Patents by Inventor Yi Qiao
Yi Qiao 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).
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Patent number: 12387669Abstract: Systems and methods described herein may utilize a non-linear scaling relationship to scale brightness of selective portions of the display in a manner that reduces or eliminates perceivable banding effects. By non-linearly controlling changes in brightness of the display, a viewer may perceive a more uniform, linear dimming towards the relatively dimmer region without perceiving banding, leading to improved user experience when viewing the electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mario Miscuglio, Yang Xu, Snehal T Jariwala, Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S Guillou, Jenny Hu, Ming Xu, Wanqing Xin, Zuo Xia, Xin Zheng, Jie Won Ryu, Graeme M Williams, Kingsuk Brahma
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Patent number: 12353241Abstract: An electronic device may include a display, a cover layer overlapping the display, and a housing have housing sidewalls. An encapsulant material may surround at least part of the display and may be used to couple the cover layer to the housing sidewalls. A rigid outer material having a higher elastic modulus than the encapsulant material may also be used to couple the cover layer to the housing sidewalls. The rigid outer material may be a molded material that surrounds an outer perimeter of the encapsulant, or the rigid outer material may be a metal or plastic frame member having a C-shaped cross-section or other geometry. The display may overlap the housing sidewall. The encapsulant may absorb mechanical stresses on the cover layer to protect the display, whereas the rigid outer material may transfer mechanical stresses on the cover layer to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler R. Kakuda, Daniel J. Barrett, Michael J. Brown, Hao Dong, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Erik G. de Jong, James P. Landry, Di Liu, Kiran S. Pillai, Yi Qiao
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Publication number: 20250218330Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel implementing a first region having a first pixel layout and a second region having a second pixel layout, a sensor disposed behind the first region, and image processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display panel. The image processing circuitry may process image data associated with the first region of the display panel using a first pixel layout resampler and process image data associated with the second region of the display panel using a second pixel layout resampler.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Inventors: Hyun H. Boo, Mario Miscuglio, Jenny Hu, Ximeng Guan, Yi Qiao, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Zhizhen Ma, Alexey Kornienko, Tao Jia
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Patent number: 12340737Abstract: In a display characterized by regions with different pixel responses due, for example, to local pixel density variation, voltage-to-luminance matching may be non-universal. Therefore, in order to avoid visual artifacts that may hinder a desired visualization of displayed content, it may be advantageous to compensate the different gamma responses. In some cases, such as with electronic devices having a single pixel density across the display, optical calibration may be performed to determine voltage-to-luminance matching. However, in electronic devices with local pixel density variations, it may be disadvantageous to perform optical calibrations for each region with a different pixel density. Instead of using two distinct gamma curves which may include dedicated optical calibration, a global nonlinear scaler (GNLS) compensation may be applied.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mario Miscuglio, Kingsuk Brahma, Jie Won Ryu, Shengkui Gao, Yuchi Che, Graeme M Williams, Yi Qiao, Wei H Yao, Jean-Pierre S Guillou
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Patent number: 12253646Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for optimizing well-logging using an optimized wait time determined by analysis nuclear magnetic resonance data to achieve faster and better quality borehole evaluation. The method comprises performing a nuclear magnetic resonance pre-log testing; identifying a wait time for a portion of a signal from the pre-log testing with a long T1 and T2, value at each depth of the pre-log testing, wherein T1 is defined as a longitudinal relaxation time and T2 is a transverse relaxation time ascertained from the nuclear magnetic resonance prelog testing; and constructing a logging program with a logging program wait time being consistent with the wait time identified.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Yiqiao Tang, Mehdi Hizem, Lukasz Zielinski, Michel Claverie, Zhanguo Shi
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Publication number: 20250021086Abstract: A vision-based enhanced omni-directional defect detection method is provided. The method includes: performing posture adjustment on equipment, changing an equipment angle and a transmission speed, acquiring a multi-angle detection picture, and performing information fusion and classification. By means of the method, the influence of natural and human factors is solved, the problem of missing detection is solved by adoption of defect feature enhancement, and the part detection accuracy is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENT ENGINEERING, ZHEJIANG WANLI UNIVERSITYInventors: Weipeng LI, Wen LIU, Chao CHEN, Xiang YAN, Jinwei LIAO, Yi QIAO, Xu CHEN
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Publication number: 20250008799Abstract: A display may include an active area with a first region and a second region. The first region may overlap an input-output component such as a camera and may have a higher transparency than the second region. The first region may have a lower pixel density than the second region. Signal lines that pass through the first region may have transparent portions that overlap the first region and opaque portions that overlap the second region. To mitigate artifacts caused by high resistance of the transparent portions of the signal lines, the signal lines may include supplemental opaque portions that are electrically connected in parallel to the transparent portions and that are routed through the second region around the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Shyuan Yang, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Gihoon Choo, Jae Won Choi, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Jonglo Park, Kyounghwan Kim, Ricardo A. Peterson, Sungki Lee, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Yi Qiao, Yuchi Che, Yue Cui, Yue Jack Chu, Zhizhen Ma
