Patents by Inventor Li Tao

Li Tao 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: 20180092619
    Abstract: A mobile radiography system is disclosed, which includes a radiation source for radiating a plurality of beams; a detector for detecting the plurality of beams from the radiation source; a controller for determining an angular difference between the radiation source and the detector; and a positioning device mounted with the radiation source for recognizing a position of the detector relative to the radiation source based on the angular difference between the radiation source and the detector to align the radiation source to the detector. A method of aligning a mobile radiography system including a radiation source and a detector is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Jiajun Gu, Hao Lai, Li Tao, Hao Xu, Kun Tao
  • Patent number: 9911178
    Abstract: A display system converts Full-High Definition (FHD) image content into Ultra-High Definition (UHD) image content. The display system includes an interface that provides image content to a display having a first resolution. The display system also includes a processor that converts an input image from a second resolution to the first resolution. The first resolution is greater than the second resolution. The processor generates a first value corresponding to a lost high-frequency component (HFC) of the input image; generates an initial component of an output image; selects a patch of the input image; estimates a lost HFC of the patch of the initial component based on a portion of the lost HFC of the input image that corresponds to the selected patch; and generates the output image based on a sum of the patch of the initial component and the estimated lost HFC of the patch of the initial component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Su, Li Tao
  • Publication number: 20180013009
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor and method for fabricating such a field-effect transistor that utilizes an air-sensitive two-dimensional material (e.g., silicene). A film of air-sensitive two-dimensional material is deposited on a crystalized metallic (e.g., Ag) thin film on a substrate (e.g., mica substrate). A capping layer of insulating material (e.g., aluminum oxide) is deposited on the air-sensitive two-dimensional material. The substrate is detached from the metallic thin film/air-sensitive two-dimensional material/insulating material stack structure. The metallic thin film/air-sensitive two-dimensional material/insulating material stack structure is then flipped. The flipped metallic thin film/air-sensitive two-dimensional material/insulating material stack structure is attached to a device substrate followed by having the metallic thin film etched to form contact electrodes. In this manner, the pristine properties of air-sensitive two-dimensional materials are preserved from degradation when exposed to air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Deji Akinwande, Li Tao
  • Patent number: 9816032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent which provides a polymer composition (A), a solvent (B), and a poly(oxyalkyleneglycol)dialkylether compound (C); wherein the number average molecular weight of the poly(oxyalkyleneglycol)dialkylether compound (C) is from 250 to 2000. The invention also provides a liquid crystal alignment film made by the liquid crystal alignment agent as mentioned above and a liquid crystal display element which provides the liquid crystal alignment film, and the liquid crystal display element has high voltage holding rate and low ion density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CHI MEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Li-Tao Hsu
  • Patent number: 9795021
    Abstract: The present invention provides an X-ray equipment and an alignment method thereof. The X-ray equipment comprises a tube, a detector, an LED array, a camera and a display. The LED array is fixed relative to a detection center of the detector, and has a predefined geometric center; the camera is fixed relative to a center of the tube, for photographing the LED array; the display is connected to the camera, for displaying images photographed by the camera, wherein when the center of the tube is aligned with the detection center of the detector, the geometric center of the LED array is located on a specific pixel unit on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bin Ye, Yannan Huang, Li Tao
  • Patent number: 9668019
    Abstract: An electronic system includes: a communication unit configured to provide a transport stream; a storage unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to provide a stream from the transport stream; and a control unit, coupled to the storage unit, configured to restore details to the stream by a compression adaptive module for a high resolution output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Tao
  • Patent number: 9652829
    Abstract: A method includes generating, by a processor, a label map by labeling pixels in an image. A percentage of a first and second type of texture pixels is determined based on the label map to generate a texture map. The texture map is updated. A directional edge map is generated based on a data correlation analysis based on the texture map and the label map. A gain map with boundaries and smoothing is generated using localized pixels based on information from one or more of the label map, the texture map, and the directional edge map. An enhancement controlled upscaled image frame is generated using one or more of the label map, the texture map, the directional edge map and the gain map as a weight factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Li Tao
  • Patent number: 9653916
    Abstract: A power supply system includes an input stage converting circuit, a first energy storage component, and an output stage converting circuit. The first energy storage component is electrically coupled to the input stage converting circuit, and the output stage converting circuit is electrically coupled to the first energy storage component. The input stage converting circuit is configured to charge the first energy storage component, and the first energy storage component stores charging electricity. The output stage converting circuit is configured to convert the charging electricity into output electricity and provide the output electricity to a load. The input stage converting circuit has a first electric power, and the output stage converting circuit has a second electric power greater than the first electric power. A method for converting power of the power converter is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Xing-Kuan Guo, Li-Tao Xia
  • Publication number: 20170117417
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor and method for fabricating such a field-effect transistor that utilizes an air-sensitive two-dimensional material (e.g., silicene). A film of air-sensitive two-dimensional material is deposited on a crystallized metallic (e.g., Ag) thin film on a substrate (e.g., mica substrate). A capping layer of insulating material (e.g., aluminum oxide) is deposited on the air-sensitive two-dimensional material. The substrate is detached from the metallic thin film/air-sensitive two-dimensional material/insulating material stack structure. The metallic thin film/air-sensitive two-dimensional material/insulating material stack structure is then flipped. The flipped metallic thin film/air-sensitive two-dimensional material/insulating material stack structure is attached to a device substrate followed by having the metallic thin film etched to form contact electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Deji Akinwande, Li Tao
  • Patent number: 9627965
