Patents by Inventor Miao Yan

Miao Yan 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).

  • Publication number: 20240124336
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-efficient magnesium ion removal system for salt lake brine based on in situ alkali production using bipolar membrane electrochemical process, it is constructed with cathode, cathode cell, anode, anode cell, and anion exchange membranes, bipolar membranes, acid cells, alkali cells, mesh materials for precipitate aggregation, acid-washing cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Xuehua RUAN, Xiaobin JIANG, Gaohong HE, Xiaoming YAN, Wanting CHEN, Xuemei WU, Yan DAI, Tiantian LI, Miao YU
  • Publication number: 20240078357
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a device and electronic equipment for detecting a stability of a generator set in a power system. The method includes following steps: determining a target matrix by using Liapunov's direct method based on a state space matrix corresponding to power management unit (PMU) data; obtaining a state deviation corresponding to the PMU data and an oscillation curve corresponding to the state deviation in a case of determining the power system being in a stable state according to the target matrix; determining extreme point values corresponding to the oscillation curve at each oscillation; and evaluating a working state of the generator set in the power system according to the extreme point values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miao YU, Jinyang HAN, Jingxuan HU, Jiaxin YAN, Honghao WU, Jianqun SUN
  • Patent number: 11390306
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for multi-objective optimization of urban train operation. Firstly, speed limit information, slope information and curve radius information of a real train route are obtained, a section is segmented into non-equal sub-sections according to the above information about actual line characteristics, and then a longitudinal dynamics model of the train is constructed in combination with basic vehicle data of the train. Next, energy consumption of the train operation, section operation time, actual parking positions, and rates of acceleration change are calculated, so as to construct a multi-objective optimization model of train operation. Afterwards, a multi-objective differential evolution algorithm is used to solve the multi-objective optimization model, in order to obtain a Pareto optimal solution set of each operation district. Finally, an optimal solution is obtained which takes all objectives into comprehensive consideration, and an optimal train speed curve is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: East China Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Hui Yang, Yanli Zhou, Miao Yan, Luojun Yang, Zhongqi Li
  • Patent number: 11158071
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for point cloud registration. The method includes: segmenting a source point cloud and a destination point cloud respectively into different categories of attribute features based on semantic; segmenting the source point cloud and the destination point cloud into a plurality of grids based on the attribute features; calculating a current similarity between the source point cloud and the destination point cloud based on the plurality of grids; determining whether the current similarity and a current iterative number satisfy a preset condition; when the current similarity and the current iterative number satisfy the preset condition, performing a registration on the source point cloud and the destination point cloud to obtain a registered result; and based on the registered result, adjusting a position of the source point cloud, updating the current iterative number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Zixiang Zhou, Pan Luo, Yu Bai, Changjie Ma, Dangen She
  • Patent number: 11067669
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure can include a method and apparatus for adjusting a point cloud data acquisition trajectory, and a computer readable medium. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a trajectory may be adjusted based on a characteristic extracted from point cloud data. A parameter that needs to be adjusted may be selected according to the property of the characteristic, instead of adjusting all parameters at the same time. In addition, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, when trajectories are fused, the sequence relationships between the trajectory points in the trajectories can be considered, which avoids that a loop cannot be closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Xianpeng Lang, Wang Zhou, Xiong Duan, Changjie Ma
  • Patent number: 11037305
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure can include a method and apparatus for processing point cloud data. Specifically, the method for processing point cloud data can be provided, including: acquiring a first frame and a second frame respectively from the point cloud data; extracting a first candidate object from the first frame and a second candidate object corresponding to the first candidate object from the second frame, respectively; determining a first location of the first candidate object and a second location of the second candidate object in a coordinate system of the point cloud data, respectively; and identifying any one of the first candidate object and the second candidate object as a moving object, in response to an offset between the first location and the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifei Zhan, Miao Yan, Wang Zhou, Xiong Duan, Xianpeng Lang, Changjie Ma
  • Patent number: 11030803
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for generating a raster map are provided. The method includes generating a first raster map having a first resolution based on acquired laser point cloud. The method further includes generating a second raster map having a second resolution by merging rasters in the first raster map, the second resolution being lower than the first resolution. In addition, the method further includes storing the first raster map and an association between the first raster map and the second raster map. Some embodiments of the present disclosure are capable of meeting different levels of navigation or positioning requirements by generating raster maps of multiple resolutions. Furthermore, some embodiments of the present disclosure store only the raster map having the highest resolution and the association between the various levels of maps, thereby saving the storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifei Zhan, Miao Yan, Wang Zhou, Xiong Duan, Xianpeng Lang, Changjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10970864
