Patents by Inventor Chih Liu
Chih Liu 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: 20250117045Abstract: A portable computer having flexible display including a housing, a motor, a transmission gear set, a linkage set, and a flexible display is provided. The housing includes a fixing portion and a moving portion movably connected to and partially overlapped on the fixing portion. The motor, the transmission gear set, and the linkage set are disposed in the housing respectively. The linkage set and the transmission gear set are coupled to each other to be a connection and drive mechanism of the fixing portion and the moving portion. A portion of the flexible display is assembled to the fixing portion, and an end portion of the flexible display passes by the moving portion and are wound and stored at a backside of the portion of the flexible display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Wei-Chih Wang, Chi-Yuan Liu, Chen-Min Hsiu
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Publication number: 20250119654Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image processing that support enhanced white balancing operations. In a first aspect, a method of image processing includes receiving first image data obtained at a first aperture; determining a first output image frame based on the first image data by applying a first white balancing to at least a portion of the first image data; receiving second image data obtained at a second aperture; and determining a second output image frame based on the second image data by applying a second white balancing based on the first aperture and the second aperture to at least a portion of the second image data. The second white balancing may be based on a first compensation factor based on the first aperture and the second aperture used to adjust the first white balancing. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Yi-Chun Hsu, Tai-Hsiang Jen, Zhi Qin, Tsung-yen Chen, Wei-Chih Liu
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Publication number: 20250111821Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display module and multiple light-emitting driving circuits. Each of the light-emitting driving circuits includes a timing control circuit and a driving circuit. The timing control circuit receives multiple clock signals and a previous light-emitting timing signal to provide a light-emitting timing signal and an internal voltage. The driving circuit receives a first phase signal among multiple phase signals and the internal voltage to provide a light-emitting driving signal to the display module based on the first phase signal and the internal voltage. The phase signals all present disabled levels during a vertical blank period.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: AUO CorporationInventors: Che-Chia Chang, Che-Wei Tung, En-Chih Liu, Yu-Chieh Kuo, Mei-Yi Li, Ming-Hung Chuang, Yu-Hsun Chiu, Chen-Chi Lin, Cheng-Hsing Lin, Shu-Wen Tzeng, Jui-Chi Lo, Ming-Yang Deng
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Publication number: 20250110662Abstract: A computer vision processing system is provided. The system includes one or more target devices and a processing unit. The target devices are configured to run the executable code of an image processing pipeline. The processing unit is configured to receive a series of application programming interface (API) calls and create a raw graph accordingly, redraw the raw graph into a compilable graph by sequentially processing each node, and compile the compilable graph into the executable code of the image processing pipeline. The series of API calls includes at least one tiling API call to set at least one of the nodes and at least one of the data objects as tileable. Each tileable node corresponds to multiple parallel processing nodes in multiple branches in the compilable graph, and each tileable data object corresponds to multiple tile data objects in the branches in the compilable graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Po-Yuan JENG, Hung-Chun LIU, Yu-Chieh LIN, Chien-Han SU, Yung-Chih CHIU, Lei CHEN
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Patent number: 12265119Abstract: A socket of a testing tool is configured to provide testing signals. A device-under-test (DUT) board is configured to provide electrical routing. An integrated circuit (IC) die is disposed between the socket and the DUT board. The testing signals are electrically routed to the IC die through the DUT board. The IC die includes a substrate in which plurality of transistors is formed. A first structure contains a plurality of first metallization components. A second structure contains a plurality of second metallization components. The first structure is disposed over a first side of the substrate. The second structure is disposed over a second side of the substrate opposite the first side. A trench extends through the DUT board and extends partially into the IC die from the second side. A signal detection tool is configured to detect electrical or optical signals generated by the IC die.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chien-Yi Chen, Kao-Chih Liu, Chia Hong Lin, Yu-Ting Lin, Min-Feng Ku
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Patent number: 12263303Abstract: Various control methods can indirectly determine incorrect connections between components in a respiratory therapy system. For example, incorrect connections can occur between a patient interface, a humidifier and/or a gases source. The methods can indirectly detect if reverse flow conditions or other error conditions exist. A reverse flow condition can occur when gases flows in a direction different from an intended direction of flow. The methods can be implemented at the humidifier side, at the gases source side, or both.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Ivan Chih-Fan Teng, Po-Yen Liu, Ho Shing Lo, Oliver Samuel Steiner, Peter Alan Seekup
