Patents by Inventor Wei Yi

Wei Yi 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).

  • BACKLIGHT MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190146143
    Abstract: A backlight module is provided, including a light guide plate, an optical film, and a light source module. The optical film is disposed on the light guide plate and has an accommodating space. The light source module has at least one light-emitting surface, which can be divided into a light-emitting area and a frame area. The light-emitting area faces the light guide plate, and at least a portion of the frame area enters the accommodating space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Wei-Chung LU, Li-Hui CHEN, Kuan-Tun CHEN, Wei YI
  • Riser card
    Patent number: 10289588
    Abstract: An apparatus having a first interface of a first type supporting a plurality of data ports, a second interface of a second type supporting at least a portion of the plurality data ports, and a third interface of the second type. The apparatus also including a switching module coupled to a control port of the first interface and configured for selectably coupling the plurality of data ports to at least one of the second interface and the third interface based on a signal at the control port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Chu, Chia-Feng Cheng, Kai Chang, Chih-Yu Chen
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SHORT MESSAGE
    Publication number: 20190110167
    Abstract: It is determined whether a short message locked. The short message is in a locked short message storage area if it is determined that the short message locked. A locked short message session containing the short message is displayed in a short message display interface. The short message display interface displays the locked short message session and an unlocked short message session containing another short message stored in an unlocked short message storage area. The locked short message storage area is different from the unlocked short message storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yuanhan HU, Wei YI, Kaiyuan LV, Jing HE, Bin LI
  • Server rack system
    Patent number: 10228741
    Abstract: A rack system for a server includes a number of server units, which includes first to the third sets of server units, voltage converter, first to third power supply circuits. The voltage converter receives and converters a three-phase alternating current (AC) power signal to provide first to third single-phase power signals. The first to the third sets of power supply circuits respectively provides firs to third direct current (DC) power signals according to the first to the third single-phase power signals. The first set to the third set of server units is respectively powered by first to the third DC power signals or respectively powered by first part, second part, and third part of the first to the third DC power signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Tzu-Hung Wang, Chao-Jung Chen, Chih-Ming Chen, Wei-Yi Chu
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR DESIGNING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH PRE-LAYOUT RC INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20190065647
    Abstract: A system for designing an integrated circuit having pre-layout RC information is disclosed. The system includes: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to: generate current and voltage information for a schematic having device array layout constraint included; create interconnection topology patterns and realizing route for the schematic; generate RC information according to the route; and determine if the schematic having the device array layout constraint and the RC information included violates one or more of the system design rule constraints. An associated method and a computer readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: CHIN-SHENG CHEN, CHING-YU CHAI, WEI-YI HU
  • System for switching between a single node PCIe mode and a multi-node PCIe mode
    Patent number: 10210121
    Abstract: A system for switching between a high performance mode and dual path mode is disclosed. The system includes a first device, a second device, a third device, and a switch configured to receive control signals, and in response causing the switch to selectively couple one or more first lanes of the first device or one or more second lanes of the second device to third lanes of the third device to yield enabled lanes. The system also include a number of the enabled lanes is less than or equal to a number of the third lanes, and the switch is configured to route the enabled lanes associated with the first device to a first portion of the third lanes in an increasing order and to route the enabled lanes associated with the second device to a second portion of the third lanes in a decreasing order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Chu, Chia-Feng Cheng, Kai Chang, Chih-Yu Chen
  • METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE TEMPERATURE OF A NETWORKED DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190041926
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to reduce temperature of a networked device. An example apparatus includes, a temperature threshold monitor to identify a temperature condition associated with the device, a window information retriever to retrieve a current value of a network receive capacity parameter, and a window adjustor to reduce the temperature of the device by generating a modified network receive capacity parameter, the modified network receive capacity parameter based on a ratio of the current value of the network receive capacity parameter and a decrease factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Wey-Yi Guy, Aarti Gokhale, Gaurish Deuskar
  • BACKLIGHT MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190041567
