Patents by Inventor Kevin Hwading Chu
Kevin Hwading Chu 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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Patent number: 9973688Abstract: A method for using a telescoping monopod apparatus to capture an image including synchronizing a photographic instrument with the telescoping monopod apparatus, attaching the photographic instrument to the telescoping monopod apparatus, determining that the photographic instrument is in an image-capturing mode, extracting, by the image-capturing mode, a humanoid feature, detecting that the humanoid feature comprises a cutoff, adjusting a position of the photographic instrument using the telescoping monopod apparatus, and capturing an adjusted image using the photographic instrument.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Patent number: 9906711Abstract: A telescoping monopod system including an image acquisition module having a field of vision, an attachment member configured to contact the image acquisition module, a body housing a processor, a memory, an electromechanical component, and a plurality of shafts. The body contacts the attachment member. The body comprises a control panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Patent number: 9651850Abstract: A telescoping monopod apparatus including a holder configured to hold an image acquisition module having a field of vision, and a support holding a mirror to be in proximity to a lens of the image acquisition module, the mirror is configured to enable the image acquisition module to capture an image outside the field of vision, and a body housing a control component and an electronic component configured to actuate the telescoping monopod apparatus and the support. The body is operatively connected to the holder. A tracking method including receiving an input from a user, detecting, by an image acquisition module, a feature, and adjusting a mirror to track the feature.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Publication number: 20170083082Abstract: A virtual reality controller system including a virtual reality hardware and a responding device. The virtual reality hardware includes a processor, a first communication module, a sensor module, and an output module. The responding device includes a second communication module and is configured to communicate with the first communication module. The processor is configured to generate and display a virtual controller using the output module. The virtual controller is configured to control the responding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Xiran Wang, Kevin Hwading Chu, Yangyang Chen
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Publication number: 20170083083Abstract: A method, including receiving, by a processor of a virtual reality controller system, a source file of a target hardware device, creating, by the processor, a virtual machine that emulates the target hardware device using the source file, and displaying a virtual target device controller on a display of the virtual reality controller system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Patent number: 9576487Abstract: A global positioning system including a processor configured to determine a route of travel based upon satellite data that identify a current location of the global positioning system and traffic data obtained from a traffic flow control system, and a display configured to display the current position and a determined route of travel.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Yangyang Chen, Xiran Wang
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Publication number: 20160350785Abstract: A system including a server, including a processor and a database, and a computing device configured to issue a request to the server. The database is configured to store purchase information. The processor, upon receiving the request, is configured to: determine a category of a purchase having a purchase price, apply the purchase information to the purchase to maximize a first value, identify a coupon having a second value that reduces the purchase price, apply the coupon to reduce the purchase price by the second value, and display, on the computing device, a reduced value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Imagine If, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Wei Song, Xiran Wang
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Publication number: 20160343054Abstract: A system including: a computing device having a display and a memory, the memory is configured to store an image, and a server having a processor and a database. The processor is configured to: receive the image from the computing device, extract a feature from the image, compare an extracted feature of the image to an entry in the database, determine that the extracted feature matches the entry in the database, receive, from a partner server, a product listing associated with the extracted feature, and display the product listing on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: Status Quo Innovation, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Wei Song
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Publication number: 20160307266Abstract: A method for matching in a social-networking system. The method includes obtaining a first criteria from a first user, displaying, on the social-network, a first request that corresponds to the first criteria, receiving first bids from second users who satisfy the first request, filtering the first bids to a first predetermined number, displaying, to the first user, profiles associated with remaining second users, accepting, from among the remaining second users, a selected second user selected by the first user, creating a mapping between the first user and the selected second user and a mapping between the first user and each of eliminated second users, and matching the first user and the selected second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventor: Kevin Hwading Chu
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Publication number: 20160309080Abstract: A telescoping monopod system including an image acquisition module having a field of vision, an attachment member configured to contact the image acquisition module, a body housing a processor, a memory, an electromechanical component, and a plurality of shafts. The body contacts the attachment member. The body comprises a control panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Publication number: 20160306264Abstract: A telescoping monopod apparatus including a holder configured to hold an image acquisition module having a field of vision, and a support holding a mirror to be in proximity to a lens of the image acquisition module, the mirror is configured to enable the image acquisition module to capture an image outside the field of vision, and a body housing a control component and an electronic component configured to actuate the telescoping monopod apparatus and the support. The body is operatively connected to the holder. A tracking method including receiving an input from a user, detecting, by an image acquisition module, a feature, and adjusting a mirror to track the feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: IMAGINE IF, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Publication number: 20160309290Abstract: A system including: a first computing device, a second computing device, a server having a processor, the processor is configured to: (a) determine a first location of the first computing device associated with a first user, (b) determine a second location of the second computing device associated with a second user, (c) determine that the first location and the second location are located within a geo-fence, (d) determine that a distance between the first location and the second location is less than a first threshold, (e) increase a counter count, (f) determine that the counter count is greater than a second threshold, (g) prompt the first user and the second user to match, and a database configured to store a mapping between the first user and the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: IMAGINE IF, LLCInventors: Xiran Wang, Kevin Hwading Chu, Yangyang Chen
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Publication number: 20160307443Abstract: A global positioning system including a processor configured to determine a route of travel based upon satellite data that identify a current location of the global positioning system and traffic data obtained from a traffic flow control system, and a display configured to display the current position and a determined route of travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: Imagine If, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Yangyang Chen, Xiran Wang
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Publication number: 20160309079Abstract: A method for using a telescoping monopod apparatus to capture an image including synchronizing a photographic instrument with the telescoping monopod apparatus, attaching the photographic instrument to the telescoping monopod apparatus, determining that the photographic instrument is in an image-capturing mode, extracting, by the image-capturing mode, a humanoid feature, detecting that the humanoid feature comprises a cutoff, adjusting a position of the photographic instrument using the telescoping monopod apparatus, and capturing an adjusted image using the photographic instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventors: Kevin Hwading Chu, Xiran Wang, Yangyang Chen
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Patent number: 9243741Abstract: A telescoping monopod apparatus that is configured to hold a photographic instrument. The telescoping monopod apparatus includes a body that houses a control component and an electronic component. The body has a rotatable bottom end. The telescoping monopod apparatus includes a plurality of shafts disposed in an interior of the body. The upper end is opposite of the rotatable bottom end. The telescoping monopod apparatus includes a ball disposed on an uppermost shaft of the plurality of shafts. The telescoping monopod apparatus includes a spheroidal joint that is configured to receive the ball on a first end. The spheroidal joint is attached to a holder on a second end.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventor: Kevin Hwading Chu
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Patent number: 9165461Abstract: A traffic flow control system that includes a display device, an image acquisition module, an user interactive device, and a server having a processor. The processor is configured to obtain, by a data aggregation module, at least one of a first, second, third, fourth set of data, compute, by a computation module, a travel score for a travel direction of an intersection by weighing each of the first, second, third, and the fourth set of data with respect to one another, determine whether the travel score is a highest travel score of the intersection, and, if the travel score is the highest travel score of the intersection, enable traffic flow in the travel direction using the display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Fortress, LLCInventor: Kevin Hwading Chu