Patents by Inventor Hsin-An Chen

Hsin-An 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).

  • KEY STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20230420198
    Abstract: A key structure includes a base plate, a keycap, a connecting assembly, a protrusion and a limiting member. The connecting assembly includes a first frame and a second frame pivotally connected to each other. Two opposite ends of the first frame are movably connected to the base plate and the keycap, respectively, and two opposite ends of the second frame are movably connected to the base plate and the keycap, respectively, to drive the keycap upward and downward relative to the base plate. The protrusion is disposed on a sidewall of the first frame or a sidewall of the second frame. The limiting member corresponds in position to the protrusion. When the keycap is at a maximum height, the protrusion abuts against the limiting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: MITSUO HORIUCHI, CHIA-HSIN CHEN
  • Electronic device and method for manufacturing electronic device
    Patent number: 11852855
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a panel and a polarizing element. The polarizing element is disposed at one side of the panel, and the polarizing element includes a plurality of coating polarizing layers. A method for manufacturing an electronic device is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Chen, Ying-Jen Chen, Chin-Lung Ting
  • QUICK-RELEASE NEBULIZER
    Publication number: 20230405244
    Abstract: A nebulizer includes a main body (1), a spraying head (2) and an engagement structure (4). The main body (1) includes a body (11). The spraying head (2) includes a spraying seat (21) assembled to the body (11). The engagement structure (4) includes a notch (41) formed on one of the body (11) and the spraying seat (21), a T-shaped trench (42) formed on an inner wall of the notch (41), an engaging trench (43) formed on another one of the body (11) and the spraying seat (21), and a movable member (44) received in the notch (41). The movable member (44) is extended with a handle (441) exposed from the notch (41), a T-shaped block (442) slidably received in the T-shaped trench (42) and an engaging block (443) embedded in or separated from the engaging trench (43).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Po-Chang CHEN, Hsin-Chen WANG, Chia-Chin YANG, Hao-Hsiang CHEN, Chun-Wei HSU
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCANNING WAFER
    Publication number: 20230386013
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for scanning wafer. The system captures a defect image of a wafer, and generates a reference image corresponding to the first defect image based on a reference image generation model. The system generates a defect marked image based on the defect image and the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: PEI-HSUAN LEE, CHIEN-HSIANG HUANG, KUANG-SHING CHEN, KUAN-HSIN CHEN, CHUN-CHIEH CHIN
  • ILLUMINATED KEYBOARD AND BACKLIGHT MODULE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20230380054
    Abstract: A backlight module of an illuminated keyboard device includes a circuit board and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The circuit board has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The top surface has a plurality of key assembling regions. Each of the key assembling regions has a stress release hole defined through the top surface and the bottom surface. The light-emitting elements are respectively disposed on the key assembling regions. Each of the light-emitting elements includes a main body and a conductive portion connected to the main body. The conductive portion is electrically connected to the circuit board, and the stress release hole is adjacent to the conductive portion of each of the light-emitting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Chia-Hsin Chen
  • NEBULIZER WITH DETECTING STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20230372640
    Abstract: A nebulizer (1) includes a host (10) and a nozzle tube (20). The host includes a main body (11), a control module (12) and a sensor (13). The nozzle tube (20) includes a tube (21), a nozzle (22) and a detecting structure (23). The tube (21) includes a chamber (210). The nozzle (22) is arranged on one side of the tube (21) and communicates with the chamber (210). The detecting structure (23) includes a shutter (231) and a swinging member (232) connected with the shutter (231). The shutter (231) is disposed corresponding to the position of the sensor (13). The air blown from the nozzle (22) flows into the tube (21) and blows the swinging member (232) to drive the shutter (231) to activate the sensor (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Po-Chang CHEN, Hsin-Chen WANG, Chia-Chin YANG, Hao-Hsiang CHEN, Chun-Wei HSU
  • EUV WAFER DEFECT IMPROVEMENT AND METHOD OF COLLECTING NONCONDUCTIVE PARTICLES
    Publication number: 20230375951
    Abstract: An EUV lithographic apparatus includes a wafer stage and a particle removing assembly for cleaning a wafer for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithographic apparatus. The wafer stage includes a measurement side and an exposure side. The particle removing assembly includes particle removing electrodes, an exhaust device and turbomolecular pumps. The particle removing electrodes is configured to direct debris from the chamber by suppressing turbulence such that the debris can be exhausted from the wafer stage to the outside of the processing apparatus. In some embodiments, turbomolecular pumps are turned off in the measurement side of the wafer stage so that an exhaust flow can be guided to an exposure side of the wafer stage. In some embodiments, the speed of voltage rise to the electrodes of the wafer chuck is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tao-Hsin CHEN, Li-Jui CHEN, Chia-Yu LEE
  • ELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20230361091