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light source, a light guide plate and a light-adjusting member. A light source chromaticity is measured from light generated by the light source. The light guide plate has a light-incident surface and a light-emitting surface. Light generated by the light source enters the light guide plate and emits out from the light-emitting surface. With the light-adjusting member, a first light guide plate chromaticity is measured from the light-emitting surface. There is a first difference value between the first light guide plate chromaticity and the light source chromaticity. Without the light-adjusting member, a second light guide plate chromaticity is measured from the light-emitting surface. There is a second difference value between the second light guide plate chromaticity and the light source chromaticity. The first difference value is different from the second difference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jui-Lin CHEN, Chao-Min SU, Jing-Siang JHANG, Hung-Pin CHENG, Wei-Hsiang CHIU, Bo-Lan FANG, Wei YI, Kuan-Tun CHEN, Li-Hui CHEN, Wei-Chung LU
  • Method of Display User Movement in Virtual Reality System and Related Device
    Publication number: 20190033960
    Abstract: A method of display user movement in a computing device of a virtual reality system is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first image in a first-person perspective with a first-person control, simulating an avatar according to a first control signal received from a controller of the virtual reality system, and generating a second image including the avatar in the first-person perspective with a third-person control, wherein the first-person perspective indicates that a user sees images as if seen through the avatar's eyes, and a field of view of the avatar is controlled by the user, the first-person control indicates that a user's movement is displayed by a relative position between the avatar and a scene of the images, and the third-person control indicates that the user's movement is displayed by different locations of the avatar in the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Ho, Yu-Chun Lin, Chuan-Hung Chung, Yang-Chen Fan
  • SCALABLE AND LOW-VOLTAGE ELECTROFORMING-FREE NANOSCALE VANADIUM DIOXIDE THRESHOLD SWITCH DEVICES AND RELAXATION OSCILLATORS WITH CURRENT CONTROLLED NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE
    Publication number: 20190036023
    Abstract: A vanadium dioxide (VO2)-based threshold switch device exhibiting current-controlled negative differential resistance (S-type NDR), an electrical oscillator circuit based on the threshold switch device, a wafer including a plurality of said devices, and a method of manufacturing said device are provided. The VO2-based threshold switch device exhibits volatile resistance switching and current-controlled negative differential resistance from the first time a sweeping voltage or voltage pulse is applied across the device without being treated with an electroforming process. Furthermore, the device exhibits substantially identical switching characteristics over at least 103 switching operations between a high resistance state (HRS) and a low resistance state (LRS), and a plurality of threshold switch devices exhibits a threshold voltage VT spreading of less than about 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Wei Yi, Kenneth K. Tsang, Stephen K. Lam, Xiwei Bai, Jack A. Crowell, Elias A. Flores
  • Method and apparatus for managing short message
    Patent number: 10194286
    Abstract: It is determined whether a short message locked. The short message is in a locked short message storage area if it is determined that the short message locked. A locked short message session containing the short message is displayed in a short message display interface. The short message display interface displays the locked short message session and an unlocked short message session containing another short message stored in an unlocked short message storage area. The locked short message storage area is different from the unlocked short message storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuanhan Hu, Wei Yi, Kaiyuan Lv, Jing He, Bin Li
  • Random data generation circuit, memory storage device and random data generation method
    Patent number: 10193537
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the disclosure provides a random data generation circuit which includes a phase difference detection circuit and a random data output circuit. The phase difference detection circuit detects a phase difference between a first clock signal and a second clock signal and outputs phase difference information. The random data output circuit is coupled to the phase difference detection circuit and outputs random data according to the phase difference information. Thereby, ideal and unpredictable random data is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Bing-Wei Yi
  • SENSING MATERIAL AND UNIT FOR SENSING PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SENSING MATERIAL UNIT
    Publication number: 20190006056
    Abstract: A sensing material for sensing a physiological parameter includes a carbon black material, a graphene material and a glue material, wherein the carbon black material, the graphene material and the glue material are mixed together based on a specific weight ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Makalot Industrial Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Chiu, Chen-Yang Huang, Wei-Yi Tsai
  • Variation-aware circuit simulation
    Patent number: 10169507
    Abstract: An integration circuit (IC) simulation method includes: (a) providing a design netlist of a system-level circuit, wherein the system-level circuit comprises a first sub-circuit; (b) providing a first behavior model that is determined based on an operation of the first sub-circuit, wherein the first behavior model is a function of one or more respective behavior-level parameters; (c) incorporating a first variation into each of the one or more behavior-level parameters of the first behavioral model; and (d) simulating the system-level circuit based on the one or more behavior-level parameters of the first behavior model that incorporates the first variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Cheng Kuo, Wei-Yi Hu
