Patents by Inventor Kuo Shih
Kuo Shih 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: 11281011Abstract: A head mounted display including two display units is provided. Each display unit includes a display module and an optical assembly disposed in front of the display module. The display module includes a carrier body and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The carrier body includes a plurality of recesses. Each recess has a bottom surface and a reflective side wall connected to the bottom surface. A plurality of the light-emitting elements are located in the plurality of recesses. Each light-emitting element is disposed on the bottom surface of a corresponding recess. The optical assembly is disposed in front of the display module.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
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Patent number: 11281012Abstract: Augmented reality glasses are provided. The augmented reality glasses are adapted to be put on in front of the eyes of a user. The augmented reality glasses include at least one image source and a plurality of reflecting mirrors. The at least one image source is configured to provide at least one image beam to the eyes, and the at least one image beam has a plurality of sub-beams. The plurality of reflecting mirrors are disposed on a path of the at least one image beam to respectively reflect the sub-beams. The at least one image beam has at least one first width before being incident on the reflecting mirrors and has at least one second width after being reflected by the reflecting mirrors. The at least one second width is greater than the at least one first width.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
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Publication number: 20220082828Abstract: Augmented reality glasses are provided. The augmented reality glasses are adapted to be put on in front of the eyes of a user. The augmented reality glasses include at least one image source and a plurality of reflecting mirrors. The at least one image source is configured to provide at least one image beam to the eyes, and the at least one image beam has a plurality of sub-beams. The plurality of reflecting mirrors are disposed on a path of the at least one image beam to respectively reflect the sub-beams. The at least one image beam has at least one first width before being incident on the reflecting mirrors and has at least one second width after being reflected by the reflecting mirrors. The at least one second width is greater than the at least one first width.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
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Patent number: 11271587Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressed sensing apparatus for compressed sensing of a set function consisting of a plurality of input sets containing a group of data. The apparatus includes: a plurality of sensing units acquiring a group of sampling data representing a plurality of sampling sets selected out of the plurality of input sets; a compression and computation unit enabling a compression to the group of data based on the group of sampling data in accordance with a Fourier basis set generated on the basis of the plurality of input sets and sampling sets, and a computation to compute a Fourier coefficient set based on a sparse regression technique which is in relation with the Fourier basis set; and a reconstruction unit predicting the group of data based on the Fourier coefficient set.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: National Central UniversityInventor: Kuo-Shih Tseng
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Patent number: 11249517Abstract: An electronic apparatus and its screen control method adapted to an electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first display screen, a second display screen, and a body. The first display screen is pivotally connected to the body along a first rotation axis, and the second display screen is disposed on an upper surface of the body. The method includes following steps. A sight of a user is detected by a sight sensor. In response to the sight projected on the second display screen at a default position, a screen rotation degree is determined according to a direction of the sight. According to the screen rotation degree, the second display screen is controlled to rotate from the default position along the second rotation axis to a display position, so that a view angle at which the user watches the second display screen satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Cheng-Wei Lin, Wei-Kuo Shih, Chao-Kuang Yang
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Patent number: 11220038Abstract: A thermoforming device includes two conveying units, a heating unit, a heat treatment unit and a forming unit. The conveying units define a clamp space and are adapted to move a raw material in a conveying direction. The heating unit is disposed at one side of the clamp space along a first axis, and includes a plurality of heating subunits adapted for heating the raw material. The heat treatment unit abuts against the heating base, and includes a plurality of temperature control subunits adapted for adjusting the temperature of the raw material. The forming unit is disposed proximate to the heat treatment unit and is adapted for forming the shape of the raw material.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: PACK & PROPER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kuo Shih
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Publication number: 20210373559Abstract: The present invention relates to an environmental coverage oriented motion system. The system includes a rangefinder module configured to measure a distance in real time; an odometry module configured to measure a velocity or a position in real time; a powered vehicle carrying the rangefinder module and the odometry module; and a controller module carried by the powered vehicle, configured to receive one of the distance, the velocity and the position, performing an environmental coverage oriented motion scheme based on one of the distance, the velocity and the position to select a plurality of positions, and commanding the powered vehicle to move among the plurality of positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: National Central UniversityInventors: KUO-SHIH TSENG, CHIH-YUAN CHOU
