Patents Assigned to Applied Science & Technology
  • Publication number: 20130021685
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to electromagnetic force generation for an imaging device having a small form factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kin Ming Fan, Kwok Sing Cheng, Kai Cheong Kwan
  • Patent number: 8355338
    Abstract: A method of processing sequential information in near real-time data packets streamed over a network includes providing a process running according to a process clock. The process buffers and decodes the streamed data packets. The speed of the process clock is dynamically controlled in accordance with a receipt time value of a data packet. The speed of the process clock is run faster or slower than a system clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Wai Keung Wu
  • Publication number: 20130005280
    Abstract: A system for sensing motion and performing wireless communication, includes one or more antennas for transmitting and receiving wireless data communication signals and motion detection electromagnetic waves. One or more electrical switches switch among electrical paths activating frequency channel scanning, motion sensing, interference detection, and data communication. A motion sensor receiver receives motion detection electromagnetic waves. A transceiver generates both modulated RF signals for the wireless data communication and un-modulated RF signals for the motion detection. One or more processors process motion detection electromagnetic wave data and detected interference signal data as well as processing wireless communication data to and from the transceiver, controlling the one or more electrical switches, and providing commands to the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Chun Kai Leung, Ka King Wong, Tik Shun Leung
  • Patent number: 8328354
    Abstract: A device for at least one of diagnosis and treatment of binocular vision disorders is disclosed. The device comprises a portable, wearable viewing apparatus that includes a left eye electronic display and a right eye electronic display, a dual data channel input, wherein each data channel corresponds to a respective one of the left eye and right eye electronic displays, a left eye adjustable optic structure adjusting a view of the left eye electronic display, and a right eye adjustable optic structure adjusting a view of the right eye electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geng Li, Yeung-Ming Chow, Man-Hong Balwin Chan, Tat-Hoi Lee, Chung-Kong Cheung
  • Patent number: 8329485
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet printable phosphor ink composition for LED packaging that enables precision control of the amount and position of phosphor layers on the LED device or the LED device packaging. The ink includes both a UV-curable resin component and a thermally curable resin component. A phase-separation component prevents phase separation of the UV-curable resin component and the thermally curable resin component. Phosphor particles on the order of less than approximately 2 microns are uniformly dispersed throughout the ink composition. The phosphor ink composition is deposited through either thermal or piezoelectric ink jet printing; a thin layer is deposited in a desired pattern. UV curing (and, optionally, thermal curing) is used to fix each layer followed by subsequent deposition and curing. In this manner, undesirable phosphor settling does not occur and layers are selectively built up to form precise phosphor distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Dennis McKean
  • Publication number: 20120307384
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to an imaging device having a deformable lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwok Sing Cheng
  • Patent number: 8326050
    Abstract: This invention relates to method and apparatus for subpixel-based down-sampling. This invention implements an adaptive filter 140 based on edge detection, which removes visible color fringing artifacts while efficiently retaining sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Oscar Chi-Lim Au, Lu Fang, Hon Wah Wong, Yi Yang, Yan Huo
  • Publication number: 20120300453
    Abstract: A structure is provided to create an efficient light pattern conversion from a narrow angular light beam pattern of a light emitting source to a wide angle light intensity distribution for an omnidirectional lighting assembly. A heat conductive substrate includes an LED array with at least one central and at least one surrounding LED. A hollow light diverting component is positioned over the LED array; a central LED is within the hollow component while surrounding LEDs are positioned outside. Light emitted by the central LED is reflected off inner surfaces of the hollow component to be discharged from an upper opening. The outer component surface is configured to reflect light from the surrounding LEDs in azimuthal and circumferential directions towards a region below the upper opening. In this manner, plural LEDs are used to form a wide angle emission pattern suitable for use in conventional light bulb replacement devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Li Zhou, Kai Chiu Wu, Enboa Wu
  • Patent number: 8320364