  • Backlight module and display device
    Patent number: 10151868
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a light source, a light guide plate and a light-adjusting member. A light source chromaticity is measured from light generated by the light source. The light guide plate has a light-incident surface and a light-emitting surface. Light generated by the light source enters the light guide plate and emits out from the light-emitting surface. With the light-adjusting member, a first light guide plate chromaticity is measured from the light-emitting surface. There is a first difference value between the first light guide plate chromaticity and the light source chromaticity. Without the light-adjusting member, a second light guide plate chromaticity is measured from the light-emitting surface. There is a second difference value between the second light guide plate chromaticity and the light source chromaticity. The first difference value is different from the second difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: Radiant Opto-Electronics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Lin Chen, Chao-Min Su, Jing-Siang Jhang, Hung-Pin Cheng, Wei-Hsiang Chiu, Bo-Lan Fang, Wei Yi, Kuan-Tun Chen, Li-Hui Chen, Wei-Chung Lu
  • SHIELDED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING SHIELDED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
    Publication number: 20180351078
    Abstract: Shielded semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating shielded semiconductor devices are provided. An exemplary magnetically shielded semiconductor device includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface. An electromagnetic-field-susceptible semiconductor component is located on and/or in the substrate. The magnetically shielded semiconductor device includes a top magnetic shield located over the top surface of the substrate. Further, the magnetically shielded semiconductor device includes a bottom magnetic shield located under the bottom surface of the substrate. Also, the magnetically shielded semiconductor device includes a sidewall magnetic shield located between the top magnetic shield and the bottom magnetic shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Bhushan Bharat, Shan Gao, Danny Pak-Chum Shum, Wanbing Yi, Juan Boon Tan, Wei Yi Lim, Teck Guan Lim, Michael Han Kim Kwong, Eva Wai Leong Ching
  • System, method and associated computer readable medium for designing integrated circuit with pre-layout RC information
    Patent number: 10127338
    Abstract: A system for designing an integrated circuit having pre-layout RC information is disclosed. The system includes: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to: generate current and voltage information for a schematic having device array layout constraint included; create interconnection topology patterns and realizing route for the schematic; generate RC information according to the route; and determine if the schematic having the device array layout constraint and the RC information included violates one or more of the system design rule constraints. An associated method and a computer readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Chin-Sheng Chen, Ching-Yu Chai, Wei-Yi Hu
  • Heat dissipation estimating method
    Patent number: 10088440
    Abstract: A heat dissipation estimating method is disclosed. The heat dissipation estimating method includes following steps: providing an input heat to a fin of a heat sink unit; obtaining an average temperature of the fin according to the input heat; obtaining an output heat according to the average temperature; determining whether the input heat is the same as the output heat or not; while the input heat is different from the output heat, updating the input heat according to the output heat and repeating the above steps until the input heat is the same as the output heat; and while the input heat is the same as the output heat, obtaining a total heat dissipation value of the heat sink unit according to the input heat and a ratio value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hua-Feng Chen, Wei-Yi Lin, Meng-Lung Chiang, Yu-Hsuan Lin
  • Method of adjusting window and electronic apparatus thereof
    Patent number: 10082946
    Abstract: A method of adjusting windows and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes the following steps. A number of icons are displayed at the first screen, where the icons are respectively corresponding to programs being executed. A movement condition of the icons is detected. When multiple first icons from the icons are moved to a first side of the first screen, multiple first windows of the programs corresponding to the first icons are displayed on a second screen, and at least one scrolling bar is displayed at the first side of the first screen. A relative display position of the first windows on the second screen is adjusted according to a relative position of the at least one scrolling bar at the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Li, Chung-Hsien Lee, Cheng-Han Lin, Ju-Hsien Weng, Ren-Wei He
  • RANDOM DATA GENERATION CIRCUIT, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND RANDOM DATA GENERATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20180241381
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the disclosure provides a random data generation circuit which includes a phase difference detection circuit and a random data output circuit. The phase difference detection circuit detects a phase difference between a first clock signal and a second clock signal and outputs phase difference information. The random data output circuit is coupled to the phase difference detection circuit and outputs random data according to the phase difference information. Thereby, ideal and unpredictable random data is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Bing-Wei Yi