Patents by Inventor Yin Zhou

Yin Zhou 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: 20210255853
    Abstract: A plurality of metadata corresponding to a plurality of code versions of an application stored in a version control system is generated. A determination is made of a set of changes between a first metadata of a first code version and a second metadata of a second code version. A classification is made of elements in the set of changes into a first category and a second category based on a set of predetermined rules, wherein the elements classified into the first category are better candidates to determine causes of defects in the application than the elements classified into the second category. The elements classified in the first category are used to determine a cause of a defect in the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Xiao Yin ZHOU, Zhenni YAN, Ya Ling XU, Xin Peng LIU, Qian XU, Chao FENG
  • Publication number: 20210205404
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a pharmaceutical composition of a KOR receptor agonist, which comprises 4-amino-N—[N2-[N—[N—[N-((R)-2-phenyl propyl)glycyl]-D-phenylalanyl]-D-leucyl]-D-lysyl]piperidine-4-carboxylic acid or available salts thereof, and an acetate buffer solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Xinyong TONG, Aifeng ZOU, Yin ZHOU, Yi FAN, Weikang TAO
  • Patent number: 11047500
    Abstract: A dual coil solenoid valve is disclosed for a fuel gas control valve, which comprises a stationary coil assembly and a moving coil assembly, wherein both the stationary coil assembly and the moving coil assembly consist of a magnetic core and a coil. Grooves are provided on the inside of the magnetic cores and coils are arranged in the grooves of the magnetic cores. The stationary coil assembly and the moving coil assembly have an equal cross-sectional area and are arranged oppositely with their axes coinciding with each other. The coils are arranged in the grooves of the magnet cores in such a way that the leakage flux can be reduced and the electromagnetic forces can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Youbin Wang
  • Publication number: 20210180795
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a streamer type flame simulation device, which includes a casing, some cross-flow fans disposed inside the casing, a first streamer, a second streamer, a supplementary air-supplying device and a light source. The supplementary air-supplying device is arranged in the split joint area between the two cross-flow fans. In the present invention, since a supplementary air-supplying device is provided between two cross-flow fans for supplying air, the deficiency where air was unable to deliver at the space occupied by the drive motor of the cross-flow fans can be avoided. Various parts of the first streamer and the second streamer can be blown, thus preventing the flame from being cut off and enhancing the overall coordination, which greatly improves the viewing effect of the flame area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NINGBO RICHEN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yin ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11035720
    Abstract: A warning device for preventing underground cables against accidental excavation comprises an optical fiber vibration sensor having a mode recognition function, a signal processing unit, a wireless communication unit and a power supply unit, wherein the signal processing unit is connected to the optical fiber vibration sensor, the wireless communication unit and the power supply unit, and the optical fiber vibration sensor is installed within a set range of a cable and is used to monitor vibration signals around the cable, so that once a behavior possibly endangering the cable occurs, an alarm is given out in time to reduce power transmission and transformation accidents. Compared with the prior art, the warning device has the advantages of low false alarm rate, rapid response and accurate localization region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: STATE GRID SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
    Inventors: Lijun Zhou, Yunjie Zhou, Xiaojuan Jiang, Hong Min, Tiecheng Lou, Jinhua Yu, Jia Chen, Kaibo Ma, Dekang Wen, Ting Ye, Qinqin Han, Ran An, Tianyu Yang, Chenyang Xuan, Yin Zhou, Chenbin Wu
  • Publication number: 20210150807
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov, Zhangjie Cao
  • Publication number: 20210150799
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generated simulated sensor data. One of the methods includes obtaining a surfel map generated from sensor observations of a real-world environment and generating, for each surfel in the surfel map, a respective grid having a plurality of grid cells, wherein each grid has an orientation matching an orientation of a corresponding surfel, and wherein each grid cell within each grid is assigned a respective color value. For a simulated location within a simulated representation of the real-world environment, a textured surfel rendering is generated, including combining color information from grid cells visible from the simulated location within the simulated representation of the real-world environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Zhenpei Yang, Yuning Chai, Yin Zhou, Pei Sun, Henrik Kretzschmar, Sean Rafferty, Dumitru Erhan, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Patent number: 10970518
