Patents by Inventor Nian Liu

Nian Liu 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: 20210335849
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate includes a substrate layer, wherein a thin film transistor and a capacitor are disposed on the substrate layer and spaced apart from each other, and wherein the thin film transistor includes an active layer made of a metal oxide semiconductor material, and the capacitor includes a semiconductor capacitor electrode made of a metal oxide semiconductor material. The capacitor is coupled to a gate of the thin film transistor, thereby driving the thin film transistor. The TFT array substrate using a novel thin film transistor driving structure, which effectively improves stability of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nian Liu, Macai Lu
  • Publication number: 20210335836
    Abstract: A photosensitive device comprising a first oxide thin film transistor and a second oxide thin film transistor. Wherein, a drain of the first oxide thin film transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the second oxide thin film transistor. The photosensitive device according to the present application adopts oxide thin film transistors arranged in a plurality of layers, which greatly improves the response amplitude to ambient light and breaks through the limitations of the single thin film transistor's low light response which makes it impossible to be used as a visible light detecting component. Therefore, the photosensitive device according to the present application can realize detection of ambient light and can expand the scope in which it can be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Macai LU, Nian LIU
  • Publication number: 20210216155
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes: forming a main gate and a sub-gate on a glass substrate, wherein at least a portion of the sub-gate includes a light transmissive area; sequentially forming a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second metal layer on the sub-gate, patterning the semiconductor layer to obtain a main active layer and a sub-active layer, and patterning the second metal layer to obtain a main source/drain and a sub-source/drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nian LIU, Macai LU, Lei WEN
  • Publication number: 20210189578
    Abstract: Disclosed herein systems and methods providing an electrochemical cell for concentrating ions. The electrochemical cell can comprise a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first solution in fluid communication with the first electrode and the second electrode. The first solution can contain a first ion and a second ion, the second ion being different than the first ion, and a molecular sieve disposed on the first electrode. The molecular sieve can be configured to selectively permit the first ion to pass from the solution to the first electrode. The molecular sieve can be further configured to selectively prevent the second ion from passing from the first solution to the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Nian Liu, Po-Wei Huang
  • Publication number: 20200412167
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for fast reconfiguration of power supply grid in tens of milliseconds after power grid failure. The master station of fast reconfiguration of power grid concentrates the network status information from the client stations at transformer substations or power plants, and compares it with the built-in control strategy table which deals with possible faults. When an expected power gird disconnection fault is detected, the pre-start switch-on instruction is sent to the client stations with multiple breakers which can reconnect the grid. When the fault is cleared, the client stations shall identify the fault clearing time according to the local information, and send the instruction of synchronous switch-on to the corresponding local breakers which can reconnect the separated grids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Gang DUAN, Xiaonan LOU, Qi ZHANG, Yuhan ZHANG, Nian LIU, Liangliang ZHENG
  • Patent number: 10873074
    Abstract: A battery electrode material includes: 1) primary particles formed of an electrochemically active material; and 2) a secondary particle defining multiple, discrete internal volumes, wherein the primary particles are disposed within respective ones of the internal volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Yi Cui, Nian Liu, Zhenda Lu, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 10509532
    Abstract: The disclosure provides method, apparatus and terminal for page refreshing. The method includes: outputting a preset animation interface within a displayed page when a page refreshing operation is performed, which is a longitudinal bar with a length substantially equal to a width of the displayed page and comprises a preset logo, moving cursors having a plurality of cursor seeds emitted from the preset logo and that move toward the refresh progress bar starting from the preset logo along the length of the longitudinal bar and a refresh progress bar, wherein the refresh progress bar and the preset logo are positioned apart from each other, and a length of the refresh progress bar increases towards the preset logo as the moving cursors arrive at the refresh progress bar; and reducing transparency of the moving cursor to a predetermined value when the length of the refresh progress bar no longer increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Meina Li, Yang Li, Danzhi Chen, Nian Liu, Qunli Ma, Chen Zhang, Yufei Liu, Jun Ye
  • Publication number: 20190032003
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods using mixed substrate cofeeding for bioproduct synthesis, which enables faster, more efficient, and higher yield carbon conversion in various organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Junyoung Park, Nian Liu, Gregory Stephanopoulos
  • Patent number: 9912762
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for displaying splash screen content, a terminal, a content server, and a system therefor. The method includes: receiving a content request sent by a terminal, the content request carrying first time and/or a geographical location of the terminal, the first time being time when the terminal last requests splash screen content; acquiring splash screen content according to the first time and/or the geographical location of the terminal; and sending the splash screen content to the terminal such that the terminal displays the splash screen content. The content server includes: a first receiving module, a first acquiring module, and a first sending module. The terminal includes: a second sending module, a second receiving module, and a display module. The system includes: a terminal and a content server. The present disclosure enhances personality and interest of a terminal product and improves user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Chen Zhang, Danzhi Chen, Peng Dong, Yufei Liu, Jie Hou, Jun Ye, Meina Li, Yang Li, Qunli Ma, Nian Liu
  • Publication number: 20170333192
