Patents by Inventor Liyang AN

Liyang 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).

  • Patent number: 10714073
    Abstract: Active noise cancellation (ANC) systems and methods include a reference sensor to sense external noise and generate a reference signal, an error sensor to sense noise in a noise cancellation zone and generate an error signal, a feedforward ANC subsystem to receive the reference and error signals and generate a first anti-noise signal to cancel external noise in a noise cancellation zone, a feedback ANC subsystem to receive the error signal and generate a second anti-noise signal to cancel the external noise in the cancellation zone, a wind detector to detect whether wind noise is present in the reference signal and output a wind noise detection status, and wind handler to control adaptation processing of the feedforward ANC subsystem and the feedback ANC subsystem in accordance with the wind noise detection status and mixing of the first and second anti-noise signals to generate an output anti-noise signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Liyang Rui, Govind Kannan
  • Patent number: 10715899
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a wind noise prevention microphone and an earphone cable control apparatus. The microphone comprises: a microphone chamber enclosed by a bottom and a first side wall; a microphone unit arranged inside the microphone chamber and of which a sound pick-up hole of the microphone unit is arranged opposite to the bottom, a set gap being arranged between the sound pick-up hole and the bottom; and a sound channel in communication with the sound pick-up hole and an outer space, and led out of the first side wall. The sound channel of the microphone is arranged on a side of the sound pick-up hole of the microphone, other than directly opposite to the sound pick-up hole of the microphone, which can effectively reduce wind noise and improve the sound pick-up quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Liyang Zhu, Mingjun Zuo, Shiwen Zhang, Jiangtao Xu
  • Publication number: 20200194622
    Abstract: A surface roughening method includes the following steps: preparing a first epitaxial layer of a three-dimensional island shape growth over a light emitting structure; and preparing a discontinuous second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer. The surface roughening method provided in the present application is simple and convenient, and improves the efficiency. In addition to the epitaxial growth process, it is not necessary to use an additional process such as wet etching, photonic crystal and other processes to further process the surface of the epitaxial layer, and the method may be implemented by means of one process in a same reaction equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Liyang ZHANG, Kai CHENG
  • Patent number: 10636836
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device comprises: an insulating base, a current diffusion layer, light-emitting structure layers and an insulating layer. The current diffusion layer includes: a first electrode connecting part, a second electrode connecting part, N contact parts and N+1 flat parts. N+1 light-emitting structure layers are correspondingly disposed on the N+1 flat parts, and each of the N+1 light-emitting structure layers includes: a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially stacked on a corresponding flat part. N grooves are formed on a side of the second semiconductor layer away from the active layer, depth of the N grooves is less than the thickness of the second semiconductor layer, and the N contact parts correspond to the N grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Enkris Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Liyang Zhang, Kai Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200109382
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns polynucleotides and amino acids of Acidaminococcus sp. Cas12a (Cpf1) and methods for their use for genome editing in eukaryotic cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Liyang Zhang, Christopher Anthony Vakulskas, Nicole Mary Bode, Michael Allen Collingwood, Kristin Renee Beltz, Mark Aaron Behlke
  • Patent number: 10615184
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array. Each of the pixel units includes a common electrode, a first insulation layer, a sub pixel electrode, a second insulation layer, and a conductor plate that are sequentially stacked. The conductor plate is electrically connected to the common electrode. The common electrode and the sub pixel electrode collectively form therebetween a first confronting area and the conductor plate and the sub pixel electrode collectively form therebetween a second confronting area, such that a storage capacitor is formed, collectively, between the common electrode and the sub pixel electrode and between the conductor plate and the sub pixel electrode. The above-described array substrate provides a relatively large storage capacitor. Also disclosed is a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Liyang An
  • Publication number: 20200106680
    Abstract: Provided are a commerce characteristic data reporting method and device, network slice arrangement method and device, storage medium, the method comprising: receiving software commerce characteristic data of a virtual network function (VNF) sent by a virtual net-work function manager (VNFM), and receiving resource commerce characteristic data of the VNF sent by a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM); obtaining commerce characteristic data of the VNF according to the software commerce characteristic data and resource commerce characteristic data; and reporting the commerce characteristic data of the VNF to a slice arrangement system, wherein the commerce characteristic data of the VNF is used in the slice arrangement system to arrange network slices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Qihua Chen, Liyang Zhao, Changcheng Zhong
