Patents by Inventor Sheng Xu

Sheng 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).

  • Publication number: 20240155112
    Abstract: Systems and methods for deep neural network (DNN)-based cross component prediction are provided. A method includes inputting a reconstructed luma block of an image or video into a DNN; and predicting, by the DNN, a reconstructed chroma block of the image or video based on the reconstructed luma block that is input. Luma and chroma reference information and side information may also be input into the DNN to predict the reconstructed chroma block. The various inputs may also be generated using processes such as downsampling and transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sheng LIN, Wei JIANG, Wei WANG, Liqiang WANG, Shan LIU, Xiaozhong XU
  • Patent number: 11965826
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining hydrogen sulfide (H2S) by headspace single-drop liquid phase microextraction and intelligent device colorimetry, which comprises: taking a silver-gold core-shell triangular nanosheet (Ag@Au TNS) as a nanodetection probe, in combination with an analysis method of headspace single-drop microextraction (HS-SDME), specifically extracting H2S volatilized from a sample to be detected by the nanodetection probe, and detecting H2S in the extracted sample with the help of the photographing function of an intelligent device and a color picking software. Compared with the prior art, the present invention adopts intelligent device colorimetry, with the limit of detection of about 65 nM and the linear range of 0.1-100 ?M, and the established method can be applied to the determination of H2S in actual samples such as egg white, milk and other opaque samples, and has the advantages of few procedures, simple operation, high detection efficiency and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sheng Tang, Wei Shen, Tong Qi, Mengchan Xu, Mengyuan Xu, Anni Zhu
  • Patent number: 11967320
    Abstract: A process of a voice control method with a cloud server and a terminal device. The voice control method includes: a terminal device receiving voice information; the terminal device querying a control instruction corresponding to the voice information from a local voice database; when the control instruction corresponding to the voice information is not queried in the local voice database, the terminal device uploading the voice information to a cloud server; the cloud server parsing the control instruction corresponding to the voice information; when the control instruction corresponding to the voice information is parsed, the cloud server sending the control instruction to the terminal device; and the terminal device receiving the control instruction, and performing a corresponding operation on the basis of control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxing Huang, Sheng Xu, Junming Yin, Hai Shu
  • Patent number: 11960258
    Abstract: A method for controlling a smart plug of a home system, a smart plug, and a home system. The method includes acquiring conditions of currently running household appliances accessing sockets and setting the priority sequence of the currently running household appliances according to the conditions of the currently running household appliances accessing the sockets. Household appliances accessing different sockets of a smart plug can have a priority sequence, and therefore, a user can rank the priorities of a plurality of household appliances by means of the smart plug and can flexibly adjust the priority sequence according to usage habits, thereby not only facilitating integrated management of usage conditions, power consumption conditions and running states of the plurality of household appliances, but also ensuring the flexibility of setting the priority sequence, such that the entire running condition of a home system is more adapted to real-time usage requirements of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinzhu Deng, Sheng Xu, Peishi Lv, Zhiqiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11956453
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for neural network based cross component prediction with scaling factors during encoding or decoding of an image frame or a video sequence, which may include training a deep neural network (DNN) cross component prediction (CCP) model with at least one or more scaling factors, wherein the at least one or more scaling factors are learned by optimizing a rate-distortion loss based on an input video sequence comprising a luma component, and reconstructing a chroma component based on the luma component using the trained DNN CCP model with the at least one or more scaling factors for chroma prediction. The trained DNN CCP may be updated for chroma prediction of the input video sequence using the one or more scaling factors, and performing chroma prediction of the input video sequence using the updated DNN CCP model with the one or more scaling factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Lin, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Ding Ding, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
  • Patent number: 11954083
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a clothing information processing method, comprises: the server receives the clothing information sent by a washing device and saves it; the server receives request information sent by an intelligent terminal; the server obtains the corresponding clothing information according to the request information and sends it to the intelligent terminal. In this disclosure, the server receives the clothing information sent by the washing device and stores the clothing information. In this way, in the whole washing cycle, even after this washing cycle, the user can obtain the clothing information from the server through the intelligent terminal, which avoids that in the prior art, after the stage of uploading clothing information by the washing device is completed, the intelligent terminal can no longer obtain clothing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junming Yin, Shuai Wang, Sheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20240111528