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Patent number: 12185616Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The display may have both a full pixel density region and a pixel removal region with a plurality of high-transmittance areas that overlap the optical sensor. To mitigate reflectance mismatch between the full pixel density region and the pixel removal region, the pixel removal region may include a transition region at one or more edges. In the transition region, one or more components may have a gradual density change between the full pixel density region and a central portion of the pixel removal region. Components that may have a changing density in the transition region include dummy thin-film transistor sub-pixels, dummy anodes, a cathode layer, and a touch sensor metal layer. The transition region may also include anodes that gradually change shape and/or size.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ricardo A Peterson, Yuchi Che, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Yi Qiao, Yue Cui, Jean-Pierre S Guillou, Shyuan Yang, Tsung-Ting Tsai
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Patent number: 12142207Abstract: A system may include an electronic display panel having pixels, where each pixel may emit light based on a respective programming signal. The system may include a memory storing a map. The processing circuitry may determine a function for each pixel from the map. The processing circuitry may determine a respective control signal based on the function and a target brightness level for each pixel to generate multiple control signals, where the respective control signal is used to generate the respective programming signal for each pixel. The processing circuitry may determine a scaling factor based at least in part on the first map and may scale at least a subset of the multiple control signals based at least in part on the scaling factor.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple, Inc.Inventors: Shengkui Gao, Haifeng Li, Sinan Alousi, Marc Joseph DeVincentis, Yafei Bi, Hung Sheng Lin, Yi Qiao, Paolo Sacchetto, Weijun Yao, Pierre-Yves Emelie, Maofeng Yang, Yue Jack Chu
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Patent number: 12101426Abstract: An electronic device may have pixels that form an active area for a flexible display layer. An inactive area that is free of pixels may surround the active area. One or more edges of the flexible display layer may be bent around respective bend axes. The display layer may also have one or more unbent edges in which the inactive area and active area of the display have a planar shape. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives the image and an output surface to which the image is transported. The image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material. The coherent fiber bundle may have straight fibers that run parallel to each other in a vertical direction that is parallel to a surface normal of a central portion of the display layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler R. Kakuda, Hao Dong, Ian T. Clark, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Michael J. Brown, Paul C. Kelley, Shaorui Yang, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Yi Qiao, Ying-Chih Wang
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Patent number: 12097303Abstract: The present disclosure provides a decellularized extracellular matrix, the preparation process and uses thereof. The decellularized extracellular matrix of the present disclosure is derived from a three-dimensional cell spheroid, and the decellularized extracellular matrix has a three-dimensional spherical structure. The decellularized extracellular matrix of the present disclosure can be used to prepare a biomedical material scaffold for promoting tissue regeneration and repair.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITYInventors: Chieh-Cheng Huang, Cheng-En Chiang, Yi-Qiao Fang, Chao-Ting Ho, Yu-Chieh Wang, Anna Blocki
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Publication number: 20240315109Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a locally modified region that overlaps the optical sensor. The locally modified region of the display may have a modification relative to a normal region of the display that does not overlap the optical sensor. The modification may mitigate diffractive artifacts that would otherwise impact the optical sensor that senses light passing through the display. To mitigate diffraction artifacts, the locally modified region of the display may use spatial randomization (e.g., spatial randomization of signal paths and/or spatial randomization of via locations), opaque structures may be formed with circular footprints, a black masking layer may be formed with circular openings, apodization may be used, and/or a phase randomization film may be included.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Lixia Zhou, Joy M Johnson, Sandeep Chalasani, Ting Sun, Yang Deng, Majid Gharghi, Majid Esfandyarpour, Young Cheol Yang, Yuchi Che, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Kyounghwan Kim, Sebastian Knitter, Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S Guillou, Ze Yuan, Adam Backer, Yi-Pai Huang, Chaohao Wang
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Patent number: 12092626Abstract: A workflow and fluid analysis system to determine polar concentration and type of a reservoir fluid sample that is collected and analyzed in a downhole environment. Once collected this data can be fed into an advisory tool which can predict the probability of different types of issues that might be encountered in production of reservoir fluids from the reservoir. The workflow and fluid analysis system can also be employed in a surface-located laboratory tool for analysis of reservoir fluids.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Sharath Chandra Mahavadi, Yi-Qiao Song
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Publication number: 20240272253Abstract: A magnetic field monitoring system can include a host system that generates a magnetic field. The magnetic field monitoring system can include a plurality of sensor assemblies disposed apart from each other within the host system. Each of the plurality of sensor assemblies can include a coil wound around a sample and an integrated circuit coupled with the coil. The integrated circuit can perform one or more MR measurements of the sample using one or more pulse sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicants: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Donhee HAM, Bruce ROSEN, Yi-Qiao SONG
