Patents by Inventor Kuan-Yi Lien

Kuan-Yi Lien 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: 11907415
    Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for interacting with a virtual reality (VR) environment are provided. The method includes: displaying a first portal in a first virtual scene of the virtual reality environment, wherein the first portal is for a virtual scene switching, and the first portal comprises a frame; determining whether the frame is dragged toward a center of the first portal; and in response to determining the frame is dragged toward the center of the first portal, removing the first portal from the virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ying-Jing Wang, Fang-Ju Lin, Yun-Jung Lee, Yu-Chien Huang, Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Publication number: 20240027770
    Abstract: A head-mounted display, content loading method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The head-mounted display selects a first multimedia content from a plurality of multimedia contents in response to receiving a switching signal, and the switching signal is generated based on determining that a user chooses to execute a new application program, and a playing content of the first multimedia content corresponds to the new application program. The head-mounted display transmits the first multimedia content to a display to play the first multimedia content on a plurality of pixels of a display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ying-Jing WANG, Fang-Ju LIN, Yun-Jung LEE, Yu-Chien HUANG, Kuan-Yi LIEN, Meng Ru YANG, Jing-Lung WU
  • Publication number: 20230273675
    Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for interacting with a virtual reality (VR) environment are provided. The method includes: displaying a first portal in a first virtual scene of the virtual reality environment, wherein the first portal is for a virtual scene switching, and the first portal comprises a frame; determining whether the frame is dragged toward a center of the first portal; and in response to determining the frame is dragged toward the center of the first portal, removing the first portal from the virtual reality environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ying-Jing Wang, Fang-Ju Lin, Yun-Jung Lee, Yu-Chien Huang, Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Publication number: 20230274509
    Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for destination selection of virtual scenes are provided. The method includes: displaying a portal in a first virtual scene of a virtual reality environment with a plurality of elements, wherein the plurality of elements comprise an element corresponding to a second virtual scene; and in response to receiving a first command corresponding to the element, switching the virtual reality environment from the first virtual scene to the second virtual scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ying-Jing Wang, Fang-Ju Lin, Yun-Jung Lee, Yu-Chien Huang, Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Patent number: 11334215
    Abstract: A method of generating user-interactive object is provided. The method includes the following operations: receiving a picture of a physical environment; identifying a target surface and multiple target objects located on the target surface from the picture to generate an identifying result; generating a virtual surface and multiple virtual three-dimensional (3D) objects located on the virtual surface according to the identifying result, in which the multiple virtual 3D objects are user-interactive objects; and setting multiple operational behaviors of the multiple 3D virtual objects according to a configuration file. The multiple operational behaviors correspond to multiple input operations, respectively. The virtual surface and the multiple virtual objects are for being displayed and manipulated in a virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Patent number: 11334313
    Abstract: A method for managing virtual environment, which includes the following operations: controlling an audio-visual device to display a virtual environment, in which the virtual environment includes multiple virtual characters, and the multiple virtual characters include a first virtual character corresponding to the audio-visual device; in response to a grouping signal, grouping the multiple virtual characters into multiple virtual groups at different locations in the virtual environment, in which the multiple virtual groups include a first virtual group including the first virtual character; in response to a first selecting signal, controlling the audio-visual device to stop playing audio of one or more of the multiple virtual groups other than the first virtual group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Patent number: 8970473
    Abstract: A bistable display and a method of driving a panel thereof are provided. The bistable display includes a bistable display panel and a driving device. The bistable display panel at least has a first pixel and a second pixel, and these two pixels share a data line. The driving device is coupled to the bistable display panel, and used for providing different source driving waveforms to the first pixel and the second pixel respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Hsu, Kuan-Yi Lien, Pei-Yu Chen, Mei-Sheng Ma, Kuo-Hsing Cheng
  • Publication number: 20120249508
    Abstract: A bistable display and a method of driving a panel thereof are provided. The bistable display includes a bistable display panel and a driving device. The bistable display panel at least has a first pixel and a second pixel, and these two pixels share a data line. The driving device is coupled to the bistable display panel, and used for providing different source driving waveforms to the first pixel and the second pixel respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuo-Cheng Hsu, Kuan-Yi Lien, Pei-Yu Chen, Mei-Sheng Ma, Kuo-Hsing Cheng
  • Patent number: D937850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Patent number: D950586
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Kuan-Yi Lien
  • Patent number: D951282
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Kuan-Yi Lien