Patents Assigned to Research
  • Publication number: 20240040114
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise acquiring transform coefficients distribution information of a neighboring block from a bitstream; direction-adaptively determining an intra prediction mode of a current block to be decoded, according to the transform coefficients distribution information of the neighboring block; and reconstructing the current block, based on the determined intra prediction mode, wherein the direction-adaptively determining includes determining similarity flag information corresponding to the neighboring block, based on the transform coefficients distribution information of the neighboring block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHIPS&MEDIA,INC, INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jin Ho LEE, Jung Won KANG, Ha Hyun LEE, Sung Chang LIM, Hui Yong KIM, Dae Yeon KIM, Yung Lyul LEE
  • Publication number: 20240032837
    Abstract: An ADHD severity evaluation system using correlations between data gathered by VR and an ADHD-RS is provided. The ADHD severity evaluation system allows for gathering accurate data on a subject in an isolated and controlled environment by using VR, and improves the accuracy of ADHD diagnosis by measuring the severity and progression of ADHD. This can help determine an appropriate method and procedure for treating and/or relieving ADHD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: HIPPO T&C, INC., RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY, SAMSUNG LIFE PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tai Myoung CHUNG, Ha Min SON, Yoo Sook JOUNG
  • Publication number: 20240032453
    Abstract: A method for tapping a yield potential of Saccharum officinarum by controlling a time of plastic mulching is provided. The method includes: (1) plastic mulching: mulching a Saccharum officinarum furrow in a Saccharum officinarum field fully with a wide plastic film in a direction parallel to the Saccharum officinarum furrow, and covering the plastic film directly above the Saccharum officinarum furrow with soil with a certain thickness along the Saccharum officinarum furrow, such that the plastic film is tightly attached to soil in the Saccharum officinarum furrow; (2) control of the time of plastic mulching, and (3) plastic film recycling treatment. The method of the present disclosure is advanced, practical, easy to operate, and easy to promote.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sugarcane Research Institute Yunnan Academy Of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Jun DENG, Yuebin ZHANG, Xin YUAN, Jun MAO, Yong ZHAO, Rudan LI, Jingmei DAO, Shaolin YANG, Yutong WANG, Jing AI
  • Publication number: 20240033330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel methods and therapies for treating, preventing or delaying the onset of type 1 diabetes. In one aspect, the invention provides a method of preventing, delaying the onset of, or delaying the progression of, type 1 diabetes (T1D) in an individual, the method comprising providing in the individual an anti-inflammatory compound; and a pancreatic autoantigen or a derivative or variant thereof; thereby preventing, delaying the onset of, or delaying the progression of, T1D in the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
    Inventors: Helen E. Thomas, Thomas W. H. Kay, Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy, Gaurang Jhala
  • Publication number: 20240036322
    Abstract: An optical display system and an electronic device are disclosed. The optical display system comprises: an image generating unit, which generates an image light output, wherein the image light output has a narrow angular luminance distribution; and an optical lens system, which is placed in front of the image generating unit and guides the image light output to an eye of a viewer, wherein the image generating unit includes: an image generating component, which generates a polarized light output; a polarization-dependent light deflection component, disposed to accept the polarized light output from the image-generating component and increase the amount of the polarized light output that can enter an exit pupil of the optical lens system, and the polarized light output deflected by the polarization-dependent light deflection component has the narrow angular luminance distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Goertek Inc.
