There are provided a pulse generator capable of securing a maximum transfer rate of an IR-UWB signal, while maintaining low power consumption characteristics of an all-digital scheme, and a method for generating a fine pulse. A bandwidth of a fine pulse is determined by adjusting a difference in delay time between two adjacent pulses and a pulse is generated by selecting only one of a rising edge and a falling edge of an input pulse, and thus there is no need to remove an unnecessary batch of pulses afterwards and a transfer rate is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: UNIST ACADEMY-INDUSTRY RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Franklin Bien, Kyung Min Na, Yun Ho Choi, Sai Kiran Oruganti
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Publication number: 20150143912Abstract: According to the present invention, it is possible to determine a defect on a product caused in a pressing process by applying a predetermined acoustic signal to an object to be inspected and then sensing propagation of the applied signal, and it is possible to improve inspection performance, using an acoustic sensor capable of sensing sounds in an audible band and a sound collector that collects sounds and prevents noise. Further, it is possible to prevent defective panels from being put into the following process line by inspecting panels produced in a panel production line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Franklin Bien, Hyon Gi Yoo, Zhenyi Liu, Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Seul Ki Rom Kim, Joo Hyeob Song
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Publication number: 20150143909Abstract: According to the present invention, it is possible to determine a defect on a product caused in a press process by applying a predetermined acoustic signal to an object to be inspected and then sensing propagation of the applied signal, and it is possible to improve inspection performance, using an acoustic sensor capable of sensing sounds in an audible band and a high-frequency sensor capable of sensing sounds in an non-audible band.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Franklin Bien, Hyon Gi YOO, Zhenyi Liu, Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Seul Ki Rom KIM, Joo Hyeob SONG
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Publication number: 20150070307Abstract: A touch screen apparatus is provided, including: a plurality of transmission channels to which a plurality of coded signals are input; a touch screen panel configured to convert the plurality of coded signals to a plurality of sensing currents according to a touch input of a user; an amplifier configured to amplify at least one current among the plurality of sensing currents to generate an output voltage; and a current subtraction circuit configured to generate a second current having an opposite phase to that of a first current among the sensing currents in a node where the touch screen panel is connected with the amplifier, by using an antiphase signal of the coded signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Franklin BIEN, Hyung Gun Ma, Sang Hyun Heo
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Publication number: 20140361822Abstract: There are provided a pulse generator capable of securing a maximum transfer rate of an IR-UWB signal, while maintaining low power consumption characteristics of an all-digital scheme, and a method for generating a fine pulse. A bandwidth of a fine pulse is determined by adjusting a difference in delay time between two adjacent pulses and a pulse is generated by selecting only one of a rising edge and a falling edge of an input pulse, and thus there is no need to remove an unnecessary batch of pulses afterwards and a transfer rate is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Franklin Bien, Kyung Min NA, Yun Ho CHOI, Sai Kiran Oruganti
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Patent number: D857975Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Inventor: Franklin Bien