Patents by Inventor Meng-Ling Hsiao

Meng-Ling Hsiao 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: 20080275889
    Abstract: A method and system for creating a functional depth chart of an organization is provided. The method and system may include comparing a selected function requirement of the organization with a selected employee, if an employee is present within the organization. The method and system may also illustrate the results on the aforementioned comparison in a functional depth chart. The method and system may also illustrate a plurality of functional depth charts. The method and system may also include a search function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Meng-Ling Hsiao, Sathish Nasana, Bill Meeker, Brian Randolph Moore, Mark Dubecky
  • Publication number: 20020083058
    Abstract: Controlling on-line access to reference materials includes receiving a request for on-line access to a reference material, determining if the requested reference material is made available on limited basis or on an unlimited basis, providing on-line access to the requested reference material for the requester if the requested reference material is made available on an unlimited basis, determining if a copy of the requested reference material is available if the requested reference material is made available on a limited basis, providing on-line access to the requested material for the requester if a copy is available and temporarily denying on-line access to the requested material for the requester if a copy is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Meng-Ling Hsiao, Lawrence D. Willey
  • Patent number: 5936718
    Abstract: A method for detecting misalignment of initially-aligned fiber filaments in a composite. An optical fiber is placed among the fiber filaments in the composite, light is directed into the optical fiber, the intensity of the light in the optical fiber is measured during subsequent composite processing, and attenuation in such light intensity is ascertained which indicates such misalignment (e.g., wrinkling, bending, buckling, porosity, delamination and the like) is being detected during such processing. In another preferred method, before-processing and after-processing x-ray images are taken of an x-ray-attenuating fiber which has been placed among x-ray-transparent fiber filaments in a composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Weiping Wang, Thomas Huei Hwang, Emily Yixie Shu, Richard Alan Ridilla, Michael Evans Graham, Michael Kent Cueman, Meng-Ling Hsiao, Charles Richard Evans
  • Patent number: 5905806
    Abstract: A technique to ascertain the presence or absence of an object in a three-dimensional volume, such as explosives in the side walls of luggage. The technique involves radiation scanning the three-dimensional volume to determine a property of each of a plurality of voxels representing the three-dimensional volume and to identify voxels having similar values of the property to identify a contiguous group of voxels having the similar values. Then, the contiguous group of voxels is identified as containing the object if a characteristic (such as mass and/or volume) of the contiguous group has a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Meng-Ling Hsiao
  • Patent number: 5844669
    Abstract: A method for detecting misalignment of initially-aligned fiber filaments in a composite. An optical fiber is placed among the fiber filaments in the composite, light is directed into the optical fiber, the intensity of the light in the optical fiber is measured during subsequent composite processing, and attenuation in such light intensity is ascertained which indicates such misalignment (e.g., wrinkling, bending, buckling, porosity, delamination and the like) is being detected during such processing. In another preferred method, before-processing and after-processing x-ray images are taken of an x-ray-attenuating fiber which has been placed among x-ray-transparent fiber filaments in a composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Weiping Wang, Thomas Huei Hwang, Emily Yxie Shu, Richard Alan Ridilla, Michael Evans Graham, Michael Kent Cueman, Meng-Ling Hsiao, Charles Richard Evans
  • Patent number: 5712926
    Abstract: A technique to ascertain the presence or absence of an object in a three-dimensional volume, such as explosives in the side walls of luggage. The technique involves radiation scanning the three-dimensional volume to determine a property of each of a plurality of voxels representing the three-dimensional volume and to identify voxels having similar values of the property to identify a contiguous group of voxels having the similar values. Then, the contiguous group of voxels is identified as containing the object if a characteristic (such as mass and/or volume) of the contiguous group has a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Meng-Ling Hsiao
  • Patent number: 5675823
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a 3D connectivity-conserved grain-structured processing architecture uses connectable massively parallel processors. A 3D grain-structured processing architecture is provided. The 3D links of the grain-structured processing architecture provide direct local communication as well as global communication for voxel processing and analysis tasks. A novel transport naming scheme which is scalable in any three-dimension direction and the local/global communication protocol are disclosed. The 3D volumetric data set is first divided into a set of voxel sub-cubes. Each voxel subcube is processed by a processor element of the grain-structured processing architecture. Data discontinuity is produced after performing local operations in a massively parallel processors environment and requires replacing the resulted voxel data set in the overlap region for each voxel sub-cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Meng-Ling Hsiao
  • Patent number: 5500883
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for generating Radon derivative data in a cone beam computerized tomography implementation. Radon derivative data is computed by using a plurality of processors that partition the Radon space among the processors in a manner wherein the totality of the support of the Radon space handled by each processor is approximately equal. More specifically, each processor handles a number of vertical planes in the Radon space which are equally spaced within 180.degree. in the .phi..sub.k orientation. This procedure enables the plurality of processor to equalize the workload in computing the Radon derivative data and to perform the computations in a timely and efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Meng-Ling Hsiao, Kwok C. Tam, Edward A. Hudacko
  • Patent number: 5430887
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a 3D connectivity-conserved grain-structured processing architecture uses connectable massively parallel processors. A 3D grain-structured processing architecture is provided. The 3D links of the grain-structured processing architecture provide direct local communication as well as global communication for voxel processing and analysis tasks. A novel transport naming scheme which is scalable in any three-dimension direction and the local/global communication protocol are disclosed. The 3D volumetric data set is first divided into a set of voxel sub-cubes. Each voxel subcube is processed by a processor element of the grain-structured processing architecture. Data discontinuity is produced after performing local operations in a massively parallel processors environment and requires replacing the resulted voxel data set in the overlap region for each voxel sub-cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Meng-Ling Hsiao
  • Patent number: 5253171
    Abstract: A parallel processing architecture and method, based on the 3D Algebra Reconstruction Technique (ART), for iteratively reconstructing from cone beam projection data a 3D voxel data set V representing an image of an object. The cone beam projection data is acquired by employing a cone beam x-ray source and a two-dimensional array detector to scan the object along a source scanning trajectory to obtain, at each of a plurality of discrete source positions .theta..sub.i on the source scanning trajectory, a 2D measured cone beam pixel data set P.sub.i. The 3D voxel data set V is subdivided into or organized as a plurality m of independent voxel subcubes V.sup.0 through V.sup.m-1 each containing a plurality of voxels. As a result of the subdivision of the 3D voxel data set V into voxel subcubes, the 2D measured cone beam pixel data set P.sub.i (measured projection data array) is correspondingly subdivided for each source position .theta..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Meng-Ling Hsiao, Wayne J. Eberhard, Yves L. Trousset