Patents by Inventor Ming Su

Ming Su 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).

  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200203523
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a fin-shaped structure on the substrate; a shallow trench isolation (STI) around the fin-shaped structure; a single diffusion break (SDB) structure in the fin-shaped structure for dividing the fin-shaped structure into a first portion and a second portion; a first gate structure on the fin-shaped structure; a second gate structure on the STI; and a third gate structure on the SDB structure, wherein a width of the third gate structure is greater than a width of the second gate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Cheng-Han Wu, Hsin-Yu Chen, Chun-Hao Lin, Shou-Wei Hsieh, Chih-Ming Su, Yi-Ren Chen, Yuan-Ting Chuang
  • SINGLE-CHANNEL INVERSE MAPPING FOR IMAGE/VIDEO PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20200169742
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an encoder device is disclosed to generate single-channel standard dynamic range/high dynamic range content predictors. The device receives a standard dynamic range image content and a representation of a high dynamic range image content. The device determines a first mapping function to map the standard dynamic range image content to the high dynamic range image content. The device generates a single channel prediction metadata based on the first mapping function, such that a decoder device can subsequently render a predicted high dynamic range image content by applying the metadata to transform the standard dynamic range image content to the predicted high definition image content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Tao CHEN, Qian CHEN
  • Efficient histogram-based luma look matching
    Patent number: 10659749
    Abstract: In a method to reconstruct a high dynamic range video signal, a decoder receives parameters in the input bitstream to generate a prediction function. Using the prediction function, it generates a first set of nodes for a first prediction lookup table, wherein each node is characterized by an input node value and an output node value. Then, it modifies the output node values of one or more of the first set of nodes to generate a second set of nodes for a second prediction lookup table, and generates output prediction values using the second lookup table. Low-complexity methods to modify the output node value of a current node in the first set of nodes based on computing modified slopes between the current node and nodes surrounds the current node are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Harshad Kadu, Guan-Ming Su
  • Chroma reshaping for high dynamic range images
    Patent number: 10645403
    Abstract: Methods and systems for adaptive chroma reshaping are discussed. Given an input image, a luma-reshaped image is first generated based on its luma component. For each chroma component of the input image, the range of the pixel values in the luma reshaped image is divided into bins, and for each bin a maximal scale factor is generated based on the chroma pixel values in the input image corresponding to the pixels of the luma reshaped image in the bin. A forward reshaping function is generated based on a reference reshaped function and the maximal scale factors, and reshaped chroma pixel values for the chroma component are generated based on the forward reshaping function and the corresponding pixel values in the luma reshaped image. Implementations options using look-up tables for mobile platforms with limited computational resources are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Song, Guan-Ming Su, Qian Chen, Tao Chen
  • Stacked antenna module
    Patent number: 10637145
    Abstract: The present invention provides a portable electronic device and a stacked antenna module thereof. The stacked antenna module includes a first antenna structure and a second antenna structure stacked on the first antenna structure and insulated from the first antenna structure. The first antenna structure includes a first carrier substrate having at least one through hole, a surrounding insulation layer disposed inside the at least one through hole, and a first feeding pin passing through the first carrier substrate. The second antenna structure includes a second carrier substrate and a second feeding pin passing through the second carrier substrate, and the second feeding pin passes through the surrounding insulation layer without contacting the surrounding insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INPAQ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ta-Fu Cheng, Chih-Ming Su
  • Apparatus for Reducing Optical Cross-Talk in Image Sensors
    Publication number: 20200127042
    Abstract: According to one example, a device includes a semiconductor substrate. The device further includes a plurality of color filters disposed above the semiconductor substrate. The device further includes a plurality of micro-lenses disposed above the set of color filters. The device further includes a structure that is configured to block light radiation that is traveling towards a region between adjacent micro-lenses. The structure and the color filters are level at respective top surfaces and bottom surfaces thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Chin-Min Lin, Ching-Chun Wang, Dun-Nian Yaung, Chun-Ming Su, Tzu-Hsuan Hsu
  • Universal storage carrier
    Patent number: 10622026
    Abstract: An adapter bracket configured to be mounted within a carrier device is provided. The adapter bracket includes a receiving space configured to receive a storage module, a first wall element located on one side of the receiving space, and a second wall element located opposite of the first wall element. The adapter bracket also includes receiving elements located between the first wall element and the second wall element. The receiving elements are configured to receive a securing element through an aperture on the storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yaw-Tzorng Tsorng, Shin-Ming Su, Chun Chang
