Patents by Inventor Norden E. Huang

Norden E. Huang 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: 11219401
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-transitory computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium and, when executed by one or more analysis modules, providing a visual output for presenting physiological signals of a cardiovascular system. The non-transitory computer program product comprises a first axis representing, subsets of intrinsic mode functions (IMF); a second axis representing a function of signal strength in a time interval; and a plurality of visual elements, each of the visual elements being defined by the first axis and the second axis, and each of the visual elements comprising a plurality of analyzed data units collected over the time interval. Wherein each of the analyzed data units comprises a first coordinate, a second coordinate, and a probability density value generated from an intrinsic probability density function of one of the subsets of IMFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Adaptive, Intelligent and Dynamic Brain Corporation (AidBrain)
    Inventor: Norden E. Huang
  • Publication number: 20210110925
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for analyzing electrical activities of at least one brain. The system comprises a visual output module for rendering a visual output space according to analyzed data sets generated by an analysis module, and displaying a visual output. The visual output comprises a first axis representing FM, a second axis representing AM, and a plurality of visual elements defined by the first axis and the second axis. Each of the visual elements comprises an accumulated signal strength and the analyzed data sets. Each of the analyzed data sets comprises a plurality of analyzed data units collected over a time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: NORDEN E. HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200329988
    Abstract: A functional network analysis system for complex network provided by the present application, includea multi-signal-source measurement unit, a signal decomposition unitand a cross-frequency coupling analysis unit, wherein the multi-signal-source measurement unit, the signal decomposition unitand the cross-frequency coupling analysis unit are connected successively. A method using the functional network analysis system is more suitable for the decomposition of non-linear and non-stationary data in complex networks, and can reflect the dynamic properties of functional network links between different frequency bands in a complex system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: JIARONG YEH, NORDEN E HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200196875
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for analyzing physiological signals. The system comprises a visual output module for rendering a visual output space according to a plurality of analyzed data sets generated by a analysis module, and displaying a visual output, wherein the visual output comprises a first axis representing frequency modulation (FM), a second axis representing amplitude modulation (AM), and a plurality of visual element defined by the first axis and the second axis, and each of the visual elements comprises an accumulated signal strength and the analyzed data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: NORDEN E. HUANG
  • Patent number: 10354422
    Abstract: The present invention provides a diagram building system adapted for processing a signal with a time period. The diagram building system comprises a inputting device for receiving the signal; a computing device, dividing the signal into a plurality of window scales according to one of time interval scales; decomposing the window scales via HHT algorithm to generate a plurality of quantized windows according to different components; then, calculating the value of quantized windows with the same single-frequency component through a quantifying function to generate a plurality of specific frequency values; an outputting device, sequentially arranging the specific frequency values according to the time interval scales and the single-frequency components to form a visual diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Norden E. Huang, Bo-Jau Kuo, Yu-Cheng Lin, Chung-Kang Peng, Men-Tzung Lo
  • Publication number: 20190175120
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-transitory computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium, and when executed by one or more analysis module, providing a visual output for presenting physiological signals of a cardiovascular system. The non-transitory computer program product comprises a first axis representing subsets of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs); a second axis representing a function of signal strength in a time interval; and a plurality of visual elements, each of the visual elements being defined by the first axis and the second axis, and each of the visual elements comprising a plurality of analyzed data units collected over the time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Norden E. Huang
  • Publication number: 20190175041
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-transitory computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium and, when executed by one or more analysis modules, providing a visual output for presenting physiological signals of a cardiovascular system. The non-transitory computer program product comprises a first axis representing subsets of intrinsic mode functions (IMF); a second axis representing a function of signal strength in a time interval; and a plurality of visual elements, each of the visual elements being defined by the first axis and the second axis, and each of the visual elements comprising a plurality of analyzed data units collected over the time interval. Wherein each of the analyzed data units comprises a first coordinate, a second coordinate, and a probability density value generated from an intrinsic probability density function of one of the subsets of IMFs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Norden E. Huang
  • Publication number: 20170200089
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for data analyzing. The method comprises receiving a data, and decomposing the data into a plurality of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by utilizing an empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method, wherein the IMFs are a value changes over time of the data in different frequencies. The method further comprises obtaining a plurality of probability density functions based on accumulating the distribution of each IMF according to a longest mean time scale, and generating an intrinsic probability distribution function (iPDF) component spectrum, wherein the iPDF component spectrum comprises the distribution of probability density functions between a frequency dimensional and a standard deviation dimensional. This invention result of the method can be used as a diagnosis tool implementing in a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Norden E. Huang
  • Publication number: 20170119270
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for electric brain stimulator. In the beginning, obtaining a brain functional amplitude modulation spectrum, wherein the brain functional amplitude modulation spectrum is a relationship between carrier frequency and amplitude-frequency on different brain sites. Then selecting a first alternating current frequency, wherein the first alternating current frequency is determined by the amplitude-frequency in which the brain functional amplitude modulation spectrum display a maximum power relation value, or a maximum correlation value with any behavior index of behavior and cognitive functions. And selecting a second alternating current frequency, wherein the second alternating current frequency is determined by the carrier frequency in which the brain functional amplitude modulation spectrum display a maximum power relation value, or a maximum correlation value with any behavior index of behavior and cognitive functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Chi-Hung JUAN, Norden E. HUANG, Wei-Kuang LIANG
  • Publication number: 20170116155
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method and a system for quickly and directly processing an original signal into a plurality of mode functions, the steps comprises: decomposing the original signal by Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method to choose a first intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Then, adding the plurality of level n conjugate masking functions, which are selected from a group of sinusoidal functions comprising the mean amplitude and the mean frequency of the first IMF, to the original signal individually to obtain level n mode functions, until the level n mode function is a monotonic function, wherein the plurality of mode functions are the IMFs between each frequency regions of the original signal. The invention not only includes the advantage of EMD analyzing, but also excludes the problem of mode mixing phenomenon which is caused by the intermittent disturbance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: NORDEN E. HUANG, ZHAO-HUA WU, JIA-RONG YEH
  • Publication number: 20170079538
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying images of brain function. In the beginning, choosing one of the brain data collected by multichannel scalp EEG/MEG, and using a mode decomposition method to obtain a plurality of intrinsic mode functions for each brain data, transforming the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) in the same frequency scale into a plurality of source IMFs across the cerebral cortex by a source reconstruction algorithm, and classifying each source IMF in the same frequency scale into a plurality of frequency regions corresponding to the different brain sites. Then, repeatedly choosing a source IMF, and obtaining an amplitude envelope line through each absolution value of the source IMF. Further to obtain a plurality of source first-layer amplitude IMFs decomposed from the function of the amplitude envelope line by the mode decomposition method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Wei-Kuang LIANG, Norden E. HUANG, Chi-Hung JUAN
  • Publication number: 20160292894
    Abstract: The present invention provides a diagram building system adapted for processing a signal with a time period. The diagram building system comprises a inputting device for receiving the signal; a computing device, dividing the signal into a plurality of window scales according to one of time interval scales; decomposing the window scales via HHT algorithm to generate a plurality of quantized windows according to different components; then, calculating the value of quantized windows with the same single-frequency component through a quantifying function to generate a plurality of specific frequency values; an outputting device, sequentially arranging the specific frequency values according to the time interval scales and the single-frequency components to form a visual diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Norden. E. HUANG, Bo-Jau KUO, Yu-Cheng LIN, Chung-Kang PENG, Men-Tzung LO
  • Publication number: 20150323507
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of implementing the high dimensional Holo-Hilbert spectral analysis which transforms a data from time domain to frequency domain. At the first of the steps, obtaining an amplitude intrinsic mode component and an instantaneous frequency component of the data by a mode decomposition, such as using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), adaptive filtering, or optimal basis pursue, etc to show a plurality of amplitude intrinsic mode functions (amplitude IMFs) and a plurality of frequency intrinsic mode functions (frequency IMFs). Then, analyzing each of the amplitude IMFs and the frequency IMFs to obtain a plurality value in different high order components. At the last, to establish a high dimensional Holo-Hilbert spectrum by combining the high order component with the original component to show the interaction between frequency and amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: Norden. E. HUANG
  • Publication number: 20150193376
