Patents by Inventor Chi Chen

Chi Chen 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).

  • Publication number: 20250260841
    Abstract: A device for decoding video data comprises one or more processors configured to: obtain a syntax element from a bitstream that includes an encoded representation of the video data; determine, based on the syntax element, that a template-matching tool is enabled; based on the template-matching tool being enabled, applying the template-matching tool to generate a prediction block for a current coding unit (CU) of the video data; and reconstruct the current CU based on the prediction block for the current CU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Chun-Chi Chen, Han Huang, Vadim Seregin, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 12383060
    Abstract: A device for auto-bouncing and slowly closing a drawer mainly provides a buffer device on a slide rail between a drawer and a left side opposite surface or right side opposite surface of a drawer slot, so that the impact is reduced and the drawer is automatically pulled back when the drawer is closed. At the same time, a door bouncing device is operated in coordination with, so that the drawer can be automatically eject to a specific position when the drawer is pressed, so as to achieve the multiple practicality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: BAI FU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huang-Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20250249871
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system (10), a vehicle, and a control method are provided. The brake system (10) includes a main brake module (110) and a redundant brake module (120). When the main brake module (110) works normally and communication between the two modules (110 and 120) is normal, the main brake module (110) may detect a status of an electronic handbrake switch (130), control a first caliper actuator based on the status, and send a first control signal generated based on the status to the redundant brake module (120). The redundant brake module (120) may control a second caliper actuator based on the first control signal. When the main brake module (110) or the communication between the two modules (110 and 120) is abnormal, the redundant brake module (120) may detect the status of the electronic handbrake switch (130), and control the second caliper actuator based on the status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaoxun Jin, Zhao Wang, Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 12380865
    Abstract: A cockpit display system includes a cockpit, a first display apparatus, a second display apparatus, a first light sensor, a second light sensor and a brightness distribution calculation module. The first light sensor is suitable for detecting a first ambient light brightness. The second light sensor is suitable for detecting a second ambient light brightness. The brightness distribution calculation module is suitable for respectively calculating a first brightness, a second brightness, a third brightness and a fourth brightness of the first display area and the second display area of the first display apparatus and the third display area and the fourth display area of the second display apparatus under a same display gray level according to the first ambient light brightness and the second ambient light brightness. The first brightness, the second brightness, the third brightness and the fourth brightness are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: AUO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Chi Chen, Teng-Ying Huang, Chih-Hsiang Liu, Li-Heng Hsu, Chi-Yu Liu, Tsung-Hsiung Wang, Chia-Sheng Cheng
  • Patent number: 12382734
    Abstract: An image sensor device is disclosed which includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface, where the second surface is opposite to the first surface. The device includes a conductive structure disposed over the first surface, with a dielectric layer disposed between the conductive structure and the first surface. The device includes a first dielectric layer disposed over the second surface of the semiconductor substrate. The device includes a second dielectric layer disposed over the first dielectric layer. The device includes a color filter layer disposed over the second dielectric layer. In some embodiments, the thickness, refractive index, or both of the first dielectric layer and the thickness, refractive index, or both of the second dielectric layer may be collectively determined to cause incident radiation passing through the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer and to the plurality of pixels to have destructive interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Feng-Chien Hsieh, Chia-Yen Hsu, Yun-Wei Cheng, Wei-Li Hu, Kuo-Cheng Lee, Hsin-Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20250248118
    Abstract: A circuit includes a base silicon layer, a base oxide layer, a first top silicon layer, a second top silicon layer, a first semiconductor device, and a second semiconductor device. The base oxide layer is formed over the base silicon layer. The first top silicon layer is formed over a first region of the base oxide layer and has a first thickness. The second top silicon layer is formed over a second region of the base oxide layer and has a second thickness less than the first thickness. The first semiconductor device is formed over the first top silicon layer and the second semiconductor device is formed over the second top silicon layer. The ability to fabricate a top silicon layers with differing thicknesses can provide a single substrate having devices with different characteristics, such as having both fully depleted and partially depleted devices on a single substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gulbagh Singh, Kuan-Liang Liu, Wang Po-Jen, Kun-Tsang Chuang, Hsin-Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20250245414
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, which includes the following steps: obtaining a netlist of an integrated circuit (IC) design; performing an automatic placement and routing (APR) process on the netlist to generate a result layout diagram; and during each operation with the APR process, refining, using a machine-learning model, a power delivery network within a layout diagram generated at each operation within the APR process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: WEN-HAO CHEN, MING-CHI CHEN, KUO-NAN YANG, YI-KAN CHENG, CHUN-YAO KU
  • Publication number: 20250246537
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a transistor over the substrate, a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer over the transistor, a metal via in the first IMD layer, a first 2-D material layer cupping an underside of the metal via, a second IMD layer over the metal via, a metal line in the second IMD layer, and a second 2-D material layer cupping an underside of the metal line. The second 2-D material layer span across the metal via and the first 2-D material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shih-Yen LIN, Yu-Wei ZHANG, Kuan-Chao CHEN, Si-Chen LEE, Chi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250244649
    Abstract: A projection device includes a shell, an illumination system, an electrical connecting element, a light valve system, and a projection lens. The illumination system is disposed in the shell and provides an illumination beam. The light valve system includes a dustproof module and a light valve module. The dustproof module includes a frame and two transparent plates. An accommodation space is formed by the frame and the two transparent plates. The light valve module includes a light valve and an electrical connecting part. The light valve and the two transparent plates are located on a transmission path of the illumination beam, and the light valve converts the illumination beam into an image beam. One end of the electrical connecting part located in the accommodation space is electrically connected to the light valve, and the other end located outside the accommodation space is detachably electrically connected to the electrical connecting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: YI-EN HSU, CHING-CHUAN WEI, CHI-MING YANG, JUI-CHI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250247009
