Patents by Inventor Zhen Liu

Zhen Liu 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: 20240135638
    Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for generating a three-dimensional scene are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method may include obtaining source image features from a plurality of two-dimensional source images associated with the three-dimensional scene to be generated. The method may further include obtaining editing features from an editing instruction input by a user for the three-dimensional scene, each of the editing features respectively forming a feature pair with each of the source image features. Furthermore, the method may include updating the source image features by maximizing a correlation coefficient of each of the feature pairs, and generating the three-dimensional scene based at least on the updated source image features. Embodiments of the present disclosure can realize arbitrary editing of a three-dimensional scene, thus enhancing the experience of human-computer interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhisong Liu, Zijia Wang, Anzhou Hou, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240137336
    Abstract: An eSIM-based card pool system is disclosed, the system comprising: a card pool unit comprising a plurality of eSIMs; an eSIM manager, comprising a database that stores corresponding relationships between a plurality of eSIM identifications and a plurality of eSIM addresses; and a connection manager, configured to request a first eSIM address from the eSIM manager based on a received download instruction, and write a specified eSIM profile into a first eSIM having the first eSIM address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Richard H. XU, Jing Liu, Chao Wang, Zhen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240132826
    Abstract: An apparatus for bioprocessing includes a housing, a drawer receivable within the housing, the drawer including a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom defining a processing chamber, and a generally open top, the drawer being movable between a closed position in which the drawer is received within the housing, and an open position in which the drawer extends from the housing enabling access to the processing chamber through the open top, and at least one bed plate positioned within the processing chamber and configured to receive a bioreactor vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Publication number: 20240131746
    Abstract: A method for preparing a shell-bionic ceramic tool and a shell-bionic ceramic tool, wherein the shell-bionic ceramic tool includes alternating stacks of ceramic powders with different components, pressing a ceramic green body using a cold briquetting method, carrying out pre-pressing once using a graphite indenter on a working surface thereof after each layer of the ceramic powder being loaded, and pressing a last layer using a graphite rod, and then pressing a whole ceramic green body with a certain pressure to promote a bonding of the layers of ceramic powder, which in turn gives a complex shape to an interface between the layers, increases a bonding area between the layers, and plays the role of hindering crack expansion, extending the crack expansion path, and improving the bonding strength of the interface; after then, hot-pressed sintering is used to densify the ceramic green body to obtain the shell-bionic ceramic tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY, YANSHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chuanzhen HUANG, Yunpeng Feng, Hanlian Liu, Zhenyu Shi, Peng Yao, Dun Liu, Bin Zou, Hongtao Zhu, Zhen Wang, Jun Wang, Longhua Xu, Shuiquan Huang, Meina Qu, Zhengkai Xu, Minting Wang, Yabin Guan
  • Publication number: 20240135482
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for processing a virtual avatar. The method includes generating an image feature of the virtual avatar based on a plurality of image blocks of the virtual avatar and corresponding positions of the plurality of image blocks in the virtual avatar. The method further includes generating, based on a watermark to be added to the virtual avatar, a text feature associated with text of the watermark. The method further includes generating a watermarked virtual avatar based on the image feature and the text feature, wherein the watermark is invisible to human beings and identifies an identity of a user of the virtual avatar in a metaverse. Through embodiments of the present disclosure, identification of a virtual avatar, illustratively for verification and/or tracking purposes can be achieved without affecting the appearance of the virtual avatar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zijia Wang, Zhisong Liu, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240134935
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for model arrangement. The method includes determining a target model for processing data. The method further includes dividing the target model into a plurality of modules that implement different tasks. The method further includes determining a quantity of parameters of a target module in the plurality of modules and a size of transmission data related to the target module. The method further includes determining an arrangement position of the target module based on the quantity and the size. With this method, the amount of data transmitted can be minimized, and the computing time and the presentation time of information presented to users can be reduced, thereby improving the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zijia Wang, Jinpeng Liu, Jiacheng Ni, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240135599
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for processing data. The method includes determining, based on acquired text, character features for a group of characters in the text and text features for the text. The method further includes determining initial visual features for the text based on the text features. The method further includes determining target visual features for the text based on the initial visual features, the character features, and the text features. The method further includes generating a target image corresponding to the text based on the target visual features. Through the method, the accuracy of conversion between text and an image is improved, the data processing efficiency is improved, and the data compression efficiency is further improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zijia Wang, Zhisong Liu, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240137757
