Patents Assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
  • Patent number: 11494627
    Abstract: A dynamic-tile neural network accelerator allows for the number and size of computational tiles to be re-configured. Each sub-array of computational cells has edge cells on the left-most column that have an added vector mux that feeds the cell output back to an adder-comparator to allow Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) and pooling operations that combine outputs shifted in from other cells. The edge cells drive external output registers and receive external weights. The weights and outputs are shifted in opposite directions horizontally between cells while control and input data are shifted in a same direction vertically between cells. A column of row data selectors is inserted between sub-arrays to bypass weights and output data around sub-arrays, while a row of column data selectors are inserted between sub-arrays to bypass control and input data. Larger tiles are configured by passing data directly through these selectors without bypassing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Tao Li, Xiaoqing Shan, Ka Lung Tim Wong, Xuejiao Liu, Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 11494690
    Abstract: A method of high dimensional data analysis in real-time comprising executing dimension-reducing an input historical data set under a t-SNE model and determining from the resulting dimension-reduced data set a recent; further dimension-reducing the recent group data set under a PCA model; statistical analyzing the further dimension-reduced data set to determine a threshold group for distinguishing abnormal data from normal ones in a real-time data stream. The method may further include training a classifier using the abnormal or normal data set for predicting anomaly in the real-time data source system. Alternatively, a discrepancy training data set is computed from one of the normal and abnormal data sets and be used to train one of independent normal and abnormal data regression models; with the other one trained by transfer learning based on the trained one. The trained regression models are then used to predict discrepancy values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Kangheng Wu, Zhi Bin Lei, Vincent Wai-Leuk Tam, Wei Chen Huang, Lawrence Kwan Yeung
  • Patent number: 11468543
    Abstract: A neural network receives mono-color pixels in a Bayer pattern from an image sensor and interpolates pixels to generate full-color RGB pixels while also enlightening the image for better detail. A Back-Projection (BP) layer is added to each contracting layer in a U-net convolution neural network where feature depth is increased as pixels are downsampled, while a BP channel shrink layer is added to each expansion layer where feature depth is reduced to upsample and increase pixel resolution. Convolution layers in the BP layer lighten and darken images to generate an error that is then lightened and added to a weighted lightened input. The neural network learns the best weightings to correct for noise and error in the lightening process in these BP layers. Noise is reduced further by repeating a convolution and leaky Rectified Linear Unit (lrelu) in series for the first convolution in the BP layer that performs lightening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Li-Wen Wang, Wan-Chi Siu, Zhi-Song Liu, Yan Huo, Xingbo Guan, Miaohui Hao
  • Patent number: 11422199
    Abstract: A used battery is discharged for a short time from a first Open Circuit Voltage (OCV1) to a second OCV2 and the discharge current ?Q measured. OCV1 is input to a calibration curve model to obtain a first modeled State of Charge (SOC1) value, and OCV2 is input to the calibration curve model to obtain a second modeled SOC2 value. The State of Health (SOH) is calculated as ?Q/[Qnew×(SOC1?SOC2)], where Qnew is the battery capacity when new. The used battery is sorted for reuse or disposal based on the SOH value. The calibration curve model is obtained by Artificial Intelligence (AI) modeling of OCV, SOC datapoints from fully charging and discharging used batteries. Only OCV values within a target region having a low first derivative of SOC as a function of OCV are modeled, and OCV1 and OCV2 are within this target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Minjie Xu, Yaofeng Sun
  • Patent number: 11407322
    Abstract: A smart power hub has an AC port, a first DC port to a car battery, a second DC port to DC devices such as car instruments, and a third DC port to solar panels or another smart power hub. An AC bi-directional converter has six transistors in a B6 configuration to convert three-phase AC, acting as an interleaved totem-pole Power-Factor-Corrector for one-phase AC. A switch connects the DC bi-directional converter with either the AC bi-directional converter or the solar panels on the third DC port. A link capacitor has a DC link voltage that rises during battery charging. A DC bi-directional converter has a transformer, a primary bridge connected to the DC link voltage, and a secondary bridge of transistors connected to the first DC port. Auxiliary windings in the transformer drive a rectifier to the second DC port to power on-board DC devices. Solar DC charges the battery without AC conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, Limited
