Patents by Inventor Yung Cheng Chen

Yung Cheng Chen 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: 9792014
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Feiereisen, Yung-Cheng Chen, Ryan Thomas Murphy, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Michael Anthony Faoro, Kenneth Fern, Michael R. Gow, Chao-Chung Lin, Joseph McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20170031547
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing enhanced menu presentation technology. In at least one implementation, a user interface to a personal information service is presented by a suitable computing system. The user interface includes a viewing pane and an information panel in which various personal information items may be organized. In response to a selection of any of the personal information items for viewing, content associated with the item is presented in the viewing pane. In addition, in response to an identification of an action group that includes multiple ones of the personal information items, an action menu is presented in at least a portion of a space in the user interface occupied by the viewing pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kutlay Topatan, Poonam G. Hattangady, Yung-Cheng Chen, Jeffrey Feiereisen
  • Publication number: 20170017166
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of semiconductor processing. The method includes, receiving a first wafer having a photoresist coating on a face of the first wafer. An exposure unit is used to perform a first number of radiation exposures on the photoresist coating, thereby forming an exposed photoresist coating. The exposed photoresist coating is developed, thereby forming a developed photoresist coating. An OVL measurement zone pattern is selected from a number of different, pre-determined OVL measurement zone patterns based on at least one of: the first number of radiation exposures performed on the first wafer or a previous number of radiation exposures performed on a previously processed wafer, which was processed before the first wafer. A number of OVL measurements are performed on the developed photoresist coating within the selected OVL measurement zone pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yung-Yao Lee, Heng-Hsin Liu, Jui-Chun Peng, Yung-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9513552
    Abstract: A composite mask suitable for multiple-patterning lithographic processes and a multiple-patterning photolithographic process utilizing the mask are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving a mask having a plurality of sub-reticles and a substrate having one or more regions. A first sub-reticle of the plurality of sub-reticles is aligned with a first region of the one or more regions. A movement pattern is designated relative to the substrate. A first photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a first exposed area on the substrate. An alignment of the mask relative to the substrate is shifted according to a first direction determined by the movement pattern. A second photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a second exposed area on the substrate such that the second exposed area overlaps the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chue San Yoo, Chang-Jyh Hsieh, Li-Wei Kung, Yung-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9495075
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing enhanced menu presentation technology. In at least one implementation, a user interface to a personal information service is presented by a suitable computing system. The user interface includes a viewing pane and an information panel in which various personal information items may be organized. In response to a selection of any of the personal information items for viewing, content associated with the item is presented in the viewing pane. In addition, in response to an identification of an action group that includes multiple ones of the personal information items, an action menu is presented in at least a portion of a space in the user interface occupied by the viewing pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kutlay Topatan, Poonam G. Hattangady, Yung-Cheng Chen, Jeffrey Feiereisen
  • Publication number: 20160124323
    Abstract: A method for exposing a wafer substrate includes forming a reticle having a device pattern. A relative orientation between the device pattern and a mask field of an exposure tool is determined based on mask field utilization. The reticle is loaded on the exposure tool. The wafer substrate is rotated based on an orientation of the device pattern. Radiation is projected through the reticle onto the rotated wafer substrate by the exposure tool, thereby imaging the device pattern onto the rotated wafer substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Hsueh-Yi CHUNG, Yung-Cheng CHEN, Fei-Gwo TSAI, Chi-Hung LIAO, Shih-Chi FU, Wei-Ti HSU, Jui-Ping CHUANG, Tzong-Sheng CHANG, Kuei-Shun CHEN, Meng-Wei CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150198887
    Abstract: A composite mask suitable for multiple-patterning lithographic processes and a multiple-patterning photolithographic process utilizing the mask are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving a mask having a plurality of sub-reticles and a substrate having one or more regions. A first sub-reticle of the plurality of sub-reticles is aligned with a first region of the one or more regions. A movement pattern is designated relative to the substrate. A first photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a first exposed area on the substrate. An alignment of the mask relative to the substrate is shifted according to a first direction determined by the movement pattern. A second photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a second exposed area on the substrate such that the second exposed area overlaps the first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Chue San Yoo, Chang-Jyh Hsieh, Li-Wei Kung, Yung-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8986911