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for authorization of proximity based services. A first wireless communication device may send, to a second wireless communication device, a message to access a network via the second wireless communication device as a relay node, using at least one authentication and key management for applications (AKMA) service. The message may include an AKMA key identifier (A-KID) and a freshness parameter. The first wireless communication device may generate a validation token to validate against another validation token of the second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device may generate the validation token using the freshness parameter and a proximity based service function (PBSF) key (KPBSF).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuze LIU, Shilin YOU, Jin PENG, Zhen XING, Zhaoji LIN
  • Publication number: 20240126859
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for authenticating usage data for processing by machine learning models are provided herein. An example method includes receiving, by a machine learning application installed in a user space of an operating system of a user device, a message from a software component, wherein the software component is: configured to collect usage data associated with the user device; signed with using private key corresponding to a digital certificate by an application installed on the user device; and deployed in a kernel space of the operating system, and wherein the message comprises usage data signed using the private key; authenticating, by the machine learning application, the usage data based on a public key corresponding to the digital certificate; and processing, by the machine learning application in response to a result of the authenticating, at least a portion of the authenticated usage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jinpeng Liu, Tianxiang Chen, Sarah Evans, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240124454
    Abstract: The compound as shown in formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or pharmaceutical composition thereof, and a preparation method therefor, and the use thereof as an MAT2A inhibitor. Ring A, ring Q, X, Y, X1, X2, L and R1 in formula (I) are as defined in the description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhen Li, Feng Tang, Le Liu, Chunyan Zhao, Ping Chen, Renhong Tang, Jinsheng Ren
  • Publication number: 20240127530
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for generating a target object. The method includes upsampling a first feature of an input point cloud. The method further includes determining a reference feature of a reference point cloud having a predetermined shape. The method further includes determining a second feature based on the upsampled first feature and the reference feature. The method further includes generating a three-dimensional target object based on the second feature and the input point cloud, wherein the target object has a fitted curved surface, and the target object has a greater number of points than the input point cloud. With embodiments of the present disclosure, a point cloud of the target object can be made denser, and the number of points can be increased, thereby achieving a more accurate three-dimensional reconstruction of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhisong Liu, Zijia Wang, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240126634
    Abstract: A method in an illustrative embodiment of the present disclosure includes determining, utilizing a first diagnosis model deployed in a storage system, whether a cause of a fault belongs to environmental factors. The method further includes determining, responsive to determining that the cause of the fault belongs to the environmental factors, whether the fault can be solved locally in the storage system. The method further includes sending, responsive to determining that the fault cannot be solved locally in the storage system, the fault to a second diagnosis model, wherein the first diagnosis model is obtained by distilling the second diagnosis model. According to the method for fault diagnosis of the present disclosure, particular faults can be diagnosed and solved locally in a storage system, so that the workload of a customer support team of the storage system in a cloud can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jiacheng Ni, Jinpeng Liu, Zijia Wang, Zhen Jia
  • Publication number: 20240123049
    Abstract: Provided is a new-type cis-replicon construct for efficiently expressing a target protein, which comprises an RNA polymerase coding unit and a target protein coding unit. The replicon construct can drive the replication of the target protein coding unit and reduce or avoid the replication and expression of the RNA polymerase, thereby effectively improving the expression of the target protein and reducing the expression of the non-target protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shoutao ZHANG, Qiang MA, Qingnan TIAN, Tian WANG, Yonghui HUANG, Guotao LIU, Zhen TIAN
  • Patent number: 11960431
    Abstract: The present application relates to a network-on-chip data processing method. The method is applied to a network-on-chip processing system, the network-on-chip processing system is used for executing machine learning calculation, and the network-on-chip processing system comprises a storage device and a calculation device. The method comprises: accessing the storage device in the network-on-chip processing system by means of a first calculation device in the network-on-chip processing system, and obtaining first operation data; performing an operation on the first operation data by means of the first calculation device to obtain a first operation result; and sending the first operation result to a second calculation device in the network-on-chip processing system. According to the method, operation overhead can be reduced and data read/write efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Zhen Li, Yao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11957712
