Patents by Inventor Hung Ku

Hung Ku 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).

  • Publication number: 20250139911
    Abstract: A method of correcting depth of field, performed by a first MR head-mounted device, comprises: superimposing a first virtual object on a first background image to generate an superimposed image, inputting the superimposed image into a depth-of-field correction model to generate a displayed image and display the displayed image, receiving at least one user feedback signal corresponding to the displayed image, and updating a depth-of-field parameter of the depth-of-field correction model with the at least one user feedback signal for the depth-of-field correction model to generate an updated virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Min DI, Ti-Hung KU, Jing Tong FU, MING-FANG WENG
  • Patent number: 11910538
    Abstract: In one example, an electronic device housing may include a substrate, an insulating adhesive layer formed on a surface of the substrate, a patterned electroless plating layer formed on the insulating adhesive layer, and a patterned electrolytic plating layer formed on the patterned electroless plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yi-Chen Chen, Kun Cheng Tsai, Kuan-Ting Wu, Ying-Hung Ku, Hsueh Chen Hung
  • Patent number: 11361824
    Abstract: Provided are a memory device and an operation method thereof. The memory device includes a plurality of word lines. The operation method comprising: performing a pre-fill operation on the word lines, in a first loop, applying a selected word line voltage on a first selected word line group and applying an unselected word line voltage on a first unselected word line group, and in a second loop, applying the selected word line voltage on a second selected word line group and applying the unselected word line voltage on a second unselected word line group, the first selected word line group being different from the second selected word line group, and the first unselected word line group being different from the second unselected word line group; performing an erase operation on the word lines; and performing a programming operation on the word lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung Ku, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Chun-Chang Lu, Wen-Jer Tsai
  • Publication number: 20220167505
    Abstract: In one example, an electronic device housing may include a substrate, an insulating adhesive layer formed on a surface of the substrate, a patterned electroless plating layer formed on the insulating adhesive layer, and a patterned electrolytic plating layer formed on the patterned electroless plating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yi-Chen Chen, Kun Cheng Tsai, Kuan-Ting Wu, Ying-Hung Ku, Hsueh Chen Hung
  • Publication number: 20220163998
    Abstract: Examples of body panels with connectors are described herein. In an example, a body panel of a portable electronic device may include a connector affixed thereto, in an assembled state of the body panel on the portable electronic device, the connector may be positioned between a battery and a motherboard of the portable electronic device. The connector may electrically couple the battery with the motherboard, in the assembled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cheng Kai Chen, Chia Wei Ting, Yi Chen Chen, Kun Cheng Tsai, Ying Hung Ku, Hsueh Chen Hung
  • Patent number: 11201169
    Abstract: A memory device includes: a first bit line located on a dielectric layer and a second bit line located over the dielectric layer; a first word line and a second word line located between the first bit line and the second bit line; a source line located between the first word line and the second word line; a channel pillar penetrating through the first word line and the source line and the second word line, and being connected to the first bit line, the source line and the second bit line; and a charge storage structure including an upper portion surrounding an upper sidewall of the channel pillar and located between the second word line and the channel pillar; and a lower portion surrounding a lower sidewall of the channel pillar and located between the first word line and the channel pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiung Lee, Shaw-Hung Ku
  • Publication number: 20210305273
    Abstract: A memory device includes: a first bit line located on a dielectric layer and a second bit line located over the dielectric layer; a first word line and a second word line located between the first bit line and the second bit line; a source line located between the first word line and the second word line; a channel pillar penetrating through the first word line and the source line and the second word line, and being connected to the first bit line, the source line and the second bit line; and a charge storage structure including an upper portion surrounding an upper sidewall of the channel pillar and located between the second word line and the channel pillar; and a lower portion surrounding a lower sidewall of the channel pillar and located between the first word line and the channel pillar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: MACRONIX International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: CHIH-HSIUNG LEE, Shaw-Hung Ku
  • Patent number: 11062759
    Abstract: A memory device and a programming method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a memory array, a plurality of word lines and a voltage generator. During a programming procedure, one of the word lines is at a selected state and others of the word lines are at a deselected state. Some of the word lines, which are at the deselected state, are classified into a first group and a second group. The first group and the second group are respectively located at two sides of the word line, which is at the selected state. The voltage generator provides a programming voltage to the word line, which is at the select state, during a programming duration. The voltage generator provides a first two-stage voltage waveform to the word lines in the first group and provides a second two-stage voltage waveform to the word lines in the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung Ku, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Atsuhiro Suzuki, Yu-Hung Huang, Sheng-Kai Chen, Wen-Jer Tsai
