Patents by Inventor Tao Ma

Tao Ma 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: 10504464
    Abstract: A driving apparatus is provided, including a gate driving circuit, which is connected to each of gate lines, configured to input a gate driving signal to gate lines during each scan cycle, a source driving circuit, which is configured to input a data signal to data lines during each scan cycle and invert the polarities of the data signal to a data line every preset number of scan cycles, and a output enable signal driving circuit, which is configured to input a voltage signal having a first duration to a output enable signal line in response to the polarities of the data signal being inverted during a first scan cycle, and input a voltage signal having a second duration longer than the first duration to the output enable signal line in response to the polarities of the data signal not being inverted during a second scan cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiwei Zhang, Tao Ma
  • Patent number: 10491797
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for controlling imaging devices are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, an apparatus for controlling a plurality of imaging devices includes a receiving unit configured to receive user commands for controlling the imaging devices; a first queue configured to store the user commands; an I/O unit configured to receive device messages from the imaging devices; and a processor configured to determine if the first queue is empty, process one of the user commands in the first queue when the first queue is not empty, and process one of device messages from the imaging devices only if the first queue is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI XIAOYI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao He, Baoqi Wang, Tao Ma
  • Publication number: 20190355320
    Abstract: Provided are a driving method and a driving apparatus for a display device, and a display device. The driving method includes inputting a gate driving signal to each gate line progressively, and inputting a gate driving signal to one gate line within each scanning period; inputting a data signal to each data line within each scanning period, and inverting, for one time, polarity of a data signal inputted to the same data line every n scanning periods; and inputting a threshold voltage with a preset time length to a threshold voltage line within each scanning period, latching the data signal inputted to the data line when a threshold voltage is inputted to the threshold voltage line, and outputting the data signal otherwise; wherein the second time length is greater than the first time length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiwei ZHANG, Tao MA, Cheng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190338432
    Abstract: An electroplating copper layer includes bamboo-like copper crystal particles having a highly preferred orientation. The bamboo-like copper crystal particles have a long axis direction and a short axis direction, and the bamboo-like copper crystal particles have a length of 20 nm to 5 ?m in the long axis direction and a length of 20 nm to 2 ?m in the short axis direction. A method of preparing the bamboo-like copper crystal particles is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Yun ZHANG, Jing WANG, Zifang ZHU, Tao MA, Luming CHEN
  • Patent number: 10459917
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing data. In some embodiments, this includes an initial instruction for a file stored in a first storage system, determining that the initial instruction is not supported by the first storage system, identifying a combination of instructions to the first storage system after determining that the initial instruction is not supported by the first storage system, wherein the combination of instructions is based on the initial instruction, performing the identified combination of instructions on the file stored in the first storage system, and storing results of the performed identified combination of instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Lei Chang, Tao Ma, Zhanwei Wang, Lirong Jian, Lili Ma, Gavin Sherry
  • Publication number: 20190266263
    Abstract: A system and method in a mobile device for providing digital content through an object includes receiving a first image of the object; processing the first image to identify at least a first image attribute; accessing a database of registered objects, each registered object being identified by a linked image and being associated with metadata describing the object; retrieving from the database of registered objects a first registered object having a linked image matching the first image attribute; in response to the retrieving, providing a user interface configured to interact with the first registered object; receiving using the user interface, a digital content; assigning the digital content to the first registered object; designating one or more recipients of the digital content; and storing linking data for the first registered object in the database of registered objects, the linking data associating the digital content to the first registered object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Long Jiang, Tao Ma, Julie Zhu
  • Publication number: 20190266886
    Abstract: A system and method in a mobile device for controlling a connected device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an image; processing the image to identify at least a first image attribute where the first image attribute includes an image feature or an image object; accessing a database of connected devices, each connected device in the database being identified by a linked image and being associated with device metadata describing at least a device type of the connected device; comparing the first image attribute with the linked images corresponding to the connected devices stored in the database; identifying a first connected device having a linked image matching the first image attribute; and in response to the identifying, providing a user interface configured to control the first connected device, the user interface including a control function corresponding to the device type of the first connected device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Long Jiang, Tao Ma, Julie Zhu
  • Publication number: 20190263773
    Abstract: The present application discloses a levelling compound for electrodepositing metals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Yun ZHANG, Tao MA, Peipei DONG, Zifang ZHU, Chen CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190246081
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide apparatus, method and system for location based touch, which can implement location based touch on the image of the projection display apparatus without the requirement of operation of the computing device by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun LI, Tao MA
  • Patent number: 10372000
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing an array substrate, the method including a step of forming thin film transistors on a substrate; wherein the step of forming the thin film transistors on the substrate includes: forming a first electrically conductive layer on the substrate; forming an insulating layer on the first electrically conductive layer; forming at least one common holes in the insulating layer to communicate with the first electrically conductive layer; forming a first connection portion, which is made of the same material as a second electrically conductive layer, in the at least one of the at least one common holes while forming the second electrically conductive layer on the insulating layer by using a single process, the first connection portion being in electrical contact with the first electrically conductive layer. In addition, there is disclosed an array substrate manufactured by the above method and a display device including the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Botao Song, Liang Lin, Tao Ma, Wenlong Wang, Ling Han, Yu Wei
  • Publication number: 20190190828
