Patents by Inventor Lifeng Xu
Lifeng Xu 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: 9446395Abstract: A low-temperature catalyst is provided for reducing cold-start hydrocarbon emissions. The catalyst comprises a platinum group metal impregnated onto an oxygen storage material. The catalyst may be used alone or may be included in a hydrocarbon trap containing a hydrocarbon adsorption material therein. The catalyst/hydrocarbon trap is positioned in the exhaust system of a vehicle downstream from a close-coupled catalyst such that the exhaust temperature at the catalyst location does not exceed 850° C. during normal vehicle operation and when combined with a hydrocarbon adsorption material in a trap, the exhaust temperature does not exceed 700° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Lifeng Xu, Robert Walter McCabe, Jason Aaron Lupescu
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING OBJECT IN MOVING IMAGE AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF
Publication number: 20160260226Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a moving image, a detection unit configured to detect a detection target object from an interest image frame in the moving image, a tracking unit configured to obtain a tracked object in a neighborhood region of a detection position of the detection target object in an image frame preceding the interest image frame in the moving image, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the tracked object corresponds to the detection target object by integrating a position where the detection target object is detected by the detection unit and a position where the tracked object is obtained by the tracking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo, Lifeng Xu -
Publication number: 20160086053Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit configured to acquire an object shape regression model, which comprises an average object shape, a plurality of regression functions and a plurality of feature selection maps; a unit configured to set an initial object shape for the object image based on the average object shape; a unit configured to calculate at least one feature vector with respect to a plurality of feature points; a unit configured, for each coordinate of the plurality of feature points, to select feature fragments from the calculated feature vector based on a corresponding one of the plurality of feature selection maps and assemble the feature fragments into a sub feature vector; and a unit configured, for at least one coordinate of at least one feature point, to predict a coordinate increment based on the corresponding sub feature vector and a corresponding one of the plurality of regression functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Fuguo Zhu, Yong Jiang, Xian Li, Lifeng Xu, Dongchao Wen
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Patent number: 9275300Abstract: This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating an image description vector, an image detection method and apparatus. The method for generating an image description vector comprising: an encoding step of encoding each of a plurality of pixel regions of an image into M pieces of N-bit binary codes, wherein each bit of an N-bit binary code represents a neighboring pixel region which is in neighborhood of a corresponding pixel region; and a generating step of generating an image description vector of the image based on matching at least one of the M pieces of N-bit binary code of each pixel region of the plurality of pixel regions with a particular code pattern, where M is an integer of 3 or larger, and N is an integer of 3 or larger.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yong Jiang, Wenwen Zhang, Lifeng Xu
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Patent number: 9267409Abstract: A reverse flow hydrocarbon trap is provided that improves the conversion of hydrocarbons present in the exhaust gases of a vehicle to more environmentally benign compounds during cold engine starts. The trap includes a substrate having at least one exhaust gas passage therethrough, with the walls of the exhaust gas passage including a hydrocarbon trapping material and an oxidative catalyst. The substrate includes an inlet for hot exhaust gas from a vehicle engine and an outlet for the exhaust gas and further includes an inlet channel, an outlet channel, and an intermediate channel through which exhaust gas flows. The intermediate channel is oriented such that the flow of exhaust gas through the exhaust gas passage is reversed from the direction of flow in the inlet and outlet channels to improve the performance of the hydrocarbon trap.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Gang Guo, Giovanni Cavataio, Lifeng Xu, Manish Sharma, Jeffrey Scott Hepburn
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Publication number: 20150369100Abstract: A reverse flow hydrocarbon trap is provided that improves the conversion of hydrocarbons present in the exhaust gases of a vehicle to more environmentally benign compounds during cold engine starts. The trap includes a substrate having at least one exhaust gas passage therethrough, with the walls of the exhaust gas passage including a hydrocarbon trapping material and an oxidative catalyst. The substrate includes an inlet for hot exhaust gas from a vehicle engine and an outlet for the exhaust gas and further includes an inlet channel, an outlet channel, and an intermediate channel through which exhaust gas flows. The intermediate channel is oriented such that the flow of exhaust gas through the exhaust gas passage is reversed from the direction of flow in the inlet and outlet channels to improve the performance of the hydrocarbon trap.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Gang Guo, Giovanni Cavataio, Lifeng Xu, Manish Sharma, Jeffrey Scott Hepburn
