Patents by Inventor Zhen Zhao

Zhen Zhao 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: 20220076074
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, device and computer-readable medium for multi-source domain adaptation are provided. The method comprises generating a first representation of a target image through a first trained classifier, generating a second representation of the target image through a second trained classifier, and generating a third representation of the target image through a third trained classifier. A mutual learning is conducted among the first, second and third classifiers during the training. The method further comprises determining a classification label of the target image based on the first, second and third representations. The present disclosure proposes a mutual learning network for multi-source domain adaptation, which can improve the accuracy of label generation for images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenpeng LI, Yuhong GUO, Zhen ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11188085
    Abstract: A system, comprising a computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect and locate an object by processing video camera data with a capsule network, wherein training the capsule network includes determining routing coefficients with a scale-invariant normalization function. The computer can be further programmed to receive the detected and located object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Zhen Zhao, Ashley Naomi Kleinhans, Ishan Patel, Gursharan Sandhu, KP Unnikrishnan, Bryan Roger Goodman
  • Publication number: 20210294832
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for determining similarities in content preferences among a plurality of users and generating content recommendations based on a requesting user's content consumption history. A requesting user may access the recommendation system to request content items for consumption. The recommendation system may be configured to identify users having consumed the same or similar content items as the requesting user, and to determine a ratio of content items consumed by the requesting user and an identified user to the total number of content items previously consumed by the requesting user. In one embodiment, the system may determine a degree of similarity in content preferences between the two users based on an inverse proportion of a level of popularity associated with the content items consumed by the requesting user and the identified user (e.g., sampled user).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Zhen Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210204036
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an authenticated groupcast stream of content to destination receivers are disclosed. A method may include receiving information indicating that a media capturing source(s) located at a premises and destination receivers are included in a group. Content captured from a media capturing source(s) may be received. The content may include an image(s)/video(s) and a destination network address associated with the destination receivers. The content may be copied. The number of copies of content may correspond to a number of the destination receivers. A respective copy of the content may be sent to the destination receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Zhen Zhao
  • Patent number: 11029409
    Abstract: A map of an area is generated from first sensor data of a first field of view including a blocked area and second sensor data of a second field of view having an unblocked view of the blocked area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Codrin Cionca, Mostafa Parchami, Zhen Zhao, Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez
  • Publication number: 20210141785
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that automatically generates and dynamically updates an interactive user interface (UI) that comprises digital information related to multiple processes and operations. The UI provides uniform functionality across platforms, devices and/or services being utilized to view and/or interact with the UI and/or interface objects (e.g., tiles) included therein. The UI provides a dynamic mechanism for assets to be controlled, as well as mechanisms to compare the data of different assets by which certain assets can be subsequently manipulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Kenneth Erickson, Vinay T. Kamath, William Charles Winn Bielke, Zhen Zhao
  • Patent number: 10997229
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for determining similarities in content preferences among a plurality of users and generating content recommendations based on a requesting user's content consumption history. A requesting user may access the recommendation system to request content items for consumption. The recommendation system may be configured to identify users having consumed the same or similar content items as the requesting user, and to determine a ratio of content items consumed by the requesting user and an identified user to the total number of content items previously consumed by the requesting user. In one embodiment, the system may determine a degree of similarity in content preferences between the two users based on an inverse proportion of a level of popularity associated with the content items consumed by the requesting user and the identified user (e.g., sampled user).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Zhen Zhao
  • Patent number: 10955857
    Abstract: A computing system receives first sensor data including moving objects and multi-modal LiDAR map data wherein the first sensor is calibrated based on a cost function that alternates between LiDAR map point cloud data and LiDAR map ground reflectivity data as input. The computing system can operate the vehicle based on the moving objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez, Codrin Cionca, Zhen Zhao, Mostafa Parchami
  • Publication number: 20200394892
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for detecting a state transition for sensors of a monitoring system, and determining whether the state transition is abnormal such that further action is warranted. The determination may be based on a history of state transitions in the monitoring system, and may be based on whether the same state transition has previously occurred at a corresponding time in the history, whether the new state has previously occurred following the corresponding time in the history, and other factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventor: Zhen Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200363533
