Patents by Inventor Hans Liu
Hans 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: 20240098299Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly to motion vector prediction based on subblock motion vectors. One method is disclosed for processing a current block of a current frame in a coded video bitstream. The method includes receiving, by a device, a coded video bitstream; determining, by the device based on the coded video bitstream, the current block of the current frame to be inter predicted by at least one reference block of at least one reference frame; determining, by the device based on the coded video bitstream, a current-block motion vector (MV) corresponding to each of the at least one reference block, the current-block MV to be predicted by a reference MV; and identifying, by the device, a subblock MV of a MV reference block as the reference MV for predicting the current-block MV.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Tencent America LLCInventors: Han GAO, Xin ZHAO, Liang ZHAO, Shan LIU
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Publication number: 20240098300Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for implicitly indicating motion vector predictor precision. One method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; determining, based on the coded video bitstream, a current block of a current frame to be inter predicted by at least one reference block of at least one reference frame; determining, based on the coded video bitstream, a motion vector (MV) of the current block to be predicted by a motion vector predictor (MVP) and a corresponding motion vector difference (MVD); determining an MVP precision according to an implicit indication, a pre-defined rule, or a high-level syntax, wherein an MVD precision associated with the corresponding MVD is different from the MVP precision; and reconstructing, by the device, the current block based at least on the MVP at the determined MVP precision and the MVD at the MVD precision that is different from the MVP precision.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Tencent America LLCInventors: Han GAO, Xin ZHAO, Liang ZHAO, Shan LIU
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Publication number: 20240093364Abstract: A defect-reducing coating method is disclosed, which is characterized by making the coating surface of a sample face the bottom of the coating chamber, so that the sticking particles on side walls of the coating chamber will not fall on the coating surface of the sample during the coating process, thereby a smooth coating layer can be formed on the coating surface of the sample after the coating process is finished.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MSSCORPS CO., LTD.Inventors: CHI-LUN LIU, JUNG-CHIN CHEN, BANG-HAO HUANG, YU-HAN CHEN, LIKO HSU
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Publication number: 20240090534Abstract: The present invention relates animal feed or animal feed additives comprising one or more polypeptides having lysozyme activity. The invention also relates to polypeptides having lysozyme activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Mikkel Klausen, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Soeren Nymand-Grarup, Peter Bjarke Olsen, Marianne Thorup Cohn, Robert Piotr Olinski, Marc Dominique Morant, Ming Li, Ye Liu, Lars Kobbeeroee Skov, Dominique Aubert Skovlund, Han Bucong
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Publication number: 20240096882Abstract: A semiconductor structures and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes first nanostructures and second nanostructures spaced apart from the first nanostructures in a first direction. A left-most point of the first nanostructures and a left-most point of the second nanostructures has a first distance in the first direction. The semiconductor structure further includes first source/drain features attached to opposite sides of the first nanostructures in a second direction being orthogonal to the first direction and third nanostructures and fourth nanostructures spaced apart from the third nanostructures in the first direction. A left-most point of the third nanostructures and a left-most point of the fourth nanostructures has a second distance in the first direction. In addition, the third nanostructures are wider than the first nanostructures in the first direction, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hsiao-Han LIU, Chih-Hao WANG, Kuo-Cheng CHIANG, Shi-Ning JU, Kuan-Lun CHENG
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Patent number: 11935291Abstract: In one example, a mobile device comprises: a physical link; a plurality of image sensors, each image sensor being configured to transmit image data via the physical link; and a controller coupled to the physical link, whereby the physical link, the plurality of image sensors, and the controller form a multi-drop network. The controller is configured to: transmit a control signal to configure image sensing operations at the plurality of image sensors; receive, via the physical link, image data from at least a subset of the plurality of image sensors; combine the image data from the at least a subset of the plurality of image sensors to obtain an extended field of view (FOV); determine information of a surrounding environment of the mobile device captured within the extended FOV; and provide the information to an application to generate content based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Xinqiao Liu, Hans Reyserhove
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Patent number: 11931208Abstract: The present application discloses a cerebral perfusion state classification apparatus and method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring, by a transceiving module, cervical blood flow data from an ultrasound data collecting device; determining, by a processor, cerebral perfusion data corresponding to the cervical blood flow data based on the cervical blood flow data and a mapping relationship between the cervical blood flow data and the cerebral perfusion data, and classifying cerebral perfusion states of a plurality of brain regions based on blood perfusion characteristics of the plurality of brain regions in the cerebral perfusion data.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: BEIJING FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL, CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Zhenchang Wang, Wei Zheng, Han Lv, Pengling Ren, Dehong Luo, Linkun Cai, Yawen Liu, Hongxia Yin, Pengfei Zhao, Jing Li, Dong Liu, Erwei Zhao, Tingting Zhang
