Patents by Inventor Qi An

Qi An 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: 11982905
    Abstract: A pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight. The backlight may include a two-dimensional array of light-emitting diodes, with each light-emitting diode being placed in a respective cell. Different light-emitting diodes may have unique brightness magnitudes based on the content of the given display frame. Driver integrated circuits may control one or more associated light-emitting diodes to have a desired brightness level. The driver integrated circuits may be formed in an active area of the backlight. The driver integrated circuits may be arranged in groups that are daisy chained together. A digital signal (that includes information such as addressing information) may be propagated through the group of driver integrated circuits. To manage thermal performance of the backlight, the backlight may include a thermally conductive layer and/or a heat sink structure. To increase the efficiency of the backlight, the backlight may include one or more reflective layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Lum, Kyung Wook Kim, Kwang Soon Park, Mingxia Gu, Jun Qi
  • Patent number: 11983415
    Abstract: A memory management method for a memory storage device is provided. The memory management method includes: detecting effective information of at least one operation event performed by the memory storage device in a first mode; and adjusting a threshold value according to the effective information. The threshold value is configured to determine whether to instruct the memory storage device to enter the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hefei Core Storage Electronic Limited
    Inventors: Qi-Ao Zhu, Chong Peng, Zhi Wang, Wan-Jun Hong
  • Patent number: 11983577
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for clustering a set of data compute nodes (DCNs), which communicate with each other more frequently, on one or more host machines. The method groups together guest DCNs (GDCNs) that (1) execute on different host machines and (2) exchange network data among themselves more frequently, in order to reduce interhost network traffic. The more frequently-communicating GDCNs can be a set of GDCNs that implement a distributed application, GDCNs of a particular tier in a multi-tier network architecture (e.g., a web tier in a three-tier architecture), GDCNs that are dedicated to a particular tenant in a hosting system, or any other set of GDCNs that exchange data among each other regularly for a particular purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nicira, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Qi, Fenil Kavathia, Chidambareswaran Raman, Shadab Shah, Raju Koganty, Jingmin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11985186
    Abstract: The present application addresses the problem of high communication loads in the in-vehicle networks in cities and prolonged time spent by the vehicle in requesting services, and provides a method of drone-assisted caching in an in-vehicle network based on geographic location, the content is divided into local content and comment content; the moving vehicle and the drone only cache the comment content, the roadside unit fixed caches the local content and the comment content according to a ratio. The content delivery method is designed, and a content request latency of the in-vehicle is analyzed, and an optimization problem for minimizing the average request latency is constructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventors: Qi Zhu, Ting Gong
  • Patent number: 11983807
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for automatically generating motions of an avatar. A message in a session between a user and an electronic conversational agent may be obtained, the avatar being a visual representation of the electronic conversational agent. At least one facial animation and/or body animation may be determined based on at least one part of the message. At least one motion of the avatar may be generated based at least on the facial animation and/or the body animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yueyang Chen, Xiang Xu, Ruihua Song, Shuo Wang, Hui Zhang, Di Li, Chengcheng Liu, Xiaoyu Qi
  • Patent number: 11985465
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pair of glasses. The pair of glasses may include a frame, one or more lenses, and one or more temples. The pair of glasses may further include at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a controller. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two first guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two second guiding holes. The controller may be configured to direct the low-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a first frequency range and direct the high-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a second frequency range. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Junjiang Fu, Bingyan Yan, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11984939
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (200) in a network device for uplink inter-cell interference estimation. The network device serves a cell divided into a plurality of sectors each corresponding to an angle range. The method (200) includes, for a first sector of the plurality of sectors: measuring (210) an uplink inter-cell interference level; and estimating (220) an uplink inter-cell interference metric based on the measured uplink inter-cell interference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolagget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Chunhui Liu, Erik Eriksson, Qi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11985466
