Patents by Inventor Yue Liang
Yue Liang 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: 10805751Abstract: A sound producing device (SPD) is provided. The SPD comprises a membrane, having a resonance frequency and a resonance bandwidth; and an actuator, disposed on the membrane, receiving a driving signal corresponding to an input audio signal; wherein the input audio signal has an input audio band which is upper bounded by a maximum frequency; wherein the resonance frequency is higher than the maximum frequency plus a half of the resonance bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10783866Abstract: A sound producing device includes at least one air pulse generating element. Each of the at least one air pulse generating element includes a membrane, a first air chamber and at least one opening, wherein a chamber pressure exists in the first air chamber, and the opening is connected between the first air chamber and an ambient surrounding the sound producing device. The membrane is actuated to change the chamber pressure of the first air chamber to generate a plurality of air pulses, the air pulses are propagated through the at least one opening, the air pulses produce a non-zero offset in terms of sound pressure level, and the non-zero offset is a deviation from a pressure value of an ambient pressure outside the sound producing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, Lei Chen, Martin George Lim
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Patent number: 10779088Abstract: A sound producing device includes at least one air pulse generating element. Each of the at least one air pulse generating element includes a membrane, a first air chamber and at least one opening, wherein a chamber pressure exists in the first air chamber. The membrane is actuated to change the chamber pressure of the first air chamber to generate a plurality of air pulses, the air pulses are propagated through the at least one opening, the air pulses produce a non-zero offset in terms of sound pressure level, and the non-zero offset is a deviation from a pressure value of an ambient pressure outside the sound producing device. Each pulse cycle has a pulse-generating time segment and a pulse-isolating time segment, the driving signal during the pulse-generating time segment is different from the driving signal during the pulse-isolating time segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, Lei Chen
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Publication number: 20200288248Abstract: A sound producing device is provided. The sound producing device includes a membrane, disposed within a chamber, controlled by a membrane control signal to cause a membrane movement; and a first deflector, disposed within a first opening by the membrane, controlled by a first deflector control signal to cause a first deflector rotation; wherein the sound producing device produces a plurality of air pulses via the membrane movement and the first deflector rotation, the plurality of air pulses has an air pulse rate, the air pulse rate is higher than a maximum human audible frequency; wherein the plurality of air pulses produces a non-zero offset in terms of sound pressure level, and the non-zero offset is a deviation from a zero sound pressure level.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10771893Abstract: A sound producing apparatus is provided. The sound producing apparatus includes a driving circuit, configured to generate a driving signal according to an input audio signal; and a sound producing device; wherein the sound producing device is driven by the driving signal, such that the sound producing device produces a plurality of air pulses at an air pulse rate, the air pulse rate is higher than a maximum human audible frequency; wherein the plurality of air pulses produces a non-zero offset in terms of sound pressure level, and the non-zero offset is a deviation from a zero sound pressure level; wherein the driving signal driving the sound producing device to produce the plurality of air pulses, is unipolar with respect to a first voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, Wen-Chien Chen
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Publication number: 20200212599Abstract: The present invention provides a MIMO antenna. The MIMO antenna includes a regular octagonal substrate and eight antenna components with a same structure arranged along eight edges of the regular octagonal substrate, and the eight antenna components are distributed in an annular array. The present disclosure further provides a terminal applying with the MIMO antenna. The eight antenna components in the MIMO antenna provided by the present disclosure are distributed in an annular array, so that an area occupied by the MIMO antenna in the terminal is greatly reduced; and moreover, the antenna components have good isolation therebetween and are simple in form, and the MIMO antenna has a higher bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Yue Liang, Jianan Wang, Yongli Chen
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Publication number: 20200203805Abstract: An antenna system is provided. The antenna system has a system grounding unit, a metal frame and a main board. The metal frame is spaced apart from the system grounding unit to form a clearance zone. The metal frame is a first radiator. The antenna system further has a second radiator, a switch, a capacitor and a main matching circuit. The second radiator is located in the clearance zone. The main board has a feeding point. The metal frame has a first connecting part and a second connecting part. An end of the capacitor is connected to the second radiator, and another end of the capacitor is connected to the main matching circuit. The second radiator is connected to the main board via the switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Yongli Chen, Zhongyue Wang, Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10681488Abstract: A sound producing apparatus is provided. The sound producing apparatus includes a sound producing device disposed at a sound producing location and configured to produce a plurality of air pulses according to a driving signal; a driving circuit, receiving an input audio signal and a channel-shaping signal and configured to generate the driving signal according to the input audio signal and the channel-shaping signal, wherein the channel-shaping signal is related to a channel impulse response of a channel between the sound producing location and a sound constructing location; a signal processing circuit, configured to generate the channel-shaping signal according to the channel impulse response.