Patents by Inventor Chao CONG

Chao CONG 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: 20240088804
    Abstract: Provided is a motor braking device for a N-phase brushless motor. The motor braking device includes a switching circuit adapted to connect the N-phase brushless motor to a power supply, the switching circuit comprising a high side switch group and a low side switch group, each of the high side switch group and the low side switch group comprising N switching elements, and a control unit configured to control the switching circuit to brake the motor based on occurrence of a first event, the first event chosen from a group consisting of release of a trigger by a user, and occurrence of a predetermined condition as detected by a sensor. The control unit is configured to, upon occurrence of the first event, switch all the switching elements of one of the high side switch group or the low side switch group to an on-state, and simultaneously switch all the switching elements of the other one of the high side switch group and the lower side switch group to an off-state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bao An ZHANG, Zi Cong CHEN, Li Hua XIE, Chao WEN, Yong Min LI
  • Publication number: 20230280281
    Abstract: A defect detection system based on machine vision includes a monitoring module, a detection module, an early warning module, and a screening module. A method and the system are implemented by timely screening out an empty bottle having a different specification in detection, monitoring whether a content in each of empty bottles meets requirement, monitoring whether foreign matter is contained in each of filled bottles, and displaying a monitored image on a display device. Bottles that are normal in the detection are filled, filled bottles are monitored through the monitoring module. The monitoring module is configured to monitor whether the content in the filled bottles meets requirement, whether foreign matter is contained in the filled bottles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Zengzhen MI, Chao CONG
  • Patent number: 9314161
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a moving object contour extraction apparatus includes a contour acquisition unit and a contour correction unit. The contour acquisition unit is configured to acquire a contour of a moving object in each image slice. The contour correction unit is configured to correct the contours of the moving object in image slices of at least one image slice time series based on motion trend information of the moving object in each of a plurality of image slice time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yanhua Wang, Chao Cong, Yanli Wang, Shaobin Wang
  • Patent number: 9275266
    Abstract: A moving object contour tracking apparatus includes a contour tracking section for performing, by taking an initial contour of the moving object in a predetermined image slice as a starting contour, contour tracking in a first time direction to acquire a first contour of the moving object and contour tracking in a second time direction to acquire a second contour of the moving object in each image slice; a contour comparison section for calculating, in the predetermined image slice, a similarity between the first contour and the initial contour and a similarity between the second contour and the initial contour; and a contour correction section for taking the contours in the image slices that are acquired in a contour tracking direction corresponding to the greater one of the two similarities as the contours of the moving object in the respective image slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanhua Wang, Chao Cong, Yanli Wang, Shaobin Wang, Qiuying Dong
  • Publication number: 20160004901
    Abstract: A moving object contour tracking apparatus includes a contour tracking section for performing, by taking an initial contour of the moving object in a predetermined image slice as a starting contour, contour tracking in a first time direction to acquire a first contour of the moving object and contour tracking in a second time direction to acquire a second contour of the moving object in each image slice; a contour comparison section for calculating, in the predetermined image slice, a similarity between the first contour and the initial contour and a similarity between the second contour and the initial contour; and a contour correction section for taking the contours in the image slices that are acquired in a contour tracking direction corresponding to the greater one of the two similarities as the contours of the moving object in the respective image slices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yanhua WANG, Chao CONG, Yanli WANG, Shaobin WANG, Qiuying DONG
  • Patent number: 9171220
    Abstract: A moving object contour tracking apparatus includes a contour tracking section for performing, by taking an initial contour of the moving object in a predetermined image slice as a starting contour, contour tracking in a first time direction to acquire a first contour of the moving object and contour tracking in a second time direction to acquire a second contour of the moving object in each image slice; a contour comparison section for calculating, in the predetermined image slice, a similarity between the first contour and the initial contour and a similarity between the second contour and the initial contour; and a contour correction section for taking the contours in the image slices that are acquired in a contour tracking direction corresponding to the greater one of the two similarities as the contours of the moving object in the respective image slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yanhua Wang, Chao Cong, Yanli Wang, Shaobin Wang, Qiuying Dong
  • Publication number: 20140334687
    Abstract: A medical image analysis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an area motion analysis section and an object motion analysis section. The area motion analysis section configured to carry out a motion analysis on an area including an adjacent tissue of an object in a dynamic image to obtain the motion vector of the adjacent tissue. The object motion analysis section configured to determine the motion vector of the object based on the motion vector of the adjacent tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Minfeng Xu, Chao Cong, Hong Yang
  • Publication number: 20130184570
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a moving object contour extraction apparatus includes a contour acquisition unit and a contour correction unit. The contour acquisition unit is configured to acquire a contour of a moving object in each image slice. The contour correction unit is configured to correct the contours of the moving object in image slices of at least one image slice time series based on motion trend information of the moving object in each of a plurality of image slice time series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yanhua WANG, Chao Cong, Yanli Wang, Shaobin Wang
  • Publication number: 20130182935
    Abstract: A moving object contour tracking apparatus includes a contour tracking section for performing, by taking an initial contour of the moving object in a predetermined image slice as a starting contour, contour tracking in a first time direction to acquire a first contour of the moving object and contour tracking in a second time direction to acquire a second contour of the moving object in each image slice; a contour comparison section for calculating, in the predetermined image slice, a similarity between the first contour and the initial contour and a similarity between the second contour and the initial contour; and a contour correction section for taking the contours in the image slices that are acquired in a contour tracking direction corresponding to the greater one of the two similarities as the contours of the moving object in the respective image slices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yanhua WANG, Chao CONG, Yanli WANG, Shaobin WANG, Qiuying DONG