Patents by Inventor Ping Fan
Ping Fan 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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Publication number: 20240313566Abstract: A charging/discharging power conversion system includes: a current control circuit, wherein a serial connection of a second battery and the current control circuit is connected in parallel to a first battery between a charging node and a reference voltage level; and an auxiliary current control circuit, including: a current measurement circuit measuring a first battery current and generate a battery current signal; and a current adjustment circuit adjusting a charging current according to the battery current signal via an adjustment procedure, to render the first battery current not to be greater than a first battery current threshold; wherein the adjustment procedure includes: setting the first battery current threshold; setting an initial value of the charging current, such that the initial value of the charging current is equal to a sum of the first battery current threshold plus a second battery current threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Ping-Fan Wang, Po-Chen Liu, Jui-Cheng Yang, Hung-Chi Chen
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Patent number: 12026930Abstract: A saliency detection explicitly models complementary information between appearance, or color, and depth information in images. A mutual-information minimization is used as a regularizer to reduce the redundancy between appearance features from RGB and geometric features from depth in the latent space. Then the latent features of each of the appearance and geometric modalities are fused to achieve multi-modal feature fusion for saliency detection.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence LtdInventors: Deng-Ping Fan, Jing Zhang, Yuchao Dai, Xin Yu, Yiran Zhong, Nick Barnes, Ling Shao
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Publication number: 20240209829Abstract: A water flow power generation device includes a supporting frame, a carrying platform, a power generation assembly, a speed-increasing gear box and an impeller blade assembly, the impeller blade assembly includes a rotating shaft connected with the speed-increasing gear box and a plurality of impeller blades uniformly arranged at one end of the rotating shaft, the impeller blades are in contact with the water flow and are driven by the water flow to rotate. The carrying platform can be adjusted to move up and down, so that the contact area of the impeller blade assembly and the water flow is adjusted, water energy can be utilized to the maximum extent, and the service life of the impeller blade assembly is prolonged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Ping FAN, Guangxing LIANG, Zhuanghao ZHENG, Jingting LUO
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Patent number: 11902430Abstract: Disclosed are a quantum color image encrypting method based on modification direction and corresponding circuit, respectively providing quantum modular circuits design for a parallel adder, a parallel subtractor, a comparator, a cyclic shift add 1, and a cyclic shift subtract 1; and based on these modular circuits, circuit for implementing quantum color image steganography is provided. From the complexity analysis of implementing quantum circuit for color image steganography, it is seen that for a two-dimensional quantum color image with 22n pixels and the R, G, and B channels of which are respectively represented by q number of quantum bits, the steganography algorithm is an efficient transformation method, and the circuit complexity is O(q2+n), which can hardly be achieved by classical geometric transformation. The disclosure is applicable for many practical image processing applications, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Shanghai Maritime UniversityInventors: Rigui Zhou, Wenwen Hu, Ping Fan, Rirong Zhou, Ganbin Wang
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Publication number: 20230375751Abstract: A photochromic polyurethane laminate wherein the photochromic polyurethane layer of the laminate has been crosslinked with an isocyanate-active prepolymer using a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is formulated to have at least three functional groups that are reactive with functional groups of the polyurethane or of the isocyanate-active prepolymer. A method of making the photochromic polyurethane laminate includes steps of causing the crosslinking.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: HOYA Optical Labs Of America, Inc.Inventors: Hannah Vu, Hideyo Sugimura, Ping Fan, Hao Vu
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Patent number: 11754752Abstract: A photochromic polyurethane laminate wherein the photochromic polyurethane layer of the laminate has been crosslinked with an isocyanate-active prepolymer using a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is formulated to have at least three functional groups that are reactive with functional groups of the polyurethane or of the isocyanate-active prepolymer. A method of making the photochromic polyurethane laminate includes steps of causing the crosslinking.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.Inventors: Hannah Vu, Hideyo Sugimura, Ping Fan, Hao Vu
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Patent number: 11687835Abstract: A transformer based vision-linguistic (VL) model and training technique uses a number of different image patches covering the same portion of an image, along with a text description of the image to train the model. The model and pre-training techniques may be used in domain specific training of the model. The model can be used for fine-grained image-text tasks in the fashion domain.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence LtdInventors: Deng-Ping Fan, Mingchen Zhuge, Ling Shao
