Patents by Inventor Ying Luo

Ying Luo 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).

  • DETERMINATION AND APPLICATION OF GLUCOSE SENSOR RELIABILITY INDICATOR AND/OR METRIC
    Publication number: 20120125075
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for determining a metric and/or indicator of a reliability of a blood glucose sensor in providing glucose measurements. In one aspect, the metric and/or indicator may be computed based, at least in part, on an observed trend associated with signals generated by the blood glucose sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Ying Luo, Raghavendhar Gautham, Bradley Liang, Anirban Roy, Kenneth W. Cooper, Rajiv Shah, Barry Keenan
  • Method for controlling and requesting information from displaying multimedia
    Publication number: 20120019684
    Abstract: The invention provides a robust method to control interactive media using gestures. A method to retrieve metadata information from a multimedia outlet device, wherein the method follows the steps: (1) extracting image hot spot areas in a current captured image using face detection, (2) detecting a human gesture directive in at least one image hot spot area using gesture recognition, (3) determining if the gesture directive matches a pre-assigned command to a rich interaction module, (4) sending a signal to a rich interaction module corresponding to the pre-assigned command detected, (5) extracting a media image hot spot area from electrical signals sent from the multimedia, (6) matching any detected human gestures in at least one image hot spot area using gesture recognition with a specific pixel on a device screen, and (7) retrieving information from metadata assigned to an area of pixels on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Ruiduo Yang, Ying Luo, Tao Zhang
  • SENSOR SYSTEMS HAVING MULTIPLE PROBES AND ELECTRODE ARRAYS
    Publication number: 20110319734
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide amperometric analyte sensors having multiple related structural elements (e.g. sensor arrays comprising a working, counter and reference electrode) and algorithms designed for use with such sensors. While embodiments of the innovation can be used in a variety of contexts, typical embodiments of the invention include glucose sensors used in the management of diabetes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Chia-Hung Chiu, Meena Ramachandran, Nandita Dangui-Patel, Jefferson Rose, Ashwin K. Rao, Hsifu Wang, Ying Luo
  • GLUCOSE SENSOR SIGNAL STABILITY ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20110320166
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, etc. for glucose sensor signal stability analysis. In certain example embodiments, a series of samples of at least one sensor signal that is responsive to a blood glucose level of a patient may be obtained. Based at least partly on the series of samples, at least one metric may be determined to assess an underlying trend of a change in responsiveness of the at least one sensor signal to the blood glucose level of the patient over time. A reliability of the at least one sensor signal to respond to the blood glucose level of the patient may be assessed based at least partly on the at least one metric assessing an underlying trend. Other example embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Luo, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Meena Ramachandran, Chia-Hung Chiu, Nandita Dangui-Patel, Michael Kremliovsky, Jefferson Rose
  • METHOD TO CONTROL MEDIA WITH FACE DETECTION AND HOT SPOT MOTION
    Publication number: 20110273551
    Abstract: The invention relates to a robust method to control interactive media using gestures. A method of controlling a multimedia device, using face detection and (hot spot) motion, providing robust accuracy in issued commands, wherein the method involves the following steps: extracting a hot spot area using a current captured image (Ci), calculate and analyze the difference between the current captured image (Ci) and a previous captured image (Ci?1), resulting in Di, applying an erosion on the Di to remove small areas, applying extracted (hot spot) motion areas as masks to filter out non-hot spot area motion, add Di to build a motion image, find the largest x, y and the smallest x, y coordinates of all the detected motion connected components, denote each as Ix, Iy, sx and sy, and perform an algorithm to determine if a hand gesture represents a command to control a multimedia device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Ruiduo Yang, Ying Luo, Tao Zhang
  • Electrophoretic display
    Patent number: 8054534
    Abstract: An electrophoretic paper device is provided. The electrophoretic paper device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on a lower substrate. The electrophoretic paper device also includes an upper substrate having a common electrode that covers an entire area corresponding to a display surface. The electrophoretic paper device further includes an electrophoretic ink layer, which includes a plurality of tubular cavities and each of the tubular cavities contains suspension fluid and a plurality of charged pigment particles dispersed in the suspension fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Luo, Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Chun-Wei Pan
  • KINASE INHIBITORS AND THEIR USE AS PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS
    Publication number: 20110263541
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are inhibitors of one or more protein kinases. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein. Also described herein are methods of using such protein kinase inhibitors, alone and in combination with other compounds, for conditions or diseases mediated or dependent upon protein kinases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: SHANGHAI GENOMICS, INC
