Patents by Inventor Hanjiang Chen

Hanjiang 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: 11550078
    Abstract: A GPU-based human body microwave echo simulation method includes: transmitting emulation input parameters from the memory of a CPU host into the display memory of a GPU device; configuring, at the CPU host, parallel computing network parameters to be run at the GPU device; initiating a kernel function for human body microwave echo simulation preset in the CPU host; computing the kernel function in parallel, in a plurality of processing kernels of the GPU device, in a multi-threaded manner, according to the parallel computing network parameters, to obtain simulation echoes of human body microwaves; transmitting the obtained simulation echoes of human body microwaves from the GPU device back to the CPU host. The method makes full use of the characteristic that a GPU can perform parallel computing to accelerate the echo simulation process, greatly improving the real-time performance of echo simulation of a human body microwave scanning and imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATTON TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Xiongwei Huang, Yanli Liu, Chengyan Jia, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11529067
    Abstract: A security check method includes: pre-creating at least four concurrently operating threads, one thread being responsible for movement control and data acquisition, one thread being responsible for imaging processing, one thread being responsible for interface displaying, and one thread being responsible for target detection and recognition; then the four concurrently operating threads divide original echo data of a human body to be checked into data of a plurality of adjacent overlapped azimuthal segments during data processing and perform individual processing on the data of each azimuthal segment. The security check system includes a thread creating unit, a first thread parallel unit, a second thread parallel unit, a third thread parallel unit, a fourth thread parallel unit, and a thread loop control unit. Because subsequent data processing is not required to be performed after the acquisition of all data is completed, the time for a security check process is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Tiansheng Zhang, Zhihui Feng, Hu Yuan, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11531097
    Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging system and method based on rotational scanning is disclosed. The system includes a column-shaped frame with a column-shaped side; a transceiving antenna array element arranged on the column-shaped side that transmits a micro-wave detection signal to a detected object located in the column-shaped frame and receives an echo signal reflected back from the detected object; a signal transceiving device that generates the micro-wave detection signal and sends same to the transceiving antenna array element and processes the echo signal; a rotation control device that controls rotational movement of the transceiving antenna array element so that the transceiving antenna array element transmits the micro-wave detection signal to the detected object in a plurality of angles; and a positioning trigger fixedly arranged on the column-shaped frame and configured to trigger the signal transceiving device when the transceiving antenna array element arrives at a position of the positioning trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Jiaqi Ruan, Juncheng Liu, Qian Xiao, Wei Chen, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11391861
    Abstract: A portable security inspection device based on millimetre wave imaging comprising a hand-held body, wherein the hand-held body is provided with a millimetre-wave transmitting circuit for generating a millimetre-wave transmitting signal, a millimetre-wave array antenna for transmitting the millimetre-wave transmitting signal to a detected object and for receiving an echo signal reflected by the detected object, and a millimetre-wave receiving circuit for processing the echo signal and converting the echo signal into image data of the detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Chunchao Qi, Zhihui Feng, Yanli Liu, Xiaoxiang Hou, Rong Wang
  • Patent number: 11283167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power adjustment method and apparatus, and a human body security check device. An adjustable power attenuator is provided in a millimeter wave signal transmitting link of the millimeter wave transceiver. The method comprises: obtaining a current humidity value by detecting the ambient humidity around the millimeter wave transceiver using a preset humidity sensor; determining a target power attenuation value of the adjustable power attenuator according to the current humidity value, the sum of the target power attenuation value and a power attenuation value caused to a millimeter wave signal by the ambient humidity being a constant value; and controlling the adjustable power attenuator to adjust its power attenuation value to be consistent with the target power attenuation value. The solution can reduce radiation hazard while ensuring the definition of an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao, Hanjiang Chen, Beibei Liu
  • Patent number: 11250249
    Abstract: A human body gender automatic recognition method includes: acquiring a current millimeter wave grayscale image, and determining gender part region positions of a human body in the millimeter wave grayscale image according to a pre-set body proportion; extracting a region sub-image corresponding to the gender part region position; performing dimension normalization on the region sub-image to obtain a normalized region sub-image; performing feature information extraction on the normalized region sub-image to obtain feature information about the normalized region sub-image; recognizing the millimeter wave grayscale image by means of each pre-set classifier, and respectively outputting results; and integrating the output results to obtain a classification recognition result of the millimeter wave grayscale image. The method has relatively high recognition rate and calculation efficiency and solves the problem of a privacy protection and detection method in a millimeter wave security inspection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN VICTOOTH TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Yanli Liu, Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Patent number: 11215730
