Patents by Inventor Bo MU
Bo MU 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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Publication number: 20240144706Abstract: In some embodiments, an image sensor is provided. A signal processing unit of the image sensor is configured with executable instructions that cause the signal processing unit to perform actions comprising: reading a captured scene from a pixel array; reading a value from a test initiation register; in response to determining that the value indicates a test mode: processing the captured scene to detect a region of interest associated with the value; and providing the region of interest to a first interface for transmission to a host device; and in response to determining that the value does not indicate the test mode: analyzing the captured scene using a computer vision technique to selectively generate a signal based on the analysis of the captured scene; and selectively providing the signal to a second interface for transmission to the host device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Andreas Suess, Bo Mu
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Patent number: 11964962Abstract: Disclosed is a pyridazinone compound represented by Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, hydrate, solvate, polymorph, stereoisomer, or isotopic variant thereof. The compound can be used for preparation of medicinal products for treatment and/or prophylaxis of a disease or condition associated with thyroid hormone abnormalities. The compound has higher selectivity to TH?, better pharmacokinetic parameters, desired stability, and higher agonistic activity toward TH?.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHANDONG FIRST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY & SHANDONG ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCESInventors: Qingqiang Yao, Weilin Xie, Véronique Plantevin Krenitsky, Bo Liu, Yan Li, Ying Zhi, Ying Li, Yanling Mu, Jingyong Sun, Haiyang Wang, Zhongyu Wu, Haijiao Chen, Tiandi Ding, Yue Wang, Haoyi Sun, Feipeng Zhang, Peng Meng, Qingxu Liu, Huajie Li, Yige Wang, Shanshan Wen
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Patent number: 11953774Abstract: A display substrate includes: a base substrate (100); a plurality of sub-pixels (R, G, B) located on the base substrate (100), every two rows of sub-pixels (R, G, B) constituting a pixel group; a plurality of first gate lines (Gate1) located at first row gaps between the pixel groups, two first gate lines (Gate1) being arranged at each first row gap; and a plurality of photosensors (101), the orthographic projection of each row of photosensors (101) on the base substrate (100) completely covering a second row gap in the pixel group and partially overlapping with the orthographic projections of the sub-pixels (R, G, B), thereby avoiding the bright and dark difference between adjacent rows and ensuring the aperture ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xinlan Yang, Wenkai Mu, Yi Liu, Jun Fan, Bo Feng, Yang Wang, Zhan Wei, Tengfei Ding, Shijun Wang, Chengfu Xu
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Patent number: 11955040Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes an array substrate and at least two driving units. The array substrate includes a peripheral region and a display region, the array substrate further includes a peripheral grounding line and a test line, wherein the peripheral grounding line is located in the peripheral region, and the test line is located in the peripheral region. The at least two driving units are located on at least one side of the array substrate, the driving unit includes at least two grounding pins, a grounding pin of at least one of the driving units is connected to the peripheral grounding line, and each of at least one grounding pin of one of two adjacent driving units is electrically connected to a corresponding grounding pin of the other adjacent driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bingqing Yang, Wenkai Mu, Haoliang Ji, Bo Feng, Xiaoxiao Chen, Tianxin Zhao, Ji Dong, Zhiying Bao, Wenjun Xiao, Yang Wang, Shijun Wang, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 11934060Abstract: Provided is an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of sub-pixels and a plurality of touch signal lines disposed on the base substrate. The data lines have a plurality of first extending parts and a plurality of second extending parts which are in an alternating arrangement. When the array substrate is used to prepare a liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display panel is displaying, in each column of the sub-pixels, the voltage polarities of the two adjacent sub-pixels which respectively belong to two adjacent first pixel regions are opposite.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Feng, Shijun Wang, Yang Wang, Zhan Wei, Wenkai Mu, Yi Liu, Li Tian
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Publication number: 20240088171Abstract: An array substrate and display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and gate lines, data lines, compensation blocks and sub-pixels located on the base substrate. Two gate lines are arranged between two adjacent rows of sub-pixels. The data lines are provided with multiple first extensions and second extensions arranged alternately. The extending direction of the first extensions intersects with the extending direction of the second extensions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Wenkai MU, Shijun WANG, Yi LIU, Bo FENG, Yang WANG, Zhan WEI, Li TIAN
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Patent number: 11914887Abstract: A storage device and a data accessing method are disclosed, wherein the storage device includes a memory circuit and a control circuit. The memory circuit includes a plurality of multi-level cells, and each of the multi-level cells is configured to store at least a first bit, a second bit and a third bit in at least a first page, a second page and a third page. The control circuit is configured to read the first bits according to a one-time reading operation related to the first bits, read the second bits according to M-times reading operations related to the second bits, and read the third bits according to N-times reading operations related to the third bits, wherein the difference between M and N is less than or equal to one.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yung-Chun Li, Han-Wen Hu, Bo-Rong Lin, Huai-Mu Wang
