Patents by Inventor Chunchao Qi

Chunchao Qi 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: 11017219
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and a device for human body gender detection in a microwave image. The structure feature of a human body itself as well as the constructed vertical direction spatial distribution histogram and horizontal direction spatial distribution histogram are used to accurately locate the chest position and the crotch position of the human body. A human body chest subimage is extracted according to the chest position, and a human body crotch subimage is extracted according to the crotch position. Then, the feature values of the human body chest subimage and the human body crotch subimage are respectively extracted by a feature value extraction algorithm, and the human body gender is automatically identified according to the feature values. The technical solution of this invention is simple, and after experimental verification, can be effectively applied in actual microwave security check system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN VICTOOTH TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Zhiquan Li, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Patent number: 11009601
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a monitoring method, a monitoring system and a control device for a human-body security-inspection device. The monitoring method includes: collecting operation parameters of preset monitoring points in target circuit modules of the human-body security-inspection device; obtaining parameter ranges according to module identifiers of the target circuit modules and monitoring-point identifiers of the preset monitoring points, wherein the parameter ranges are associated with the module identifiers and the monitoring-point identifiers respectively; determining whether the operation parameters are in the parameter ranges respectively, and then determining location information of a fault point according to the module identifiers and the monitoring-point identifiers if any of the operation parameters is not in a corresponding parameter range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Rong Wang, Xiongwei Huang, Chao Sun, Xiaoxiang Hou
  • Patent number: 10969485
    Abstract: A servo rotary scanning system of three-dimensional holographic imaging may include a servomotor (20) having a first angle sensor (21), a second angle sensor (30), a control component (40), a servo driver (50) and a rotary frame (10), the servo rotary scanning system of three-dimensional holographic imaging is a full-closed loop servo control system, the second angle sensor (30) detects an actual rotating angle of the rotary frame (10) and feeds back a frame feedback signal to the control component (40), an instruction signal in the control component (40) is compared with the frame feedback signal to generate a following error, the first angle sensor (21) detects an output rotating angle of the servomotor (20) and feeds back a motor feedback signal to the servo driver (50), and the servo driver (50) controls the servomotor (20) to rotate according to the following error and the motor feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20210088649
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave real-time imaging based safety inspection system and safety inspection method. The safety inspection system includes a conveying device (10), a millimeter wave transceiver module (11), an antenna array (17, 18), a switch array (16a, 16b), a switch control unit (15a, 15b), a quadrature demodulation and data acquisition module (12), and an image display unit (13). By using an Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imaging principle, the millimeter-wave real-time imaging based safety inspection system performs real-time imaging on an object to be inspected when the object moves, so that not only the imaging speed is improved, but also the field of view is enlarged. A safety inspector can determine whether an inspected person carries dangerous goods by observing a three-dimensional diagram of the inspected person, thereby eliminating the inconvenience caused by back-and-forth movement of a safety inspection device used by the safety inspector around the inspected person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Chengyan JIA, Yupeng LI
  • Patent number: 10928547
    Abstract: A terahertz security check method and system may include: a terahertz scanning device collecting a terahertz original image of a human body under test, and sending the same to a central server that identifies the terahertz original image, and determines whether the human body under test carries an article. If so, the image is marked with the position of the article and sent to a monitoring terminal. The monitoring terminal correspondingly marking the position of the article on a pre-stored human body cartoon image, and displaying the terahertz original images before and after marking to monitoring personnel, so that the monitoring personnel determine whether the central server has an identification error; and if so, the monitoring terminal changing a marker on the human body cartoon image, and sending the changed cartoon image to a client of security check personnel for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Tiansheng Zhang, Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10884116
    Abstract: A human-body foreign-matter detection method and system based on millimeter-wave image. The method comprises: obtaining a millimeter-wave grayscale image of a human body; extracting a human-body contour image in the millimeter-wave grayscale image; constructing a vertical space distribution histogram in a vertical direction and a horizontal space distribution histogram in a horizontal direction for the human-body contour image; obtaining positions of limbs of the human body according to the vertical space distribution histogram, the horizontal space distribution histogram and a pre-set human-body proportion model; identifying a foreign matter in the human-body contour image according to pre-set foreign-matter feature identification models; and marking a position of the foreign matter on the human-body contour image according to the positions of the limbs, and generating a foreign-matter detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Hanjiang Chen, Zhiquan Li
  • Patent number: 10877460
