Patents by Inventor YI-WEN LIAO

YI-WEN LIAO 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: 20240085185
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for submersion detection and underwater depth and low-latency temperature estimation. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a first set of vertical accelerations obtained from an inertial sensor of a wearable device; determining a second set of vertical accelerations obtained from pressure data; determining a first feature associated with a correlation between the first and second sets of vertical accelerations; and determining that the wearable device is submerged or not submerged in water based on a machine learning model applied to the first feature. In another embodiment, a method comprises: determining a submersion state of a wearable device; and responsive to the submersion state being submerged, computing a forward estimate of water temperature based on measured ambient water temperature at the water surface, a temperature error lookup table, and a rate of change of the ambient water temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen P. Jackson, Ti-Yen Lan, Yi Wen Liao, Alexandru Popovici, Igor Tchertkov, Rose M. Wahlin, Natisa Jeyakanthan, Amit K. Jain, Kenneth M. Lee
  • Publication number: 20240075895
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for crash detection on one or more mobile devices (e.g., smartwatch and/or smartphone). In some embodiments, a method comprises: detecting, with at least one processor, a crash event on a crash device; extracting, with the at least one processor, multimodal features from sensor data generated by multiple sensing modalities of the crash device; computing, with the at least one processor, a plurality of crash decisions based on a plurality of machine learning models applied to the multimodal features; and determining, with the at least one processor, that a severe vehicle crash has occurred involving the crash device based on the plurality of crash decisions and a severity model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Vinay R. Majjigi, Sriram Venkateswaran, Aniket Aranake, Tejal Bhamre, Alexandru Popovici, Parisa Dehleh Hossein Zadeh, Yann Jerome Julien Renard, Yi Wen Liao, Stephen P. Jackson, Rebecca L. Clarkson, Henry Choi, Paul D. Bryan, Mrinal Agarwal, Ethan Goolish, Richard G. Liu, Omar Aziz, Alvaro J. Melendez Hasbun, David Ojeda Avellaneda, Sunny Kai Pang Chow, Pedro O. Varangot, Tianye Sun, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Hung A. Pham
  • Publication number: 20240034641
    Abstract: A water filter includes a filtering head, a filter bottle assembly, a switch member, and a quick release device. The filtering head includes a flow channel module. The filter bottle assembly includes a filter bottle. The quick release device includes a press lever, two links, and two push members. When the press lever is pivoted, the two links and the two push members are driven by the press lever to move the filter bottle simultaneously so that the filter bottle is mounted on or detached from the filtering head quickly. The a switch member functions as a waterway switch to control a water supply of the filtering head and functions as a locking mechanism for locking or unlocking the quick release device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sheng-Nan Lin, Hao-Chan Wei, Yi-Wen Liao, Zhe-Hua Ou
  • Publication number: 20220168213
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a water-in-oil emulsion composition that includes, based on the total weight of the water-in-oil emulsion composition, 2 wt % to 10 wt % of Avena sativa kernel oil, 15 wt % to 38 wt % of octyldodecanol, and water. The water-in-oil emulsion composition is free from a surfactant and a gelling agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yi-Wen LIAO, Jie LI
  • Publication number: 20210396619
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques to enable a mobile device to perform multi-source estimation of an altitude for a location. A baseline altitude may be determined at ground level for a location and used to calibrate a barometric pressure sensor on the mobile device. The calibrated barometric pressure sensor can then estimate changes in altitude relative to ground level based on detected pressure differentials, allowing a relative altitude to ground to be determined. Baseline calibration for the barometric sensor calibration can be performed to determine an ambient ground-level barometric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Lei Wang, William J. Bencze, Kumar Gaurav Chhokra, Fatemeh Ghafoori, Stephen P. Jackson, Cheng Jia, Yi-Wen Liao, Glenn D. Macgougan, Isaac T. Miller, Alexandru Popovici, Christina Selle, Aditya Narain Srivastava, Richard Warren, Michael P. Dal Santo, Pejman Lotfali Kazemi
  • Publication number: 20190350821
    Abstract: A surfactant-free emulsion composition includes water, 18 wt % to 25 wt % of an oil component, and 0.35 wt % to 0.8 wt % of a gelling agent, based on. 100 wt % of the emulsion composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yi-Wen LIAO, Jie LI
  • Patent number: 9744092
    Abstract: A limb rehabilitation and training system includes a horizontal position adjuster movably mounted at a bottom side of a base, an expansion rotary member mounted at the horizontal position adjuster, a shoulder joint traction mechanism linked to the expansion rotary member through a first arm segment robotic arm and a height adjuster, and an upper-limb rehabilitation device linked to the shoulder joint traction mechanism. The upper-limb rehabilitation device is able to rapidly be adjusted to fit the left arm or right arm through the horizontal position adjuster, the expansion rotary member, the first arm segment robotic arm and a shoulder positioning-lifting rotary member and. Further, by means of the shoulder joint traction mechanism, the user's stiffened shoulder joint can be timely moved for a separation distance, achieving the function of loosening the joint and facilitating performance of successive rehabilitation treatment or training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Li-Chen Fu, Kai-Wen Lee, Yi-Wen Liao, Wei-Wen Wang, Jin-Shin Lai
  • Publication number: 20140336542
    Abstract: A limb rehabilitation and training system includes a horizontal position adjuster movably mounted at a bottom side of a base, an expansion rotary member mounted at the horizontal position adjuster, a shoulder joint traction mechanism linked to the expansion rotary member through a first arm segment robotic arm and a height adjuster, and an upper-limb rehabilitation device linked to the shoulder joint traction mechanism. The upper-limb rehabilitation device is able to rapidly be adjusted to fit the left arm or right arm through the horizontal position adjuster, the expansion rotary member, the first arm segment robotic arm and a shoulder positioning-lifting rotary member and. Further, by means of the shoulder joint traction mechanism, the user's stiffened shoulder joint can be timely moved for a separation distance, achieving the function of loosening the joint and facilitating performance of successive rehabilitation treatment or training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: LI-CHEN FU, KAI-WEN LEE, YI-WEN LIAO, WEI-WEN WANG, JIN-SHIN LAI