Patents by Inventor Allen Ming-kuang Han
Allen Ming-kuang Han has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11536986Abstract: A contact lens has a core thick enough to accommodate a payload. The lens further has outer and inner coverings that cover parts of the core. Each covering is a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective cavity between the covering and the core. Oxygen passes through the outer covering to the outer cavity, through an air path within the core to the inner cavity, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the wearer's eye. To increase oxygen flow, a patterned structure is formed at an interface between the core and at least one of the outer and inner covering, comprising supports at which the core and covering contact, and recesses forming the cavity between the core and covering for oxygen flow. The outer and inner coverings may be made from different types of gas-permeable materials having different levels of gas-permeability and brittleness.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Benjamin Lyle Hackett, Donald Arthur Ice, Allen Ming-Kuang Han
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Patent number: 11409133Abstract: A contact lens has a core thick enough to accommodate a payload. The lens further has outer and inner coverings that cover parts of the core. Each covering is a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective cavity between the covering and the core. Oxygen passes through the outer covering to the outer cavity, through an air path within the core to the inner cavity, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the wearer's eye. To increase oxygen flow, a patterned structure is formed at an interface between the core and at least one of the outer and inner covering, comprising supports at which the core and covering contact, and recesses forming the cavity between the core and covering for oxygen flow. Because each recess spans only a short distance between supports, portions of the covering may be made thinner to improve oxygen flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventors: Benjamin Lyle Hackett, Donald Arthur Ice, Allen Ming-Kuang Han
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Publication number: 20210372788Abstract: The amount of resources needed for an electronic device to track and/or interact with a user is reduced by utilizing a predicted relative position of that user. In some embodiments, a full 360° scan is performed using at least one image capture element to locate a primary direction to a user of the device. Once this direction is determined, a smaller range (e.g., 45°) centered around that direction can be used to capture, analyze, or provide information for the user. As the user moves, the determined direction is updated and the range adjusted accordingly. If the user moves outside the range, the device can increase the size of the range until the user is located, and the range can again be decreased around the determined direction. Such approaches limit the amount of image or audio information that must be captured and/or analyzed to track the relative position of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Dennis Hodge, Allen Ming-kuang Han
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Publication number: 20210132412Abstract: A contact lens has a core thick enough to accommodate a payload. The lens further has outer and inner coverings that cover parts of the core. Each covering is a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective cavity between the covering and the core. Oxygen passes through the outer covering to the outer cavity, through an air path within the core to the inner cavity, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the wearer's eye. To increase oxygen flow, a patterned structure is formed at an interface between the core and at least one of the outer and inner covering, comprising supports at which the core and covering contact, and recesses forming the cavity between the core and covering for oxygen flow. The outer and inner coverings may be made from different types of gas-permeable materials having different levels of gas-permeability and brittleness.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Lyle Hackett, Donald Arthur Ice, Allen Ming-Kuang Han
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Publication number: 20210132409Abstract: A contact lens has a core thick enough to accommodate a payload. The lens further has outer and inner coverings that cover parts of the core. Each covering is a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective cavity between the covering and the core. Oxygen passes through the outer covering to the outer cavity, through an air path within the core to the inner cavity, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the wearer's eye. To increase oxygen flow, a patterned structure is formed at an interface between the core and at least one of the outer and inner covering, comprising supports at which the core and covering contact, and recesses forming the cavity between the core and covering for oxygen flow. Because each recess spans only a short distance between supports, portions of the covering may be made thinner to improve oxygen flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Lyle Hackett, Donald Arthur Ice, Allen Ming-Kuang Han
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Patent number: 10231570Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus and method of multi-course infusion for brewing tea and other beverages are provided. In one aspect, a method of multi-course infusion for brewing tea and other beverages may receive, in an infusion chamber of an apparatus, an amount of beverage medium in dried state. The method may also provide steam into the infusion chamber to pre-condition the beverage medium. The method may further perform multi-course infusion of the beverage medium in hot water by repeating more than once a process that includes: showering hot water down onto the beverage medium in the infusion chamber, infusing the beverage medium in the hot water for some infusion time to form the beverage, providing steam into the infusion chamber while the beverage medium is infused in the hot water, drawing the beverage into one or more carafes after the infusion time has elapsed.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Inventors: Allen Ming-Kuang Han, Chung-Ming Ying, Chih-Hsiang Chen, Wan-Ting Huang, I-Hsuan Tsai, Luis Ramirez
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Publication number: 20160022087Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus and method of multi-course infusion for brewing tea and other beverages are provided. In one aspect, a method of multi-course infusion for brewing tea and other beverages may receive, in an infusion chamber of an apparatus, an amount of beverage medium in dried state. The method may also provide steam into the infusion chamber to pre-condition the beverage medium. The method may further perform multi-course infusion of the beverage medium in hot water by repeating more than once a process that includes: showering hot water down onto the beverage medium in the infusion chamber, infusing the beverage medium in the hot water for some infusion time to form the beverage, providing steam into the infusion chamber while the beverage medium is infused in the hot water, drawing the beverage into one or more carafes after the infusion time has elapsed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Teforia CompanyInventors: Allen Ming-Kuang Han, Chung-Ming Ying, Chih-Hsiang Chen, Wan-Ting Huang, I-Hsuan Tsai, Luis Ramirez
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Publication number: 20150019162Abstract: The amount of resources needed for an electronic device to track and/or interact with a user is reduced by utilizing a predicted relative position of that user. In some embodiments, a full 360° scan is performed using at least one image capture element to locate a primary direction to a user of the device. Once this direction is determined, a smaller range (e.g., 45°) centered around that direction can be used to capture, analyze, or provide information for the user. As the user moves, the determined direction is updated and the range adjusted accordingly. If the user moves outside the range, the device can increase the size of the range until the user is located, and the range can again be decreased around the determined direction. Such approaches limit the amount of image or audio information that must be captured and/or analyzed to track the relative position of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Dennis Hodge, Allen Ming-kuang Han, SR.