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Patent number: 11933850Abstract: A device for detecting a slot wedge, an air gap and a broken rotor bar is provided, where a sequential circuit generates double concurrent pulses; the sequential circuit is connected to driving power modules; the driving power modules are connected to front-end interface circuits; the front-end interface circuits convert the double concurrent pulses into corresponding magnetic-field pulses; the magnetic-field pulses are transmitted to power supply terminals on adjacent phases of stator windings through impedance matching pins and coupled at a corresponding coil, air gap and squirrel cage rotor to generate single groups of cyclic rotating magnetic potentials; single rotating magnetic potentials are sequentially generated in adjacent slots on each of the phases of the stator windings; rotating electric potentials in magnetic circuits with two symmetrical phases are magnetically coupled to form distributed coupling magnetic field reflected full-cycle waves for reflecting a difference of a corresponding slot wedgType: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HANGZHOU HENUOVA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuewu Zhang, Weixing Yang, Boyan Zhao, Jie Luo, Gang Du, Chao Wang, Han Gao, Liwei Qiu, Ming Xu, Jiamin Li, Yanxing Bao, Qianyi Zhang, Zuting Cao, Junliang Liu
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Patent number: 11932778Abstract: The present invention provides an antimicrobial coating composition comprising (i) a polymer emulsion and (ii) from 20 ppm to 6000 ppm, by dry weight based on total dry weight of the coating composition, a silver, and the polymer emulsion comprises, as polymerized units, (a) ethylenically unsaturated nonionic monomers, and (b) from 0.01% to 20%, by dry weight based on total dry weight of the polymer emulsion, heterocyclic group-containing monomers.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Han Liu, Xiangting Dong, Qingwei Zhang, Ling Li
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Publication number: 20240084802Abstract: A compressor (200), comprising: a first rotor (20) being rotatable around a first axis (11), the first rotor (20) comprising a first portion (22) and a second portion (24); and a first shaft (10) carrying the first portion (22) and the second portion (24), the first shaft (10) having a first end (12) and a second end (14) that are oppositely arranged, wherein the first rotor (20) is configured to be applied with a preset acting force in a direction from the first end (12) toward the second end (14) or from the second end (14) toward the first end (12) during rotation. The size of the compressor (200) can be reduced with the displacement of the compressor (200) remaining substantially unchanged.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Jianming Tan, Hua Liu, Zhiping Zhang, Han Tang, Xiaokun Wu, Zhongkeng Long
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Publication number: 20240081808Abstract: Methods and devices for tissue fixation. A cortical button with a rib between two slotted openings. The rib increases the cortical button structural rigidity without increasing palpability. An adjustable loop construct with two discrete locking passages that provides manageable loop reduction and improved tissue coupling. The adjustable loop construct may be coupled to tissue via a passing construct. An assembly with a reduction bar, a button and an adjustable loop construct, the assembly provided assembled in a first configuration that disassembles to guide steps of tissue fixation. The reduction bar may be assembled to the reduction bar for reducing the adjustable loop construct.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: ALI HOSSEINI, Christopher David MacCready, Kendra O'Malley, Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Zenan Qi, Benjamin Michael Hall, Chun Liu, Paul McGovern, Han Teik Yeoh
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Publication number: 20240087945Abstract: Semiconductor processing apparatuses and methods are provided in which an electrostatic discharge (ESD) prevention layer is utilized to prevent or reduce ESD events from occurring between a semiconductor wafer and one or more components of the apparatuses. In some embodiments, a semiconductor processing apparatus includes a wafer handling structure that is configured to support a semiconductor wafer during processing of the semiconductor wafer. The apparatus further includes an ESD prevention layer on the wafer handling structure. The ESD prevention layer includes a first material and a second material, and the second material has an electrical conductivity that is greater than an electrical conductivity of the first material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Tsai-Hao HUNG, Ping-Cheng KO, Tzu-Yang LIN, Fang-Yu LIU, Cheng-Han WU
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Publication number: 20240086719Abstract: A computing system including a plurality of processing devices configured to execute a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layer. The processing devices are configured to execute the MoE layer at least in part by receiving an input tensor including input tokens. Executing the MoE layer further includes computing a gating function output vector based on the input tensor and computing a sparse encoding of the input tensor and the gating function output vector. The sparse encoding indicates one or more destination expert sub-models. Executing the MoE layer further includes dispatching the input tensor for processing at the one or more destination expert sub-models, and further includes computing an expert output tensor. Executing the MoE layer further includes computing an MoE layer output at least in part by computing a sparse decoding of the expert output tensor. Executing the MoE layer further includes conveying the MoE layer output to an additional computing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yifan XIONG, Changho HWANG, Wei CUI, Ziyue YANG, Ze LIU, Han HU, Zilong WANG, Rafael Omar SALAS, Jithin JOSE, Prabhat RAM, Ho-Yuen CHAU, Peng CHENG, Fan YANG, Mao YANG, Yongqiang XIONG
