Patents by Inventor Sheng-An Wang
Sheng-An 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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Publication number: 20240120431Abstract: Clean version of the Abstract A preparation method for growing a germanium sulfide (GeS2) single-crystal thin film on a SiO2 substrate includes: cleaning a surface of a substrate with acetone, ethanol and deionized water, where the substrate is a Si/SiO2 substrate or a SiO2 glass substrate; photoetching the substrate, spin-coating a photoresist, and performing photoetching and dry etching or wet etching to obtain a groove pattern; depositing a germanium (Ge)-crystal layer in the groove pattern of the substrate to obtain a treated substrate; and putting the treated substrate into a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) device for growth, a growth source being high-purity sulfur (S) powder and high-purity Ge powder, thereby obtaining a GeS2 single-crystal thin film on the SiO2 substrate. The preparation method can grow GeS2 single crystals on the SiO2 substrate. The GeS2 single crystals have a high crystalline quality and a small surface roughness.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Guoqiang LI, Sheng CHEN, Wenliang WANG, Jixing CHAI
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Publication number: 20240114967Abstract: An electronic-cigarette rod includes a housing having an insertion opening and a support in the housing. The support includes a receiving cavity for receiving a sensor, an air inlet channel in communication with the receiving cavity, an airflow channel defined by an outer peripheral wall of the support and in air communication with an exterior of the support, and a first opening. The support further includes an end surface facing the insertion opening, the air inlet channel is located on a side of the receiving cavity close to the end surface. A first end of the first opening is in communication with the airflow channel, a second end of the first opening is in communication with the air inlet channel, and the air inlet channel is in air communication with the exterior of the support through the first opening and the airflow channel in that sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: HUI WANG, Sheng-Yang Xu
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Publication number: 20240119603Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ball tracking system and method. The ball tracking system includes camera device and processing device. The camera device is configured to generate a plurality of video frame data, wherein the video frame data includes image of ball. The processing device is electrically coupled to the camera device and is configured to: recognize the image of the ball from the plurality of video frame data to obtain 2D estimation coordinate of the ball at first frame time and utilize 2D to 3D matrix to convert the 2D estimation coordinate into first 3D estimation coordinate; utilize model to calculate second 3D estimation coordinate of the ball at the first frame time; and calibrate according to the first 3D estimation coordinate and the second 3D estimation coordinate to generate 3D calibration coordinate of the ball at the first frame time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Rong-Sheng WANG, Shih-Chun CHOU, Hsiao-Chen CHANG
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Publication number: 20240118565Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a light-controlling layer, a retardation layer, and a first linear polarizer. The light-controlling layer is disposed between the display panel and the retardation layer. The retardation layer is disposed between the light-controlling layer and the first linear polarizer. A first transmission direction of the first linear polarizer is different from a second transmission direction of at least a portion of an incident light. The incident light passes through the retardation layer so as to enter the first linear polarizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Jo-Hsin WANG, Hong-Sheng HSIEH
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Patent number: 11955379Abstract: A metal adhesion layer may be formed on a bottom and a sidewall of a trench prior to formation of a metal plug in the trench. A plasma may be used to modify the phase composition of the metal adhesion layer to increase adhesion between the metal adhesion layer and the metal plug. In particular, the plasma may cause a shift or transformation of the phase composition of the metal adhesion layer to cause the metal adhesion layer to be composed of a (111) dominant phase. The (111) dominant phase of the metal adhesion layer increases adhesion between the metal adhesion layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Pei-Wen Wu, Chun-I Tsai, Chi-Cheng Hung, Jyh-Cherng Sheu, Yu-Sheng Wang, Ming-Hsing Tsai
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Patent number: 11955423Abstract: Methods for forming dummy under-bump metallurgy structures and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first redistribution line and a second redistribution line over a semiconductor substrate; a first passivation layer over the first redistribution line and the second redistribution line; a second passivation layer over the first passivation layer; a first under-bump metallurgy (UBM) structure over the first redistribution line, the first UBM structure extending through the first passivation layer and the second passivation layer and being electrically coupled to the first redistribution line; and a second UBM structure over the second redistribution line, the second UBM structure extending through the second passivation layer, the second UBM structure being electrically isolated from the second redistribution line by the first passivation layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ting-Li Yang, Po-Hao Tsai, Ming-Da Cheng, Yung-Han Chuang, Hsueh-Sheng Wang
