Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • High order modulation protograph codes
    Patent number: 8832520
    Abstract: Digital communication coding methods for designing protograph-based bit-interleaved code modulation that is general and applies to any modulation. The general coding framework can support not only multiple rates but also adaptive modulation. The method is a two stage lifting approach. In the first stage, an original protograph is lifted to a slightly larger intermediate protograph. The intermediate protograph is then lifted via a circulant matrix to the expected codeword length to form a protograph-based low-density parity-check code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Thuy V. Nguyen, Aria Nosratinia, Dariush Divsalar
  • Control system and control method for identifying corresponding position
    Patent number: 8831752
    Abstract: The disclosed exemplary embodiments relates to a control system and a control method for identifying corresponding position. The control system includes a plurality of electronic control modules, each electronic control module having a microcontroller electrically coupled to at least one joint, and the joint is configured for connecting to a joint of neighboring electronic control module. The electronic control modules include a main-control-terminal electronic control module, an assembling electronic control module and at least one detecting electronic control module. The main-control-terminal electronic control module is configured for assigning one of the electronic control modules to be the assembling electronic control module, and assigning the rest of the electronic control modules to be the detecting electronic control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yung-Ching Huang, Yu-Wei Hung
  • Interactive charging management system and method thereof
    Patent number: 8829850
    Abstract: An interactive charging management system and a method thereof are provided. The present method includes following steps. A leakage event is detected when an electric vehicle is connected with a charging post. When the leakage event is not detected, the charging post is controlled to enter a charging state from a ready state, so as to continuously supply a charging power to the electric vehicle until the electric vehicle is completely charged. When the leakage event is detected, the charging post is controlled to stop supplying the charging power to the electric vehicle, and the electric vehicle is indicated to go offline, so as to perform a leakage test and determine whether to resume the ready state. When the charging post cannot resume the ready state, a service notice is issued to notify a curing unit to process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Wen-Shu Chiang, Chin-Pin Chien, An-Hung Lin
  • Apparatus and method for collecting game data
    Patent number: 8827817
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for collecting game data in order to test performance of a game server. The apparatus includes a capture and filtering module, a control module, and a data management module. The capture and filtering module captures packets, transmitted and received between the game server and each of a plurality of game clients, using the plurality of game clients, and extracts a plurality of necessary data by performing filtering on the results of the capturing. The control module determines the movement route of a game character in such a way as to correspond to the plurality of necessary data, and controls the plurality of game clients based on the movement route. The data management module stores and manages the plurality of necessary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ju-Young Kim, Dong-Chun Lee, Hang-Kee Kim, Kang-Min Sohn, Chang Joon Park
  • Method and apparatus for allocating resource in mobile wireless network
    Patent number: 8830855
    Abstract: In a mobile wireless network system including a plurality of nodes, available resources of a transmitting node and available resources of a receiving node are searched for. Commonly overlapped allocatable resources among available resources of a transmitting node and available resources of a receiving node are searched for, areas corresponding to the calculated allocation resource number according to an allocation condition that is set in the allocatable resource area are selected, and the areas are allocated to the transmitting node or the receiving node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Keun Young Kim, Dong Hyun Ahn, Choongil Yeh, Wooram Shin, Jihyung Kim, Dong Seung Kwon
  • Fast binary rule extraction for large scale text data
    Patent number: 8832015
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying data files that have a common characteristic are provided. A plurality of data files including one or more data files having a common characteristic are received. A potential rule is generated by selecting key terms from a list that satisfy a term evaluation metric, and the potential rule is evaluated using a rule evaluation metric. The potential rule is added to the rule set if the rule evaluation metric is satisfied. Based upon the potential rule being added to the rule set, data files covered by the potential rule are removed from the plurality of data files. The potential rule generation and evaluation steps are repeated until a stopping criterion is met. After the stopping criterion has been met, the rule set is used to identify other data files having the common characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: James Allen Cox, Zheng Zhao
  • 3D motion recognition method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8831280