    Abstract: A method for controlling a real-time media stream between a sender and a receiver. The method includes streaming, from the sender, media packets over a network at a bit-rate, determining at the sender a loss-rate for the streamed media packets not received at the receiver. The sender optionally generates duplicate packets for a selected number of media packets and streams the duplicate packets over the network when the loss-rate is above a first loss-rate threshold, or varies the bit-rate of streaming the media packets over the network when the loss-rate is above a second loss-rate threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wai Keung Wu, Siu Ming Fu, Siu Kai Yeung
  • Patent number: 8315185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ACK-NACK detection in an LTE wireless communication system. To determine a threshold value for an ACK-NACK transmission, an SC-FDMA signal is received from user equipment. Then, a power estimate of soft data bits is used to establish a threshold value for determining the presence of an ACK-NACK signal. Using this threshold value, a signal from the user equipment is analyzed to determine if it contains an ACK or NACK transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Wing Chau Chan
  • Publication number: 20120286208
    Abstract: The present invention provides phosphor inks configured to achieve high efficiency in converting LED light from one wavelength to another. The phosphor ink composition for deposition on an LED device comprises a phosphor component having nano-phosphor particles on the order of 100 to 1000 nanometers, and a curable resin component. In particular, the nano-phosphor particles are uniformly dispersed throughout the ink composition. The nano-phosphor particles may be formed by a size reduction process carried out on larger phosphor particles on the order of 1 to 50 micrometers. Preferably, the size reduction process is based on solvent wet milling. Methods for preparing the phosphor inks based on forming the nano-phosphor particles from larger particles by solvent wet milling are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Dennis MCKEAN, Pan Man WONG, Wenbo MA
  • Publication number: 20120288972
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet printable phosphor ink composition for LED packaging that enables precision control of the amount and position of phosphor layers on the LED device or the LED device packaging. The ink includes both a UV-curable resin component and a thermally curable resin component. A phase-separation component prevents phase separation of the UV-curable resin component and the thermally curable resin component. Phosphor particles on the order of less than approximately 2 microns are uniformly dispersed throughout the ink composition. The phosphor ink composition is deposited through either thermal or piezoelectric ink jet printing; a thin layer is deposited in a desired pattern. UV curing (and, optionally, thermal curing) is used to fix each layer followed by subsequent deposition and curing. In this manner, undesirable phosphor settling does not occur and layers are selectively built up to form precise phosphor distributions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Dennis McKean
  • Patent number: 8311361
    Abstract: Enhancement of an image includes adjusting its brightness and then adjusting the contrast of the brightness adjusted image. Adjusting the brightness uses an estimation of real world luminance. Contrast adjustment involves extracting background and contrast information, adjusting the contrast information by an adjustment factor based on the background information and combining the background corrected contrast information to obtain an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Min Chen, Huajun Peng, Guoping Qiu
  • Patent number: 8300431
    Abstract: A fly-back AC-DC power converter has a constant-current control loop that senses the primary output current in a transformer to control the secondary output without an expensive opto-isolator. A primary-side control circuit can use either a Quasi-Resonant (QR) or a Pulse-Width-Modulation (PWM) control loop to switch primary current through the transformer on and off. A feedback voltage is compared to a primary-side voltage sensed from the primary current loop to turn the switch on and off. A multiplier loop generates the feedback voltage using a multiplier. A level-shift inverter and a low-pass filter act as the multiplier by multiplying an off duty cycle of the switch by the feedback voltage to generate a filtered voltage. A high-gain error amp compares the filtered voltage to a reference voltage to generate the feedback voltage. The multiplier produces a simple relationship between the secondary current and the reference voltage, yielding simplified current control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chik Wai (David) Ng, Hing Kit Kwan, Po Wah (Patrick) Chang, Wai Kit (Victor) So, Kwok Kuen (David) Kwong
  • Patent number: 8299351
    Abstract: A multi-junction device can be used as a high efficiency solar cell, laser, or light-emitting diode. Multiple epitaxial films grown over a substrate have very low defect densities because an initial epitaxial layer is a coincidence-site lattice (CSL) layer that has III-V atoms that fit into lattice sites of Silicon atoms in the substrate. The substrate is a Si (111) substrate which has a step height between adjacent terraces on its surface that closely matches the step height of GaAs (111). Any anti-phase boundaries (APBs) formed at terrace steps cancel out within a few atomic layers of GaAs in the (111) orientation since the polarity of the GaAs molecule is aligned with the (111) direction. A low CSL growth temperature grows GaAs horizontally along Si terraces before vertical growth. Tunnel diode and active solar-cell junction layers can be grown over the CSL at higher temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chung Chi Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120256879
