Patents by Inventor Ming Gao

Ming Gao 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: 20230314170
    Abstract: A method for creating map data having lane-specific resolution. Mapping data are initially received, the mapping data being transmitted by a vehicle, and including a vehicle trajectory and at least one object feature. Once the mapping data has been received, it is checked whether map data for local surroundings of the received mapping data are present. In the event the check indicates that no map data are present, map data are created from the mapping data and stored in a memory. In the event the check indicates that map data are already present, the map data are compared with the mapping data. If this comparison reveals that the mapping data differ from the map data, the map data are adapted, the adaptation taking place on the basis of a weighting factor. The adapted map data are subsequently stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ming Gao, Andreas Schmitt, Oliver Roeth
  • Publication number: 20230307091
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments may obtain protein, gene sequence or nucleic acid sequences from data sources, process the sequences with a processor executing computer programming instructions to identify mutations and display information regarding the mutations to a user on a display device. For protein sequences, the exemplary embodiments may identify which subsequences in the sequences are well suited for observing as positions in the sequences where possible mutations may arise. Statistical techniques may be applied to variations in the subsequences to determine whether the variations are mutations or not. The displayed information regarding each mutation may include the nature of the mutation, the frequency of the mutation, the location of the user having the mutation, the date that the sample was obtained and other information of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Scott J. Geromanos, Emmy Maria Hoyes, Francis Tracey, Allen Caswell, Ming Gao
  • Publication number: 20230298834
    Abstract: An electronic device has a keyboard with an internal membrane. The membrane has a set of strain gauges configured to respond to a key press, such as when a collapsible dome collapses into contact with the membrane. The strain gauges are connected in a half Wheatstone bridge configuration and are positioned on the membrane in order to limit effects of temperature and subtle flexure of the membrane. The strain gauges are also configured to magnify detection of a resistance differential when a keycap is pressed with sufficient force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Chia Chi Wu, Michael Vosgueritchian, Ming Gao, Nan Chen, Vyom Sharma, Wenhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11762512
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a speaker device may have a curved housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A layer of fabric may cover the curved housing. A touch sensor may be used to detect touch input on the layer of fabric. The touch sensor may include capacitive touch sensor electrodes including drive lines and sense lines. In some arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive strands in the layer of fabric. In other arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive traces on a substrate. The substrate may be formed from portions of the curved housing or may be formed from a layer that is separate from the housing. Light-emitting components and/or fabric with different visual characteristics may be used to mark where the touch-sensitive regions of the fabric are located. The touch-sensitive regions may be shaped as media control symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhengyu Li, Elvis M. Kibiti, Ming Gao, Qiliang Xu, Chen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230289178
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an image configuration method, device and system, and a storage medium, relating to the technical field of terminal applications. The image configuration method includes: downloading an image configuration table, wherein the image configuration table includes identifiers of images to be adjusted in a terminal application, and links of the images at a server; in response to detecting, via monitoring, a request to load an image, detecting whether or not an identifier of the requested image is present in the image configuration table; and if so, downloading, according to the identifiers of the images and the links of the images at the server in the image configuration table, an adjustment image from the server, and loading the adjustment image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yujiao LIU, Ming GAO
  • Publication number: 20230281748
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of real time simulation of physical visual effect on one or more Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The method includes a plurality of time steps. Each of the time steps includes: building up a mapping between particles and background grid blocks; sorting the particles to a level of granularity; transferring momenta and masses of the particles to grid nodes on the background grid blocks to compute forces on the grid nodes; updating velocities and resolving collisions from the computed forces on the grid nodes; and applying the updated velocities back to the particles from the grid nodes and advecting the particles. In some embodiments, the frequency of building up and sorting is reduced compared with the frequency of transferring, updating, and applying in the plurality of time steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yun FEI, Ming GAO
  • Publication number: 20230194287
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining following distances as a function of position by a control device. Measurement data of at least one trajectory along at least one route, having a multiplicity of measurement points including position data and distance data from vehicles that are ahead, are received, A group of test points along the route is distributed at pre-defined distances from one another. At each test point, an intersection line that is oriented transversely in relation to a course of the route is generated, Pairs of points corresponding to the intersection lines are ascertained from the multiplicity of measurement points. Based on the distance data, at least one following distance is allocated to the pairs of points corresponding to at least one intersection line. A control device, a computer program, and a machine-readable storage medium are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Schmitt, Jesus Rodriguez, Kazuya Tamura, Ming Gao, Oliver Roeth, Keisuke Namura
  • Publication number: 20230194826
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a casing and a lens and relates to the technical field of optical equipment. The casing includes an outer casing provided with an accommodating hole and an inner casing accommodated in the outer casing and provided with a mounting hole. The outer casing is made of metal material, and a hardness of the inner casing is lower than a hardness of the outer casing, thereby the outer casing can meet the metal shape requirements of the lens. The relatively soft inner casing can solve the problem that a metal material cannot be tightly fitted with the lens group. The casing not only has advantages of metal profiles, but also can take a fitting structure with stacked outer diameters and a bumpy ridge fitting structure into account due to providing the relatively soft inner casing inside, which is more beneficial for lenses with high performance requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yan Sun, Ming Gao, Renlong Yu