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10623882Abstract: A sounding system is provided. The sounding system comprising a sound producing device, disposed at a sound producing location, receiving a sounding sequence, configured to produce a sounding pulse array according to the sounding sequence; and a sounding circuit, comprising a sensor, disposed at a sound constructing location, receiving a received sounding pulse array corresponding to the sounding pulse array; a filtering circuit, configured to perform a filtering operation on the received sounding pulse array according to the sounding sequence and the sounding pulse waveform, and generate an overall filtering result; and a spike detection circuit, configured to perform a spike detection operation on the overall filtering result and obtain a channel impulse response corresponding to a channel between the sound producing location and the sound constructing location.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10613848Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for refreshing firmware. The method can include detecting, by an electronic device in a starting stage that starts up the electronic device, another device in connection with the electronic device and that the other device requires no additional software driver. The method can further include writing a software for firmware updating from the other device into the electronic device to update a firmware on the electronic device, and executing the updated firmware when the electronic device enters a normal operation stage after a restart.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yue Liang, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10609474Abstract: An air pulse generating element is disclosed. The air pulse generating element includes a front faceplate; a back faceplate; a front supporting element; a back supporting element; a folded membrane, configured to form a front chamber and a back chamber, and comprising a plurality of membrane units; wherein the plurality of membrane units are parallel and sequentially connected and an end of the folded membrane is connected to the back faceplate via the back supporting element and another end of the folded membrane is connected to the front faceplate via the front supporting element; and a plurality of valves controlling a plurality of air flow channels between the front chamber toward either a front space or a back space; wherein the plurality of membrane units are configured to perform horizontal deformation to squeeze air in and out of the front or back chamber with operations of the plurality of valves.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, Chiung C. Lo, Wen-Chien Chen, Chun-I Chang
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Publication number: 20200059719Abstract: A sound producing device includes an air pulse generating element and a control unit. The air pulse generating element includes an air chamber, a membrane, a first air entrance and a first valve. The membrane is disposed in the air chamber. The first air entrance is disposed at a side of the membrane in a first direction. The first valve is disposed between the first air entrance and the membrane. The control unit generates a driving signal to control a movement of the membrane, such that the air pulse generating element generates an air pulse in response to the driving signal. During an operation, an first airflow corresponding to the air pulse flows into or flows out of the air chamber through the first air entrance, and passes through the first air entrance substantially along a direction parallel to the first direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, David Hong
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Patent number: 10567866Abstract: A sound producing device includes an air pulse generating element and a control unit. The air pulse generating element includes an air chamber, a membrane, a first air entrance and a first valve. The membrane is disposed in the air chamber. The first air entrance is disposed at a side of the membrane in a first direction. The first valve is disposed between the first air entrance and the membrane. The control unit generates a driving signal to control a movement of the membrane, such that the air pulse generating element generates an air pulse in response to the driving signal. During an operation, an first airflow corresponding to the air pulse flows into or flows out of the air chamber through the first air entrance, and passes through the first air entrance substantially along a direction parallel to the first direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the membrane.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Jemm Yue Liang, David Hong
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Publication number: 20200052378Abstract: The present disclosure provides an antenna system applied to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a housing; a main board received in the housing and including a power amplifier; a plurality of antenna units; and a transmission circuit board received in the housing and configured to electrically connect the power amplifier with the plurality of antenna units. The transmission circuit board includes a plurality of transmission lines configured to feed the plurality of antenna units with power. Compared with the related art, the antenna system provided by the present disclosure, by additionally providing a transmission circuit board dedicated to connecting a power amplifier with an antenna unit, eliminates the necessity of routing on a main board to connect the power amplifier with the antenna unit, so as to facilitate wire arrangement and avoid signal interference between the respective traces.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Shijie Liu, Yongli Chen, Yue Liang
