Patents by Inventor Weinan Zhang
Weinan Zhang 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).
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Patent number: 11965621Abstract: A mounting bracket includes a bracket body, a locking assembly and support foot. The bracket body is configured for component installation. The locking assembly is arranged on the bracket body, and the support foot is arranged on the bracket body. The support foot is slide along the up and down direction of the bracket body, and the locking assembly is configured to lock the support foot at a preset position. Through the above structure, the support foot is installed on the ground and used to support the bracket body, and the locking assembly locks the support foot at a preset position to correspondingly adjust the height of the bracket body from the ground, so as to adjust the suspension height of the components installed on the bracket body.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ZHONGSHAN MEITU PLASTIC IND. CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenhui Zhou, Hai Zhang, Haojia Huang, Jiafu Ma, Weinan Liang
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Publication number: 20230141145Abstract: A neural network building method and apparatus are disclosed, and relate to the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: initializing a search space and a plurality of building blocks, where the search space includes a plurality of operators, and the building block is a network structure obtained by connecting a plurality of nodes by using the operator; during training, in at least one training round, randomly discarding some operators, and updating the plurality of building blocks by using operators that are not discarded; and building a target neural network based on the plurality of updated building blocks. In the method, some operators are randomly discarded. This breaks association between operators, and overcomes a co-adaptation problem during training, to obtain a target neural network with better performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Weijun HONG, Guilin LI, Weinan ZHANG, Yong YU, Xing ZHANG, Zhenguo LI
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Publication number: 20230082597Abstract: A neural network construction method and system in the field of artificial intelligence, to construct a target neural network by replacing a part of basic units in an initial backbone network with placeholder modules, so that different target neural networks can be constructed based on different scenarios. The method may include obtaining an initial backbone network and a candidate set, replacing at least one basic unit in the initial backbone network with at least one placeholder module to obtain a to-be-determined network, performing sampling based on the candidate set to obtain information about at least one sampling structure, and obtaining a network model based on the to-be-determined network and the information about the at least one sampling structure. The information about the at least one sampling structure may be used for determining a structure of the at least one placeholder module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Yunfeng Lin, Guilin Li, Xing Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Zhenguo Li
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Patent number: 11531867Abstract: Example user behavior prediction methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a first contribution value of each piece of characteristic data for a specified behavior after obtaining behavior prediction information including a plurality of pieces of characteristic data. Every N pieces of characteristic data in the plurality of pieces of characteristic data may be processed by using one corresponding characteristic interaction model, to obtain a second contribution value of the every N pieces of characteristic data for the specified behavior. Finally, an execution probability of executing the specified behavior by a user may be determined based on the obtained first contribution value and the obtained second contribution value, to predict a user behavior. In the example method, interaction impact of the plurality of pieces of characteristic data on the specified behavior is considered during behavior prediction.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ruiming Tang, Minzhe Niu, Yanru Qu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
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Publication number: 20220215159Abstract: This disclosure relates to a natural language processing technology, and provides a sentence paraphrase method and apparatus. The method includes: paraphrasing an input sentence by using a sentence paraphrase model, to generate a plurality of candidate paraphrased sentences; and determining a similarity between each of the plurality of candidate paraphrased sentences and the input sentence, to obtain an output sentence whose similarity to the input sentence is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, where each of a plurality of paraphrased sentence generators in the sentence paraphrase model includes one neural network, the plurality of paraphrased sentence generators are trained by using source information and similarity information as a first reward, and the paraphrased sentence is obtained by paraphrasing the training sentence by using the plurality of paraphrased sentence generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Lihua Qian, Yinpeng Guo, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Xin Jiang, Yong Yu
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Publication number: 20210256403Abstract: In a recommendation-providing method in the field of artificial intelligence, an apparatus for generating recommendations obtains a recommendation system status parameter based on a plurality of historical recommended objects and a user behavior for each historical recommended object, such as clicks or downloads. The apparatus determines a target set among lower-level sets according to the recommendation system status parameter and a selection policy corresponding to an upper-level set, where the lower-level sets and upper-level set correspond to nodes on a clustering tree representing available to-be-presented objects, and each set corresponds to one selection policy. The apparatus then determines a target to-be-recommended object from the to-be recommended objects in the target set.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ruiming Tang, Qing Liu, Yuzhou Zhang, Li Qian, Haokun Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
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Patent number: 10785324Abstract: This application discloses a picture file management method performed at a computing device, and an associated non-transitory computer storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a picture set; extracting, from the picture set, a picture meeting a policy and parsing the picture, to obtain geographical location information related to the picture; obtaining a real-time target location of a terminal according to the geographical location information related to the picture; tagging the real-time target location onto a map page, to generate a location tag for the picture; classifying at least one picture conforming to the real-time target location, to obtain a picture classification result; and obtaining a to-be-released picture according to the picture classification result and the location tag.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yuyu Zheng, Weinan Zhang
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Publication number: 20200242450Abstract: Example user behavior prediction methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a first contribution value of each piece of characteristic data for a specified behavior after obtaining behavior prediction information including a plurality of pieces of characteristic data. Every N pieces of characteristic data in the plurality of pieces of characteristic data may be processed by using one corresponding characteristic interaction model, to obtain a second contribution value of the every N pieces of characteristic data for the specified behavior. Finally, an execution probability of executing the specified behavior by a user may be determined based on the obtained first contribution value and the obtained second contribution value, to predict a user behavior. In the example method, interaction impact of the plurality of pieces of characteristic data on the specified behavior is considered during behavior prediction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Ruiming TANG, Minzhe NIU, Yanru QU, Weinan ZHANG, Yong YU