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Patent number: 9171210Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for object classifier generation, and method and apparatus for detecting object in image. The method for generating a two-cell structure feature descriptor of a two-cell structure composed of a center cell and a neighbor cell in an image region, wherein the neighbor cell is one of eight cells around and adjacent to the center cell, the method comprising: calculating step for calculating statistics of gradients in the center cell and the neighbor cell respectively; and comparing step for comparing the calculated statistics of gradients in the center cell and the neighbor cell, so as to obtain a two-cell structure feature descriptor for describing the feature of the two-cell structure, and wherein the two-cell structure feature descriptor is one bit binary value.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Lifeng Xu, Bo Wu
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Patent number: 9171230Abstract: An object detection method performed by an apparatus which stores a general model for a specific object type in advance, the general model describing a plurality of components which are expected to co-exist in objects of the specific object type, the method including: a sample image receiving step of receiving one or more sample images, the one or more sample images each include a same query object of the specific object type; an object detector creating step of creating, using the general model and the one or more sample images, a detector specific to said query object; and an object detecting step of detecting, using the created detector specific to the query object, the query object from a destination image. According to the object detection method mentioned above, various objects of a specific object type can be precisely detected with high flexibility.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yong Jiang, Lifeng Xu
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Patent number: 9147169Abstract: Unlabeled samples are added to existing samples. Candidate samples for new support vectors are extracted from the added unlabeled samples using a plurality of existing support vectors. The new support vectors are selected from the candidate samples using the plurality of existing support vectors.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yong Jiang, Long Jiang, Lifeng Xu
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Patent number: 9135506Abstract: A method for detecting a plurality of object regions in an image, wherein the plurality of object regions having similar specific structural features, comprises: an estimation step for estimating a common initial value for the specific structural features of the plurality of object regions; and a determination step for determining, for each of the plurality of object regions, a final value for the specific structural feature of the object region and a final position thereof separately based on the estimated common initial value.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Zeng Chen, Lifeng Xu, Fuguo Zhu
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Publication number: 20150231566Abstract: A low-temperature catalyst is provided for reducing cold-start hydrocarbon emissions. The catalyst comprises a platinum group metal impregnated onto an oxygen storage material. The catalyst may be used alone or may be included in a hydrocarbon trap containing a hydrocarbon adsorption material therein. The catalyst/hydrocarbon trap is positioned in the exhaust system of a vehicle downstream from a close-coupled catalyst such that the exhaust temperature at the catalyst location does not exceed 850° C. during normal vehicle operation and when combined with a hydrocarbon adsorption material in a trap, the exhaust temperature does not exceed 700° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Lifeng Xu, Robert Walter McCabe, Jason Aaron Lupescu
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Publication number: 20150150893Abstract: This invention relates to novel andrographolide analogs of formula I that are useful for the treatment, prevention and/or amelioration of human diseases of viruses and cancers. This invention also relates with their pharmaceutical compositions, preparative methods and applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventor: Lifeng XU
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Publication number: 20150094200Abstract: A method including the steps of combining a catalyst metal and a leachable metal to obtain a metallic alloy; and electrochemically removing at least a portion of the leachable metal from the metallic alloy to form a catalyst structure having nanometric pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Chi Paik, Lifeng Xu, Hungwen Jen, Karen Marie Adams, Mark S. Sulek, Sherry A. Mueller
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Publication number: 20140258128Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for managing fund security, including that: a fund-security controlling strategy is generated according to a preset fund-security-controlling-strategy configuring file; and permission of using a paid function by an application is controlled according to a strategy controlling permission of using a paid function in the fund-security controlling strategy when it is detected that the application is about to use a paid function defined in the fund-security controlling strategy. The disclosure also provides a mobile terminal. With the disclosure, it is possible to control permission to a malicious application in a mobile terminal to use a paid function in the mobile terminal, thereby prevent loss of fund of the mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Mingjian Lei, Wei Wang, Lifeng Xu, Youpeng Gu, Sheng Zhong, Wei Hu