    Abstract: An application of a hydrogel in the preparation of products for the treatment of bacterial infection is disclosed. Ferrous ion was used in the antibacterial activity test of Staphylococcus aureus and showed a strong bactericidal effect, which the survival rate of Staphylococcus aureus is less than 0.001%, as well as the survival rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was less than 0.01%. Ferrous ion hydrogel was used for the treatment of keratitis and skin wound infection. Ferrous ion hydrogel for the treatment of keratitis and skin wound infection, which can significantly reduce the risk of pulmonary MRSA infection, prevented the dissimilation of MRSA to the lung, and alleviated systemic inflammation in the body in a timely and effective manner, revealing the therapeutic potential of ferrous compounds for treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections, including MRSA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Liangbin Hu, Haizhen Mo, Xiaohui Zhou, Hongbo Li, Dan Xu, Zhenbin Liu, Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11961852
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacture method of the array substrate, including: sequentially forming a gate, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, an ohmic contact layer and a metal layer on a substrate, forming a photoetching mask on the metal layer, where thickness of the photoetching mask in a half exposure area of the mask plate is from 2000 ? to 6000 ?; etching the metal layer, the ohmic contact layer and the active layer outside a covering area of the photoetching mask; ashing the photoetching mask for a preset time with an ashing reactant, wherein the ashing reactant comprises oxygen, and the preset time is from 70 seconds to 100 seconds; and sequentially etching the metal layer, the ohmic contact layer and the active layer based on the ashed photoetching mask, and forming a channel region of the array substrate. The present disclosure further discloses an array substrate, and a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHUZHOU HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: En-Tsung Cho, Fengyun Yang, Yuming Xia, Je-Hao Hsu, Zhen Liu, Hejing Zhang, Wanfei Yong
  • Publication number: 20240120651
    Abstract: Photonically steered impedance surface antennas are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate to be communicatively coupled to a radio frequency (RF) source, an at least partially transparent dielectric layer, the semiconductor substrate at a first side of the at least partially transparent dielectric layer, an at least partially transparent conductive film at a second side of the at least partially transparent dielectric layer that is opposite the first side of the at least partially transparent dielectric layer, and an illumination source to illuminate at least a portion of the semiconductor substrate to generate a photoinduced solid-state plasma pattern that beam steers an RF signal corresponding to the RF source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zhen Zhou, Tae Young Yang, Timo Huusari, Renzhi Liu, Wei Qian, Mengyuan Huang, Jason Mix
  • Publication number: 20240119260
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to train first and second machine learning models utilizing a first training dataset comprising inputs each associated with a class label of one of a set of classes and a second training dataset comprising distilled representations of the two or more classes, and to identify candidate adversarial example inputs utilizing the trained first and second machine learning models. The processing device is further configured to determine whether the candidate adversarial example inputs are true positive adversarial example inputs based on a confidence-aware clustering and to generate an updated first training dataset comprising corrected class labels for the true positive adversarial example inputs and an updated second training dataset comprising updated distilled representations determined utilizing the corrected class labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zijia Wang, Jiacheng Ni, Jinpeng Liu, Zhen Jia, Kenneth Durazzo
  • Patent number: 11953456
    Abstract: A method for separating oil-water two-phase NMR signals by using dynamic nuclear polarization comprising: using a combination of a non-selective free radical and a selective relaxation reagent to selectively enhance an NMR signal of an oil phase or a water phase, the relaxation reagent being capable of selectively suppressing dynamic polarization enhancement of the water phase or oil phase, thus achieving the polarization enhancement of a single fluid phase in the mixed fluid phases and realizing separation of the two-phase signals; or using a selective free radical to selectively enhance the NMR signal of the oil phase or the water phase, thus achieving the polarization enhancement of a single fluid phase in the mixed fluid phases and realizing separation of the oil-water two-phase NMR signals. The method is simple and easy to operate, has a short test time, and can efficiently separate NMR signals of oil and water phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Chaoyang Liu, Junfei Chen, Li Chen, Jiwen Feng, Zhen Zhang, Zhekai Zhang, Fang Chen
  • Publication number: 20240113438
    Abstract: A package-to-package communication system is provided including a first package having integrated on a first substrate a first antenna, a second antenna, and a first transceiver coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna is arranged along a first edge of the first substrate. The second antenna is arranged along a second edge of the first substrate. A second package having integrated on a second substrate a third antenna, a fourth antenna and a second transceiver coupled to the third antenna and the fourth antenna. The third antenna is arranged along a third edge of the second substrate. The fourth antenna is arranged along a fourth edge of the second substrate. The first antenna and the third antenna are configured to communicate signals of a vertical polarization. The second antenna and the fourth antenna are configured to communicate signals of a horizontal polarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zhen ZHOU, Shuhei YAMADA, Renzhi LIU, Tae Young YANG, Tolga ACIKALIN, Kenneth P. FOUST