Patents by Inventor Tsun Ku
Tsun Ku 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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Patent number: 9288650Abstract: A method for searching target clients, applied to a mobile device coupled to a network, is provided. A target position and a target time are generated by a positioning unit and a time generating unit of the mobile device, respectively. A target clients search message is generated according to keywords input into the mobile device, the target position and the target time and then transmitted to a server coupled to the network through the network. Then a search result transmitted by the server through the network is received. The search result comprises at least one of a target clients amount, a target clients density and a target clients occurrence probability, which are retrieved from at least one social networks data and corresponding to the keywords, the target location and the target time. A map combined with the search result is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRYInventors: Ping-Che Yang, Tsun Ku, Wen-Tai Hsieh, Hung-Sheng Chiu, Ren-Dar Yang
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Publication number: 20150255233Abstract: A clip member that attaches to the actuator of a flip switch timer for a toggle switch to allow the flip switch timer to actuate a decorator switch between on and off positions. The clip member may include a connector or fastener including a pair of arms having clips for engaging a slot on the actuator. A lever arm on the switch engages the raised end of a decorator switch when the actuator, and thus the clip member, are moved linearly within the flip switch timer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Shiao-Tsun Ku, Matthew Haws
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Patent number: 9049755Abstract: A user-programmable, motion-activated fixture application having floodlights, a nightlight or wall wash light, and a user-interface having dedicated pushbuttons for time, sensitivity, and timer functionality selection by the user. Two proximity sensors detect the presence of infrared-emitting bodies both in front of and below the sensor housing. An ambient light sensor is employed to determine whether it is presently daytime or nighttime, and to identify transitions between the two. A linear array of display LEDs is shared among the time, sensitivity, and timer switches, showing the current setting selected by the user with as each switch is depressed.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Coleman Cable, LLCInventors: Shiao-Tsun Ku, Chu-Ching Wang
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Publication number: 20140265871Abstract: A user-programmable, motion-activated fixture application having floodlights, a nightlight or wall wash light, and a user-interface having dedicated pushbuttons for time, sensitivity, and timer functionality selection by the user. Two proximity sensors detect the presence of infrared-emitting bodies both in front of and below the sensor housing. An ambient light sensor is employed to determine whether it is presently daytime or nighttime, and to identify transitions between the two. A linear array of display LEDs is shared among the time, sensitivity, and timer switches, showing the current setting selected by the user with as each switch is depressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: COLEMAN CABLE, INC.Inventors: Shiao-Tsun Ku, Chu-Ching Wang
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Publication number: 20140268881Abstract: A user-programmable, motion-activated fixture application having floodlights, a nightlight or wall wash light, and a user-interface having dedicated pushbuttons for time, sensitivity, and timer functionality selection by the user. Two proximity sensors detect the presence of infrared-emitting bodies both in front of and below the sensor housing. An ambient light sensor is employed to determine whether it is presently daytime or nighttime, and to identify transitions between the two. A linear array of display LEDs is shared among the time, sensitivity, and timer switches, showing the current setting selected by the user with as each switch is depressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: COLEMAN CABLE, INC.Inventors: Shiao-Tsun Ku, Chu-Ching Wang
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Patent number: 8763905Abstract: A data processing system applying optical identification devices includes a printed matter having a plurality of encoded data printed thereon; an optical identification device for reading at least one encoded data from the printed matter; and a data processing device coupled to the optical identification device and storing a plurality of content data for reading the at least one encoded data through the optical identification device, obtaining at least one first data corresponding to an operation and one second data corresponding to one of the content data from the read encoded data and performing the corresponding operation of the first data on the one of the content data that the second data corresponds to.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Wei-Shen Lin, Chia-Ching Lu, Tsun Ku, Wen-Tai Hsieh
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Publication number: 20140156769Abstract: A method of posting a message on a social network website through an image is provided. A database is provided for storing a plurality of comparison images and candidate information, wherein each of the candidate information corresponds to one of the comparison images and comprises at least one of a text and a picture corresponding to the corresponded comparison image. An image is received. The image is compared with the comparison images to select one comparison image as a selected image corresponding to the received image. The candidate information corresponding to the selected image is retrieved from the database. A message which can be posted on social network website corresponding to a user is generated according to the retrieved candidate information. The generated message is then transmitted to and posted on the social network website corresponding to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Inventors: Chun-Jhih WAN, Ping-Che YANG, Tsun KU, Wen-Tai HSIEH, Hung-Sheng CHIU