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Patent number: 11560500Abstract: The present invention pertains to polyurethane-urea based optical adhesives for formation of optical film laminates, optically functional film laminates, and ophthalmic or eyeglass lenses employing the same and methods for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.Inventors: Ping Fan, Hannah Vu, James Mulligan, Steven Harold Nahm, David J. Kissel, Richard Blacker
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Publication number: 20220277218Abstract: A transformer based vision-linguistic (VL) model and training technique uses a number of different image patches covering the same portion of an image, along with a text description of the image to train the model. The model and pre-training techniques may be used in domain specific training of the model. The model can be used for fine-grained image-text tasks in the fashion domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Deng-Ping Fan, Mingchen Zhuge, Ling Shao
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Patent number: 11427754Abstract: Photochromic polyurethane laminates and methods for the formation of same wherein the photochromic polyurethane layer of the laminate has been crosslinked with a isocyanate-active prepolymer using a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is formulated to have at least three functional groups that are reactive with functional groups of the polyurethane or of the isocyanate-active prepolymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.Inventors: Ping Fan, Hannah Vu
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Publication number: 20220253639Abstract: A saliency detection explicitly models complementary information between appearance, or color, and depth information in images. A mutual-information minimization is used as a regularizer to reduce the redundancy between appearance features from RGB and geometric features from depth in the latent space. Then the latent features of each of the appearance and geometric modalities are fused to achieve multi-modal feature fusion for saliency detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Deng-Ping Fan, Jing Zhang, Yuchao Dai, Xin Yu, Yiran Zhong, Nick Barnes, Ling Shao
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Publication number: 20220141007Abstract: Disclosed are a quantum color image encrypting method based on modification direction and corresponding circuit, respectively providing quantum modular circuits design for a parallel adder, a parallel subtractor, a comparator, a cyclic shift add 1, and a cyclic shift subtract 1; and based on these modular circuits, circuit for implementing quantum color image steganography is provided. From the complexity analysis of implementing quantum circuit for color image steganography, it is seen that for a two-dimensional quantum color image with 22n pixels and the R, G, and B channels of which are respectively represented by q number of quantum bits, the steganography algorithm is an efficient transformation method, and the circuit complexity is O(q2+n), which can hardly be achieved by classical geometric transformation. The disclosure is applicable for many practical image processing applications, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Rigui ZHOU, Wenwen HU, Ping FAN, Rirong ZHOU, Ganbin WANG
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Patent number: 11262198Abstract: Pressure assisted positioning method and device thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The pressure assisted positioning device is exerted for positioning a target under the circumstance of altitude change since the target enters a specific region. The pressure assisted positioning method includes the following steps. First, confirming the entrance of the specific region of the target and detecting a plurality of pressure data. Then, calculating a pressure variation between the two selected pressure data. At last, comparing the pressure variation to a threshold. An altitude change within the specific region is confirmed as the pressure variation is greater than the threshold. On the other hand, as the pressure variation is greater than the threshold, it refers to no altitude change within the specific region.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Ping-Fan Ho, Chia-Cheng Wang, Jyh-Cheng Chen
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Publication number: 20220050226Abstract: A photochromic polyurethane laminate wherein the photochromic polyurethane layer of the laminate has been crosslinked with an isocyanate-active prepolymer using a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is formulated to have at least three functional groups that are reactive with functional groups of the polyurethane or of the isocyanate-active prepolymer. A method of making the photochromic polyurethane laminate includes steps of causing the crosslinking.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Vision Ease, LPInventors: Hannah Vu, Hideyo Sugimura, Ping Fan, Hao Vu
