Patents by Inventor S. Huang

S. 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).

  • Publication number: 20210080267
    Abstract: Provided are a path planning method and device for an unmanned vehicle, road segments of an origin and destination of a path are acquired; path search is performed to generate an initial path according to an exit endpoint of the road segment where the origin is located, an entrance endpoint of the road segment where the destination is located, and entrance endpoints and exit endpoints of the road segments for connecting the exit endpoint of the road, segment where the origin is located to the entrance endpoint of the road segment where the destination is located; an exit endpoint of a previous road section of the connecting passages in a passable direction is updated according to entrance endpoints of the connecting passages in the initial path; and a final planed path is generated according to different endpoints in the updated initial path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinhua GAN, Hongshan ZHA, Ted S HUANG, Wei XU, Feng PEI, Caijing XIU
  • Publication number: 20200249037
    Abstract: Provide are a method and device for generating a path of an unmanned vehicle on a construction section. The method includes: when detecting a construction section, detected obstacle information is acquired; a current accessible area of the construction section is determined according to the type and position information of the obstacle, and each road point included in the current accessible area is determined; a terminal road point of a target driving path is determined according to the current accessible area; a current location of a vehicle is taken as a start road point, path search is performed in the road points included in the current accessible area according to the start road point and the terminal road point, and passing road points of the target driving path in the construction section are determined; and a target driving path is generated according to the start road point, the passing, road poin is and the terminal road point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Xinhua GAN, Hongshan ZHA, Ted S HUANG, Wei XU, Caijing XIU
  • Publication number: 20200040826
    Abstract: A vehicle power output control method, apparatus and system are provided. The method includes: collecting an image of a road surface on which a vehicle drives currently, and recognizing, according to the image of the road surface, the type of the road surface on which the vehicle drives currently; starting, according to the current type of the road surface, a terrain mode corresponding to an all-terrain adaptive mode; determining, in the terrain mode, a power output strategy corresponding to the current terrain mode; and adjusting an output torque of an engine according to a power output curve corresponding to the current power output strategy, the power output curve being a function curve using a stepping depth of an accelerator pedal as a variable and the output torque of the engine as an output. The method facilitates outputting an adaptive power by an engine when a vehicle drives on different road surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Lingtao HAN, Qiang REN, Ted,S HUANG, Wei XU, Chunyun ZHENG
  • Patent number: 10491140
    Abstract: Provided is a piezo-actuated planar motor, comprising a planar substrate and a mover installed on the planar substrate, the piezo-actuated planar motor further comprising: at least one piezo driving leg which is disposed on said mover so as to drive said mover to move on said planar substrate omnidirectionally in the plane. Further provided is a method of driving a planar motor by using piezo driving legs, which implements three movement modes, i.e., a sliding mode, a walking mode, and a fine tuning mode. The sliding mode has the fastest speed of motion, the walking mode has a relatively slow speed of motion but has a high positioning accuracy and a high-accuracy tracking capability, and the fine tuning mode is used for the adjustment of the planar motor at a final position and has the highest positioning accuracy. The piezo-actuated planar motor of the present invention can effectively overcome the defects of a small movement range and a low speed in a conventional nano-positioning platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Junbin Zhang, Peisen S. Huang
  • Publication number: 20190169748
    Abstract: A heating stage includes a pedestal and a thermal-conductive plate. The thermal-conductive plate is located on the pedestal. The thermal-conductive plate has a central portion and an edge portion surrounding the central portion, and the edge portion comprises a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion, where the first portion is sandwiched between the central portion and the second portion. A height of the second portion gradually decreases along a direction from the central portion toward the edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: P.Y. Chiou, Chih-Chun Huang, Ping-Ting Shen, L.S. Huang
  • Patent number: 10218292
    Abstract: Provided is an active positioning encoder, comprising: a display device, said display device being used for displaying at least a first pattern; a reading device, said reading device comprising at least a first read head, the first read head being used for reading the first pattern in order to obtain an image signal; a signal processing device, said signal processing device performing signal processing on the image signal of the first read head in order to determine the single-dimensional positioning of the first read head relative to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Peisen S. Huang, Junbin Zhang, Zonghao Chen, Jian Gao
  • Patent number: 10097535
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses that utilize a portable apparatus to securely operate a host electronic device. Typically, each portable apparatus includes a data storage unit which stores an operating system and other software. In one example, a portable apparatus can provide a virtual operating environment on top of a host's operating system for a host device. In another example, a portable apparatus containing its operating system can directly boot a host device with one or more hardware profiles. Furthermore, a device-dependent protection against software piracy, a user-dependent protection against sensitive data leaks, a controllable host operating environment to prevent unwanted information exposure, and a secure restoration procedure to prevent virus infection between the host device users may be incorporated. Moreover, a pre-defined information may also be utilized to authorize a connected-state guest operation environment in the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventor: Evan S. Huang