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Patent number: 10540610Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are provided for analyzing a cluster of communications, such as B2C emails, to generate a template for the cluster that defines transient segments and fixed segments of the cluster of communications. More particularly, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are provided for generating and/or applying a trained structured machine learning model for a generated template that can be used to determine, for one or more transient segments of subsequent communications, a corresponding probability that a given semantic label is the correct semantic label for extracted content of the transient segment(s).Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jie Yang, Amr Ahmed, Luis Garcia Pueyo, Mike Bendersky, Amitabh Saikia, Marc-Allen Cartright, Marc Alexander Najork, MyLinh Yang, Hui Tan, Weinan Zhang, Vanja Josifovski, Alexander J. Smola
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Publication number: 20190373067Abstract: This application discloses a picture file management method performed at a computing device, and an associated non-transitory computer storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a picture set; extracting, from the picture set, a picture meeting a policy and parsing the picture, to obtain geographical location information related to the picture; obtaining a real-time target location of a terminal according to the geographical location information related to the picture; tagging the real-time target location onto a map page, to generate a location tag for the picture; classifying at least one picture conforming to the real-time target location, to obtain a picture classification result; and obtaining a to-be-released picture according to the picture classification result and the location tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Yuyu ZHENG, Weinan ZHANG
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Patent number: 10466471Abstract: Three-layer full-color dynamic electronic paper, comprising a substrate, a controller, a first EWOD display layer, a second EWOD display layer and a third EWOD display layer, wherein each of the first, second and third EWOD display layer is comprised of an upper transparent electrode plate, a hydrophobic insulating layer, pixel walls, colored ink, colorless liquid, a lower transparent electrode plate, an encapsulation adhesive, and a driving chip connected to the upper transparent electrode plate and the lower transparent electrode plate respectively; the lower transparent electrode plate of the third EWOD display layer is located above the substrate; the colored ink filled in the first, second and third EWOD display layer is cyan ink, magenta ink and yellow ink, respectively; and, the controller controls voltage waveforms of the three driving chips according to a subtractive color mixture principle of three primary colors for printing, so as to realize full-color displaying.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignees: Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Academy of Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics, South China Normal UniversityInventors: Guofu Zhou, Fangchao Tian, Zhijie Luo, Weinan Zhang
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Publication number: 20180374147Abstract: A method of generating a bid in an auction for a space to serve web content is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang
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Publication number: 20180246316Abstract: Three-layer full-color dynamic electronic paper, comprising a substrate, a controller, a first EWOD display layer, a second EWOD display layer and a third EWOD display layer, wherein each of the first, second and third EWOD display layer is comprised of an upper transparent electrode plate, a hydrophobic insulating layer, pixel walls, colored ink, colorless liquid, a lower transparent electrode plate, an encapsulation adhesive, and a driving chip connected to the upper transparent electrode plate and the lower transparent electrode plate respectively; the lower transparent electrode plate of the third EWOD display layer is located above the substrate; the colored ink filled in the first, second and third EWOD display layer is cyan ink, magenta ink and yellow ink, respectively; and, the controller controls voltage waveforms of the three driving chips according to a subtractive color mixture principle of three primary colors for printing, so as to realize full-color displaying.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Guofu ZHOU, Fangchao TIAN, Zhijie LUO, Weinan ZHANG
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Patent number: 9875231Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for resolving zero anaphora in Chinese language and a training method. The apparatus includes: a feature vector extracting unit, configured to extract, from an input text, feature vectors which are respectively based on candidate positions of zero pronouns, and a word pair of candidate zero pronoun category and candidate noun for each position of the candidate zero pronouns; and a classifier, configured to input the feature vectors into a joint model, so as to determine the zero pronouns in the text.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Zhiwei Zhao, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Youzheng Wu, Keisuke Yamaoka, Yu Zhang, Qingyu Yin, Weinan Zhang, Ting Liu
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Publication number: 20160253309Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for resolving zero anaphora in Chinese language and a training method. The apparatus includes: a feature vector extracting unit, configured to extract, from an input text, feature vectors which are respectively based on candidate positions of zero pronouns, and a word pair of candidate zero pronoun category and candidate noun for each position of the candidate zero pronouns; and a classifier, configured to input the feature vectors into a joint model, so as to determine the zero pronouns in the text.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Zhiwei ZHAO, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI, Youzheng WU, Keisuke YAMAOKA, Yu ZHANG, Qingyu YIN, Weinan ZHANG, Ting LIU
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Patent number: 7289811Abstract: A method and system for estimating the number of transceivers in a service area (100) are disclosed. A calibration area (102) is selected from the service area, and a defined number of transceivers are placed in the calibration area. Input parameters are determined for the defined number of transceivers, which are refined so as to ensure that the input parameters satisfy a customer-specified requirement. The measured input parameters for the refined number of transceivers are used to calibrate a Radio Frequency (RF) coverage prediction tool for the calibration area. The calibrated RF coverage prediction tool is further used to estimate the number of transceivers in the service area.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Samir A. Sawaya, Amir Bigloo, Weinan Zhang, Steve Swallow
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Publication number: 20060240834Abstract: A method and system for estimating the number of transceivers in a service area (100) are disclosed. A calibration area (102) is selected from the service area, and a defined number of transceivers are placed in the calibration area. Input parameters are determined for the defined number of transceivers, which are refined so as to ensure that the input parameters satisfy a customer-specified requirement. The measured input parameters for the refined number of transceivers are used to calibrate a Radio Frequency (RF) coverage prediction tool for the calibration area. The calibrated RF coverage prediction tool is further used to estimate the number of transceivers in the service area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Samir Sawaya, Amir Bigloo, Weinan Zhang, Steve Swallow
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Patent number: D898302Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Inventor: Weinan Zhang
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Patent number: D906598Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Weinan Zhang
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Patent number: D910246Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventor: Weinan Zhang