    Abstract: A voxel feature learning network receives a raw point cloud and converts the point cloud into a sparse 4D tensor comprising three-dimensional coordinates (e.g. X, Y, and Z) for each voxel of a plurality of voxels and a fourth voxel feature dimension for each non-empty voxel. In some embodiments, convolutional mid layers further transform the 4D tensor into a high-dimensional volumetric representation of the point cloud. In some embodiments, a region proposal network identifies 3D bounding boxes of objects in the point cloud based on the high-dimensional volumetric representation. In some embodiments, the feature learning network and the region proposal network are trained end-to-end using training data comprising known ground truth bounding boxes, without requiring human intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Cuneyt O. Tuzel, Jerremy Holland
  • Publication number: 20210012089
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing point cloud data representing a sensor measurement of a scene captured by one or more sensors to generate an object detection output that identifies locations of one or more objects in the scene. When deployed within an on-board system of a vehicle, the object detection output that is generated can be used to make autonomous driving decisions for the vehicle with enhanced accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Benjamin James Caine, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Yin Zhou, Xi Yi, Ouais Alsharif, Zhifeng Chen, Vijay Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20210012555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing point cloud data using dynamic voxelization. When deployed within an on-board system of a vehicle, processing the point cloud data using dynamic voxelization can be used to make autonomous driving decisions for the vehicle with enhanced accuracy, for example by combining representations of point cloud data characterizing a scene from multiple views of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Pei Sun, Yu Zhang, Dragomir Anguelov, Jiyang Gao, Yu Ouyang, Zijian Guo, Jiquan Ngiam, Vijay Vasudevan
  • Patent number: 10872228
    Abstract: A method for detecting objects in an environment includes obtaining, from one or more sensors, distance measurements from the one or more sensors to portions of the environment, generating a representation of a three-dimensional space using the distance measurements, identifying object features in the representation of the three-dimensional space using a neural network, comparing the object features to pre-defined three-dimensional templates to generate scores that represent correspondence of the object features to the pre-defined three-dimensional templates, and determining a location and a rotational orientation for a three-dimensional object based on the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Russell Y. Webb, Luca Ballan, Cuneyt Oncel Tuzel
  • Publication number: 20200378607
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flame simulating device, comprising a mist generating chamber, an atomizing head, an air orifice and a nozzle. The inside of the mist generating chamber is provided with a liquid and the atomizing head, the atomizing head being capable of atomizing the liquid inside the mist generating chamber, the two sides of the nozzle being set as Coanda curved surfaces, the cross section of the air orifice being in a constricted shape and providing an air flow blown upward such that under the Venturi effect, the air flow blown upward will guide and attract the mist from inside the mist generating chamber to vent out and flow into a nozzle inlet. Due to the Coanda curved surface on the side of the nozzle, the mist flows along both sides of the nozzle under the Coanda effect and then vents out of the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: NINGBO RICHEN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yin ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200363066
    Abstract: A gas fireplace combustion device structure includes a simulated solid fuel and a combustor under the simulated solid fuel. The combustor has a fire exit hole facing the simulated solid fuel, a combustion air inlet passage under the combustor, and a specific slot at the combustor to define a third combustion air inlet. A partition is installed under the combustor; a second combustion air inlet leading to fire exit hole is formed between the partition and the combustor; the combustion air inlet passage is provided for supplying air to the second and third combustion air inlets; a combustion air slot is formed at the middle of the simulated solid fuel to resupply combustion air to the flame above the simulated solid fuel in order to achieve a two-time sectional combustion. This invention can control and resupply combustion air to the flames in different areas to improve the combustion effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Yin ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200332915
    Abstract: A dual coil solenoid valve is disclosed for a fuel gas control valve, which comprises a stationary coil assembly and a moving coil assembly, wherein both the stationary coil assembly and the moving coil assembly consist of a magnetic core and a coil. Grooves are provided on the inside of the magnetic cores and coils are arranged in the grooves of the magnetic cores. The stationary coil assembly and the moving coil assembly have an equal cross-sectional area and are arranged oppositely with their axes coinciding with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Youbin Wang
  • Publication number: 20200333003