    Abstract: This invention discloses a multi-scales intrinsic entropy analysis method that can quantify the entropies on difference time scales for a complex time series. The implementation of the method decomposes a complex time series into a plurality of intrinsic mode functions by a nonlinear signal processing algorithm, such as the method of empirical mode decomposition. Then, the entropy increments can be calculated on multiple coarse-graining scales when an intrinsic mode functions is added into the reconstructed time series analyzed by the method of multi-scale entropy. The entropy increment is significant on a specific coarse-graining scale, which corresponds to the averaged period of the intrinsic mode functions. The entropy increment on the specific coarse-graining scale is defined as the intrinsic entropy for an intrinsic mode functions. Multiple intrinsic entropies represent the entropy properties for a complex time series on their corresponding time scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: National Central University
    Inventors: Jia-Rong YEH, Norden E. HUANG, Men-Tzung LO, Chung-Kang PENG
  • Publication number: 20150162009
    Abstract: The present invention provides an analysis system adapted for processing a signal with a time period. The analysis system comprises a segmenting unit, an analyzing unit, processing unit and an outputting unit. The segmenting unit divides the signal into a plurality of scale windows according to one of interval scales. The analyzing unit processes the scale windows via HHT algorithm to make each scale window generate a plurality of quantized windows according to different components. The processing unit reorganizes the quantized windows make each scale window generate a plurality of quantized windows according to different components. The outputting unit accumulates a plurality of specific frequency values in difference interval scales and combines the specific frequency values to form a three-dimensional variation visual diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: National Central University
    Inventors: Norden. E. Huang, Bo-Jau Kuo, Yu-Cheng Lin, Chung-Kang Peng, Men-Tzung Lo
  • Patent number: 8862213
    Abstract: A computer-assisted method for quantitative characterization and treatment of ventricular fibrillation includes preprocessing a time series of an atrial fibrillation signal obtained from a patient, segmenting the time series of the AF signal into activation segments by the computer system, obtaining local activation waveforms (LAW) from the activation segments, determining degrees of similarity between the LAWs, and identifying one or more critical regions in the patient's atria if the LAWs have degrees of similarity exceeding a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: National Central University
    Inventors: Men-Tzung Lo, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Shih-Ann Chen, Yi-Chung Chang, Chen Lin, Ke-Hsin Hsu, Wan-Hsin Hsieh, Hung-Yi Lee, Norden E. Huang
  • Patent number: 8798399
    Abstract: For multi-dimensional temporal-spatial data, EEMD is applied to time series of each spatial location to obtain IMF-like components of different time scales. All the ith IMF-like components of all the time series of all spatial locations are arranged to obtain ith temporal-spatial multi-dimensional IMF-like component. For two-dimensional spatial data or images, the two-dimensional spatial data or images are consider as a collection of one-dimensional series in first direction along locations in second direction. The same approach to the one used in temporal-spatial data decomposition is used to obtain the resulting two-dimensional IMF-like components. Each of the resulted IMF-like components are taken as the new two-dimensional data for further decomposition, but the data is considered as a collection of one-dimensional series in second-direction along locations in first-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: National Central University
    Inventors: Norden E. Huang, Zhao-Hua Wu, Xian-Yao Chen
  • Publication number: 20140031708
    Abstract: A computer-assisted method for quantitative characterization and treatment of ventricular fibrillation includes preprocessing a time series of an atrial fibrillation signal obtained from a patient, segmenting the time series of the AF signal into activation segments by the computer system, obtaining local activation waveforms (LAW) from the activation segments, determining degrees of similarity between the LAWs, and identifying one or more critical regions in the patient's atria if the LAWs have degrees of similarity exceeding a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Men-Tzung Lo, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Shih-Ann Chen, Yi-Chung Chang, Chen Lin, Ke-Hsin Hsu, Wan-Hsin Hsieh, Hung-Yi Lee, Norden E. Huang
  • Patent number: 7941298
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer program product and method of analyzing complex signals. Independent versions are generated for the complex signal, e.g., by adding multiple instances of white noise. Intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are extracted from each of the independent versions, e.g., using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). Corresponding IMFs from each independent version are combined into Ensemble IMFs (EIMFs), e.g., taking the mean of the corresponding IMFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: DynaDx Corporation
    Inventors: Norden E. Huang, Zhaohua Wu
  • Publication number: 20100092028
    Abstract: For multi-dimensional temporal-spatial data, EEMD is applied to time series of each spatial location to obtain IMF-like components of different time scales. All the ith IMF-like components of all the time series of all spatial locations are arranged to obtain ith temporal-spatial multi-dimensional IMF-like component. For two-dimensional spatial data or images, the two-dimensional spatial data or images are consider as a collection of one-dimensional series in first direction along locations in second direction. The same approach to the one used in temporal-spatial data decomposition is used to obtain the resulting two-dimensional IMF-like components. Each of the resulted IMF-like components are taken as the new two-dimensional data for further decomposition, but the data is considered as a collection of one-dimensional series in second-direction along locations in first-direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: National Central University
    Inventors: Norden E. Huang, Zhao-Hua WU, Xian-Yao CHEN