  • Patent number: 9996449
    Abstract: A processor includes an innovation engine, a non-volatile memory, a reserved device, one or more user-defined devices, and logic to execute the user-defined devices. The processor also includes a debug engine with logic to monitor the processor for trigger conditions and record data associated with the trigger conditions. The innovation further includes logic to selectively load the debug engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sheng S. Huang
  • Patent number: 9956059
    Abstract: An orthodontic bracket includes a bracket body, a slide member, and a resilient member. The slide member is slidable relative to the archwire slot. The resilient member is coupled to and is slidable with the slide member. The resilient member is configured to engage a first portion of the bracket body in the opened position and a second portion of the bracket body in the closed position. The second portion is different from the first portion. The resilient member imposes a biasing force on the slide member in the direction of movement toward the archwire slot when the slide member is in the closed position. The resilient member may be configured to impose a biasing force on the slide member in the direction away from the archwire slot when the slide member is at a position intermediate the opened and closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Ormco Corporation
    Inventor: Stanley S. Huang
  • Patent number: 9946746
    Abstract: The subject technology provides configurations for propagating information from an initial analytics tracking data communication to subsequent analytics tracking data communications at an analytics server. In one example, the subject technology receives an analytics tracking data communication. The subject technology determines if the received analytics tracking data communication includes state changing information based on analytics tracking data included in the analytics tracking data communication. The subject technology then determines one or more attributes for propagating to subsequent analytics tracking data if the analytics tracking data communication includes state changing information. The state changing information are stored as one or more of the determined one or more attributes. The subject technology stores the analytics tracking data including the determined one or more attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jerry Hong, Paul Muret, Sagnik Nandy, Madhu Kallazhi Vasu, Evan S. Huang, James Lee Wogulis, Bradley David Townsend, Neil Rhodes, Naomi Ben-Ayoun, Stella Marie Laurenzo, Lucas Paul Hansen, Avi Mehta, Nick Mihailovski, Ashok Babu Amara
  • Patent number: 9943383
    Abstract: An orthodontic bracket includes a bracket body and a ligating slide. The bracket body includes an aperture and an archwire slot. The ligating slide is slidable relative to the archwire slot between an opened position and a first closed position and is pivotable to an angular position in a second closed position. The orthodontic bracket further includes a resilient member that is coupled to the ligating slide and is slidable in the aperture. The ligating slide defines a first height from the base surface having a first value, and in the second closed position, the ligating slide defines a second height from the base surface that is greater than the first value. The bracket body includes a slide support portion having at least one wing extending laterally therefrom. The wing is tapered in thickness. The slide support portion defines a pivot point about which the ligating slide is pivotable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ormco Corporation
    Inventor: Stanley S. Huang
  • Patent number: 9943384
    Abstract: A self-ligating orthodontic bracket includes a bracket body, a slide member, and a resilient member. The slide member is movable relative to the bracket body between an opened position, a first ligating position, and a second ligating position. In the first ligating position and in the second ligating position, a surface of the slide member bounds the archwire slot on a side generally opposite to the base surface to retain the archwire. The resilient member is configured to engage the other of the slide member and the bracket body and has a deformed state for biasing the slide member toward the base surface in at least one of the first and second ligating positions. In the first and second ligating positions, the base surface of the archwire slot and the surface of the slide member are separated by different distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ormco Corporation
    Inventor: Stanley S. Huang
  • Patent number: 9841231
    Abstract: Process for efficiently operating a natural gas liquefaction system with integrated heavies removal/natural gas liquids recovery to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) and/or natural gas liquids (NGL) products with varying characteristics, such as, for example higher heating value (HHV) and/or propane content. Resulting LNG and/or NGL products are capable of meeting the significantly different specifications of two or more markets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Wesley Qualls, Weldon L. Ransbarger, Shawn S. Huang, Jame Yao, Doug Elliot, Jong Juh Chen, Rong-Jwyn Lee
  • Patent number: 9814543
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an orthodontic appliance includes plating a first pattern of a material on a substrate to define a layer. Repeating plating of the first material one or more times forms an additional pattern. A layered structure is built up and forms a portion of the orthodontic appliance. A pattern of a second material different from a first material may be plated on the substrate or on a pattern of the first material. The material may be a sacrificial material that may be later removed. The orthodontic appliance may be an archwire or a self-ligating orthodontic bracket having one or more layered structures formed by plating patterns of the material. Plating may include plating patterns of materials so as to form a movable member in place relative to a bracket body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Ormco Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley S. Huang, Andres Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 9726977
    Abstract: Organic coating compositions, particularly antireflective coating compositions, are provided that can be developed with an aqueous alkaline developer, including in a single step during development of an overcoated photoresist layer. Preferred coating compositions comprise a tetrapolymer that comprises at least four distinct functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries Inc.
