Patents by Inventor Zhen Liao

Zhen Liao 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: 20240164144
    Abstract: A display substrate, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, sub-pixels and an isolation portion, and each sub-pixel includes a light-emitting function layer. The isolation portion includes a first sub-isolation portion and a second sub-isolation portion. The first sub-isolation portion is between the second sub-isolation portion and the base substrate. The second sub-isolation portion includes a protrusion protruding relative to an edge of the first sub-isolation portion, the second sub-isolation portion facing one of adjacent sub-pixels is different in shape from the second sub-isolation portion facing the other one; or, a slope angle between a side surface of the first sub-isolation portion or the second sub-isolation portion facing one sub-pixel and a plane parallel to the base substrate is 60° to 120°. At least one film of the light-emitting function layer is disconnected at the isolation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Wei ZHANG, Liang SONG, Zhiming REN, Chunfang FAN, Xiaoliang GUO, Donghua JIANG, Wuyang ZHAO, Weiyun HUANG, Zhen WANG, Zhongfei DONG, Hongguang YUAN, Pengyu LIAO, Li XIONG
  • Publication number: 20240087139
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a target object tracking method. In this disclosure, the point cloud data sequence in the target scene is collected by lidars and the first frame of cloud point data is extracted; the bounding box of the target object in the first frame of cloud point data is determined using the preset three-dimensional target tracking algorithm. All the target point clouds in the bounding box are extracted to generate the first template point cloud. The template expansion processing is performed using the preset ATG algorithm to obtain the second template point cloud. The point cloud features in the search area of other frames of point cloud data are extracted, and are compared with the second template point cloud and the reference template point cloud to obtain the comparison result. Based on the comparison result, the tracking result of the target object is generated and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Zhen Li, Chaoda Zheng, Jiantao Gao, Xu Yan, Weibing Zhao, Yinghong Liao, Shuguang Cui
  • Publication number: 20240077350
    Abstract: An optical detection device includes a first linear light source, a second linear light source, an optical sensor array and a processor. The first linear light source is adapted to project a first long strip illumination beam onto the target container. The second linear light source is adapted to project a second long strip illumination beam onto the target container, and the second long strip illumination beam is crossed with the first long strip illumination beam. The optical sensor array is adapted to receive a first long strip detection beam and a second long strip detection beam reflected from the target container. The processor is electrically connected to the optical sensor array. The processor is adapted to analyze intensity distribution of the first long strip detection beam and the second long strip detection beam to acquire a relative distance between the optical sensor array and the target container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Chi Liu, Chi-Chieh Liao, Guo-Zhen Wang, Hung-Ching Lai
  • Publication number: 20220248074
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include a process for monitoring and improving end-to-end video quality based on scaled and/or interpolated perceptual quality scores across various video views. The method may also include a process for improving search experience for user expectations. Additionally, the method may include a process for providing hardware virtualization and simulation for server hosting. Furthermore, the method may include a process for filtering network traffic in a hosting environment. The method may additionally include a process for testing applications in a hosting environment. The method may further include a process for supporting multi-touch applications. The method may also include a process for optimized graphics rendering. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Shankar Lakshmi Regunathan, Haixiong Wang, Yun Zhang, Yu Liu, David Wolstencroft, Bakkama Srinath Reddy, Cosmin Vasile Stejerean, Sonal Gandhi, Minchuan Chen, Pankaj Sethi, Amit Puntambekar, Michael Hamilton Coward, David Ronca, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Zhen Liao, Wenting Wang, Bi Xue, Hong Yan, Guangdeng Liao, Yinzhe Yu, Qunshu Zhang, Xiaoxing Zhu, Yangpeng Ou, Jacob Matthew Okamoto, Francisco Javier Merino Guardiola, Carlos Lopez Menendez, Christopher Wickersham Clark, Puttaswamy Rahul Gowda, Yi Liu, Qi Ding, Junjin Pu, Sakphong Chanbai, Ming Cao
  • Publication number: 20200213040
    Abstract: In order that a user can perform a random access procedure suitable for a case where a usage band is limited to a frequency block that is a part of a system band, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention is a user terminal with a usage band limited to a frequency block that is a part of a system band, including a transmission section that transmits a random access signal with repetition, a reception section that receives a response signal to the random access signal with repetition, and a control section that detects a repetition number of the response signal, in which the reception section receives information for detection of the repetition number of the response signal and the control section detects the repetition number of the response signal based on a repetition level of the random access signal and the information for detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang, Qin Mu, Zhen Liao, Yong Li, Wenbo Wang
  • Publication number: 20190129958
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system, qualitatively-labeled search results, determining, based on an initial mapping scheme that maps the qualitative labels to an initial set of scores, an initial score for each of the search results, calculating an initial normalized discounted cumulative gain (nDCG) for the search results, generating a new mapping scheme that maps the qualitative labels to a new set of scores, and includes one or more pairs of non-consecutive scores, where a new nDCG calculated for the new search results is greater than the initial nDCG, determining, based on the new mapping scheme, a new score for each of the search results, and generating a new ranking algorithm based on the new set of scores, wherein the new ranking algorithm ranks the search results to improve the nDCG for each set of qualitatively-labeled search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Zhen Liao
  • Publication number: 20190079934
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query from a client system. The method includes identifying, by a search-engine server, multiple content objects matching the search query, wherein each content object includes a plurality of content tokens. The method includes determining, by a snippet generator, for each content object matching the search query, a snippet including multiple content tokens from the content object, the snippet being determined based on a token score associated with each content token. The method includes ranking each identified content object based on a content-object ranking-score calculated for the content object and a snippet ranking-score calculated for the snippet of the respective content object. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for presenting multiple search-results including a reference to a content object and a preview of the content of the respective content object including the snippet associated with the content object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Zhen Liao, Han Jiang, Yi Zeng
  • Patent number: 10069894
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electronic device, a storage medium and a method for transferring a file. The method for transferring the file includes: submitting a file segment to be transferred to a target device to a transferring queue in a main process; waiting for an interrupt signal; monitoring whether the main process produces upload traffic during a preset time period, and if the main process does not produce the upload traffic during the preset time period, sending out an interrupt request which comprises information that the main process does not produce the upload traffic during the preset time period; stopping waiting for the interrupt signal when a response from the target device or the interrupt request are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi Liao, Hai Zhen Liao, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9967315
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electronic device, a storage medium and a method for transferring a file. The method includes: acquiring transferring parameters of at least one file segment that is already transferred to a target device, wherein the transferring parameters include size and transferring rate; calculating a transferring rate varying index according to the transferring parameters; determining whether the transferring rate varying index is less than a predefined first threshold value, and if the transferring rate varying index is less than the first threshold value, updating a current transferring state with a different state; acquiring a coefficient corresponding to the current transferring state, and setting a size of a current file segment as a product of the coefficient and a size of a last transferred file segment; cutting out the current file segment from the file according to the set size of the current file segment for transferring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi Liao, Hai Zhen Liao, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150363473
    Abstract: Architecture comprising a framework for direct answer triggering, a step-by-step answer, and the user interface that facilitates the architecture. Generally, the architecture can comprise an answer datastore that stores an answer index of answer data, and a triggering component configured to invoke answer data in response to processing of a query that triggers a direct answer in a search results page. The triggering component can be configured to send an answer triggering message to the answer datastore and receive the answer data based on the answer triggering message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ciya Liao, Jie Cai, Zhen Liao, Ki Yeun Kim, Saeed Hassanpour
  • Patent number: 9178284
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electromagnetically transparent metamaterial, which comprises a substrate and a plurality of man-made metal microstructures arranged periodically inside the substrate. When an electromagnetic wave propagates through the metamaterial, each of the man-made metal microstructures is equivalent to two identical two-dimensional (2D) circuits, which are placed respectively in a direction perpendicular to an incident direction of the electromagnetic wave and in a direction parallel to the incident direction of the electromagnetic wave, and each of which comprises an inductor branch and two identical capacitor branches that are symmetrically connected in parallel with the inductor branch. The 2D circuits are associated with a waveband of the electromagnetic wave so that both a dielectric constant and a magnetic permeability of the metamaterial are substantially 1 when the electromagnetic wave propagates through the metamaterial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: KUSNG-CHI INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD., KUANG-CHI INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ruopeng Liu, Zhen Liao, Lin Luan, Zhiya Zhao
  • Publication number: 20150127773
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electronic device, a storage medium and a method for transferring a file. The method for transferring the file includes: submitting a file segment to be transferred to a target device to a transferring queue in a main process; waiting for an interrupt signal; monitoring whether the main process produces upload traffic during a preset time period, and if the main process does not produce the upload traffic during the preset time period, sending out an interrupt request which comprises information that the main process does not produce the upload traffic during the preset time period; stopping waiting for the interrupt signal when a response from the target device or the interrupt request are received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: ZHI LIAO, HAI ZHEN LIAO, YUAN ZHANG
  • Patent number: 8930339