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Publication number: 20250106974Abstract: A target droplet source for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) source includes a droplet generator configured to generate target droplets of a given material. The droplet generator includes a nozzle configured to supply the target droplets in a space enclosed by a chamber. The target droplet source further includes a sleeve disposed in the chamber distal to the nozzle. The sleeve is configured to provide a path for the target droplets in the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Wei-Chih LAI, Han-Lung CHANG, Chi YANG, Shang-Chieh CHIEN, Bo-Tsun LIU, Li-Jui CHEN, Po-Chung CHENG
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Publication number: 20250105098Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip structure. The integrated chip structure includes a first via disposed on a first side of a substrate. A second via is disposed on the first side of the substrate and is laterally separated from the first via. An interconnect wire vertically contacts the second via. A through-substrate via (TSV) extends through the substrate to physically contact one or more of the second via and the interconnect wire. The first via has a first width and the second via has a second width. The second width is between approximately 2,000% and approximately 5,000% larger than the first width.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Min-Feng Kao, Dun-Nian Yaung, Hsing-Chih Lin, Jen-Cheng Liu, Yi-Shin Chu, Ping-Tzu Chen
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Patent number: 12261218Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a doped region within the substrate; a pair of source/drain regions extending along a first direction on opposite sides of the doped region; a gate electrode disposed in the doped region, wherein the gate electrode has a plurality of first segments between the pair of source/drain regions; and a protection structure overlapping the gate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Yi-Huan Chen, Chien-Chih Chou, Szu-Hsien Liu, Kong-Beng Thei
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Publication number: 20250094398Abstract: Techniques for a unified relational database framework for hybrid vector search are provided. In one technique, multiple documents are accessed and a vector table and a text table are generated. For each accessed document, data within the document is converted to plaintext, multiple chunks are generated based on the plaintext, an embedding model generates a vector for each of the chunks, the vectors are stored in the vector table along with a document identifier that identifies the accessed document, tokens are generated based on the plaintext, the tokens are stored in the text table along with the document identifier. Such processing may be performed in a database system in response to a single database statement to create a hybrid index. In response to receiving a hybrid query, a vector query and a text query are generated and executed and the respective results may be combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Aleksandra Czarlinska, Saurabh Naresh Netravalkar, Denis B. Mukhin, Harichandan Roy, Zhen Hua Liu, Sebastian de la Hoz Luna, Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, George R. Krupka, Bo Xia, David Chih-Wei Jiang
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Publication number: 20250097589Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for processing image data. One illustrative method of processing image data includes: capturing a first image of a subject using a variable aperture lens configured with a first aperture and a first exposure value; capturing a second image of the subject using the variable aperture lens configured with a second aperture and a second exposure value, wherein the second aperture is smaller than the first aperture and the second exposure value is smaller than the first exposure value; and generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image at least in part by fusing the first image and the second image fusing the first image and the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Po-Chi HO, Wei-Te CHANG, Lei LI, Yawen CHI, Wei-Chih LIU, Wen-Chun FENG
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Patent number: 12255062Abstract: A method includes performing a plasma activation on a surface of a first package component, removing oxide regions from surfaces of metal pads of the first package component, and performing a pre-bonding to bond the first package component to a second package component.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Xin-Hua Huang, Ping-Yin Liu, Hung-Hua Lin, Hsun-Chung Kuang, Yuan-Chih Hsieh, Lan-Lin Chao, Chia-Shiung Tsai, Xiaomeng Chen
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Patent number: 12255207Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a boundary region defined between a low voltage region and a high voltage region, and a method of formation. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit comprises an isolation structure disposed in the boundary region of the substrate. A first polysilicon component is disposed directly on an upper surface of the substrate alongside the isolation structure. A boundary dielectric layer is disposed on the isolation structure. A second polysilicon component is disposed on the sacrifice dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yi-Huan Chen, Chien-Chih Chou, Alexander Kalnitsky, Kong-Beng Thei, Ming Chyi Liu, Shih-Chung Hsiao, Jhih-Bin Chen
