Patents by Inventor Frank Kuan

Frank Kuan 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: 6753767
    Abstract: A code learning device of a tire monitor is used for motor vehicles having a tire monitor and a plurality of sensors, whereby each sensor is installed in individual tires of the motor vehicle, and each sensor module includes a radio signal transmitter for transmitting the conditions of the tires and the specific code of the sensor module via radio frequency signals. The code learning device includes an electric module having a processor, a memory, and a radio frequency signal receiver electrically coupled to the electric module for receiving the radio frequency signals, and dividing the radio frequency signals into a data signal and an amplitude signal. The data signal includes the conditions of the tires and the specific code of the sensor module such that the electric module can confirm the corresponding relation between the tires and the sensor module by way of the numeric value of the amplitude signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Lite-On Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Lin, Frank Kuan, Sheng Hsiung Lin
  • Publication number: 20020171539
    Abstract: A code learning device of tire monitor is used for motor vehicles having a tire monitor and a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is installed in individual tire of the motor vehicle, and each sensor module further comprises a radio signal transmitter for transmitting the conditions of the tires and the specific code of the sensor module via radio frequency signals. The code learning device comprises: an electric module having a processor, a memory, and a radio frequency signal receiver electrically coupled to the electric module for receiving the radio frequency signals, and dividing the radio frequency signals into a data signal and an amplitude signal. The data signal includes the conditions of the tires and the specific code of the sensor module such that the electric module can confirm the corresponding relation between the tires and the sensor module by means of the numeric value of the amplitude signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Jordan Lin, Frank Kuan, Sheng Hsiung Lin
  • Publication number: 20020024432
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the pneumatic tires of a vehicle, the vehicle includes a monitoring device which comprises at least one sensor module attached to a tire of the vehicle for sensing the condition of the tire and transmitting the radio frequency signal of the condition after encoded, and a decoding module comprising a radio frequency antenna module to receive the radio frequency signal transmitted by the sensor module, a memory to record the data of the predetermined range of the state of the tire and the monitored data of the condition of the tire, a processor to decode the received radio signal for comparing with the data recorded in the memory so as to decide the state of the pneumatic tire, a display device to show the state of the pneumatic tire, and a siren, the method for monitoring the pneumatic tire comprising the steps of: starting the monitor device; reading the signal of the condition of the tire sent by the sensor module and showing the state via the display device and recording the conditio
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: LITE-ON AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jordan Lin, Frank Kuan
  • Patent number: 5621431
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for finely controlling the rate of animation display in applications such as a video game or simulator. In one embodiment, a floating point animation timer selectively varies or eliminates the number of update periods a video cell is to be displayed to match the display time of the script to a determined time. The determined time can be empirically chosen or dynamically calculated based on the user's input. In another embodiment a sequence table provides an array of update times corresponding to the cells in a script. The number of update times a video cell is displayed can be varied to emphasize certain actions in the animation sequence. This provides a programmer with the ability to create a variety of animation sequences from a limited number of video cells and to finely manipulate the animated character to achieve a specific action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Atari Games Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis D. Harper, Frank Kuan