Patents by Inventor Ru Wang
Ru Wang 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: 11200909Abstract: A method is disclosed. The proposed method includes: providing an initial speech corpus including plural utterances; based on a condition of maximum a posteriori (MAP), according to respective sequences of syllable duration, syllable duration prosodic state, syllable tone, base-syllable type, and break type of the kth utterance, using a probability of an ISR of the kth utterance xk to estimate an estimated value {circumflex over (x)}k of the xk; and through the MAP condition, according to respective sequences of syllable duration, syllable duration prosodic state, syllable tone, base-syllable type, and break type of the given lth breath group/prosodic phrase group (BG/PG) of the kth utterance, using a probability of an ISR of the lth BG/PG of the kth utterance xk,l to estimate an estimated value {circumflex over (x)}k,l of the xk,l wherein the {circumflex over (x)}k,l is the estimated value of local ISR, and a mean of a prior probability model of the {circumflex over (x)}k,l is the {circumflex over (x)}k.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Chen-Yu Chiang, Guan-Ting Liou, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen
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Patent number: 11184957Abstract: An electronic heating smoking paraphernalia capable of being rotated to extract a cigarette includes a heating unit, a heating unit protection cover, wherein the heating unit passes through a through hole to achieve a coaxial arrangement with the heating unit protection cover, an outer wall is provided with an annular protrusion and a side wall is provided with a limiting groove; a heating cavity shell, wherein the heating cavity shell is sleeved outside the heating unit protection cover, an inner wall is provided with an annular groove, the annular groove is matched with the annular protrusion, an inner wall is further provided with a sliding guide groove; and a cigarette holding cavity, wherein an outer wall is provided with protrusions, the protrusions penetrate through the limiting groove and an end of each protrusion is limited in the sliding guide groove.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Zhiqiang Li, Shanzhai Shang, Ping Lei, Jingmei Han, Chengya Wang, Ru Wang, Xu Zeng, Dong Xiao, Dalin Yuan, Lingxuan Liu, Nengjun Xiang, Lei Wang, Yongkuan Chen
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Patent number: 11178912Abstract: A device capable of automatically igniting or heating a cigarette includes a heat source system, a control system, and the openable and closeable top cover. The heat source system includes the electric heating chamber and the igniter. The igniter includes the electric heating element. The electric heating chamber includes at least one pair of light passing holes of the electric heating chamber. The control system includes the control circuit board, the mechanical switch, the mode switching switch, the infrared light source, the light sensing switch, and the device main circuit switch. The mechanical switch controls the top cover to be opened or closed and controls the device main circuit switch to be turned on or off. The mode switching switch is used for switching between an operation of the igniter and an operation of the electric heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Xu Zeng, Jianguo Tang, Ping Lei, Shanzhai Shang, Dalin Yuan, Xudong Zheng, Jingmei Han, Zhiqiang Li, Chengya Wang, Ru Wang, Yupeng Gong, Weimin Gong, Kunrong Shi, Zhihong Tan, Yongkuan Chen
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Patent number: 11170854Abstract: A layout pattern of a two-port ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a first comparison circuit and a second comparison circuit. The first comparison circuit and the second comparison circuit are positioned in a first side area of a side and a second side area of another side of the layout pattern, respectively. The first storage unit and the second storage unit are positioned in a first middle area and a second middle area between the first side area and the second side area, respectively. The first storage unit is connected to the first comparison circuit through a first gate structure and connected to the second comparison circuit through a second gate structure. The second storage unit is connected to the first comparison circuit through a third gate structure and connected to the second comparison circuit through a fourth gate structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chun-Hsien Huang, Ching-Cheng Lung, Yu-Tse Kuo, Shu-Ru Wang, Chun-Yen Tseng
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Patent number: 11160315Abstract: A compression charging device includes a cigarette case charging part and a cigarette set charging part. The cigarette case charging part includes a positive electrode cover, a positive spring, a negative spring, a charging insulation sleeve, and a PCB. The cigarette set charging part includes a filter holding seat, a charging base, and an insulation fixing sleeve. The compression charging device is configured for cigarette set charging. The negative spring and the positive spring have a double function of electrical conduction and bouncing.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Ru Wang, Chengya Wang, Xu Zeng, Jingmei Han, Ping Lei, Shanzhai Shang, Zhiqiang Li, Dalin Yuan, Changshan Zhao, Shiwei Li, Yongkuan Chen, Hongyong Luo, Fengren Fang
