Patents by Inventor Kea-Tiong Tang

Kea-Tiong Tang 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: 11899742
    Abstract: A quantization parameter providing step of a quantization method is performed to provide a quantization parameter which includes a quantized input activation, a quantized weight and a splitting value. A parameter splitting step is performed to split the quantized weight and the quantized input activation into a plurality of grouped quantized weights and a plurality of grouped activations, respectively, according to the splitting value. A multiply-accumulate step is performed to execute a multiply-accumulate operation with one of the grouped quantized weights and one of the grouped activations, and then generate a convolution output. A convolution quantization step is performed to quantize the convolution output to a quantized convolution output according to a convolution target bit. A convolution merging step is performed to execute a partial-sum operation with the quantized convolution output according to the splitting value, and then generate an output activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kea-Tiong Tang, Wei-Chen Wei
  • Publication number: 20230351165
    Abstract: A method is provided and includes operations as below: receiving multiple spike signals in an input layer of a spiking neural network during multiple time steps; counting a corresponding number of spikes in the spike signals for each of the time steps; weighting, in response to the corresponding number of spikes in one of plurality of time steps being greater than a predetermined count value, the spike signals with multiple synaptic weight values to generate multiple synaptic signals; generating a membrane potential by accumulating a number N of the synaptic signals according to a weight distribution of the synaptic weight values; and generating an output spike signal according to the membrane potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kea Tiong TANG, Chen-Han HSU
  • Publication number: 20230325642
    Abstract: A method is provided and includes operations as below: training a spiking neural network (SNN) in a first device to generate multiple first weight values of M bits; calculating multiple second weight values of N bits corresponding to the first weight values according to a threshold value, the number M, and the first weight values, wherein the number N is smaller than the number M; retraining the spiking neural network with the second weight values to update the second weight values; and performing a write operation to save the updated plurality of second weight values in a memory in a second device for performing a spiking neural network operation in the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kea Tiong TANG, YuHsiang CHENG
  • Publication number: 20220366971
    Abstract: A hardware/software co-compressed computing method for a static random access memory (SRAM) computing-in-memory-based (CIM-based) processing unit includes performing a data dividing step, a sparsity step, an address assigning step and a hardware decoding and calculating step. The data dividing step is performed to divide a plurality of kernels into a plurality of weight groups. The sparsity step includes performing a weight setting step. The weight setting step is performed to set each of the weight groups to one of a zero weight group and a non-zero weight group. The address assigning step is performed to assign a plurality of index codes to a plurality of the non-zero weight groups, respectively. The hardware decoding and calculating step is performed to execute an inner product to the non-zero weight groups and the input feature data group corresponding to the non-zero weight groups to generate the output feature data group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kea-Tiong TANG, Syuan-Hao SIE, Jye-Luen LEE
  • Patent number: 11224746
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 11173306
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 11173305
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 11129984
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Publication number: 20210294874
    Abstract: A quantization parameter providing step of a quantization method is performed to provide a quantization parameter which includes a quantized input activation, a quantized weight and a splitting value. A parameter splitting step is performed to split the quantized weight and the quantized input activation into a plurality of grouped quantized weights and a plurality of grouped activations, respectively, according to the splitting value. A multiply-accumulate step is performed to execute a multiply-accumulate operation with one of the grouped quantized weights and one of the grouped activations, and then generate a convolution output. A convolution quantization step is performed to quantize the convolution output to a quantized convolution output according to a convolution target bit. A convolution merging step is performed to execute a partial-sum operation with the quantized convolution output according to the splitting value, and then generate an output activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Kea-Tiong TANG, Wei-Chen WEI
  • Patent number: 11048650
    Abstract: A method for integrating a processing-in-sensor unit and an in-memory computing includes the following steps. A providing step is performed to transmit the first command signal and the initial data to the in-memory computing unit. A converting step is performed to drive the first command signal and the initial data to convert to a second command signal and a plurality of input data through a synchronizing module. A fetching step is performed to drive a frame difference module to receive the input data to fetch a plurality of difference data. A slicing step is performed to drive a bit-slicing module to receive the difference data and slice each of the difference data into a plurality of bit slices. A controlling step is performed to encode the difference address into a control signal, and the in-memory computing unit accesses each of the bit slices according to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kea-Tiong Tang, Meng-Fan Chang, Chih-Cheng Hsieh, Syuan-Hao Sie
  • Publication number: 20190366089
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Publication number: 20190366092
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Publication number: 20190366090
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Publication number: 20190366091
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation, which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes, as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 10406361
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Augustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Publication number: 20180169413
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue is not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes as continued use may result in neural damage and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James S. Little, Rongqing Dal, Arup Roy, Richard Augustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, David Daomin Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 9974953
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the stimulation of neural tissue which includes a neural stimulator, an input device for providing input to the neural stimulator for neural stimulation, at least one electrode electrically connected to and driven by the neural stimulator and suitable to stimulate neural tissue, a device capable of determining a charge per phase by calculating a discrete integral of the wave form of the input for the at least one electrode, a calculating device for comparing the charge per phase to a predetermined maximum and determining a reduced stimulation for the at least one electrode by the amount necessary not to exceed the predetermined maximum for the at least one electrode, and a current pulse generator for stimulating the neural tissue according to the reduced stimulation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James Singleton Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, Dao Min Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 9913985
    Abstract: In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue in not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes as continued use may result in neural and further electrode damage. The present invention presents system and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jay Greenberg, Kelly Hobart McClure, James Singleton Little, Rongqing Dai, Arup Roy, Richard Agustin Castro, John Reinhold, Kea-Tiong Tang, Sumit Yadav, Chunhong Zhou, Dao Min Zhou, Pishoy Maksy
  • Patent number: 9838231
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a demodulating method for a demodulating circuit. The demodulating method comprises a step of utilizing a wave-shaping voltage step-down circuit to perform a wave-shaping process for a modulating input signal. A separate circuit of modulating input signal is filtering data zero of the modulating input signal and reserving data one of the modulating input signal. A triggering circuit of data recover is used to start the count of data span, until the data count is completed. A data recover circuit is used to recover the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Yu-Po Lin, Kea-Tiong Tang, Hsin Chen
  • Patent number: 9753475
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a feedback type voltage regulator, including a voltage reference circuit for providing a reference voltage, distributed series feedback amplifiers electrically coupled to the voltage reference circuit and a power transistor which gate is electrically connected to the distributed series feedback amplifiers. The distributed series feedback amplifiers comprises three set of amplifiers serially connected with each other, wherein the relation of the gain of the first amplifier (A1), the second amplifier (A2), and the third amplifier (A3) is A1>A2>A3, wherein the relation of the bandwidth of the first amplifier (B1), the second amplifier (B2), and the third amplifier (B3) is B1<B2<B3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Yu-Po Lin, Kea-Tiong Tang