    Abstract: A security check instrument motion control system includes an FPGA control chip that receives motion instructions, comprising angle, direction, speed and the like, from an upper computer via an upper computer communication module, realizes quick control to a rotation motion module, and controls a motion state of the rotation motion module according to real-time motion information of the rotation motion module detected by a positioning detection module. The motion state includes a motion stop state and a normal rotation state. The FPGA control chip detects the working state of each module in the security check instrument motion control system in real time, and once the security check instrument motion control system has a fault, each module can be subjected to debugging, repairing and maintenance respectively. If the positioning detection module detects that the rotation motion module is abnormal, the FPGA control chip controls the rotation motion module to stop moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rong Wang, Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200333504
    Abstract: A millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection method, comprising: acquiring a millimeter wave gray scale image of a human body; according to a pre-determined foreign object imaging characteristic, extracting from the millimeter wave gray scale image a foreign object area image; according to a pre-determined foreign object image recognition algorithm, performing calculations on the foreign object area image, and acquiring a foreign object image from the foreign object area image; displaying the foreign object image as a foreign object detection result. Also provided is a millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Zhiquan Li, Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10795015
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a scanning apparatus and a security-inspection device with the same. The scanning apparatus include: at least one millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module, wherein the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module include a plurality of millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units each having a signal terminal facing the predetermined scanning area, and a dustproof film covering the signal terminal of each of the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units. The scanning mechanism is simple in structure, more convenient for maintenance, and has a lower cost. When each millimeter-wave transceiving antenna unit emits and receives millimeter waves, the millimeter waves pass through the dustproof film without passing through the organic glass, and the attenuation of the millimeter wave signal is small, thereby improving the 3D imaging effect of the security-inspection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Rong Wang, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200220261
    Abstract: An electrically scanned array antenna device applied to a millimeter wave imaging system is provided. The electrically scanned array antenna device comprises an adjustable light source for outputting an optical signal with an adjustable wavelength; an electro-optical modulation module; an optocouple; a time delay module for performing optical delay of different duration on each modulated signal, and correspondingly changing the duration of the optical delay according to the wavelength of the optical signal to obtain modulated signals of different phases; an optical detector; and an array antenna. The millimeter wave is loaded on the optical signal with an adjustable wavelength to obtain a modulated signal; the modulated signal is divided into multiple signals; time delay of different duration is performed on each signal; and millimeter wave signals of different phases are obtained after demodulation and are simultaneously transmitted to scan an object to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Zhihui Feng, Chunchao Qi, Hanjiang Chen, Rong Wang, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10706552
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for detecting concealed dangerous objects in microwave images. The method includes: simultaneously processes multiple adjacent microwave images, obtains edge images of a single image by using two methods for each image, obtains dangerous-object edges of the single image by edge fitting operation, obtains a rough dangerous-object contour by performing a registration operation and a second edge fitting operation on the dangerous-object edges of the multiple images, and performs a regional-binarization operation and a filtering on the rough dangerous-object contour to obtain a second dangerous-object area. The present disclosure has high detection accuracy and calculation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Yanli Liu, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200150265
    Abstract: A close-range microwave imaging method includes: implementing Fourier transform in a pre-set rotation axis direction on an echo signal reflected from a target object and acquired by rotating an array antenna around the pre-set rotation axis to obtain a first echo signal, wherein the first echo signal is represented in polar coordinates; multiplying the first echo signal by a pre-set reference function to obtain a second echo signal; converting the second echo signal into rectangular coordinates by a pre-set algorithm to obtain a third echo signal; and implementing three-dimensional Fourier transform on the third echo signal to obtain three-dimensional image data of the target object. By means of the method, three-dimensional image data of a target object can be obtained fast, fast imaging of the target object can be realized, the data processing amount is small, the imaging precision is high and the method is easy to implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Shenzhen Vlctooth Terahertz Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Guangsheng WU, Shukai ZHAO, Qian XIAO, Aixian WANG
  • Publication number: 20200142053
    Abstract: Provided are a direct wave suppression method and system for a microwave imaging system. The method includes a series of filtering operations, such as conversion from a frequency domain to a time domain, filtering, conversion from the time domain to the frequency domain, and cancellation subtraction, on an echo signal set composed of echo signals obtained by a vertical linear array antenna at all the equivalent antenna collection positions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qian Xiao, Aixian Wang
  • Publication number: 20200142030
