Patents by Inventor Zhihong Liu

Zhihong 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: 20230330525
    Abstract: This application provides a motion processing method in a virtual scene performed by an electronic device, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product. The method includes: displaying a virtual scene including a climbable obstacle, a virtual object, and an operation control, the operation control being associated with at least two triggering operations for controlling the virtual object to move over the climbable obstacle in at least two different motion manners; in response to a triggering operation performed on the operation control, determining a target motion manner corresponding to the triggering operation when a distance between the virtual object and the climbable obstacle is less than a target distance; and controlling the virtual object to move over the climbable obstacle in the target motion manner corresponding to the triggering operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Patent number: 11786817
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for operating a virtual prop in a virtual environment performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a virtual environment interface, the first virtual object being associated with a close-in attack prop; receiving a sliding tackle state trigger operation and then controlling the first virtual object to be in a sliding tackle state in the virtual environment; receiving an attack operation while the first virtual object is in the sliding tackle state; and controlling the first virtual object to perform a close-in attack by using the close-in attack prop in the sliding tackle state. Because the body position of the first virtual object in the sliding tackle state is relatively close to the ground, other virtual objects cannot directly evade the attack of the prop, thus improving the human-computer interaction efficiency during the attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Patent number: 11779845
    Abstract: An information display method in a virtual scene is provided. In the method, the virtual scene that includes a first virtual object is displayed. The first virtual object is controlled to move in the virtual scene based on a user input. Further, in response to the first virtual object moving into a target region in the virtual scene and obtaining control authority of the target region, a graphical representation of each of at least one second virtual object in the virtual scene is displayed based on a perspective of the first virtual object in the virtual scene. When a view of the respective second virtual object from a location of the first virtual object is obstructed, the graphical representation of an obstructed portion of the respective second virtual object is displayed in the virtual scene based on the perspective of the first virtual object and a position of the respective second virtual object in the virtual scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20230289054
    Abstract: A display method includes displaying a first virtual environment picture, the first virtual environment picture being a picture for observing a virtual environment including a virtual object from a first perspective, and controlling the virtual object to perform a first function in response to a first touch operation on a first function control. At least a part of the first touch operation is located in a response region of the first function control. The method further includes changing a displayed perspective of the virtual environment in response to moving a touch position of the first touch operation from a first position to a second position. At least one of the first position or the second position is located outside the response region of the first function control, and the displayed perspective of the virtual environment is changed based on the moved touch position of the first touch operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230124014
    Abstract: An image display method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium can improve a graphical user interface display presented to a user of gameplay information, and improve efficiency of human-computer interaction. An image of a controlled object, belonging to a first team, is displayed. The virtual object is controlled to attack a body part of a target object belonging to a second team. Whether the attack and the attacked body part of the target object meet a condition is determined. When the reward condition is met, a reward is provided to the first team.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230082928
    Abstract: A virtual aiming control method is provided. In the method, a recoil offset for an aim point of a virtual item is obtained when a shooting operation is performed by the virtual item. A scatter offset for the aim point of the virtual item is determined based on the obtained recoil offset for the aim point of the virtual item. An aim point offset for the aim point of the virtual item is determined based on the obtained recoil offset for the aim point of the virtual item and the determined scatter offset for the aim point of the virtual item. The aim point of the virtual item is shifted based on the aim point offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230072762
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for displaying a position mark, a device, and a storage medium, which relate to the field of computer technologies. This method includes displaying a thumbnail map, the thumbnail map providing a map guidance for a first virtual object of a first camp; controlling the first virtual object to attack a second virtual object, the second virtual object belonging to a second camp, the first camp and the second camp being opposing camps; and displaying a position mark of a third virtual object of the second camp in the thumbnail map in response to the first virtual object defeating the second virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230068653
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for controlling a virtual object to use a virtual prop in a virtual environment. The method includes: displaying a throwing route setting control in response to a trigger operation on a target prop control, the target prop control being a use control corresponding to an airdrop virtual prop, the throwing route setting control displaying a virtual environment map; displaying a target throwing route corresponding to the airdrop virtual prop in the virtual environment map in response to a gesture operation on the throwing route setting control, the gesture operation generating the target throwing route passing through a first operation position and a second operation position; and displaying the airdrop virtual prop thrown along the target throwing route. A throwing range of a virtual prop is expanded along the target throwing route, thereby improving a hit ratio of the virtual prop onto another virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Li YAO, Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230055890
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for controlling a human-computer interaction interface are provided. A setting operation of a virtual prop container is received before a virtual game session is started. Configuration information of the virtual prop container is generated according to the received setting operation. The virtual game session is then started. The virtual prop container is displayed in a virtual environment of the virtual game session. In response to a prop acquisition operation performed by a virtual object on the virtual prop container, a virtual prop is granted to the virtual object according to the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Zhihong LIU, Li YAO
  • Publication number: 20230054065
    Abstract: A method for delivering a virtual effect is provided. In the method, a target delivery point of the target virtual effect is determined based on a delivery point selection received from a user of a first virtual object. The target virtual effect is configured to change an attribute value of a second virtual object within an effect range of the target virtual effect. An actual delivery point of the target virtual effect is determined based on the target delivery point and one of a plurality of delivery precisions. The one of the plurality of delivery precisions is determined based on a delivery distance between the target delivery point and a position of the first virtual object. Delivery of the target virtual effect in a virtual environment is controlled based on the actual delivery point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230057014