    Abstract: An electronic package and a manufacturing method thereof, which embeds an electronic structure acting as an auxiliary functional component and a plurality of conductive pillars in an encapsulation layer, and disposes an electronic component on the encapsulation layer, so as to facilitate electrical transmission with the electronic component in a close range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: SILICONWARE PRECISION INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Jhen Chen, Chih-Hsun Hsu, Yuan-Hung Hsu, Chih-Nan Lin, Chang-Fu Lin, Don-Son Jiang, Chih-Ming Huang, Yi-Hsin Chen
  • Server system
    Patent number: 11812578
    Abstract: An enclosure for receiving a plurality of storage components is provided. The enclosure includes a deck, a top cover, a front panel, a stress distributing member, and a pair of component housings. The front panel is disposed between the deck and the top cover disposed over the deck. The stress distributing member traverses an entire width of the deck and is fastened to the deck and the top cover. A front section is defined between the front panel and the stress distributing member. The component housings are arranged in the front section. Each of the component housings has a front end facing outward the enclosure and a back end facing inward the enclosure. Each of the component housings is configured to receive at least a set of one or more of the storage components, and ends of the stress distributing member extend beyond the front ends of the component housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CHENBRO MICOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Wen Wang, Han-Chung Chien, Sheng-Chan Lin, Hao-Hsiang Hsu, Chiung-Wei Lin, An-Hsin Chen
  • Server system
    Patent number: 11812575
    Abstract: A server system comprises a deck, a front panel arranged on the deck and defining a collecting space; two doors arranged on opposite sides of the deck, and being perpendicular to the front panel; two receiving frame structures arranged between the doors in a back to back arrangement, and configured to receive multiple rows and columns of a plurality of storage drives horizontally, wherein two periphery corridors are each defined between one of the doors and one of the receiving frame structure facing the one door; two circuit boards arranged between the two receiving frame structures, wherein the two circuit boards comprise a plurality of slits, wherein a central corridor is defined between the two circuit boards; a storage cover disposed above the deck over the two periphery corridors, the central corridor, the two receiving frame structures, and the two circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CHENBRO MICOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Wen Wang, Han-Chung Chien, Sheng-Chan Lin, Hao-Hsiang Hsu, Chiung-Wei Lin, An-Hsin Chen
  • System and method for determining if a vehicle is parked
    Patent number: 11810367
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for determining if a vehicle is parked. In one example, a system includes a processor, a sensor system, and a memory. Both the sensor system and the memory are in communication with the processor. The memory includes a parking determination module having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine, using a random forest model, when the vehicle is parked based on vehicle estimated features, vehicle learned features, and vehicle taillight features of the vehicle that are based on sensor data from the sensor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Chao Fang, Kuan-Hui Lee, Logan Michael Ellis, Jia-En Pan, Kun-Hsin Chen, Sudeep Pillai, Daniele Molinari, Constantin Franziskus Dominik Hubmann, T. Wolfram Burgard
  • SHARED VISION SYSTEM BACKBONE
    Publication number: 20230351767
    Abstract: A method for generating a dense light detection and ranging (LiDAR) representation by a vision system includes receiving, at a sparse depth network, one or more sparse representations of an environment. The method also includes generating a depth estimate of the environment depicted in an image captured by an image capturing sensor. The method further includes generating, via the sparse depth network, one or more sparse depth estimates based on receiving the one or more sparse representations. The method also includes fusing the depth estimate and the one or more sparse depth estimates to generate a dense depth estimate. The method further includes generating the dense LiDAR representation based on the dense depth estimate and controlling an action of the vehicle based on identifying a three-dimensional object in the dense LiDAR representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Arjun BHARGAVA, Chao FANG, Charles Christopher OCHOA, Kun-Hsin CHEN, Kuan-Hui LEE, Vitor GUIZILINI
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING TRAFFIC LIGHTS CORRESPONDING TO A DRIVING LANE
    Publication number: 20230351773
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detection of traffic lights corresponding to a driving lane from views captured by multiple cameras. In one embodiment, a method includes estimating, by a first model using images from multiple cameras, positions and state confidences of traffic lights corresponding to a driving lane of a vehicle. The method also includes aggregating, by a second model, the state confidences and a multi-view stereo composition from geometric representations associated with the positions of the traffic lights. The method also includes assigning, by the second model according to the aggregating, a relevancy score computed for a candidate traffic light of the traffic lights to the driving lane. The method also includes executing a task by the vehicle according to the relevancy score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kun-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Hui Lee, Chao Fang, Charles Christopher Ochoa
  • NETWORK FOR MULTISWEEP 3D DETECTION
    Publication number: 20230351739
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a multi-task model that integrates recurrent models to improve handling of multi-sweep inputs. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data from multiple modalities. The method includes separately encoding respective segments of the sensor data according to an associated one of the different modalities to form encoded features using separate encoders of a network. The method includes accumulating, in a detector, sparse features associated with sparse sensor inputs of the multiple modalities to densify the sparse features into dense features. The method includes providing observations according to the encoded features and the sparse features using the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kuan-Hui Lee, Charles Christopher Ochoa, Arjun Bhargava, Chao Fang, Kun-Hsin Chen