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Patent number: 8843346Abstract: The amount of resources needed for an electronic device to track and/or interact with a user is reduced by utilizing a predicted relative position of that user. In some embodiments, a full 360° scan is performed using at least one image capture element to locate a primary direction to a user of the device. Once this direction is determined, a smaller range (e.g., 45°) centered around that direction can be used to capture, analyze, or provide information for the user. As the user moves, the determined direction is updated and the range adjusted accordingly. If the user moves outside the range, the device can increase the size of the range until the user is located, and the range can again be decreased around the determined direction. Such approaches limit the amount of image or audio information that must be captured and/or analyzed to track the relative position of a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Hodge, Allen Ming-kuang Han
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Publication number: 20140179369Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that provide for proximity-based zoom functionality for image capturing operations. A physical demarcation is presented to a user of a device, such as a reticle or a reference indication, by which the user can intuitively adjust a level of zoom to be applied in capturing an image. A position of the user with respect to the device is detected, such as by a sensor, and a representation of a scene capturable via the device is determined based on the position detected, where the representation corresponds to the user's view of the scene with respect to the physical demarcation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventor: Allen Ming-kuang Han
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Publication number: 20120290257Abstract: The amount of resources needed for an electronic device to track and/or interact with a user is reduced by utilizing a predicted relative position of that user. In some embodiments, a full 360° scan is performed using at least one image capture element to locate a primary direction to a user of the device. Once this direction is determined, a smaller range (e.g., 45°) centered around that direction can be used to capture, analyze, or provide information for the user. As the user moves, the determined direction is updated and the range adjusted accordingly. If the user moves outside the range, the device can increase the size of the range until the user is located, and the range can again be decreased around the determined direction. Such approaches limit the amount of image or audio information that must be captured and/or analyzed to track the relative position of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Hodge, Allen Ming-kuang Han
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Publication number: 20110231572Abstract: A personal media device includes a housing assembly, a display panel located on the housing assembly, and a control assembly located on the housing assembly. The control assembly includes a slider assembly, a first switch assembly positioned proximate a first side of the slider assembly, and a second switch assembly positioned proximate a second side of the slider assembly. The control assembly is configured to extend across substantially an entire width of the housing assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: REALNETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Joshua D. Hug, Allen Ming-Kuang Han
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Patent number: 7570249Abstract: A user input device includes one or more user controls that enable a user to selectively imports bits of data by activating the control when the user input devices proximate to a display surface of an interactive display system. By depressing or otherwise activating a user control, the user causes an element within the user input device to move through a plane of change so that the state of a parameter sensed by the interactive display system changes and is detected. In the examples provided, the parameter relates to infrared light that is reflected or absorbed or produced by a component of the user input device and is thus detected by an infrared sensitive camera. The input can be a single bit, or comprise a plurality of bits corresponding to a specific pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Allen Ming-kuang Han, Christina Summer Chen, Dana Lu Silverstein, Dawson Yee
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Publication number: 20090058689Abstract: A keyboard of a handheld electronic device is provided. The keyboard is divided into a number of key areas arranged in array. The keyboard includes character keys and function keys. Each of the character keys respectively occupies one of the key areas and has a first character symbol, while some of the character keys further have a second character symbol respectively. Some of the function keys have an activation key occupying one key area. The other function keys respectively include an ENTER key, a SPACE key, and a SHIFT key, each of which occupies approximately two key areas transversely. The arrangement of the keys enable users to press the key quickly, correctly, and conveniently.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: HIGH TECH COMPUTER, CORP.Inventors: Yu-Hsien Chang, Allen Ming-kuang Han, Ming-Hsiang Yen, Hung-Chih Chen
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Publication number: 20070058832Abstract: A personal media device includes a housing assembly, a display panel located on the housing assembly, and a control assembly located on the housing assembly. The control assembly includes a slider assembly, a first switch assembly positioned proximate a first side of the slider assembly, and a second switch assembly positioned proximate a second side of the slider assembly. The control assembly is configured to extend across substantially an entire width of the housing assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2006Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: RealNetworks, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Hug, Allen Ming-Kuang Han
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Publication number: 20060227099Abstract: A user input device includes one or more user controls that enable a user to selectively imports bits of data by activating the control when the user input devices proximate to a display surface of an interactive display system. By depressing or otherwise activating a user control, the user causes an element within the user input device to move through a plane of change so that the state of a parameter sensed by the interactive display system changes and is detected. In the examples provided, the parameter relates to infrared light that is reflected or absorbed or produced by a component of the user input device and is thus detected by an infrared sensitive camera. The input can be a single bit, or comprise a plurality of bits corresponding to a specific pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: October 12, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Allen Ming-Kuang Han, Christina Chen, Dana Silverstein, Dawson Yee
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Patent number: D594461Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Yu-Hsien Chang, Allen Ming-kuang Han, Ming-Hsiang Yen, Hung-Chih Chen
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Patent number: D594462Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Yu-Hsien Chang, Allen Ming-kuang Han, Ming-Hsiang Yen, Hung-Chih Chen
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Patent number: D620013Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Yu-Hsien Chang, Allen Ming-kuang Han, Ming-Hsiang Yen, Hung-Chih Chen
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Patent number: D758117Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Teforia CompanyInventors: I-Hsuan Tsai, Ting-Chieh Chang, Chung Ming Ying, Allen Ming-kuang Han