    Abstract: A close range microwave imaging method and system is provided. The method comprises: controlling a linear antenna array consisting of a preset number of antennas to rotate along a preset arc trajectory so as to scan a target region; controlling the linear antenna array to acquire a preset number of echo data at azimuthal positions on the arc trajectory and to send an echo data set constituted by the preset number of echo data to a signal processing device until the linear antenna array completes the acquisition of echo data at preset azimuthal positions on the arc trajectory; and controlling, every time the signal processing device receives the echo data set, the signal processing device to perform imaging processing on the echo data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Lingxia Guo, Chao Sun, Xiaoxiang Hou, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11211701
    Abstract: An electrically scanned array antenna device applied to a millimeter wave imaging system is provided. The electrically scanned array antenna device comprises an adjustable light source for outputting an optical signal with an adjustable wavelength; an electro-optical modulation module; an optocouple; a time delay module for performing optical delay of different duration on each modulated signal, and correspondingly changing the duration of the optical delay according to the wavelength of the optical signal to obtain modulated signals of different phases; an optical detector; and an array antenna. The millimeter wave is loaded on the optical signal with an adjustable wavelength to obtain a modulated signal; the modulated signal is divided into multiple signals; time delay of different duration is performed on each signal; and millimeter wave signals of different phases are obtained after demodulation and are simultaneously transmitted to scan an object to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Zhihui Feng, Chunchao Qi, Hanjiang Chen, Rong Wang, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11209538
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave three-dimensional holographic imaging method and system. The method comprises: transmitting a continuous frequency wave to a measured human body, and receiving an echo signal reflected back; performing Fourier transform, phase compensation, inverse Fourier transform, and “non-uniform sampling to uniform sampling” interpolation; and projecting three-dimensional echo data to obtain two-dimensional reconstruction data, and generating a two-dimensional reconstructed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Shukai Zhao, Lingxia Guo, Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Hanjiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11194073
    Abstract: A millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection method, comprising: acquiring a millimeter wave gray scale image of a human body; according to a pre-determined foreign object imaging characteristic, extracting from the millimeter wave gray scale image a foreign object area image; according to a pre-determined foreign object image recognition algorithm, performing calculations on the foreign object area image, and acquiring a foreign object image from the foreign object area image; displaying the foreign object image as a foreign object detection result. Also provided is a millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Zhiquan Li, Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11125906
    Abstract: A disclosed system includes a support frame including a plurality of surfaces, a millimeter-wave transmission link that generates a millimeter-wave transmission signal, a plurality of millimeter-wave array antennas, a millimeter-wave reception link, and an image processing device. The millimeter-wave array antennas are disposed on different surfaces of the support frame, and transmit millimeter-wave transmission signals from different angles to a to-be-detected object and receive echo signals reflected from the to-be-detected object. By providing the millimeter-wave array antennas on each of the plurality of surfaces of the support frame, and transmitting millimeter-wave transmission signals from different angles to a to-be-detected object and receiving echo signals reflected from different angles of the to-be-detected object, a three-dimensional image of the to-be-detected object can be established, thereby achieving omni-directional detection of the to-be-detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN VICTOOTH TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shukai Zhao, Chunchao Qi, Zhihui Feng, Hanjiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11017219
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and a device for human body gender detection in a microwave image. The structure feature of a human body itself as well as the constructed vertical direction spatial distribution histogram and horizontal direction spatial distribution histogram are used to accurately locate the chest position and the crotch position of the human body. A human body chest subimage is extracted according to the chest position, and a human body crotch subimage is extracted according to the crotch position. Then, the feature values of the human body chest subimage and the human body crotch subimage are respectively extracted by a feature value extraction algorithm, and the human body gender is automatically identified according to the feature values. The technical solution of this invention is simple, and after experimental verification, can be effectively applied in actual microwave security check system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN VICTOOTH TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Zhiquan Li, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Patent number: 10969485
    Abstract: A servo rotary scanning system of three-dimensional holographic imaging may include a servomotor (20) having a first angle sensor (21), a second angle sensor (30), a control component (40), a servo driver (50) and a rotary frame (10), the servo rotary scanning system of three-dimensional holographic imaging is a full-closed loop servo control system, the second angle sensor (30) detects an actual rotating angle of the rotary frame (10) and feeds back a frame feedback signal to the control component (40), an instruction signal in the control component (40) is compared with the frame feedback signal to generate a following error, the first angle sensor (21) detects an output rotating angle of the servomotor (20) and feeds back a motor feedback signal to the servo driver (50), and the servo driver (50) controls the servomotor (20) to rotate according to the following error and the motor feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Patent number: 10928547
