Patents Assigned to Research Institute
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Patent number: 11422443Abstract: A mobile platform is provided for a guided soft target. The mobile platform includes a platform base, and a drive unit that is configured to move the platform base along a ground surface. A projector assembly is provided, configured for projecting light patterns for visual display on an exterior of the guided soft target. The projector assembly may include a hardened housing defining at least one opening for projecting the light patterns. In certain aspects, the projector assembly is coupled to an outer surface of the platform base. In other aspects, the projector assembly may be built into, or is retractable into, an interior the platform base. The projector assembly may include a control module that is configured to be remotely controllable.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Amacker
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Patent number: 11424190Abstract: A multi-chip package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The multi-chip package includes: an interposer including a dielectric body, a plurality of semiconductor bodies separated by the dielectric body, a through via penetrating through the dielectric body, and a wiring structure located in each of the plurality of semiconductor bodies; a plurality of semiconductor chips located side by side on a first surface of the interposer and electrically connected to the wiring structure; an encapsulant located on the first surface of the interposer and encapsulating at least a portion of the plurality of semiconductor chips; and a redistribution circuit structure located on a second surface of the interposer opposite to the first surface of the interposer and electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor chips through the through via.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Yu-Min Lin, Sheng-Tsai Wu, Shin-Yi Huang, Ang-Ying Lin, Tzu-Hsuan Ni, Yuan-Yin Lo
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Patent number: 11424620Abstract: A three-phase expandable AC system based on battery reconfiguration and a control method thereof are provided. The system includes a reconfigurable battery array capable of connecting to a load or being tied to a grid, and having a plurality of battery array modules. The reconfigurable battery array may perform charging or discharging with respect to the load or the grid, and may perform one of operations including: generating a single-phase AC voltage corresponding respectively to outputs of the battery array modules; generating a three-phase AC voltage corresponding to three battery array modules selected from the plurality of battery array modules; and generating a plurality of three-phase AC voltages in parallel from the plurality of battery array modules, and merging the three-phase AC voltages in parallel to scale power.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Kai-Cheung Juang, Chien-Yu Chen, Horng-Jzer Shih, Tzi-Cker Chiueh
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Patent number: 11425705Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving control information in a communication system supporting unlicensed band communication. An operation method of a terminal may comprise receiving, from a base station, first configuration information of a CORESET and second configuration information of a search space associated with the CORESET; receiving, from the base station, third configuration information indicating one or more PDCCH monitoring resource sets associated with the CORESET and the search space; and performing a PDCCH monitoring operation on the one or more PDCCH monitoring resource sets. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunication Research InstituteInventors: Sung Hyun Moon, Cheul Soon Kim, Jung Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 11424299Abstract: Provided is a pressure sensitive display device including a sensing substrate, a reaction substrate provided on the sensing substrate, and spacers provided between the sensing substrate and the reaction substrate to space the sensing substrate apart from the reaction substrate. Here, the sensing substrate includes a flexible substrate and a touch electrode provided on one surface of the flexible substrate, which faces the reaction substrate. The reaction substrate includes a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode provided on one surface of the transparent substrate, which faces the sensing substrate, and a light emitting layer disposed on the transparent electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Ji-Young Oh, Seung Youl Kang, Seongdeok Ahn, Jeong Ik Lee, Chi-Sun Hwang, Byoung-Hwa Kwon, Tae-Youb Kim, Jeho Na, Sooji Nam, Jaehyun Moon, Young Sam Park, Chan Woo Park, Doo-Hee Cho, Chul Woong Joo, Jae-Eun Pi
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Patent number: 11422065Abstract: A bumper for a mobile platform of a guided test platform includes a first end, a second end residing opposite the first end, a first surface extending between the first and second ends, and a second surface extending between the first and second ends and residing opposite the first surface. The bumper defines a ramp structure extending between the bumper first end and the bumper second end. The ramp structure is structured to guide a wheel of a vehicle in a direction away from the first surface as the wheel moves along the second surface in a direction from the bumper first end toward the bumper second end.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Amacker, Joseph Taylor, Gregory J. Klein, Jonathan Yao, Andrew Custer
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Patent number: 11425552Abstract: A method of establishing a connection for direct communication between terminals, performed in a terminal, may comprise transmitting a sensing signal or a sidelink discovery signal; transmitting sidelink discovery information; receiving a response to the sidelink discovery signal or the sidelink discovery information from a peer terminal; determining a cast type for the peer terminal, and establishing a PCS-radio resource control (RRC) connection with the peer terminal when the cast type is determined to be a unicast scheme or groupcast scheme; and performing direct communication with the peer terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventor: Jae Heung Kim