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards evaluating search engine implementation performance using a task-based assessment metric. Logged user activities associated with the search engine implementation are processed into sessions and atomic events corresponding to the user activities within the sessions. The atomic events corresponding to the user activities are classified into tasks based on similarity of the queries within the user activities. After applying the task-based assessment metric to task information associated with the search engine implementation, an evaluation mechanism determines indicia of search engine implementation performance in terms of user behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Song, Zhen Liao, Liwei He
  • Publication number: 20140359084
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electronic device, a storage medium and a method for transferring a file. The method includes: acquiring transferring parameters of at least one file segment that is already transferred to a target device, wherein the transferring parameters include size and transferring rate; calculating a transferring rate varying index according to the transferring parameters; determining whether the transferring rate varying index is less than a predefined first threshold value, and if the transferring rate varying index is less than the first threshold value, updating a current transferring state with a different state; acquiring a coefficient corresponding to the current transferring state, and setting a size of a current file segment as a product of the coefficient and a size of a last transferred file segment; cutting out the current file segment from the file according to the set size of the current file segment for transferring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: ZHI LIAO, Hai Zhen Liao, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130173573
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards evaluating search engine implementation performance using a task-based assessment metric. Logged user activities associated with the search engine implementation are processed into sessions and atomic events corresponding to the user activities within the sessions. The atomic events corresponding to the user activities are classified into tasks based on similarity of the queries within the user activities. After applying the task-based assessment metric to task information associated with the search engine implementation, an evaluation mechanism determines indicia of search engine implementation performance in terms of user behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang Song, Zhen Liao, Liwei He
  • Publication number: 20130049887
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electromagnetically transparent metamaterial, which comprises a substrate and a plurality of man-made metal microstructures arranged periodically inside the substrate. When an electromagnetic wave propagates through the metamaterial, each of the man-made metal microstructures is equivalent to two identical two-dimensional (2D) circuits, which are placed respectively in a direction perpendicular to an incident direction of the electromagnetic wave and in a direction parallel to the incident direction of the electromagnetic wave, and each of which comprises an inductor branch and two identical capacitor branches that are symmetrically connected in parallel with the inductor branch. The 2D circuits are associated with a waveband of the electromagnetic wave so that both a dielectric constant and a magnetic permeability of the metamaterial are substantially 1 when the electromagnetic wave propagates through the metamaterial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Ruopeng Liu, Zhen Liao, Lin Luan, Zhiya Zhao
  • Publication number: 20120307361
    Abstract: A polarization converter made of metamaterial, including a base material and a number of artificial microstructures disposed on the base material. The artificial microstructures can influence the electric field vector of plane electromagnetic wave propagating in it. The electric field vector of the electromagnetic wave can be decomposed into two non-zero orthogonal components on one or more planes perpendicular to the incident direction of the electromagnetic wave, the orthogonal components can be parallel and perpendicular to the optical axis at the position where the artificial microstructure located. After the electromagnetic wave passing through the polarization converter made of metamaterial, the two orthogonal components have a phase difference ?? different from before incidence, thereby achieving mutual conversion between the above electromagnetic wave polarization methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Ruopeng Liu, Guanxiong Xu, Chunlin Ji, Yutao Yue, Zhen Liao
  • Patent number: 6874180
    Abstract: A rug bed cloth structure is provided to assist in fixing a user's legs in a position. One end of the rug bed cloth is formed with a lattice net structure. The opposing end of the rug bed cloth is adapted to be secured to a spring bed. Using the lattice net to increase frictional resistance, it will provide action and reaction points for the user's legs, toes or fore part of the user's feet and prevent slipping. Another embodiment has a plurality of soft strips of material affixed on the upper side of the rug bed cloth. The strips of material form rings to support the user's feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Inventor: Ming-Zhen Liao
  • Publication number: 20040204180
    Abstract: A built-in hand operatable generator for a cellular phone is provided. This generator can either be a DC or a AC dynamo equipped with a hand turning wheel or a hand operated crank emerged out of the cellular phone housing. This generator supplies the power to a charging circuit by rotating the wheel or the crank with hand so as to replenish electricity into the rechargeable dry battery of the phone in time of need.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Ming-Zhen Liao
  • Publication number: 20040153677
    Abstract: A self-generator device of a portable computer mainly comprises a manual generator installed inside said portable computer, said manual generator having a control bar extending outside a case of said portable computer and coupling an output of said manual generator to a charging circuit of said portable computer. When said rechargeable battery of said portable computer is low, turning said control bar to enable said manual generator and to provide power to charge said rechargeable battery, which provides enough power to said portable computer for operation, thereby preventing said portable computer from being inoperable at critical times due to exhausted battery power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Ming-Zhen Liao