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Publication number: 20210319217Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for vision-based cell structure recognition using hierarchical neural networks and cell boundaries to structure clustering are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes detecting a style of the given table using at least one style classification model; selecting, based at least in part on the detected style, a cell detection model appropriate for the detected style; detecting cells within the given table using the selected cell detection model; and outputting, to at least one user, information pertaining to the detected cells comprising image coordinates of one or more bounding boxes associated with the detected cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Xin Ru Wang, Douglas R. Burdick, Xinyi Zheng
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Publication number: 20210319325Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for cooperative neural networks with spatial containment constraints are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes dividing a processing task into multiple sub-tasks; training multiple independent neural networks, such that at least some of the multiple sub-tasks correspond to different ones of the multiple independent neural networks; defining, based at least in part on constraint-based domain knowledge related to the processing task, at least one constraint loss for a given one of the multiple sub-tasks, the at least one constraint loss being dependent on output from at least one of the other multiple sub-tasks; and re-training at least a portion of the multiple independent neural networks, the re-training being dependent on using the at least one constraint loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Xin Ru Wang, Xinyi Zheng, Douglas R. Burdick, Ioannis Katsis
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Publication number: 20210319356Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving two documents, one of the two documents having at least one table that includes the same information as a corresponding table in the other of the two documents, wherein (i) one of the two documents comprises the at least one table in an unstructured table representation and (ii) the other of the two documents comprises the at least one table in a structured table representation; identifying text elements within the at least one table in the unstructured table representation; matching the identified text elements with table elements within the at least one table in the structured table representation; and annotating the at least one table in the structured table representation based upon the matches between the table elements and text elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Xin Ru Wang, Douglas Ronald Burdick, Ioannis Katsis
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Patent number: 11101734Abstract: A multi-level buck converter includes an input power source, an input capacitor, first to fourth switches, a clamp capacitor, an output inductor, a clamp switch, a clamp diode, an output capacitor, an output load, a current detection circuit, a voltage detection circuit and a control circuit. The current detection circuit detects whether an inductor current of the output inductor exceeds a predetermined current value, and if so, the output clamp signal controls the clamp switch to be turned on. The voltage detection circuit generates a duty cycle control signal according to an error between an output voltage and a target output voltage. The control circuit controls the first to the fourth switches to sequentially enter a first mode, a second mode, a third mode, and a fourth mode in a first part of a duty cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jing-Yuan Lin, Jun-Ru Wang, Pin-Hsien Liu, Huang-Jen Chiu
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Patent number: 11064384Abstract: A wireless communication device including two wireless transceivers and a controller is provided. The first and second wireless transceivers provide a first connection and a second connection for wireless transmission and reception using a first wireless technology and a second wireless technology, respectively. The controller determines a first period of time from reception of a request for transmitting a packet transmission of a data flow by the first wireless transceiver to a start of the packet transmission over the first connection via the first wireless transceiver, or a second period of time from reception of the request for transmitting the packet of the data flow by the first wireless transceiver to reception of the packet by a router, and activates a multipath communication protocol, based on the first or second period of time, for transmitting subsequent packets of the data flow over both the first and second connections.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Fang-Ru Wang, Wei-Hsuan Lien
