Patents by Inventor Nien-Chu Wu
Nien-Chu Wu 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).
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Patent number: 10748053Abstract: A ticket authentication method and a ticket authentication device are provided. The ticket authentication method includes the following steps. A first electronic device outputs an e-ticket. A second electronic device acquires the e-ticket. The second electronic device outputs a visible light verification code. The first electronic device acquires the visible light verification code and generates a composite code according to a certification data and the verification code. The second electronic device acquires the visible light composite code, and determines whether the composite code matches the certification data and the verification code. When the composite code matches the certification data and the verification code, the second electronic determines that the authentication of the e-ticket is successful.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yi-Yuan Chen, Xin-Lan Liao, Kun-Hsien Lin, Lih-Guong Jang, Chi-Neng Liu, Nien-Chu Wu, Po-Yu Huang
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Patent number: 10130255Abstract: A method and system for tracking eye recovery. The method includes: receiving eye data from an eyewear, wherein the eye data includes images acquired by an image capturing device in the eyewear; analyzing the eye data to determine an eye recovery status, wherein the analyzing is carried out by comparing the eye data to an initial set of eye conditions; and providing a notification of the eye recovery status.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Pei-Yun S Hsueh, Lih-Guong Jang, Joe Lu, Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Yi-Chang Wang, Nien-Chu Wu, Xinxin Zhu
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Patent number: 9984264Abstract: A data encoding and decoding system including an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus is provided. The encoding apparatus is configured to patternize a data. The encoding apparatus displays the patternized data in a manner of dynamic twinkling. The patternized data twinkles in a predetermined frequency. The decoding apparatus is coupled to the encoding apparatus. The decoding apparatus is configured to capture the data which dynamically twinkles in a predetermined time period. The decoding apparatus performs a data processing operation on the captured data to identify the captured data. In addition, a data encoding and decoding method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Lih-Guong Jang, Yu-Jung Chang, Yi-Yuan Chen, Wen-Kuei Lai, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20180144233Abstract: A ticket authentication method and a ticket authentication device are provided. The ticket authentication method includes the following steps. A first electronic device outputs an e-ticket. A second electronic device acquires the e-ticket. The second electronic device outputs a visible light verification code. The first electronic device acquires the visible light verification code and generates a composite code according to a certification data and the verification code. The second electronic device acquires the visible light composite code, and determines whether the composite code matches the certification data and the verification code. When the composite code matches the certification data and the verification code, the second electronic determines that the authentication of the e-ticket is successful.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yi-Yuan CHEN, Xin-Lan LIAO, Kun-Hsien LIN, Lih-Guong JANG, Chi-Neng LIU, Nien-Chu WU, Po-Yu HUANG
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Patent number: 9979977Abstract: A method and device of generating an image stream with verification data are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, determine at least one pixel in a first image according to a first encoding parameter. Then, generate a timing data sequence associated with information about the correlation between the verification data and time points according to a second encoding parameter and the verification data. Next, modify a pixel value of the at least one pixel in the first image to generate a second image according to the verification data corresponding to one of the time points in the timing data sequence. Lastly, generate the image stream including the second image.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yi-Yuan Chen, Lih-Guong Jang, Wen-Kuei Lai, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20170124368Abstract: A data encoding and decoding system including an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus is provided. The encoding apparatus is configured to patternize a data. The encoding apparatus displays the patternized data in a manner of dynamic twinkling. The patternized data twinkles in a predetermined frequency. The decoding apparatus is coupled to the encoding apparatus. The decoding apparatus is configured to capture the data which dynamically twinkles in a predetermined time period. The decoding apparatus performs a data processing operation on the captured data to identify the captured data. In addition, a data encoding and decoding method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Lih-Guong Jang, Yu-Jung Chang, Yi-Yuan Chen, Wen-Kuei Lai, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20170095151Abstract: A method and system for tracking eye recovery. The method includes: receiving eye data from an eyewear, wherein the eye data includes images acquired by an image capturing device in the eyewear; analyzing the eye data to determine an eye recovery status, wherein the analyzing is carried out by comparing the eye data to an initial set of eye conditions; and providing a notification of the eye recovery status.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Pei-Yun S. Hsueh, Lih-Guong Jang, Joe Lu, Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Yi-Chang Wang, Nien-Chu Wu, Xinxin Zhu
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Publication number: 20170085893Abstract: A method and device of generating an image stream with verification data are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, determine at least one pixel in a first image according to a first encoding parameter. Then, generate a timing data sequence associated with information about the correlation between the verification data and time points according to a second encoding parameter and the verification data. Next, modify a pixel value of the at least one pixel in the first image to generate a second image according to the verification data corresponding to one of the time points in the timing data sequence. Lastly, generate the image stream including the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Yi-Yuan CHEN, Lih-Guong JANG, Wen-Kuei LAI, Nien-Chu WU
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Patent number: 9552517Abstract: A method and system for tracking eye recovery. The method includes: receiving eye data from an eyewear, wherein the eye data includes images acquired by an image capturing device in the eyewear; analyzing the eye data to determine an eye recovery status, wherein the analyzing is carried out by comparing the eye data to an initial set of eye conditions; and providing a notification of the eye recovery status.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Pei-yun S Hsueh, Lih-Guong Jang, Joe Lu, Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Yi-Chang Wang, Nien-Chu Wu, Xinxin Zhu