    Abstract: A terahertz security check method and system may include: a terahertz scanning device collecting a terahertz original image of a human body under test, and sending the same to a central server that identifies the terahertz original image, and determines whether the human body under test carries an article. If so, the image is marked with the position of the article and sent to a monitoring terminal. The monitoring terminal correspondingly marking the position of the article on a pre-stored human body cartoon image, and displaying the terahertz original images before and after marking to monitoring personnel, so that the monitoring personnel determine whether the central server has an identification error; and if so, the monitoring terminal changing a marker on the human body cartoon image, and sending the changed cartoon image to a client of security check personnel for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Tiansheng Zhang, Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10884116
    Abstract: A human-body foreign-matter detection method and system based on millimeter-wave image. The method comprises: obtaining a millimeter-wave grayscale image of a human body; extracting a human-body contour image in the millimeter-wave grayscale image; constructing a vertical space distribution histogram in a vertical direction and a horizontal space distribution histogram in a horizontal direction for the human-body contour image; obtaining positions of limbs of the human body according to the vertical space distribution histogram, the horizontal space distribution histogram and a pre-set human-body proportion model; identifying a foreign matter in the human-body contour image according to pre-set foreign-matter feature identification models; and marking a position of the foreign matter on the human-body contour image according to the positions of the limbs, and generating a foreign-matter detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Hanjiang Chen, Zhiquan Li
  • Publication number: 20200333504
    Abstract: A millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection method, comprising: acquiring a millimeter wave gray scale image of a human body; according to a pre-determined foreign object imaging characteristic, extracting from the millimeter wave gray scale image a foreign object area image; according to a pre-determined foreign object image recognition algorithm, performing calculations on the foreign object area image, and acquiring a foreign object image from the foreign object area image; displaying the foreign object image as a foreign object detection result. Also provided is a millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Zhiquan Li, Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200220261
    Abstract: An electrically scanned array antenna device applied to a millimeter wave imaging system is provided. The electrically scanned array antenna device comprises an adjustable light source for outputting an optical signal with an adjustable wavelength; an electro-optical modulation module; an optocouple; a time delay module for performing optical delay of different duration on each modulated signal, and correspondingly changing the duration of the optical delay according to the wavelength of the optical signal to obtain modulated signals of different phases; an optical detector; and an array antenna. The millimeter wave is loaded on the optical signal with an adjustable wavelength to obtain a modulated signal; the modulated signal is divided into multiple signals; time delay of different duration is performed on each signal; and millimeter wave signals of different phases are obtained after demodulation and are simultaneously transmitted to scan an object to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Zhihui Feng, Chunchao Qi, Hanjiang Chen, Rong Wang, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10706552
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for detecting concealed dangerous objects in microwave images. The method includes: simultaneously processes multiple adjacent microwave images, obtains edge images of a single image by using two methods for each image, obtains dangerous-object edges of the single image by edge fitting operation, obtains a rough dangerous-object contour by performing a registration operation and a second edge fitting operation on the dangerous-object edges of the multiple images, and performs a regional-binarization operation and a filtering on the rough dangerous-object contour to obtain a second dangerous-object area. The present disclosure has high detection accuracy and calculation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Yanli Liu, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200054236
    Abstract: A security check method includes: pre-creating at least four concurrently operating threads, one thread being responsible for movement control and data acquisition, one thread being responsible for imaging processing, one thread being responsible for interface displaying, and one thread being responsible for target detection and recognition; then the four concurrently operating threads divide original echo data of a human body to be checked into data of a plurality of adjacent overlapped azimuthal segments during data processing and perform individual processing on the data of each azimuthal segment. The security check system includes a thread creating unit, a first thread parallel unit, a second thread parallel unit, a third thread parallel unit, a fourth thread parallel unit, and a thread loop control unit. Because subsequent data processing is not required to be performed after the acquisition of all data is completed, the time for a security check process is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Aixian WANG, Hanjiang CHEN, Tiansheng ZHANG, Zhihui FENG, Hu YUAN, Shukai ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200042779
    Abstract: A human body gender automatic recognition method includes: acquiring a current millimeter wave grayscale image, and determining gender part region positions of a human body in the millimeter wave grayscale image according to a pre-set body proportion; extracting a region sub-image corresponding to the gender part region position; performing dimension normalization on the region sub-image to obtain the region sub-image after normalization; performing feature information extraction on the region sub-image after normalization to obtain feature information about the region sub-image after normalization; recognizing the millimeter wave grayscale image by means of each pre-set classifier, and respectively outputting results; and integrating the output results to obtain a classification recognition result of the millimeter wave grayscale image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Yanli Liu, Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng WU, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding