Patents by Inventor Min Liu

Min Liu 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: 12217810
    Abstract: A circuit includes a plurality of anti-fuse cells coupled to a first selection circuit, a plurality of magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) cells coupled to a second selection circuit, an amplifier including a first input terminal coupled to each of the first and second selection circuits, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including input terminals coupled to output terminals of the amplifier, and a comparator including a first input port coupled to an output port of the ADC. The amplifier, ADC, and comparator are configured to output data bits from the comparator responsive to current levels received from the first selection circuit at the first input terminal of the amplifier and first voltage levels received from the second selection circuit at the first input terminal of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 12218765
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit configured to: if parts of HARQ processes between the electronic apparatus and a user equipment unit are configured to not send feedback information, configure a codebook type belonging to the user equipment unit and used to send feedback information to be a dynamic codebook or a semi-static codebook; and send to the user equipment unit information indicating the codebook type, wherein the electronic apparatus sets a default value of the codebook type to be a dynamic codebook, such that the user equipment unit determines the codebook type for sending feedback information to be the dynamic codebook if no information indicating the codebook type is received from the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Liu, Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20250040291
    Abstract: A photodetector, comprising a flat slab structure (1), a waveguide structure (6), a light trapping structure (2), an absorption structure (3), a first electrode structure (4) and a second electrode structure (5), wherein the waveguide structure (6) extends into the light trapping structure (2), and a first edge where a first side wall of the waveguide structure (6) is located is tangent to a second edge where a second side wall in outer side walls of the light trapping structure (2) is located; the waveguide structure (6) is used for guiding incident light into the light trapping structure (2) in a direction tangent to the second edge; the guided light is trapped in the light trapping structure (2) by means of total internal reflection of the side walls of the light trapping structure (2) for annular transmission, and the guided light is coupled into the absorption structure (3) by means of the light trapping structure (2); the first electrode structure (4) is located in the light trapping structure (2); the
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Daigao CHEN, Xi XIAO, Min LIU, Peiqi ZHOU
  • Patent number: 12197693
    Abstract: A first terminal displays a projection interface on a display of the first terminal, where content of the projection interface is a mirror of content of a first interface displayed on a display of a second terminal. The first terminal receives a first operation input, using an input device of the first terminal, to move a first cursor on the display of the first terminal. When the first cursor moves to the content of the projection interface, a cursor style of the first cursor is changed, or a display manner of the content is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueer Zhou, Fanxiang Wei, Min Liu
  • Publication number: 20250015211
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a photodetector, comprising a waveguide structure, a light limiting structure, and an absorption structure. The waveguide structure extends into the light limiting structure, and a first edge where a first side wall of the waveguide structure is located is tangent to a second edge where a second side wall of the light limiting structure is located. The waveguide structure is used for introducing incident light into the light limiting structure in a direction tangent to the first edge. The introduced light is limited in the light limiting structure for annular transmission by means of total reflection of a side wall of the light limiting structure, and the introduced light is coupled into the absorption structure by means of the light limiting structure. The absorption structure is located on the light limiting structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Daigao CHEN, Xi XIAO, Min LIU, Peiqi ZHOU
  • Patent number: 12183362
    Abstract: A speech recognition method. The method includes: performing speech activity detection on speech data to obtain multiple speech segments; determining, for each of the speech segments, a number of speakers involved in the each of the speech segments; for each of at least one of the speech segments with the determined number greater than 1: performing speech separation on the each of at least one of the speech segments to obtain multiple audio segments; performing speech recognition on each of the audio segments to obtain respective first speech recognition results for the audio segments; performing feature extraction on each of the audio segments to obtain respective voiceprint feature vectors; and performing clustering on the audio segments with respect to the speakers to obtain a clustering result; and obtaining a second speech recognition result for the speech data based on the clustering result and the respective first speech recognition results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MASHANG CONSUMER FINANCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinglin Meng, Bin Yang, Ning Jiang, Haiying Wu, Quan Lu, Min Liu
