Patents by Inventor Shih Min Liu
Shih Min Liu 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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Publication number: 20240087896Abstract: Methods of forming line-end extensions and devices having line-end extensions are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes forming a patterned photoresist on a first region of a hard mask layer. A line-end extension region is formed in the hard mask layer. The line-end extension region extends laterally outward from an end of the first region of the hard mask layer. The line-end extension region may be formed by changing a physical property of the hard mask layer at the line-end extension region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Chih-Min HSIAO, Chien-Wen LAI, Ru-Gun LIU, Chih-Ming LAI, Shih-Ming CHANG, Yung-Sung YEN, Yu-Chen CHANG
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Patent number: 8928816Abstract: An activity recognition method, for recognizing continuous activities of several moving objects in the foreground of a video, includes: capturing and processing a training video to get a contour of a moving object; extracting a minimum bounding box of the contour in order to get parameters then transfer to feature vectors; constructing a decision tree model based on support vector machines (SVMs), for classifying the activities of the moving object according to the parameter and the feature vector of the training video; capturing and processing a testing video to get other parameters and using several formulas to generate feature vectors, and executing an algorithm for recognizing the activities of several moving objects in the foreground of the testing video. Said feature vectors are transformed from the parameters that in the testing and training videos. Via above descriptions, the method can recognize activities of foreground objects in the testing video.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Chin-Shyurng Fahn, Shih-Min Liu
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Publication number: 20130182105Abstract: An activity recognition method, for recognizing continuous activities of several moving objects in the foreground of a video, includes: capturing and processing a training video to get a contour of a moving object; extracting a minimum bounding box of the contour in order to get parameters then transfer to feature vectors; constructing a decision tree model based on support vector machines (SVMs), for classifying the activities of the moving object according to the parameter and the feature vector of the training video; capturing and processing a testing video to get other parameters and using several formulas to generate feature vectors, and executing an algorithm for recognizing the activities of several moving objects in the foreground of the testing video. Said feature vectors are transformed from the parameters that in the testing and training videos. Via above descriptions, the method can recognize activities of foreground objects in the testing video.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: National Taiwan University of Science and Technolo gyInventors: Chin-Shyurng Fahn, Shih-Min Liu
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Patent number: 7453661Abstract: A method of servo writing a disk of a disk drive is disclosed, wherein the disk drive comprising the disk and a head actuated over the disk. Servo sectors are written to define servo tracks from a first diameter of the disk to substantially a middle diameter of the disk, wherein the first diameter is selected from one of the outer and inner diameter of the disk. Servo sectors are then written to define servo tracks from a second diameter of the disk toward the middle diameter of the disk by positioning the head over a current servo track, reading the current servo track to generate a read signal, processing the read signal to detect a previously written servo sector, and if a previously written servo sector is not detected, then writing servo sectors to the current servo track and positioning the head over a next servo track.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jinsheng Bill Jang, Shih Min Liu
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Patent number: 7233050Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming at least one image sensor with improved sensitivity along with at least one transistor device. The method comprises forming at least a portion of the transistor device on a substrate, forming the image sensor by doping a predetermined area separated from the transistor device by a minimum predetermined distance, forming an etch stop layer for covering a contact area of the transistor device, removing at least a portion of the etch stop layer in the predetermined area for exposing the image sensor, and covering the image sensor and the transistor device by at least one transparent protection layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Wei Zhang, Chian-Liang Lin, Jung-Chen Yang, Chia-Chun Hung, Shih-Min Liu
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Publication number: 20060197171Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming at least one image sensor with improved sensitivity along with at least one transistor device. The method comprises forming at least a portion of the transistor device on a substrate, forming the image sensor by doping a predetermined area separated from the transistor device by a minimum predetermined distance, forming an etch stop layer for covering a contact area of the transistor device, removing at least a portion of the etch stop layer in the predetermined area for exposing the image sensor, and covering the image sensor and the transistor device by at least one transparent protection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2006Publication date: September 7, 2006Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Chian-Liang Lin, Jung-Chen Yang, Chia-Chun Hung, Shih-Min Liu
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Patent number: 7071019Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming at least one image sensor with improved sensitivity along with at least one transistor device. The method comprises forming at least a portion of the transistor device on a substrate, forming the image sensor by doping a predetermined area separated from the transistor device by a minimum predetermined distance, forming an etch stop layer for covering a contact area of the transistor device, removing at least a portion of the etch stop layer in the predetermined area for exposing the image sensor, and covering the image sensor and the transistor device by at least one transparent protection layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Chian-Liang Lin, Jung-Chen Yang, Chia-Chun Hung, Shih-Min Liu
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Publication number: 20060057759Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming at least one image sensor with improved sensitivity along with at least one transistor device. The method comprises forming at least a portion of the transistor device on a substrate, forming the image sensor by doping a predetermined area separated from the transistor device by a minimum predetermined distance, forming an etch stop layer for covering a contact area of the transistor device, removing at least a portion of the etch stop layer in the predetermined area for exposing the image sensor, and covering the image sensor and the transistor device by at least one transparent protection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2004Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventors: Wei Zhang, Chian-Liang Lin, Jung-Chen Yang, Chia-Chun Hung, Shih-Min Liu
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Patent number: 6950267Abstract: A disk drive is disclosed which generates a pole tip protrusion (PTP) measurement by performing a write operation to heat the transducer while measuring a fly height of the transducer. A first data sequence written to the disk is read without heating the transducer to generate a first signal measurement. A second data sequence is then written to the disk in order to heat the transducer, and the first data sequence is again read to generate a second signal measurement. The PTP measurement is then generated in response to the first and second signal measurements.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shih Min Liu, Galvin T. Chia