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Publication number: 20140136196Abstract: A system for posting a message by an audio signal is provided. The system has: a communication unit used to connect the system to a communications network; an audio receiving unit used to receive a first audio signal; a display unit; and a processing unit, connected to the communication unit, the audio receiving unit and the display unit, used to recognize the first audio signal to generate a first string, determine a target object from a display screen displayed on the display unit according to the first string, and automatically generate a message corresponding to the target object, and post the message on a social network through the communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRYInventors: Chen-Ming WU, Ping-Che YANG, Tsun KU, Wen-Tai HSIEH, Hung-Sheng CHIU
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Publication number: 20140136618Abstract: A method for searching target clients, applied to a mobile device coupled to a network, is provided. A target position and a target time are generated by a positioning unit and a time generating unit of the mobile device, respectively. A target clients search message is generated according to keywords input into the mobile device, the target position and the target time and then transmitted to a server coupled to the network through the network. Then a search result transmitted by the server through the network is received. The search result comprises at least one of a target clients amount, a target clients density and a target clients occurrence probability, which are retrieved from at least one social networks data and corresponding to the keywords, the target location and the target time. A map combined with the search result is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventors: Ping-Che YANG, Tsun KU, Wen-Tai HSIEH, Hung-Sheng CHIU, Ren-Dar YANG
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Patent number: 8600729Abstract: A text conversion method and a text conversion system are provided. A term mapping table recording a term mapping relationship between a source language and a target language is provided. A tokenization process is performed on a paragraph in the source language to obtain tokenization results. The tokenization results are compared with the term mapping table to determine each source language term in the paragraph is belonging to a first type or a second type. The source language terms belonging to the first type are converted into corresponding target language terms according to the term mapping table. Regarding each source language term of the second type, one of multiple corresponding candidate target language terms is selected as the target language term according to a co-occurrence relevance of relevant terms, wherein each relevant term is constituted by one candidate target language term and words before and after that in the paragraph.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Ping-Che Yang, Shih-Hung Wu, Tsun Ku, Chien-Hui Lin, Chia-Ching Lu, Wen-Tai Hsieh
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Publication number: 20130132996Abstract: A system and a method for displaying product information about advertisement on digital television, and a record medium thereof are provided, applicable to a server and a digital media playback device that are connected through a network. The server stores at least one piece of channel advertisement information and at least one piece of product description data corresponding to a plurality of media. The digital media playback device is used for sending an instruction of advertisement information. The instruction of advertisement information includes specific information. While acquiring the instruction of advertisement information, the server compares the specific information with the channel advertisement information to find target product description data from the product description data corresponding to the channel advertisement information and return to the digital media playback device. The digital media playback device plays the playback media and the target product description data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Chen-Ming Wu, Wen-Tai Hsieh, Kung-Ming Sung, Tsun Ku, Bo-Chin Tsai
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Publication number: 20130132361Abstract: An input method and a system for querying by using at least one region formed by at least one enclosed track are provided. The method mainly includes: forming at least one region on digital type information; storing at least one of text information and image information in the track into a registering memory; generating at least one of text-based information retrieval and image-based information retrieval according to the at least one of the text information and the image information; and finally, transmitting the at least one of the text-based information retrieval and the image-based information retrieval to at least one search engine for querying.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Liang-Pu CHEN, Ping-Che Yang, Tsun Ku, Wen-Tai Hsieh
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Publication number: 20130117793Abstract: A real-time translation system for digital televisions and method thereof. It includes a real-time translation server, an operating unit, and a digital television apparatus including a digital signal receiver, a display device, an Internet-enabled device, an operation signal receiving module, and a processor. The processor is connected to the digital signal receiver, the display device, the Internet-enabled device, and the operation signal receiving module.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Ping-Che YANG, Liang-Pu CHEN, Tsun KU, Wen-Tai HSIEH