  • Patent number: 11037632
    Abstract: Provided is an erase method for a multi-tier three-dimension (3D) memory including a plurality of tiers and a plurality of blocks, each of the tiers including a plurality of word lines. The erase method includes: in erasing a selected block among the plurality of blocks, in a current iteration, selecting at least one tier among the plurality of tiers to be erased by a first erase voltage; determining whether the at least one tier passes erase verification; and if the at least one tier passes erase verification, in a next iteration, inhibiting the at least tier which already passes erase verification from erase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung Ku, Chih-Chieh Cheng, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Yu-Hung Huang, Atsuhiro Suzuki, Wen-Jer Tsai
  • Publication number: 20210104439
    Abstract: A memory device includes a substrate, a stacked structure, a plurality of channel structures, a plurality of memory layers, and a plurality of shallow isolation structures. The substrate has an upper surface. The stacked structure is disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the stacked structure includes a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of conductive layers alternatively stacked on the upper surface. The channel structures penetrate portions of the stacked structure and are electrically connected to the substrate. The memory layers surround the corresponding ones of the channel structures. The shallow isolation structures extend from a top surface of the stacked structure toward the substrate, wherein each of the shallow isolation structures includes a substance having a dielectric constant of less than 3.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung KU, Cheng-Hsien CHENG, Wen-Jer TSAI
  • Patent number: 10796753
    Abstract: A method for determining quick-pass-write (QPW) operation in increment-step-program-pulse (ISPP) operation is provided. The QPW operation is simultaneously applying a bit line voltage during the ISPP operation. The method includes, according to bit line voltages varying in a first range and voltage difference values varying in a second range with respect to a verified voltage, estimating a shrinkage quantity of threshold voltage distribution width at each bit line voltage and each voltage difference value, so as to obtain a shrinkage-quantity topographic contour. According to the bit line voltages and the voltage difference values, a program shot number as needed to achieve the verified voltage is estimated, so as to obtain a program-shot-number topographic contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Hung Huang, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Shaw-Hung Ku, Yin-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10755320
    Abstract: A computer program product enables an advertisement audience dynamical detection circuit to conduct an advertisement audience quantity detecting operation. The advertisement audience quantity detecting operation includes: receiving a probe request frame transmitted from other wireless communication device; recording the arrival time of the probe request frame; inspecting the frame field configuration of the probe request frame; allocating the probe request to a corresponding data group according to the arrival time and frame field configuration of the probe request frame and a sequence control value in the header of the probe request frame while ensuring all probe request frames in the same data group have same frame field configuration; and calculating an estimated quantity of advertisement audiences passing through a specific location in a specific time period based on a total quantity of resulting data groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: AIRTAG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Liu, Chang-Hung Ku, Shao-Chi Chang
  • Patent number: 10644018
    Abstract: A 3D NAND memory on a single integrated circuit is described including a block of vertical NAND strings, including a plurality of sub-blocks. Sub-blocks in the plurality of sub-blocks each comprise an upper select line in an upper level; word lines in intermediate levels below the upper level; a first lower select line in a first lower level below the intermediate levels; a second lower select line in a second lower level below the first lower level. A reference conductor can be disposed below the block. Bit lines are disposed over the block. Control circuitry applies voltages to the upper select lines, to the word lines and to the first and second lower select lines in the plurality of sub-blocks in various combinations for memory operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lee, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Shaw-Hung Ku, Atsuhiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200107112
    Abstract: A single-magnet double-tone-circuit coaxial loudspeaker includes a shell, a U iron, a magnet, a spring washer, a first diaphragm assembly, a second diaphragm assembly, an upper cover and a terminal plate. A single “magnet+spring washer+U iron” magnetic circuit is extended to be two upper-lower coaxial magnetic circuits, therefore, the first diaphragm assembly and the second diaphragm assembly which are electrically connected to the terminal plate generate a double-magnetic-circuit feature by sharing a single-magnet system. High frequency and low frequency wave bands are driven independently, such that high frequency and low frequency portions can achieve a better sound resolution effect. The complementation of the two reduces distortion, thus improves the overall acoustic performance of the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: TUNG-KO James LU, HSIN-HUNG KU
