Patents by Inventor On Chang

On Chang 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).

  • Protective layer for contact pads in fan-out interconnect structure and method of forming same
    Patent number: 9941244
    Abstract: In accordance with a method embodiment includes providing a die having a contact pad on a top surface and forming a conductive protective layer over the die and covering the contact pad. A molding compound is formed over the die and the conductive protective layer. The conductive protective layer is exposed using a laser drilling process. A redistribution layer (RDL) is formed over the die. The RDL is electrically connected to the contact pad through the conductive protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Chuan Chang, Tsei-Chung Fu, Jing-Cheng Lin
  • System and method for predicting a pedal position based on driver behavior and controlling one or more engine actuators based on the predicted pedal position
    Patent number: 9938908
    Abstract: A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a pedal position prediction module and an engine actuator control module. The pedal position prediction module predicts a pedal position at a future time based on driver behavior and vehicle driving conditions. The pedal position includes at least one of an accelerator pedal position and a brake pedal position. The engine actuator control module controls an actuator of an engine based on the predicted pedal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Shifang Li, Yue-Yun Wang, Chen-Fang Chang, Christopher E. Whitney
  • Method and apparatus for avoiding resource collision in mobile communication system
    Patent number: 9942879
    Abstract: Different resources are selected based on QoS, emergency class, location, and SA count. A method for avoiding resource collision by a first User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes listening to Scheduling Assign (SA) information of a second UE; and selecting different resources between UEs based on the SA information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Kyu Kim, Seung-Hoon Park, Young-Bin Chang
  • Augmenting text with multimedia assets
    Patent number: 9940307
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing a navigation interface to access or otherwise use electronic content items. In one embodiment, an augmentation application identifies at least one entity referenced in a document. The entity can be referenced in at least two portions of the document by at least two different words or phrases. The augmentation application associates the at least one entity with at least one multimedia asset. The augmentation application generates a layout including at least some content of the document referencing the at least one entity and the at least one multimedia asset associated with the at least one entity. The augmentation application renders the layout for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Emre Demiralp, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Walter W. Chang, Daicho Ito, Grayson Squier Lang
  • RRAM device with data storage layer having increased height
    Patent number: 9941470
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit, which includes a semiconductor substrate and an interconnect structure disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure includes a lower metal layer, an intermediate metal layer disposed over the lower metal layer, and an upper metal layer disposed over the intermediate metal layer. An upper surface of the lower metal layer and a lower surface of the intermediate metal layer are spaced vertically apart by a first distance. A resistive random access memory (RRAM) cell is arranged between the lower metal layer and the upper metal layer. The RRAM cell includes a bottom electrode and a top electrode which are separated by a data storage layer having a variable resistance. The data storage layer vertically spans a second distance that is greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jen-Sheng Yang, Chih-Yang Chang, Chin-Chieh Yang, Kuo-Chi Tu, Sheng-Hung Shih, Wen-Ting Chu, Yu-Wen Liao, Manish Kumar Singh
  • Organic light emitting diode display device and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9941489
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display device includes a first driving voltage line including a first portion extending in a first direction and a second portion having a larger width than the first portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second portion overlaps a gate electrode of a driving thin film transistor, an interlayer insulating layer is between the second portion and the gate electrode of the driving thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Soo Pyon, Ok-Kyung Park, Se-Ho Kim
  • Power outlet device
    Patent number: 9941644
    Abstract: A power outlet device including a outer element, a light indicating element and a outlet module is provided. The outer element has a first portion and at least one second portion. The first portion is configured out of the second portion. At least one first through hole is configured in the second portion. The first portion and the second portion are opaque portions. The light indicating element has at least one lighting set corresponding to one second portion. Each lighting set has at least one lighting unit. Each lighting unit is configured in the inner periphery of each first through hole of the second portion. The light indicating element is configured in the outlet module, and the outer element is configured on the light indicating element. Wherein, each lighting unit is exposed from the corresponding first through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: CYBER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Nan Liu, Chang-Ming Lee