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Publication number: 20130117784Abstract: A system and a method for displaying information of a television advertised product and a recording media thereof are provided, which are applicable to a server and a mobile device connected via a network. The server stores at least one channel advertisement data and information of product corresponding to each piece of the channel advertisement data. The mobile device sends an advertisement data play instruction, which includes selection information associated with a current television play channel. The server receives the advertisement data play instruction, finds target information of product from the information of product corresponding to the channel advertisement data according to the selection information, the instruction receiving time, and the channel advertisement data, and feeds back the target information of product to the mobile device. The mobile device displays the target information of product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Chen-Ming WU, Wen-Tai Hsieh, Kung-Ming Sung, Tsun Ku, Bo-Chin Tsai
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Patent number: 8438006Abstract: A translation system is provided. The system includes an input interface for receiving a term to be translated, a multi-language term processing module, a term correlation calculation module and an analysis module. The multi-language term processing module collects multi-language correlated terms corresponding to the term to be translated and language data sources, and establishes term pairs each including any two multi-language correlated terms having a relationship in translation. The multi-language correlated terms include at least the term to be translated and at least one candidate translated term in the target language. The term correlation calculation module calculates a term correlation value between the two multi-language correlated terms of each term pair and a self correlation value of each multi-language correlated term. The analysis module determines one of the candidate translated terms as the translation result term according to the term correlation values and the self correlation values.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Wen-Chi Yang, Tsun Ku, Chien-Hui Lin
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Patent number: 8374847Abstract: The invention discloses an error-detecting method for a Chinese article, handling a Chinese sentence including a first erroneous Chinese character string in a first location. The method includes subdividing the first erroneous Chinese character string into a plurality of first subgroups, wherein each of the first subgroups consists of two consecutive and non-consecutive Chinese characters out of the first erroneous Chinese character string. The method further includes providing a database containing a plurality of first correct Chinese character strings and a plurality of corresponding first correct indices, wherein the first correct indices consist of two consecutive and non-consecutive Chinese characters out of the first correct Chinese character strings. The method further includes acquiring one of the first correct indices according to the first subgroup, and one of the first correct Chinese character strings according to the acquired first correct index.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Tsun Ku, Shih-Hung Wu, Wen-Nan Wang, Wen-Tai Hsieh, Ta-Hung Hung
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Patent number: 8346541Abstract: A method for constructing a Chinese dictionary is disclosed, including determining a probability for nominalization of a Chinese term with a given collocation term according to a determination rule and the correlation between the Chinese term and its corresponding collocations, wherein the Chinese term is determined to be a verb part-of-speech. The method further includes modifying the verb part-of-speech of the Chinese term with the given collocation term to an appropriate part-of-speech when the probability for nominalization of the Chinese term with the given collocation term is higher than a predetermined value, and storing the correlation between the Chinese term, the given collocation term and the appropriate part-of-speech in a storage device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Wen-Nan Wang, Jason S. Chang, Wen-Tai Hsieh, Tsun Ku, Chien-Cheng Wu, Yu-Ru Chen
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Patent number: 8244732Abstract: A named entity marking apparatus, a named entity marking method, and a computer program product thereof are provided. The named entity marking apparatus comprises a processor and a storage unit, wherein the processor is electrically connected to the storage unit. The storage unit is stored with an electronic document and a named entity database. The processor marks the electronic document into a first marked document by a first set of the named entity database. The processor decides a second set of the named entity database according to the first marked document. The processor re-marks the electronic document into a second marked document by the second set of the named entity database.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Ping-Che Yang, Tsun Ku, Wei-Shen Lin, Chia-Ching Lu, Wen-Tai Hsieh
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Publication number: 20120109624Abstract: A text conversion method and a text conversion system are provided. A term mapping table recording a term mapping relationship between a source language and a target language is provided. A tokenization process is performed on a paragraph in the source language to obtain tokenization results. The tokenization results are compared with the term mapping table to determine each source language term in the paragraph is belonging to a first type or a second type. The source language terms belonging to the first type are converted into corresponding target language terms according to the term mapping table. Regarding each source language term of the second type, one of multiple corresponding candidate target language terms is selected as the target language term according to a co-occurrence relevance of relevant terms, wherein each relevant term is constituted by one candidate target language term and words before and after that in the paragraph.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRYInventors: Ping-Che Yang, Shih-Hung Wu, Tsun Ku, Chien-Hui Lin, Chia-Ching Lu, Wen-Tai Hsieh
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Patent number: D707574Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Coleman Cable, LLCInventors: Shiao-Tsun Ku, Matthew Haws