    Abstract: Disclosed are a three-dimensional motion recognition method and an apparatus using a motion template method and an optical flow tracking method of feature points. The three dimensional (3D) motion recognition method through feature-based stereo matching according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: obtaining a plurality of images from a plurality of cameras; extracting feature points from a single reference image; and comparing and tracking the feature points of the reference image and another comparison image photographed at the same time using an optical flow method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jun Seok Park, Eunjin Koh
  • Apparatus and method for identifying terminal located in space including small base station
    Patent number: 8831631
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method including two operations of a first operation and a second operation. The first operation may determine between a terminal located in a space including the small base station and a terminal located in a space excluding the small base station based on a value reported by a terminal. The second operation may be performed using information received from a neighboring macro base station in response to the determination failing to be performed in the first operation, thereby ultimately discriminating between an area including the small base station and an area excluding the small base station corresponding to a location of a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyong Tak Cho, Jun Sik Kim, Byung Han Ryu, Nam Hoon Park
  • Electrowetting display device
    Patent number: 8830558
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electrowetting display device. The electrowetting display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to each other. A first electrode layer may dispose on the first substrate. A second electrode layer may dispose on the second substrate. A hydrophobic dielectric layer is disposed on the first electrode layer. A first pixel rib is disposed on the first substrate. A second pixel rib is disposed on the first pixel rib. A water contact angle of the second pixel rib may be larger than that of the first pixel rib. A first liquid and a second liquid may be disposed in between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shu-Wei Kuo, Yun-Sheng Ku, Wei-Yuan Cheng, Pei-Pei Cheng
  • High-pressure extraction apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8828318
    Abstract: A high pressure extraction apparatus and extracting method therefor are adapted to maintain a medium at the supercritical state to extract substance-to-be-extracted. The apparatus includes an extraction tank, a piston and a control unit. The control unit controls the piston to reciprocate in the extraction tank as well as controls the pressure of the extract space of the tank, feeding of the substance, discharge of extract, and discharge of leftover. Accordingly, the apparatus performs a continuous supercritical extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tz-Bang Du, Chyuan Juang, Long-Shuenn Jean, Chen-Hsi Cheng, Hom-Ti Lee, Hsien-Chueh Pi
  • Non-uniform relaxation procedure for multiresolution mesh processing
    Patent number: 8830235
    Abstract: An irregular connectivity mesh representative of a surface having an arbitrary topology is processed using a non-uniform relaxation procedure. The non-uniform relaxation procedure minimizes differences between vectors normal to faces of pairs of triangles having a common edge and located within a designated neighborhood of a given vertex. The relaxation procedure may be used to construct subdivision and pyramid algorithms for performing processing operations such as upsampling, downsampling and filtering on irregular connectivity meshes. The signal processing algorithms may be utilized in applications such as smoothing, enhancement, editing, texture mapping and compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Alcatel Lucent, California Institute of Technology, Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Igor V. Guskov, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens
  • Transmitting device, transmitting method, and receiving method for multicast and broadcast service
    Patent number: 8830877
    Abstract: A transmitting device for a multicast and broadcast service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an encoder that receives data to generate parity; an ARQ block generator that generates a first automatic repeat request (ARQ) block by dividing the data and generates a second ARQ block by dividing the parity; a PDU generator that generates a first protocol data unit (PDU) including the first ARQ block and a second protocol unit (PDU) including the second ARQ block; and a transmitter that transmits the first PDU and the second PDU to a plurality of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Geun Jin, Sung Cheol Chang, Won-Ik Kim, Hyun Lee, Chul Sik Yoon
  • Highly luminescent color-selective nanocrystalline materials
    Patent number: 8828478
    Abstract: A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Moungi G. Bawendi, Klavs F. Jensen, Bashir O. Dabbousi, Javier Rodriguez-Viejo, Frederic Victor Mikulec
  • Visual detection of fluoride ions
    Patent number: 8828735
    Abstract: Dendrimer-hydrazides are coupled to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for use in the visual detection of the presence of low levels of fluoride in a sample The dendrimers can have a phenyl core, a first generation of aralkyl ethers, and an optional second generation of aralkyl ethers. The compounds form gels with solvents. In the presence of fluoride ion, the gels undergo color changes and/or gel to liquid phase change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Inventors: Prasad Edamana, Rajamalli Pachaiyappan
  • Workload dispatch device and workload dispatch method thereof
    Patent number: 8832269
