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).

  • Publication number: 20180173068
    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: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Botao Song, Liang Lin, Tao Ma, Wenlong Wang, Ling Han, Yu Wei
  • Publication number: 20180176448
    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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Chao HE, Baoqi WANG, Tao MA
  • Publication number: 20180176425
    Abstract: Methods and systems for configuring a plurality of cameras to start capturing images are disclosed. A method of configuring a plurality of cameras to capture images includes synchronizing clocks of a plurality of cameras to run on a same time and instructing the cameras to start capturing images at a capturing time. The method configures a plurality of cameras to start capturing images at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Tao MA, Chao HE, Baoqi WANG
  • Patent number: 9990066
    Abstract: The invention provides a curved display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The manufacturing method of a curved display panel provided by the present invention comprises steps of: preparing a support plate, which comprises a first base and a metal film deposited on one side of the first base, the thermal expansion coefficient of the first base being different from that of the metal film; bonding a display panel with the support plate; heating the support plate, so that the support plate forces the display panel to bend; and separating the support plate from the display panel, thus forming the curved display panel. The manufacturing method of a curved display panel of the present invention is simple in process and not prone to causing damage to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Yinhu Huang, Wenlong Wang, Zhanqi Xu, Zhongzheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20180143707
    Abstract: A touch display panel, a manufacturing method, a display device and a touch substrate are provided. The touch display panel, comprising a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region; the display region includes a base substrate and a touch function layer arranged on the base substrate; the non-display region includes the base substrate, and a white light-shielding layer and a reflection enhancing layer which are sequentially arranged on the base substrate, and the reflection enhancing layer is configured for increasing reflectivity of the touch display panel with respect to incident rays; the touch function layer, the white light-shielding layer and the reflection enhancing layer are located on a same side of the base substrate. The touch display panel can improve brightness of appearance of a white OGS touch screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicants: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd .
    Inventors: Wenjie Shi, Taofeng Xie, Ming Hu, Tao Ma
  • Patent number: 9974321
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fish protein oligopeptide with low allergenicity and slight fishiness, and industrial preparation method and application thereof. The method comprises the following steps: 1) washing fresh fish flesh and/or fish wastes, crushing, and adding water to obtain a mixture; 2) performing thermal denaturation on the mixture to obtain a denaturized protein solution; 3) centrifuging the denaturized protein solution to obtain a precipitate, and adding water into the precipitate and grinding, to obtain a slurry; 4) adjusting the slurry to pH 6-9, and sequentially adding a neutral protease, a papain and an alkaline protease to conduct enzymolysis, and after enzyme inactivation, to obtain an enzymatic hydrolysate; 5) centrifuging the enzymatic hydrolysate, and performing membrane filtration on centrifuged supernatant, to obtain the fish protein oligopeptide with low allergenicity and slight fishiness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CHINA NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND FERMENTATION INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Muyi Cai, Ruizeng Gu, Jun Lu, Tao Ma, Xingchang Pan, Zhe Dong, Yong Ma, Yaguang Xu, Yongqing Ma, Zhentao Jin, Liang Chen, Lu Lu, Wenying Liu, Ying Wei, Haixin Zhang, Yan Liu, Kelu Cao, Jing Wang, Guoming Li, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20180129707
    Abstract: A query is executed in a massively parallel processing data storage system comprising a master node communicating with a cluster of multiple segments that access data in distributed storage by producing a self-described query plan at the master node that incorporates changeable metadata and information needed to execute the self-described query plan on the segments, and that incorporates references to obtain static metadata and information for functions and operators of the query plan from metadata stores on the segments. The distributed storage may be the Hadoop distributed file system, and the query plan may be a full function SQL query plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Lei Chang, Zhanwei Wang, Tao Ma, Luke Lonergan, Lirong Jian, Lili Ma
  • Patent number: 9965126
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present application provides a method for producing a panel. The method includes: providing a transparent substrate including an electrode setting area; forming a transparent electrode layer within the electrode setting area, wherein the transparent electrode layer includes a plurality of transparent electrodes, and each of the transparent electrodes includes a transparent metal oxide layer and a reduced metal layer on the transparent metal oxide layer. Embodiments of the present application also provide a panel and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Yinhu Huang, Jilei Gao
  • Publication number: 20180114296
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining an input image. The input image includes image noise. The method also includes removing the image noise from the input image to produce a noise-removed image. The method further includes avoiding enhancing the image noise by performing edge detection on the noise-removed image to produce edge information. The method additionally includes producing a processed image based on the input image and the edge information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Shang-Chih Chuang, Xianbiao Shu, Xiaoyun Jiang, Tao Ma, Chih-Chi Cheng
  • Publication number: 20180095552
    Abstract: The example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a remote control device for a display screen and a method for remotely controlling a display screen. The remote control device comprises at least three distance sensor receivers that are fixed with respect to the display screen and arranged at different positions, a control pen and a control point recognition unit, wherein the control pen is provided with at least two distance sensor transmitters at positions in different distances to a pen tip; the at least three distance sensor receivers are configured to receive ranging signals from the at least two distance sensor transmitters, respectively; the control point recognition unit is configured to determine a control point of the control pen on the display screen based on the ranging signals received by the at least three distance sensor receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Kun LI, Shancai ZHANG, Yueyuan ZHANG, Yuting YANG, Tao MA
