Patents by Inventor An Liu

An 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).

  • Patent number: 11966241
    Abstract: A circuit includes a voltage divider circuit configured to generate a feedback voltage according to an output voltage, an operational amplifier configured to output a driving signal according to the feedback voltage and a reference voltage and a pass gate circuit including multiple current paths. The current paths are controlled by the driving signal and connected in parallel between the voltage divider circuit and a power reference node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Huan-Neng Chen, Yen-Lin Liu, Chia-Wei Hsu, Jo-Yu Wu, Chang-Fen Hu, Shao-Yu Li, Bo-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 11965626
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an LED strip includes arranging conductive lines at intervals to extend along a first linear trace; arranging supporting bases at intervals along the first linear trace on the conductive lines, each supporting base including multiple conductive portions and an avoidance through-hole; each two multiple conductive portions arranged at intervals along the first linear trace, the avoidance through-hole disposed between two of the multiple conductive portions arranged along the first linear trace; soldering the supporting bases and the conductive lines so as to have each conductive line soldered to two of the conductive portions arranged along the first linear trace and one of the conductive lines spanning over the avoidance through-hole to form a spanning portion; stamp-cutting the spanning portion; disposing an LED bead on a surface of each of the supporting bases; and subjecting the LED bead and the conductive portions to a processing of soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DONGGUAN OPSCO OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingjian Liu, Gengsheng Zhu, Zhenlei Wu, Kai Zhou
  • Patent number: 11966546
    Abstract: A display device includes a base layer, a touch sensing layer, a light guide module and a display panel. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the base layer. The light guide module is disposed on the touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer is located between the light guide module and the display panel, and the touch sensing layer and one of the light guide module and the display panel have no adhesive material therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Cheng Lin, Chia-I Liu, Kun-Hsien Lee, Hung-Wei Tseng
  • Patent number: 11965628
    Abstract: A cable containing an LED (Light Emitting Diode) light strip driven by an induced current is provided. The cable includes an LED light strip, a cable core and an outer protection layer covering the cable core and the LED light strip. The cable core includes at least one power wire core. The LED light strip includes a coil block and an LED chip which are connected in series to form a closed loop. The coil block generates an induced potential under the action of an alternating magnetic field generated after the power wire core is powered on. The LED chip is lightened by the induced potential. The outer protection layer is made of a light-transmitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANHAO JIANGSU ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zong, Chunyan Liu
  • Patent number: 11965695
    Abstract: A closed variable-frequency heat pump drying device with a heat regenerator includes a variable-frequency compressor, a condenser, a throttling valve, an evaporator, a heat regenerator, a three-way valve, a variable-frequency fan, an air inlet temperature sensor, an air inlet humidity sensor, a drying bin, an air outlet temperature sensor, an air outlet humidity sensor and a controller. The controller regulates frequency of the variable-frequency compressor by comparing magnitudes of actual and set air inlet temperatures; a ratio of a straight-through air volume to a regenerated air volume of the three-way valve by comparing magnitudes of actual and set air inlet humidity; and frequency of the variable-frequency fan by comparing magnitudes of actual and set air humidity difference and magnitudes of actual and set air temperature difference of medium air entering and exiting the drying bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHUNDE POLYTECHNIC
    Inventors: Yansheng Xu, Zhijiang Wu, Da Feng, Huaxing Liu, Xiyu Li, Dongming Li
  • Patent number: 11967166
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system architectures for carrying out the method of automated marine life object classification and identification utilising a core of a Deep Neural Network, DNN, to facilitate the operations of a post-processing module subnetwork such as instance segmentation, masking, labelling, and image overlay of an input image determined to contain one or more target marine life objects. Multiple instances of target objects from the same image data can be easily classified and labelled for post-processing through application of a masking layer over each respective object by a semantic segmentation network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Tianye Wang, Shiwei Liu, Xiaoge Cheng
  • Patent number: 11966749
    Abstract: A processor includes at least one socket and at least one memory. Each socket includes a first die and a second die. The first die receives a boot-enable signal and an internal boot-enable signal to execute a boot procedure, and outputs a boot-completion signal after completing the boot procedure. The second die receives the internal boot-enable signal and the boot-completion signal from the first die to execute the boot procedure. The second die is electrically connected to the first die through a communication bus. The memory is electrically connected to the second die. When the first die executes the boot procedure, the first die accesses the memory through the communication bus and the second die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenting Wu, Xiaoliang Ji, Xiuli Guo, Yanliang Liu, Qunchao Feng
  • Patent number: 11966124
    Abstract: A display panel includes a display region and a photoelectric sensing region which includes a light transmitting region and a frame region surrounding the light transmitting region; the frame region includes a first region surrounding the light transmitting region, a second region on a side of the first region away from the light transmitting region and surrounding the first region, and a third region between the second region and the display region. The spacers are in an array and in the display region but not in the light transmitting region. A plurality of first support pillars are in the first region, arranged around the light transmitting region, and spaced from each other. A plurality of second support pillars are in the second region, around the second region, and spaced from each other. A plurality of third support pillars are in the third region in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Yanqing Chen, Ruichao Liu, Jie Tong, Xiaofeng Zhang, Weida Qin, Ning Wang, Yan Wang, Wei Li, Haoyi Xin
  • Patent number: 11967103
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating a 3-D pose of an object of interest from image and point cloud data. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an image of an environment; obtaining a point cloud of a three-dimensional region of the environment; generating a fused representation of the image and the point cloud; and processing the fused representation using a pose estimation neural network and in accordance with current values of a plurality of pose estimation network parameters to generate a pose estimation network output that specifies, for each of multiple keypoints, a respective estimated position in the three-dimensional region of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Jingxiao Zheng, Xinwei Shi, Alexander Gorban, Junhua Mao, Andre Liang Cornman, Yang Song, Ting Liu, Ruizhongtai Qi, Yin Zhou, Congcong Li, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Patent number: 11965744