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Patent number: 11424831Abstract: Disclosed is a frequency swept source apparatus including a mode locking laser that outputs an input optical signal having first to n-th frequency components, a transmission delay controller that generates first to m-th sub-optical signals, each of which includes at least one component of the first to n-th frequency components, and outputs a delay optical signal obtained by sequentially delaying the first to m-th sub-optical signals. The transmission delay controller includes a demultiplexer that outputs the first to m-th sub-optical signals to first to m-th channels based on the input optical signal, respectively, a path delay unit that adjusts lengths of optical paths of the first to m-th channels so as to be different from one another, a refractive index controller that adjusts a refractive index of each of the first to m-th channels, and a multiplexer that combines the first to m-th sub-optical signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventor: Oh Kee Kwon
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Patent number: 11424757Abstract: A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with calibration function and a calibration method thereof are provided. The SAR ADC has at least one capacitor digital-to-analog converter (CDAC), having Nd capacitors corresponding to Nd bits; and a controller. The calibration method includes: coupling the capacitors of an i-th to an (Nd?1)-th bit to a first reference voltage, and generating a first digital code based an operation of the capacitors of an (i?1)-th bit to a 0-th bit; coupling the capacitors of an (i+1)-th bit to the (Nd?1)-th bit to the first reference voltage, coupling the capacitor of the i-th bit to a second reference voltage, and generating a second digital code based on the operation of the capacitors of the (i?1)-th bit to the 0-th bit; generating a capacitor weight of the capacitor of the i-th bit; and calibrating the SAR ADC based on the capacitor weight.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yung-Hui Chung, Qi-Feng Zeng
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Patent number: 11425633Abstract: The present application relates to a method of generating a downlink frame. The method of generating the downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence determined by the primary synchronization signal; generating a third scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence and a fourth scrambling sequence determined by the second short sequence; scrambling the short sequences with the respective scrambling sequences; and mapping the secondary synchronization signal that includes the first short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the second scrambling sequence and the third scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence and the first short sequence scrambled by the second scrambling sequence and the fourth scrambling sequence to a frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Kap Seok Chang, Il Gyu Kim, Hyeong Geun Park, Young Jo Ko, Hyo Seok Yi, Chan Bok Jeong, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang
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Patent number: 11425390Abstract: Disclosed herein are a decoding method and apparatus and an encoding method and apparatus that perform inter-prediction using a motion vector predictor. For a candidate block in a col picture, a scaled motion vector is generated based on a motion vector of the candidate block. When the scaled motion vector indicates a target block, a motion vector predictor of the target block is generated based on the motion vector of the candidate block. The motion vector predictor is used to derive the motion vector of the target block in a specific inter-prediction mode such as a merge mode and an AMVP mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COOPERATION GROUP OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITYInventors: Sung-Chang Lim, Jung-Won Kang, Hyunsuk Ko, Jin-Ho Lee, Ha-Hyun Lee, Dong-San Jun, Hui-Yong Kim, Yung-Lyul Lee, Nam-Uk Kim, Jae-Gon Kim
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Publication number: 20220264151Abstract: Disclosed herein is a video decoding method including: obtaining a transform skip mode flag indicating whether or not a transform skip mode is applied to a current block; based on the transform skip mode flag, when a transform skip mode is applied to the current block, determining that secondary transform/inverse transform is not applied to the current block; and, according to the transform skip mode flag, when a transform skip mode is not applied to the current block, obtaining a transform matrix index for secondary transform/inverse transform of the current block and, according to the transform matrix index, determining whether or not secondary transform/inverse transform is applied to the current block.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Sung Chang LIM, Jung Won KANG, Ha Hyun LEE, Jin Ho LEE, Hui Yong KIM
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Publication number: 20220261692Abstract: Provided is a system and method for economic virtuous cycle simulation based on an artificial intelligence (AI) twin. The system for economic virtuous cycle simulation based on an AI twin includes an AI twin initial training unit configured to perform initial training on an AI twin model and learn initial parameters using an economic model, an AI twin optimization training unit configured to perform optimization tuning on the initial parameters of the AI twin model using past data collected in an initially trained model, an AI twin generating unit configured to generate an AI twin based on a learning model, and an AI twin operation unit configured to acquire an index for economic prediction to update the AI twin and perform an AI twin-based simulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Yeon Hee LEE, Hyun Joong KANG, Yeong Min KIM, Tae Hwan KIM, Hyeon Jae KIM, Tae Wan YOU, Wan Seon LIM, Hoo Young AHN, Do Yeob YEO, Ho Sung LEE