    Abstract: A technique to execute transpose and compute operations may include retrieving a set of machine instructions from an instruction buffer of a data processor. The instruction buffer has multiple entries, and each entry stores one machine instruction. A machine instruction from the set of machine instructions is executed to transpose a submatrix of an input tensor and perform computations on column elements of the submatrix. The machine instruction combines the transpose operation with computational operations into a single machine instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaodan Tan, Paul Gilbert Meyer, Sheng Xu, Ron Diamant
  • Patent number: 11949892
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for neural network based cross component prediction with low-bit precision during encoding or decoding of an image frame or a video sequence, which may include reconstructing a chroma component based on a received luma component using a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) cross component prediction (CCP) model for chroma prediction, and updating a set of parameters of the pre-trained DNN CCP model with low-bit precision. The method may also include generating an updated DNN CCP model for chroma prediction with low-bit precision based on at least one video sequence, and using the updated DNN CCP model for cross component prediction of the at least one video sequence at reduced processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Lin, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
  • Publication number: 20240103813
    Abstract: An integrated circuit that combines transpose and compute operations may include a transpose circuit coupled to a set of compute channels. Each compute channel may include multiple arithmetic logic unit (ALU) circuits coupled in series. The transpose circuit is operable to receive an input tensor, transpose the input tensor, and output a transposed tensor to the set of compute channels. The set of compute channels is operable to generate outputs in parallel, with each of the outputs being generated from a corresponding vector of the transposed tensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaodan Tan, Paul Gilbert Meyer, Sheng Xu, Ron Diamant
  • Publication number: 20240091798
    Abstract: A microbubble spray head and a washing apparatus with the same. The microbubble spray head includes a spray pipe, where the spray pipe is of an integrated or two-part hollow pipe structure, an air inlet channel is provided in the spray pipe, the spray pipe is configured to enable water flow to generate negative pressure in the spray pipe, external air is sucked into the spray pipe via the air inlet channel by the negative pressure and is mixed with water flow in the spray pipe to form bubble water; and a bubbler, where the bubbler is fixed at the outlet end of the spray pipe and is configured to be capable of forming microbubble water when the bubble water flows through the bubbler. The microbubble spray head has good microbubble generation performance and low manufacturing costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang ZHAO, Sheng XU
  • Patent number: 11932927
    Abstract: An iron-based metal powder for ultra-high-speed laser cladding comprising chemical composition and mass percentage of the metal powder of: C 0.6˜1.0%, Cr 17.0˜20.0%, Ni 5.0˜6.5%, Mn 2.0˜4.0%, Mo 1.0˜1.5%, Ti 4.0˜6.0%, B 1.0˜1.5%, N 0.08˜0.15%, Si?0.5%, P?0.030%, S?0.030%, balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the particle size of the metal powder is 15˜65 ?m, the fluidity is 16˜20 s/50 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA MACHINERY INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED MATERIALS (ZHENGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miaohui Wang, Xueyuan Ge, Borui Du, Bowen Shen, Yifei Xu, Ning Xiao, Sheng Hao
  • Publication number: 20240085595
    Abstract: A Fresnel lens in a lens body, the lens body is provided with a light incident surface and a light exit surface opposite to each other along a first direction, and the light exit surfaces are adjacently arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. There are several protruding teeth, and the protruding teeth are formed by an effective surface and an ineffective surface, and the ineffective surface is inclined at an acute angle relative to the first direction. The invention makes the light passing through the lens body reach the effective surface as much as possible, thereby reducing stray light and enhancing light efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Zuping He, Xiaoyun Liu, Jun Yang, Sheng Zhang, Kai Xu, Jianguo Dong, Huangfeng Pan
  • Patent number: 11903297
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel, a manufacturing method, a driving method and a display device. When the display panel needs to display a normal image, a pixel driving circuit and a first control circuit drive an organic light emitting diode to emit light. When the display panel needs to perform fingerprint detection of a finger, the pixel driving circuit and a second control circuit drive a micro light emitting diode to emit light, so that the light emitted by the micro light emitting diode can be received by a photoelectric converter after being reflected by the finger, the photoelectric converter can output a detection signal, and furthermore, fingerprint information of the finger can be determined according to the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lizhen Zhang, Sheng Xu, Wei He, Yi Zhou, Qi Yao, Wusheng Li
  • Patent number: 11891745
    Abstract: Washing appliance and a determination method for locking of a drum thereof. The washing appliance includes a drum for containing washing water, a drum motor for driving the drum to rotate and a locking structure for locking the drum. The drum motor drives the drum to rotate at a set power output, the locking structure generates a locking action for locking the drum, and until an output current of the drum motor is larger than a rated current, it is determined that the drum is locked by the locking structure; by comparing the output current of the drum motor with the rated current, until the output current of the drum motor is larger than the rated current. Whether the drum is locked by the locking structure or not can be accurately determined through the above determination, and therefore the drum locking accuracy can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER LAUNDRY ELECTRIC APPLIANCES CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Zhao, Sheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20240003070