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Publication number: 20230230212Abstract: An image processing method and a device configured to implement the same are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining optical input from a hybrid imaging device, wherein an obtained optical input comprises a first component and a second component that temporally corresponds to the first component; wherein the first component of the obtained optical input corresponds to a first temporal resolution, while the second component of the obtained optical input corresponds to a second temporal resolution higher than that of the first component; performing image restoration operation on a first subset of the first component of the obtained optical input in accordance with data from the second component of the obtained optical input; and performing image fusion operation to generate fused image data from an output of the image restoration operation and a second subset of the first component of the obtained optical input.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: LUIS EDUARDO GARCÍA CAPEL, BO MU
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Patent number: 11683598Abstract: An imaging system including an image sensor coupled to a controller to image an external scene is described. The controller includes logic storing instructions that when executed causes the imaging system to perform operations including capturing images, including a first image and a second image, of an external scene, and generating reduced representations of the images including a first reduced representation associated with the first image and a second reduced representation associated with the second image. The operations further include comparing the first reduced representation with the second reduced representation to determine a difference between the first image and the second image and identifying an occurrence of an occlusion affecting the image sensor imaging the external scene when the difference is greater than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Bo Mu, Boyd Fowler
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Patent number: 11558542Abstract: A focus method and an image sensing apparatus are disclosed. The method includes capturing, by a plurality of event sensing pixels, event data of a targeted scene, wherein the event data indicates which pixels of the event sensing pixels have changes in light intensity, accumulating the event data for a predetermined time interval to obtain accumulated event data, determining whether a scene change occurs in the targeted scene according to the accumulated event data, obtaining one or more interest regions in the targeted scene according to the accumulated event data in response to the scene change, and providing at least one of the one or more interest regions for a focus operation. The image sensing apparatus comprises a plurality of image sensing pixels, a plurality of event sensing pixels, and a controller configured to perform said method.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Bo Mu, Rui Jiang
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Patent number: 10594424Abstract: A time synchronization slave apparatus and a method of determining a time synchronization period are disclosed. In the apparatus, a time synchronization processing unit performs a time synchronization operation and determines an offset and a rate used to correct local time error based on a calculated time error, a timer corrects the local time based on the determined offset and rate, a time error estimation unit estimates a time error in the local time during a present time synchronization period, and generates excess error information regarding an excess point at which the estimated time error exceeds a threshold allowable time error range, a time synchronization period determination unit determines a subsequent time synchronization period based on the excess error information, and a synchronization period information transmission unit transmits synchronization period information regarding the subsequent time synchronization period to a time synchronization master apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan UniversityInventors: Jae Wook Jeon, Jin Ho Kim, Bo Mu Cheon, Yong Ju Kim
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Patent number: 10545185Abstract: Apparatus and method for diagnosing a current sensor serially connected to a battery module having at least one secondary battery, including a measuring unit connected to both ends of at least one secondary battery and both ends of the battery module to measure voltages, and connected to both ends of the current sensor to measure current flowing through, and a control unit including a first deviation checking part checking a first voltage deviation between the voltage at both ends of each secondary battery at first and second times by setting a time difference, a second deviation checking part summing the voltages at both ends of each secondary battery and checking a second voltage deviation between the summed voltage and the voltage at both ends of the battery module, and a diagnosing part diagnosing whether the current sensor is in an open circuit state using the first and second voltage deviations.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Mu Cheon, Myeong-Hui Park
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Patent number: 10449687Abstract: A low-cost, contamination-free cutting tool, and an operation method and a use method thereof. The cutting tool comprises a molding container (1). The molding container (1) contains a to-be-refrigerated liquid (3) which can be refrigerated to form a solid cutter (4). The cutting tool may or may not comprise a base container (6). The base container (6) comprises a seal member (2) and the to-be-refrigerated liquid (3) in the base container. The to-be-refrigerated liquid in the base container is refrigerated to form a frozen base (7). The cutting tool of the present invention uses the cutter and the frozen base that are formed by using the low-cost to-be-refrigerated liquid; one-time use prevents the cross contamination, the cutter does not need to be washed; and the cutting tool has low use cost and good universality, and is convenient for popularization and application.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: AMTK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO. LTDInventors: Dong Liu, Bo Mu
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Publication number: 20190195942Abstract: Apparatus and method for diagnosing a current sensor serially connected to a battery module having at least one secondary battery, including a measuring unit connected to both ends of at least one secondary battery and both ends of the battery module to measure voltages, and connected to both ends of the current sensor to measure current flowing through; and a control unit including a first deviation checking part checking a first voltage deviation between the voltage at both ends of each secondary battery at first and second times by setting a time difference, a second deviation checking part summing the voltages at both ends of each secondary battery and checking a second voltage deviation between the summed voltage and the voltage at both ends of the battery module, and a diagnosing part for diagnosing whether the current sensor is in an open circuit state using the first and second voltage deviations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Bo-Mu Cheon, Myeong-Hui Park