    Abstract: A power converter includes a DC/DC converting circuit and a first energy storage element. The DC/DC converting circuit includes a first output terminal and a second output terminal. The first energy storage element includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first output terminal of the DC/DC converting circuit is electrically connected to one terminal of an external load. The first terminal of the first energy storage element is electrically connected to the second output terminal of the DC/DC converting circuit. The second terminal of the first energy storage element is electrically connected to the other terminal of the external load. The DC/DC converting circuit is configured to provide a variable electric power. The power converter provides the power supply according to the DC/DC converting circuit and the first energy storage element, and the variable electric power is less than the power required by the external load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Xing-Kuan Guo, Li-Tao Xia
  • Patent number: 9571822
    Abstract: A method of operation of a display system includes: determining a correction profile for adjusting an intended image based on a viewing aide; and generating an adjusted output image based on the correction profile for displaying on a device and for perceiving the intended image through the viewing aide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Tao
  • Patent number: 9536288
    Abstract: Image details are created for an image. An image is processed to obtain image information. Detected texture samples are processed to obtain texture information. A processor device is used for transforming received image information for obtaining frequency domain information. The texture information is used for determining a lifting factor. A frequency distribution is determined for the frequency domain information using the lifting factor for creating particular frequency. An inverse transformation is performed on an updated frequency distribution for creating output image blocks. The output image blocks are combined to create image details for a lifted image. The lifted image is mixed with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20160381335
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for video tone mapping. The method includes receiving the video and metadata at least partially representative of a global tone mapping function. The method further includes determining the global tone mapping function based at least on the metadata and a characteristic of the display and generating a tone mapped video by applying the global tone mapping function to the video and using the peak luminance value of the display in the application of the global tone mapping function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20160381363
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for video tone mapping. The method includes receiving the video and determining parameters of a tone mapping function defined by a Bezier curve for processing the video. The method also includes generating, by at least one processor, a tone mapped video by applying the tone mapping function to the video using the determined parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim, Chenguang Liu, Pradeep Nagesh
  • Publication number: 20160371818
    Abstract: A display system is configured to convert Full-High Definition (FHD) image content into Ultra-High Definition (UHD) image content. The display system includes an interface configured to receive image content comprising a first resolution, such as FHD. The display system also includes a display device configured to display image content at a second resolution, such as UHD, the second resolution greater than the first resolution. The display system further includes one or more processors configured to: convert the image content from the first resolution to the second resolution; recover a spatial frequency of the converted image content as a function of a relative edge growth rate measured from the converted image content and an offline-determined relationship between the relative edge growth rates of the converted first image and its corresponding ground truth image; and provide the converted image content with the recovered spatial frequency to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Chang Su, Li Tao
  • Publication number: 20160360174
    Abstract: A method for tone mapping includes applying, by at least one processor, at least two tone mapping functions to video data. The at least two tone mapping functions include a first tone mapping function and a second tone mapping function, such as a high tone mapping function and a low tone mapping function that provides an output having more illumination range to low luminance values of the video data than an output that the high tone mapping function provides. The method includes determining a mixing ratio based on an amount of the video data that has luminance values within a predetermined range. The mixing ratio represents a proportion of each of output of the at least two tone mapping functions. The method includes mixing the outputs of the at least two tone mapping functions according to the mixing ratio to generate the tone mapped video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20160360172
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for video tone mapping. The method includes processing video data into a first video component and a second video component and applying tone mapping to the first video component. The method further includes scaling the second video component. The method further includes generating a tone mapped video by combining the tone-mapped first video component with the scaled second video component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20160360171
    Abstract: A method for tone mapping includes configuring, by at least one processor, at least one tone mapping function based on a measure of a distribution of luminance values within video data. The measure of a distribution of luminance values represents a luminance level at which a predetermined percentage of pixels of the video data have luminance values satisfying a threshold condition. The method includes generating a tone mapped video by applying the at least one configured tone mapping function to the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20160360173
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for video tone mapping. The method includes processing a video using at least first and second tone mapping functions to generate at least first and second tone mapped videos and identifying an amount of local contrast in one or more areas of each of the at least first and second tone mapped videos. The method further includes determining an amount of each of the at least first and second tone mapped videos to include in an output tone mapped video based at least in part on comparison of the identified amount of local contrast for each of the at least first and second tone mapped videos and generating the output tone mapped video in accordance with the determined amount of each of the at least first and second tone mapped videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Li Tao, Yeong-Taeg Kim
  • Publication number: 20160343109
    Abstract: A display system converts Full-High Definition (FHD) image content into Ultra-High Definition (UHD) image content. The display system includes an interface that provides image content to a display having a first resolution. The display system also includes a processor that converts an input image from a second resolution to the first resolution. The first resolution is greater than the second resolution. The processor generates a first value corresponding to a lost high-frequency component (HFC) of the input image; generates an initial component of an output image; selects a patch of the input image; estimates a lost HFC of the patch of the initial component based on a portion of the lost HFC of the input image that corresponds to the selected patch; and generates the output image based on a sum of the patch of the initial component and the estimated lost HFC of the patch of the initial component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Chang Su, Li Tao