  • Lubricatable ball spline device
    Patent number: 10619672
    Abstract: A lubricatable ball spline device includes a ball spline shaft, a ball nut slidably sleeved on the ball spline shaft and having oil guide holes, a linear bearing unit mounted between the ball spline shaft and the ball nut, a bearing ring rotatably sleeved on the ball nut and having an oil supplying hole, a positioning portion disposed between the bearing ring and the ball nut, and an oil passage corresponding to the oil supplying hole. The oil supplying hole, the oil passage, an oil storage space of the positioning portion and any one of the oil guide holes cooperatively form a continuous oil path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Chou Lin, Cheng-Ming Su, Cheng-Lung Wang, Po-Jung Huang
  • Single-layer progressive coding for supporting multi-capability HDR composition
    Patent number: 10609424
    Abstract: A standard dynamic range (SDR) image is received. Composer metadata of the first level through the N-th level is generated. Composer metadata of the j-th level is generated based on the composer metadata of the first level through (j?1)-th level. The composer metadata of the first level through the composer metadata of the j-th level is to be used for mapping the SDR image to the j-th target image specifically optimized for the j-th reference target display. The SDR image is encoded with the composer metadata of the first level through the k-th level in an output SDR video signal, where 1<=k<=N. A display device renders a display image derived from a composed target image composed from the SDR image based on the composer metadata of the first level through the k-th level in the output SDR video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Song, Harshad Kadu, Guan-Ming Su
  • Up-conversion to content adaptive perceptual quantization video signals
    Patent number: 10609372
    Abstract: Input minimal noise levels of are computed over input codeword bins based on image content in input images of an input bit depth. The minimal noise levels are adjusted to generate approximated minimal noise levels of a higher bit depth. The approximated minimal noise levels are used to generate per-bin bit depths over the input codeword bins. The input codeword bins are classified into first codeword bins that have relatively high risks of banding artifacts and some other input codeword bins that have relatively low or zero risks of banding artifacts based on the per-bin bit depths. Portions of bit depths from the other input codeword bins are moved to the first input codeword bins to generate modified per-bin bit depths. A forward reshaping function constructed from the modified per-bin bit depths is used to reshape the input images into reshaped images used to generate output images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Amin Kheradmand, Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil
  • Chroma reshaping based on just noticeable differences
    Patent number: 10602110
    Abstract: Methods and systems for chroma reshaping are applied to images or video frames. The method comprises receiving at least one image or video frame. The color space of the at least one image or video frame is partitioned in M1×M2×M3 non-overlapping bins. For each bin it is determined whether it is a valid bin, for which the at least one image or video frame has at least one pixel with a color value falling within said bin. For each chroma channel, a required number of codewords is calculated for representing two color values in said valid bin that have consecutive codewords for the respective chroma channel without a noticeable difference. At least one content-aware chroma forward reshaping function is generated based on the calculated required numbers of codewords and applied to the at least one image or video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Chi Li, Guan-Ming Su
  • ELECTRONICS CONNECTOR FOR FACILITATING TREATMENT
    Publication number: 20200091640
    Abstract: In the production of certain components, the components must pass through an existing treating device with limited clearance. This limited clearance will cause unwanted physical contact between the component and the existing treatment apparatus, such as a reflow oven for treating electronic components, such as an M.2 connector. In such a situation, it will be necessary to practice a method of separating the component into subassemblies or modules; separately treating the subassemblies or modules in the reflow oven; and then reassembling the subassemblies and modules after the reflow treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yaw-Tzorng TSORNG, Shin-Ming SU, Chun CHANG
  • Specifying visual dynamic range coding operations and parameters
    Patent number: 10587897
    Abstract: Coding syntaxes in compliance with same or different VDR specifications may be signaled by upstream coding devices such as VDR encoders to downstream coding devices such as VDR decoders in a common vehicle in the form of RPU data units. VDR coding operations and operational parameters may be specified as sequence level, frame level, or partition level syntax elements in a coding syntax. Syntax elements in a coding syntax may be coded directly in one or more current RPU data units under a current RPU ID, predicted from other partitions/segments/ranges previously sent with the same current RPU ID, or predicted from other frame level or sequence level syntax elements previously sent with a previous RPU ID. A downstream device may perform decoding operations on multi-layered input image data based on received coding syntaxes to construct VDR images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Qu, Peng Yin, Yan Ye, Yuwen He, Walter Gish, Guan-Ming Su, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Video coding and delivery with both spatial and dynamic range scalability