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for generating an ACL table, and relates to the data center field. A controller obtains a port type of each port of a first network device, and selects, based on the port type of each port, a target port whose port type is a preset type from all ports of the first network device. The controller generates a corresponding first-type access control list ACL entry for each target port, and generates one second-type ACL entry corresponding to a routing table of the first network device, where an action of the second-type ACL entry is redirecting to the routing table. The controller adds the second-type ACL entry and each first-type ACL entry to an ACL table of the first network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Feng YUAN, Tao MA, Qinghua YAN
  • Patent number: 10323015
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a leveling compound for electrodepositing metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Shinhao Materials LLC
    Inventors: Yun Zhang, Tao Ma, Peipei Dong, Zifang Zhu, Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 10317587
    Abstract: A fabrication method of a color filter substrate, a color filter substrate and a display device are provided. The fabrication method includes forming an interlayer insulating layer and a first color filter group above the conductive pattern, wherein, the first color filter group includes color filter(s) of at least one color, the interlayer insulating layer and the first color filter group are formed by a same material; the interlayer insulating layer is configured to electrically insulate the conductive connecting portion from the conductive bridging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Chengshao Yang, Ling Han, Ronghua Jin
  • Patent number: 10321104
    Abstract: A multi-modal display device is presented. The display device has a shell having an internal projection screen and an opening, a projector emitting a projection beam from inside the shell. There is an optical guide adjusting a position of the projector to aim the projection beam at either the internal projection screen or the opening. A processor coupled to the optical guide may select a display position, wherein different display positions are associated with different display area sizes. The method includes determining a distance between a projector and a user, and automatically selecting a display mode based on the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao Ma
  • Patent number: 10319285
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a panel drive device and a display device. The panel drive device includes an interface module, a voltage conversion module and a compensation module. The interface module includes a first input end and a first output end. The voltage conversion module includes a second input end and a second output end. The first output end is coupled with the second input end. A voltage at the first input end is a first voltage, a voltage at the first output end is a second voltage, a voltage at the second input end is a third voltage signal and a voltage at the second output end is a fourth voltage signal. The compensation module is configured to generate a compensation voltage signal according to the third voltage signal and apply the compensation voltage signal to the first input end or the first output end, so that the third voltage signal equals to the first voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yanping Zhang, Tao Ma
  • Patent number: 10310647
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention discloses a touch-controlled panel and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device, to reduce the number of masks and production cost. The method of manufacturing a touch-controlled panel includes: forming a first electrode and a second electrode on a substrate through a patterning process, the first electrode and the second electrode being broken at a position where they are overlapped; depositing a layer of an organic film and forming an organic film fully remained region, an organic film partially remained region and an organic film removed region from the organic film through a mask; depositing a conductive layer and coating a photoresist on the conductive layer, and then forming a photoresist fully remained region, a photoresist partially remained region and a photoresist removed region through the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunhai Wan, Wenlong Wang, Tao Ma, Binbin Cao, Chengshao Yang
  • Patent number: 10306194
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide apparatus, method and system for location based touch, which can implement location based touch on the image of the projection display apparatus without the requirement of operation of the computing device by the user. A projection display apparatus comprises a projection screen and a plurality of optical sensors with two-dimension disperse layout in the back of the projection screen. The projection display apparatus further comprises an acquiring element configured to receive first light through first optical sensor of the plurality of optical sensors, wherein the first optical sensor is one or more of the plurality of optical sensors; a determining element configured to determine first coordinate information of the first optical sensor on the projection screen if the light intensity of the first light is within first light intensity range; and a sending element configured to send the first coordinate information to a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Li, Tao Ma
  • Patent number: 10290520
    Abstract: A method for laminating glass panels includes (1) providing a TFT substrate and a CF substrate to be laminated, in which the CF substrate is coated with a seal resin and the TFT substrate carries liquid crystal dropped thereon; (2) aligning and laminating the TFT substrate and the CF substrate in a vacuum environment to complete a lamination process; (3) applying UV light to transmit through the TFT substrate for carrying out UV curing of the seal resin interposed between the CF substrate and the TFT substrate so as to complete a UV curing process; and (4) removing the laminated CF substrate and the TFT substrate that have been subjected to the UV curing process out of the vacuum environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Tao Song, Ming Liu, Guodong Zhao
  • Publication number: 20190121473
    Abstract: A display panel is provided including: an array substrate; a plurality of gate scanning signal lines and a plurality of data signal lines on the array substrate, projections of the plurality of gate scanning signal lines on the array substrate and projections of the plurality of data signal lines on the array substrate intersecting with each other; a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, the plurality of sub-pixels being surrounded by the plurality of gate scanning signal lines and the plurality of data signal lines; touch sensing signal lines; and touch circuits. At least a part of the gate scanning signal lines are multiplexed to charge the touch circuits, and each of the touch sensing signal lines is configured to sense a change in an electrical signal of one of the touch circuits which have been charged so as to determine a position of a touch point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Shancai Zhang, Tao Ma, Shounian Chen
  • Publication number: 20190116662
    Abstract: A circuit board structure, a binding test method and a display device are provided. The circuit board structure includes a first circuit board including a first binding region, a second circuit board including a second binding region matching with the first binding region, and a test circuit configured to test an alignment state of the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The test circuit includes multiple first electrodes and multiple second electrodes insulated from each other and arranged on the first circuit board, and multiple third electrodes arranged on the second circuit board. A group including one of the first electrodes and one of the second electrodes matches with one of the third electrodes, so that a current flows through the test circuit in case that the test circuit is supplied with power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun LI, Tao MA, Fengzhen LV