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for indoor positioning. The method includes obtaining a first location of a subject at a first time point. The method also includes determining one or more motion parameters associated with the subject at least based on one or more sensors carried by the subject. The method further includes determining, based on the first location of the subject and the one or more motion parameters associated with the subject, a second location of the subject at a second time point after the first time point. The method still further includes adjusting, at least based on surroundings information associated with the subject at the second time point, the second location of the subject to determine a target location of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang Teng, Rongzhi Wang, Jiankuan Li, Zhiwei Ruan, Zongyue Liu, Jun Zhang, Pengfei Xu, Shenggang Bao, Chao Liu
  • Patent number: 11967120
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for point cloud coding. The method includes receiving, from a bitstream, data corresponding to a point cloud; reconstructing, based on the data, a first attribute value of a first duplicate point from among a plurality of duplicate points corresponding to a single geometry position; obtaining at least one prediction residual corresponding to at least one remaining attribute value of at least one remaining duplicate point from among the plurality of duplicate points; reconstructing the at least one remaining attribute value based on the reconstructed first attribute and the at least one prediction residual; and decoding the data corresponding to the point cloud based on the reconstructed first attribute value and the reconstructed at least one remaining attribute value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11965835
    Abstract: A beam of light is directed from a light source at a wafer on a chuck. The beam of light is reflected off the wafer toward a 2D imaging camera. Movable focus lenses in the path of the beam of light can independently change the illumination conjugate and the collection conjugate. A structured mask in an illumination path can be used and the beam of light can be directed through apertures in the structured mask. A gray field image of a wafer in a zone without direct illumination is generated using the 2D imaging camera and locations of defects on the wafer can be determined using the gray field image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KLA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiumei Liu
  • Patent number: 11967093
    Abstract: A light color identifying method and apparatus of a signal light, and a roadside device provided in the present application relate to the field of intelligent transportation. A solution includes: collecting an image including the signal light through an image collecting apparatus; determining a background image according to N preceding frames of images of a current frame of image, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; performing foreground identification on the current frame of image according to the background image to obtain a moving foreground, where the moving foreground represents a change of the current frame of image relative to the background image; and determining, according to the moving foreground, a light color of a light that is turned on in the current frame of image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Liu
  • Patent number: 11965849
    Abstract: A sensor can include one or more of a semiconducting material, an oxidation catalyst, and an oxidation enhancer, the sensor being configured to detect an analyte, such as methane, a thiol, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Timothy Swager, Mate Bezdek, Richard Liu
  • Patent number: 11966916
    Abstract: A second blockchain system receives a first consensus message from a first blockchain system, the first blockchain system includes first nodes that provide services to at least a first account, and the second blockchain system includes second nodes that provide services to at least a second account. The first consensus message indicates a first plurality of the first nodes reaches a consensus for transferring a resource from the first account to the second account. The second blockchain system transfers the resource in the task to the second account. The transferring includes that a node in the second nodes adds the resource to the second account and generates a fourth block that records a completion of a transfer event. A second consensus message is transmitted from the second blockchain system to the first blockchain system in response to a second plurality of the second nodes completing the transfer event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rui Guo, Maocai Li, Jun Liang, Jianjun Zhang, Zongyou Wang, Haitao Tu, Qi Zhao, Binhua Liu, Dawei Zhu, Qing Qin
  • Patent number: 11966107
    Abstract: An anti-peep display device includes a display module and an anti-peep module disposed on the display module. The anti-peep module includes the following features. The first light incident surface faces the display surface, the second and third light incident surfaces are located on opposite sides of the first light incident surface, the first condensing portion is disposed corresponding to the second light incident surface and the first light source, the second condensing portion is disposed corresponding to the third light incident surface and the second light source, the first and second condensing portions convert beams of the first and second light sources into anti-peep beams with a beam angle less than 10 degrees, and the optical microstructures reflect the anti-peep beams and exit the anti-peep beams from the light guide plate. The present invention also provides an anti-peep method applicable to the anti-peep display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CHAMP VISION DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Hao Wu, Hsin-Hung Lee, Chin-Ku Liu, Chun-Chien Liao, Wei-Jhe Chien
  • Patent number: 11967025
    Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus for mesh processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a first mesh frame with polygons representing a surface of an object, and determining that the first mesh frame is a non manifold type mesh in response to one or more singularity components in the first mesh frame. The processing circuitry converts the first mesh frame to a second mesh frame that is a manifold type mesh. The first mesh frame has first boundary loops that respectively correspond to second boundary loops in the second mesh frame. The processing circuitry detects the second boundary loops in the second mesh frame, and determines the first boundary loops in the first mesh frame according to the second boundary loops in the second mesh frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Chao Huang, Xiang Zhang, Jun Tian, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11966598
    Abstract: Indices of storage systems are managed. An example method includes: receiving a flush cycle for flushing expired events in a storage system including multiple events in a data stream, determining, based on the flush cycle, a time slice for managing the index of the storage system, creating a slice index node for the time slice in response to determining that the occurrence time of a first event that enters the storage system in the data stream is within the time slice, wherein the slice index node includes an index node of the first event, and adding the slice index node to the index. A corresponding device and a corresponding computer program product are provided. Thus, the index of a large number of events entering the storage system is managed according to the occurrence time of the events, and the storage system can be searched and updated accurately and effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Julius Jian Zhu, Lu Lei, Pengfei Su, Jingjing Liu
  • Patent number: D1023954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hesheng Liu, Jianbin Wang, Dongdong Lai
  • Patent number: D1024134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Qili Liu, Li Qiao