Patents by Inventor Zhiqiang Mao

Zhiqiang Mao 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: 20240102782
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for evaluating deep-buried tunnel blasting parameters, and belongs to the technical field of mine engineering. The method comprises: setting multiple diverse blasting schemes; selecting a plurality of test sections with the same geological characteristics, the number of the test sections corresponding to the number of the blasting schemes; blasting the test sections using the blasting schemes, and obtaining diversified monitoring data of each test section; and comparing the diversified monitoring data to select the optimal blasting schemes for the test sections. According to the method for evaluating the deep-buried tunnel blasting parameters, by implementing different blasting schemes in test sections with the same geological characteristics, diversified monitoring data of the test sections are obtained and compared to select the optimal blasting schemes for the test sections, so as to ensure the safety and quality of blasting excavation of deep-buried tunnels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nuwen Xu, Biao Li, Quanfu Ding, Haoyu Mao, Peiwei Xiao, Xiang Zhou, Xinchao Ding, Yuepeng Sun, Yong Xia, Jun Liu, Zhiqiang Sun
  • Patent number: 11875775
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a speech conversion scheme for non-parallel corpus training, to get rid of dependence on parallel text and resolve a technical problem that it is difficult to achieve speech conversion under conditions that resources and equipment are limited. A voice conversion system and a training method therefor are included. Compared with the prior art, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure: a trained speaker-independent automatic speech recognition model can be used for any source speaker, that is, the speaker is independent; and bottleneck features of audio are more abstract as compared with phonetic posteriorGram features, can reflect decoupling of spoken content and timbre of the speaker, and meanwhile are not closely bound with a phoneme class, and are not in a clear one-to-one correspondence relationship. In this way, a problem of inaccurate pronunciation caused by a recognition error in ASR is relieved to some extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Silicon Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huapeng Sima, Zhiqiang Mao, Xuefei Gong
  • Patent number: 11817079
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a GAN-based speech synthesis model, a training method, and a speech synthesis method. According to the speech synthesis method, to-be-converted text is obtained and is converted into a text phoneme, the text phoneme is further digitized to obtain text data, and the text data is converted into a text vector to be input into a speech synthesis model. In this way, target audio corresponding to the to-be-converted text is obtained. When a target Mel-frequency spectrum is generated by using a trained generator, accuracy of the generated target Mel-frequency spectrum can reach that of a standard Mel-frequency spectrum. Through constant adversary between the generator and a discriminator and the trainings thereof, acoustic losses of the target Mel-frequency spectrum are reduced, and acoustic losses of the target audio generated based on the target Mel-frequency spectrum are also reduced, thereby improving accuracy of audio synthesized from speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING SILICON INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huapeng Sima, Zhiqiang Mao
  • Patent number: 11763801
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for outputting target audio, a readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: inputting source audio into a phonetic posteriorgram PPG classification network model to obtain a PPG feature vector, where the PPG feature vector is used for indicating a phoneme label corresponding to each frame of the source audio, and the PPG feature vector contains text information and prosodic information of the source audio; inputting the PPG feature vector into a voice conversion network model, and outputting an acoustic feature vector of target audio based on the phoneme label corresponding to the PPG feature vector, where the target audio contains a plurality pieces of audio with different timbres; and inputting the acoustic feature vector of the target audio into a voice coder, and outputting the target audio through the voice coder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING SILICON INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huapeng Sima, Zhiqiang Mao, Xuefei Gong
  • Publication number: 20230197061
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for outputting target audio, a readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: inputting source audio into a phonetic posteriorgram PPG classification network model to obtain a PPG feature vector, where the PPG feature vector is used for indicating a phoneme label corresponding to each frame of the source audio, and the PPG feature vector contains text information and prosodic information of the source audio; inputting the PPG feature vector into a voice conversion network model, and outputting an acoustic feature vector of target audio based on the phoneme label corresponding to the PPG feature vector, where the target audio contains a plurality pieces of audio with different timbres; and inputting the acoustic feature vector of the target audio into a voice coder, and outputting the target audio through the voice coder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Huapeng Sima, Zhiqiang Mao, Xuefei Gong