    Abstract: Multiple image projection apparatus are described. A cubic multi-prism beam splitter is provided having diagonal interfaces with one or more PBS elements and/or reflective elements positioned thereon. At least first and second spatial light modulators, such as LCoS SLMs, are positioned adjacent the beam splitter cube. The first and second LCoS spatial light modulators and first and second projection optics systems are configured to output a first modulated image from the first LCoS SLM to the first projection optics system and a second modulated image from the second LCoS spatial light modulator to the second projection optics system. In other embodiments, additional LCoS spatial light modulators and light sources produce 3-D images. Addition of sensors permits user interaction with a projected image which is fed back to a controller to optionally change current or future images displayed by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Ying LIU, Kinlung CHAN, Weiping TANG
  • Publication number: 20120257169
    Abstract: A polarization beam splitter includes at least six prisms assembled together to form a single solid components. At least one diagonal interface is formed by a combination of two or more prism surfaces. The solid polarization beam splitter component has at least four light entrance/exit surfaces with at least one of the light entrance/exit surfaces including a step. At least one of the prisms has a non-triangular cross-sectional shape. At least one surface of a prism that forms a portion of the diagonal interface has a polarization beam splitting material disposed thereon resulting in a diagonal interface that includes a polarization beam splitting material. The polarization beam splitter can be incorporated into various image projection apparatus including 2D, multiple image, and 3D projection apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Ying Liu
  • Publication number: 20120249292
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide identification of a user in combination with mutual authentication between a user and identification host are shown. Embodiments further provide mutual authentication between the identification host and a resource for which access is controlled, thereby providing three-party authentication (e.g., user, identification host, resource). Although utilizing biometric data for user identification, embodiments store such biometric information within devices which remain in the control of users. Protocols implemented according to embodiments facilitate a decentralized approach to user identification and authentication to allow a user to interact with any of a number of identification hosts for user identification and authorization. Auditing and tracing of user identification and authentication and/or resource access is provided according to embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shek Duncan Wong, Jack Sik Ching Poon, Tak Shing Peter Yum
  • Patent number: 8280388
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods which provide for management of wireless communications through the development and use of link space information. Such link space information provides link-centric information with respect to wireless links of a network to thereby provide a view of the network which takes into account phenomena affecting the wireless links. Utilizing such link space information, automated management of various aspects of a wireless network may be provided, including automated provisioning, management, and/or optimization of network links. Network operations may include use of link space information in providing network management applications such as automatic fault management, automatic performance management, operation advisories, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jason C. Leung Hang, Bill Piu Wong
  • Patent number: 8279965
    Abstract: MIMO detection is described that reduces the complexity of computations for finding the soft bit output. The detection process includes QR factorization splitting the distance calculations into two groups, subset lookup using a last cross constellation set (LCCS) lookup, and minimal distance lookup with soft bit output calculation. By grouping the distance calculations into a first group that has one antenna transmitting using a modulation scheme with a generally square constellation diagram and a second group for all of the other antenna constellation diagrams, the LCCS lookup process may be used which substantially reduces the number of calculations to be made in the detection process. Moreover, in the special case of 2×2 antenna, QR factorization is performed by applying a scaled Givens rotation to the channel matrix. The application of the scaled Givens rotation operator eliminates any square root operations that would be performed in a standard QR factorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chris Leung