Patents by Inventor An Zhao

An 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).

  • Patent number: 11949617
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device in a wireless communication system for one of transmitting and receiving a phase-tracking reference signal, PT-RS. The method includes obtaining information about a position in a time domain of a scheduled first demodulation reference signal, DM-RS, in a slot, and one of transmitting and receiving the PT-RS within the slot, the position of the PT-RS depending on the position in the time domain of the scheduled first DM-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Lars Lindbom, Vicent Molés Cases, Karl Werner
  • Patent number: 11944048
    Abstract: A decision-making method for variable rate irrigation management includes the following steps: S1: sampling a soil from a root zone of a crop in an area controlled by an irrigation sprinkler, and measuring compositions of separates of the sampled soil; S2: managing and dividing the area controlled by the irrigation sprinkler according to an AWC of the soil in the root zone of the crop; S3: constructing an optimized soil moisture sensor network; S4: placing ground-fixed canopy temperature sensors; S5: constructing an optimized airborne canopy temperature sensor network centered on the center pivot; and S6: performing a variable rate irrigation by using the optimized soil moisture sensor network, the fixed canopy temperature sensors, the optimized airborne canopy temperature sensor network and an automatic weather station. The method optimizes the placement and quantity of the soil moisture sensor network and the canopy temperature sensor network to improve the measurement accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH
    Inventors: Weixia Zhao, Jiusheng Li, Yanfeng Li, Zhen Wang, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 11949917
    Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding device according to the present document may comprise the steps of: acquiring image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes multiple slices; on the basis of the picture header, acquiring at least one of a first flag indicating whether information required for an inter-prediction operation exists in the picture header and a second flag indicating whether information required for an intra-prediction operation exists in the picture header; on the basis of at least one of the first flag and the second flag, generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra-prediction and inter-prediction with respect to a current block in the current picture; generating residual samples on the basis of residual information acquired from the image information; and generating reconstruction samples on the basis of the prediction samples and the residu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11946276
    Abstract: A joint for a swimming pool frame, and a swimming pool including the joint are provided. The joint includes a joint body including a leg pipe holder configured to have a leg pipe of the swimming pool frame inserted into the leg pipe holder. The joint also includes a side pipe holder configured to have a side pipe of the swimming pool frame inserted in the side pipe holder. A locking hole is formed through the side pipe holder. The joint body also includes a locking part including a locking pin configured to extend through the locking hole and through a corresponding connecting hole in the side pipe, thereby holding the side pipe to the side pipe holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BESTWAY INFLATABLES & MATERIAL CORP.
    Inventors: Xiaobo Chen, Zhichao Zhao, Zhipeng Dai, Feng Ye
  • Patent number: 11946608
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to lighting systems that enhance the distribution of light. As set forth herein, the disclosed embodiments can include a lighting device, such as a strip of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and an asymmetric total internal reflection (TIR) lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Feng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11949849
    Abstract: A method for video decoding is provided. For a current block, whether an angular intra prediction mode for the current block is a wide angle mode that is in a direction outside of a range of directions that spans a bottom left diagonal direction and a top right diagonal direction of the current block is determined. Based on the angular intra prediction mode being determined as the wide angle mode, an intra smooth filter is enabled, the enabled intra smooth filter is applied to blocks neighboring the current block to generate filtered blocks, and intra prediction is performed based on the filtered blocks to decode the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11945766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of acetonitrile refining, and in particular, to an improved acetonitrile purification process for an ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer. The present invention provides an acetonitrile purification process. A high-purity finished product may be obtained by performing operations of oxidation, rectification adsorption, drying, reflux rectification and filtration on industrial acetonitrile and controlling related parameters such as temperature, flow and the like, continuous production is ensured, a light transmittance of the finished product in ultraviolet rays of 200 to 260 nm is greater than or equal to 95%, water and impurities in the industrial acetonitrile are removed, and the requirements of the ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer are met; moreover, by controlling process parameters and equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Sheng Wen, ZhengChong Zhao, ChunLi Gong, Fan Cheng, Hai Liu, FuQiang Hu
  • Patent number: 11946981
    Abstract: A cable sequence detection method and a detection system. A base station antenna includes N ports, an RRU includes M antenna ports and one calibration port, any port i of the base station antenna corresponds to a directional coupling branch Ti, and a switch circuit Ki whose connection and disconnection are controlled by an RCU is disposed on the Ti. The method includes: the RRU sends a detection signal to the base station antenna through antenna port j; the RCU controls the switch circuit Ki to be disconnected and another switch circuit to be connected; the RRU detects whether energy Qi obtained by the Ti is greater than a threshold; and the RRU determines whether the antenna port j of the RRU is connected to the port i of the base station antenna according to whether Qi is greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Hu, Jinjun Yu, Hu Zhao, Yongding Zhang
  • Patent number: 11949591
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network node advertising a Binding Segment Identifier, BSID. The method (100) includes: receiving (110) a first echo request packet containing a first target Forwarding Equivalence Class, FEC, stack including an FEC associated with the BSID; and transmitting (120), in response to a Time To Live, TTL, expiration associated with the first echo request packet, a first echo reply packet to an initiating network node initiating the first echo request packet, the first echo reply packet containing an indicator indicating that the FEC is to be replaced by a set of FECs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ying Lu, Shuo Yang, Wei Sun, Jinfeng Zhao, Yun Lin
  • Patent number: 11948092
