Patents by Inventor An-Ting Tsai

An-Ting Tsai 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).

  • Patent number: 11282497
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method for dynamic text reading. The method includes performing pre-processing for a text document. Pre-processing includes determining the text document comprises an emotional statement based on an indicator of an emotion associated with the emotional statement. Pre-processing also includes identifying a speaker of the emotional statement. Further, pre-processing includes generating a role-to-voice map that associates the speaker with a digital representation of a voice for the speaker. The method additionally includes generating, based on the pre-processing, the voice for the speaker reading aloud a text of the text document using the digital representation of the voice with a tonal modulation that conveys the emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Der-Joung Wang, David Shao Chung Chen, An-Ting Tsai, Peng Chen, Chao Yuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20210142785
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method for dynamic text reading. The method includes performing pre-processing for a text document. Pre-processing includes determining the text document comprises an emotional statement based on an indicator of an emotion associated with the emotional statement. Pre-processing also includes identifying a speaker of the emotional statement. Further, pre-processing includes generating a role-to-voice map that associates the speaker with a digital representation of a voice for the speaker. The method additionally includes generating, based on the pre-processing, the voice for the speaker reading aloud a text of the text document using the digital representation of the voice with a tonal modulation that conveys the emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Der-Joung Wang, David Shao Chung Chen, AN-TING TSAI, Peng Chen, Chao Yuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8167369
    Abstract: A cushion structure for a bicycle contains a body and a bottom tube. The body includes a circular inserting seat. The inserting seat includes a plurality of crossed support ribs extending radially from a center thereof and connecting with an outer rim thereof and formed in a cross shape. The bottom tube includes a connecting portion disposed on one end thereof. The connecting portion includes a circular inner hole corresponding to the inserting seat and includes a plurality of retaining slots formed therein corresponding to the support ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Foming Bicycle Parts Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: An-Ting Tsai
  • Publication number: 20110241390
    Abstract: An angle adjusting cushion structure for a bicycle contains a body including a seat disposed on a central portion thereof, the seat including an arcuate abutting segment mounted on a bottom end thereof, and the abutting segment including plural first engaging teeth arranged thereon and a hole formed on a central portion thereof; a seat post including an arcuate connecting segment secured on a top end thereof, the connecting segment including plural second engaging teeth arranged on a top surface thereof and an elongated aperture disposed on a central portion thereof; a block member including a bore fixed on a central portion thereof; a locking element inserted to the bore and the aperture to be further locked in the hole of the seat so that the first engaging teeth of the abutting segment of the body engage with the second engaging teeth of the connecting segment of the seat post.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: An-Ting Tsai
  • Publication number: 20110241389
    Abstract: A cushion structure for a bicycle contains a body and a bottom tube, wherein the body includes a circular inserting seat, the inserting seat includes a plurality of crossed support ribs extending radially from a center thereof and connecting with an outer rim thereof and formed in a cross shape, the bottom tube includes a connecting portion disposed on one end thereof, and the connecting portion includes a circularly inner hole corresponding to the inserting seat, and includes a plurality of retaining slots formed therein corresponding to the support ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: An-Ting Tsai