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Patent number: 11175590Abstract: Systems and methods for conducting critical dimension metrology are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a charged particle beam apparatus generates a beam for imaging a first area and a second area. Measurements are acquired corresponding to a first feature in the first area, and measurements are acquired corresponding to a second feature in the second area. The first area and the second area are at separate locations on a sample. A combined measurement is calculated based on the measurements of the first feature and the measurements of the second feature.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Fei Wang, Wei Fang, Kuo-Shih Liu
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Publication number: 20210333553Abstract: A head mounted display including two display units is provided. Each display unit includes a display module and an optical assembly disposed in front of the display module. The display module includes a carrier body and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The carrier body includes a plurality of recesses. Each recess has a bottom surface and a reflective side wall connected to the bottom surface. A plurality of the light-emitting elements are located in the plurality of recesses. Each light-emitting element is disposed on the bottom surface of a corresponding recess. The optical assembly is disposed in front of the display module.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
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Publication number: 20210336633Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressed sensing apparatus for compressed sensing of a set function consisting of a plurality of input sets containing a group of data. The apparatus includes: a plurality of sensing units acquiring a group of sampling data representing a plurality of sampling sets selected out of the plurality of input sets; a compression and computation unit enabling a compression to the group of data based on the group of sampling data in accordance with a Fourier basis set generated on the basis of the plurality of input sets and sampling sets, and a computation to compute a Fourier coefficient set based on a sparse regression technique which is in relation with the Fourier basis set; and a reconstruction unit predicting the group of data based on the Fourier coefficient set.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: National Central UniversityInventor: KUO-SHIH TSENG
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Publication number: 20210333552Abstract: An optical device combining a spectacle function with an augmented reality function adapted to let an ambient light beam enter an eye of a user is provided. The optical device includes a spectacle lens and a diffractive optical element. The spectacle lens has a first surface facing the eye and a second surface facing away from the eye. The diffractive optical element is disposed on the first surface of the spectacle lens or between the first surface and the second surface of the spectacle lens. The diffractive optical element has a third surface facing the eye and a fourth surface facing away from the eye. The diffractive optical element is a diffractive optical film or a diffractive optical plate. An augmented reality device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Wei-Kuo Shih
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Publication number: 20210318725Abstract: An electronic apparatus and its screen control method adapted to an electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first display screen, a second display screen, and a body. The first display screen is pivotally connected to the body along a first rotation axis, and the second display screen is disposed on an upper surface of the body. The method includes following steps. A sight of a user is detected by a sight sensor. In response to the sight projected on the second display screen at a default position, a screen rotation degree is determined according to a direction of the sight. According to the screen rotation degree, the second display screen is controlled to rotate from the default position along the second rotation axis to a display position, so that a view angle at which the user watches the second display screen satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Cheng-Wei Lin, Wei-Kuo Shih, Chao-Kuang Yang
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Publication number: 20210215850Abstract: A head mount display including two display units respectively disposed in front of eyes of a user is provided. Each of the display units includes a display device, a Fresnel lens, and a plurality of moth eye structures. The Fresnel lens is disposed between the display device and one of the eyes of the user. The plurality of moth eye structures are located on at least one surface between the display device and the one of the eyes of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicants: STARVR CORPORATION, Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Wei-Kuo Shih, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
