Patents by Inventor Yi-Ping Cheng

Yi-Ping Cheng 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: 20050272027
    Abstract: Real-time clinical diagnostic expert systems for fluorescent spectrum analysis of tissue cells and methods thereof. An exemplary system includes a set of optical fibers, wherein the first optical fiber introduces an incident light to an subject epidermal tissue, and the second optical fiber receives an auto-fluorescent signal, a set of monochromators, wherein the first monochromator produces the incident light, and the second monochromator produces the auto-fluorescent signal from the second optical fiber, a light detector for detecting the auto-fluorescent signal from the second monochromator, a signal processing unit for plotting a spectrum of the auto-fluorescent signal, and a spectrum analyzing unit comprising a database for analyzing the spectrum with the database to obtain a probability of disease for the subject epidermal tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Yi-Ping Cheng, Chih-Chung Wu, Sou-Lin Fong, Kuo-Feng Hung, Jen-Hao Chang, Yuh-Ping Tong, Mei-Fang Su, Su-Jan Lee