  • Publication number: 20200092053
    Abstract: Disclosed are an IQ mismatch compensation method and apparatus for a radio frequency communication system, a compensation device and a communication device. The method comprises: acquiring an interaction result of test signals between a transmitting component and a receiving component; obtaining angle mismatch parameters of a pre-determined type according to the interaction result; determining a frequency domain compensator for performing mismatch compensation on the frequency-dependent angle mismatch parameters according to the following formulae: Y(w)=X(w)?jP(w)*X*(?w) and Y(?w)=X(?w)+jP(w)*X*(w); and performing frequency domain compensation on the frequency-dependent angle mismatch parameters by using the frequency domain compensator. Also disclosed is a computer storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Liyang BAI, Chen CHENG, Yuanhang SUN, Yu LI
  • Patent number: 10585990
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods of using natural language processing techniques to automatically assign metadata to articles as they are published. The automatically-assigned metadata can then feed into the algorithms that calculate updated causation scores for agent-outcome hypotheses, powering live visualizations of the data that update automatically as new scientific articles become available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Praedicat, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Melissa Boudreau, Lauren Caston, Naresh Chebolu, Adam Grossman, Liyang Hao, David Loughran, Michael Ragland, Robert Reville, Chun-Yuen Teng
  • Publication number: 20200074992
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for judging termination of sound reception and a terminal device. The method including: performing a voice activity detection on a current sound clip to obtain a first value; performing a semantic relevance detection on the current sound clip and a next sound clip by deep learning to obtain a second value; performing a weighted calculation on the first value and the second value to obtain a third value; comparing the third value with a preset threshold; and determining whether sound reception of the current sound clip is terminated based on the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: YOUJUN XIONG, Haoming LI, Yanhui XIA, Liyang LI, Pinxiu WEN
  • Patent number: 10573276
    Abstract: The invention includes a method including the steps of obtaining a plurality of images, each of the images in the plurality having at least one corresponding region, generating a merged image, the merged image also having the corresponding region. The step of generating includes selecting an image source from the plurality of images to source image data for the corresponding region in the merged image by comparing attributes of the corresponding regions of the plurality of images to identify the image source having preferred attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Kreeger, Andrew P. Smith, Ashwini Kshirsagar, Jun Ge, Yiheng Zhang, Haili Chui, Christopher Ruth, Xiangwei Zhang, Liyang Wei, Jay Stein
  • Publication number: 20200043867
    Abstract: A substrate and a method for preparing the same relate to the field of semiconductors. The substrate includes a base substrate (10); a thin film layer (11), wherein the thin film layer (11) covers a part of a surface of the base substrate (10), so that the base substrate (10) is provided with an exposed surface (100) that is not covered by the thin film layer (11); and recessed hole(s) (101) formed in at least a part of the exposed surface (100). The substrate with the recessed hole(s) may release stresses that are generated due to lattice mismatch and thermal stress mismatch when an epitaxial layer is grown on the substrate and reduce the risk of occurrence of defects and cracks due to excessive pressure, thereby reducing the warping of a semiconductor subsequently prepared on the substrate and making it have a better quality and performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Liyang ZHANG, Kai CHENG
  • Patent number: 10520773
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes a color film substrate and an array substrate disposed opposite each other, wherein the array substrate includes a pixel electrode, a color resistance layer, and a thin film transistor, the color resistance layer is provided with a through hole, a drain of the thin film transistor is connected with the pixel electrode through the through hole, and a region corresponding to the through hole is provided with a spacer for separating liquid crystal molecules in the region where the through hole is located from liquid crystal molecules in a region where the electrodes are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Liyang An
  • Publication number: 20190393296
    Abstract: The technical field of liquid crystal display is related to. A pixel unit is provided. The pixel unit includes a storage capacitor that is arranged on an array substrate. The storage capacitor includes a first electrode arranged on a first metal layer and a second electrode arranged on a second metal layer. An insulation layer is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode and the first electrode overlap with each other to form a first overlapping region, an area of which does not change if a deviation of the second electrode relative to the first electrode is within a preset distance. Storage capacitor difference among different pixel units generated by alignment accuracy difference thereof can be eliminated, and watermark which would be generated otherwise can be eliminated as well. An array substrate is further provided, which includes the storage capacitor of the aforesaid pixel unit. A quality of a product can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. , Ltd.
