Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
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Publication number: 20210349532Abstract: Disclosed herein a device tracking gaze and method therefor. The device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to obtain an eyeball image; a pupil detection unit configured to detect a center of pupil by using the eyeball image; a virtual corneal reflection light position generator configured to process the eyeball image so that a virtual corneal reflection light is located at a predetermined point in the eyeball image; and a PCVR vector generator configured to generate a pupil center virtual reflection vector (PCVR vector) based on a position of the pupil center and a position of the virtual corneal reflection light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Hyun Cheol KIM, Joon Soo KIM, Gwang Soon LEE
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Publication number: 20210348195Abstract: Artificial expression constructs for selectively modulating gene expression in selected central nervous system cell types are described. The artificial expression constructs can be used to selectively express synthetic genes or modify gene expression in GABAergic interneurons.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicants: Allen Institute, Seattle Children's Hospital d/b/a Seattle Children's Research InstituteInventors: Jonathan Ting, Boaz P. Levi, John K. Mich, Edward Sebastian Lein, Franck Kalume
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Patent number: 11169254Abstract: An operation mode control method implemented by a radar system, the operation mode control method includes steps of: (S1) receiving a single target tracking (STT) triggering data comprising a representation of triggering of a STT tracking mode and a selected tracking target to be tracked by the radar system; (S2) controlling a radar sensor to emit detection wave beam; (S3) controlling, the radar sensor to receive echo waves; (S4) analyzing, echo signal to generate STT target data; (S5) executing a STT program to obtain a tracking data of a selected tracking target; (S6) outputting the tracking data to a memory device for storage or to a human-machine interface (HMI) device for presenting to the user of the radar system.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG-SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shih-Che Tsai, Min-Ching Lin, Kuang-Fu Chung, Chun-Cheng Chen, Ruei-Shen Wang, Po-Ju Chiang, Ming-Jhe Wu, Hung-Fu Chang, Wen-Chin Liao
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Patent number: 11168776Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement tailored metallic glass-based strain wave gears and strain wave gear components. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a flexspline of a strain wave gear includes: forming a MG-based composition into a flexspline using one of a thermoplastic forming technique and a casting technique; where the forming of the MG-based composition results in a formed MG-based material; where the formed flexspline is characterized by: a minimum thickness of greater than approximately 1 mm and a major diameter of less than approximately 4 inches.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Douglas C. Hofmann, Brian H. Wilcox
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Patent number: 11171874Abstract: Disclosed are methods lossless traffic forwarding using distributed delay offset matching. The lossless traffic forwarding method includes calculating a delay offset between a first forwarding path between a transmitting node and a receiving node and a second forwarding path between the transmitting node and the receiving node, and controlling a buffer resource by an extent of the delay offset to delay packets to be forwarded on the first forwarding path.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Yeoncheol Ryoo, Jeong-dong Ryoo, Taesik Cheung
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Patent number: 11169984Abstract: A data management system including an AP server and a DB server. The AP server sends business data to the DB server and requests registration. The business data includes combination of parent data and a plurality of pieces of child data with mutual relevance, and each child data has ID of the parent data. In registering business data, the AP server first tries to register each child data, and requests registration of the parent data when a notification of registration completion of all pieces of the child data arrives from the DB server. When the notification of registration completion of any of the child data has not arrived, the AP server cancels the registration of the parent data. In referring to the business data, the AP server sets only child data with related parent data registered therein as a target.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.Inventors: Yuzo Ishida, Hironori Katsura, Kojun Terai, Kengo Yaji, Nobuaki Kozuka, Akio Saita, Hiroshi Nakashima, Kohei Goto, Kotaro Ozawa, Ryo Kamimura
