Patents by Inventor Kai An

Kai An 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: 20180052485
    Abstract: A device is provided for detecting time information of different administrative domains. The device includes a plurality of detection units, wherein each detection unit is assigned to one of the administrative domains and is configured to receive time information from a timer of the assigned administrative domains for synchronising with the assigned administrative domains, a storage device having a plurality of storage areas, and a plurality of control units, wherein each control unit is assigned exclusively to one of the detection units and the control units are configured to detect, synchronised with one another, a respective most recent item of the received time information of the respective assigned detection unit and to store the synchronously detected time information of the plurality of detection units together as synchronised data in one of the storage regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: RAINER FALK, KAI FISCHER, STEFFEN FRIES, WOLFGANG KLASEN
  • Patent number: 9899830
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for detecting a fault and a current differential protection system thereof. The method for detecting fault includes calculating fault component currents, calculating an operate current and a restraint current of all terminals, and adjusting an operate level by adapting an operate-restraint characteristic according to a fault component. The method has very small operating area for external faults, which makes the method very reliable even for the case with serious CT saturation. A very big operating area for internal faults makes the method very sensitive for internal faults even for a heavy load and high resistance fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Youyi Li, Kai Liu, Ivo Brncic, Zhanpeng Shi
  • Patent number: 9898627
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to allow advertisers to make ads available to publishers through an advertising system. The advertising system provides tamper proof tracking of conversion activity between publishers and advertisers. Further, advertisers can define plural different conversions to be associated with a single ad click through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Kniaz, Abhinay Sharma, Kai Chen, Sam Mardanbeigi
  • Patent number: 9895131
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for X-ray tube scanner automation using a 3D camera is disclosed. An RGBD image of a patient on a patient table is received from a 3D camera mounted on an X-ray tube. A transformation between a coordinate system of the 3D camera and a coordinate system of the patient table is calculated. A patient model is estimated from the RGBD image of the patient. The X-ray tube is automatically controlled to acquire an X-ray image of a region of interest of the patient based on the patient model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Yao-Jen Chang, Vivek Kumar Singh, Kai Ma, Ralf Nanke, Susanne Dornberger, Terrence Chen
  • Patent number: 9900544
    Abstract: A video signal processing system includes a first video signal processing chip and a second video signal processing chip. The first video signal processing chip determines whether both of a first video signal and a second video signal are in a stable state. After the first video signal processing chip determines that both of the first and second video signals are in the stable state, the first video signal processing chip sends a synchronization signal to the first video processing chip and the second video processing chip. After receiving the synchronization signal, the first video signal processing chip and the second video signal processing chip respectively output a first processed video signal and a second processed video signal to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Kai-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9896262
    Abstract: A cushion package structure includes at least a plate and two or more blocks. The plate is disposed within a storage box and the blocks are the same and pivotable with one another. As a number of blocks are connected with one another serially with various including angle between each adjacent two, one or multiple block sets may be formed thereby. Positioning holes on the plate having substantially same contour as corresponding positioning sections on the blocks are further prepared to engage with the positioning sections as the block sets are put to be disposed on the plate, thereby forming a storage space with a specific shape within the storage box. The blocks may be removed from the plate, rearranged, and redisposed on another plate, so that a storage space with a different shape may be defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Yang, Shih-Chi Chen, Chung-Kuan Ting
  • Patent number: 9899367
    Abstract: An embodiment of an integrated circuit includes a minimum lateral dimension of a semiconductor well at a first surface of a semiconductor body. The integrated circuit further includes a first lateral DMOSFET having a load path electrically coupled to a load pin. The first lateral DMOSFET is configured to control a load current through a load element electrically coupled to the load pin. A minimum lateral dimension of a drain region of the first lateral DMOSFET at the first surface of the semiconductor body is more than 50% greater than the minimum lateral dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Kai Esmark, Yiqun Cao, Donald Dibra
  • Patent number: 9900621
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of three-dimensional/multi-view coding using aligned reference information are disclosed. The present system aligns the reference information associated with the reference view of the derived DV with the reference information associated with a selected reference view by modifying the selected reference view or by modifying the derived DV or a converted DV derived from depth block pointed by the derived DV. The DV can be derived using the Neighboring Block Disparity Vector (NBDV) process. When the reference view of the derived DV is different from the selected reference view, the system scales the derived DV or changes the converted DV to refer to the selected reference view. The system may also set the selected reference view to the reference view of the derived DV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HFI INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Jicheng An, Kai Zhang, Jian-Liang Lin
  • Patent number: 9898605
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to hooking a call for a malware monitoring logic into a JavaScript API engine interpreter. Upon JavaScript being placed into heap memory, the malware monitoring logic can initiate an evaluation or analysis of the heap spray to determine whether the JavaScript includes malware or other malicious agents prior to execution of the JavaScript shell code. Upon execution of the JavaScript within the sandbox, the malware monitoring logic can initiate monitoring of the JavaScript using malware analysis and/or execution profiling techniques. Inferences can be made of the presence of malware based on a start and end time of the JavaScript execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Sahita, Xiaoning Li, Lixin Lu, Lu Deng, Alexander Shepsen, Xiang Xu, Liangjun Huang, Hua Liu, Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 9897795