    Inventor: Liyang AN
  • Patent number: 10509280
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of color resist blocks and a plurality of spacers arranged at one side of the color resist blocks. Each color resist block includes a first zone and a second zone arranged in sequence in the first direction. The plurality of color resist blocks include a first color resist block, a second color resist block, and a third color resist block arranged in sequence in the first direction. The first zone of the third color resist block is formed with a first through hole. The third color resist block includes a first extension extending from the second zone of the third color resist block in a first direction. The plurality of spacers include a first spacer, which is set at a location corresponding to and the first extension section or the second zone of the third color resist block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Liyang An
  • Publication number: 20190361664
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot and speech interaction recognition rate improvement circuit and method thereof. In the circuit, the main controller transmits a pre-recorded servo sound file to the first decoder in response to detecting the robot being in a motion state; the first decoder decodes the servo sound file to obtain a first sound analog signal of a servo sound; the analog-to-digital converter converts the first sound analog signal of the servo sound into a first sound digital signal, and converts a second sound analog signal collected by the microphone into a second sound digital signal; and the main controller further performs a suppression process on the servo sound in the second sound digital signal based on the first sound digital signal and the second sound digital signal. As a result, the influence of the sound of the servo of the robot is effectively reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Liyang Li, Yanhui Xia, Haoming Li
  • Patent number: 10486192
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a patterned crystal structure for includes depositing an amorphous material. The amorphous material is modified such that a first portion of the amorphous thin-film layer has a first height/volume and a second portion of the amorphous thin-film layer has a second height/volume greater than the first portion. The amorphous material is annealed to induce crystallization, wherein crystallization is induced in the second portion first due to the greater height/volume of the second portion relative to the first portion to form patterned crystal structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Liyang Yu, Aram Amassian
  • Patent number: 10482840
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present invention provides a data voltage adjusting method of a liquid crystal display panel, comprising: obtaining a total variation amount of data voltages on all data lines in the liquid crystal display panel; calculating a maximum variation amount of the data voltages corresponding to a horizontal crosstalk index according to the horizontal crosstalk index of the liquid crystal display panel; determining whether an absolute value of the total variation amount of the data voltages is larger than an absolute value of the maximum variation amount of the data voltages corresponding to the horizontal crosstalk index; if yes, implementing a data voltage adjustment to data lines, in which with data voltages having variations in the liquid crystal display panel according to the total variation amount of the data voltages. The embodiment of the present invention further provides a data voltage adjusting device of a liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Shuai Chen, Liyang An
  • Patent number: 10481487
    Abstract: A mask is provided for fabrication of a common electrode on an array substrate and includes a central portion, a first portion, and a second portion. The first portion is connected to the central portion and extends in a first direction. The second portion is connected to the central portion and extends in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction intersect each other. A first notch is formed in an interfacing site of the first portion and the central portion. A second notch is formed in an interfacing site of the second portion and the central portion. The second notch is connected to and in communication with the first notch to collectively form a first recessed zone. The mask helps reduce the potential risk of displaying defects appearing in a liquid crystal display panel using the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Liyang An, Xiangyang Xu
  • Patent number: 10475404
    Abstract: A driving method of scan lines in a display panel and a driving device thereof are described. The driving method of scan lines includes the steps of dividing a plurality of frames into a first frame set and a second frame set, and turning on the scan lines of each frame in the first frame set by using a forward scan direction and turning on the scan lines in the second frame set by a backward scan direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Liyang An