Patents by Inventor Yi-Min Tsai

Yi-Min Tsai 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: 11942543
    Abstract: A high-voltage semiconductor device structure is provided. The high-voltage semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a source ring in the semiconductor substrate, and a drain region in the semiconductor substrate. The high-voltage semiconductor device structure also includes a doped ring surrounding sides and a bottom of the source ring and a well region surrounding sides and bottoms of the drain region and the doped ring. The well region has a conductivity type opposite to that of the doped ring. The high-voltage semiconductor device structure further includes a conductor electrically connected to the drain region and extending over and across a periphery of the well region. In addition, the high-voltage semiconductor device structure includes a shielding element ring between the conductor and the semiconductor substrate. The shielding element ring extends over and across the periphery of the well region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chou Lin, Yi-Cheng Chiu, Karthick Murukesan, Yi-Min Chen, Shiuan-Jeng Lin, Wen-Chih Chiang, Chen-Chien Chang, Chih-Yuan Chan, Kuo-Ming Wu, Chun-Lin Tsai
  • Publication number: 20240071953
    Abstract: A memory device including a base semiconductor die, conductive terminals, memory dies, an insulating encapsulation and a buffer cap is provided. The conductive terminals are disposed on a first surface of the base semiconductor die. The memory dies are stacked over a second surface of the base semiconductor die, and the second surface of the base semiconductor die is opposite to the first surface of the base semiconductor die. The insulating encapsulation is disposed on the second surface of the base semiconductor die and laterally encapsulates the memory dies. The buffer cap covers the first surface of the base semiconductor die, sidewalls of the base semiconductor die and sidewalls of the insulating encapsulation. A package structure including the above- mentioned memory device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Ming Chiang, Chao-wei Li, Wei-Lun Tsai, Chia-Min Lin, Yi-Da Tsai, Sheng-Feng Weng, Yu-Hao Chen, Sheng-Hsiang Chiu, Chih-Wei Lin, Ching-Hua Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20240071954
    Abstract: A memory device including a base semiconductor die, conductive terminals, memory dies, an insulating encapsulation and a buffer cap is provided. The conductive terminals are disposed on a first surface of the base semiconductor die. The memory dies are stacked over a second surface of the base semiconductor die, and the second surface of the base semiconductor die is opposite to the first surface of the base semiconductor die. The insulating encapsulation is disposed on the second surface of the base semiconductor die and laterally encapsulates the memory dies. The buffer cap covers the first surface of the base semiconductor die, sidewalls of the base semiconductor die and sidewalls of the insulating encapsulation. A package structure including the above-mentioned memory device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Ming Chiang, Chao-wei Li, Wei-Lun Tsai, Chia-Min Lin, Yi-Da Tsai, Sheng-Feng Weng, Yu-Hao Chen, Sheng-Hsiang Chiu, Chih-Wei Lin, Ching-Hua Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11916471
    Abstract: An example electronic device includes a controller to determine a user touch detection by a power adaptor coupled to the electronic device to operate the electronic device in an AC power mode. The power adaptor may comprise a proximity sensor to detect a user touch for detachment of the power adaptor from the electronic device, and a control circuit to operate a configuration pin in a low output mode to signal user touch detection. The controller may initiate central processing unit (CPU) throttling to reduce power consumption by the electronic device. The controller may further stop CPU throttling in response to detecting that the power adaptor has been detached from the electronic device. Further, the controller may switch the electronic device to a DC power mode to operate using DC power supplied by a battery of the electronic device in response to power adaptor detachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ting-Yang Tsai, Yi-Chen Chen, Ching-Lung Wang, Yu-Min Shen
  • Publication number: 20230196526
    Abstract: A system stores parameters of a feature extraction network and a refinement network. The system receives an input including a degraded image concatenated with a degradation estimation of the degraded image; performs operations of the feature extraction network to apply pre-trained weights to the input to generate feature maps; and performs operations of the refinement network including a sequence of dynamic blocks. One or more of the dynamic blocks dynamically generates per-grid kernels to be applied to corresponding grids of an intermediate image output from a prior dynamic block in the sequence. Each per-grid kernel is generated based on the intermediate image and the feature maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yu-Syuan Xu, Yu Tseng, Shou-Yao Tseng, Hsien-Kai Kuo, Yi-Min Tsai
  • Publication number: 20230064692
    Abstract: According to a network space search method, an expanded search space is partitioned into multiple network spaces. Each network space includes a plurality of network architectures and is characterized by a first range of network depths and a second range of network widths. The performance of the network spaces is evaluated by sampling respective network architectures with respect to a multi-objective loss function. The evaluated performance is indicated as a probability associated with each network space. The method then identifies a subset of the network spaces that has the highest probabilities, and selects a target network space from the subset based on model complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hao Yun Chen, Min-Hung Chen, Min-Fong Horng, Yu-Syuan Xu, Hsien-Kai Kuo, Yi-Min Tsai
  • Publication number: 20230006611
    Abstract: A compensator compensates for the distortions of a power amplifier circuit. A power amplifier neural network (PAN) is trained to model the power amplifier circuit using pre-determined input and output signal pairs that characterize the power amplifier circuit. Then a compensator is trained to pre-distort a signal received by the PAN. The compensator uses a neural network trained to optimize a loss between a compensator input and a PAN output, and the loss is calculated according to a multi-objective loss function that includes one or more time-domain loss function and one or more frequency-domain loss functions. The trained compensator performs signal compensation to thereby output a pre-distorted signal to the power amplifier circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Po-Yu Chen, Hao Chen, Yi-Min Tsai, Hao Yun Chen, Hsien-Kai Kuo, Hantao Huang, Hsin-Hung Chen, Yu Hsien Chang, Yu-Ming Lai, Lin Sen Wang, Chi-Tsan Chen, Sheng-Hong Yan
