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).

  • Publication number: 20240015403
    Abstract: An electronic device with an auxiliary illumination function and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a display screen, a light-emitting module, and a processing module. The first body has a first surface. The first surface includes a screen area and a border area, and the border area surrounds the screen area. The display screen is disposed in the screen area of the first body. The light-emitting module is disposed in the border area of the first body. The processing module is disposed in the electronic device and is coupled to the display screen and the light-emitting module. The processing module activates the light-emitting module in the border area to emit an auxiliary illumination light according to a required condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chien, Hao-Jen Fang, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Chen-Cheng Wang, Chih-Wen Chiang
  • Publication number: 20240001414
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a wafer stage and a particle removing assembly. The wafer stage includes a cup adjacent to a wafer chuck. The particle removing assembly is configured to remove contaminant particles from the cup. In some embodiments, the particle removing assembly comprises a flexible ejecting member that includes one or more elongated tubes, a front tip, and a cleaning tip adapter configured to attach the front tip to each of the one or more elongated tubes. The front tip includes front openings and lateral openings from which pressurized cleaning material are introduced onto an unreachable area of the cup to remove the contaminant particles from the cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Meng-Hsueh WU, Faung Yu Kuo, Kai Yu Liu, Yu-Chun Wu, Jao Huang, Wei-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 11861488
    Abstract: A neuron circuit, comprising first and second NDR devices biased each with opposite polarities, said first and second NDR devices being coupled to first and second grounded capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventor: Wei Yi
  • Patent number: 11859782
    Abstract: An AC two-wire LED high voltage lamp string with synchronous dimming and color adjustment comprises a high voltage controller and a lamp string group, wherein the high voltage controller comprises a control box, and a first power supply module, a switch control circuit and a first microcontrol unit which are arranged in the control box and connected in sequence; the first power supply module is connected with the switch control circuit and the first microcontrol unit; a second microcontrol unit. The present invention modulates and encodes a high voltage sine wave using the switch control circuit at the controller end and demodulates the sine wave at a bulb end to realize the functions of color change timing, flashing, timing and light control of lamp strings. The lamp strings can be used individually or connected in series and in parallel for use, to satisfy different needs of consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Xueren Zeng, Jiawei Li, Rongqu Tang, Jianping Yan, Lizong Hu, Wei Yi, Xiaofeng Tang
  • Publication number: 20230409854
    Abstract: Systems and methods of conducting a bar code scan using an imaging-based bar code scan device are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by an imaging-based bar code device that includes processing circuitry, an optical lens assembly having an image sensor and an optical lens with a focused region at a certain distance in front of the optical lens along an optical axis of the optical lens, a plurality of light emitting elements configured proximate the optical lens and laterally offset from the optical axis. The method includes sending, by the processing circuitry, to each light emitting element, an indication to enable that light emitting element to project a light beam towards the optical axis in the focused region so that the light beams overlap when a target bar code is in the focused region and nonoverlap when a target bar code is outside the focused region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Hsuan, Yi-Sheng Lee, Te-Chia Tsai, Chih-Huang Wang
  • Patent number: 11833589
    Abstract: Method of forming a switch bracket of a hinge for a two-body information handling system, including mixing metal powders and binders to form a blended mix; pelletizing the blended mix to form feedstock; injecting the feedstock into a switch bracket mold cavity to form a first article of the switch bracket; de-binding the first article to remove the binders from the first article forming a second article of the switch bracket; and sintering the second article by shrinking the second article to form the switch bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Chih-Chieh Chang, Wei-Yi Li, Chun-Min He
  • Patent number: 11825202
    Abstract: An electronic device with an auxiliary illumination function and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a display screen, a light-emitting module, and a processing module. The first body has a first surface. The first surface includes a screen area and a border area, and the border area surrounds the screen area. The display screen is disposed in the screen area of the first body. The light-emitting module is disposed in the border area of the first body. The processing module is disposed in the electronic device and is coupled to the display screen and the light-emitting module. The processing module activates the light-emitting module in the border area to emit an auxiliary illumination light according to a required condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chien, Hao-Jen Fang, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Chen-Cheng Wang, Chih-Wen Chiang
  • Publication number: 20230339098
    Abstract: A lifting mechanism comprises a lifting member, a first detection element and a second detection element. The lifting mechanism is applied to a robot, the robot comprises a controller, the controller is electrically connected with the lifting mechanism. The first detection element and the second detection element detect a height of the at least two guide rods, the controller controls the lifting member to move up or down according to the first position signal output by the first detection element and the second position signal output by the second detection element, so that the lifting mechanism can accurately locate the highest ascending position and lowest descending position of the lifting mechanism. A robot is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: CHUN-YUAN CHIEN, YA-WEI YI
  • Patent number: 11800497
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wireless time sensitive networking. A device may identify, using an 802.3 protocol stack, an 802.3 frame received from a second device using a wired Ethernet connection, and extract, using the 802.3 protocol stack, a redundancy tag from the 802.3 frame, the redundancy tag including a sequence number. The device may generate, using an 802.11 protocol stack, an 802.11 frame with a subnetwork access protocol (SNAP) field, the SNAP field including an organizationally unique identifier (OUI) and the sequence number, the OUI including an indication of an Ethertype protocol. The device may send the 802.11 frame using a wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Fang, Dave Cavalcanti, Laurent Cariou, Dibakar Das, Mikhail Galeev, Wey-Yi Guy, Javier Perez-Ramirez, Susruth Sudhakaran, Jing Zhu