    Abstract: A workload dispatch device and a workload dispatch method thereof are provided. The workload dispatch device comprises a monitor, a processor and a dispatcher. The monitor is configured to monitor operating conditions of a plurality of servers. The processor is electrically connected to the monitor and configured to execute the following operations: creating an average performance index table for a plurality of algorithms according to the operating conditions of the servers; normalizing the average performance index table; calculating a benchmark for each of the algorithms according to the normalized performance index table and a corresponding weighting table; and choosing a candidate algorithm from the algorithms according to the benchmarks. The dispatcher is electrically connected to the processor and configured to dispatch a workload to the plurality of servers according to the candidate algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Institute for Information Industry
    Inventors: Cheng-Jen Tang, Chi-Cheng Chuang, Wei-Sen Lin, Yu-Sheng Chiu
  • Bone drill and methods of treatment
    Patent number: 8828001
    Abstract: A minimally invasive and particularly small apparatus for drilling into bone and for providing for delivery of medical treatment is provided. The directional drilling apparatus includes a miniature shaft, a bit, first shaft-mounted thrust ring, second shaft-mounted thrust ring, a tubing jacket surrounding the shaft and intermediate the first and second shaft-mounted thrust rings, and a guide tube encapsulating the tubing jacket. As a result, a hole, targeted towards a cancerous lesion within the bone, is possible. After removal of the shaft and the tubing jacket, treatment may be introduced through the particularly small passage created by the directional drilling apparatus or through the passage via a capillary inserted through at least a portion of the guide tube and the passage, which guide tube may include a hypodermic needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Gabriel Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley D. Stearns, H. Max Loy, Jr.
  • Flash memory device and manufacturing method of the same
    Patent number: 8829587
    Abstract: A flash memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate stack formed on the semiconductor substrate; a channel region below the gate stack; spacers outside the gate stack; and source/drain regions outside the channel region and in the semiconductor substrate, in which the gate stack includes a first gate dielectric layer on the channel region; a first conductive layer covering an upper surface of the first gate dielectric layer and inner walls of the spacers; a second gate dielectric layer covering a surface of the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer covering a surface of the second gate dielectric layer. A method for manufacturing a flash memory device disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventor: Huilong Zhu
  • Measurement systems and measurement methods
    Patent number: 8830458
    Abstract: A measurement system is provided to measure a hole of a target, including a light source generation unit, a capturing unit and a processing unit. The light source generation unit generates a light source and focuses the light source on a plurality of different height planes. The capturing unit captures a plurality of images scattered from the plurality of different height planes. The processing unit obtains boundaries of the hole on the plurality of different height planes according to the plurality of images, samples image intensities of different azimuth angles on the boundaries of the hole on each of the plurality of different height planes to generate a plurality of sampling values, and develops a sidewall image of the hole according to the plurality of sampling values, the plurality of different height planes and the different azimuth angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Deh-Ming Shyu, Yi-Sha Ku
  • Current reuse frequency divider and method thereof and voltage control oscillator module and phase-locked loop using the same
    Patent number: 8829966
    Abstract: A current reuse frequency divider including a first latch circuit and a second latch circuit is provided. The first latch circuit includes a first transistor pair and a second transistor pair. The first latch circuit receives a first differential oscillation signal through bodies of the first transistor pair and the second transistor pair and divides the frequency of the first differential oscillation signal to generate a second differential oscillation signal. The second latch circuit is coupled to the first latch circuit and includes a third transistor pair and a fourth transistor pair. The second latch circuit receives the first differential oscillation signal through bodies of the third transistor pair and the fourth transistor pair and divides the frequency of the first differential oscillation signal to generate a third differential oscillation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Chang, Nai-Chen Cheng, Yu Lee, Ching-Yuan Yang
  • Microelectrode array for chronic deep-brain microstimulation for recording
    Patent number: 8831739
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multielectrode probe having a silicon substrate which supports multiple conductive electrodes for deep-brain electrical stimulation or recording of neural responses. The substrate has an upper end with multiple conductive portions for bonding to lead wires, and an elongated shank extends from the upper end. The shank supports multiple spaced-apart electrodes, typically ten in number, and conductive traces electrically connect the electrodes and conductive traces. Multiple probes are combined, and supported as an array by a cylindrical alignment cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Huntington Medical Research Institutes
    Inventors: Douglas B. McCreery, Martin Han