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Patent number: 11043537Abstract: An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Memory openings are formed through the alternating stack. Protruding tip portions are formed on each of the sacrificial material layers around the memory openings. A plurality of insulating spacers is formed within each memory opening between each vertically neighboring pair of tip portions of the sacrificial material layers. A phase change memory material and a vertical bit line are formed within each of the memory openings. The phase change memory material can be formed as a vertical stack of discrete annular phase change memory material portions, or can be formed as a continuous phase change memory material layer. Each of the sacrificial material layer can be replaced by an electrically conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuji Takahashi, Masatoshi Nishikawa, Wei Kuo Shih
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Publication number: 20210160467Abstract: A color correction method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first image displayed by a first display and a second image displayed by a second display; adjusting a color of the first image to a first color; adjusting a color of the second image to a second color; selecting the first color as a second target value; obtaining a third image displayed by the second display according to color adjustment information; adjusting a color of the third image to be close to the second target value; and displaying, by a head mounted display, according to the color adjustment information obtained by the aforementioned adjustment process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Tzu-Chieh Lin, Wei-Kuo Shih
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Patent number: 11011581Abstract: First elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions are formed over a substrate. A two-dimensional array of memory pillar structures is formed over the first elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions. Second elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions over the two-dimensional array of memory pillar structures. Each of the elongated loop-shaped conductive material potions includes a respective pair of line segments and a respective pair of end segments adjoined to ends of the respective pair of line segments. A moat trench that at least partially laterally encloses the two-dimensional array of memory pillar structures can be formed by performing an anisotropic etch process that removes parts of the first and second elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions, thereby separating each loop-shaped conductive material portion into two disjoined line segments.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuji Takahashi, Jo Sato, Wei Kuo Shih
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Publication number: 20210132375Abstract: An eye tracking device including an optical waveguide component, a light source module, and an eye tracking module is provided. The optical waveguide component has a light-entrance surface and a light-exit surface connecting the light-entrance surface. The light-exit surface has a plurality of micro-structures directly formed on the light-exit surface. The light source module is disposed next to the light-entrance surface and adapted to provide a light beam. The light beam enters the optical waveguide component through the light-entrance surface, and the light beam is emitted from the optical waveguide component through the micro-structures and is transmitted to an eye. The eye tracking module receives a portion of the light beam reflected by the eye and determines a location of the eye based on the portion of the light beam reflected by the eye. A head mounted display is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicants: Acer Incorporated, STARVR CORPORATIONInventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
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Patent number: 10991761Abstract: First electrically conductive lines, first pillar structures, second electrically conductive lines, second pillar structures, third electrically conductive lines, third pillar structures, fourth electrically conductive lines, and fourth pillar structures are formed over a substrate. Each pillar structure includes a memory element. Interconnection structures are formed on the first electrically conductive lines. The first electrically conductive lines may have thinned segments located outside the area of the arrays of memory elements, and the interconnection structures may be formed on the thinned segments. Alternatively or additionally, the interconnection structures may include a vertical stack of a first conductive via structure contacting a respective one of the first electrically conductive lines, a conductive pad structure, and a second conductive via structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Yuji Takahashi, Wei Kuo Shih
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Patent number: 10964752Abstract: A vertically alternating sequence of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Line trenches extending along a first horizontal direction are formed through the vertically alternating sequence. The vertically alternating sequence is divided into vertically alternating stacks of insulating strips and sacrificial material strips. Laterally alternating sequences of memory opening fill structures and dielectric pillar structures are formed within the line trenches. Each of the memory opening fill structures includes a respective vertical bit line and memory material portion located between each laterally neighboring pair of the sacrificial material strip and the vertical bit line.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuji Takahashi, Masatoshi Nishikawa, Wei Kuo Shih
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Patent number: 10924683Abstract: An image processing method for processing a first image captured by a camera is provided, in which the first image is retrieved; and an output image is output to an image output circuit after the first image is modified to the output image, wherein a result value of each pixel of the output image is zero or a value generated by subtracting the threshold value from the brightness value of each pixel of the first image.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: ACER INCORPORATEDInventor: Wei-Kuo Shih