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Patent number: 11058149Abstract: A smoking paraphernalia cooled by a smoke flow includes the following components: a shell; a smoking cup placed inside the shell, wherein a part of a bottom of the smoking cup is provided with a heating unit socket, a plurality of air inlet holes and a protruded step; a pushing key; a heating unit; and a fixing base. According to the smoking paraphernalia of the present invention, a surface temperature of the shell can be reduced, and tobacco residues can be conveniently cleaned, which prevents smoke from flowing toward an interior of the smoking paraphernalia and prolongs the service life of the smoking paraphernalia.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Xudong Zheng, Jianguo Tang, Zhiqiang Li, Ping Lei, Shanzhai Shang, Jingmei Han, Chengya Wang, Ru Wang, Xu Zeng, Dalin Yuan, Yongkuan Chen, Mingming Miao
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Publication number: 20210159795Abstract: A multi-level buck converter includes an input power source, an input capacitor, first to fourth switches, a clamp capacitor, an output inductor, a clamp switch, a clamp diode, an output capacitor, an output load, a current detection circuit, a voltage detection circuit and a control circuit. The current detection circuit detects whether an inductor current of the output inductor exceeds a predetermined current value, and if so, the output clamp signal controls the clamp switch to be turned on. The voltage detection circuit generates a duty cycle control signal according to an error between an output voltage and a target output voltage. The control circuit controls the first to the fourth switches to sequentially enter a first mode, a second mode, a third mode, and a fourth mode in a first part of a duty cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: JING-YUAN LIN, JUN-RU WANG, PIN-HSIEN LIU, HUANG-JEN CHIU
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Publication number: 20210118507Abstract: A layout pattern of a two-port ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a first comparison circuit and a second comparison circuit. The first comparison circuit and the second comparison circuit are positioned in a first side area of a side and a second side area of another side of the layout pattern, respectively. The first storage unit and the second storage unit are positioned in a first middle area and a second middle area between the first side area and the second side area, respectively. The first storage unit is connected to the first comparison circuit through a first gate structure and connected to the second comparison circuit through a second gate structure. The second storage unit is connected to the first comparison circuit through a third gate structure and connected to the second comparison circuit through a fourth gate structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Chun-Hsien Huang, Ching-Cheng Lung, Yu-Tse Kuo, Shu-Ru Wang, Chun-Yen Tseng
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Patent number: 10978122Abstract: A memory includes (n?1) non-volatile cells, (n?1) bit lines and a current driving circuit. Each of the (n?1) non-volatile cells includes a first terminal and a second terminal. An ith bit line of the (n?1) bit lines is coupled to a first terminal of an ith non-volatile cell of the (n?1) non-volatile cells. The current driving circuit includes n first transistors coupled to the (n?1) non-volatile cells.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chun-Yen Tseng, Yu-Tse Kuo, Chang-Hung Chen, Shu-Ru Wang, Ya-Lan Chiou, Chun-Hsien Huang, Chih-Wei Tsai, Hsin-Chih Yu, Yi-Ting Wu, Cheng-Tung Huang, Jen-Yu Wang, Jhen-Siang Wu, Po-Chun Yang, Yung-Ching Hsieh, Jian-Jhong Chen, Bo-Chang Li
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Patent number: 10966452Abstract: A tobacco humectant, which is a metal-organic framework material with a three-dimensional structure obtained by a self-assembly of Zr4+ and terephthalic acid or 2-aminoterephthalic acid. The metal-organic framework material with the three-dimensional structure obtained by the self-assembly of the Zr4+ and the terephthalic acid is Uio-66, and the metal-organic framework material with the three-dimensional structure obtained by the self-assembly of the Zr4+ and the 2-aminoterephthalic acid is Uio-66-NH2. A preparation method of the tobacco humectant and a use thereof in tobacco is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Jingmei Han, Xudong Zheng, Hangxing Li, Shanzhai Shang, Ru Wang, Ping Lei, Zhiqiang Li, Chengya Wang, Zhiyong Sun, Jianguo Tang, Yongkuan Chen