  • Publication number: 20240424802
    Abstract: An ink cartridge includes an ink container and a cartridge shell. The cartridge shell has a printhead and a mounting member which are disposed on the cartridge shell. The ink container is detachably connected to the mounting member. The ink container includes an ink container body and an ink outlet assembly. The ink container body includes an ink storage cavity configured to store ink. An ink inlet of the ink outlet assembly communicates with the ink storage cavity. An ink outlet of the ink outlet assembly communicates with an ink entry of the printhead. The ink container is connected to the cartridge shell with the arrangement of the mounting member and through the connection between the mounting member and the ink container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Chenhai ZHAO, Jinghua HE, Min LIU, Heng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12176983
    Abstract: A method of transmitting Channel State Information (CSI)-Reference Signals (RSs) in a wireless communication system that includes a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, from the BS to the UE, first multiple CSI-RSs in a CSI-RS resource set that consists of CSI-RS resources. The first multiple CSI-RSs are transmitted using the CSI-RS resources, respectively. The CSI-RS resource set is repeated in a time domain or a frequency domain. The transmitting transmits second multiple CSI-RSs in the repeated CSI-RS resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Chongning Na, Min Liu, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240420177
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of providing engagement feedback for an online system while maintaining user privacy. Embodiments determine one or more user groups. A user group includes users, and a size of the user group is selected to protect user privacy. A user action is received from a user in a first group. The user action includes an interaction with a piece of content. A group action count is updated for the first group based on the user action. The group action count indicates a number of interactions with the piece of content by any of the users in the first group. An estimated number of unique engagements is calculated based on the group action count and the size of the first group. The estimated number of unique engagements is provided to the online system as the engagement feedback for the piece of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yuan GAO, Mu QIAO, Min LIU, Yi ZHANG, Qianqian MA, Shan BA, Lisa QIAN, Ian V. KOEPPE, Chad K. CROWE, John F. McCARTHY, III
  • Publication number: 20240422246
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for document transmission. The method includes: selecting a portion to be encoded from a document that comprises structured portions, wherein each of the structured portions comprises an identifier and data associated with the identifier; acquiring at least one structured portion of the portion to be encoded; performing the following operations for a corresponding structured portion of the at least one structured portion to encode the document: generating a hash value of data of the corresponding structured portion; determining whether a hash value repository comprises the hash value; and replacing, based on a determination that the hash value repository comprises the hash value, the data of the corresponding structured portion in the document with the hash value; and sending the encoded document to a receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yongbing Xue, Min Liu, Weiyang Liu, Yuanyi Liu, Mengze Liao
  • Publication number: 20240413132
    Abstract: A display panel, and a display apparatus having the display panel. A display region of the display panel comprises: a special-shaped display area, which comprises a first pixel group (1), wherein the first pixel group at least includes a special-shaped sub-pixel (11), the special-shaped sub-pixel comprising one special-shaped sub-pixel edge (111), and the special-shaped sub-pixel edge matching a special-shaped edge of the special-shaped display area; and a non-special-shaped display area, which comprises at least one second pixel group (2), wherein the second pixel group includes a plurality of regular sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventor: Min LIU
  • Patent number: 12167411
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic apparatus for wireless communication, a method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic apparatus comprises: a processing circuit configured to acquire downlink control information from a base station, and to determine, at least on the basis of a first specific field of the downlink control information, whether a feedback mechanism of a hybrid automatic repeat request process has been deactivated, wherein if it is determined that the feedback mechanism of the hybrid automatic repeat request process has been deactivated, a result of verification performed on a data packet is not fed back to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Liu, Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20240402852
    Abstract: A position detection circuit for detecting, by using a touch sensor, a position indicated by a passive pointer to a touch surface disposed on the touch sensor. The position detection circuit includes a detection circuit that detects a touch of the passive pointer to the touch surface, a calculation circuit that calculates a total value of capacitance values in a calculation region surrounding at least part of a touch region indicating a region of the touch, and an output circuit that outputs an indicated position that is indicated by the touch, based on the total value of the capacitance values. The output circuit outputs the indicated position when the total value is equal to or less than a threshold value, and does not output the indicated position or invalidates the indicated position and outputs the indicated position that has been invalidated, when the total value exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi UTSUGI, Jui Min LIU