    Abstract: An amplitude-phase correction method and system for a microwave imaging system are provided. The method comprises: carrying out data processing, in a range direction, on an echo signal reflected from a target object and acquired by a linear array antenna according to a first pre-set algorithm to obtain a compressed signal in the range direction; extracting a range value corresponding to the maximum amplitude, in the range direction, of the compressed signal in the range direction; carrying out time delay compensation on the echo signal according to the range value to obtain a time-delay-compensated signal; carrying out data processing on the time-delay-compensated signal according to a second pre-set algorithm to obtain an amplitude-phase signal; and carrying out amplitude-phase correction on the echo signal according to the time-delay-compensated signal and the amplitude-phase signal to obtain a corrected echo signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qian Xiao, Aixian Wang
  • Publication number: 20200054236
    Abstract: A security check method includes: pre-creating at least four concurrently operating threads, one thread being responsible for movement control and data acquisition, one thread being responsible for imaging processing, one thread being responsible for interface displaying, and one thread being responsible for target detection and recognition; then the four concurrently operating threads divide original echo data of a human body to be checked into data of a plurality of adjacent overlapped azimuthal segments during data processing and perform individual processing on the data of each azimuthal segment. The security check system includes a thread creating unit, a first thread parallel unit, a second thread parallel unit, a third thread parallel unit, a fourth thread parallel unit, and a thread loop control unit. Because subsequent data processing is not required to be performed after the acquisition of all data is completed, the time for a security check process is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Aixian WANG, Hanjiang CHEN, Tiansheng ZHANG, Zhihui FENG, Hu YUAN, Shukai ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200041691
    Abstract: A GPU-based human body microwave echo simulation method includes: transmitting emulation input parameters from the memory of a CPU host into the display memory of a GPU device; configuring, at the CPU host, parallel computing network parameters to be run at the GPU device; initiating a kernel function for human body microwave echo simulation preset in the CPU host; computing the kernel function in parallel, in a plurality of processing kernels of the GPU device, in a multi-threaded manner, according to the parallel computing network parameters, to obtain simulation echoes of human body microwaves; transmitting the obtained simulation echoes of human body microwaves from the GPU device back to the CPU host. The method makes full use of the characteristic that a GPU can perform parallel computing to accelerate the echo simulation process, greatly improving the real-time performance of echo simulation of a human body microwave scanning and imaging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Aixian WANG, Hanjiang CHEN, Xiongwei HUANG, Yanli LIU, Chengyan JIA, Shukai ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200042779
    Abstract: A human body gender automatic recognition method includes: acquiring a current millimeter wave grayscale image, and determining gender part region positions of a human body in the millimeter wave grayscale image according to a pre-set body proportion; extracting a region sub-image corresponding to the gender part region position; performing dimension normalization on the region sub-image to obtain the region sub-image after normalization; performing feature information extraction on the region sub-image after normalization to obtain feature information about the region sub-image after normalization; recognizing the millimeter wave grayscale image by means of each pre-set classifier, and respectively outputting results; and integrating the output results to obtain a classification recognition result of the millimeter wave grayscale image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Yanli Liu, Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng WU, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Patent number: 10551490
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a security inspection system and method using the three-dimensional holographic imaging technology. The system comprises: a body frame; a millimeter-wave transceiving module, disposed on the body frame; and at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays, connected with the millimeter-wave transceiving module; the number of the millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays being the same as that of the scan areas; a scan driving device, configured to drive the at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays to rotate along the same direction; a control device, configured to control the scan driving device to generate a rotation angle signal; and a parallel-image processing module, configured to synthesize a three-dimensional holographic image of an under-test object according to echo signals collected by the millimeter-wave transceiving module and spatial position information of the echo signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Chao Sun, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20190391531
    Abstract: A human body security check system based on millimeter wave holographic three-dimensional imaging, comprising a mechanical scanning mechanism, millimeter wave signal transceiver units, an image processing unit (7), and an alarm unit (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Shukai ZHAO, Juncheng LIU, Guangsheng WU, Qing DING, Chengyan JIA, Beibei LIU, Yandong ZHANG, Yanli LIU
  • Publication number: 20190353776
    Abstract: A millimeter wave imaging apparatus includes a crystal oscillator, a power divider, a millimeter wave transceiver unit, a local-oscillation signal processing unit, a second frequency mixer and an image processing device; the power divider performs power distribution on an oscillation signal generated by the crystal oscillator, and outputs a clock trigger signal and a local-oscillation signal; the local-oscillation signal processing device processes the local-oscillation signal and outputs a second local-oscillation signal; the millimeter wave transceiver unit processes an echo signal reflected by an object to be detected, and outputs a first intermediate-frequency signal; the second frequency mixer mixes the second local-oscillation signal and the first intermediate-frequency signal, and outputs a second intermediate-frequency signal; the image processing module processes the second intermediate-frequency signal, and images the object to be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: China Commuunication Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juncheng LIU, Chao SUN, Chunchao QI