Patents by Inventor Pei-Chong Tang

Pei-Chong Tang 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: 9685104
    Abstract: An independent display control apparatus communicates with a plurality of display devices. The display control apparatus includes a receiving module, a signal generating module, and a signal transmitting module. The receiving module receives the location information of a plurality of display devices and the signal generating module generates control signals based on the received locations, different locations can thus receive different control signals. Each of the control signals corresponds to a different segment of a predetermined media file transmitted to each display device and the group of display devices can thus be made to simulate the flight and bursting of a firework, or simulate the echoing of a single sound for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Publication number: 20160236777
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle includes a body including a bottom portion, a plurality of rotors coupled to the body for driving the aerial vehicle to fly, and a landing gear coupled to the bottom portion of the body. The landing gear can include a first touchdown bar and a second touchdown bar. The first touchdown bar has a distal end for contacting a horizontal plane. The second touchdown bar has a distal end for contacting the horizontal plane. The distal end of the first touchdown bar and the distal end of the second touchdown bar cooperatively define a plane. When the aerial vehicle is in flight, the plane is at an angle relative to the horizontal plane. When the aerial vehicle is landing at the horizontal plane, the plane is parallel to the horizontal plane, the body is angled relative to the horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20160236772
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle includes a body including a bottom portion, a plurality of rotors coupled to the body for driving the aerial vehicle to fly, and a landing gear coupled to the bottom portion of the body. The landing gear can include a first touchdown bar and a second touchdown bar. The first touchdown bar has a bottom face for contacting a horizontal plane. The second touchdown bar has a bottom face for contacting the horizontal plane. The bottom face of the first touchdown bar and the bottom face of the second touchdown bar cooperatively define a plane. When the aerial vehicle is in flight, the plane is at an angle relative to the horizontal plane. When the aerial vehicle is landing at the horizontal plane, the plane is parallel to the horizontal plane, the body is angled relative to the horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20160240020
    Abstract: A driving data recorder for a car is provided. The driving data recorder includes: an aerial vehicle including a photographing configured to take photos of the car and surroundings around the car, a control unit configured to generate propulsion commands, and a propulsion unit configured to move the aerial vehicle according to the propulsion commands; and a trigger unit configured to generate control signals when a car has an accident, wherein the control signals are configured to enable the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20160170386
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a controlled device using an electronic device includes detecting touches on a preset touchable area on a touch panel of the electronic device, and acquiring user operation data from the electronic device when at least two touches are detected within a first predetermined duration. The electronic device can control the controlled device to perform predetermined actions in accordance with the user operation data by sending control commands to the controlled device. The controlled device changes state, to move into a preset safe state when no touches are detected within a second predetermined duration within a second predetermined duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20160122010
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle includes a body, a plurality of rotors coupled to the body and configured to provide lift, a plurality of driving devices coupled to the rotors respectively and configured to drive the rotors to rotate, and a control device coupled to the body and the driving devices. The control device includes a gyroscope and a controller. The gyroscope is configured to collect information of rotation speed of the body and transmit the information of the rotation speed to the controller. The controller is configured to provide a driving power for adjusting the rotation speed of the body according the information of the rotation speed, and produce and transmit a control signal of the driving power to the driving devices to output the driving power to corresponding rotors to adjust the rotation speed of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20160103647
    Abstract: An independent display control apparatus communicates with a plurality of display devices. The display control apparatus includes a receiving module, a signal generating module, and a signal transmitting module. The receiving module receives the location information of a plurality of display devices and the signal generating module generates control signals based on the received locations, different locations can thus receive different control signals. Each of the control signals corresponds to a different segment of a predetermined media file transmitted to each display device and the group of display devices can thus be made to simulate the flight and bursting of a firework, or simulate the echoing of a single sound for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Patent number: 9060171
    Abstract: An image processing system is adapted to compress a captured image having a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs). The image compression device includes an image dividing unit, a resolution distribution unit and an encoder. The image dividing unit divides the captured image into a number of blocks according to a predetermined size. The resolution distribution unit distributes a display resolution to each ROI of the captured image according to predetermined display information which includes a position and a resolution level of each ROI. The resolution distribution unit further obtains the blocks covered by each ROI according to the position of each ROI. The encoder separately encodes each block in the captured image according to the resolution level of each block using predetermined rules to obtain compression strings of each block, and generates compression image based on the compression strings and the predetermined display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Patent number: 9056378
    Abstract: A manufacturing machine for processing a product includes a frame, a processing device, an input conveyor belt, an output conveyor belt, two work-stations, two manipulators, and two work-stations. The processing device processes the product. The input conveyor belt transfers the product to the processing device. The output conveyor belt transfers the product after the product being processed. Two work-stations load the product. The two manipulators take the product from the input conveyor belt to the two work-stations, and take the product from the two work-stations to the output conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Patent number: 8755602
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and method obtains an original image, converts the original image into gray level to determine a gray level distribution of the original image, and defines a fuzzy region and a flat region and a fuzzy region according to the gray level distribution and a binary threshold. The electronic apparatus and method compares the pixel gray values in the fuzzy region with pixel gray values in the flat region to re-define the pixel gray values in the fuzzy region according to the comparison and a formula, and binarizes the original image to output an binarized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Patent number: 8605986