  • Publication number: 20220310063
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a speech conversion scheme for non-parallel corpus training, to get rid of dependence on parallel text and resolve a technical problem that it is difficult to achieve speech conversion under conditions that resources and equipment are limited. A voice conversion system and a training method therefor are included. Compared with the prior art, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure: a trained speaker-independent automatic speech recognition model can be used for any source speaker, that is, the speaker is independent; and bottleneck features of audio are more abstract as compared with phonetic posteriorGram features, can reflect decoupling of spoken content and timbre of the speaker, and meanwhile are not closely bound with a phoneme class, and are not in a clear one-to-one correspondence relationship. In this way, a problem of inaccurate pronunciation caused by a recognition error in ASR is relieved to some extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Huapeng Sima, Zhiqiang Mao, Xuefei Gong
  • Patent number: 9929036
    Abstract: A system and method for peeling a semiconductor chip from a tape using a multistage ejector is disclosed. A housing in the multistage ejector houses a plural sets of tape removing contacts. A pick and place unit is moved slowly to have contact with the chip. A vacuum source is utilized for generating vacuum to suck the tape. Plural sets of contacts such as inner, middle and outer contacts are independently or together moved below the tape at various stages by utilizing their respective actuation mechanism. A controller can independently control the movements of each contact to effectively remove or loosen the tape from the chip. A pick and place unit can then pick up the chip easily without any damage to chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: MANUFACTURING INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Kim Mone Kwong, Kok Yeow Lim, Zhiqiang Mao
  • Publication number: 20170133259
    Abstract: A system and method for peeling a semiconductor chip from a tape using a multistage ejector is disclosed. A housing in the multistage ejector houses a plural sets of tape removing contacts. A pick and place unit is moved slowly to have contact with the chip. A vacuum source is utilized for generating vacuum to suck the tape. Plural sets of contacts such as inner, middle and outer contacts are independently or together moved below the tape at various stages by utilizing their respective actuation mechanism. A controller can independently control the movements of each contact to effectively remove or loosen the tape from the chip. A pick and place unit can then pick up the chip easily without any damage to chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Kim Mone KWONG, Kok Yeow LIM, Zhiqiang MAO
  • Patent number: 9284397
    Abstract: A curable aqueous composition, a method for forming a treated substrate with the curable aqueous composition, and the substrate so treated are provided. The composition, the method and the treated substrate may be free from formaldehyde. The composition comprises a (co)polymer and a crosslinker, said (co)polymer comprising, as (co)polymerized units, from 0.05 to 10 wt %, based on the dry weight of the composition, ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least two carboxylic acid groups, wherein the crosslinker having at least two hydrazino groups having a molar ratio of at least 0.05 of the carboxylic acid group, and wherein the aqueous composition is curable at a temperature of from 100° C. to 250° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Mao, Miao Yang
  • Publication number: 20120251822
    Abstract: The invention provides an adhesive sheet comprising polyvinyl chloride (PVC) film and back coating of water based PSA, wherein said PSA comprises a copolymer by copolymerization of a monomer mixture comprising, a) from 30 wt % to less than 70 wt % acrylic acid C4-C8-alkylester, and b) from 2 wt % to 9 wt % (meth)acrylonitrile, wherein the polyvinyl chloride film is not corona treated. The adhesive sheet is suitable for applications of indoor and outdoor graphic poster, especially for clean removable usages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Mao, Zhaohui Qu, Yin Xue, Huixian Yang, Miao Yang
  • Publication number: 20110152447
    Abstract: A curable aqueous composition, a method for forming a treated substrate with the curable aqueous composition, and the substrate so treated are provided. The composition, the method and the treated substrate may be free from formaldehyde. The composition comprises a (co)polymer and a crosslinker, said (co)polymer comprising, as (co)polymerized units, from 0.05 to 10 wt %, based on the dry weight of the composition, ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least two carboxylic acid groups, wherein the crosslinker having at least two hydrazino groups having a molar ratio of at least 0.05 of the carboxylic acid group, and wherein the aqueous composition is curable at a temperature of from 100° C. to 250° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Mao, Miao Yang