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Publication number: 20250088778Abstract: A redundant system and a redundancy method of a fronthaul network are provided. The redundant system includes a first fronthaul multiplexer. The first fronthaul multiplexer includes a first group port, a second group port, a first cascade port, a first protect port, a first active port, and a first uplink circuit. The first uplink circuit includes a first summation circuit and a second summation circuit. A plurality of input terminals of the first summation circuit are coupled to the first group port and the second group port respectively, and an output terminal of the first summation circuit is coupled to the first protect port. A plurality of input terminals of the second summation circuit are coupled to the first cascade port and the output terminal of the first summation circuit respectively, and an output terminal of the second summation circuit is coupled to the first active port.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Ufi Space co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu-Min Wang, Meng-Chiao Lin, Yu Chih Wang, Che-Hung Liu
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Publication number: 20250089311Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated device, including a substrate comprising a channel region; a gate structure disposed on the substrate over the channel region; a first doped region of a first doping type on a first side of the gate structure; a second doped region of the first doping type on a second side of the gate structure; a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure disposed on an opposite side of the first doped region from the gate structure and having a bottom surface at a first depth beneath a top surface of the substrate; a shallow-shallow trench isolation (SSTI) structure extending from the second doped region to the gate structure, the SSTI structure having a bottom surface at a second depth beneath the top surface of the substrate, where the second depth is less than the first depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Hung-Chih Tsai, Liang-Yu Su, Ruey-Hsin Liu, Hsueh-Liang Chou, Ming-Ta Lei
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Publication number: 20250086112Abstract: A memory control method includes a processor initiating a memory access instruction to a cache controller to search a cache memory, an address detector checking if the memory access instruction is corresponding to predetermined conditions if a cache miss occurs, the address detector transmitting a signal to inform a replacement mask logic unit if the memory access instruction is corresponding to the predetermined conditions, and the replacement mask logic unit providing predetermined data to store the predetermined data into the cache memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Hsing-Chuang Liu, Cheng-Chih Hsiao, Hsien-Hua Hsieh
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Publication number: 20250089324Abstract: A gate oxide layer for a high voltage transistor is formed using methods that avoid thinning in the corners of the gate oxide layer. A recess is formed in a silicon substrate. The exposed surfaces of the recess are thermally oxidized to form a thermal oxide layer of the gate oxide layer. A high temperature oxide layer of the gate oxide layer is then formed within the exposed surfaces of the recess by chemical vapor deposition. The combination of the thermal oxide layer and the high temperature oxide layer results in a gate oxide layer that does not exhibit the double hump phenomenon in the drain current vs. gate voltage curve. The high temperature oxide layer may include a rim that extends out of the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Jhu-Min Song, Yi-Kai Ciou, Chi-Te Lin, Yi-Huan Chen, Szu-Hsien Liu, Chan-Yu Hung, Chien-Chih Chou, Fei-Yun Chen
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Patent number: 12249770Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an example computing device is disclosed. The example computing device includes a housing. The example computing device also includes a rotatable antenna disposed within the housing. The rotatable antenna is to rotate such that a direction of radiation is maintained in a single direction as the housing is to rotate.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Chun-Chih Liu, Cheng-Ming Lin, Ren-Hao Chen, Chia Hung Kuo
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Patent number: 12249776Abstract: A composite antenna and an electronic device are proposed. The electronic device includes the composite antenna, and the composite antenna includes a substrate, a first antenna structure, two contact springs, an antenna holder and a second antenna structure. The first antenna structure is disposed on the substrate, and two ends of the first antenna structure are coupled to a feeding point and a grounding point, respectively. The two contact springs are disposed on the first antenna structure, and electrically connected to the feeding point and the grounding point, respectively. The antenna holder is removably disposed on the substrate. The second antenna structure is disposed on the antenna holder and electrically connected to the two contact springs.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Universal Global Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shang Hao Liu, Yu Sheng Su, Hung Wei Chiu, Jui Chih Chien
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Publication number: 20250080950Abstract: An electronic device and a processing method for locating wireless signals are provided here. The electronic device for locating wireless signals comprises: a plurality of antenna units, providing a plurality of antenna patterns; a switching control circuit, connected to the antenna units, wherein the switching control circuit is selectively electrically connected to at least one of the antenna units, so as to select one of the antenna patterns correspondingly; a communication module, electrically connected to the switching control circuit; and a processing circuit, electrically connected to the switching control circuit and the communication module and configured to control the switching control circuit to be electrically connected to the communication module and at least one of the antenna units.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Yu-Chih HUNG, Chi-Chung LIU, Chi-Chien TUNG, May SU