    Inventors: Xuechao Liu, Kin Lap Wong, Qingchun Li, Bin Xie, Danting Xu
  • Patent number: 11408825
    Abstract: A forensic detector for remotely sensing a porphyrin-containing substance on a surface of an object is provided. The forensic detector includes an excitation light source for generating an excitation light beam, plural optical elements, one or more sensors for measuring a first and second radiation powers, and a computer processor. The excitation light beam has an excitation wavelength capable of exciting porphyrin to luminesce at a target wavelength centered between 665-675 nm. The first and second radiation powers are in non-overlapping wavelength regions of the object-originated light beam. The computer processor is configured to compute a SNR according to the first radiation power and a background noise power level, and to determine if the porphyrin-containing substance is present on the surface according to the SNR. The background noise power level is obtained from the one or more second radiation powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Hoi Ching Cheung
  • Patent number: 11403488
    Abstract: A method for extracting information from a table includes steps as follows. Characters of a table are extracted. The characters are merged into n-gram characters. The n-gram characters are merged into words and text lines through a two-stage GNN mode. The two-stage GNN mode comprises sub steps as: spatial features, semantic features, CNN image features are extracted from a target source; a first GNN stage is processed to output graph embedding spatial features from the spatial features; and a second GNN stage is processed to output graph embedding semantic features and graph embedding CNN image features from the semantic features and the CNN image features, respectively. The text lines are merged into cells. The cells are grouped into rows, columns, and key-value pairs based on one or more adjacency matrices, a row relationship among the cells, a column relationship among the cells, and a key-value relationship among the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Wai Kai Arvin Tang, Jinning Yang
  • Patent number: 11398074
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and computerized apparatus for identifying planes of a 3D object in a 3D scene are provided. The method comprises receiving a point cloud and performs plane segmentation. In one embodiment, the point cloud is voxelized into a plurality of voxels of equal dimensions and the plurality of voxels are classified into three categories, wherein each first category voxel satisfies a planar requirement and a first neighborhood constraint, each second category voxel satisfies the planar requirement and a second neighborhood constraint, and each third category voxel does not satisfy the planar requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONG KONG APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chongshan Liu, Xueyan Tang, Chun Li, Suk Ling Li
  • Patent number: 11387690
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitter has electromagnets and a transmitter coil mounted on a moving plate. Current in the main DC circuit is switched into the electromagnets by transistors that control the amount and direction of current through the electromagnets to control the strength and polarity of electromagnetic fields generated by the electromagnets. A controller initially drives a high gate voltage onto transistors to cause the electromagnets on the transmitter to generate a maximum attractive force with magnets on the receiver, causing the moving plate to move the transmitter coil into closer alignment with the receiver coil. A power factor is measured on both receiver and transmitter to estimate the power transfer efficiency. The controller then reduces the gate voltage by a step size and the power factors are measured again. The gate voltage continues to be adjusted to optimize the power transfer efficiency until reaching a maxima.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, Limited
    Inventors: Minglu Xia, Kun Wu, Ziyang Gao
  • Patent number: 11368288
    Abstract: A method for inter-blockchain communication, comprising: receiving from a sender node in a sender blockchain a data message for transmission to a receiver node in a receiver blockchain; encrypt and encapsulate by an encryption module the data message into an event, wherein the event comprising an exposed header containing information for routing the event through the blockchains and identifying the sender and the receiver nodes; broadcasting the event to a communication bridge comprising multiple bridge nodes; transferring the event through the bridge nodes to an event exchange module of the receiver blockchain; validating the event by a validation module; decrypting and decapsulating the validated event by a decryption module into a decrypted data message; and recording the decrypted data message into the receiver blockchain ledger for reading by the receiver node. The multiple bridge nodes ensure redundancy for the reliable delivery of events in the inter-blockchain communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Shangru Wu, Haihua Zhang, Xingxia Zhang, Ruoqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11358407
