Patents by Inventor Wei Sun

Wei Sun 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: 20160164234
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an earphone socket, an earphone plug, an earphone and an electronic device. For example, the earphone socket may include a socket body in which an earphone jack is formed. The earphone socket may include multiple ground terminals, which may be arranged in the earphone jack. The ground terminals may contact a ground section disposed on an earphone plug when the earphone plug is inserted into the earphone jack. The technical solutions of the present disclosure reduce earphone crosstalk and improve tone quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Hui LI, Wei SUN, Jie FAN
  • Patent number: 9355106
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for locating sensor data. The method includes the steps of: obtaining an index table; intercepting a query for sensor data in runtime; extracting a characteristic parameter from a query condition; locating a block identifier of matching sensor data storage blocks in the index table by using the characteristic parameter; and loading the storage blocks into a memory space of a working processor; where the index table contains mapping relationships between block identifiers of sensor data storage blocks and characteristic attributes of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen Hao An, Ning Duan, Liya Fan, Bo Gao, Ke Hu, Wei Sun, Yu Ying Wang, Zhi Hu Wang
  • Patent number: 9357227
    Abstract: An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector predictor from the list; and coding a current block and coding a current motion vector, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Viktor Wahadaniah, Chong Soon Lim, Sue Mon Thet Naing, Hai Wei Sun, Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Hisao Sasai, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 9343306
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of poly-silicon islands and a plurality of gates. The substrate has a display region, a gate driver region and a source driver region. Each poly-silicon island disposed on the substrate has a source region, a drain region and a channel region disposed therebetween. The poly-silicon islands include several first poly-silicon islands and several second poly-silicon islands. The first poly-silicon islands having main grain boundaries and sub grain boundaries are only disposed within the display region and the gate driver region. The main grain boundaries of the first poly-silicon islands are only disposed within the source regions and/or the drain regions. The second poly-silicon islands are disposed in the source driver region. Grain sizes of the first poly-silicon islands are substantially different from those of the second poly-silicon islands. Gates corresponding to the channel regions are disposed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Wei Sun, Chih-Wei Chao
  • Publication number: 20160126030
    Abstract: A power supply circuit and an electronic equipment, pertaining to the field of electronic circuit, are provided. The power supply circuit includes: a battery, a power management chip and a radio frequency (RF) chip; an output terminal of the battery is connected to at least one input terminal of the power management chip, while the at least one input terminal of the power management chip is individually grounded via a corresponding filter capacitor, respectively; and the output terminal of the battery is also connected to an input terminal of the RF chip via a switching power supply circuit. In the present disclosure, a switching power supply circuit is provided between the output terminal of the battery and the input terminal of the RF chip, thus the noise produced by the ceramic capacitor is substantially eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Hao Di, Xinming Shi
  • Patent number: 9323319
    Abstract: A multiprocessor system comprises: a plurality of processors; a counting, measuring and calculating (CMC) unit that determines a generating rate of sleep tasks and a time length of each of the sleep tasks based on an acceptable delay; a sleep task generator that generates the sleep tasks with the time length at the generating rate, and injects the generated sleep tasks into a traffic for original tasks; and a scheduler that assigns both the original tasks and the sleep tasks in the traffic to the plurality of processors, wherein each of the sleep tasks switches off one of the plurality of processors, on which the sleep task is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 9321673
    Abstract: The invention provides a near-infrared absorption glass, a near-infrared absorption element and a near-infrared absorption filter each with good chemical stability and transmissivity property in the visible range. When such glass is 1 mm thick, the transmissivity of such glass is more than 80% at 400 nm, and more than 85% at 500 nm. The near-infrared absorption glass comprises cations such as P5+, Al3+, Li+, R2+ and Cu2+ as well as anions such as O2? and F?, wherein the R2+ refers to Mg2+, Ca2, Sr2+ and Ba2+, and wherein the content of the said Li+ is 1-15%. Furthermore, the water resistant stability DW of the said near-infrared absorption glass is Class 1 and the acid resistant stability DA is above Class 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CDGM GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Yu Deng
  • Patent number: 9322662
    Abstract: A method of determining a path comprises obtaining a path in a road net, the road net comprising a plurality of nodes; calculating, with a processing device, an event displacement probability within coverage of the path, wherein the event displacement probability is used to describe a possibility of displacement of an event that could have occurred within the coverage of the path, to outside the coverage of the path to occur; and changing the path based on the event displacement probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Shan Dong, Ning Duan, Ronald Fellows, Li Li, Wei Sun, Zhi Hu Wang, Chang Jin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160103271