    Inventors: Ying LUO, Fang SHU, Shudong WANG
  • ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110235159
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a common electrode, an electrophoresis layer, and pixel electrodes. The electrophoretic layer includes cavities, with each cavity arranged between one of the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, and comprises suspension fluid, first type charged particles, and second type charged particles. The first type charged particles and the second type charged particles are dispersed in the suspension fluid. Three cavities constitute a pixel unit. The first type charged particles and the second type charged particles in each of the three cavities constituting the pixel unit are one of red, green, and blue particles, and one of yellow, magenta, and cyan particles, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY(ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: LI-JIA YAN, YING LUO, KUAN-HONG HSIEH, CHUN-WEI PAN
  • Dual high-k oxides with sige channel
    Patent number: 8017469
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for integrating dual gate oxide (DGO) transistor devices (50, 52) and core transistor devices (51, 53) on a single substrate (15) having a silicon germanium channel layer (21) in the PMOS device areas (112, 113), where each DGO transistor device (50, 52) includes a metal gate (25), an upper gate oxide region (60, 84) formed from a second, relatively higher high-k metal oxide layer (24), and a lower gate oxide region (58, 84) formed from a first relatively lower high-k layer (22), and where each core transistor device (51, 53) includes a metal gate (25) and a core gate dielectric layer (72, 98) formed from only the second, relatively higher high-k metal oxide layer (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Tien-Ying Luo, Gauri V. Karve, Daniel G. Tekleab
  • MULTILAYER SILICON NITRIDE DEPOSITION FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110210401
    Abstract: A method for making a semiconductor device is provided which comprises (a) providing a semiconductor structure equipped with a gate (209) and a channel region, said channel region being associated with the gate; (b) depositing a first sub-layer (231) of a first stressor material over the semiconductor structure, said first stressor material containing silicon- nitrogen bonds and imparting tensile stress to the semiconductor structure; (c) curing the first stressor material through exposure to a radiation source; (d) depositing a second sub-layer (233) of a second stressor material over the first sub-layer, said second stressor material containing silicon-nitrogen bonds and imparting tensile stress to the semiconductor structure; and (e) curing the second sub-layer of stressor material through exposure to a radiation source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Kurt H. Junker, Paul A. Grudowski, Xiang-Zheng Bo, Tien Ying Luo
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE RESIZING BASED ON INTERPOLATION ENHANCED SEAM OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20110200274
    Abstract: Methods and systems for resizing an image utilizing content-aware seam operations include defining low-energy seams defining contextually less-important information and utilizing such information for interpolation based on one-dimensional manifolds. The interpolation can form new seams and/or regenerated pixels that can be combined with the image to provide a content-aware resized image exhibiting smooth and continuous features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Ying Luo, Ju Guo
  • Method of forming a gate dielectric by in-situ plasma
    Patent number: 7981808
    Abstract: A method of forming a gate dielectric layer includes forming a first dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate using a first plasma, performing a first in-situ plasma nitridation of the first dielectric layer to form a first nitrided dielectric layer, forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer using a second plasma, performing a second in-situ plasma nitridation of the second dielectric layer to form a second nitrided dielectric layer; and annealing the first nitrided dielectric layer and the second nitrided dielectric layer, wherein the gate dielectric layer comprises the first nitrided dielectric layer and the second nitrided dielectric layer. In other embodiments, the steps of forming a dielectric layer using a plasma and performing an in-situ plasma nitridation are repeated so that more than two nitrided dielectric layers are formed and used as the gate dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Tien Ying Luo, Olubunmi O. Adetutu
  • ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTTING DRIVING SETTINGS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110148833
    Abstract: A method for adjusting driving waveforms in an electrophoretic display includes: measuring grey level of the electrophoretic display periodically; comparing the measured grey level with a standard grey level, selecting a driving waveform from pre-stored driving waveforms according to the current grey level and the standard grey level if the measured grey level is not equal to the standard grey level; and applying the selected driving waveform to achieve the standard grey level. The electrophoretic display is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen)CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YING LUO, CHUN-WEI PAN, KUAN-HONG HSIEH
  • ADAPTIVE VIDEO KEY FRAME SELECTION
    Publication number: 20110110649
