Patents by Inventor Chih Yeh

Chih Yeh 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).

  • Through silicon via (TSV) wire bond architecture
    Patent number: 8264067
    Abstract: A through silicon via architecture for integrated circuits is provided. The integrated circuit (IC) includes a substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface with circuitry formed on the top surface, a plurality of bonding pads formed along a periphery of the bottom surface, and a backside metal layer (BML) formed on the bottom surface and electrically coupled to a second subset of bonding pads in the plurality of bonding pads. A first subset of bonding pads in the plurality of bonding pads is electrically coupled to circuitry on the top surface with through silicon vias (TSV). The BML distributes electrical signals provided by the second subset of bonding pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Oscar M. K. Law, Kuo H. Wu, Wei-Chih Yeh
  • Supplying power to integrated circuits using a grid matrix formed of through-silicon vias
    Patent number: 8247906
    Abstract: An integrated circuit structure includes a chip including a substrate and a power distribution network. The power distribution network includes a plurality of power through-silicon vias (TSVs) penetrating the substrate, wherein the plurality of power TSVs forms a grid; and a plurality of metal lines in a bottom metallization layer (M1), wherein the plurality of metal lines couples the plurality of power TSVs to integrated circuit devices on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Oscar M. K. Law, Kuo H. Wu, Wei-Chih Yeh
  • METHOD FOR SENDING A KEYCODE OF A NON-KEYBOARD APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120194360
    Abstract: A method for sending a keycode of a non-keyboard apparatus is provided and includes the following steps. The non-keyboard apparatus determines the connection status between itself and a computer by the time required for device enumeration. Then, according to a value generated from device enumeration, the non-keyboard apparatus identifies the kind of operating system running on the computer. The non-keyboard apparatus sends to the computer a keycode corresponding to the Num Lock key and/or a keycode corresponding to the Caps Lock key such that a sending time and a feedback time are obtained. A parameter related to the efficiency of the computer is then calculated based.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Cheng-Hung HUANG, Wei-Chih Yeh, Bo-Wen Cheng
  • Media list server and method for generating favorite media list
    Patent number: 8234286
    Abstract: A media list server communicating with a plurality of media database servers and a client device comprises a receiving module, a storing module, a recording module, a determining module, a calculating module and a list generating module. The receiving module receives a user identification information and vote information. The storing module stores properties of the media and weights of the properties. The recording module records the vote information. The determining module determines whether a user has logged in for the first time according to the user identification information, and determines a popularity of each media according to the vote information. The calculating module calculates similarities of the media according to the properties and weights of the properties. The list generating module generates the favorite media list according to the popularity and the similarities of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Hsu, Deng-Rung Liu, Chung-Chih Yeh, Chi-Chang Lu
  • Randomized value generation
    Publication number: 20120030268
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is provided for producing a randomized value. A cell in the data processing apparatus comprises a dielectric oxide layer and stress voltage circuitry is configured to apply a stress voltage across the dielectric oxide layer of the cell to cause an oxide breakdown process to occur. Oxide breakdown detection circuitry is configured to determine a current extent of the oxide breakdown process by measuring a response of the dielectric oxide layer to the stress voltage and randomized value determination circuitry is configured to determine a randomized value in dependence on the current extent of the oxide breakdown process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: University of Michigan
    Inventors: Nurrachman Chih Yeh Liu, Scott M. Hanson, Nathaniel Pinckney, David T. Blaauw, Dennis M. Sylvester
  • HANDHELD DEVICE AND TEXT INPUT METHOD
    Publication number: 20120017241
    Abstract: A handheld device establishes a wireless connection with an Internet television including a television display, sends a detection message to the Internet television, and then receives a first feedback from the Internet television. The handheld device determines whether a cursor of the television display shows a text input area of the television display according to the first feedback, and determines a text type of the text input area if the cursor shows the text input area. The handheld device selects one input method corresponding to the text type of the text input area, and inputs a text in the text input area by use of the corresponding input method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUNG-CHIH YEH, CHIAO-YING WU
  • TRANSPARENT OPTICAL ELEMENT AND INDICATOR LIGHT HAVING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20110310620