    Abstract: A conversion control circuit capable of recycling energy is configured to control an isolated power converter, converting an input power to generate an output power. The conversion control circuit generates an optocoupler current for a photodiode included in the optocoupler based on a control-related signal, transmitting the information of the control-related signal between the primary and secondary sides of the power converter via optical coupling to achieve power conversion. The conversion control circuit comprises a controllable current source circuit and a power conversion circuit. The controllable current source circuit generates a controllable current based on the control-related signal, wherein at least a portion of the controllable current is coupled to provide the optocoupler current. The power conversion circuit converts at least a portion of the optocoupler current into a supply power for an operating circuit, thereby recycling the energy generated by the optocoupler current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Tzu-Chen Lin, Yi-Min Shiu, Chao-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 12373112
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to maintain, for a storage system implementing a mapped redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configuration including disk groups providing RAID groups comprising data and hot spare extents, a shared pool of hot spare extents comprising first and second sets of hot spare extents from first and second ones of the disk groups. The processing device is further configured to detect failure of a disk in the first disk group, to determine whether available ones of the first set of hot spare extents provide sufficient storage capacity for rebuilding the failed disk and, responsive to determining that available ones of the first set of hot spare extents do not provide sufficient storage capacity for rebuilding the failed disk, to rebuild the failed disk utilizing one or more of the second set of hot spare extents in the shared pool of hot spare extents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hailan Dong, Si Zhang, Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20250235840
    Abstract: A dynamic catalytic conversion reactor having a plurality of operating zones is disclosed that adjusts operation based on incoming hydrogen from a fluctuating renewable energy source. The dynamic reactor is configured to turn on and off supply of feed gas to certain zones based on hydrogen supply, and maintains catalyst activity within all operating and idle zones by applying one of a number of gas flow options through the idle zones. Methods and systems of using the dynamic reactor are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Lubo Zhou, Chi Chen, Nicholas James Steinke, Richard Isherwood, Jagan Reddy, Konstantina Kritikos, Jihad Dakka, Doug Stewart, Stafford W. Sheehan, Zhanping Xu, Ouda Salem
  • Publication number: 20250241083
    Abstract: An electronic device including gate lines, data lines, switching elements, photosensitive elements and bias lines is provided. The data lines are electrically insulated and intersected with the gate lines. The switching elements are electrically connected to the gate lines and at least a part of the data lines. The photosensitive elements are electrically connected to at least a part of the switching elements. Each of the bias lines includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion overlaps and is electrically insulated from a corresponding data line. The second portion is electrically connected to a corresponding photosensitive element. In a top view, the second portion extends from the first portion into an orthographic projection of the corresponding photosensitive element, and an overlapping area of the second portion and the corresponding photosensitive element is smaller than an area of the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicants: Innolux Corporation, InnoCare Optoelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Chen Lee, Chin-Chi Chen, Kuan-Hsun Chen, Jie-Chen Shih
  • Publication number: 20250240438
    Abstract: An example device includes memory, and one or more processors configured to determine to decode a current block of the video data using motion information of a second block of the video data. The one or more processors are configured to determine a value of a LIC flag of the second block, the value of the LIC flag of the second block indicative of LIC being applied to the second block. The one or more processors are configured to determine, based on the value of the LIC flag, to apply LIC to the current block. The one or more processors are configured to infer LIC model parameters of the current block to be equal to LIC model parameters of the second block. The one or more processors are configured to decode the current block including using the inferred LIC model parameters and the motion information of the second block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Chun-Chi Chen, Han Huang, Yan Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Vadim Seregin, Marta Karczewicz
  • Publication number: 20250233346
    Abstract: A cable-end connector and insulation housing assembly thereof are provided. The cable-end connector is paired with a conductive cable, and the insulation housing assembly is capable of guiding the extension of the conductive cable so that extension direction of the conductive cable aligns with expectations. This allows the conductive cable to be easily organized within the electronic device, preventing unnecessary tangling and enabling electronic devices to continue evolving toward being thinner, lighter, and more compact. Additionally, the insulation housing assembly is formed by combining multiple housings. By adjusting the structure of the combined housings, the insulation housing assembly can guide the conductive cable to extend in the desired direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: TSUNG-CHI CHEN, MU-JUNG HUANG
  • Publication number: 20250233347
    Abstract: An electrical connector, which is assembled and constructed from multiple components with conductive terminals. Therefore, the electrical connector can be customized by altering the conductive terminals of the assembled components to adjust the number and configuration of the conductive terminals, enabling the electrical connector to meet the requirements of electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: TSUNG-CHI CHEN, MU-JUNG HUANG
  • Publication number: 20250233333
    Abstract: An electrical connector, and the electrical connector is manufactured through an assembly method, enabling the assembly of conductive terminals tailored to the requirements of electronic devices, thereby achieving customized adjustment of the number of conductive terminals in the electrical connector according to the demands. Additionally, the electrical connector comprises a circuit board capable of accommodating electronic elements, ensuring that the electrical characteristics of the electrical connector meet the requirements of electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: TSUNG-CHI CHEN, MU-JUNG HUANG
  • Patent number: D1085100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei Chung, Hung-Chi Chen, Cheng-Han Lin
  • Patent number: D1085101
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Hsueh-Wei Chung, Hung-Chi Chen, Cheng-Han Lin
  • Patent number: D1083945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Cheng-Han Lin, Hsueh-Wei Chung, Hung-Chi Chen