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for adaptive video key frame selection. The system includes a range determination device for selecting portions of a video sequence to be analyzed for video key frame selection at a specific time based on at least a video key frame computational cost estimate. Each of the portions encompasses a respective range of frames in the video sequence. The system further includes a localized optimization device for analyzing the portions of the video sequence to select video key frames therein utilizing a hybrid video key frame selection process that is based on heuristics and global optimization. At least one constraint relating to at least a computational capacity of the system is explicitly modeled in the hybrid video key frame selection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventor: Ying Luo
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMILARITY SEARCH OF IMAGES
    Publication number: 20110085739
    Abstract: A system and method for an efficient semantic similarity search of images with a classification structure are provided. The system and method provide for building a semantic classification-search tree for the plurality of images, the classification tree including at least two categories of images, each category of images representing a subset of the plurality of images, receiving a query image, classifying the query image to select one of the at least two categories of images, and restricting the search for the image of interest using the query image to the selected one of the at least two categories of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Dong-Qing Zhang, Rajan Joshi, Ju Guo, Ana B. Benitez, Ying Luo
  • ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20110069372
    Abstract: An electrophoretic paper device is provided. The electrophoretic paper device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on a lower substrate. The electrophoretic paper device also includes an upper substrate having a common electrode that covers an entire area corresponding to a display surface. The electrophoretic paper device further includes an electrophoretic ink layer, which includes a plurality of tubular cavities and each of the tubular cavities contains suspension fluid and a plurality of charged pigment particles dispersed in the suspension fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YING LUO, KUAN-HONG HSIEH, CHUN-WEI PAN
  • Electrophoretic display device
    Patent number: 7839563
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on a lower substrate, and an upper substrate having a common electrode that covers an entire area corresponding to a display surface. The electrophoretic display device further includes an electrophoretic ink layer having a plurality of cavities. Each of the cavities contains suspension fluid and a plurality of charged pigment particles dispersing in the suspension fluid. The electrophoretic display device also includes a plurality of pixel units, each of which includes three of the plurality of cavities. Each of the three cavities contains the black particles and particles of the red particles, green particles, or blue particles, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignees: Hong Fun Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Luo, Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Chun-Wei Pan
  • Semiconductor structure pattern formation
    Patent number: 7829447
    Abstract: Forming structures such as fins in a semiconductor layer according to a pattern formed by oxidizing a sidewall of a layer of oxidizable material. In one embodiment, source/drain pattern structures and a fin pattern structures are patterned in the oxidizable layer. The fin pattern structure is then masked from an oxidation process that grows oxide on the sidewalls of the channel pattern structure and the top surface of the source/drain pattern structures. The remaining oxidizable material of the channel pattern structure is subsequently removed leaving a hole between two portions of the oxide layer. These two portions are used in one embodiment as a mask for patterning the semiconductor layer to form two fins. This patterning also leaves the source/drain structures connected to the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo Mathew, Rode R. Mora, Tab A. Stephens, Tien Ying Luo
  • Using a video processing and text extraction method to identify video segments of interest
    Publication number: 20100246944
    Abstract: A video processing technique is performed on a video media service to identify video segments of interest. The video processing technique (200) is supplemented by a text extraction technique (245, 255, 270), as well. The resulting video segments of interest (289) can be stored as to produce a version of the media service which is shorter in time length than the original video media service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Ruiduo Yang, Ying Luo, Claire-Helene Demarty, Lionel Oisel
  • Method of removing defects from a dielectric material in a semiconductor
    Patent number: 7776731
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a high dielectric constant material over a semiconductor substrate, forming a conductive material over the high dielectric constant material, and performing an anneal in a non-oxidizing ambient using ultraviolet radiation to remove defects in the high dielectric constant material. Examples of a non-oxidizing ambient include for example nitrogen, deuterium, a deuterated forming gas (N2/D2), helium, argon or a combination of any two or more of these. Additional anneals using ultraviolet radiation may be performed. These additional anneals may occur in non-oxidizing or oxidizing ambients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt H. Junker, Tien-Ying Luo, Dina H. Triyoso