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transparent optical element for changing a propagation direction of light. The transparent optical element includes a light-receiving surface and a light-emitting surface. The light-receiving surface is formed thereon with a first recess having a bottom surface and a second recess located thereon. The second recess has a lateral surface connected to the bottom surface such that a first angle of about 90 degrees to less than 180 degrees is formed between the bottom surface and the lateral surface. An indicator light comprising the transparent optical element is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen-Chia Huang, Wen-Chih Yeh
  • CIRCUIT FOR PERFORMING MOTION ESTIMATION AND MOTION COMPENSATION
    Publication number: 20110298987
    Abstract: Circuits for performing motion estimation (ME) and motion compensation (MC) are disclosed. In the ME circuit, rows of a first register are correspondingly coupled to rows of a first memory that stores a search range of a first frame, and rows of a second register are correspondingly coupled to rows of a second memory that stores a search range of a second frame. Block-matching metric calculations are performed through the search range to obtain a motion vector (MV). In the MC circuit, first multiplexers couples each row of a first register to corresponding row of a first memory, and each macro block (MB) may accordingly be selected from the first memory and loaded into the first register. Second multiplexers couples each row of a second register to corresponding row of a second memory, and each MB may accordingly be selected from the second memory and loaded into the second register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: HIMAX MEDIA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: YUNG-SHENG TSENG, CHIH-YEH TSENG
  • DIRECTION DEVICE AND OPERATION SYSTEM UTILIZING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20110295447
    Abstract: A direction device controlling a traveling route of a cleaning robot and including a receiving unit, an emitting unit and a control unit is disclosed. The receiving unit receives an encoded ultrasonic wave emitted by the cleaning robot. The emitting unit emits at least one wireless signal. The control unit activates the emitting unit to emit a first direction wireless signal when the receiving unit receives the encoded ultrasonic wave. The cleaning robot passes according to the first direction wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Shih-Che HUNG, Hong-Lun Liu, Yi-Chih Yeh
  • Processes and intermediates for the preparations of prostaglandins
    Patent number: 8030514
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel processes for the preparation of a cyclopentanone of Formula II and a lactone of Formula I, which are useful in the production of prostaglandins: wherein Z, R2, R3, X1, X2, and ?are as defined in the specification. The invention also provides novel enantiomerically enriched compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Chirogate International Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Yi Wei, Yu-Chih Yeh
  • Probe and method for DNA detection
    Publication number: 20110212540
    Abstract: A hybridization probe containing two linear strands of DNA lights up upon hybridization to a target DNA using silver nanoclusters that have been templated onto one of the DNA strands. Hybridization induces proximity between the nanoclusters on one strand and an overhang on the other strand, which results in enhanced fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Hsin-Chih Yeh, James Henry Werner, Jaswinder Kumar Sharma, Jennifer Suzanne Martinez
  • Mobile phone cradle with GPS and Bluetooth functionality
    Publication number: 20110140961
    Abstract: A method of providing Global Positioning System (GPS) signals received by a cradle to a portable electronic device installed in the cradle includes mounting the portable electronic device in the cradle for establishing electrical connection between a first connector of the cradle and a second connector of the portable electronic device, receiving GPS signals through a GPS receiver of the cradle, converting the received GPS signals into GPS data signals, transmitting the GPS data signals from the cradle to the portable electronic device via the first and second connectors, and the portable electronic device using the GPS data signals for aiding the portable electronic device in determining current position coordinates of the portable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Chen-Chen Yeh, Chun-Nan Yeh, Hsien-Yao Chang, Wen-Chieh Kuo, Tzu-Tun Tai, Bo-Han Hsieh, Chih-Yeh Lin
  • CONTROL METHOD AND CLEANING ROBOT UTILIZING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20110112713
    Abstract: A control method for a cleaning robot's movement in a closed space is disclosed. The cleaning robot is activated to search a boundary of the closed space. The cleaning robot is activated to move along the boundary. When the cleaning robot moves along the boundary, the movement route of the cleaning robot is referred to as a first movement route. The first movement route is recorded. The cleaning robot is activated to move along a second movement route according to the recording result. The second movement route does not overlap the first movement route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: You-Wei Teng, Hong Lun Liu, Yi-Chih Yeh
  • DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110085153