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Patent number: 11171479Abstract: A superconducting magnet device including a superconducting coil formed of a high-temperature superconducting wire, a power supply which supplies current to the superconducting coil, and a protector capable of forming a short-circuit path which short-circuits both ends of the superconducting coil to each other is installed. Current is made to flow from the power supply to the superconducting coil in a superconducting state, and the superconducting coil thereby generates a magnetic field. After the magnetic field is generated, when an abnormality of the superconducting magnet device is detected, or when the power supply and the superconducting coil are disconnected from each other, the short-circuit path is formed by the protector.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignees: RIKEN, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Masato Takahashi, Hideaki Maeda, Kenjiro Hashi, Gen Nishijima, Shinji Matsumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Tadashi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11167645Abstract: A method for inspecting a traction power network is provided based on a platform which includes a device body of an inspection device for a traction power network apparatus. A power switch is disposed on an outer surface of the device body near a front end thereof, in which a sensitive galvanometer is disposed on the power switch. One end of the sensitive galvanometer is fixedly connected to a temperature sensor coupled to a controller. The controller is coupled to a 4G first communication module coupled to a 4G network. The 4G network is coupled to a processing platform coupled to the 4G network through a 4G second communication module. Other methods and structures are combined to avoid deficiencies in the prior art, such as poor speed and long time in the temperature signal transmission and avoid a controller without meeting requirements for efficient and timely temperature signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Railway TechnologyInventors: Qihou Song, Honggao Feng, Baichuan Xu
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Patent number: 11167066Abstract: Drug-eluting devices and methods for the treatment of tumors of the pancreas, biliary system, gallbladder, liver, small bowel, or colon, are provided. Methods include deploying a drug-eluting device having a film which includes a mixture of a degradable polymer and a chemotherapeutic drug, wherein the film has a thickness from about 2 ?m to about 1000 ?m, into a tissue site and releasing a therapeutically effective amount of the chemotherapeutic drug from the film to treat the tumor, wherein the release of the therapeutically effective amount of the drug from the film is controlled by in vivo degradation of the polymer at the tissue site.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Laura Indolfi, Elazer R. Edelman, Robert S. Langer, Jeffrey W. Clark, David T. Ting, Cristina Rosa Annamaria Ferrone, Matteo Ligorio
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Patent number: 11171915Abstract: Disclosed herein are a server apparatus, a client apparatus, and a method for communication based on network address mutation. The method for communication based on network address mutation, performed by the server apparatus and the client apparatus, includes setting the external address of a network interface for receiving a packet from the client apparatus; setting the internal address of a hidden interface in order to forward the packet received through the network interface to the hidden interface; modifying the external address based on a preset network address mutation rule; and communicating with the client apparatus by forwarding the packet, received from the client apparatus based on the modified external address, to the hidden interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Kyung-Min Park, Samuel Woo, Dae-Sung Moon, Ki-Jong Koo, Ik-Kyun Kim, Joo-Young Lee
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Patent number: 11169327Abstract: The method for manufacturing the heterojunction circuit according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises depositing a first electrode on at least a part of a waveguide, moving a semiconductor comprising a second electrode at a lower end thereof onto the first electrode, and depositing a third electrode on an upper end of the semiconductor, wherein the waveguide and the semiconductor comprise different materials. Additionally, the moving step further comprises generating microbubbles by supplying heat to at least a part of the semiconductor, moving the semiconductor on the first electrode by moving the generated microbubbles, and removing the microbubbles by positioning the semiconductor on the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Kyoungsik Yu, Youngho Jung
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Patent number: 11169601Abstract: Systems and methods for determining teleoperating user intent via eye tracking are provided. A method includes outputting, to a display of a gaze-tracking device utilized by a user, a representation of an environment of a robot. The method further includes receiving, from the gaze-tracking device, user gaze data corresponding to a gaze area subject to a gaze of the user within the representation. The method also includes determining a context based upon an object within the gaze area, an object type, and characteristics of the object. The method further includes receiving, via a user interface, a user input. The method also includes outputting, to the robot, a contextual command corresponding to the context and the user input.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventor: Astrid Jackson
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Patent number: 11167992Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing graphene by liquid-phase ball milling exfoliation, including following steps: mixing a transition metal halide salt, a nitrogen source substance and an organic solvent to prepare an intercalation agent; mixing the intercalation agent with graphite, carrying out ball milling, and then performing centrifugation to obtain a graphite intercalation compound; washing and filtering the graphite intercalation compound obtained, adding an expansion agent, and carrying out ultrasonic agitation to obtain a graphene dispersion; and washing, filtering and drying the graphene dispersion to obtain graphene powder.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: GUANGZHOU SPECIAL PRESSURE EQUIPMENT INSPECTION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Bo Yang, Shuanghong Zhang, Maodong Li, Wei Zhai, Fang Wen, Yue Li, Huachao Guo, Zhigang Wang, Guojia Huang, Shiping Li, Zhenling Wu, Yingyi He