    Inventors: TAO ZHAN, En-Lin Hsiang, Jianghao Xiong, Shin-Tson Wu, Kun Li
  • Publication number: 20240035209
    Abstract: Provided is a sensing fiber member which can be processed in long lengths, which excels in mass production, which is supple and has an excellent texture, and which is much less costly than a contact sensing fiber member (a piezoelectric yarn) for which a conventional piezoelectric material is used. This sensing fiber member has at least two covering yarns for which covering is achieved by wrapping an insulating fiber serving as a covering material in one direction around a linear conductor constituting a core material, two of the covering yarns being arranged close to each other. The sensing fiber member is characterized by reading changes in resistance and/or changes in capacitance between the linear conductors of the two covering yarns arranged close to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: Asahi Kasei Advance Corporation, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Kaji Nylon .Inc
    Inventors: Mayumi Uno, Mariko Omori, Shigeru Morita, Kansei Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20240039580
    Abstract: A magnetic signal receiving device and a magnetic field communication system are disclosed. The magnetic signal receiving device includes a signal detector including a magnetic sensor and configured to detect a magnetic signal using the magnetic sensor, a signal amplifier configured to amplify the magnetic signal detected by the signal detector, and a demodulator configured to restore the amplified magnetic signal received from the signal amplifier into an original signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jang Yeol KIM, Jung Hoon OH, Jaeho LEE, Hyunjoon LEE, In Kui CHO
  • Publication number: 20240035189
    Abstract: A cup-shaped chuck of a substrate holding device includes an inner pressing ring, a middle frame, a sealing element, an outer pressing ring and a contact ring. The inner pressing ring is locked on the inner peripheral surface of the middle frame. The sealing element has an outer end part, a bottom part and an inner end part. The outer end part of the sealing element wraps the outer peripheral surface of at least part of the middle frame. The bottom part of the sealing element wraps the bottom of the middle frame, and is exposed to the outside of the cup-shaped chuck. The inner end part of the sealing element wraps the inner peripheral surface of at least part of the middle frame and is pressed between the inner pressing ring and the middle frame by the inner pressing ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: ACM RESEARCH (SHANGHAI), INC.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Jian Wang, Zhaowei Jia, Yinuo Jin, Hongchao Yang
  • Publication number: 20240033530
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, various embodiments of neurostimulators and stimulation systems are disclosed that provide different shapes and patterns of stimulus pulses and trains of pulses with fixed and no fixed frequencies. The neurostimulator can be configured to provide high frequency stimulation and also be implantable in the head or neck regions in order to stimulate nerves and nerve ganglions in the head and neck regions and also stimulate the brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
    Inventors: Brian R. Dearden, Harshit Suri, Edward K. F. Lee
  • Publication number: 20240037381
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a ternary neural network accelerator device includes a first semiconductor device comprising a first source terminal, a first drain terminal, and a first gate terminal, a second semiconductor device comprising a second source terminal, a second drain terminal, and a second gate terminal, a first searching line connected to the first drain terminal, a second searching line connected to the second drain terminal, and a matching line commonly connected to the first source terminal and the second source terminal, wherein ternary weight and ternary input are each set by either of a first operation and a second operation and nine computation results are output through the matching line according to conditions of the ternary weight and ternary input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Inha University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Yeongkyo SEO, Dae Woong KWON
  • Publication number: 20240036517
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for reproducing a hologram image. The apparatus may include a holographic display module for reproducing a digital hologram, a background display module for reproducing a background image, and a combiner for selecting the background image in consideration of the depth map of the digital hologram and reproducing a hologram image synthesized by combining the selected background image with the digital hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Min-Sung YOON, Hyoung LEE, Ki-Bong SONG
  • Publication number: 20240033501
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compression garment for transcutaneous or neuromuscular electrical stimulation. The garment is adapted to be in contact with a part of the body. The garment is made from an elastic stretchable material. The garment comprises at least one compression band having a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is adapted to be coupled with an electrode, a portion of an electrode or a plurality of electrodes for contacting skin in use. The second portion has lower elasticity compared to that of the garment material of the first portion or no elasticity. Modulus of elasticity of the garment material in elongation direction and/or resting length of the garment material in the elongation direction in the first portion are selected so that pressure exerted by the second portion on a wearer when the garment is in use is equal or greater than a minimum predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: BIO-MEDICAL RESEARCH LIMITED
    Inventors: Conor MINOGUE, Chandra LAKSHMANAN, Maggie MCBRIDE, Fiona O'Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20240035199