    Abstract: A multilayered optical security device has a resonant waveguide grating (RWG) layer on an under layer having a hologram. The RWG layer has plural RWGs for generating one or more patterns. Each RWG has first and second RWG portions, with diffraction gratings of different grating periods, for light coupling-in and coupling-out, respectively. Using the RWGs minimizes interference to a holographic image generated by the under layer. This advantage is especially useful when the holographic image carries digital data such as in digital holographic encryption where an encrypted hologram is used in the under layer. The digital data may contain biometric information such as a fingerprint. In each RWG portion of an individual RWG, scattering elements in a grating are curved to thereby enhance an angular tolerance in azimuthal angle during observing the patterns by an observer while the individual RWG is still selective in elevation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Zeineb Ben Aziza, Xiaohan Wang, Ting Hao, Xiuling Zhu, Kenny Chan
  • Patent number: 11348277
    Abstract: A method for estimating camera orientation relative to a ground surface. Line segments are detected from an image captured by a camera. A first virtual cube having three orthogonal vanishing points with a random 3D orientation is superimposed on to the image. The line segments of the image are classified grouped into 3D-directional groups. A second virtual cube is superimposed on to the image with an initial 3D orientation. An optimal 3D orientation of the second virtual cube is computed by iteratively changing the 3D orientation of the second virtual cube and measuring perpendicular distances of the three orthogonal vanishing points to the three line segment groups in each iteration starting with the initial 3D orientation, wherein the optimal 3D orientation of the second virtual cube being one that provides shortest perpendicular distances. Co-variances of the orthogonal vanishing points of the second virtual cube at the optimal orientation are computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Wang Kit Wilson Thong, Jihui Zhang, Man Wai Kwan, Yiu Man Lam, Cheng Hsiung Liu, Jiaxin Yan, Zhuobin Lin
  • Patent number: 11334722
    Abstract: A method for summarizing text with sentence extraction including steps as follows. Sentences are extracted from a document including text by a natural language processing (NLP) based feature extractor. A word vector set with respect to each of the sentences is generated by a processor. The word vector set with respect to each of the sentences is used to generate a n-grams vector set and a phrase-n vector set with respect to each of the sentences. A word score representing similarity between the word vector sets, a n-grams score representing similarity between the n-grams vector sets, and a phrase-n score representing similarity between the phrase-n vector sets are computed. The word, n-grams, and phrase-n scores are combined to compute an edge score. Text features are selected from the sentences using the edge scores of the sentences, so as to output a summary of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Yu Keung Ng, Yang Liu, Chao Feng, Yi Ping Tse, Zuyao Wang, Zhi Bin Lei
  • Patent number: 11328402
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anomaly detection method and apparatus based on a neural network which can be trained on undamaged normal vehicle images and able to detect unknown/unseen vehicle damages of stochastic types and extents from images which are taken in various contexts. The provided method and apparatus are implemented with functional units which are trained to perform the anomaly detection under a GCAN model with a training dataset containing images of undamaged vehicles, intact-vehicle frame images and augmented vehicle frame images of the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Wai Kai Arvin Tang, Pak Kan Wong
  • Patent number: 11323963
    Abstract: A long-range wireless network extends the battery life of the most remote end devices by forming pairs with a relayer end device that relays data from the remote end device to a gateway. The battery life of the relayer is reduced to extend the battery life of the remote end device. An analysis server selects pairs of end devices that have a difference in battery levels above a threshold, and require less transmission energy from the remote end device to the relayer than to the gateway. Energy or path losses are estimated based on geographic locations of end devices and terrain or obstacles. Redundant pairs from a remote end device are eliminated by selecting the relayer requiring the lowest transmission energy. A new configuration is sent to the remote end device. New configurations with higher Spreading Factors (SF) compensate for pairs with larger path losses to the relayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Tak Wing Lam, Chik Ki Yeung, Tak Fuk Wong
