Patents by Inventor Tao Peng

Tao Peng 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: 9208838
    Abstract: Disclosed in the disclosure are a terminal for accessing a wireless network and a method for running the same, wherein the terminal includes an expanded external RAM and is configured to store the terminal firmware program obtained from the host side into the expanded external RAM, run the same and interact with the host side to complete a service. the terminal in the disclosure need not expand the FLASH storage space, and the terminal stores the terminal firmware program obtained from the host side into the expanded external RAM thereof, then runs the same and interacts with the host side to complete the service. The terminal does not use FLASH to store the terminal firmware program, avoiding the failure of not being able to be upgraded or used, wherein the failure is due to the exception of the terminal FLASH and reducing the costs of the wireless network access terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tao Peng
  • Publication number: 20150349630
    Abstract: Mode control devices, voltage converters, and control methods used in the voltage converters. In some embodiments, a voltage converter can include a voltage conversion circuit having an inductor configured to be charged and discharged to facilitate conversion of an input voltage to an output voltage. The voltage conversion circuit can further include a switch configured to allow the inductor to be charged and discharged. The voltage converter can further include a logic drive unit configured to provide a drive signal to the switch to control the charging and discharging of the inductor. The voltage converter can further include a mode control unit configured to provide a mode-switching signal to the logic drive unit to control switching between a continuous control mode and a discontinuous control mode based on an inductance current associated with the inductor and a constant load-current threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Tao PENG, Ji-Ming CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150349635
    Abstract: Light-load control devices and methods implemented in applications such as voltage converters. In some embodiments, a control system for a voltage converter can be configured to determine whether the voltage converter is in a first load state such as a light-load state. The control system can be further configured to generate a first driving signal when the voltage converter is in the light-load state. The control system can be further configured to route the first driving signal to a control element of the voltage converter when the voltage converter is in the light-load state, and to route a second driving signal to the control element when the voltage converter is in a second load state such as a heavier-load state. Such a control system can yield reduced power consumption of the control element when the voltage converter is in the light-load state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Tao PENG
  • Publication number: 20150346873
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a second layer disposed over a first layer. Each of the first and second layers have a set of detection electrodes that are spaced apart and electrically isolated from one another and an associated set of interleavers. Each interleaver is located between adjacent detection electrodes from its associated the set of detection electrodes, and each set of interleavers also includes a pair of complementary interleaving electrodes coupled to those that are electrically coupled to the adjacent detection electrodes from its associated set of detection electrodes. The detection electrodes and interleaving electrodes are also substantially transparent to visible spectrum light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Nathan Y. Moyal, Tao Peng, Jerry L. Doorenbos, Ronald F. Cormier
  • Publication number: 20150329836
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method to encapsulate nanoparticles into a protein cage by inserting the nanoparticles into the core through holes. Currently commercially available nanoparticles can be functionalized using the inventive method. The inventive hybrids have applications in biosensing and bioimaging. The use of an affinity between poly-histidine chains and nitrilotriacetic acid as chelating reagent to obtain the inventive cages and hybrid assemblies by the method according to the invention is shown in FIG. 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: David Paramelle, Nikodem Tomczak, Paul Free, Sierin Lim, Tao Peng
  • Publication number: 20150319617
    Abstract: A method and a device for providing information for a voice service are provided. The method includes: detecting whether user personal information is required to acquire a service in an automatic voice service system; if the user personal information is required, acquiring the user personal information from a pre-stored user personal information database; and sending the acquired user personal information for the automatic voice service system to provide the service according to the user personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Wenlin Wang, Meng Xu, Tao Peng, Feng Hong
  • Patent number: 9168633
    Abstract: A milling and grinding device, for machining a workpiece, includes a rack, a positioning tool, a spindle, a tool magazine, a milling cutter, a grinding wheel, and a controller. The rack defines a receiving chamber, and includes a workstation at a bottom of the receiving chamber. The positioning tool is mounted on the workstation to position the workpiece. The milling cutter and the grinding wheel are received in the tool magazine. The milling cutter is capable of milling the workpiece to form a hole. The grinding wheel is capable of grinding the hole of the workpiece. The controller is mounted on the rack, and capable of controlling the spindle to receive the milling cutter or the grinding wheel from the tool magazine, to mill or grind the workpiece. The tool setting gauge is mounted on the workstation, and capable of sharpening the grinding wheel in a different grinding precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Song-Tao Peng
  • Patent number: 9152284
    Abstract: A switch circuit and method is described. In one embodiment, the switch circuit is configured to couple each of a plurality of plurality of capacitive sense elements and a plurality of capacitance sensors in different modes. In a first mode, the switch circuit is configured to couple each of the plurality of capacitance sensors to a group of two or more of the plurality of capacitive sense elements. In a second mode, the switch circuit is configured to couple the plurality of capacitance sensors to individual ones of the two or more of the plurality of capacitive sense elements in one of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Peng, Zheng Qin
  • Patent number: 9128571
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a second layer disposed over a first layer. Each of the first and second layers have a set of detection electrodes that are spaced apart and electrically isolated from one another and an associated set of interleavers. Each interleaver is located between adjacent detection electrodes from its associated the set of detection electrodes, and each set of interleavers also includes a pair of complementary interleaving electrodes coupled to those that are electrically coupled to the adjacent detection electrodes from its associated set of detection electrodes. The detection electrodes and interleaving electrodes are also substantially transparent to visible spectrum light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nathan Y. Moyal, Tao Peng, Jerry L. Doorenbos, Ronald F. Cormier
  • Patent number: 9116581