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Patent number: 12058916Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To increase the apparent resolution of the display in portions of the display panel with the transparent windows, the display may include a light spreading layer that includes a plurality of diffractive elements. The light spreading layer may spread visible light from the array of pixels such that the display resolution at the outer surface of the display is greater than at the display panel. The light spreading layer may selectively spread visible light but not infrared light. The display may also include a lens layer that focuses light onto the transparent windows.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yue Cui, Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Ming Xu, Shawn R. Gettemy
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Publication number: 20240210995Abstract: A display may have a stretchable portion with hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. A flexible interconnect region may be interposed between the hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands. The hermetically sealed rigid pixel islands may include organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels. A conductive cutting structure may have an undercut that causes a discontinuity in a conductive OLED layer to mitigate lateral leakage. The conductive cutting structure may also be electrically connected to a cathode for the OLED pixels and provide a cathode voltage to the cathode. First and second inorganic passivation layers may be formed over the OLED pixels. Multiple discrete portions of an organic inkjet printed layer may be interposed between the first and second inorganic passivation layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Prashant Mandlik, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Mahendra Chhabra, Chia-Hao Chang, Shiyi Liu, Siddharth Harikrishna Mohan, Zhen Zhang, Han-Chieh Chang, Yi Qiao, Yue Cui, Tyler R Kakuda, Michael Vosgueritchian, Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Jae Won Choi, Jiun-Jye Chang, Jean-Pierre S Guillou, Rui Liu, Po-Chun Yeh, Chieh Hung Yang, Ankit Mahajan, Takahide Ishii, Pei-Ling Lin, Pei Yin, Gwanwoo Park, Markus Einzinger, Martijn Kuik, Abhijeet S Bagal, Kyounghwan Kim, Jonathan H Beck, Chiang-Jen Hsiao, Chih-Hao Kung, Chih-Lei Chen, Chih-Yu Chung, Chuan-Jung Lin, Jung Yen Huang, Kuan-Chi Chen, Shinya Ono, Wei Jung Hsieh, Wei-Chieh Lin, Yi-Pu Chen, Yuan Ming Chiang, An-Di Sheu, Chi-Wei Chou, Chin-Fu Lee, Ko-Wei Chen, Kuan-Yi Lee, Weixin Li, Shin-Hung Yeh, Shyuan Yang, Themistoklis Afentakis, Asli Sirman, Baolin Tian, Han Liu
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Publication number: 20240203335Abstract: Systems and methods described herein may utilize a non-linear scaling relationship to scale brightness of selective portions of the display in a manner that reduces or eliminates perceivable banding effects. By non-linearly controlling changes in brightness of the display, a viewer may perceive a more uniform, linear dimming towards the relatively dimmer region without perceiving banding, leading to improved user experience when viewing the electronic display.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Mario Miscuglio, Yang Xu, Snehal T. Jariwala, Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Jenny Hu, Ming Xu, Wanqing Xin, Zuo Xia, Xin Zheng, Jie Won Ryu, Graeme M. Williams, Kingsuk Brahma
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Publication number: 20240203332Abstract: In a display characterized by regions with different pixel responses due, for example, to local pixel density variation, voltage-to-luminance matching may be non-universal. Therefore, in order to avoid visual artifacts that may hinder a desired visualization of displayed content, it may be advantageous to compensate the different gamma responses. In some cases, such as with electronic devices having a single pixel density across the display, optical calibration may be performed to determine voltage-to-luminance matching. However, in electronic devices with local pixel density variations, it may be disadvantageous to perform optical calibrations for each region with a different pixel density. Instead of using two distinct gamma curves which may include dedicated optical calibration, a global nonlinear scaler (GNLS) compensation may be applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Mario Miscuglio, Kingsuk Brahma, Jie Won Ryu, Shengkui Gao, Yuchi Che, Graeme M Williams, Yi Qiao, Wei H Yao, Jean-Pierre S Guillou
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Publication number: 20240169195Abstract: A machine learning-based method for accelerating a detection and disposition of content anomalies in a target digital artifact includes identifying, by one or more computers, a digital artifact underpinning a digital artifact assessment request; detecting, via the one or more computers, a plurality of content deviations in the target digital artifact based on a context-sensitive artifact assessment protocol obtained from the context-sensitive artifact assessment protocol repository; identifying, via a digital artifact assessment user interface, a sequence of one or more inputs corresponding to a rejection of a first subset of the plurality of content deviations; and based on identifying the rejection of the first subset of the plurality of content deviations: computing, via the one or more computers, a system-generated adaptation proposal for each content deviation underpinning the first subset of the plurality of content deviations based on machine learning-derived policies underpinning the context-sensitiveType: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Meng Tao, Yi Qiao
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Patent number: 11965844Abstract: A method (and corresponding system) that characterizes a porous rock sample is provided, which involves subjecting the porous rock sample to an applied experimental pressure where a first fluid that saturates the porous rock sample is displaced by a second fluid, and subsequently applying an NMR pulse sequence to the rock sample, detecting resulting NMR signals, and generating and storing NMR data representative of the detected NMR signals. The application of experimental pressure and NMR measurements can be repeated over varying applied experimental pressure to obtain NMR data associated with varying applied experimental pressure values. The NMR data can be processed using inversion to obtain a probability distribution function of capillary pressure values as a function of NMR property values. The probability distribution function of capillary pressure values as a function of NMR property values can be processed to determine at least one parameter indicative of the porous rock sample.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Yi-Qiao Song, Andre Souza, Muthusamy Vembusubramanian, Tuanfeng Zhang, Wenyue Xu