  • Publication number: 20220156567
    Abstract: A neural network (NN) processing unit includes an operation circuit to perform tensor operations of a given layer of a neural network in one of a first number representation and a second number representation. The NN processing unit further includes a conversion circuit coupled to at least one of an input port and an output port of the operation circuit to convert between the first number representation and the second number representation. The first number representation is one of a fixed-point number representation and a floating-point number representation, and the second number representation is the other one of the fixed-point number representation and the floating-point number representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Chien-Hung Lin, Yi-Min Tsai, Chia-Lin Yu, Chi-Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 10614645
    Abstract: An intelligent door lock, a control method thereof, and an unlocking apparatus and method thereof are provided. The unlocking method is adapted for an unlocking apparatus to unlock a door lock apparatus, and includes following steps. Receiving a plurality of broadcast packages sent by the door lock apparatus in response to an operation on the door lock apparatus, and detecting a variation in signal strengths of the broadcast packets caused by the operation. Reading a stage message, which is recorded in each of the broadcast packages, of the door lock apparatus corresponding to the operation. Determining whether a variation of the stage messages matches a variation of the signal strengths of the broadcast packages. Sending an unlocking signal to the door lock apparatus for executing unlocking if a determination result indicates match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Min Tsai, Yung-Han Chen
  • Publication number: 20130114807
    Abstract: An exemplary information sharing method is provided. The information sharing method includes a step of: broadcasting predetermined sharing information to a user terminal(s) within a preset region on a client side in response to a sharing request while an information sharing function is enable. An information sharing module, device and electronic apparatus using the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Liang-Gee CHEN, Tien-Ju YANG, Yi-Min TSAI
  • Patent number: 8427476
    Abstract: A display system for improving visual comfort and a method of adaptively adjusting resolution of a display device are provided. The display system includes a display device, a memory, an image sensor, a face recognition unit, a distance detection unit, and a controller. The memory stores face representation data and user preference data. The image sensor captures an image and converts it into an electrical signal. The face recognition unit analyzes that electrical signal to recognize a face image and compares the recognized face image with the face representation data to generate a first signal. The distance detection unit analyzes the electrical signal to determine a distance between the display device and the user to generate a second signal. The controller then generates a parameter based on the first signal and the second signal and adjusts a display resolution of the display device based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Liang-Gee Chen, Jing-Ying Chang, Yi-Min Tsai
  • Patent number: 8213683
    Abstract: A driving support system with plural dimension processing units (DPUs) for indicating a condition of a surrounding area is disclosed. The driving support system of a vehicle includes plural image capturing devices disposed around the vehicle; at least a dimension processing unit (DPU) connected with the plural image capturing devices for receiving images from the plural image capturing devices and then producing plural related depth maps; a controller connected with the DPU for receiving the plural related depth maps and then producing an indicating data; and a display device connected with the controller for displaying the indicating data around the vehicle in a vertical view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Liang-Gee Chen, Yu-Lin Chang, Yi-Min Tsai, Chao-Chung Cheng
  • Publication number: 20110141114
    Abstract: A display system for improving visual comfort and a method of adaptively adjusting resolution of a display device are provided. The display system includes a display device, a memory, an image sensor, a face recognition unit, a distance detection unit, and a controller. The memory is configured to store face representation data and user preference data. The image sensor is positioned with respect to the display device for capturing an image and converting the image into an electrical signal. The face recognition unit is configured to analyze the electrical signal to recognize a face image of a user and comparing the recognized face image with the face representation data to generate a first signal. The distance detection unit is configured to analyze the electrical signal to determine a distance between the display device and the user to generate a second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: LIANG-GEE CHEN, JING-YING CHANG, YI-MIN TSAI
  • Publication number: 20100079453
    Abstract: A system and method of generating three-dimensional (3D) depth information is disclosed. The vanishing point of a two-dimensional (2D) input image is detected based on vanishing lines. The 2D image is classified and segmented into structures based on detected edges. The classified structures are then respectively assigned depth information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Liang-Gee Chen, Chao-Chung Cheng, Yi-Min Tsai, Ling-Hsiu Huang
  • Publication number: 20100054541
    Abstract: A driving support system with plural dimension processing units (DPUs) for indicating a condition of a surrounding area is disclosed. The driving support system of a vehicle includes plural image capturing devices disposed around the vehicle; at least a dimension processing unit (DPU) connected with the plural image capturing devices for receiving images from the plural image capturing devices and then producing plural related depth maps; a controller connected with the DPU for receiving the plural related depth maps and then producing an indicating data; and a display device connected with the controller for displaying the indicating data around the vehicle in a vertical view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Liang-Gee Chen, Yu-Lin Chang, Yi-Min Tsai, Chao-Chung Cheng