Conference on Patent Promotion and Deployment Draws Attention

On April 10, NTU System-on-Chip (SoC) Center held a patent promotion conference that also featured discussion on patent deployment trends and strategies. Major enterprises around the world have shown increasing attention to patents regarding robotics, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), smart human–machine interfaces, and artificial intelligence-based voice recognition, marking the importance of patent deployment.

At the conference, Distinguished Prof. of Electrical Engineering Li-Chen Fu (傅立成) indicated that the application of robotics should extend to medical care, where robots can be used to help users lead a better life, reduce medical costs, and accelerate patients’ recovery.

In his presentation, Prof. of Electrical Engineering Shao-Yi Chien (簡韶逸) discussed the application of AR/VR to wearable devices, pointing out that the use of AR/VR-based eye tracking technology would create brand new user experience.

Prof. Mike Y. Chen (陳彥仰), a faculty member of the Department of Computer Sciences and Information Engineering, highlighted that the introduction of human–machine interfaces will enable robots to learn user habits, provide more convenient and diverse modes of interaction, and extend the use of machines to human body.

According to Prof. of Electrical Engineering Hung-Yi Lee (李宏毅), artificial intelligence-based voice recognition systems had to process and learn content sentence by sentence in the past. However, the continuing development of databases in the future will enable machines to arrange and combine words to respond in sentences.

Finally, Director of the NTU Center for Technology Transfer Wei-Hsing Tuan (段維新) raised the example of iRobot to remind audiences of the importance of intellectual property rights, adding that technology transfer with NTU will help improve industries’ patent deployment.