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Publication number: 20240081077Abstract: A transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a semiconductor nanosheet, a gate electrode and source and drain electrodes. The semiconductor nanosheet is physically connected to the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The gate electrode wraps around the semiconductor nanosheet. The source and drain electrodes are disposed at opposite sides of the gate electrode. The first semiconductor layer surrounds the source electrode, the second semiconductor layer surrounds the drain electrode, and the semiconductor nanosheet is disposed between the source and drain electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicants: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityInventors: Po-Tsun Liu, Meng-Han Lin, Zhen-Hao Li, Tsung-Che Chiang, Bo-Feng Young, Hsin-Yi Huang, Sai-Hooi Yeong, Yu-Ming Lin
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Publication number: 20240080483Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining video data that includes a plurality of blocks, including a first block, where the video data is to be coded in a warp mode or a motion mode. The method further includes identifying two or more warp groups for the first block and determining a respective cost associated with each warp group of the two or more warp groups. The method also includes selecting a warp group from the two or more warp groups based on the respective costs, and encoding, in accordance with the selected warp group, the first block and a syntax element indicating the warp mode or the motion mode without regards to whether a valid motion vector is available.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Han GAO, Xin ZHAO, Liang ZHAO, Shan LIU
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Publication number: 20240077914Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes a first body having an end and a first inclined surface, a second body having a second inclined surface, and a hinge module. The end includes an accommodating area. A virtual shaft line exists between sides of the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface that are closest to each other. The second body rotates relative to the first body through the virtual shaft line. The hinge module includes a first bracket adjacent to the first inclined surface, connected to the first body, and located in the accommodating area, a second bracket adjacent to the second inclined surface and connected to the second body, and a third bracket including a first end and a second end. The first bracket is connected to the first end through a first torsion assembly. The second bracket is connected to the second end through a second torsion assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chih-Han Chang, Tsung-Ju Chiang, Chi-Hung Lin, Yen-Ting Liu
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Publication number: 20240080451Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving video data comprising a plurality of blocks, including a first block, from a video bitstream. The method also includes obtaining a first syntax element from the video bitstream, the first syntax element indicating a quantity, N, of temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP) candidates for a motion vector predictor (MVP) list. The method further includes identifying a set of TMVP candidates, the set of TMVP candidates having a size less than or equal to N, and generating the MVP list using at least the set of TMVP candidates. The method also includes reconstructing the first block using the MVP list.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Liang ZHAO, Xin Zhao, Han Gao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11923409Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a source/drain feature over a semiconductor substrate, channel layers over the semiconductor substrate and connected to the source/drain feature, a gate portion between vertically adjacent channel layers, and an inner spacer between the source/drain feature and the gate portion and between adjacent channel layers. The semiconductor device further includes an air gap between the inner spacer and the source/drain feature.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Po-Yu Lin, Wei-Yang Lee, Chia-Pin Lin, Tzu-Hua Chiu, Kuan-Hao Cheng, Wei-Han Fan, Li-Li Su, Wei-Min Liu
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Patent number: 11923205Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a wafer-bonding stack structure having a sidewall layer and an exposed first component layer; forming a photoresist layer on the first component layer; performing an edge trimming process to at least remove the sidewall layer; and removing the photoresist layer. In this way, contaminant particles generated from the blade during the edge trimming process may fall on the photoresist layer but not fall on the first component layer, so as to protect the first component layer from being contaminated.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kun-Ju Li, Ang Chan, Hsin-Jung Liu, Wei-Xin Gao, Jhih-Yuan Chen, Chun-Han Chen, Zong-Sian Wu, Chau-Chung Hou, I-Ming Lai, Fu-Shou Tsai
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Patent number: 11918441Abstract: A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-component fibers may include polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene has a crystallinity of less than about 41%. The polypropylene may have a melting temperature of less than about 161° C. The highly extensible nonwoven web may define a plurality of apertures. The apertures may be patterned. The highly extensible nonwoven web may form a portion of an absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Han Xu, Meganne Frisch, Jaroslav Kohut, Sascha Kreisel, Jiri Kummer, Fang Liu, Michael J. Roddy, Patricia Rolon, Eric R. Schurdak