    Abstract: This invention revolves around medical devices, especially the non-metal ball-headed hip joint prosthesis, including acetabular cup, non-metal femoral head and femoral stem prostheses. In this invention, the acetabular cup is combined with the lining as a metal cup, and the traditional metal or ceramic ball head is replaced by non-metal femoral head prosthesis with metal inner core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Diange Zhou, Nian Liu
  • Publication number: 20170308263
    Abstract: The disclosure provides method, apparatus and terminal for page refreshing. The method includes: outputting a preset animation interface within a displayed page when a page refreshing operation is performed, which is a longitudinal bar with a length substantially equal to a width of the displayed page and comprises a preset logo, moving cursors having a plurality of cursor seeds emitted from the preset logo and that move toward the refresh progress bar starting from the preset logo along the length of the longitudinal bar and a refresh progress bar, wherein the refresh progress bar and the preset logo are positioned apart from each other, and a length of the refresh progress bar increases towards the preset logo as the moving cursors arrive at the refresh progress bar; and reducing transparency of the moving cursor to a predetermined value when the length of the refresh progress bar no longer increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Jing ZHANG, Meina LI, Yang LI, Danzhi CHEN, Nian LIU, Qunli MA, Chen ZHANG, Yufei LIU, Jun YE
  • Patent number: 9720561
    Abstract: The invention relates to MicroBlog field, and provides method, apparatus and terminal for page refreshing. The method includes: outputting a preset animation interface when a page refreshing operation is performed, wherein the preset animation interface comprising a preset logo, moving cursors, and a refresh progress bar, and the moving cursors move to the refresh progress bar starting from the preset logo; calculating and outputting current length of the refresh progress bar when it is detected that the moving cursors arrive at the refresh progress bar; and outputting pulled refresh information when the current length of the refresh progress bar equals to width of the preset animation interface. The invention can enable a user to get better sense of experience when a preset animation interface is output upon page refreshing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Meina Li, Yang Li, Danzhi Chen, Nian Liu, Qunli Ma, Chen Zhang, Yufei Liu, Jun Ye
  • Publication number: 20150153931
    Abstract: The invention relates to MicroBlog field, and provides method, apparatus and terminal for page refreshing. The method includes: outputting a preset animation interface when a page refreshing operation is performed, wherein the preset animation interface comprising a preset logo, moving cursors, and a refresh progress bar, and the moving cursors move to the refresh progress bar starting from the preset logo; calculating and outputting current length of the refresh progress bar when it is detected that the moving cursors arrive at the refresh progress bar; and outputting pulled refresh information when the current length of the refresh progress bar equals to width of the preset animation interface. The invention can enable a user to get better sense of experience when a preset animation interface is output upon page refreshing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Meina Li, Yang Li, Danzhi Chen, Nian Liu, Qunli Ma, Chen Zhang, Yufei Liu, Jun Ye
  • Publication number: 20150113525
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for a reader to provide a service, a reader and a computer storage medium. The method includes: obtaining and displaying, by a reader, at least one piece of plugin information, the plugin information including at least a plugin name; determining plugin information selected by a user from the at least one piece of plugin information, and downloading a corresponding plugin file according to the selected plugin information; and installing a plugin according to the downloaded plugin file, and invoking the plugin installed to provide a corresponding service. By enabling the reader to download a corresponding plug-in file according to plug-in information selected by a user, i.e., downloading the corresponding plug-in file according to the user's needs, the size of a reader installation package in the present disclosure can be controlled effectively, thereby saving traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Liguang Sun, Rong Su, Xiaopeng Huang, Tao Yang, Nian Liu, Xiaolong Dong, Zheng Wang, Qunli Ma, Shuo Ren, Tianfu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150099187
    Abstract: A battery electrode material includes: 1) primary particles formed of an electrochemically active material; and 2) a secondary particle defining multiple, discrete internal volumes, wherein the primary particles are disposed within respective ones of the internal volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Yi Cui, Nian Liu, Zhenda Lu, Jie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20140302827
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for displaying splash screen content, a terminal, a content server, and a system therefor. The method includes: receiving a content request sent by a terminal, the content request carrying first time and/or a geographical location of the terminal, the first time being time when the terminal last requests splash screen content; acquiring splash screen content according to the first time and/or the geographical location of the terminal; and sending the splash screen content to the terminal such that the terminal displays the splash screen content. The content server includes: a first receiving module, a first acquiring module, and a first sending module. The terminal includes: a second sending module, a second receiving module, and a display module. The system includes: a terminal and a content server. The present disclosure enhances personality and interest of a terminal product and improves user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Chen Zhang, Danzhi Chen, Peng Dong, Yufei Liu, Jie Hou, Jun Ye, Meina Li, Yang Li, Qunli Ma, Nian Liu
  • Publication number: 20140298242
    Abstract: A method for controlling microblog display, a microblog client and a computer storage medium are described, which pertain to microblog technology. A display interface of microblog consists of a main display area for displaying microblog messages and a promotion display area for displaying recommended messages. The method includes that: a micro-blog message is acquired and displayed in the main display area; recommended messages are pulled from a microblog server at a preset frequency, or/and recommended messages pushed by the microblog server at a preset frequency are received; the recommended messages are displayed in the promotion display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Meina Li, Yang Li, Danzhi Chen, Nian Liu, Qunli Ma, Chen Zhang, Yufei Liu, Jun Ye, Jie Hou
  • Patent number: D823861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Nian Liu
  • Patent number: D841880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jing Jing, Nian Liu
  • Patent number: D870134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Nian Liu