Patents by Inventor Yu Zou

Yu Zou 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: 8335682
    Abstract: A multi-language interfaces system includes a storage unit, a processing unit, and a language switch unit; the storage unit stores an executable code containing a variable code and multiple language packs; the processing unit is electrically connected for transmission to the storage unit to execute the executable codes; and the language switch unit is respectively electrically connected for transmission to the storage unit and the processing unit to provide a signal to the processing unit where the variable code is converted into one of those language packs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sercomm Corporation
    Inventor: Yu Zou
  • Publication number: 20120308104
    Abstract: Photon starvation causes streaks and noise and seriously impairs the diagnostic value of the CT imaging. To reduce streaks and noise, a new scheme of adaptive Gaussian filtering relies on the diffusion-derived scale-space concept in one embodiment of the current invention. In scale-space view, filtering by Gaussians of different sizes is similar to decompose the data into a sequence of scales. As the scale measure, the variance of the filter linearly relates to the noise standard deviation of a predetermined noise model in the new filtering method. The new filter has only one optional parameter that remains stable once tuned. Although single-pass processing using the new filter generally achieves desired results, iterations are optionally performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Zhi YANG, Alexander ZAMYATIN, Yu ZOU, Michael D. SILVER
  • Patent number: 8319135
    Abstract: An electronic device and a slide switch are disclosed. The slide switch includes a main body, a slider, a rotary plate rotatably connected to the main body, and a rotary arm. The main body includes a fixing space, a channel, and a first contact member protruding from a bottom of the fixing space. The slider is movable between a first position and a second position within the channel. The rotary plate includes a lateral surface and a second contact member protruding from the lateral surface. Two ends of the rotary arm are respectively connected to the slider and the lateral surface. When the slider is located in the first position, the first contact member spaces from the second contact member; when the slider is moved to the second position, the rotary arm rotates the rotary plate causing the first contact member to contact the second contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Yuan Chen, Kok-Kan Chan, Hua-Lin Lv, Jing Liu, Yu Zou, Chu-Lien Liu, Ting-Jian Zou, Zuo-Dong Li
  • Patent number: 8315351
    Abstract: A computed tomography apparatus and method using line data estimated from circle data and scanogram data. An image of a subject is reconstructed using the circle data and the estimated line data. The circle data and scanogram data may be weighted in estimating the line data. The apparatus and method are useful in diminishing or eliminating streak artifacts in reconstructed images such as images including the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Nakanishi, Yu Zou, Aleksandr Zamyatin, Michael D. Silver
  • Patent number: 8294717
    Abstract: Three or more materials are advantageously separated from dual energy data by using a material separation technique. To effectively separate material clusters, a density plot is introduced to automatically render cluster separations. Initially, the projection data optionally undergo data-domain dual energy decomposition. Then, the image data is plotted in a vector plot whose axes are the low HU values and the high HU values. For a given data point in the vector plot, a number of data points is counted within in a region of interest surrounding the given data point to generate a density plot where each point now represents a density level surrounding the data point. Thus, clustering of a certain material is visualized by a predetermined color assignment scheme. Furthermore, special image processing methods such as Gaussian decomposition are used to improve the accuracy of material separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Zamyatin, Anusha Muthu Natarajan, Yu Zou
  • Patent number: 8283584
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing and a button. The housing defines a through hole. The sidewall of the through hole defines a pair of positioning holes. The button includes a frame, a sliding bar assembly, an elastic conductive member, and a pressing member. The sliding bar assembly is received in the frame with two external ends respectively received in the positioning holes to cause the frame to be received in the through hole. The elastic conductive member is fixed in the housing. The pressing member hooks the frame and extends through the frame to resist the sliding bar assembly. When the pressing member is depressed, the pressing member resists the sliding bar assembly to cause the external ends to move out of the positioning holes. Further depress on the pressing member causes the frame to press the elastic conductive member to actuate the button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Gui Wang, Kok-Kan Chan, Hua-Lin Lv, Yu Zou
  • Publication number: 20120251006
    Abstract: An exemplary method for online character recognition of characters includes acquiring time sequential, online ink data for a handwritten character, conditioning the ink data to produce conditioned ink data where the conditioned ink data includes information as to writing sequence of the handwritten character and extracting features from the conditioned ink data where the features include a tangent feature, a curvature feature, a local length feature, a connection point feature and an imaginary stroke feature. Such a method may determine neighborhoods for ink data and extract features for each neighborhood. An exemplary character recognition system may use various exemplary methods for training and character recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Zou, Ming Chang, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 8266078