    Inventors: James F. Cameron, Jin Wuk Sung, John P. Amara, Greogory P. Prokopowicz, David A. Valeri, Libor Vyklicky, Wu-Song S. Huang, Wenjie Li, Pushkara R. Varanasi, Irene Y. Popova
  • Patent number: 9654589
    Abstract: A method for facilitating sharing of widget programs among a plurality of personal electronic devices is disclosed. The method includes establishing a database of the widget programs capable of being executed by the plurality of personal electronic devices. The method further includes receiving, over a communication network, a widget forwarding request from at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices. An instance of a selected one of the widget programs is then transmitted, in response to the widget forwarding request, to another of the plurality of personal electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven M. Adler, Joseph B. Grand, Andrew S. Huang, Duane S. Maxwell, Kenneth E. Steele, Stephen L. Tomlin
  • Publication number: 20170086949
    Abstract: A self-ligating orthodontic bracket includes a bracket body, a slide member, and a resilient member. The slide member is movable relative to the bracket body between an opened position, a first ligating position, and a second ligating position. In the first ligating position and in the second ligating position, a surface of the slide member bounds the archwire slot on a side generally opposite to the base surface to retain the archwire. The resilient member is configured to engage the other of the slide member and the bracket body and has a deformed state for biasing the slide member toward the base surface in at least one of the first and second ligating positions. In the first and second ligating positions, the base surface of the archwire slot and the surface of the slide member are separated by different distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventor: Stanley S. Huang
  • Patent number: 9532853
    Abstract: A self-ligating orthodontic bracket includes a bracket body, a slide member, and a resilient member. The slide member is movable relative to the bracket body between an opened position, a first ligating position, and a second ligating position. In the first ligating position and in the second ligating position, a surface of the slide member bounds the archwire slot on a side generally opposite to the base surface to retain the archwire. The resilient member is configured to engage the other of the slide member and the bracket body and has a deformed state for biasing the slide member toward the base surface in at least one of the first and second ligating positions. In the first and second ligating positions, the base surface of the archwire slot and the surface of the slide member are separated by different distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ormco Corporation
    Inventor: Stanley S. Huang
  • Publication number: 20160373029
    Abstract: Provided is a piezo-actuated planar motor, comprising a planar substrate and a mover installed on the planar substrate, the piezo-actuated planar motor further comprising: at least one piezo driving leg which is disposed on said mover so as to drive said mover to move on said planar substrate omnidirectionally in the plane. Further provided is a method of driving a planar motor by using piezo driving legs, which implements three movement modes, i.e., a sliding mode, a walking mode, and a fine tuning mode. The sliding mode has the fastest speed of motion, the walking mode has a relatively slow speed of motion but has a high positioning accuracy and a high-accuracy tracking capability, and the fine tuning mode is used for the adjustment of the planar motor at a final position and has the highest positioning accuracy. The piezo-actuated planar motor of the present invention can effectively overcome the defects of a small movement range and a low speed in a conventional nano-positioning platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Junbin ZHANG, Peisen S. HUANG
  • Publication number: 20160356630
    Abstract: Provided is an active positioning encoder, comprising: a display device, said display device being used for displaying at least a first pattern; a reading device, said reading device comprising at least a first read head, the first read head being used for reading the first pattern in order to obtain an image signal; a signal processing device, said signal processing device performing signal processing on the image signal of the first read head in order to determine the single-dimensional positioning of the first read head relative to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Peisen S. Huang, Junbin Zhang, Zonghao Chen, Jian Gao