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Publication number: 20140176752Abstract: An object detection method performed by an apparatus which stores a general model for a specific object type in advance, the general model describing a plurality of components which are expected to co-exist in objects of the specific object type, the method including: a sample image receiving step of receiving one or more sample images, the one or more sample images each include a same query object of the specific object type; an object detector creating step of creating, using the general model and the one or more sample images, a detector specific to said query object; and an object detecting step of detecting, using the created detector specific to the query object, the query object from a destination image. According to the object detection method mentioned above, various objects of a specific object type can be precisely detected with high flexibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yong Jiang, Lifeng Xu
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Patent number: 8739517Abstract: A method is provided for controlling regeneration of an SCR catalyst. The method includes coordinating the regeneration duration and temperature (e.g., longer/shorter regenerations and/or lower/higher temperatures) to the urea deposit loading. In this way, improved regeneration may be achieved due to the particular nature of urea deposits on SCR catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Lifeng Xu, Williams Lewis Henderson Watkins, Shane Elwart, George Wade Graham
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Patent number: 8726638Abstract: The reduction of a NOx trap upon engine shutdown is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises adjusting a timing of creating a reductive environment in the exhaust conduit upstream of the lean NOx trap based upon the determined engine stop position. The creation of a reductive environment in the exhaust conduit upstream of the lean NOx trap may help to at least partially reactivate the lean NOx trap during engine shutoff.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John William Hoard, Lifeng Xu, Robert Walter McCabe, Karen Marie Adams
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Patent number: 8726249Abstract: A bootup device and method for an application program on a mobile equipment to improve the bootup speed of the application program on the mobile equipment. The bootup device has an application management module, that boots up a virtual machine module based on the application program to be run. A virtual machine module, loads codes of the application program and Just in Time (JIT) compilation results of a bootup process of the application program into a memory, search, in the JIT compilation results, for local JIT compiled codes corresponding to the bootup process code segment to be executed, and executes the found local JIT compiled codes when executing each bootup process code segment of the application program. A storage management module, store and reads the codes of the application program and the JIT compilation results obtained from the JIT compilation of the bootup process of the application program.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: ZTE CorportaionInventors: Youpeng Gu, Lifeng Xu, Wei Hu, Sheng Zhong, Wei Wang, Zemin Wang
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Publication number: 20140112535Abstract: A method for detecting a plurality of object regions in an image, wherein the plurality of object regions having similar specific structural features, comprises: an estimation step for estimating a common initial value for the specific structural features of the plurality of object regions; and a determination step for determining, for each of the plurality of object regions, a final value for the specific structural feature of the object region and a final position thereof separately based on the estimated common initial value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: ZENG CHEN, LIFENG XU, FUGUO ZHU
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Patent number: 8675969Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for detecting page boundaries which are capable of accurately detecting complete page boundaries and dealing with many kinds of complex conditions. The method comprises: an edge image detecting step for detecting an edge image from the book document image; a horizontal page boundary detecting step for detecting top page boundaries and bottom page boundaries on the edge image; a binding center line detecting step for detecting the binding center line by searching an intersection point of the left page and the right page on the top page boundaries and the bottom page boundaries; a page width determining step for determining the page width of the book document image; and a vertical page boundary determining step for determining the left page boundary and the right page boundary by using the top page boundaries, the bottom page boundaries, the binding center line and the page width.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Lifeng Xu