    Abstract: A composite mask suitable for multiple-patterning lithographic processes and a multiple-patterning photolithographic process utilizing the mask are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving a mask having a plurality of sub-reticles and a substrate having one or more regions. A first sub-reticle of the plurality of sub-reticles is aligned with a first region of the one or more regions. A movement pattern is designated relative to the substrate. A first photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a first exposed area on the substrate. An alignment of the mask relative to the substrate is shifted according to a first direction determined by the movement pattern. A second photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a second exposed area on the substrate such that the second exposed area overlaps the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chue San Yoo, Yung-Cheng Chen, Li-Wei Kung, Chang-Jyh Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20140344710
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing enhanced menu presentation technology. In at least one implementation, a user interface to a personal information service is presented by a suitable computing system. The user interface includes a viewing pane and an information panel in which various personal information items may be organized. In response to a selection of any of the personal information items for viewing, content associated with the item is presented in the viewing pane. In addition, in response to an identification of an action group that includes multiple ones of the personal information items, an action menu is presented in at least a portion of a space in the user interface occupied by the viewing pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kutlay Topatan, Poonam G. Hattangady, Yung-Cheng Chen, Jeffrey Feiereisen
  • Patent number: 8843860
    Abstract: A method includes establishing an initial shot layout in which a number of shots are arranged in vertically aligned columns and horizontally aligned rows to cover a semiconductor wafer. At least one of a row of shots or a column of shots is shifted relative to an adjacent row or column of shots to establish at least one additional shot layout that differs from the initial shot layout in that shots in the at least one shifted row or column of shots are not aligned with the shots in the adjacent row or column of shots with which they were aligned in the initial shot layout. One of the initial shot layout and the at least one additional shot layout is selected as a final shot layout. The wafer is exposed to light using the final shot layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Ming Lin, Chia-hung Huang, Chi-Ming Yang, Chin-Hsiang Lin, Yung-Cheng Chen, Chih-Wei Lin
  • Publication number: 20140282254
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Feiereisen, Yung-Cheng Chen, Ryan Thomas Murphy, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Michael Anthony Faoro, Kenneth Fern, Michael R. Gow, Chao-Chung Lin, Joseph McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20140178803
    Abstract: A composite mask suitable for multiple-patterning lithographic processes and a multiple-patterning photolithographic process utilizing the mask are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving a mask having a plurality of sub-reticles and a substrate having one or more regions. A first sub-reticle of the plurality of sub-reticles is aligned with a first region of the one or more regions. A movement pattern is designated relative to the substrate. A first photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a first exposed area on the substrate. An alignment of the mask relative to the substrate is shifted according to a first direction determined by the movement pattern. A second photolithographic process is performed including exposing the substrate using the mask to form a second exposed area on the substrate such that the second exposed area overlaps the first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chue San Yoo, Yung-Cheng Chen, Li-Wei Kung, Chang-Jyh Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8755054
    Abstract: A method of measuring a surface structure of a display device is provided. The display device includes first and second substrates, first and second patterned light-shielding layers, and first and second pixel units. The first patterned light-shielding layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate includes first openings. The second patterned light-shielding layer disposed on the surface of the first substrate includes second openings. The first pixel unit includes first and second protrusions. The first protrusion correspondingly covers the first openings and a portion of the first patterned light-shielding layer. The second protrusion is disposed on and directly contacted with the first and second patterned light-shielding layers. The second pixel unit includes a third protrusion correspondingly covering the second openings and a portion of the second patterned light-shielding layer, wherein sizes of the second openings are smaller than sizes of the first openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lin, Min-Cheng Wang, Yung-Cheng Chen, Hung-Min Liu
  • Publication number: 20140049785
    Abstract: A method of measuring a surface structure of a display device is provided. The display device includes first and second substrates, first and second patterned light-shielding layers, and first and second pixel units. The first patterned light-shielding layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate includes first openings. The second patterned light-shielding layer disposed on the surface of the first substrate includes second openings. The first pixel unit includes first and second protrusions. The first protrusion correspondingly covers the first openings and a portion of the first patterned light-shielding layer. The second protrusion is disposed on and directly contacted with the first and second patterned light-shielding layers. The second pixel unit includes a third protrusion correspondingly covering the second openings and a portion of the second patterned light-shielding layer, wherein sizes of the second openings are smaller than sizes of the first openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lin, Min-Cheng Wang, Yung-Cheng Chen, Hung-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 8625076