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Publication number: 20220261401Abstract: Provided is a method of extracting a mediator variable and a mediation influence from a multivariate set. The method includes: receiving a database in which a set of N multiple variables (N is a natural number) including at least one of discrete time series data or continuous time series data is stored; selecting a test variable set including an independent variable, a dependent variable, and a mediator variable from the database in which the multivariate set is stored; determining the mediator variable using transfer entropy and conditional transfer entropy for the selected test variable set; and calculating a mediation influence of the determined mediator variable, wherein the mediation influence is separately calculated as an individual causal influence of the mediator variable and a group causal influence of mediator variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Yu Min HWANG, Byung Tak LEE
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Patent number: 11417779Abstract: The disclosure is applicable for the technical field of semiconductor devices manufacturing, and provides a gallium oxide SBD terminal structure. The gallium oxide SBD terminal structure comprises a cathode metal layer, an N+ high-concentration substrate layer, an N? low-concentration Ga2O3 epitaxial layer and an anode metal layer from bottom to top, wherein the N? low-concentration Ga2O3 epitaxial layer is within a range of certain thickness close to the anode metal layer; and a doping concentration below the anode metal layer is greater than a doping concentration on two sides of the anode metal layer. Namely, only a doping concentration of the part outside the corresponding area of the anode metal layer is changed, so that the breakdown voltage of the gallium oxide SBD terminal structure is improved under the condition of guaranteeing low on resistance.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: The 13th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group CorporationInventors: Yuanjie Lv, Yuangang Wang, Xingye Zhou, Xin Tan, Xubo Song, Xuefeng Zou, Shixiong Liang, Zhihong Feng
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Patent number: 11414217Abstract: A large reflector inflatable telescope. The telescope has an inflatable hull with a conical lower portion and a hemispherical upper portion. The conical portion is transparent to electromagnetic waves so that radio or light waves can reach an inner reflector, which is interposed between the conical portion and the hemispherical portion. The presence of the inner reflector allows the conical portion and the hemispherical portion to be inflated at different pressures such that the reflector becomes spherical or parabolic. If desired, the reflector can be made adjustable with a membrane behind the reflector that provides electro-static force to shape the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Southwest Research InstituteInventors: William Dean Perry, Ira Steve Smith, Jr.
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Patent number: 11419021Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a connection re-direction method used by a UE, a connection re-direction method used by a remote access node, a user equipment using the same method, and a remote access node using the same method. In an aspect, the connection re-direction method used by a UE includes receiving a network connection failure indication; and performing a handover procedure based on a pre-configured handover configuration in response to having received the connection failure indication.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventor: Ching-Wen Cheng
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Patent number: 11418342Abstract: Systems and methods which provide data exchange using a distributed ledger, wherein data is exchanged off-chain and information for accessing the off-chain data is exchanged through the blockchain, are disclosed. Embodiments may provide a hybrid blockchain data exchange platform storing large amounts of data (e.g., IoT data) in a data server outside of the blockchain, wherein a data consumer may obtain data from the data server using a token obtained from the blockchain. Embodiments of a hybrid blockchain data exchange platform provide for accuracy and security of the data without requiring storage of the full contents of the data within the blockchain, and/or provide data exchange in which the irrefutability of the data exchanged is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co.. Ltd.Inventors: Tak Wing Lam, Kai Wah Yeung, Tak Fuk Wong
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Patent number: 11415798Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) device including at least one optical module is provided. Each of the at least one optical module sequentially includes a transparent display, a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens from a display side to an eye side. The first lens has a negative refractive power. The second lens has a negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power. The number of lenses of the optical module having refractive powers is three, wherein the transparent display of the optical module is configured to emit a light beam, and the light beam sequentially passes through the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens to be incident into a user's eyes at the eye side, so that an AR virtual image on the display side is seen by the eyes.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, Intellectual Property Innovation CorporationInventors: Shin-Hong Kuo, Yi-Shou Tsai, Yu-Hsiang Tsai, Kuan-Ting Chen
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Patent number: 11414658Abstract: A tracer particle is provided. The tracer particle includes: a core structure; a nucleic acid molecule immobilized on the core structure; and a shell layer covering the core structure and the nucleic acid molecule; wherein the core structure has a first porosity, the shell layer has a second porosity, and the first porosity is greater than the second porosity.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Kai-Chun Fan, Yin-Lung Han, Pei-Jyuan Gao, Yong-Yang Lin, Chieh-Lun Cheng, Chien-Chang Huang, Yung-Ho Chang, Chia-Long Lin, I-Son Ng, Bo-Han Chen