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Patent number: 11954530Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of processing data based on QUIC protocol stack, the method including: obtaining a connection identifier of a data packet; determining a server program used for processing the data packet, wherein the server program comprises a plurality of worker threads, wherein QUIC protocol stacks run in the plurality of worker threads; determining a corresponding worker thread from the multiple worker threads based on the connection identifier; and distributing the data packet to the corresponding worker thread to make the QUIC protocol stack on the corresponding worker thread process the data packet. The disclosure further provides a system, a computing device and a computer-readable storage medium of processing data based on QUIC protocol stack.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng Wang, Quan Zhou, Shangzhi Cai
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Patent number: 11955653Abstract: Disclosed are a pallet configured to bear a battery cell. The pallet includes an external fixing rack and a plurality of supporting beams. A mounting space is formed inside the external fixing rack. The plurality of supporting beams are disposed in the mounting space. The plurality of supporting beams are arranged along a first direction. The plurality of supporting beams are connected to the external fixing rack separately. At least two of the supporting beams are spaced apart. The plurality of supporting beams are configured to bear the battery cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Jiayi Zhao, Fangyu Huang, Sheng Tang, Zhihui Wang, Sizhe Lai
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Patent number: 11955038Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pixel mapping circuitry may be used to map the two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display. The array of pixels may have a diagonal layout. An offset map may be used by the pixel mapping circuitry to account for the diagonal layout.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yue Ma, Ping-Yen Chou, Fu-Chung Huang
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Patent number: 11954083Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a clothing information processing method, comprises: the server receives the clothing information sent by a washing device and saves it; the server receives request information sent by an intelligent terminal; the server obtains the corresponding clothing information according to the request information and sends it to the intelligent terminal. In this disclosure, the server receives the clothing information sent by the washing device and stores the clothing information. In this way, in the whole washing cycle, even after this washing cycle, the user can obtain the clothing information from the server through the intelligent terminal, which avoids that in the prior art, after the stage of uploading clothing information by the washing device is completed, the intelligent terminal can no longer obtain clothing information.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.Inventors: Junming Yin, Shuai Wang, Sheng Xu
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Patent number: 11956453Abstract: A method and apparatus for neural network based cross component prediction with scaling factors during encoding or decoding of an image frame or a video sequence, which may include training a deep neural network (DNN) cross component prediction (CCP) model with at least one or more scaling factors, wherein the at least one or more scaling factors are learned by optimizing a rate-distortion loss based on an input video sequence comprising a luma component, and reconstructing a chroma component based on the luma component using the trained DNN CCP model with the at least one or more scaling factors for chroma prediction. The trained DNN CCP may be updated for chroma prediction of the input video sequence using the one or more scaling factors, and performing chroma prediction of the input video sequence using the updated DNN CCP model with the one or more scaling factors.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Sheng Lin, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Ding Ding, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
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Publication number: 20240112628Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. The viewer may be particularly susceptible to artifacts caused by crosstalk at the edge viewing zones within the primary field of view of the display. Certain types of content may also be more vulnerable to crosstalk than other types of content. Therefore, to mitigate crosstalk artifacts, the pixel value for each pixel may be adjusted based on the viewing zone of the respective pixel and content information (such as texture information or brightness information) associated with the respective pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yunhui Hou, Yi-Pai Huang, Fu-Chung Huang, Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Ping-Yen Chou, Yi Huang, Juan He, Alfred B. Huergo Wagner, Seung Wook Kim
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Publication number: 20240111773Abstract: Computer technology for retrieving data stored in a table that includes the following computer operations: receiving, from persistent storage of a computer, an original Index Tree data structure; storing, in volatile memory, a memory-based Index Tree data structure based on the original Index Tree data structure, with the memory-based Index Tree data structure including: a root node, a set of hierarchically arranged intermediate layer(s) with each intermediate layer including a plurality of non-leaf nodes, and a leaf layer including a plurality of leaf nodes; and retrieving data from a table in a database, with the retrieval including traversing the memory-based Index Tree data structure through a plurality of child lock pointers to locate pages including the data to be retrieved from the table.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Shuo Li, Xiaobo Wang, Sheng Yan Sun, YING ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240113135Abstract: Disclosed are a light-emitting module and a display device. The light-emitting module includes a substrate, a first driving circuit layer and at least one first light-emitting unit group. At least one first groove is provided on a surface of the substrate. The first driving circuit layer is located on the substrate and includes at least one first signal line located in the first groove. The first light-emitting unit group is located on a side, where the first driving circuit layer is provided, of the substrate, and includes at least one first lamp bead, and the first lamp bead is connected in series on the first signal line. In the light-emitting module, the first signal line is arranged in the first groove of the substrate, which is equivalent to being embedded in the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: SHINE OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng ZHANG, Lixiang LIU, Shicheng ZHANG, Yi HUANG, Xiujun WANG