    Abstract: A method for generating a point cloud data recovery model includes: acquiring at least one 2D image associated with a first point cloud data frame; partitioning the first point cloud data frame into at least one point cloud data set based on attributes of objects in the 2D image; and for each point cloud data set: determining a matching image of the first point cloud data frame from the at least one 2D image; determining 3D position data of a pixel point in the matching image based on the first point cloud data frame and at least one second point cloud data frame; and using 2D position data and the 3D position data of corresponding pixel points in the matching image as training input data and output data of a training model to generate a point cloud data recovery model for the object corresponding to the point cloud data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Wang Zhou, Xiong Duan, Xianpeng Lang, Changjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10944483
    Abstract: A reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with unidirectional optical signal amplification, comprises a polarization controller, a polarization beam splitter, a polarization maintaining optical circulator, an In-line polarizer, an optical modulator, a photoelectric converter, an electrical comparator, an optical amplifier, a laser, a coupler, a reflection end and a coherent receiver. A light source is disposed at a receiving end, and the laser emits an optical carrier. The optical carrier is transmitted through the coupler and an optical fiber. Thereafter, the polarization state of the optical carrier is controlled by two ways, the optical carrier passes through the polarization controller in a first way, and two beams of light are output by the polarization beam splitter. A beam of light with high-power is modulated through a first branch, and the modulation signal is returned along an original optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Shuqiang Chen, Shiwen Jin, Yuanyuan Jiang, Miao Yan
  • Patent number: 10909724
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for processing an image. The method described herein includes determining a to-be-processed first region and a to-be-processed second region in an input image, the first region is at least partially filled with a first color, the second region is at least partially filled with a second color, and the first region and the second region are adjacent regions sharing a common boundary region. The method further includes shrinking the first region and the second region, to enable neither of the shrunken first region and the shrunken second region to include the boundary region. The method further comprises expanding the shrunken first region and the shrunken second region, to enable the boundary region to be filled with at least one color of the first color or the second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiong Duan, Xianpeng Lang, Wang Zhou, Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Changjie Ma, Yonggang Jin
  • Publication number: 20210013972
    Abstract: A reflection-type coherent optical communication system combined with unidirectional optical signal amplification, comprises a polarization controller, a polarization beam splitter, a polarization maintaining optical circulator, an In-line polarizer, an optical modulator, a photoelectric converter, an electrical comparator, an optical amplifier, a laser, a coupler, a reflection end and a coherent receiver. A light source is disposed at a receiving end, and the laser emits an optical carrier. The optical carrier is transmitted through the coupler and an optical fiber. Thereafter, the polarization state of the optical carrier is controlled by two ways, the optical carrier passes through the polarization controller in a first way, and two beams of light are output by the polarization beam splitter. A beam of light with high-power is modulated through a first branch, and the modulation signal is returned along an original optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Shuqiang CHEN, Shiwen JIN, Yuanyuan JIANG, Miao YAN
  • Patent number: 10885352
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, device, and computer readable storage medium for determining a lane line on a road. The method includes: acquiring a first curve as a reference curve, the first curve being obtained by fitting a first set of points selected from sets of points in different areas of the road; iteratively executing operations: selecting a second set of points from the sets of points based on the reference curve; generating a second curve by fitting the second set of points, determining a difference between a fitting degree associated with the reference curve and a fitting degree associated with the second curve, determining whether a convergence condition is met based on the difference, and setting the second curve as the reference curve if not met and determining the lane line of the road based on the second set of points if met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong Duan, Wang Zhou, Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Changjie Ma, Xianpeng Lang, Yonggang Jin
  • Patent number: 10878621
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for creating a map and positioning a moving entity. A method for creating a map includes acquiring an image acquired when an acquisition entity is moving and location data and point cloud data associated with the image, the location data indicating a location where the acquisition entity is located when the image is acquired, the point cloud data indicating three-dimensional information of the image. The method further includes generating a first element in a global feature layer of the map based on the image and the location data. The method further includes generating a second element in a local feature layer of the map based on the image and the point cloud data, the first element corresponding to the second element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wang Zhou, Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Xiong Duan, Changjie Ma, Xianpeng Lang, Yonggang Jin
  • Patent number: 10877822