    Abstract: A brain-inspired cognitive learning method can obtain good learning results in various environments and tasks by selecting the most suitable algorithm models and parameters based on the environments and tasks, and can correct wrong behavior. The framework includes four main modules: a cognitive feature extraction module, a cognitive control module, a learning network module, and a memory module. The memory module includes a data base, a cognitive case base, and an algorithm and hyper-parameter base, which store data of dynamic environments and tasks, cognitive cases, and concrete algorithms and hyper-parameter values, respectively. For dynamic environments and tasks, the most suitable algorithm model and hyper-parameter combination can be flexibly selected. In addition, with “good money drives out bad”, mislabeled data is corrected using correctly labeled data, to achieve robustness of training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Inventors: Qihui Wu, Tianchen Ruan, Shijin Zhao, Fuhui Zhou, Yang Huang
  • Patent number: 11950445
    Abstract: A foldable display screen includes a display panel, a first optical adhesive layer, a first cover protection layer, a second optical adhesive layer, and a second cover protection layer; the first optical adhesive layer is located on the display panel; the first cover protection layer is located on a side of the first optical adhesive layer away from the display panel; the second optical adhesive layer is located on a side of the first cover protection layer away from the first optical adhesive layer; the second cover protection layer is located on a side of the second optical adhesive layer away from the first cover protection layer. At an operating temperature, an elastic modulus of the second optical adhesive layer is smaller than an elastic modulus of the first optical adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhao Li, Shiming Shi
  • Patent number: 11948236
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for generating animation. An implementation of the method may include: processing a to-be-processed material to generate a normalized text; analyzing the normalized text to generate a Chinese pinyin sequence of the normalized text; generating a reference audio based on the to-be-processed material; and obtaining a animation of facial expressions corresponding to the timing sequence of the reference audio based on the Chinese pinyin sequence and the reference audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaoxiong Yang, Yang Zhao, Chen Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240103907
    Abstract: A task scheduling method includes: when a task requirement is obtained, splitting the task requirement to obtain the plurality of subtasks having a constraint relationship; performing execution condition detection on non-candidate subtasks, determining a non-candidate subtask that satisfies an execution condition as a candidate subtask, and putting the candidate subtask into a task queue; performing state detection on a server network composed of edge servers to obtain server state information and communication information; inputting the server state information, the communication information, and queue information corresponding to the task queue into an action value evaluation model to obtain the plurality of evaluated values respectively corresponding to the plurality of scheduling actions; and determining a target scheduling action from the plurality of scheduling actions by using the evaluated values, and scheduling the candidate subtask in the task queue on the basis of the target scheduling action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yaqiang ZHANG, Ruyang LI, Yaqian ZHAO, Rengang LI
  • Publication number: 20240107561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for sidelink communication. One example method includes: performing, by a terminal device, channel listening on a shared spectrum; and in response to a result of the channel listening being idle channels, transmitting, by the terminal device, a first sidelink channel by using a consecutive-slots transmission; wherein the consecutive-slots transmission comprises a transmission over a plurality of consecutive time slots, a first transmission block carried by the first sidelink channel includes transmission data corresponding to the plurality of consecutive time slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ling LYU, Zheng ZHAO, Zhongzhi YANG
  • Publication number: 20240105907
    Abstract: A prelithiation device and a prelithiation method, are described. The prelithiation device comprises a first roller, a second roller, a third roller, and a first coating mechanism. The second roller is used to cooperate with the first roller to jointly roll a lithium ribbon to adhere the lithium ribbon to the second roller, the lithium ribbon comprising two first surfaces opposite each other in an axial direction of the second roller; the third roller is used to cooperate with the second roller to jointly roll an electrode plate to bond the lithium ribbon adhering to the second roller to the electrode plate; and the first coating mechanism is disposed upstream of the second roller and is configured to coat the first surfaces with a release agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMEREX TECHNOLOGY CO. LIMITED
    Inventors: Shitong CHEN, Xinlu FEI, Bin XIE, Yongqiang XU, Keqiang LI, Fenggang ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20240105892
    Abstract: A driving backplane, a manufacturing method thereof, a light-emitting substrate are provided. In the driving backplane, a first conductive layer on a substrate; a first organic film layer is between the first conductive layer and second conductive layer, the first organic film layer has first via holes; a first inorganic film layer is on one side of first organic film layer away from the substrate; the second conductive layer is on one side of first inorganic film layer away from first organic film layer, the second conductive layer and the first conductive layer are connected through the first via holes; orthographic projections of the first conductive layer and second conductive layer have an overlapping region, the overlapping region includes a region including orthographic projection of the first via holes, and a first region, an orthographic projection of the first inorganic film layer covers parts of the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Xue ZHAO, Xiaodong XIE, Min HE, Tengfei ZHONG, Wenjie XU, Xinxiu ZHANG, Bin PANG, Huayu SANG
  • Publication number: 20240101552
    Abstract: Provided is the carbonyl heterocyclic compound shown in formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, capable of being used as a compound having a targeted lanthionine synthetase C-like protein 2 pathway and being used for the treatment of various conditions, including infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and chronic inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Chaoxin ZHANG, Guangxin XIA, Zhijun XIANG, Ying KE, Jiangsong LOU, Menghao ZHAO, Lijun HAO
  • Publication number: 20240103793
    Abstract: A natural language markup for meetings is introduced that facilitates planning and facilitation of online meetings. Shared content is obtained during an online meeting. The shared content is shared by a first participant in the online meeting for display on devices of one or more second participants in the online meeting. A visual object is detected in the shared content and additional content is obtained based on detecting the visual object. The additional content is transmitted with the shared content for display on the devices of the one or more second participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bjørn Solnørdal Tennøe, Dusan Jakovic, Ole André Bech, Qiujun Zhao
  • Patent number: D1021190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SNC OPTO ELECTRONIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhiping Ma, Anle Zhao, Jianyong Xu
  • Patent number: D1021191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SNC OPTO ELECTRONIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhiping Ma, Anle Zhao, Jianyong Xu