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pair of glasses. The pair of glasses may include a frame, one or more lenses, and one or more temples. The pair of glasses may further include at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a controller. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two first guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two second guiding holes. The controller may be configured to direct the low-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a first frequency range and direct the high-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a second frequency range. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Junjiang Fu, Bingyan Yan, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11985752
    Abstract: An inductor assembly includes a fixture element having a central core and support structures coupled to and projecting outwardly from the central core, each of the support structures having an outer edge with a notched profile of indentations extending toward the central core, and a helical inductor having multiple turns, the turns being seated in the indentations of the at least two support structures. The support structures may be equidistantly spaced apart from one another about the central core by air gaps. The inductor assembly may be incorporated in an impedance matching network, and one or more impedance matching networks may be incorporated in a defrosting system. The impedance matching network may be a single-ended network or a double-ended network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Hua, Tonghe Liu, Changyang Wang
  • Patent number: 11985836
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device that includes a layer that includes a perovskite, where the layer has a first side and a second side defining a thickness, the perovskite has a bulk composition as defined by AB(X1-yXy?)3, where A includes a first cation, B includes a second cation, X includes iodide, and X? includes bromide, y is between 0.2 and 0.8, inclusively, and the thickness has a bromide concentration gradient across the thickness with a maximum concentration at or in the proximity of the first side and a minimum concentration at the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Zhu, Qi Jiang, Jinhui Tong
  • Patent number: 11985581
    Abstract: This application provides a call method and a terminal device. The method includes: when roaming from a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) to a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN), a terminal device obtains a first emergency number list of the VPLMN, and the emergency number corresponds to at least one emergency service type; the terminal device obtains a first number, and when the first number is an emergency number in a second emergency number list of the HPLMN and the first number is not an emergency number in the first emergency number list, determines a second number based on the first number, where the second number is the emergency number in the first emergency number list, and the second number and the first number correspond to a same emergency service type; and the terminal device initiates an emergency call based on the second number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Yanbin Ma, Minghui Chen, Fei Luo, Dong Xie
  • Patent number: 11984689
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a conductive housing for the connector and a connector comprising the conductive housing. The conductive housing comprises a plurality of side surfaces, at least one of which comprising a plurality of terminal connection portions spaced apart from one another at an edge portion of the side surface, and a gap being formed between two adjacent terminal connection portions; and a plurality of terminal pins, each of which being connected to the respective terminal connection portion. The conductive housing further comprises at least one conductive elastic piece, one of which being connected between the two adjacent terminal connection portions to at least partially cover the gap between the two adjacent terminal connection portions. By means of such arrangement, the conductive elastic piece covers most areas between the terminal pins so as to enhance electromagnetic compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: STARCONN ELECTRONIC (Su Zhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung Nan Pao, Fu Su, Hong Yang Ping, Qing Gu, Dong Qi Kuang
  • Patent number: 11985478
    Abstract: An earphone, including a sound production component; an ear-hook configured to place the sound production component near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, at least a portion of the sound production component extends into a concha cavity; and a microphone assembly including a first microphone and a second microphone disposed in the sound production component or the ear hook, the sound production component or the ear hook includes a first sound hole and a second sound hole corresponding to the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively; wherein a projection of the first sound hole on a sagittal plane and a projection of the second sound hole on the sagittal plane have a first distance, a ratio of the first distance to a size of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane along a major axis direction is 0.7-1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11985079
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and device in User Equipment (UE) and base station for wireless communication. The UE receives Q1 first-type information groups, and transmits or receives a first radio signal in a first time-frequency resource according to a configuration of a first information group; the first information group is one of the Q1 first-type information groups; a frequency domain position of the first time-frequency resource is used for determining the first information group from the Q1 first-type information groups; each of the Q1 first-type information groups includes at least one of relevant information to a subcarrier spacing. The disclosure establishes an association between the frequency domain position of the first time-frequency resource and the first information group, thereby simplifying the reception of the first-type information group, improving the flexibility of scheduling of frequency domain resources on unlicensed spectrum, and improving the overall performance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dido Wireless Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Qi Jiang, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11984813