    Abstract: A color wheel device is used in a projector. The color wheel device includes a housing, a color wheel, a motor, and a thermally conductive member. The housing has at least one through hole for a light beam to pass through. The color wheel is disposed in the housing and includes a substrate and a phosphor layer. The substrate has a light-receiving surface. The phosphor layer is disposed on the light-receiving surface. The light beam forms a light spot on the phosphor layer. The motor is disposed in the housing for driving the substrate to rotate. During the rotation of the substrate, the light spot forms a circular path on the phosphor layer. The thermally conductive member is disposed on the housing substantially at a location to which the circular path maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yen-I Chou, Chi Chen, Kai-Shiang Yang, Shih-Kuo Wu
  • Patent number: 9895823
    Abstract: An improved miter saw, including a base, a workbench, a stop plate, a swing arm, a motor, a cutting assembly, and an extension platform. The workbench is rotationally disposed on the base. The swing arm is rotationally disposed on the rear of the workbench. The stop plate is disposed on the rear of the base. The extension platform is disposed on two sides of the base. The upper surface of the extension platform and the supporting surface of the base are in a same plane. The extension platform is movably connected to the base through a guide rod. The extension platform comprises an L-shaped limit block and a recess corresponding to the L-shaped limit block. The L-shaped limit block is adapted to turn over in the recess horizontally or vertically along the length direction of a workpiece mounted on the workbench for cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SUMEC HARDWARE & TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youyu Lin, Kai Liu
  • Patent number: 9897230
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a valve opening/closing device for an intermediate bulk container. the container comprises a base, side plates, and a valve provided on the base. Wherein the valve opening/closing device comprises a handle, a motion-transferring device, and a valve opening/closing mechanism, wherein the handle is mounted on the side plate and connected to the motion-transferring device, and the motion-transferring device is used to transfer the force applied on the handle to the valve, so as to open or close the valve. For the valve opening/closing device of the present invention, the operating handle is provided at an appropriate position at the side plate of the container, thereby avoiding bending over or squatting on the ground, etc when opening or closing the valve, facilitating use. In addition, the operating moment can be adjusted through adjusting the transmission ratio of the motion-transferring device, which makes it easy to control the operating force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Shanghai Hongyan Returnable Transit Packagings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Gong, Qingxin Liao
  • Patent number: 9900739
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for identifying a target geographic area. In one embodiment, the method comprises acquiring user information associated with a geographic area to be identified; determining characteristic data of the user information; and determining a value parameter of the geographic area to be identified based on the characteristic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Donghui Zhao, Guojun Tong, Kai Wu
  • Patent number: 9900063
    Abstract: A base band unit, BBU, in a wireless cellular heterogeneous network, the BBU being provided in a transmission node cluster, TNC, of transmission nodes, TNs, of neighboring cells of the wireless cellular heterogeneous network, wherein the BBU comprises generic hierarchical precoding codebooks, CBs, each CB comprising cluster precoding matrices, CPMs, and each CPM is provided for a possible combination of active TNs within the TNC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Lars Thiele, Kai Börner, Martin Kurras, Thomas Wirth, Michael Olbrich, Thomas Haustein, Malte Schellmann, Egon Schulz, Jiayin Zhang, Yinggang Du
  • Patent number: 9898858
    Abstract: For human body representation, bone length or other size characteristic that varies within the population is incorporated into the geometric model of the skeleton. The geometric model may be normalized for shape or tissue modeling, allowing modeling of the shape without dedicating aspects of the data-driven shape model to the length or other size characteristic. Given the same number or extent of components of the data-driven shape model, greater or finer details of the shape may be modeled since components are not committed to the size characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Birgi Tamersoy, Kai Ma, Vivek Kumar Singh, Yao-jen Chang, Ziyan Wu, Terrence Chen, Andreas Wimmer
  • Patent number: 9898415
    Abstract: A prefetch unit generates a prefetch address in response to an address associated with a memory read request received from the first or second cache. The prefetch unit includes a prefetch buffer that is arranged to store the prefetch address in an address buffer of a selected slot of the prefetch buffer, where each slot of the prefetch unit includes a buffer for storing a prefetch address, and two sub-slots. Each sub-slot includes a data buffer for storing data that is prefetched using the prefetch address stored in the slot, and one of the two sub-slots of the slot is selected in response to a portion of the generated prefetch address. Subsequent hits on the prefetcher result in returning prefetched data to the requestor in response to a subsequent memory read request received after the initial received memory read request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kai Chirca, Joseph R M Zbiciak, Matthew D Pierson
  • Patent number: 9895394
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing chronic elevation of intraocular pressure in the eyes of an animal by introducing into the eyes a cross-linking hydrogel, an animal produced by this method, as well as a screening method useful for identifying compounds capable of modulating intraocular pressure as well as for identifying compounds capable of modulating retinal ganglion cell survival and/or regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kai-shun Christopher Leung, Ying Chau, Yu Yu
  • Publication number: 20180044306
    Abstract: The present invention relates to inhibitors of the Wnt signalling pathways of general formula (I) as described and defined herein, to methods of preparing said compounds, to intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and to the use of said compounds for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, in particular of a hyper-proliferative disorder, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kai THEDE, Eckhard BENDER, William J. SCOTT, Anja GIESE, Ludwig ZORN, Ningshu LIU, Ursula MÖNNING, Franziska SIEGEL, Stefan GOLZ, Andrea HÄGEBARTH, Philip LIENAU, Florian PÜHLER, Daniel BASTING, Dirk SCHNEIDER, Manfred MÖWES, Jens GEISLER
  • Patent number: D810704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Hui-Chun Yeh, Chien-Fu Shen, Tsun-Kai Ko
  • Patent number: D810742
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin Kai Norman Robertson, Claude Zellweger, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Catherine Sayim Kim