Patents by Inventor Cong Zhou

Cong Zhou 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: 20220335925
    Abstract: Novel methods and systems for adapting a voice cloning synthesizer for a new speaker using real speech data are disclosed. Utterances from one or more target speakers are parameterized and are used to initialize an embedding vector for use with a voice synthesizer, by means of clustering the utterance data and determining the centroid of the data, using a speaker identification neural network, and/or by finding the closest stored embedded vector to the utterance data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cong ZHOU, Xiaoyu LIU, Michael Getty HORGAN, Vivek Kumar
  • Publication number: 20220168527
    Abstract: A method and device for developing an automated digital cloning method to create an accurate, predictive and personalized virtual patient model enabling personalized precision mechanical ventilation care.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: James Geoffrey Chase, Cong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11271349
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including a housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing, the housing having a base and a front tongue; a metallic shell enclosing the housing; and a metallic bracket affixed to the metallic shell and having a pair of soldering legs; wherein the base has a front face and plural recesses behind the front face, each recess having an interior face; and the metallic shell has plural stops accommodated in corresponding recesses, each stop having a front face positioned in front of the front face of the base and a rear face spaced a gap from the interior face of a corresponding recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shao-Cong Zhou, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11215404
    Abstract: A heat transfer tube includes a twisted baffle arranged in an inner wall of the tube. The twisted baffle extends spirally along an axial direction of the heat transfer tube. The twisted baffle is provided with a non-through gap extending along an axial direction of the heat transfer tube from an end to the other end of the twisted baffle. A cracking furnace uses the heat transfer tube. The heat transfer tube and cracking furnace have good heat transfer effects and small pressure loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guoqing Wang, Lijun Zhang, Xianfeng Zhou, Junjie Liu, Zhiguo Du, Yonggang Zhang, Zhaobin Zhang, Cong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210376803
    Abstract: Radio frequency amplifier (200) assembly with effective prevention of RF interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: KEQIU ZENG, CONG ZHOU, YUANXU DING, JUNGYANG ZHANG, JUN MA
  • Patent number: 11139879
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining precoding. The method includes configuring, by a first communication node, configuration information for a second communication node; transmitting the configuration information to the second communication mode; and the configuration information includes: first configuration information and second configuration information. Further provided is a device for determining precoding, an electronic device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yong Li, Zhaohua Lu, Chuangxin Jiang, Yijian Chen, Yu Ngok Li, Hao Wu, Jianxing Cai, Yuxin Wang, Huahua Xiao, Cong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210190442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of fluid heat transfer, and discloses a heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as a cracking furnace and an atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same. The heat transfer enhancement pipe (1) includes a pipe body (10) of tubular shape having an inlet (100) for entering of a fluid and an outlet (101) for said fluid to flow out; internal wall of the pipe body (10) is provided with a fin (11) protruding towards interior of the pipe body (10), wherein the fin (11) has one or more fin sections extending spirally in the axial direction of the pipe body (10), and each fin section has a first end surface facing the inlet (100) and a second end surface facing the outlet (101), at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface of at least one of the rib sections is formed as a transition surface along spirally extending direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Guoqing WANG, Junjie LIU, Lijun ZHANG, Cong ZHOU, Zhaobin ZHANG, Shasha YANG, Dongfa SHEN, Xiaofeng LI, Shifang YANG, Zhiguo DU, Yonggang ZHANG, Ying SHI, Jinghang GUO
  • Patent number: 11042451
    Abstract: A method for recovering modified data lost from cache includes maintaining, in a cache of a primary storage system, a destage data structure indicating which modified data in the cache has been destaged. The method further maintains, in cache of a secondary storage system, a change recording data structure indicating which modified data has been replicated from the primary storage system to the secondary storage system. The method further merges the destage data structure with the change recording data structure to yield an updated change recording data structure. In the event modified data in the cache of the primary storage system is lost, the method utilizes the updated change recording data structure to determine which modified data in the secondary storage system is needed to restore the modified data lost from cache at the primary storage system. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Lyu, Yicheng Feng, Feng Shao, Si Cong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210180879
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of fluid heat transfer, and discloses a heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as a cracking furnace and an atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same. The heat transfer enhancement pipe (1) includes a pipe body (10) of tubular shape having an inlet (100) for entering of a fluid and an outlet (101) for said fluid to flow out; the internal wall of the pipe body (10) is provided with a fin (11) protruding towards the interior of the pipe body (10), the fin (11) spirally extends in an axial direction of the pipe body (10), wherein at least one of a heat insulator (14) and a heat insulating layer (17) is provided at the outside of the pipe body (10). The heat transfer enhancement pipe can reduce thermal stress of itself, thereby increasing service life of the heat transfer enhancement pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Guoqing WANG, Junjie LIU, Lijun ZHANG, Cong ZHOU, Zhaobin ZHANG, Shasha YANG, Dongfa SHEN, Xiaofeng LI, Shifang YANG, Zhiguo DU, Yonggang ZHANG, Ying SHI, Jinghang GUO
  • Patent number: 10979613
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically positioning a content capturing device are disclosed. A vehicle, e.g., an UAV, carries the content capturing device, e.g., a camcorder. The UAV can position the content capturing device at a best location for viewing a subject based on one or more audio or visual cues. The UAV can follow movement of the subject to achieve best audio or visual effect. In some implementations, a controller device carried by the subject can generate one or more signals for the UAV to follow. The controller device may be coupled to a microphone that records audio. The signals can be used to temporally synchronize video captured at the UAV and audio captured by the microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Timo Kunkel, Cong Zhou, Vivek Kumar, Remi S. Audfray
  • Publication number: 20210044061