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING UNIFORM FRAMES HAVING SENSOR AND AGENT DATA
    Publication number: 20230351244
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a manner of generating and relating frames that improves the retrieval of sensor and agent data for processing by different vehicle tasks. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data by a vehicle. The method also includes generating a frame including the sensor data and agent perceptions determined from the sensor data at a timestamp, the agent perceptions including multi-dimensional data that describes features for surrounding vehicles of the vehicle. The method also includes relating the frame to other frames of the vehicle by track, the other frames having processed data from various times and the track having a predetermined window of scene information associated with an agent. The method also includes training a learning model using the agent perceptions accessed from the track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chao Fang, Charles Christopher Ochoa, Kuan-Hui Lee, Kun-Hsin Chen, Visak Kumar
  • METHOD FOR GENERATING RADAR PROJECTIONS TO REPRESENT ANGULAR UNCERTAINTY
    Publication number: 20230350050
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to methods for gathering radar measurements, wherein the radar measurements includes one or more angular uncertainties, generating a two dimensional radar uncertainty cloud, wherein the radar uncertainty cloud includes one or more shaded regions that each represent an angular uncertainty, capturing image data, wherein the image data includes one or more targets within a region of interest, and fusing the two dimensional radar uncertainty cloud with the image data to overlay the one or more regions of uncertainty over a target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Charles Christopher Ochoa, Arjun Bhargava, Chao Fang, Kun-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Hui Lee
  • TRAFFIC SIGNAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND REPRESENTATION FOR PREDICTION, PLANNING, AND CONTROL
    Publication number: 20230351886
    Abstract: A method for vehicle prediction, planning, and control is described. The method includes separately encoding traffic state information at an intersection into corresponding traffic state latent spaces. The method also includes aggregating the corresponding traffic state latent spaces to form a generalized traffic geometry latent space. The method further includes interpreting the generalized traffic geometry latent space to form a traffic flow map including current and future vehicle trajectories. The method also includes decoding the generalized traffic geometry latent space to predict a vehicle behavior according to the traffic flow map based on the current and future vehicle trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuan-Hui LEE, Charles Christopher OCHOA, Arjun BHARGAVA, Chao FANG, Kun-Hsin CHEN
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING TRAFFIC LIGHTS OF DRIVING LANES USING A CAMERA AND MULTIPLE MODELS
    Publication number: 20230343109
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the detection of traffic lights associated with a driving lane using a camera instead of map data. In one embodiment, a method includes estimating, from an image using a first model, depth and orientation information of traffic lights relative to a driving lane of a vehicle. The method also includes computing, using a second model, relevancy scores for the traffic lights according to geometric inferences between the depth and the orientation information. The method also includes assigning, using the second model, a primary relevancy score for a light of the traffic lights associated with the driving lane according to the depth and the orientation information. The method also includes executing a control task by the vehicle according to the primary relevancy score and a state confidence, computed by the first model, for the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kun-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Hui Lee, Chao Fang, Charles Christopher Ochoa
  • WATER TREATMENT COMPOSITION AND WATER TREATMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20230331596
    Abstract: A water treatment composition for treating organic wastewater is provided. The water treatment composition includes a bulk catalytic material and an oxidant. The bulk catalytic material includes iron atoms or ions, manganese atoms or ions, and magnesium atoms or ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Wei-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Ting Lee, Kuan-Yu Ho, Shuenn-Ren Liou
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING TRAFFIC LIGHTS USING HIERARCHICAL MODELING
    Publication number: 20230334873
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to accurately distinguishing a traffic light from other illuminated objects in the traffic scene and detecting states using hierarchical modeling. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, using a machine learning (ML) model, two-dimensional (2D) coordinates of illuminated objects identified from a monocular image of a traffic scene for control adaptation by a control model. The method also includes assigning, using the ML model, computed probabilities to the illuminated objects for categories within a hierarchical ontology of environmental lights associated with the traffic scene, wherein one of the probabilities indicates existence of a traffic light instead of a brake light in the traffic scene. The method also includes executing a task by the control model for a vehicle according to the 2D coordinates and the computed probabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kun-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Hui Lee, Chao Fang, Charles Christopher Ochoa