    Abstract: A method for researching and developing a recognition model in a computing environment, including gathering one or more data samples from one or more users in the computing environment into a training data set used for creating the recognition model, receiving one or more training parameters defining a feature extraction algorithm configured to analyze one or more features of the training data set, a classifier algorithm configured to associate the features to a template set, a selection of a subset of the training data set, a type of the data samples, or combinations thereof, creating the recognition model based on the training parameters, and evaluating the recognition model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Zou, Hao Wei, Gong Cheng, Dongmei Zhang, Jian Wang
  • Publication number: 20120213414
    Abstract: Embodiments and processes of computer tomography perform tasks associated with selecting a portion of projection or emission data that contain the least amount of motion based upon a predetermined motion index, a derivative of plane integral (DPI). Other embodiments and processes of computer tomography perform tasks associated with determining an amount of direction-dependent motion in an object based upon a comparison of the DPIs in predetermined directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yu ZOU, Ilmar HEIN
  • Publication number: 20120215090
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest for an object is provided. The reconstruction of the object may be based on chords which may fill a part, all, or more than all of the region of interest. Using chords for reconstruction may allow for reducing data acquired and/or processing for reconstructing a substantially exact image of the ROI. Moreover, various methodologies may be used in reconstructing the image, such as backprojection-filtration, and modified filtration backprojection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Xiaochuan Pan, Yu Zou, Lifeng Yu, Chien-Min Kao, Martin King, Maryellen Giger, Dan Xia, Howard Halpern, Charles Pelizzari, Emil Y. Sidky, Seungryong Cho
  • Publication number: 20120183223
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and offline recognition is separately performed to obtain online and offline character-level recognition scores for candidates (hypotheses). A statistical analysis-based combination algorithm, an AdaBoost algorithm, and/or a neural network-based combination may determine a combination function to combine the scores to produce a result set of one or more results. Online and offline radical-level recognition may be performed. For example, a HMM recognizer may generate online radical scores used to build a radical graph, which is then rescored using the offline radical recognition scores. Paths in the rescored graph are then searched to provide the combined recognition result, e.g., corresponding to the path with the highest score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xinjian Chen, Dongmei Zhang, Yu Zou, Ming Chang, Shi Han, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 8204310
    Abstract: An exemplary method for online character recognition of East Asian characters includes acquiring time sequential, online ink data for a handwritten East Asian character, conditioning the ink data to produce conditioned ink data where the conditioned ink data includes information as to writing sequence of the handwritten East Asian character and extracting features from the conditioned ink data where the features include a tangent feature, a curvature feature, a local length feature, a connection point feature and an imaginary stroke feature. Such a method may determine neighborhoods for ink data and extract features for each neighborhood. An exemplary Hidden Markov Model based character recognition system may use various exemplary methods for training and character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Zou, Jian Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Ming Chang, Shi Han
  • Patent number: 8194961
    Abstract: A method of obtaining a computed tomography image of an object includes determining linear terms and non-linear beam hardening terms in a pair of line integral equations for dual-energy projection data from inserting average and difference from average attenuation terms, obtaining an initial solution of the line integral equation by setting the non-linear beam hardening terms to zero, and iteratively solving the line integral equations to obtain one line integral equations for each basis material. Attenuation by the first basis material corresponds to a photoelectric attenuation process, and attenuation by the second basis material corresponds to a Compton attenuation process. The line integral equations can be inverted by an inverse Radon procedure such as filtered backprojection to give images of each basis material. The images of each basis material can then be optionally combined to give monochromatic images, density and effective atomic number images, or photoelectric and Compton processes images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Zou, Michael D. Silver
  • Patent number: 8165264
    Abstract: Fast kV-switching is a dual energy acquisition technique in computed tomography (CT) in which alternating views correspond to the low and high tube voltages. Its high temporal resolution and its suitability to a variety of source trajectories make it an attractive option for dual energy data acquisition. Its disadvantages include a one-view misregistration between the data for high and low voltages, the potentially poor spectrum separation due to the more-like a sine wave rather than the desired square wave in fast kV-switching, and the higher noise in the low voltage data because of the technical difficulty in swinging the tube current to counter the loss of x-ray production efficiency and loss of penetration at lower tube voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Yu Zou