  • Patent number: 9920023
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a leveling composition for electrodepositing metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Suzhou Shinhao Materials LLC
    Inventors: Yun Zhang, Tao Ma, Peipei Dong
  • Patent number: 9900580
    Abstract: Techniques for improved image disparity estimation are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and an imaging management module, and the imaging management module may be operable by the processor circuit to determine a measured horizontal disparity factor and a measured vertical disparity factor for a rectified image array, determine a composite horizontal disparity factor for the rectified image array based on the measured horizontal disparity factor and an implied horizontal disparity factor, and determine a composite vertical disparity factor for the rectified image array based on the measured vertical disparity factor and an implied vertical disparity factor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Yi Wu, Oscar Nestares, Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 9892943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for laminating glass panels and a vacuum lamination device using the method. The method includes (1) providing a TFT substrate (240) and a CF substrate (220) to be laminated, the CF substrate (220) being coated with a seal resin (204), the TFT substrate (240) carrying liquid crystal (402) dropped thereon; (2) aligning and laminating the TFT substrate (240) and the CF substrate (220) in a vacuum environment to complete a lamination process; (3) applying UV light to transmit through the TFT substrate (240) for carrying out UV curing of the seal resin (204) interposed between the CF substrate (220) and the TFT substrate (240) so as to complete a UV curing process; (4) removing the laminated CF substrate (220) and the TFT substrate (240) that have been subjected to the UV curing process out of the vacuum environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Tao Song, Ming Liu, Guodong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9888048
    Abstract: A system for sending a command stream comprises a first input interface, a processor, and an output interface. The first input interface is configured to receive a call. The processor is configured to determine one or more packets for the call. The one or more packets are able to be reassembled to form the call. The processor is configured to assign a first packet of the one or more packets to a first output queue and assign the second packet to a second output queue in the event there is a second packet of the one or more packets for the call. The output interface configured to send the first packet from the first output queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Co. LLC
    Inventors: Lili Ma, Zhanwei Wang, Lei Chang, Tao Ma, Lirong Jian, Luke Lonergan
  • Patent number: 9886124
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an OGS touch screen, a manufacturing method thereof and an OGS touch device. The OGS touch screen includes a substrate; a first p-ITO array that is provided in a display area of the substrate, the first p-ITO array including a plurality of first p-ITO touch electrodes; and a second p-ITO array that is provided on the first p-ITO array, the second p-ITO array including a plurality of second p-ITO touch electrodes, wherein an interval between any two adjacent first p-ITO touch electrodes in the first p-ITO array is smaller than an interval between any two adjacent second p-ITO touch electrodes in the second p-ITO array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Yinhu Huang
  • Publication number: 20180025057
    Abstract: M×N dispatching in a large scale distributed system is disclosed. In various embodiments, a query is received. A query plan is generated to perform the query. A subset of query processing segments is selected, from a set of available query processing segments, to perform an assigned portion of the query plan. An assignment to perform the assigned portion of the query plan is dispatched to the selected subset of query processing segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Lei Chang, Tao Ma, Zhanwei Wang, Luke Lonergan, Lirong Jian, Lili Ma
  • Patent number: 9875543
    Abstract: Techniques for rectification of camera arrays are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and an imaging management module, and the imaging management module may be operable on the processor circuit to determine a composite rotation matrix for a camera array comprising a plurality of cameras, determine a composite intrinsic parameter matrix for the camera array, and compute one or more rectification maps for the camera array based on the composite rotation matrix and the composite intrinsic parameter matrix, each of the one or more rectification maps corresponding to one of the plurality of cameras. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Ma, Wei Sun, Oscar Nestares, Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Dinesh Jayaraman
  • Publication number: 20180011902
    Abstract: A method and system for executing database queries in parallel using a shared metadata store. The metadata store may reside on a master node, where the master node is the root node in a tree. The master node may distribute query plans and query metadata to other nodes in the cluster. These additional nodes may request additional metadata from each other or the master nodes as necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Caleb E. Welton, Hitoshi Harada, Jeffrey Ira Cohen, Lei Chang, Radhika Reddy, Tao Ma, Zhanwei Wang
  • Patent number: 9840767
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a head slider coated with Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) includes: providing a substrate that is to be finally made into a head slider; depositing a DLC layer on a surface of the substrate, with carbon plasma source being sputtered in a direction that is vertical to the surface of the substrate; and doping a fluorine-doping (F-doping) layer on the DLC layer. Whereby the head slider has good film adhesion performance, higher hardness, better wear resistance, lower surface energy to obtain good hydrophobicity and oleophobicity, and lower fly height in HDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAE MAGNETICS (H.K.) LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Hui Huang, Xiao Ke Ding, Hong Tao Ma, Ryuji Fujii, Da Yao He, De Jin Fan
  • Publication number: 20170352561
    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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. , Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao MA, Tao SONG, Ming LIU, Guodong ZHAO