  • Patent number: 11321953
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and computerized apparatus for posture, dimension and shape measurements of at least one 3D object in a scanned 3D scene are provided. The method comprises receiving a point cloud and performs 3D geometric feature extraction. In one embodiment, the 3D geometric feature extraction is based on a 3D hybrid voxel-point structure, which comprises a hybrid voxel-point based normal estimation, a hybrid voxel-point based plane segmentation, a voxel-based geometric filtering, a voxel-based edge detection and a hybrid voxel-point based line extraction. Through the process of 3D geometric feature extraction, the geometric features are then passed to the geometric-based dimension and shape measurements for various applications. After 3D geometric feature extraction, a further process of feature-based object alignment is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HONG KONG APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hoi Fai Yu, Xueyan Tang, Meng Chen
  • Patent number: 11303264
    Abstract: An active filter reduces Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) created by current flowing through a power line. The active filter connects to the power line at a single node through a connection capacitor. A sense current flows through the connection capacitor when the power line current changes. This sense current is applied to a non-inverting input of an op amp to drive a power amplifier circuit through a filter capacitor. The power amplifier circuit increases the current drive of the op amp to charge a transfer capacitor that converts the power amplifier output current to a transfer voltage. The transfer capacitor is connected to the connection capacitor so that the transfer voltage is injected back into the power line through the connection capacitor as an injected voltage that compensates for the sensed current. Op amp gain is adjustable by variable resistors that connect to the inverting input of the op amp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Danting Xu, Ziyang Gao, Kun Wu
  • Patent number: 11302689
    Abstract: An Electro-Static-Discharge (ESD) protection circuit has a Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR) with a discharge current path in a first direction. A triggering transistor has a trigger current flowing in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. Triggering transistors can be Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) transistors with current flowing along the long direction of the fins. The trigger current flows into a connecting N+ drain and into an N-Well under a center portion of the connecting N+ drain to inject carriers into the N-base of a PNPN SCR. The injected current flows through the base to generate a voltage gradient that turns on the PN junction in a P+ emitter that is parallel to but spaced apart from the FinFET transistors, causing a discharge current to flow perpendicular to the fins. The perpendicular discharge current flows through the substrate which can handle a larger current than the small fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Chun-Kit Yam
  • Patent number: 11284405
    Abstract: Described is a method of reducing uplink inter-cell interference in a cellular communications network. The method comprises identifying in a cell any user equipments (UEs) which are susceptible to interference (ISUs) from another UE, particularly another UE in a neighboring cell. The method includes identifying in said cell any UEs causing interference (ICUs) to at least one neighboring cell and, more particularly, causing interference to a UE in a neighboring cell. The identified ISUs and ICUs are combined into a priority list for frequency resource reservation or allocation in said cell. The method may include limiting the identification of ISUs and ICUs to a selected number of UEs within the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Zizhou Wang, Qifeng Liao, Jihui Zhang, Man Wai Kwan, Kong Chau Tsang
  • Patent number: 11197279
    Abstract: Described is a method and apparatus for processing an uplink (UL) signal at a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system to determine a discontinuous transmission (DTX) state. The method comprises receiving a UL channel signal at a PUCCH receiver apparatus and, after resource element (RE) demapping of said received UL channel signal in said PUCCH receiver apparatus, normalizing a signal power of at least one signal element or resource. The normalized power is compared to a selected, calculated or predetermined threshold and, based on said comparison, a determination is made on whether or not a DTX state has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Kanghao Jia, Yuxian Zhang, Man Wai Kwan, Kong Chau Tsang