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Publication number: 20210052006Abstract: A device with a separated gas inlet for cigarette set includes a controller switch, a controller switch seat, a transparent light guide seat, a filter holding seat, an insulation fixing sleeve, and a charging base. In the device with the separated gas inlet for cigarette set, air inlet channel for initiating a controller switch is separated from a smoke gas channel for cigarette, thereby avoiding the failure of the controller switch caused by tarry matters of cigarette gas attaching on an initiating hole of the controller switch, and prolonging the service life of cigarette set.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2017Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Xudong ZHENG, Jianguo TANG, Xu ZENG, Ru WANG, Chengya Wang, Shanzhai SHANG, Ping LEI, Jingmei HAN, Zhiqiang LI, Dalin YUAN, Liheng ZHAO, Jianrong ZHANG, Yongkuan CHEN, Hongyong LUO, Fengren FANG
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Publication number: 20210051994Abstract: A tobacco humectant, which is a metal-organic framework material with a three-dimensional structure obtained by a self-assembly of Zr4+ and terephthalic acid or 2-aminoterephthalic acid. The metal-organic framework material with the three-dimensional structure obtained by the self-assembly of the Zr4+ and the terephthalic acid is Uio-66, and the metal-organic framework material with the three-dimensional structure obtained by the self-assembly of the Zr4+ and the 2-aminoterephthalic acid is Uio-66-NH2. A preparation method of the tobacco humectant and a use thereof in tobacco is further provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Jingmei HAN, Xudong ZHENG, Hangxing LI, Shanzhai SHANG, Ru WANG, Ping LEI, Zhiqiang LI, Chengya WANG, Zhiyong SUN, Jianguo TANG, Yongkuan CHEN
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Publication number: 20210035598Abstract: A method is disclosed. The proposed method includes: providing an initial speech corpus including plural utterances; based on a condition of maximum a posteriori (MAP), according to respective sequences of syllable duration, syllable duration prosodic state, syllable tone, base-syllable type, and break type of the kth utterance, using a probability of an ISR of the kth utterance xk to estimate an estimated value {circumflex over (x)}k of the xk; and through the MAP condition, according to respective sequences of syllable duration, syllable duration prosodic state, syllable tone, base-syllable type, and break type of the given lth breath group/prosodic phrase group (BG/PG) of the kth utterance, using a probability of an ISR of the lth BG/PG of the kth utterance xk,l to estimate an estimated value {circumflex over (x)}k,l of the xk,l wherein the {circumflex over (x)}k,l is the estimated value of local ISR, and a mean of a prior probability model of the {circumflex over (x)}k,l is the {circumflex over (x)}k.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: National Chiao Tung UniversityInventors: Chen-Yu Chiang, Guan-Ting Liou, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen
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Publication number: 20210007392Abstract: An automatically resettable smoking paraphernalia includes the following components: an outer upper shell, a smoking cup provided inside the outer upper shell, a pushing key, and a spring, etc., wherein the smoking cup, the spring, the outer upper shell can be detached and replaced as a whole, the smoking cup can stick out of the outer upper shell by a distance to extract and unload the cigarette, and then automatically reset. Besides, the smoking cup is hidden inside the upper outer shell, so as to prevent the exposed smoking cup with an excessively high temperature from burning users, meanwhile avoiding a risk of losing the smoking cup.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTDInventors: Jianguo TANG, Xudong Zheng, Zhiqiang Li, Shanzhai Shang, Jingmei Han, Ping Lei, Chengya Wang, Ru Wang, Xu Zeng, Dalin Yuan, Yongkuan Chen, Mingming Miao
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Two-port ternary content addressable memory and layout pattern thereof, and associated memory device
Patent number: 10892013Abstract: A two-port ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) and layout pattern thereof, and associated memory device are provided. The two-port TCAM may include a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a set of first search terminals, a set of second search terminals, a first comparison circuit, a second comparison circuit, a first match terminal and a second match terminal, wherein the first comparison circuit is respectively coupled to the first storage unit, the second storage unit, the set of first search terminals and the first match terminal, and the second comparison circuit is respectively coupled to the first storage unit, the second storage unit, the set of second search terminals and the second match terminal. First search data and second search data may be concurrently inputted into the two-port TCAM for determining whether the first search data and the second search data match content data within the two-port TCAM.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chun-Hsien Huang, Ching-Cheng Lung, Yu-Tse Kuo, Shu-Ru Wang, Chun-Yen Tseng