Patents by Inventor Ka Ho

Ka Ho 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: 9964768
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a light source that emits a high coherence light beam, a beam expansion/diverging element that expands the light beam emitted by the light source, and a beam converging element that converges the expanded light beam into a viewing zone. The light beam from the beam converging element is incident onto a spatial light modulator (SLM), and the SLM is configured to add a phase pattern and/or an amplitude pattern to the light beam to generate a virtual image that is visible to a user wearing the head mounted display device. The light converging element creates a beam or scanning beam axis that converges towards the eye, which enables a large field of view for a virtual or holographic image to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ka Ho Tam, David James Montgomery
  • Patent number: 9952193
    Abstract: A test strip device exhibits visual changes, such as color changes, when there is a only slight difference in the composition of liquids such as gasoline, oil, ethanol and water. Such a slight liquid composition difference usually requires a sophisticated and expensive instrument to differentiate. The test strip consists of one and more than one inverse opal films deposited on a substrate and achieves this goal of differentiation in a simple, fast and energy-free manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Inventors: Gurdeep Ahira, Paul Chi Hang Li, Abootaleb Sedighi, Shuang Qiu, Chung Kay Michael Wong, Wilson Ka Ho Chim, Un I Cheang
  • Patent number: 9946070
    Abstract: A head-up-display (HUD) system includes at least one scanning laser projector operative to generate laser light, and a stacked array of multiple-switchable screens arranged relative to the projector to receive laser light generated by the projector, each screen of the stacked array of multiple-switchable screens spaced apart from one another and operative to switch between a transparent state and a diffusive state. A controller is operatively coupled to the stacked array of multiple-switchable screens, the controller configured to time sequentially switch each screen of the array from a transparent state to a diffusive state, wherein only one screen is switched to the diffusive state at any given time. An output of the projector is arranged at an angle or a distance from imaging optics succeeding the array of screens to prevent a specular beam emitted by the at least one scanning laser projector from intercepting the imaging optics succeeding the array of screens when all screens are in the transparent state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ka Ho Tam, David James Montgomery
  • Patent number: 9881975
    Abstract: An image device includes a plurality of red sub-pixels, a plurality of green sub-pixels, a plurality of blue sub-pixels, a plurality of white sub-pixels, and a plurality of yellow sub-pixels. A ratio of the total number of red sub-pixels to the total number of green sub-pixels to the total number of blue sub-pixels to the total number of white sub-pixels and to the total number of yellow sub-pixels is about 3:3:3:1:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: VP ASSETS LIMITED
    Inventors: Gia-Chuong Phan, Maggie Phan, Anthony Phan, Shi-Ki Dong, Hon-Wah Wong, Ka-Ho Ng
  • Publication number: 20170330497
    Abstract: An image device includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels, a plurality of third sub-pixels, a plurality of fourth sub-pixels, and a plurality of fifth sub-pixels. The image device further comprises a plurality of basic repeating units. Each of the basic repeating units comprises the first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels, the third sub-pixels, the fourth sub-pixels, and the fifth sub-pixel. A ratio of the first sub-pixels to the second sub-pixels to the third sub-pixels to the fourth sub-pixels and to the fifth sub-pixel in the basic repeating unit is 3:3:4:1:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: GIA-CHUONG PHAN, MAGGIE PHAN, ANTHONY PHAN, SHI-KI DONG, HON-WAH WONG, KA-HO NG
  • Publication number: 20170323616
    Abstract: An image device includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels, a plurality of third sub-pixels, a plurality of fourth sub-pixels, and a plurality of fifth sub-pixels. The image device further is consisted by a plurality of basic repeating units in a 2×8 matrix. Each of the basic repeating units comprises the first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels, the third sub-pixels, the fourth sub-pixels, and the fifth sub-pixel. A ratio of the first sub-pixels to the second sub-pixels to the third sub-pixels to the fourth sub-pixels and to the fifth sub-pixel in the basic repeating unit is 4:4:4:3:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: GIA-CHUONG PHAN, MAGGIE PHAN, ANTHONY PHAN, SHI-KI DONG, HON-WAH WONG, KA-HO NG
  • Publication number: 20170261746
    Abstract: A head-up-display (HUD) system includes at least one scanning laser projector operative to generate laser light, and a stacked array of multiple-switchable screens arranged relative to the projector to receive laser light generated by the projector, each screen of the stacked array of multiple-switchable screens spaced apart from one another and operative to switch between a transparent state and a diffusive state. A controller is operatively coupled to the stacked array of multiple-switchable screens, the controller configured to time sequentially switch each screen of the array from a transparent state to a diffusive state, wherein only one screen is switched to the diffusive state at any given time. An output of the projector is arranged at an angle or a distance from imaging optics succeeding the array of screens to prevent a specular beam emitted by the at least one scanning laser projector from intercepting the imaging optics succeeding the array of screens when all screens are in the transparent state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Ka Ho TAM, David James MONTGOMERY