  • System and methods for tracking unresolved customer involvement with a service organization and automatically formulating a dynamic service solution
    Patent number: 9942399
    Abstract: A system for managing customer involvement with a contact center involves one or more monitoring applications executing on one or more computerized servers associated with the contact center, the applications monitoring communications between individual customers and the center; and a rules engine executing on the one or more computerized servers, the rules engine accessible to the monitoring application, the rules engine enabled to generate and implement business rules. Upon detection by one of the monitoring applications of an instance of unsuccessful or incomplete interaction between a customer and the contact center, session data determined during monitoring is used by the rules engine to determine contact center-initiated activity to be implemented to establish new communication with the customer to resolve issues related to the unsuccessful or incomplete interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yi Chang, Robert Andrew Finan, Richard McCrossan, Brian Bischoff
  • Coolant circulation system for turbocharger
    Patent number: 9938882
    Abstract: A coolant circulation system for turbochargers is provided. The coolant circulation system includes a turbocharger provided with a coolant outlet line and a coolant inlet line. The coolant is discharged from the turbocharger through the coolant outlet line. The coolant outlet line is connected to a first flow path connecting an inlet port of a radiator to an outlet port of a heater core. The coolant is supplied into the turbocharger through the coolant inlet line. The coolant inlet line is connected to a second flow path connecting a first end of a water pump to an inlet port of the heater core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun Kyu Kwon, Jun Ho Song, Nam Shin Kim, Chi Weon Jeong, Kyoung Duk Rho, Chang Won Lee, Ki Lyong Jang, Seung Ho Mok, Sung Woo Kang
  • Display device which prevents occurrence of flicker
    Patent number: 9940886
    Abstract: A display device which prevents or minimizes the occurrence of flicker is provided. The display device includes a display panel having pixels, with data lines and gate lines that are respectively connected with the pixels. A display driving circuit is configured to vary a frame frequency of the display panel according to an operation mode, to select a gamma curve corresponding to the frame frequency. The selected gamma curve is one among gamma curves that are set so as to correspond to different frame frequencies. The display panel is driven based on the selected gamma curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-kook Lee, Dong-sub Kim, Hyun-chang Shin
  • Glycosidase inhibitors and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9938299
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds with enhanced permeability for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: ALECTOS THERAPEUTICS, INC., MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Harold G. Selnick, Kun Liu, Ernest J. McEachern, Ramesh Kaul, Zhongyong Wei, Yaode Wang, Jiang Chang
  • Interface with variable data rate
    Patent number: 9940299
    Abstract: A device includes a transmitter coupled to a node, where the node is to couple to a wired link. The transmitter has a plurality of modes of operation including a calibration mode in which a range of communication data rates over the wired link is determined in accordance with a voltage margin corresponding to the wired link at a predetermined error rate. The range of communication data rates includes a maximum data rate, which can be a non-integer multiple of an initial data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Yohan U. Frans, Hae-Chang Lee, Brian S. Leibowitz, Simon Li, Nhat M. Nguyen
  • Light emitting diode and light emitting device including the same
    Patent number: 9941455
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light emitting device. The light emitting device is provided to include a light emitting structure, a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad and a heat dissipation pad, and a substrate on which the light emitting diode is mounted. The substrate includes a base; an insulation pattern formed on the base; and a conductive pattern disposed on the insulation pattern. The base includes a post and a groove separating the post from the conductive pattern. An upper surface of the post is placed lower than an upper surface of the conductive pattern, the heat dissipation pad contacts the upper surface of the post, and the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad contact the conductive pattern. With this structure, the light emitting device has excellent properties in terms of electrical stability and heat dissipation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Ra Lee, Chang Yeon Kim, Ju Yong Park, Sung Su Son
  • Touch sensitive displays
    Patent number: 9939978