    Abstract: A map of an area is generated from first sensor data of a first field of view including a blocked area and second sensor data of a second field of view having an unblocked view of the blocked area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Codrin Cionca, Mostafa Parchami, Zhen Zhao, Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez
  • Publication number: 20200319303
    Abstract: A sensor system is disclosed. The sensor system may comprise a housing; an emitter, carried by the housing, that emits a beam comprising depth-data signals; a beam-distribution adjustment system; and a processor programmed to control the adjustment system by selectively changing an angular distribution of the depth-data signals emitted from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: CODRIN CIONCA, JUAN ENRIQUE CASTORENA MARTINEZ, MOSTAFA PARCHAMI, LINJUN ZHANG, ZHEN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200301438
    Abstract: A system, comprising a computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect and locate an object by processing video camera data with a capsule network, wherein training the capsule network includes determining routing coefficients with a scale-invariant normalization function. The computer can be further programmed to receive the detected and located object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhen Zhao, Ashley Naomi Kleinhans, Ishan Patel, Gursharan Sandhu, KP Unnikrishnan, Bryan Roger Goodman
  • Patent number: 10775509
    Abstract: A map of an area is generated from first sensor data of a first field of view including a blocked area and second sensor data of a second field of view having an unblocked view of the blocked area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Codrin Cionca, Mostafa Parchami, Zhen Zhao, Juan Enrique Castorena Martinez
  • Publication number: 20200284858
    Abstract: An online automatic measurement system for a claw-pole overall magnetic property comprising: a feeding part, a claw-pole overall magnetic property measurement unit, and a discharging part disposed in sequence, and a robotic arm disposed there among. The robotic arm receives an operation instruction output by a control unit to grab claw poles to be measured in sequence and removes measured claw poles on the claw-pole overall magnetic property measurement unit. The claw-pole overall magnetic property measurement unit outputs a control power supply to the claw-pole overall magnetic property measurement unit according to the instruction of the control unit, receives an induction current of the measured claw poles, and output a measurement result to the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: XIAOFENG TANG, CHENGLIANG HU, MINJUN TANG, LI ZHU, JINSHENG CHENG, ZHEN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200271724
    Abstract: A magnetic performance measuring device for serialized claw-pole generator rotors is consisted with: an excitation power supply turn-on mechanism, a rotor magnetic field detecting mechanism, a measuring position adjusting mechanism and a pressing mechanism that are successively and fixedly arranged, wherein the rotor magnetic field detecting mechanism including a detection box, a positioning base, an adjusting ring, a shaft sleeve and a serialized grooved magnetic conduction ring that are successively arranged in the detection box, and the adjusting ring and the shaft sleeve are used to position different models of tested rotors to achieve a serialized measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Zhen ZHAO, Chengliang HU, Minjun TANG, Xiaofeng TANG, Jiinsheng CHENG, Wei SUN
  • Publication number: 20200250971
    Abstract: A system, comprising a computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect, classify and locate an object by processing video camera data with a capsule network, wherein training the capsule network includes saving routing coefficients. The computer can be further programmed to receive the detected, classified, and located object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhen Zhao, KP Unnikrishnan, Ashley Naomi Kleinhans, Gursharan Sandhu, Ishan Patel, Bryan Roger Goodman
  • Publication number: 20200103920
    Abstract: A computing system receive first sensor data including moving objects and multi-modal LiDAR map data wherein the first sensor is calibrated based on a cost function that alternates between LiDAR map point cloud data and LiDAR map ground reflectivity data as input. The computing system can operate the vehicle based on the moving objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: JUAN ENRIQUE CASTORENA MARTINEZ, CODRIN CIONCA, ZHEN ZHAO, MOSTAFA PARCHAMI
  • Publication number: 20200088881
    Abstract: A map of an area is generated from first sensor data of a first field of view including a blocked area and second sensor data of a second field of view having an unblocked view of the blocked area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: CODRIN CIONCA, MOSTAFA PARCHAMI, ZHEN ZHAO, JUAN ENRIQUE CASTORENA MARTINEZ
  • Patent number: 10593029
    Abstract: A system, comprising a processor; and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to acquire a first image of a scene, acquire a second image of the scene while illuminating the scene, identify pixel blooming in a subtracted image determined by subtracting the first image from the second image, remediating the pixel blooming based on empirically determined parameters, and operate a vehicle based on the subtracted image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Zhen Zhao, Codrin Cionca, Guoyu Lu, Mostafa Parchami, Jeffrey Thomas Remillard
  • Publication number: 20200034383
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for determining similarities in content preferences among a plurality of users and generating content recommendations based on a requesting user's content consumption history. A requesting user may access the recommendation system to request content items for consumption. The recommendation system may be configured to identify users having consumed the same or similar content items as the requesting user, and to determine a ratio of content items consumed by the requesting user and an identified user to the total number of content items previously consumed by the requesting user. In one embodiment, the system may determine a degree of similarity in content preferences between the two users based on an inverse proportion of a level of popularity associated with the content items consumed by the requesting user and the identified user (e.g., sampled user).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Zhen Zhao