  • Publication number: 20170255012
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a light source and a display unit. The display unit includes an image engine that controls the light source to generate image content for display, and a plurality of optical elements that direct the image content into a viewing zone. An eye monitor measures information pertaining to an eye configuration of a user wearing the wearable device, and the image content is visible to the user when the eye is aligned with respect to the viewing zone. A spatial light modulator (SLM) moves a position of the viewing zone based on the eye configuration information measured by the eye monitor. The eye monitor measures pupil size of the user, and the optical elements direct the image content into the viewing zone that is smaller in at least one dimension than twice the measured pupil size. The light source may include a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) scanning mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Ka Ho Tam, David James Montgomery, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Publication number: 20170255020
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a switchable light source that is switched to emit light for generating at least one viewing zone, and a panel illumination unit illuminated by the light source. The panel illumination unit converges the light onto an image panel that selectively transmits light at different pixels to generate image content. An eye monitor measures information pertaining to an eye configuration of a user, and the image content is visible to the user when the eye is aligned with respect to the viewing zone. The panel illumination unit converges the light such that light emitted by the image panel converges into the viewing zone positioned based on the eye configuration information measured by the eye monitor, with limited divergence such that when the display device is worn by the user, the image panel is located at a distance from the user's eye closer than a distance where the eye can focus the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Ka Ho Tam, David James Montgomery, Andrew Kay, Peter John Roberts, Marco Zanola
  • Publication number: 20170255013
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a light source that emits a high coherence light beam, a beam expansion/diverging element that expands the light beam emitted by the light source, and a beam converging element that converges the expanded light beam into a viewing zone. The light beam from the beam converging element is incident onto a spatial light modulator (SLM), and the SLM is configured to add a phase pattern and/or an amplitude pattern to the light beam to generate a virtual image that is visible to a user wearing the head mounted display device. The light converging element creates a beam or scanning beam axis that converges towards the eye, which enables a large field of view for a virtual or holographic image to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Ka Ho Tam, David James Montgomery
  • Patent number: 9713120
    Abstract: A method for reducing paging traffic between a gateway (GW) and plural base stations (BSs) is provided when paging user equipments (UEs). A cache map, which records most-recently visited BSs of selected UEs, is used to limit the number of BSs in the paging of each selected UE, thereby reducing paging traffic. Furthermore, paging requests sent to the same BS node are grouped into one batch in generating a transport-layer payload, reducing the number of generated transport-layer messages. When used in a LTE system, piggybacking paging requests as provided by the SCTP reduces paging traffic and windowing/congestion control overhead at the transport layer. Transmission efficiency is thus improved. In addition, the number of paging requests sent out by the GW node per one paging interval is controlled to be not greater than a pre-determined maximum value to further limit paging traffic for avoiding occurrence of a paging storm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Ka Ho Mui, Shijun Fan, Yau Yau Yolanda Tsang, Yee Simon Wong, Hua Shen
  • Publication number: 20170156128
    Abstract: A method for reducing paging traffic between a gateway (GW) and plural base stations (BSs) is provided when paging user equipments (UEs). A cache map, which records most-recently visited BSs of selected UEs, is used to limit the number of BSs in the paging of each selected UE, thereby reducing paging traffic. Furthermore, paging requests sent to the same BS node are grouped into one batch in generating a transport-layer payload, reducing the number of generated transport-layer messages. When used in a LTE system, piggybacking paging requests as provided by the SCTP reduces paging traffic and windowing/congestion control overhead at the transport layer. Transmission efficiency is thus improved. In addition, the number of paging requests sent out by the GW node per one paging interval is controlled to be not greater than a pre-determined maximum value to further limit paging traffic for avoiding occurrence of a paging storm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Ka Ho MUI, Shijun FAN, Yau Yau Yolanda TSANG, Yee Simon WONG, Hua SHEN
  • Patent number: 9654951
    Abstract: An automatic distress alarming method includes that: A. a distress alarm automatically sends out a sound and light alarming signal; B. the distress alarm automatically sends a distress signal and a GPS signal to a mobile phone; C. the distress alarm sends out the distress signal and the GPS signal by a manual operation; D. a disconnected distress alarm sends out the distress signal and the GPS signal. And its system includes a microprocessor U1, a driving chip U2, a wireless transmitting module U3, a switching circuit of an angular rate sensor, a GPS circuit, a storage device, a reset button, a manual operation alarming switch, a manual operation communicating switch and a disconnecting alarming button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventors: Lai Ming Wu, Chui Ha Kung, Michael Tong Chang, Ka Ho Cheung, Heung Kai Chan, Choi Lam Cheung, Hon Wai Chan