    Abstract: A high-temperature steaming method, a computer-readable storage medium and a control apparatus. In the high-temperature steaming method, when the temperature of washing water in a first washing cylinder is extremely high, and a large amount of steam is generated, a corresponding valve port can be blocked by means of a three-way valve; and when the temperature of the washing water in the first washing cylinder decreases, and an extremely small amount of steam is generated or no steam is generated, a valve port corresponding to a second washing cylinder in which the temperature of washing water continuously rises is blocked in a timely manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai LIU, Sheng XU, Zhiqiang ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20240003072
    Abstract: The washing machine includes control buttons controlling the washing machine to operate, and the washing machine is controlled to be connected/disconnected with a WiFi/to enter in a WiFi configuration mode by obtaining a trigger duration of one of the control buttons. The washing machine is controlled to be connected/disconnected with the WiFi/to enter in the WiFi configuration mode through the trigger duration of the control buttons, which realizes connection controllability of the washing machine and the WiFi, a user can control whether the washing machine is connected with the WiFi and enters in the WiFi configuration mode to configure a connection of the washing machine and the WiFi according to his/her own needs, which avoids conditions that the washing machine is directly connected with the WiFi and the user controls the washing machine mistakenly, and the safety of remote control of the washing machine is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO.,LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuxia ZHANG, Zhenxing HUANG, Sheng XU
  • Publication number: 20240003073
    Abstract: A control method for a smart home system, the smart home system comprising a smart socket and a laundry treatment device. The laundry treatment device is electrically connected to the smart socket. The control method includes: measuring electricity consumption parameters of a laundry treatment device by a smart socket; determining operation information of the laundry treatment device according to the electricity consumption parameters; determining the amount of detergent consumed by the laundry treatment device according to the operation information; and calculating a remaining amount of the detergent in the laundry treatment device according to the amount of detergent consumed; and based on a calculation result, selectively giving an insufficient detergent prompt by a reminding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuxia ZHANG, Zhenxing HUANG, Sheng XU
  • Patent number: 11858589
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wave-dissipating and wave-resisting integrated floating photovoltaic device capable of resisting severe sea conditions, comprising at least one floating photovoltaic unit, wherein the floating photovoltaic units are connected through connecting pieces, and the connecting pieces can avoid collision between the floating photovoltaic units. The floating photovoltaic unit comprises a floating system, photovoltaic systems and a walkway system; the floating system is used for supporting the photovoltaic systems and bearing wave load impact; the photovoltaic systems are photovoltaic power generation systems; the walkway system is arranged between the photovoltaic systems, and the walkway system provides convenience for later maintenance of the floating photovoltaic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Jiangsu university of science and technology
    Inventors: Chunyan Ji, Fali Huo, Jianting Guo, Yong Cheng, Sheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11863342
    Abstract: A control method for a home system includes obtaining the power curve of a household appliance to be run; obtaining power curves of all the currently running household appliances; and, if the power curve of the household appliance to be run and that of at least one currently running household appliance meet an off-peak running condition, making the household appliance to be run and the currently running household appliance run within an off-peak period of time. Without affecting the running states of all the currently running household appliances, the method can connect the household appliance to be run to a circuit, meets the demand of a user for making the household appliance to be run and the currently running household appliances simultaneously work, and does not exceed the load of the circuit, thereby improving the overall working efficiency of the home system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinzhu Deng, Sheng Xu, Peishi Lv, Hai Shu
  • Publication number: 20230407541
    Abstract: A ventilation control method for a laundry device to solve problems related to bacteria after clothes are washed in a laundry device, due to the moist interior of a drum assembly thereof. When an air intake fan is started, the present current of the air intake fan is acquired; if the present current of the air intake fan reaches a pre-set current value, water is injected into a water intake pipe to trigger a siphoning apparatus to discharge water from the water intake pipe, and a drum assembly is then ventilated; and if the present current of the air intake fan does not reach the pre-set current value, the drum assembly is directly ventilated. After clothes are washed, residual water inside a drum assembly can be air-dried, preventing breeding of bacteria and generation, and clothes are not subjected to secondary pollution during subsequent washes, thereby improving the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: Qingdao Haier Laundry Electric Appliances Co., Ltd, Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai LIU, Sheng XU, Ziqiang WANG, Mingli ZHOU