    Abstract: A burr detection apparatus includes an imaging unit and a detection unit. The imaging unit captures an original image of a stencil. The original comprises black and white pixels. The detection includes a CPU and a memory. The CPU includes an extracting module, a deciding module, a counting module, and a comparing module. The extracting module obtains a matrix image with N*N pixels, wherein N is an odd number. The deciding module decides whether the center pixel of the matrix image is a black pixel. The counting module obtains a black pixel total counted among marginal pixels which position in the margin of the matrix image in a predetermined rule. The comparing module compares the black pixel total with a predetermined threshold number, and determines that the part of the stencil corresponding to the matrix image has a burr when the black pixel total is less than the threshold number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Publication number: 20130259370
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and method obtains an original image, converts the original image into gray level to determine a gray level distribution of the original image, and defines a fuzzy region and a flat region and a fuzzy region according to the gray level distribution and a binary threshold. The electronic apparatus and method compares the pixel gray values in the fuzzy region with pixel gray values in the flat region to re-define the pixel gray values in the fuzzy region according to the comparison and a formula, and binarizes the original image to output an binarized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong TANG
  • Patent number: 8483721
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a primary transceiver and a processing unit for controlling the primary transceiver to communicate with the related communication apparatuses during a full scan period. The full scan period includes at least one sub-scan period, during one sub-scan period, the processing unit performs a primary communication test between the primary transceiver and each of the related communication apparatuses, judges whether the primary communication test has failed, and determines the corresponding communication apparatus as a failed communication apparatus if the primary communication test has failed. The processing unit further performs a secondary communication test between the primary transceiver and each failed communication apparatus in the previous sub-scan period during a next sub-scan period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Patent number: 8451367
    Abstract: An imaging system uses optical modules to capture images of a subject. The optical modules are fixed on a bearing plate of the imaging system by a fastening element of the imaging system. The fastening element is removable and fixed on the support plate. Each of the optical modules has an optical surface. The fastening element has a bevel attached to all the optical surfaces of the optical modules so that all the optical surfaces are coplanar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhen-Hua Wang, Pei-Chong Tang
  • Publication number: 20130038772
    Abstract: An image processing method includes the steps of: receiving the plurality of single color image signals from an image sensor, and delaying the received single color image signals belonging to a plurality of pixels for storing in a delay unit; retrieving the single color image signals from the delay unit simultaneously, and determining original R, G, and B values for each of the two neighboring pixels of the image sensor with respect to the retrieved single color image signals using an interpolation algorithm; converting the original R, G, and B values for each of the two neighboring pixels to Y, U, and V values; calculating an average Y value of two Y values for two neighboring pixels in the two neighboring pixels; converting the calculated Y value, the U value, and the V value to new R, G, and B values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20130017042
    Abstract: A manipulator includes a first base, a second base, a rotating shaft, a swing arm, and a grasping member. The second base is mounted to the first base, and capable of moving along an X-axis with respect to the first base. The rotating shaft is mounted to the second base, and capable of rotating around a Z-axis perpendicular to the X-axis. The swing arm is mounted to the rotating shaft, and capable of moving along the Z-axis. The grasping member is mounted to a swinging arm wherein the grasping member is taken by the swing arm to rotate on a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20130017041
    Abstract: A manufacturing machine for processing a product includes a frame, a processing device, an input conveyor belt, an output conveyor belt, two work-stations, two manipulators, and two work-stations. The processing device processes the product. The input conveyor belt transfers the product to the processing device. The output conveyor belt transfers the product after the product being processed. Two work-stations load the product. The two manipulators take the product from the input conveyor belt to the two work-stations, and take the product from the two work-stations to the output conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Publication number: 20120295653
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a primary transceiver and a processing unit for controlling the primary transceiver to communicate with the related communication apparatuses during a full scan period. The full scan period includes at least one sub-scan period, during one sub-scan period, the processing unit performs a primary communication test between the primary transceiver and each of the related communication apparatuses, judges whether the primary communication test has failed, and determines the corresponding communication apparatus as a failed communication apparatus if the primary communication test has failed. The processing unit further performs a secondary communication test between the primary transceiver and each failed communication apparatus in the previous sub-scan period during a next sub-scan period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: PEI-CHONG TANG
  • Patent number: 8237810
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reader, a plurality of matrix modules, a selector, and a controller. The reader is configured for reading data of each pixel of a binarized image. The plurality of matrix modules is configured for performing filtering operations to the data based on a control signal, the plurality of matrix modules serially connected, and a first one of the series being connected to the reader. The selector is configured for selecting one of the plurality of matrix modules based on the control signal and outputting filtered results from the selected one of the plurality of matrix modules. The controller is configured for generating the control signal. An image processing method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang
  • Patent number: 8229175
    Abstract: An exemplary system for calculating the number of conductive particles dispersed in an anisotropic conductive film includes an image capturing device and an image processing device. The image capturing device captures a color image of the anisotropic conductive film. The image processing device processes the color image to generate a first binary image. The second binary image includes a plurality of first objects. The first objects occupy a first area in the first binary image. The image processing device processes the first binary image to generate a second binary image having different size with respect to the first binary image by a predetermined value. The second binary image includes a plurality of second objects. The second objects occupy a second area in the second binary image. The image processing device calculates a number of the conductive particles according to the first area, the second area, and the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pei-Chong Tang