  • Publication number: 20240405070
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a device includes: a first nanostructure; a source/drain region adjoining a first channel region of the first nanostructure, the source/drain region including: a main layer; and a first liner layer between the main layer and the first nanostructure, a carbon concentration of the first liner layer being greater than a carbon concentration of the main layer; an inter-layer dielectric on the source/drain region; and a contact extending through the inter-layer dielectric, the contact connected to the main layer, the contact spaced apart from the first liner layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Min Liu, Li-Li Su, Yee-Chia Yeo
  • Publication number: 20240395810
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a device including a first fin extending from a substrate. The device also includes a first gate stack over and along sidewalls of the first fin. The device also includes a first gate spacer disposed along a sidewall of the first gate stack. The device also includes a first source/drain region in the first fin and adjacent the first gate spacer, the first source/drain region including a first carbon-containing buffer layer on the first fin. The device also includes and a first epitaxial structure on the first carbon-containing buffer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Min Liu, Li-Li Su, Yee-Chia Yeo
  • Publication number: 20240387629
    Abstract: A device includes a first nanostructure over a semiconductor substrate; a second nanostructure over the first nanostructure; a gate structure surrounding the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure; a first epitaxial region in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate structure, wherein the first epitaxial region is a first doped semiconductor material; and a second epitaxial region over the first epitaxial region, wherein the second epitaxial region is adjacent the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure, wherein the second epitaxial region is a second doped semiconductor material that is different from the first doped semiconductor material. In an embodiment, the first doped semiconductor material has a smaller doping concentration than the second doped semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Min Liu, Li-Li Su, Chii-Horng Li, Yee-Chia Yeo
  • Publication number: 20240387256
    Abstract: In some implementations, one or more semiconductor processing tools may form a via within a substrate of a semiconductor device. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit a ruthenium-based liner within the via. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit, after depositing the ruthenium-based liner, a copper plug within the via.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yao-Min LIU, Ming-Yuan GAO, Ming-Chou CHIANG, Shu-Cheng CHIN, Huei-Wen HSIEH, Kai-Shiang KUO, Yen-Chun LIN, Cheng-Hui WENG, Chun-Chieh LIN, Hung-Wen SU
  • Publication number: 20240387742
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the semiconductor devices are described herein. The method includes steps for patterning fins in a multilayer stack and forming an opening in a fin as an initial step in forming a source/drain region. The opening is formed into a parasitic channel region of the fin. Once the opening has been formed, a first semiconductor material is epitaxially grown at the bottom of the opening to a level over the top of the parasitic channel region. A second semiconductor material is epitaxially grown from the top of the first semiconductor material to fill and/or overfill the opening. The second semiconductor material is differently doped from the first semiconductor material. A stack of nanostructures is formed by removing sacrificial layers of the multilayer stack, the second semiconductor material being electrically coupled to the nanostructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wei-Min Liu, Li-Li Su, Yee-Chia Yeo
  • Publication number: 20240383942
    Abstract: A compound represented by formula I, a racemate, a stereoisomer, a tautomer, a solvate, a polymorph, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are provided. In formula I, R2 and R4 are independently selected from H or D, respectively; R1 and R3 are independently selected from CH3, CH2D, CHD2 or CD3, respectively; and the compound of formula I contains at least one deuterium atom. While retaining the pharmacological activity of the allopregnanolone, an allopregnanolone derivative that is suitable for oral administration is obtained by means of the structural modification on the hydroxyl group of the allopregnanolone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Fei LIU, Gang WU, Xiaobo WANG, Chenggang LIN, Xin ZHAO, Qing CHEN, Min LIU
  • Publication number: 20240387381
    Abstract: Various back end of line (BEOL) layer formation techniques described herein enable reduced contact resistance, reduced surface roughness, and/or increased semiconductor device performance for BEOL layers such as interconnects and/or metallization layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng CHIN, Chih-Chien CHI, Hsin-Ying PENG, Jau-Jiun HUANG, Ya-Lien LEE, Kuan-Chia CHEN, Chia-Pang KUO, Yao-Min LIU