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Publication number: 20200044331Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-antenna system comprising at least two antenna units and a neutralization line for connecting two adjacent antenna units, and the neutralization line is provided with an inductor element. The invention also provides a mobile terminal. The multi-antenna system and the mobile terminal provided by the present disclosure could significantly increase the isolation degree between the antenna units by providing a neutralization line between the two adjacent antenna units for connecting the same and providing an inductor element on the neutralization line, thereby reducing the mutual coupling interference between antenna units and improving the antenna performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Shijie Liu, Ge Zhang, Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10547952Abstract: A sound producing apparatus is provided. The sound producing apparatus comprises a driving circuit, comprising a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) module, configured to generate an driving signal according to an audio input signal, wherein the driving signal comprises a pulse amplitude modulated signal generated according to the audio input signal, the pulse amplitude modulated signal comprises a plurality of pulses at a pulse rate, two consecutive pulses among the plurality of pulses are temporally spaced by a pulse cycle, the pulse rate is a reciprocal of the pulse cycle, and the pulse rate is larger than a maximum audible frequency; and a sound producing device, coupled to the driving circuit, configured to produce sound according to the driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10534151Abstract: A system forms, at an end of a multifiber ribbon cable, a multifiber ribbon cable segment having an enlarged core-to-core spacing. A UV-transparent mold is mounted on top of a chassis. The mold defines a plurality of individual fiber channels corresponding to individual fibers of the existing multifiber ribbon cable and having a spacing equal to that of the enlarged core-to-core spacing. Each individual fiber channel passes through the internal cavity. The assembled mold further includes an injection system for receiving light curable, flowable material from the reservoir and pumping system and feeding it into the internal cavity, and at least one vent for allowing air to escape from the internal cavity as the light-curable, flowable material is fed into the internal cavity. The injected material is cured by exposure to a curing light.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: OFS FITEL, LLCInventors: Denis E. Burek, Wladyslaw Czosnowski, Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10536770Abstract: A sound producing apparatus is provided. The sound producing apparatus comprises a driving circuit, comprising a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) module, configured to generate an driving signal according to an audio input signal, wherein the driving signal comprises a pulse amplitude modulated signal generated according to the audio input signal, the pulse amplitude modulated signal comprises a plurality of pulses at a pulse rate, two consecutive pulses among the plurality of pulses are temporally spaced by a pulse cycle, the pulse rate is a reciprocal of the pulse cycle, and the pulse rate is larger than a maximum audible frequency; and a sound producing device, coupled to the driving circuit, configured to produce sound according to the driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang
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Patent number: 10528434Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a terminal for restoring a firmware program, which pertains to the technical field of electronic devices. The method may be applied in a terminal having an activated first storage region storing a firmware program most recently executed by the terminal and an inactivated second storage region storing a back-up firmware program. The method may include: receiving a signal to restore a firmware program in the terminal; in response to the receiving of the signal to restore the firmware program, deactivating the first storage region and activating the second storage region; and loading in the terminal the back-up firmware program stored in the activated second storage region. The disclosure may solve a problem in the related art that a firmware program can be restored only by using a flash tool, and it may achieve an effect of restoring a firmware program with the use of a single key, and thus facilitate simpler operation of the terminal by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yue Liang, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10484784Abstract: A sound producing apparatus is provided. The sound producing apparatus comprises a driving circuit, comprising a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) module, configured to generate an driving signal according to an audio input signal, wherein the driving signal comprises a pulse amplitude modulated signal generated according to the audio input signal, the pulse amplitude modulated signal comprises a plurality of pulses at a pulse rate, two consecutive pulses among the plurality of pulses are temporally spaced by a pulse cycle, the pulse rate is a reciprocal of the pulse cycle, and the pulse rate is larger than a maximum audible frequency; and a sound producing device, coupled to the driving circuit, configured to produce sound according to the driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: xMEMS Labs, Inc.Inventor: Jemm Yue Liang