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Patent number: 9311652Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for generating and verifying a color barcode are provided. The method for verifying the color barcode is adapted to an electronic apparatus to execute verification with use of a color barcode certificate. In the method, direction information of a plurality of boundaries among a plurality of serially connected symbolic elements in the color barcode certificate is read to retrieve first authentication information of a first party. Each of the symbolic elements is one of at least two polygons, and colors of adjacent symbolic elements are different. Color information of the symbolic elements is then read to retrieve second authentication information of a second party. An identity of a holder of the color barcode certificate is verified according to the first authentication information and the second authentication information.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: En-Jung Farn, You-Lin Chen, Chih-Wei Chen, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20150186429Abstract: A system and a method for data dispatch processing in a big data system are provided. The system includes a plurality of computing machines and a database cluster. The method includes disassembling a computing procedure into a plurality of processing elements. The method also includes identifying a database accessing point for accessing a target data node from one of the data nodes in the computing procedure. The method further includes configuring the processing elements to the computing machines according to the database accessing point, and transmitting a data tuple corresponding to the computing procedure according to the processing elements configured to the computing machines and a data transmitting cost between the computing machines. Accordingly, the method effectively improves system performance for transmitting the big data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: You-Lin Chen, Leii H. Chang, En-Jung Farn, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20150161783Abstract: A method and system for tracking eye recovery. The method includes: receiving eye data from an eyewear, wherein the eye data includes images acquired by an image capturing device in the eyewear; analyzing the eye data to determine an eye recovery status, wherein the analyzing is carried out by comparing the eye data to an initial set of eye conditions; and providing a notification of the eye recovery status.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Pei-yun S Hsueh, Lih-Guong Jang, Joe Lu, Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Yi-Chang Wang, Nien-Chu Wu, Xinxin Zhu
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Publication number: 20150160474Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for adapting a corrective lens prescription. The system includes: an image capturing device; a lighting control device; a display; a memory; and a processor communicatively coupled to the image capturing device, the light generating device, the display, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of a method including: generating a digital simulation for optometry, wherein the simulation is generated based on at least one lighting parameter, at least one activity parameter, at least one duration parameter, at least one personal parameter, and at least one target vision condition; recording user pupillary movement during the simulation; analyzing the recorded pupillary movement to determine a visual comfort assessment; and generating a message of the visual comfort assessment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hung-Yang Chang, Lih Guong Jang, Joe Lu, Yi-Chang Wang, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20150120423Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for generating and verifying a color barcode are provided. The method for verifying the color barcode is adapted to an electronic apparatus to execute verification with use of a color barcode certificate. In the method, direction information of a plurality of boundaries among a plurality of serially connected symbolic elements in the color barcode certificate is read to retrieve first authentication information of a first party. Each of the symbolic elements is one of at least two polygons, and colors of adjacent symbolic elements are different. Color information of the symbolic elements is then read to retrieve second authentication information of a second party. An identity of a holder of the color barcode certificate is verified according to the first authentication information and the second authentication information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: En-Jung Farn, You-Lin Chen, Chih-Wei Chen, Nien-Chu Wu
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Patent number: 8702011Abstract: A barcode structure includes at least one symbolic element row and a frame arranged at a periphery of the at least one symbolic element row. Each symbolic element row has multiple symbolic elements. Each symbolic element has different color from its adjacent symbolic elements, and the color of the frame is different from that of any symbolic element. A barcode encoding method includes: establishing multiple color combinations where a color of a frame is excluded, and each color combination comprising a main color and a sub color; performing a symbolic element row establishment procedure, which includes using a reference color as a color of a first symbolic element of a symbolic element row; deleting color combinations where the reference color is used as a main color; and selecting a color combination from remaining color combinations for coloring two symbolic elements that are sequentially connected with the first symbolic element.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: En-Jung Farn, Chih-Wei Chen, Chung-Chia Kang, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20140042232Abstract: A barcode structure includes at least one symbolic element row and a frame arranged at a periphery of the at least one symbolic element row. Each symbolic element row has multiple symbolic elements. Each symbolic element has different color from its adjacent symbolic elements, and the color of the frame is different from that of any symbolic element. A barcode encoding method includes: establishing multiple color combinations where a color of a frame is excluded, and each color combination comprising a main color and a sub color; performing a symbolic element row establishment procedure, which includes using a reference color as a color of a first symbolic element of a symbolic element row; deleting color combinations where the reference color is used as a main color; and selecting a color combination from remaining color combinations for coloring two symbolic elements that are sequentially connected with the first symbolic element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: En-Jung Farn, Chih-Wei Chen, Chung-Chia Kang, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20060125606Abstract: A method for reading an IC tag concealing part of data of the present invention includes steps of: the IC tag receiving a signal transmitted by a reader through an antenna (the frequency of the signal is 13.56MHz, 433.92MHz, 860M˜930MHz (UHF), 2.45GHz, 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Shang-Wei Chen, Nien-Chu Wu
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Publication number: 20050122221Abstract: A visible electronic tag and system aiming at displaying contents stored in the electronic tags mainly has an electronic tag body and a display module. The electronic tag is directly connected to a display module. The reader receives the signals and stores the received information in the electronic tag body. The display module then displays the information without a reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2004Publication date: June 9, 2005Inventors: Hsiang-Kai Chuang, Nien-Chu Wu