    Abstract: A distance measuring device is provided. The distance measuring device includes: a distance sensing unit, for sensing a distance value of a target object; a drive unit, for driving the distance sensing unit to rotate according to a rotation angle; and a compensation unit, for providing a compensation value according to the rotation angle and obtaining an actual distance according to the compensation value and the distance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: MICRO-STAR INT'L CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bi-Jung RUNG, Yi-Chih YEH, Li-Lu CHEN, Yung-Shen LEE
  • Through Silicon Via (TSV) Wire Bond Architecture
    Publication number: 20110084365
    Abstract: A through silicon via architecture for integrated circuits is provided. The integrated circuit (IC) includes a substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface with circuitry formed on the top surface, a plurality of bonding pads formed along a periphery of the bottom surface, and a backside metal layer (BML) formed on the bottom surface and electrically coupled to a second subset of bonding pads in the plurality of bonding pads. A first subset of bonding pads in the plurality of bonding pads is electrically coupled to circuitry on the top surface with through silicon vias (TSV). The BML distributes electrical signals provided by the second subset of bonding pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Oscar M.K. Law, Kuo H. Wu, Wei-Chih Yeh
  • Iron-based alloy for a golf club head
    Publication number: 20110086726
    Abstract: An iron-based alloy for a golf club head includes: chromium in an amount ranging from 16.3 to 17.2 wt %; nickel in an amount ranging from 5.8 to 6.5 wt %; nitrogen in an amount ranging from 0.10 to 0.20 wt %; carbon in an amount ranging from 0.01 to 0.12 wt %; silicon in an amount ranging from 0.3 to 1.2 wt %; manganese in an amount ranging from 0.3 to 1.2 wt %; and a balance of iron and impurities, based on a total weight of the iron-based alloy. The alloy has a duplex-phase microstructure including a martensite phase and 10 to 30 percent austenite phase, and has a tensile strength greater than 120 Ksi and an elongation greater than 35%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: O-TA PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Yeh Chao
  • Compensation of reticle flatness on focus deviation in optical lithography
    Patent number: 7924405
    Abstract: A method for lithography patterning includes providing a mask for photolithography patterning; measuring a mask flatness of the mask; calculating focal deviation of imaging the mask to a substrate in a lithography apparatus; adjusting the lithography apparatus to have a compensated focal plane of the mask based on the focal deviation; and exposing the semiconductor substrate utilizing the mask and the lithography apparatus with adjusted focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lee-Chih Yeh, Hsin-Chang Lee, Chia-Jen Chen, Tzu-Yi Wang
  • CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL FORMED USING LIGHT OR THERMAL ENERGY, METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME AND NANO-SCALE COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20110062389
    Abstract: An electrically conductive material includes a plurality of nanowires and a plurality of nanoconnectors. The ratio by weight of the plurality of nanowires to the plurality of nanoconnectors is in a range of from 1:9 to 9:1. Nanoconnectors can be heated by thermal energy or light energy so that the nanoconnectors can be closely interconnected to each other and to nanowires, resulting in significant increase of the electrical conductivity of the electrically conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu Ming WANG, Yion Ni Liu, Yeu Kuen Wei, Chen Chih Yeh, Ming Jyh Chang
  • Multiple resist layer phase shift mask (PSM) blank and PSM formation method
    Patent number: 7906252
    Abstract: A PSM blank and method for forming a PSM using the PSM blank, the PSM blank including a light transmitting portion; an uppermost anti-reflection portion; a photosensitive layer stack on the anti-reflection portion comprising at least two photosensitive layers; wherein each photosensitive layer has a lower radiant energy exposure sensitivity compared to an underlying layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chang Lee, Chia-Jen Chen, Hong-Chang Hsieh, Lee-Chih Yeh
  • MEDIA LIST SERVER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FAVORITE MEDIA LIST
    Publication number: 20110029544
    Abstract: A media list server communicating with a plurality of media database servers and a client device comprises a receiving module, a storing module, a recording module, a determining module, a calculating module and a list generating module. The receiving module receives a user identification information and vote information. The storing module stores properties of the media and weights of the properties. The recording module records the vote information. The determining module determines whether a user has logged in for the first time according to the user identification information, and determines a popularity of each media according to the vote information. The calculating module calculates similarities of the media according to the properties and weights of the properties. The list generating module generates the favorite media list according to the popularity and the similarities of the media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Hsu, Deng-Rung Liu, Chung-Chih Yeh, Chi-Chang Lu