    Abstract: A wafer edge exposure module connected to a semiconductor wafer track system. The wafer edge exposure module includes a wafer spin device, an optical system, a scanner interface module, and a controller. The wafer spin device supports a wafer for processing. The optical system directs exposure light on a respective edge portion of the wafer simultaneously to create a dummy track on the edge of the wafer. The scanner interface module sends and/or receives dummy edge exposure information from a scanner via a computer network. The controller receives the dummy edge exposure information from the scanner interface module and uses the exposure information to control the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Chih Chien, Yung-Cheng Chen, Heng-Jen Lee
  • Patent number: 8605235
    Abstract: A display device and a method of measuring a surface structure of the same are provided. The display device includes first and second substrates, first and second patterned light-shielding layers, and first and second pixel units. The first patterned light-shielding layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate includes first openings. The second patterned light-shielding layer disposed on the surface of the first substrate in the first patterned light-shielding layer includes second openings. The first pixel unit includes first and second protrusions. The first protrusion correspondingly covers the first openings and a portion of the first patterned light-shielding layer. The second protrusion is disposed in the first and second patterned light-shielding layers. The second pixel unit includes a third protrusion correspondingly covering the second openings and a portion of the second patterned light-shielding layer, wherein sizes of the second openings are smaller than sizes of the first openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lin, Min-Cheng Wang, Yung-Cheng Chen, Hung-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 8544317
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide for simultaneously moving multiple semiconductor wafers in opposite directions while simultaneously performing processing operations on each of the wafers. The semiconductor wafers are orientated in coplanar fashion and are disposed on stages that simultaneously translate in opposite directions to produce a net system momentum of zero. The die of the respective semiconductor wafers are processed in the same spatial sequence with respect to a global alignment feature of the semiconductor wafer. A balance mass is not needed to counteract the motion of a stage because the opposite motions of the respective stages cancel each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Fu Lin, Yung-Cheng Chen, Heng-Jen Lee, Chin-Hsiang Lin
  • Patent number: 8487900
    Abstract: An LCD and a touch display panel that can be integrated in the LCD are provided. The touch display panel comprises an active device matrix substrate that includes multiple sensing lines disposed on multiple data lines correspondingly and arranged parallel thereto, and multiple sensing devices formed on multiple scan lines. When an external pressure is exerted, a current is generated in the sensing lines, and the X and Y coordinates of the touch point is determined from a slight leakage current generated in the scan lines. The conventional external touch screen LCD device is substantially improved in response accuracy of the touch coordinates, material costs, and mechanical thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Chia Chiu, Shih-Yu Hsu, Yung-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8239788
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an integrated circuit chip size and determining a frame structure segment size based on the chip size. The frame structure segment size is less than the chip size. An initial shot layout having a chip count is established in which a number of shots, each including at least one frame structure segment and at least one chip, are arranged in vertically and horizontally aligned columns and rows. At least one additional shot layout is established in which at least one of a row or column of shots is offset from an adjacent row or column of shots. The initial shot layout is compared to the at least one additional shot layout, and a final shot layout is selected based in part on the total number of shots in the shot layout and has a final chip count that is greater than or equal to the initial chip count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lin, Yung-Cheng Chen, Heng-Jen Lee
  • Publication number: 20120181669
    Abstract: A method includes establishing an initial shot layout in which a number of shots are arranged in vertically aligned columns and horizontally aligned rows to cover a semiconductor wafer. At least one of a row of shots or a column of shots is shifted relative to an adjacent row or column of shots to establish at least one additional shot layout that differs from the initial shot layout in that shots in the at least one shifted row or column of shots are not aligned with the shots in the adjacent row or column of shots with which they were aligned in the initial shot layout. One of the initial shot layout and the at least one additional shot layout is selected as a final shot layout. The wafer is exposed to light using the final shot layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Ming LIN, Chia-hung Huang, Chi-Ming Yang, Chin-Hsiang Lin, Yung-Cheng Chen, Chih-Wei Lin