    Abstract: A capacitive sense array configured to improve edge accuracy in detecting a presence of a conductive object is described. In one embodiment, a capacitive sense array includes at least a first set of sense elements having non-homogenous pitches disposes in a first longitudinal axis of the capacitive sense array. The pitch includes width of the sense elements and spacing between the sense elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Peng, Min Chin Chai
  • Publication number: 20150220642
    Abstract: A method for obtaining contact information includes obtaining a contact name entered by a user through a dialing interface and searching a local database according to the contact name to determine whether basic contact information corresponding to the contact name is stored in the local database. If stored, the basic contact information stored in the local database is obtained. If the basic contact information is not stored in the local database, searching a database server on a network is performed to determine whether the basic contact information is stored in the database server, the basic contact information is obtained from the database server when the basic contact information is stored in the database server, and the obtained basic contact information is stored in the local database. The method also includes establishing a communication connection with a contact corresponding to the contact name by using the obtained basic contact information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Tao PENG, Xinyu LIU, Wenlin WANG, Jun LEI, Feng HONG
  • Publication number: 20150193049
    Abstract: A sense array having at least 3 sets of sense elements disposed substantially parallel with each other, with one of the sense elements of the first set extends between two of the sense elements of the second set and another one of the sense elements of the first set extends between two of the sense elements of the third set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Tao Peng, Gregory Landry
  • Publication number: 20150193050
    Abstract: A sensor array includes a first sensor element of a unit cell and a second sensor element of the unit cell. The unit cell includes core traces of the first sensor element, where the core traces are the widest portion of the first sensor element. The unit cell includes main traces of the second sensor element and subtraces of the second sensor element, where each main trace crosses the first sensor element at a corresponding bridge to form an intersection of the unit cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Min Chin Chai, Patrick Prendergast, Tao Peng
  • Patent number: 9069405
    Abstract: A method of operating a touch-sensing surface may include determining a presence of at least one conductive object at the touch-sensing surface by performing a search measurement of a first set of sensor elements of the touch-sensing surface, and in response to determining the presence of the at least one conductive object, determining a location of the at least one conductive object by performing a tracking measurement of a second set of sensor elements of the touch-sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Grivna, Jason Baumbach, David Bordui, Weibiao Zhang, MingChan Chen, Tao Peng
  • Publication number: 20150126210
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for interference-avoidance in a hybrid communications network is provided. The method includes obtaining related information for interfering cellular user equipment in the hybrid network, reporting the related information for the interfering cellular user equipment to an evolved Node B (eNB), receiving a list of component carriers and competition related information for the component carriers, and selecting one or more proper component carriers from the list of component carriers according to certain rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Peng, Yuan Qi, Ziyang Liu, Kodo Shu, Jianchi Zhu
  • Patent number: 9007342
    Abstract: A method of operating a touch-sensing surface may include performing a first scan of a first set of electrodes of a touch-sensing surface, determining a presence of at least one conductive object proximate to the touch-sensing surface, in response to determining the presence of the at least one conductive object, performing a second scan of a second set of electrodes of the touch-sensing surface, and repeating the performing the second scan until the at least one conductive object is no longer proximate to the touch-sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Grivna, Jason Baumbach, David Bordui, Weibiao Zhang, MingChan Chen, Tao Peng
  • Publication number: 20150002174
    Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of receiving electrode sets, each of the plurality of receiving electrodes being defined by a coupled intersecting diagonal bar; a plurality of sets of transmitting electrodes, each set of the transmitting electrodes having: at least a first electrode on a first side of its corresponding receiving electrode, and a second electrode on a second side of its corresponding receiving electrode; and a first AC signal generator to generate a signal on the plurality of electrode sets of transmitting electrodes to be received by the receiving electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Tao Peng
  • Publication number: 20140368715
    Abstract: A turbulence-free CCD camera system with nonclassical imaging resolution, for applications in long- distance imaging, such as satellite and aircraft-to-ground based distant imaging, utilizing an intensity- fluctuation correlation measurement of thermal light. The proposed camera system has the following advantages over classic imaging technology: (1) it is turbulence-free; (2) its spatial resolution is mainly determined by the angular diameter of the light source. For example, using sun as the light source, this camera may achieve a spatial resolution of 200 micrometer for any object on Earth. 200-micrometer resolution is insignificant for short distance imaging, however, taking a picture of a target at 10-kilometer, a classic camera must have a lens of 90-meter diameter in order to achieve 200-micrometer resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yanhua Shih, Hui Chen, Tao Peng
  • Publication number: 20140355557
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus and a computer program for resource contention in device-to-device communication links. The method partitions the time-frequency radio resource grid with a resource block set forming the resource unit in the grid, for all available, used and unusable frequency bands around a given virtual central frequency. Each resource block set is partitioned into a common control channel and a data channel. With a given procedure of control data transmission between transmitting and receiving user terminals, the resources are competed and shared. Frequency shifting with short distance frequency change or frequency transference with a larger frequency hopping into a free radio resource is available. The competition procedure is done in order to fairly share the frequency bands as a function of time between different device-to-device communication links in a localized manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Tao Peng, Ziyang Liu, Wenwen Liu, Songling Wang, Zixi Fu, Haiming Wang, Tao Chen
  • Publication number: 20140357273
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to generation of mobility information. A mobile device can determine, based on measurements, at least one parameter relating to its movement relative to a cell. A weighting of a counter output for use in estimation of a mobility state of the mobile device is determined. The determining includes comparison of the at least one parameter to at least one threshold. Information about the weighting can be provided by a network element. When the network element obtains the weighted estimation it can take it into account in mobility control of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Yong Teng, Kari Veikko Horneman, Tao Peng, Jiang Wang, Jing Xu