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including a housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing, the housing having a base and a front tongue; a metallic shell enclosing the housing; and a metallic bracket affixed to the metallic shell and having a pair of soldering legs; wherein the base has a front face and plural recesses behind the front face, each recess having an interior face; and the metallic shell has plural stops accommodated in corresponding recesses, each stop having a front face positioned in front of the front face of the base and a rear face spaced a gap from the interior face of a corresponding recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: SHAO-CONG ZHOU, JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10910756
    Abstract: An electrical connector for inserting along a mating direction into a receiving space of a complementary connector through an insertion hole of an electronic device that has a dimension greater than that of the receiving space includes: an insulative housing; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing; and an outer shell enclosing the insulative housing, the outer shell including a front portion and a rear portion each having a respective lateral dimension measured along a transverse direction perpendicular to the mating direction, wherein the lateral dimension of the rear portion is greater than the lateral dimension of the front portion, the front portion is adapted to match the receiving space of the complementary connector and the rear portion is adapted to match the insertion hole of the electronic device, and the lateral dimension of the rear portion is less than the electronic device insertion hole dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Shao-Cong Zhou
  • Patent number: 10901652
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for tracking heat values. The method includes monitoring a first number of access operations to first data in each of a plurality of first source storage units during a cycle. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of first source storage units, calculating a first heat value based on the first number of access operations. Additionally, the method includes, in response to source data being moved from one of the first source storage units to a first target storage unit during the cycle, decreasing a calculated heat value of the one first source storage unit by a first value and increasing a calculated heat value of the first target storage unit by the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Shao, Yicheng Feng, Gang Lyu, Si Cong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210021318
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining precoding. The method includes configuring, by a first communication node, configuration information for a second communication node; transmitting the configuration information to the second communication mode; and the configuration information includes: first configuration information and second configuration information. Further provided is a device for determining precoding, an electronic device and a storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yong LI, Zhaohua LU, Chuangxin JIANG, Yijian CHEN, Yu Ngok LI, Hao WU, Jianxing CAI, Yuxin WANG, Huahua XIAO, Cong ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200410976
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for speech synthesis are provided. A speech synthesizer may be trained to generate synthesized audio data that corresponds to words uttered by a source speaker according to speech characteristics of a target speaker. The speech synthesizer may be trained by time-stamped phoneme sequences, pitch contour data and speaker identification data. The speech synthesizer may include a voice modeling neural network and a conditioning neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cong ZHOU, Michael Getty HORGAN, Vivek KUMAR, Jaime H. MORALES, Cristina Michel VASCO
  • Publication number: 20200341677
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for tracking heat values. The method includes monitoring a first number of access operations to first data in each of a plurality of first source storage units during a cycle. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of first source storage units, calculating a first heat value based on the first number of access operations. Additionally, the method includes, in response to source data being moved from one of the first source storage units to a first target storage unit during the cycle, decreasing a calculated heat value of the one first source storage unit by a first value and increasing a calculated heat value of the first target storage unit by the first value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Feng Shao, Yicheng Feng, GANG LYU, Si Cong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200326141
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of fluid heat transfer, and discloses a heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as a cracking furnace and an atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same. The heat transfer enhancement pipe (1) includes a pipe body (10) of tubular shape having an inlet (100) for entering of a fluid and an outlet (101) for said fluid to flow out; internal wall of the pipe body (10) is provided with a fin (11) protruding towards interior of the pipe body (10), the fin (11) spirally extends in an axial direction of the pipe body (10), wherein a height of the fin (11) gradually increases from one end in at least a part extension of the fin. The heat transfer enhancement pipe can reduce thermal stress of itself, thereby increasing service life of the heat transfer enhancement pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Guoqing WANG, Junjie LIU, Lijun ZHANG, Cong ZHOU, Zhaobin ZHANG, Shasha YANG, Dongfa SHEN, Xiaofeng LI, Shifang YANG, Zhiguo DU, Yonggang ZHANG, Ying SHI, Jinghang GUO
  • Patent number: 10804641
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative outer cover and a metallic inner shell insert molded with the insulative outer cover, the inner shell having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a pair of side walls; and a terminal module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing, the insulative housing having a base received by the inner shell and a frontal tongue exposing the upper and lower rows of contacts respectively to two opposite surfaces thereof; wherein the inner shell has a front stop and a rear finger at the top wall respectively engaging a front and rear portions of the base, and the rear finger is situated in a rear chamber of the outer cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shao-Cong Zhou, Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200272364
    Abstract: A method for more efficiently utilizing data compression in block-level storage systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes receiving, by a storage system, I/O operations from a host system. The storage system determines, at a selected interval, a compression rate of data associated with the I/O operations. Using the compression rate determined at the selected interval, the storage system updates an average compression rate. The storage system then determines whether the average compression rate is above a threshold. If the average compression rate is above the threshold, the storage system compresses data associated with I/O operations from the host system. If the average compression rate is not above the threshold, the storage system does not compress data associated with I/O operations from the host system. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Zhao, Dan Liu, Ting Wang, Si Cong Zhou
  • Patent number: 10714877
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including a first unit, a second unit, and a shielding plate between the first and second units, each of the first unit and the second unit having an insulative body and a row of contacts, the insulative body including a rear base and a front tongue; and a shielding shell enclosing the terminal module, wherein the first unit and the second unit have same structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: FUYU ELECTRONICAL TECHNOLOGY (HUAIAN) CO., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shao-Cong Zhou