  • Patent number: 8160362
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and offline recognition is separately performed to obtain online and offline character-level recognition scores for candidates (hypotheses). A statistical analysis-based combination algorithm, an AdaBoost algorithm, and/or a neural network-based combination may determine a combination function to combine the scores to produce a result set of one or more results. Online and offline radical-level recognition may be performed. For example, a HMM recognizer may generate online radical scores used to build a radical graph, which is then rescored using the offline radical recognition scores. Paths in the rescored graph are then searched to provide the combined recognition result, e.g., corresponding to the path with the highest score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xinjian Chen, Dongmei Zhang, Yu Zou, Ming Chang, Shi Han, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 8121245
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest for an object is provided. The reconstruction of the object may be based on chords which may fill a part, all, or more than all of the region of interest. Using chords for reconstruction may allow for reducing data acquired and/or processing for reconstructing a substantially exact image of the ROI. Moreover, various methodologies may be used in reconstructing the image, such as backprojection-filtration, and modified filtration backprojection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Chicago
    Inventors: Xiaochuan Pan, Yu Zou, Lifeng Yu, Chien-Min Kao, Martin King, Maryellen Giger, Dan Xia, Howard Halpern, Charles Pelizzari, Emil Y. Sidky, Seungryong Cho
  • Publication number: 20110317805
    Abstract: A computed tomography apparatus and method using line data estimated from circle data and scanogram data. An image of a subject is reconstructed using the circle data and the estimated line data. The circle data and scanogram data may be weighted in estimating the line data. The apparatus and method are useful in diminishing or eliminating streak artifacts in reconstructed images such as images including the spine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: SATORU NAKANISHI, Yu Zou, Aleksandr Zamyatin, Michael D. Silver
  • Publication number: 20110291535
    Abstract: An electronic device and a slide switch are disclosed. The slide switch includes a main body, a slider, a rotary plate rotatably connected to the main body, and a rotary arm. The main body includes a fixing space, a channel, and a first contact member protruding from a bottom of the fixing space. The slider is movable between a first position and a second position within the channel. The rotary plate includes a lateral surface and a second contact member protruding from the lateral surface. Two ends of the rotary arm are respectively connected to the slider and the lateral surface. When the slider is located in the first position, the first contact member spaces from the second contact member; when the slider is moved to the second position, the rotary arm rotates the rotary plate causing the first contact member to contact the second contact member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FU TAI HUA INDUSTRY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUNG-YUAN CHEN, KOK-KAN CHAN, HUA-LIN LV, JING LIU, YU ZOU, CHU-LIEN LIU, TING-JIAN ZOU, ZUO-DONG LI
  • Publication number: 20110261552
    Abstract: A method for affixing adhesive films to a main board is provided. The main board includes a main body and a shield. The shield includes a first shield and a second shield. The second shield defines openings. When the second shield is attached to the main body, components of the main body are confined within the openings, respectively. The method includes: first absorbing a single adhesive film to an electrostatic absorbing film. Then, stamping the electrostatic absorbing film and the single adhesive film to form adhesive films that have substantially the same shape and arrangement as the openings. Next, aligning the electrostatic absorbing film with the first shield and affixing the adhesive films to the first shield. Then, removing the electrostatic absorbing film from the first shield. And, assembling the first shield to the second shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FU TAI HUA INDUSTRY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HUA-LIN LV, KOK-KAN CHAN, TING-JIAN ZOU, YU ZOU, KAI-GUI WANG
  • Publication number: 20110253518
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing and a button. The housing defines a through hole. The sidewall of the through hole defines a pair of positioning holes. The button includes a frame, a sliding bar assembly, an elastic conductive member, and a pressing member. The sliding bar assembly is received in the frame with two external ends respectively received in the positioning holes to cause the frame to be received in the through hole. The elastic conductive member is fixed in the housing. The pressing member hooks the frame and extends through the frame to resist the sliding bar assembly. When the pressing member is depressed, the pressing member resists the sliding bar assembly to cause the external ends to move out of the positioning holes. Further depress on the pressing member causes the frame to press the elastic conductive member to actuate the button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., FU TAI HUA INDUSTRY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KAI-GUI WANG, KOK-KAN CHAN, HUA-LIN LV, YU ZOU