    Abstract: A multi-outlet channel combination gas valve includes a valve body, a solenoid valve and a flow regulating mechanism. The valve body has a multiple of air outlets, at least two outlet channels formed between each air outlet and an air inlet of the valve body, a regulating port disposed in the at least two outlet channels, and the flow regulating mechanism can regulate the gas flow passing through each regulating port of the valve body at the same time, and a solenoid valve with a dual-coil electromagnet structure. When the valve is opened, a relatively larger current is passed, and then a very small current will be provided thereafter to maintain an operation by low power consumption. Therefore, this gas valve can be used without a mains power, and a low-level regulating structure is provided for presetting a low-level flow of each air outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Yin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200333009
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a regulating mechanism regulating the flows from a plurality of gas outlets in a fuel gas valve, comprising an actuator, a push rod, a presser plate assembly, regulating rods and a valve body. Wherein the valve body has a plurality of gas outlets, a regulating rod is provided in each regulating port which exists between the gas inlet and each gas outlet, a resetting device is provided between each regulating rod and the valve body, and the actuator drives the push rod which is around by the regulating ports to move along the axis. The push rod causes the presser plate assembly to move up and down to press or relax the regulating rods and simultaneously change the degree of opening between the head portion of each regulating rod and the corresponding regulating port so that the flow from each gas outlet changes synchronously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: NINGBO RICHEN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yin ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10776606
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods and systems for delineating cell nuclei and classifying regions of histopathology or microanatomy while remaining invariant to batch effects. These systems and methods can include providing a plurality of reference images of histology sections. A first set of basis functions can then be determined from the reference images. Then, the histopathology or microanatomy of the histology sections can be classified by reference to the first set of basis functions, or reference to human engineered features. A second set of basis functions can then be calculated for delineating cell nuclei from the reference images and delineating the nuclear regions of the histology sections based on the second set of basis functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Bahram Parvin, Hang Chang, Yin Zhou
  • Patent number: 10762805
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a simulated solid fuel, including a fuel body, a flow guiding device, a mist source and a light source. The fuel body houses a mist distribution chamber and an air directing chamber which are isolated from each other, and the surface of the fuel body includes mist outlets and mist inlets, the mist outlets and the mist inlets all communicating with the mist distribution chamber. The flow guiding device provides an upwardly rising air flow in the air directing chamber. The mist source delivers mist to the mist distribution chamber through the mist inlets, and is then attracted by the air flow injected from the air ejection port to move toward the middle area of the fuel body to form a flame shape, and is irradiated by the light emitted from the light source, thereby truly simulating the realistic effect of solid fuel combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NINGBO RICHEN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200088566
    Abstract: A warning device for preventing underground cables against accidental excavation comprises an optical fiber vibration sensor having a mode recognition function, a signal processing unit, a wireless communication unit and a power supply unit, wherein the signal processing unit is connected to the optical fiber vibration sensor, the wireless communication unit and the power supply unit, and the optical fiber vibration sensor is installed within a set range of a cable and is used to monitor vibration signals around the cable, so that once a behavior possibly endangering the cable occurs, an alarm is given out in time to reduce power transmission and transformation accidents. Compared with the prior art, the warning device has the advantages of low false alarm rate, rapid response and accurate localization region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Lijun ZHOU, Yunjie ZHOU, Xiaojuan JIANG, Hong MIN, Tiecheng LOU, Jinhua YU, Jia CHEN, Kaibo MA, Dekang WEN, Ting YE, Qinqin HAN, Ran AN, Tianyu YANG, Chenyang XUAN, Yin ZHOU, Chenbin WU
  • Patent number: 10579860
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving a first input image and a second input image. Each input image comprises a facial image of an individual. For each input image, a first set of facial regions of the facial image is distinguished from a second set of facial regions of the facial image based on a learning based model. The first set of facial regions comprises age-invariant facial features, and the second set of facial regions comprises age-sensitive facial features. The method further comprises determining whether the first input image and the second input images comprise facial images of the same individual by performing face verification based on the first set of facial regions of each input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Wang, Yin Zhou, Bo Li, Jonathan J. Currey