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Patent number: 11949892Abstract: A method and apparatus for neural network based cross component prediction with low-bit precision during encoding or decoding of an image frame or a video sequence, which may include reconstructing a chroma component based on a received luma component using a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) cross component prediction (CCP) model for chroma prediction, and updating a set of parameters of the pre-trained DNN CCP model with low-bit precision. The method may also include generating an updated DNN CCP model for chroma prediction with low-bit precision based on at least one video sequence, and using the updated DNN CCP model for cross component prediction of the at least one video sequence at reduced processing time.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Sheng Lin, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
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Patent number: 11949388Abstract: A power amplifier includes a power switching circuit, a driver circuit, and an amplifier circuit. The power switching circuit is configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage, and provide the first voltage or the second voltage according to an operation mode of the power amplifier. The driver circuit is coupled to the power switching circuit. The driver circuit is configured to operate according to the first voltage or the second voltage and generate a driving signal according to an input signal. The amplifier circuit is coupled to the power switching circuit and the driver circuit. The amplifier circuit is configured to operate according to the first voltage or the second voltage and generate an output signal according to the driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Gen-Sheng Ran, Po-Chih Wang, Ka-Un Chan
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Patent number: 11949928Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques of preloading video data. The techniques comprises acquiring a video to be played; acquiring information indicative of historical behaviors of users who watched the video; segmenting the video into a plurality of video segments; determining a historical search rate corresponding to each of the plurality of video segments based on the information indicative of the historical behaviors of the users; and determining a video segment among the plurality of video segments as a first target video segment based on the historical search rate corresponding to each of the plurality of video segments, wherein the video segment has a historical search rate greater than or equal to a preset probability threshold; and preloading the first target video segment of the video.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junxing Tang, Zhaoxin Tan, Sheng Wang
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Publication number: 20240102194Abstract: A plating system and a method thereof are disclosed. The plating system performs a N-stage plating drilling filling process in which a M-th stage plating drilling filling process with a M-th current density is performed on a hole of a substrate for a M-th plating time to form a M-th plating layer on the to-be-plated layer, wherein N is a positive integer equal to or greater than 3, and M is a positive integer positive integer in a range of 1 to N. Therefore, the technical effect of providing a higher drilling filling rate than conventional plating filling technology under a condition that a total thickness of plating layers is fixed can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Cheng-EN HO, Yu-Lian CHEN, Cheng-Chi WANG, Yu-Jen CHANG, Yung-Sheng LU, Cheng-Yu LEE, Yu-Ming LIN
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Publication number: 20240103356Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a base and a conductive layer that is disposed on the base and patterned by a plurality of processes. The plurality of processes include providing a mask substrate. The mask substrate includes a first substrate and a patterned substrate. In the cross-sectional view, the width of the first substrate is greater than or equal to the width of the patterned substrate. The plurality of processes include arranging the mask substrate and the base correspondingly. The plurality of processes also include performing exposure and development processes on the conductive layer for patterning the conductive layer, and removing the mask substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Chien-Hsing LEE, Chin-Lung TING, Jung-Chuan WANG, Hong-Sheng HSIEH
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Publication number: 20240103896Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for scaling a resource of a Database as a Service (DBaaS) cluster in a cloud platform. User service requests from a service cluster to be processed by the DBaaS cluster are received. A first set of tracing data is generated by a service mesh, which facilitates service-to-service communication between the service cluster and the DBaaS cluster, from the user service requests. A second set of tracing data is generated by the DBaaS cluster from handling the user service requests. A dependency tree is then generated to discover application relationships to identify potential bottlenecks in nodes of the DBaaS cluster based on these sets of tracing data. The pod(s) of a DBaaS node are then scaled based on the dependency tree, which is used in part, to predict the utilization of the resources of the DBaaS node identified as being a potential bottleneck.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Peng Hui Jiang, Yue Wang, Jun Su, Su Liu, Sheng Yan Sun