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Patent number: 11170648Abstract: A vehicle information distributing method is provided, including: receiving a plurality of first vehicle information from a first base station to determine a first service area; receiving a plurality of second vehicle information from a second base station to determine a second service area; calculating a forwarding area based on a distance or an intersection between the first service area and the second service area; transferring the first vehicle information within the forwarding area to the second base station, and transferring the second vehicle information within the forwarding area to the first base station; and broadcasting, by the first base station, the second vehicle information from the forwarding area, and broadcasting, by the second base station, the first vehicle information from the forwarding area.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kuo-Huang Hsu, Tzu-Hsiang Su, Yu-Che Wang, Yu-Dai Yan
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Patent number: 11169832Abstract: A method of generating an AR user manual in an electronic 3D viewing environment, comprising: recording a moving trajectory of the 3D viewing environment's optical sensor; receiving a landmark location information; executing an iterative target object pose estimation comprising: estimating an estimated target object pose from each of the optical sensor poses in the recorded moving trajectory and the landmark location; calculating an estimation error from a 3D model being arranged in the estimated target object pose and projected onto the target object in the real-world scene; calculating a mean of the estimation errors; and reiterating the iterative target object pose estimation to optimize the estimated target object pose for a minimum mean estimation error; if the minimum mean estimation error is within a predefined estimation error threshold, then rendering the AR user manual onto the target object according to the optimized estimated target object pose.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company LimitedInventors: Yat Cheung Ngai, Yin Yee Chan
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Patent number: 11167620Abstract: A thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a refrigerant system and a cooling liquid system; the thermal management system further includes a fourth heat exchanger which includes a first flow channel and a second flow channel; the refrigerant system and the cooling liquid system can perform heat exchanging by means of the fourth heat exchanger, thereby facilitating improving the performance of the thermal management system.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Hangzhou Sanhua Research Institute Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongxiang Tan, Keli Ye
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Patent number: 11171706Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for coordinating beam sweeping scheduling and an intelligent controller. The method includes: controlling a first radio unit to perform a first beam sweeping operation to provide a plurality of first beams to a plurality of user equipments; determining whether or not a first specific beam corresponding to a hot spot area exists in the first beams; in response to determining the first specific beam exists in the plurality of first beams, obtaining a beam switching behavior associated with the first specific beam from radio units; obtaining a specific radio unit from the beam switching behavior; and controlling the specific radio unit to perform a second beam sweeping operation to provide at least one second specific beam directing to the hot spot area.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventor: Guan-Hsien Du
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Patent number: 11172434Abstract: A scanning method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is provided. The scanning method includes transmitting, by a station, a probe request frame and receiving, by the station, a probe response frame from an access point (AP). The AP determines whether to transmit the probe response frame in response to the probe request frame using information indicated by the probe request frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Jae Seung Lee, Min ho Cheong, Je Hun Lee, Ja Beom Gu, Jae Woo Park, Sok Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 11170750Abstract: Described herein are window retrofits including a monolithic silica aerogel slab having (i) an average haze value of <5% as calculated in accordance with ASTM standard D1003-13 and (ii) a U-factor of <0.5 BTU/sf/hr/° F., and a transparent polymer envelope sealed at an internal pressure of ?1 atmosphere, wherein the monolithic silica aerogel slab is encapsulated in the transparent polymer envelope. The monolithic aerogel slab can have a transmittance >94% at 8 mm thickness. The window retrofit can be bonded to a glass sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Evelyn N. Wang, Gang Chen, Xuanhe Zhao, Elise M. Strobach, Bikramjit S. Bhatia, Lin Zhao, Sungwoo Yang, Lee A. Weinstein, Thomas A. Cooper, Shaoting Lin
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Patent number: 11169485Abstract: In the present invention, by providing a hologram displaying apparatus including a light source configured to emit input light, a spatial light modulator configured to modulate the input light into diffracted light, and a plurality of noise filtering elements configured to remove optical noise components from the diffracted light modulated by the spatial light modulator, and display a hologram, an optical path of a light source for displaying the hologram can be drastically reduced while effectively performing spatial filtering.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventor: Hyun Eui Kim