  • Publication number: 20170013431
    Abstract: An automatic distress alarming method includes that: A. a distress alarm automatically sends out a sound and light alarming signal; B. the distress alarm automatically sends a distress signal and a GPS signal to a mobile phone; C. the distress alarm sends out the distress signal and the GPS signal by a manual operation; D. a disconnected distress alarm sends out the distress signal and the GPS signal. And its system includes a microprocessor U1, a driving chip U2, a wireless transmitting module U3, a switching circuit of an angular rate sensor, a GPS circuit, a storage device, a reset button, a manual operation alarming switch, a manual operation communicating switch and a disconnecting alarming button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Lai Ming Wu, Chui Ha Kung, Michael Tong Chang, Ka Ho Cheung, Heung Kai Chan, Choi Lam Cheung, Hon Wai Chan
  • Publication number: 20160332894
    Abstract: A disinfecting device including a conduit configured to carry a flowing liquid. The conduit has a first index of refraction. A sheath surrounds the conduit and has a second index of refraction. The second index of refraction is lower than the first index of refraction. The disinfecting device also includes a light source configured to produce disinfecting light and arranged to send the disinfecting light into the conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Douglas Gordon Knight, Honson Ka-Ho Lam, Robert Thomas St. Louis, Nabil F. Dagher, Harold Thomas Lockamy
  • Publication number: 20160284768
    Abstract: An image device includes a plurality of red sub-pixels, a plurality of green sub-pixels, a plurality of blue sub-pixels, a plurality of white sub-pixels, and a plurality of yellow sub-pixels. A ratio of the total number of red sub-pixels to the total number of green sub-pixels to the total number of blue sub-pixels to the total number of white sub-pixels and to the total number of yellow sub-pixels is about 3:3:3:1:2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: GIA-CHUONG PHAN, MAGGIE PHAN, ANTHONY PHAN, SHI-KI DONG, HON-WAH WONG, KA-HO NG
  • Patent number: 9442148
    Abstract: Automatic test equipment (ATE) includes: a circuit to split a stimulus signal, which contains both deterministic and random (noise floor) spectra contents, from a device under test (DUT) into a first signal and a second signal; a first channel to receive the first signal, where the first channel adds a first noise floor to the first signal to produce a first channel signal; a second channel to receive the second signal, where the second channel adds a second noise floor to the second signal to produce a second channel signal, the first noise floor, the second noise floor and the DUT noise floor all being mutually uncorrelated; and processing logic to: estimate a first power of the deterministic stimulus signal, and estimate a second total power based on the first channel signal and the second channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventor: Ka Ho Colin Chow
  • Publication number: 20160177271
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for inducing pluripotency in differentiated mammalian cells. In particular, the methods include mechanically aggregating the cells into discrete masses or embryoid-like bodies and treated them with a small molecule compound. Provided herein are the compositions of the compounds which are derived from programin (e.g., reversine).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Kenneth Ka Ho LEE, Tommy Lok Man LO, Hoi Hung CHEUNG, Wai Yee CHAN
  • Patent number: 9246747
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide an adaptive unified performance management (AUPM) framework for interacting with disparate network elements using techniques adaptive to operational conditions to provide network performance adaptive root cause analysis (ARCA) are shown. An AUPM framework of embodiments of the invention implements a proxy based architecture in which a plurality of proxies are utilized to connect to and perform data communication with the disparate network elements. Centralized performance management is in communication with the proxies to obtain and unify network element data for performance monitoring, alarm reporting, and/or root cause analysis. The performance monitoring, alarm reporting, and root cause analysis provided by centralized performance management of embodiments herein implements adaptive cluster-based analysis to provide robust operation adapted to accommodate various operational scenarios, such as may include time varying conditions and learning based configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Siu Ping Chan, Ka Ho Mui, Xiaodong Wang, Chun Sing Joseph Chan, Shenglong Xiao, Hua Xia, Qinghua Liao
  • Publication number: 20150224106
    Abstract: A method of treating a patient to improve liver functioning includes providing a drug composed of at least one of pharmaceutical 2-(4-morpholinoaniline)-6-cyclohexyl aminopurine and a salt thereof; and administering the drug to the patient in a manner and dosage effective to improve liver functioning. The 2-(4-morpholinoaniline)-6-cyclohexyl aminopurine can inhibit the activated hepatic stellate cells from synthesizing and expressing collagens and other extracellular matrix proteins including MMPs and TIMPs, and so it can inhibit liver fibrosis. In the liver, it can inhibit collagen synthesis and expression, and therefore reverse and treat hepatitis and liver cirrhosis effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: ZHANGZHOU PIEN TZE HUANG PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ka Ho Kenneth LEE, Ruohan CHEN, Zhibo HOU, Quanwei PAN