  • Patent number: 10460797
    Abstract: A method for programming a non-volatile memory and a memory system are provided. Each of multiple cells of the non-volatile memory stores data having at least 2 bits. The method includes the following steps. At least one programming pulse is provided for programming a target cell of the cells. At least one program-verify pulse is provided for verifying whether the target cell is successfully programmed. It is determined that whether a threshold voltage of the target cell is greater than or equal to a program-verify voltage. When the threshold voltage is greater than or equal to the program-verify voltage, the target cell is set as successfully programmed. Next, a post-verifying operation is performed to the successfully programmed cell. The post-verifying operation includes determining whether the threshold voltage of the target cell is greater than or equal to a post-verifying voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung Ku, Ta-Wei Lin, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Chih-Wei Lee, Wen-Jer Tsai
  • Publication number: 20190319033
    Abstract: A 3D NAND memory on a single integrated circuit is described including a block of vertical NAND strings, including a plurality of sub-blocks. Sub-blocks in the plurality of sub-blocks each comprise an upper select line in an upper level; word lines in intermediate levels below the upper level; a first lower select line in a first lower level below the intermediate levels; a second lower select line in a second lower level below the first lower level. A reference conductor can be disposed below the block. Bit lines are disposed over the block. Control circuitry applies voltages to the upper select lines, to the word lines and to the first and second lower select lines in the plurality of sub-blocks in various combinations for memory operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei LEE, Cheng-Hsien CHENG, Shaw-Hung KU, Atsuhiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190304556
    Abstract: The method for programming a non-volatile memory includes the following steps. Perform a program and program verify operation for a memory cell in the non-volatile memory, wherein the program and program verify operation includes applying a sequence of incremental step pulses to the memory cell. Perform a post-verifying operation for the memory cell after the memory cell passes the program and program verify operation. Apply a post-programming pulse to the memory cell if the memory cell fails the post-verifying operation, wherein the amplitude of the post-programming pulse is greater than the amplitude of the last pulse in the sequence of incremental step pulses. Perform a read operation to the non-volatile memory to obtain a failed bit count corresponding to the read operation. Adjust a read reference voltage of the read operation to minimize the failed bit count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung KU, Ta-Wei LIN, Cheng-Hsien CHENG, Chih-Wei LEE, Wen-Jer TSAI
  • Patent number: 10340017
    Abstract: An erase-verify method for a three-dimensional (3D) memory and a memory system are provided. The 3D memory includes at least one memory cell string including a plurality of memory cells, and the memory cells include a first group of memory cells and a second group of memory cells. Each of the memory cells is coupled to a word line. The method comprises the following steps. A first erase-verify operation is performed on the first group of memory cells. After performing the first erase-verify operation on the first group of memory cells, a second erase-verify operation is performed on the second group of memory cells in condition that the first group of memory cells are verified as erased successfully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung Ku, Yu-Hung Huang, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Chih-Wei Lee, Atsuhiro Suzuki, Wen-Jer Tsai
  • Publication number: 20190139615
    Abstract: An erase-verify method for a three-dimensional (3D) memory and a memory system are provided. The 3D memory includes at least one memory cell string including a plurality of memory cells, and the memory cells include a first group of memory cells and a second group of memory cells. Each of the memory cells is coupled to a word line. The method comprises the following steps. A first erase-verify operation is performed on the first group of memory cells. After performing the first erase-verify operation on the first group of memory cells, a second erase-verify operation is performed on the second group of memory cells in condition that the first group of memory cells are verified as erased successfully.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung KU, Yu-Hung HUANG, Cheng-Hsien CHENG, Chih-Wei LEE, Atsuhiro SUZUKI, Wen-Jer TSAI
  • Publication number: 20190080750
    Abstract: A method for programming a non-volatile memory and a memory system are provided. Each of multiple cells of the non-volatile memory stores data having at least 2 bits. The method includes the following steps. At least one programming pulse is provided for programming a target cell of the cells. At least one program-verify pulse is provided for verifying whether the target cell is successfully programmed. It is determined that whether a threshold voltage of the target cell is greater than or equal to a program-verify voltage. When the threshold voltage is greater than or equal to the program-verify voltage, the target cell is set as successfully programmed. Next, a post-verifying operation is performed to the successfully programmed cell. The post-verifying operation includes determining whether the threshold voltage of the target cell is greater than or equal to a post-verifying voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Shaw-Hung Ku, Ta-Wei Lin, Cheng-Hsien Cheng, Chih-Wei Lee, Wen-Jer Tsai