  • Patent number: 11779967
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a wafer stage and a particle removing assembly. The wafer stage includes a cup adjacent to a wafer chuck. The particle removing assembly is configured to remove contaminant particles from the cup. In some embodiments, the particle removing assembly comprises a flexible ejecting member that includes one or more elongated tubes, a front tip, and a cleaning tip adapter configured to attach the front tip to each of the one or more elongated tubes. The front tip includes front openings and lateral openings from which pressurized cleaning material are introduced onto an unreachable area of the cup to remove the contaminant particles from the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Meng-Hsueh Wu, Fang Yu Kuo, Kai Yu Liu, Yu-Chun Wu, Jao Huang, Wei-Yi Chen
  • Publication number: 20230317204
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method comprising (a) obtaining a single cell gene expression profile comprising gene expression measurements for a set of genes, for a plurality of cells, and a single cell protein expression profile comprising protein expression measurements for two or more proteins, for the plurality of cells; (b) using the single cell protein expression profiles and an unsupervised learning method to assign a cell type class to at least some of the plurality of cells; and(d) applying a feature selection process to the single gene expression profiles to identify genes in the single cell gene expression profiles that are predictive of the cell type classes assigned in step (b), wherein the genes identified in step (d) form a predictor set of genes for predicting the cell type of one or more cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Wei-Yi CHENG, Tai-Hsien OU YANG, James Jinsong CAI
  • Patent number: 11775097
    Abstract: A flexible display input device includes a flexible display layer and a keyswitch layer. The keyswitch layer is disposed under the flexible display layer and includes a first elastic film, a first electrode, a second elastic film, and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed on a side of the first elastic film facing toward the flexible display layer. The second elastic film is located between the flexible display layer and the first elastic film. The second electrode is disposed on a side of the second elastic film facing toward the first elastic film and is opposite to the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Yi Lin, Chia Te Cho, Zhi Juan Lin, Ching-Kai Cho, Ming-Hsien Ko
  • Publication number: 20230308313
    Abstract: A communication apparatus and an associated method are disclosed. The communication apparatus includes differential input ports; a signal pairing circuit, arranged for coupling the differential input ports to a receiving circuit, wherein when the signal pairing circuit operates in a first mode, a positive input port and a negative input port of the differential input ports correspondingly electrically couple to a positive input terminal and a negative input terminal of the receiving circuit, when the signal pairing circuit operates in a second mode, the positive input port and the negative input port of the differential input ports correspondingly electrically couple to the negative input terminal and the positive input terminal of the receiving circuit; a processor circuit, arranged for determining whether the decoded signal includes a specific code before the timer is time out and generating a determination result; and control the signal pairing circuit according to the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: TE LUNG FANG, CHIH CHIEH YEN, JEN-HAO YEH, WEI-YI WEI
  • Patent number: 11763114
    Abstract: Systems and methods of conducting a bar code scan using an imaging-based bar code scan device are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by an imaging-based bar code device that includes processing circuitry, an optical lens assembly having an image sensor and an optical lens with a focused region at a certain distance in front of the optical lens along an optical axis of the optical lens, a plurality of light emitting elements configured proximate the optical lens and laterally offset from the optical axis. The method includes sending, by the processing circuitry, to each light emitting element, an indication to enable that light emitting element to project a light beam towards the optical axis in the focused region so that the light beams overlap when a target bar code is in the focused region and non-overlap when a target bar code is outside the focused region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Hsuan, Yi-Sheng Lee, Te-Chia Tsai, Chih-Huang Wang
  • Patent number: 11763761
    Abstract: An electronic device with auxiliary lighting function and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a light-emitting module, and a processing module. The first body has a first surface. The light-emitting module is located on the first surface of the first body. The processing module is coupled to the light-emitting module, and is used to determine an operation of a first power supply mode or a second power supply mode according to a current power supply state. When the processing module is operated in the first power supply mode, the processing module dynamically adjusts an auxiliary illumination light provided by the light-emitting module according to a battery power. When the processing module is operated in the second power supply mode, the processing module dynamically adjusts the auxiliary illumination light provided by the light-emitting module according to a sensing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chien, Hao-Jen Fang, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Chen-Cheng Wang, Chih-Wen Chiang
  • Publication number: 20230289508
    Abstract: A device including functional blocks and dummy cells. The functional blocks include a first functional block and a second functional block. Each dummy cell having a cell boundary defined by non-functioning active areas and non-functioning gates for filling space between the functional blocks and including a dummy cell configured to be situated between the first functional block and the second functional block such that the dummy cell directly abuts each of the first functional block and the second functional block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Chi-Yeh Yu, Wei-Yi Hu, Shih-Hsuan Chien, You-Cheng Xiao, Ya-Chi Chou
  • Patent number: D999218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hao-Jen Fang, Kung-Ju Chen, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Chih-Wen Chiang, Sheng-Hung Lee
  • Patent number: D999219
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hao-Jen Fang, Kung-Ju Chen, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Sheng-Hung Lee
  • Patent number: D1003890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chien, Hao-Jen Fang, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Chen-Cheng Wang, Chih-Wen Chiang, Sheng-Hung Lee
  • Patent number: D1010639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yang Chien, Hao-Jen Fang, Wei-Yi Chang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Chen-Cheng Wang, Chih-Wen Chiang, Sheng-Hung Lee