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Patent number: 10237501Abstract: The present invention includes an imaging apparatus that includes a two dimensional array of pixel sensors. Each pixel sensor includes a main photodiode, an autofocus photodiode, and a microlens that concentrates light onto the main photodiode and the autofocus photodiode. The imaging array of pixel sensors includes first and second autofocus arrays of pixel sensors, the pixel sensors in the first autofocus array of pixel sensors having the autofocus photodiodes positioned such that each autofocus photodiode receives light preferentially from one half of the microlens in that pixel sensor, and the pixel sensors in the second autofocus array of pixel sensors having each autofocus photodiode positioned such that each autofocus photodiode receives light preferentially from the other half of the microlens in that pixel sensor. The autofocus photodiodes can be constructed from the parasitic photodiodes associated with the floating diffusion nodes in each pixel sensor or conventional photodiodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: BAE Systems Imaging Solutions Inc.Inventors: Bo Mu, Alberto M. Magnani
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Publication number: 20180249106Abstract: The present invention includes an imaging apparatus that includes a two dimensional array of pixel sensors. Each pixel sensor includes a main photodiode, an autofocus photodiode, and a microlens that concentrates light onto the main photodiode and the autofocus photodiode. The imaging array of pixel sensors includes first and second autofocus arrays of pixel sensors, the pixel sensors in the first autofocus array of pixel sensors having the autofocus photodiodes positioned such that each autofocus photodiode receives light preferentially from one half of the microlens in that pixel sensor, and the pixel sensors in the second autofocus array of pixel sensors having each autofocus photodiode positioned such that each autofocus photodiode receives light preferentially from the other half of the microlens in that pixel sensor. The autofocus photodiodes can be constructed from the parasitic photodiodes associated with the floating diffusion nodes in each pixel sensor or conventional photodiodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Bo Mu, Alberto M. Magnani
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Patent number: 10057530Abstract: An apparatus having a rectangular imaging array characterized by a plurality of pixel sensors and a plurality of readout lines is disclosed. The apparatus has a plurality of column processing circuits, each column processing circuit being connected to a corresponding one of the readout lines and a plurality of signal injectors, one signal injector being connected to each of the readout lines. Each signal injector causes one of a predetermined number of voltages to be coupled to that readout line. An exposure for each of the pixel sensors is determined during image recording periods. The signal injectors inject a plurality of calibration voltages into the readout lines during calibration periods, and determines a gain function of an amplifier in one of the column processing circuits by measuring an output of the amplifier for the plurality of calibration voltages, the calibration period is between the imaging recording periods.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: BAE Systems Imaging Solutions Inc.Inventors: Bo Mu, Alberto M. Magnani, Stephen W. Mims
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Publication number: 20180191979Abstract: An apparatus having a rectangular imaging array characterized by a plurality of pixel sensors and a plurality of readout lines is disclosed. The apparatus has a plurality of column processing circuits, each column processing circuit being connected to a corresponding one of the readout lines and a plurality of signal injectors, one signal injector being connected to each of the readout lines. Each signal injector causes one of a predetermined number of voltages to be coupled to that readout line. An exposure for each of the pixel sensors is determined during image recording periods. The signal injectors inject a plurality of calibration voltages into the readout lines during calibration periods, and determines a gain function of an amplifier in one of the column processing circuits by measuring an output of the amplifier for the plurality of calibration voltages, the calibration period is between the imaging recording periods.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Bo Mu, Alberto M. Magnani, Stephen W. Mims
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Publication number: 20170217043Abstract: A low-cost, contamination-free cutting tool, and an operation method and a use method thereof. The cutting tool comprises a molding container (1). The molding container (1) contains a to-be-refrigerated liquid (3) which can be refrigerated to form a solid cutter (4). The cutting tool may or may not comprise a base container (6). The base container (6) comprises a seal member (2) and the to-be-refrigerated liquid (3) in the base container. The to-be-refrigerated liquid in the base container is refrigerated to form a frozen base (7). The cutting tool of the present invention uses the cutter and the frozen base that are formed by using the low-cost to-be-refrigerated liquid; one-time use prevents the cross contamination, the cutter does not need to be washed; and the cutting tool has low use cost and good universality, and is convenient for popularization and application.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: AMTK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO. LTDInventors: Dong LIU, Bo MU
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Patent number: 9706018Abstract: A gateway apparatus includes a first network controller, a second network controller, and a time synchronization control unit. The first network controller has a first timer time-synchronized with nodes within a first network domain. The second network controller has a second timer time-synchronized with nodes within a second network domain. The time synchronization control unit includes a processor configured to store the observed times of the switching points of synchronized time slots within the first network domain, based on system time within the second network domain, and adjusts the rate of the second timer based on a comparison of a time difference between the successive observed times and a nominal length of the time slots.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan UniversityInventors: Jae Wook Jeon, Jin Ho Kim, Bo Mu Cheon, Yong Ju Kim, Young Seo Lee