    Abstract: Disclosed are stack structures and their fabrication methods. The method comprises providing a growth chamber with a first two-dimensional material layer, forming a defect on a surface the first two-dimensional material layer, and forming a second two-dimensional material layer on the first two-dimensional material layer. The step of forming the second two-dimensional material layer includes supplying the growth chamber with a transition metal precursor and a chalcogen precursor, and reacting the first two-dimensional material layer and the transition metal precursor with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ki Kang KIM, Seokjoon YUN, Soo Ho CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240038853
    Abstract: The MOS device with resistive field plate for realizing conductance modulation field effect in the present invention is based on the existing trench gate MOS device, and a semi-insulating resistive field plate electrically connected to the trench gate structure and the drain structure is added in the drift region, where the trench gate structure can control the on-off of the MOS channel, and the semi-insulating resistive field plate can adjust the doping concentration of the drift region to modulate the conductance of the on-state drift region and the distribution of off-state high-voltage blocking electric field, thus a lower on-resistance can be obtained. In addition, the modern 2.5-dimensional processing technology based on deep trench etching is adopted in the present invention, which is conducive to the miniaturization design and high density design of the structure and is more suitable for the More than Moore (beyond Moore) development of modern integrated semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NO.24 RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaizhou TAN, Tian XIAO, Jiahao ZHANG, Yonghui YANG, Xiaoquan LI, Pengfei WANG, Ying PEI, Guangbo LI, Hequan JIANG, Peijian ZHANG, Sheng QIU, Liang CHEN, Wei CUI
  • Patent number: 11888157
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material, a cathode comprising same, and a secondary battery. The cathode active material contains crystal water and a manganese-based metal oxide and has a first crystal phase having a two-dimensional crystal structure and a second crystal phase having a three-dimensional crystal structure, wherein the three-dimensional crystal structure is formed by the combination of manganese in the manganese-based metal oxide and oxygen in the crystal water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Won Sub Yoon, Yong Mook Kang, Mi Ru Jo, Junghoon Yang, Yunok Kim
  • Patent number: 11884958
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials involved in assessing and/or treating a mammal having a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). For example, methods and materials provided herein can be used for determining if a mammal having a FGID is likely to respond to a particular FGID treatment. This document also provides methods and materials for treating a mammal having a FGID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventor: Purna C. Kashyap
  • Patent number: 11884619
    Abstract: A method for esterification of one or more carboxylic acid groups in a compound containing one or more carboxylic acid groups wherein the esterification reagent is a diazo-compound of formula: wherein the R1 and R2 groups of the diazo compound are selected such that the corresponding organic compound of formula: exhibits a —C—H pKa value between 18 and 29 as measured in DMSO. Specific reagents and methods for esterification are provided. The esterification reagents provided exhibit high selectivity for esterification of carboxylic acid groups over reaction with amine, alcohol or thiol groups in the compound containing one or more carboxylic acid groups. The method can be used to selectively esterify carboxylic acid groups in peptides or proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ronald T. Raines, Nicholas McGrath
  • Patent number: 11886018
    Abstract: A fiber optic connector that includes a connector body comprising a ferrule retaining portion, a pusher engagement portion and a body cable passage extending through the pusher engagement portion and the ferrule retaining portion. The connector includes a ferrule assembly structurally configured to be retained by the ferrule retaining portion with an optical fiber bore of the ferrule assembly in alignment with the body cable passage. The connector includes a pusher structurally configured to axially engage the pusher engagement portion with a pusher cable passage in alignment with the body cable passage, and a collapsing cantilevered gasket structurally configured to form an axially compressed sealing interface between the connector body and the pusher and an omnidirectionally compressed sealing interface between the gasket and a cable passing through a cable passage of the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael De Jong, Wolf Peter Kluwe, Andrey Nikolayevich Levandovskiy, Daniel Leyva, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11883460
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides dry powder antibiotic compositions that are effective in the treatment of bacterial infections and associated conditions. Moreover, the present disclosure provides dry powder antibiotic compositions for the treatment of bacterial infections, by multi-drug resistant bacteria, resulting in the subsequent reduction in the prevalent rates of drug resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Agency for Science, Technology and Research, National University Hospital (Singapore) PTE Ltd
    Inventors: Desmond Heng, Sie Huey Lee, Jeanette Teo, Wai Kiong Ng, Reginald Tan
  • Patent number: 11886561
    Abstract: A biometric processing system for authentication combines multiple biometric signals using machine learning to map the different signals into a common argument space that may be processed by a similar fuzzy extractor. The different biometric signals may be given weight values related to their entropy allowing them to be blended to increase security and availability while minimizing intrusiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Varun Chandrasekaran, Rahul Chatterjee, Xiaohan Fu, Jin-Yi Cai, Suman Banerjee