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Publication number: 20220005676Abstract: This application provides a chamber applied in a semiconductor process, including a housing. The housing is closed to form a reaction cavity. A heat conduction member is disposed on an outer side wall of the housing. The heat conduction member is provided with a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first surface is in contact with the outer side wall of the housing, and the second surface is configured to be in contact with an external device to form a heat conduction channel between the housing and the external device. This application has the advantages that the heat conduction member is used to establish the heat conduction channel between the housing and the external device, so that the heat conducting rate is increased, the heat in the reaction cavity can be quickly released, and the temperature in the reaction cavity can be balanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventor: PING-FAN CHEN
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Patent number: 11181666Abstract: A photochromic polyurethane laminate wherein the photochromic polyurethane layer of the laminate has been crosslinked with an isocyanate-active prepolymer using a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is formulated to have at least three functional groups that are reactive with functional groups of the polyurethane or of the isocyanate-active prepolymer. A method of making the photochromic polyurethane laminate includes steps of causing the crosslinking.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Vision Ease, LPInventors: Hannah Vu, Hideyo Sugimura, Ping Fan, Hao Vu
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Patent number: 11056224Abstract: The present invention provides an easy-to-use intermittent fasting assistance terminal and method which integrates recording, guidance and supervision functions. The intermittent fasting assistance terminal is connected to a server through a network, and the intermittent fasting assistance terminal includes an input device, a display device, a processor, and a memory storing an intermittent fasting assistance software program. The processor is configured to execute the intermittent fasting assistance software program, respond to gestures received by the input device and generate corresponding interactive interfaces to be displayed in the display device. The input device is used for inputting user basic data into the intermittent fasting assistance software program and receiving operating gestures of a user to the intermittent fasting assistance software program.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SIMPLE DESIGN LTD.Inventor: Ping Fan
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Publication number: 20200400490Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a thermoelectric laser power probe, including a heat dissipation housing and a laser power probing unit fixed inside the heat dissipation housing. The heat dissipation housing is provided with a light inlet. The laser power probing unit includes a substrate. The substrate includes a top surface and at least two outer side surfaces. The top surface is provided with an absorbent material layer. The absorbent material layer corresponds to the light inlet. The at least two outer side surfaces are symmetrically arranged about a center line of a cross section of the top surface, each of the outer side surfaces is perpendicular to the top surface or a tangent plane of the top surface, and each of the outer side surfaces is sequentially provided with an insulating layer and a thin-film thermopile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Ping Fan, Tianbao Chen, Zhaokun Cai, Chaoming Chen, Zhuanghao Zheng, Guangxing Liang
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Patent number: 10691329Abstract: This application is directed to controlling media content display at an electronic device having a touch display. While playing media content on the touch display using a media player application, the electronic device detects a user swipe on the touch display including a sequence of contacts on a plurality of contact locations on the touch display. The electronic device determines a plurality of contact characteristics of the user swipe. The contact characteristics include a subset of contact locations of the sequence of contacts on the touch display. The user swipe is associated with a media play control option based on the contact characteristics. The media player application is then adjusted according to the media play control option while concurrently displaying a progressive indicator corresponding to the media play control option and the user swipe until after completion of the user swipe on the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SIMPLE DESIGN LTD.Inventor: Ping Fan
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Publication number: 20200132453Abstract: Pressure assisted positioning method and device thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The pressure assisted positioning device is exerted for positioning a target under the circumstance of altitude change since the target enters a specific region. The pressure assisted positioning method includes the following steps. First, confirming the entrance of the specific region of the target and detecting a plurality of pressure data. Then, calculating a pressure variation between the two selected pressure data. At last, comparing the pressure variation to a threshold. An altitude change within the specific region is confirmed as the pressure variation is greater than the threshold. On the other hand, as the pressure variation is greater than the threshold, it refers to no altitude change within the specific region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Ping-Fan Ho, Chia-Cheng Wang, Jyh-Cheng Chen