    Patent number: 10575005
    Abstract: In a method to code and transmit scalable HDR video signals, HDR signals are processed and encoded in the IPT-PQ color space to generate a base layer at reduced spatial resolution and/or dynamic range, and an enhancement layer with a residual signal. A signal reshaping block before the base layer encoder allows for improved coding of HDR signals using a reduced bit depth. A decoder can use a BL decoder and backward reshaping to generate a decoded BL HDR signal at a reduced dynamic range and/or spatial resolution, or it can combine the decoded BL HDR signal and the EL stream to generate a decoded HDR signal at full dynamic range and full resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Samir N. Hulyalkar, David Brooks
  • Coding of high dynamic range video using segment-based reshaping
    Patent number: 10575028
    Abstract: Given HDR and SDR video inputs representing the same content, segment-based methods are described to generate a backward-compatible reshaped SDR video which preserves the artistic intent or “look” of the inputs and satisfies other coding requirements. For each frame in a segment, reshaping functions are generated based on a support frames set determined based on a sliding window of frames that is adjusted based on scene cuts in the segment and which may include frames from both the current segment and neighboring segments. For luma reshaping, a mapping that preserves the cumulative density function of the luminance histogram values in the EDR and SDR inputs is combined with a minimum codeword allocation derived based on the EDR signal and the support frame set. For chroma reshaping, methods for segment-based forward and backward reshaping using multivariate, multi-regression models are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Harshad Kadu, Qian Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Self-adaptive prediction method for multi-layer codec
    Patent number: 10542265
    Abstract: Relatively low dynamic range images or image partitions are converted into relatively high dynamic range images or image partitions that comprise reconstructed pixel values having a higher dynamic range than pixel values of the relatively low dynamic range images. Information relating to reconstructed pixel values of the relatively high dynamic range images and pixel values of the relatively low dynamic range images is collected. Prediction parameters are derived from the collected information. A predicted image or image partition is predicted from a relatively low dynamic range image or image partition based on the prediction parameters and comprises predicted pixel values having the higher dynamic range than pixel values of the relatively low dynamic range image or image partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Guan-Ming Su
  • Low-complexity lookup table construction with reduced interpolation error
    Patent number: 10542269
    Abstract: In a method to reconstruct a high dynamic range video signal, a decoder receives parameters in the input bitstream to generate a prediction function. Using the prediction function, it generates a first set of nodes for a first prediction lookup table, wherein each node is characterized by an input node value and an output node value. Then, it modifies the output node values of one or more of the first set of nodes to generate a second set of nodes for a second prediction lookup table, and generates output prediction values using the second lookup table. Low-complexity methods to modify the output node value of a current node in the first set of nodes based on computing modified slopes between the current node and nodes surrounding the current node are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Harshad Kadu, Guan-Ming Su, Hanyang Sun
  • Layout pattern for static random access memory
    Patent number: 10529723
    Abstract: A layout pattern of a static random access memory includes a pull-up device, a first pull-down device, a second pull-up device, a second pull-down device, a first pass gate device and a second pass gate device disposed on a substrate. A plurality of fin structures are disposed on the substrate, and the fin structures include at least one first fin structure and at least one second fin structure. A J-shaped gate structure is disposed on the substrate, including a long part, a short part and a bridge part. At least one first extending contact structure crosses over the at least one first fin structure and the at least one second fin structure, wherein the at least one first extending contact structure does not overlap with the bridge part of the J-shaped gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shu-Wei Yeh, Tsung-Hsun Wu, Chih-Ming Su, Yu-Tse Kuo
  • Predictive image encoding and decoding with pixel group based quantization
    Patent number: 10531109
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to images. More particularly, an embodiment of the present invention relates to the pixel group segmented quantization and de-quantization of the residual signal in layered coding of high dynamic range images. By assigning the pixels in the residual image to different pixel groups based on the pixel value of the corresponding pixel in the decoded base layer signal, and by applying pixel group quantizing functions to assigned pixels a more efficient coding can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Klaas Heinrich Schueuer, Uwe Michael Kowalik, Arion Neddens, Philipp Kraetzer, Guan-Ming Su
  • Vented steam cooking package
    Patent number: 10526123
    Abstract: A vented steam cooking package includes a container formed to include an interior region and a steam-venting system. The steam-venting system is formed in the package to vent steam from the interior region to atmosphere surrounding the package during heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Jau-Ming Su, Charisa Sofian, Paul Z. Wolak