    Abstract: A synchronous rectification control system and method for a quasi-resonant flyback converter are provided. The control system includes a switching transistor voltage sampling circuit configured to sample an output terminal voltage of the switching transistor to obtain a sampled voltage of the switching transistor; a sampling calculation module configured to obtain a dead-time based on the sampled voltage of the switching transistor and a preset relationship, the preset relationship being a correspondence between the duration of the sampled voltage of the switching transistor being below a first preset value and the dead-time during an on-time of a switching cycle of the switching transistor, the dead-time being a time from when the switching transistor is turned off to when the synchronous rectification transistor is turned on; and a control module configured to receive the dead-time and control switching of the synchronous rectification transistor based on the dead-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY, CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shen Xu, Siyu Zhao, Congming Qi, Sen Zhang, Xiaoyu Shi, Weifeng Sun, Longxing Shi
  • Publication number: 20240155482
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a Bluetooth communication method having audio source scanning mechanism and used in a Bluetooth audio play playback apparatus that includes steps outlined below. A one-to-one connection is established with a Bluetooth communication assistant apparatus. An audio source scanning is performed to generate audio source information according to a scanned Bluetooth audio source apparatus. The audio source information is transmitted to the Bluetooth communication assistant apparatus. A selection command from the Bluetooth communication assistant apparatus is received to select the scanned Bluetooth audio source apparatus as a selected Bluetooth audio source apparatus. Audio data from the selected Bluetooth audio source apparatus is received and playback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: WEI-FENG MAO, JI-DONG CHEN, SI-QI LU, QI XU, WEI-DONG LI, ZHEN-NAN ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240155598
    Abstract: A node firstly receives a first signaling and a second signaling, the first signaling is used to indicate an SPS configuration, the second signaling is used to provide a downlink assignment for the SPS configuration; then receives a first signal in a first time unit; the first time unit is occupied by a Y-th downlink assignment after the downlink assignment is configured; the first signal is obtained after a first bit block is subjected to at least channel coding and modulation; a number of bit(s) comprised in the first bit block is related to the Y. The present application is for SPS configuration and transmission, to adjust the transport block size according to a location of the downlink assignment in the entire SPS transmission, and thus to adapt to the different needs of different communication services with respect to the period as well as the data arrival rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qi JIANG, Xiaobo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240153286
    Abstract: A method of re-identifying a rough gemstone comprises providing a 3D model of a first rough gemstone; generating a series of virtual 2D silhouette images of the 3D model; processing each 2D image of the series of virtual 2D silhouette images to obtain a dataset associated with the first rough gemstone; and comparing the dataset of the first rough gemstone with an existing dataset of a rough gemstone. Where the dataset of the first rough gemstone and the existing dataset match each other, the method comprises re-identifying the first rough gemstone as the same rough gemstone from which the existing dataset was obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Qi He HONG
  • Publication number: 20240155711
    Abstract: Various arrangements are presented for increasing a link margin of a wireless audio link. A short-range wireless communication link having a first physical layer (PHY) symbol rate is established between an audio source device and an audio output device. An audio stream is transmitted using the communication link, which includes a connected isochronous stream (CIS) link. A number of packet retransmissions are detected on the CIS. Based on the detected number of packet retransmissions on the CIS, the first PHY symbol rate of the CIS can be altered to a second PHY symbol rate for transmitting the audio stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Li-Xuan Chuo, Qi Jiang, Daniel Barros, Sunil Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240155222
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a first operation from a user to start a camera of an electronic device, when a display of the electronic device is unfolded to a plane state, starting a camera application, displaying a preview interface in a first display area of the display, where the preview interface includes a viewfinder frame, and the viewfinder frame includes a first picture, detecting a second operation from the user to indicate photographing, controlling the camera to perform a photographing action to generate a first multimedia file, simultaneously displaying the preview interface and a gallery application interface in the first display area of the display, where the gallery application interface displays the first multimedia file, and the gallery application interface includes a deletion control, detecting a deletion operation from the user, deleting the first multimedia file, and displaying the preview interface in the first display area of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Xiuping Jiang, Yunfei Qi