    Abstract: Methods for forming and controlling morphology cracks in silicon dioxide (SiO2) film comprising: preparing SiO2precursor solution comprising solvent, precursor of SiO2, precursor of metal oxide nanocrystals, water, and acid; coating the solution onto substrate; drying the solution atop the substrate at a temperature between about 20° C. to 100° C. between 1 minute to 24 hours to form SiO2 film having uniformly dispersed metal oxide nanocrystals, wherein shorter drying times yield substantially spherical shaped metal oxide nanocrystals and longer drying times yield rod and disc shaped metal oxide nanocrystals; and thermally treating the SiO2 film between about 60° C. to 500° C. between 1 minute to 24 hours to form cracked mesh SiO2 film, wherein two cracks initiate from rod shaped metal oxide nanocrystals, three to four cracks initiate from spherical shaped metal oxide nanocrystals, and four or more cracks initiate from disc shaped metal oxide nanocrystals. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: 2M Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Patent number: 11581061
    Abstract: A high-throughput virtual drug screening system based on molecular fingerprints and deep learning, includes a deep-learning model online-modeling subsystem and an online virtual-screening subsystem. The system combines the molecular fingerprints and a deep neural network method to construct a high-throughput virtual drug screening system. The system includes built-in structural-diversity screening libraries and realizes the online automatic construction of deep learning models and virtual screening. The system helps researchers in the drug discovery industry such as medicinal chemistry to conduct rapid screening through their desired targets to obtain potential active compounds and accelerate drug discovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY (GUANGDONG DETECTION CENTER OF MICROBIOLOGY)
    Inventors: Liwei Xie, Zhihong Liu, Bingdong Liu, Xiaohan Pan, Mulan Han, Guohuan Xu
  • Publication number: 20230040737
    Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for interaction processing of a virtual item, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes displaying at least one idle virtual item in a virtual scene; moving a first virtual object in the virtual scene in response to a movement operation on the first virtual object; displaying a pickable prompt of the idle virtual item when there is no obstacle between the idle virtual item and the first virtual object; and controlling the first virtual object to pick up the idle virtual item in response to a picking-up operation by the first virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230033902
    Abstract: A method of controlling a virtual object in a virtual scene is performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a virtual scene picture including a first virtual object, the first virtual object including a first body part equipped with a first virtual prop and a second body part equipped with a second virtual prop; in response to receiving a first trigger operation on the first virtual object, controlling the first virtual object to perform a target action based on the first virtual prop equipped at the first body part of the first virtual object; and in response to receiving a second trigger operation within a specified duration after the first trigger operation is received, controlling the first virtual object to perform the target action based on the second virtual prop equipped at the second body part of the first virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230019216
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual object, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining an interactive operation in a virtual scene, the interactive operation being used for controlling a first virtual object to release a virtual prop at a target position; releasing the virtual prop at the target position, and displaying a target region triggered by the virtual prop in the virtual scene, the target region including the target position; and enhancing a target attribute of a virtual object in a first object group in the virtual scene in a case that the first virtual object is located in the target region, the first object group being an object group to which the first virtual object belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230015409
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information prompt method and apparatus in a virtual scene, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: presenting a sensing function control in a picture of the virtual scene; determining a sensing region with a first virtual object as a center in response to a trigger operation for the sensing function control; and when there is at least one second virtual object located in the sensing region, outputting prompt information of an orientation of the at least one second virtual object relative to the first virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230013663
    Abstract: An information display method in a virtual scene is provided. In the method, the virtual scene that includes a first virtual object is displayed. The first virtual object is controlled to move in the virtual scene based on a user input. Further, in response to the first virtual object moving into a target region in the virtual scene and obtaining control authority of the target region, a graphical representation of each of at least one second virtual object in the virtual scene is displayed based on a perspective of the first virtual object in the virtual scene. When a view of the respective second virtual object from a location of the first virtual object is obstructed, the graphical representation of an obstructed portion of the respective second virtual object is displayed in the virtual scene based on the perspective of the first virtual object and a position of the respective second virtual object in the virtual scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230019527
    Abstract: This application discloses a virtual role control method performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying, on a display interface, a virtual scene corresponding to a virtual task, the virtual scene comprising at least one virtual role belonging to a first camp and at least one virtual role belonging to a second camp; when a first target virtual role in the first camp is killed by a virtual role of the second camp, switching the first target virtual role from the first camp to the second camp; when all the virtual roles of the first camp are killed in the virtual scene, displaying that the second camp wins on the display interface; and when a duration for executing the virtual task reaches a predetermined duration and at least one virtual role of the first camp still exists in the virtual scene, displaying that the first camp wins on the display interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yutong XU, Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20220379209
    Abstract: A virtual resource display method is provided. In the method, at least one target virtual object is displayed in a virtual scene in response to at least one target virtual item of the virtual scene reaching a target state through user interaction. The at least one target virtual object is controlled to move in the virtual scene in response to a shooting operation on the at least one target virtual object. A target virtual resource is displayed in the virtual scene in response to a location of the at least one target virtual object meeting a first target condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Li YAO, Zhihong LIU
  • Patent number: 11474080
    Abstract: An automatic ultrasonic imaging inspection method and system based on a six-axis manipulator. The method includes: controlling, by a motion control card, a six-axis manipulator to perform scanning and an external axis motor to move; when scanning, feeding back, by a probe, an echo signal; when the probe moves to another scanning line, sending, by a controller, a displacement information of the probe along a stepping direction to an ultrasonic imaging device; when the external axis motor works, feeding back, by an encoder, a displacement information of the probe along a scanning direction to the ultrasonic imaging device; allowing the external axis motor to work when the probe moves along a scanning line; and generating, by the ultrasonic imaging device, a two-dimensional scanning image according to the echo signal, and the displacement information of the probe along the stepping direction and the scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HEFEI JUNENG ELECTRO PHYSICS HIGH-TECH DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihong Liu, Rui Wang, Haibiao Ji