  • Publication number: 20230166996
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of treatment of urban organic wastes, and specifically relates to a high-value treatment system or method for urban wet garbage. According to the present invention, through the steps such as oil extraction, high-efficiency hydrolysis, high-value biological conversion, simultaneous recovery of released nitrogen and phosphorus and deep utilization of residues, urban wet garbage is converted into acetic acid by high-value treatment, produced by-products including carbon dioxide and hydrogen are biologically converted into acetic acid, released nitrogen and phosphorus are recycled into slow-release fertilizers, and solid residues are used to prepare materials capable of promoting conversion of the wet garbage into acetic acid through high-value treatment. According to the present invention, not only can high-value treatment of the urban wet garbage be realized, but also produced waste gases and waste residues are recycled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yinguang Chen, Xiong Zheng, Xuemeng Zhang, Chuang Chen, Qunhui Wang, Ming Gao
  • Publication number: 20230150399
    Abstract: A method for controlling a fuel cell of a vehicle, is provided. The vehicle includes a fuel cell and a power battery. The method includes the following steps: detecting road condition information for a planned driving route of the vehicle; detecting a battery level of the power battery; and controlling an activation or a deactivation of the fuel cell according to the road condition information and/or the battery level of the power battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Mingwang ZHOU, Baogang WANG, Han LIU, Tong KANG, Yipo HU, Zheng ZHANG, Ming GAO
  • Publication number: 20230047666
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a multimodal speech recognition method and system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes calculating a first logarithmic mel-frequency spectral coefficient and a second logarithmic mel-frequency spectral coefficient when a target millimeter-wave signal and a target audio signal both contain speech information corresponding to a target user; inputting the first and the second logarithmic mel-frequency spectral coefficient into a fusion network to determine a target fusion feature, where the fusion network includes at least a calibration module and a mapping module, the calibration module is configured to perform mutual feature calibration on the target audio/millimeter-wave signals, and the mapping module is configured to fuse a calibrated millimeter-wave feature and a calibrated audio feature; and inputting the target fusion feature into a semantic feature network to determine a speech recognition result corresponding to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Feng LIN, Tiantian LIU, Ming GAO, Chao WANG, Zhongjie BA, Jinsong HAN, Wenyao XU, Kui REN
  • Publication number: 20230022074
    Abstract: Provided are a pulverized coal boiler with a bottom combustor, and a control method for the pulverized coal boiler, wherein the pulverized coal boiler includes a furnace, at least one bottom combustor and a secondary air distributing device. Each combustor is provided with a combustor spout, and the secondary air distributing device surrounds the combustor and is arranged at the bottom of the furnace. The secondary air distributing device includes an internal secondary air distributing device and an external secondary air distributing device, wherein the internal secondary air distributing device includes an internal secondary air gathering box and an internal secondary air pipe, and the external secondary air distributing device includes an external secondary air gathering box and an external secondary air pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADAMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Jianguo ZHU, Baihang LI, Shiyuan LI, Ming GAO, Chengbo MAN, Qinggang LV
  • Publication number: 20230028461
    Abstract: A method for selecting at least one connection pattern drivable by road users using a control device. Trajectory data are received from at least one area. On the basis of the received trajectory data, starting points and end points of drivable trajectories are determined. All the connection patterns between the starting points and the end points of the drivable trajectories are determined in the form of connecting lines. The determined connection patterns are filtered by at least one filter. Connection patterns remaining after filtering are compared with route profiles from the trajectory data. For each remaining connection pattern a number of route profiles which correspond to the connection pattern are counted. A connection pattern with the highest number of matching route profiles is selected. A control device, a computer program, and a machine-readable storage medium are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Schmitt, Ming Gao, Oliver Roeth
  • Publication number: 20220411186
    Abstract: A vertical support for a transport robot includes a column assembly and a driving assembly. The vertical support includes a fixed column frame and a movable column frame movably arranged on the fixed column frame. The driving assembly includes a traction assembly and a retractable assembly connected to the traction assembly. The traction assembly is connected to the carrying device and configured to drive a carrying device of the transport robot to move relative to the movable column frame. The traction assembly includes two sets of traction assemblies located at two opposed sides of the carrying device respectively, the retractable assembly is configured to drive the two sets of the traction assemblies to synchronously drive the carrying device to ascend or descend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ming GAO, Zhe KONG, Zaijin LI
  • Patent number: 11501933
    Abstract: An electronic device has a keyboard with an internal membrane. The membrane has a set of strain gauges configured to respond to a key press, such as when a collapsible dome collapses into contact with the membrane. The strain gauges are connected in a half Wheatstone bridge configuration and are positioned on the membrane in order to limit effects of temperature and subtle flexure of the membrane. The strain gauges are also configured to magnify detection of a resistance differential when a keycap is pressed with sufficient force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chia Chi Wu, Michael Vosgueritchian, Ming Gao, Nan Chen, Vyom Sharma, Wenhao Wang
  • Patent number: D968241
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Gao
  • Patent number: D970370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Gao
  • Patent number: D975559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Gao
  • Patent number: D991195
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Gao
  • Patent number: D993138
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Gao, Yuelong Liao