    Abstract: A backlight assembly is provided with an upper reflective layer including a plurality of first openings; a lower reflective layer secured to the upper reflective layer; a light guide plate disposed between the upper and lower reflective layers; an opaque shading layer disposed on one surface of the upper reflective layer; and a circuit board disposed above the shading layer and including a circuit and a plurality of second openings. Light with enhanced brightness is transmitted to bottoms of keycaps of an input device of a 3C product with energy consumed to a minimum during light transmitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventor: Szu-Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20160103272
    Abstract: A backlight assembly is provided with an upper reflective layer including a plurality of transparent areas; a lower reflective layer secured to the upper reflective layer; a light guide plate disposed between the upper and lower reflective layers; a light source disposed under the lower reflective layer and corresponding to the transparent areas; a circuit board disposed above the upper reflective layer and including a plurality of first openings and a plurality of electrical contacts; and an opaque shading layer disposed on the circuit board and including a plurality of elastic members aligned with the electrical contacts, and a plurality of second openings. Light with enhanced brightness is transmitted to bottom of keycaps of an input device of a 3C product with energy consumed to a minimum during light transmitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventor: Szu-Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 9311615
    Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
  • Publication number: 20160097104
    Abstract: Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Scott Tomlins, Daniel Rhodes, Arul Chinnaiyan, Rohit Mehra, Mark A. Rubin, Xiao-Wei Sun, Sven Perner, Charles Lee, Francesca Demichelis
  • Publication number: 20160098322
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for performing background initialization on protection information enabled storage volumes or drives. In some embodiments, a storage controller generates multiple I/O requests for stripe segments of each drive (e.g., disk) of multiple drives of a RAID-based system (e.g., RAID-based disk array). The I/O requests are then sorted for each of the drives according to a pre-determined arrangement and initiated in parallel to the disks while enforcing the pre-determined arrangement. Sorting and issuing the I/O requests in the manner described herein can, for example, reduce drive head movement resulting in faster storage subsystem initialization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Donald Humlicek, Theresa Segura
  • Patent number: 9302120
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods in the field of medicinal chemistry. The compounds and compositions provided herein relate to spiro-oxindoles which function as antagonists of the interaction between p53 and MDM2, and their use as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Shaomeng Wang, Yujun Zhao, Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20160089427
    Abstract: Recombinant attenuated Y. pseudotuberculosis mutants have been created that show efficacy as oral vaccines against plague caused by Y. pestis and Yersinosis caused by both Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis. Thus, live attenuated Y. pseudotuberculosis-based vaccines can be used to prevent Yersinosis in farm animals such as swine, cattle and sheep. The palatable baits containing live attenuated Y. pseudotuberculosis-based vaccines may be acceptable methods to control plague epidemics in wild animals. The methods disclosed can also be used to generate recombinant attenuated Y. entercolitica and Y. pestis vaccine strains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Roy Curtiss, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 9299046
    Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
  • Publication number: 20160087364
    Abstract: In the connector, a plurality of parallel flanges and groove pins between every two of the parallel flanges are additionally provided to the middle of the connector plug. A plurality of parallel grooves and flange pins between every two of the parallel grooves are additionally provided to the middle of the connector socket. The plurality of flanges of the connector plug are inserted into the plurality of grooves of the connector socket. The mating face of the connector plug is in contact with the mating face of the connector socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Wei SUN, Xinming SHI, Hao DI
  • Patent number: 9284692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch monitoring method and a switch monitoring system, a railway line management method and a railway line management system. Electric signal of a switch motor during pulling of the switch can effectively reflect status of the switch, when the switch is in a stable state, electric signal of its motor is very steady during pulling of the switch; however, when the switch is in an unstable state, there will be different degrees of fluctuation in electric signal of its motor during pulling of the switch. Thus, the invention may be used to identify state of a switch by monitoring electric signal of a switch motor, and further take different measures based on different states of the switch. With these measures, accidents due to switch failure may be effectively reduced, and train delay time may also be reduced through proper line management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Ke Hu, Li Li, Wen Ting Mo, Wei Sun, Xi Sun, Feng Juan Wang
  • Patent number: 9285232
    Abstract: A method of determining a path comprises obtaining a path in a road net, the road net comprising a plurality of nodes; calculating, with a processing device, an event displacement probability within coverage of the path, wherein the event displacement probability is used to describe a possibility of displacement of an event that could have occurred within the coverage of the path, to outside the coverage of the path to occur; and changing the path based on the event displacement probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Shan Dong, Ning Duan, Ronald Fellows, Li Li, Wei Sun, Zhi Hu Wang, Chang Jin Zhou
  • Patent number: 9284609
    Abstract: Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Scott Tomlins, Daniel Rhodes, Arul Chinnaiyan, Rohit Mehra, Mark A. Rubin, Xiao-Wei Sun, Sven Perner, Charles Lee, Francesca Demichelis