    Abstract: Example methods are provided for a host to perform zero-copy packet transmission. On example method may comprise allocating a transmit (TX) packet buffer to a first virtualized computing instance and a receive (RX) packet buffer to a second virtualized computing instance, wherein the TX packet buffer and the RX packet buffer are both mapped to a shared memory location associated with the host. The method may also comprise: accessing, by the first virtualized computing instance, the TX packet buffer to store a packet in the shared memory location; processing, by the forwarding element, the packet in the shared memory location; and accessing, by the second virtualized computing instance, the RX packet buffer to receive the packet stored in the shared memory location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Yusheng Wang, Miao Yan, Dousheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 10853687
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for determining a matching relationship between point cloud data. The method can include extracting a first characteristic associated with first point cloud data and a second characteristic associated with second point cloud data. The first point cloud data and the second point cloud data are acquired for the same object. The method can further include performing characteristic matching between the first characteristic and the second characteristic. In addition, the method can further include determining, based on the characteristic matching, a matching relationship between the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Wang Zhou, Xiong Duan, Xianpeng Lang, Changjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10846543
    Abstract: According to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus for detecting a lane line, and a medium are provided. A method for generating a lane line detection model includes: detecting a lane line in an original image to generate a first image associated with the detected lane line; acquiring a second image generated based on the original image and associated with a marked lane line; generating at least one tag indicating whether the detected lane line is accurate, based on the first image and the second image; and training a classifier model for automatically identifying the lane line, based on the first image and the at least one tag. In such case, the lane line detection may be achieved in a simple and effective way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiong Duan, Xianpeng Lang, Wang Zhou, Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Changjie Ma, Yonggang Jin
  • Publication number: 20200342614
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for point cloud registration. The method includes: segmenting a source point cloud and a destination point cloud respectively into different categories of attribute features based on semantic; segmenting the source point cloud and the destination point cloud into a plurality of grids based on the attribute features; calculating a current similarity between the source point cloud and the destination point cloud based on the plurality of grids; determining whether the current similarity and a current iterative number satisfy a preset condition; when the current similarity and the current iterative number satisfy the preset condition, performing a registration on the source point cloud and the destination point cloud to obtain a registered result; and based on the registered result, adjusting a position of the source point cloud, updating the current iterative number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Miao YAN, Zixiang ZHOU, Pan LUO, Yu BAI, Changjie MA, Dangen SHE
  • Patent number: 10789771
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fusing point cloud data, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. Some embodiments of the method can include: acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image and the second image being respectively associated with a first frame of point cloud data and a second frame of point cloud data acquired for a given scene; determining a point cloud movement matrix between the first frame of point cloud data and the second frame of point cloud data on the basis of the first image and the second image; and fusing the first frame of point cloud data with the second frame of point cloud data on the basis of the point cloud movement matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wang Zhou, Miao Yan, Yifei Zhan, Xiong Duan, Changjie Ma, Xianpeng Lang, Yonggang Jin
  • Patent number: 10783368
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying an intersection in an electronic map, and a computer readable medium are provided. An embodiment of the method includes: acquiring boundary information related to road boundaries from an electronic map; determining a topological relationship between the road boundaries in an area having a predetermined size in the electronic map based on the boundary information; and determining a distribution of an intersection in the area based on the topological relationship. The apparatus corresponding to the method, the device implementing the method of the present disclosure, and the computer readable medium are also provided. Through the technical solutions, the intersection may be automatically identified by detecting the road boundaries, which improves the efficiency of producing a high-precision map, and has the advantage of high accurate recall rate, strong universality, or simple method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifei Zhan, Miao Yan, Wang Zhou, Xianpeng Lang, Xiong Duan, Changjie Ma
  • Patent number: 10581730
    Abstract: Example methods are provided for a host to perform packet processing using a service chain in a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. The method may comprise establishing a datapath between a first virtualized computing instance and a second virtualized computing instance in the service chain, the datapath bypassing a forwarding element to which the first virtualized computing instance and the second virtualized computing instance are connected. The method may also comprise: the first virtualized computing instance obtaining a packet that requires processing by the service chain, and performing packet processing according to a first service. The method may further comprise: the second virtualized computing instance obtaining the processed packet via the datapath, and performing packet processing according to a second service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Keyong Sun, Dousheng Zhao, Yonggang Wang