    Abstract: Displays such as organic light-emitting diode displays may be provided with touch sensing capabilities. A touch sensor may be formed from electrodes located on a thin-film encapsulation layer or one or more sides of a polarizer. A single-sided or double-sided touch sensor panel may be attached to the upper or lower surface of a polarizer. Control circuitry may be used to provide control signals to light-emitting diodes in the display using a grid of control lines. The control lines and transparent electrode structures such as indium tin oxide structures formed on a thin-film encapsulation layer or polarizer may be used as electrodes for a touch sensor. Displays may have active regions and inactive peripheral portions. The displays may have edge portions that are bent along a bend axis that is within the active region to form a borderless display. Virtual buttons may be formed on the bent edge portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Steven P. Hotelling, John Z. Zhong, Shih-Chang Chang, Stephen S. Poon
  • Wrap-around contact on FinFET
    Patent number: 9941367
    Abstract: A fin structure is on a substrate. The fin structure includes an epitaxial region having an upper surface and an under-surface. A contact structure on the epitaxial region includes an upper contact portion and a lower contact portion. The upper contact portion includes a metal layer over the upper surface and a barrier layer over the metal layer. The lower contact portion includes a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) contact along the under-surface. The MIS contact includes a dielectric layer on the under-surface and the barrier layer on the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Li Wang, Neng-Kuo Chen, Ding-Kang Shih, Meng-Chun Chang, Yi-An Lin, Gin-Chen Huang, Chen-Feng Hsu, Hau-Yu Lin, Chih-Hsin Ko, Sey-Ping Sun, Clement Hsingjen Wann
  • Electronic device having display with curved edges
    Patent number: 9940866
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. The array of pixels may have a shape such as a circular shape or other shape with a curved edge. Display driver circuitry may supply data signals to the pixels using folded vertical data lines and bisected horizontal gate lines. Each folded vertical lines may have a first segment in a left half of the array and a second segment in a right half of the display. Curved coupling segments in an inactive area of the display may be used in joining the first and second segments. Display driver circuits may be provided in top and bottom portions of the inactive area to supply data to respective top and bottom portions of the array. Gate driver output buffers may have different strengths in different rows of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Zhen Zhang, Shih Chang Chang, Sang Ha Kim
  • Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle
    Patent number: 9939047
    Abstract: A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is provided. Nine or more forward speeds and one or more reverse speed are achieved by a planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle including an input shaft, an output shaft, four planetary gear sets respectively having three rotational elements, and six control elements to selectively connect the rotational elements and a transmission housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hyun Sik Kwon, Seong Wook Hwang, Wonmin Cho, Jae Chang Kook, Seongwook Ji
  • System and method of biomechanical posture detection and feedback
    Patent number: 9940811
    Abstract: A system and method are described herein for a sensor device which biomechanically detects in real-time a user's movement state and posture and then provides real-time feedback to the user based on the user's real-time posture. The feedback is provided through immediate sensory feedback through the sensor device (e.g., a sound or vibration) as well as through an avatar within an associated application with which the sensor device communicates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Lumo BodyTech, Inc
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Chang, Monisha Perkash, Chung-Che Charles Wang, Andreas Martin Hauenstein
  • Shortening multimedia content
    Patent number: 9940007
    Abstract: A method to display a representation of multimedia content that includes a progress bar. The method includes shortening a portion of the multimedia content having a start time and an end time from an original length to a shortened length based on a received indication and modifying the progress bar to represent the shortened portion of the multimedia content. The original length of the portion is represented by a curve adjacent to the progress bar, where a first end of the curve is adjacent to the progress bar at a location indicating the start time, and where a second end of the curve is adjacent to the progress bar at a location indicating the end time, and the shortened length of the portion is represented by a distance on the progress bar between the location indicating the start time and the location indicating the end time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Lei, Hu Wang, Cheng Zhang, Jian Zhang, Chao Zheng
  • NAT traversal method, computer-readable medium, and system for mediating connection
    Patent number: 9942195
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a network address translation (NAT) traversal method. A node sends a first, second, and third detection message from a local port to a first, second, and third response server, respectively, in order to receive from the response servers a first, second, and third response message, which respectively include a first, second, and third proximal external port number (EPN). The node then deduces a rule for proximal EPNs based on the received ones. Also disclosed is a system for mediating connection. The system assists a first node on a network in NAT traversal and includes at least three response servers, which receive detection messages from the first node and send back response messages that include EPNs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: VIVOTEK INC.
    Inventors: Chia-Ming Kuo, Wei-Tung Chang