Patents by Inventor Fan Chen

Fan Chen 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: 12768210
    Abstract: Provided is a damping hinge for controlled closing of a door or gate. The damping hinge includes a first clamp plate configured to be mounted to a fixed supporting panel; a second clamp plate configured to be mounted to a panel of the door or gate, wherein the second clamp plate is connected with the first clamp plate for relative rotation about a hinge axis; and a damping mechanism arranged on one of the first clamp plate and the second clamp plate and including a damper arranged substantially parallel to the hinge axis and configured to retard or control relative rotation of the second clamp plate towards the first clamp plate during closing of the hinge. The damping mechanism may be arranged such that the damping mechanism is located outside of a plane of the respective panel and adjacent or next to an outer or facing surface of that panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: FUZHOU AUTRAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Xue, Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 12762988
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a source driver IC, a mode control method and a display device. The source driver IC is connected to a timing controller, and the source driver IC includes a state detection module, a logic control module and a first mode control module. The state detection module is configured to detect whether a lock signal output by the source driver IC to the timing controller is switched from a first level to a second level. The logic control module is configured to control the first mode control module to enable a first recognition mode to perform a first correctness check on a driving information of one or more image frames when the lock signal is switched from the first level to the second level; and control the first mode control module to disable the first recognition mode after a target condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Chen, Kaiyu Liu, Qianqian Lv, Xianli Shang, Haiqi Mo, Fan Chen, Xiaoying Guo, Jianjiao Wang
  • Publication number: 20260264986
    Abstract: There is provided a method of forming an association between a mobile terminal and a first autonomous vehicle. When such an association is made then the display of the first autonomous vehicle is mirrored on the mobile terminal. After one or more tasks gave been performed then the mobile terminal will be associated with a second mobile terminal and the display of the second autonomous vehicle will be mirrored on the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Inventors: Fan CHEN, Theepan YOGANATHAN
  • Publication number: 20260245274
    Abstract: A computing system receives a user query and inputs the user query into a language model to generate domain-specific language code based on the user query. The system then generates a subgraph based on the domain-specific language code, assembles the subgraph into a package, and generates a visual effect by executing the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Publication date: August 20, 2026
    Inventors: Yulei NIU, Fan CHEN, Lexin TANG, Xinyao WANG, Longyin WEN
  • Publication number: 20260220843
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, a computer readable storage medium, and a computer program product for image editing based on an editing instruction using an editing model. In the solution, a model input comprising an original image and an editing instruction may be input into a trained editing model to obtain a model output which comprises an edited image corresponding to the model input. The trained editing model is determined based on a training dataset comprising a plurality of positive and negative sample pairs, where a positive sample in a positive and negative sample pair comprises original sample data, a right instruction, and edited sample data, and a negative sample in the positive and negative sample pair comprises the original sample data, a wrong instruction, and the edited sample data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Ming Li, Sijie Zhu, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen
  • Publication number: 20260188160
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a display control method. The display device includes a power supply system, a detector and a source driver IC. The power supply system is configured to provide a common voltage and a data driving voltage for the source driver IC. The detector is configured to detect whether there are multiple continuous frames of black data in display data output by the source driver IC, and send a display control signal to the source driver IC when the multiple continuous frames of the black data exist. The source driver IC is configured to short to the common voltage according to the display control signal when the display device displays a first frame of the black data, and access the data driving voltage according to the display control signal when the display device displays a last frame of the black data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2025
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng CHEN, Kaiyu LIU, Qianqian LV, Fan CHEN, Xianli SHANG, Haiqi MO, Jianjiao WANG, Xiaoying GUO
  • Publication number: 20260188172
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a source driver IC, a mode control method and a display device. The source driver IC is connected to a timing controller, and the source driver IC includes a state detection module, a logic control module and a first mode control module. The state detection module is configured to detect whether a lock signal output by the source driver IC to the timing controller is switched from a first level to a second level. The logic control module is configured to control the first mode control module to enable a first recognition mode to perform a first correctness check on a driving information of one or more image frames when the lock signal is switched from the first level to the second level; and control the first mode control module to disable the first recognition mode after a target condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng CHEN, Kaiyu LIU, Qianqian LV, Xianli SHANG, Haiqi MO, Fan CHEN, Xiaoying GUO, Jianjiao WANG
  • Publication number: 20260155158
    Abstract: Examples are provided relating to system evolving architectures for refining media content editing systems. One aspect includes a method of refining a media content editing architecture, the method comprising: editing a media content using a large language model and a back-end tool service comprising a prompt pool and a plurality of application programming interfaces corresponding to a plurality of editing tools; publishing the edited media content; storing contextual information relating to the editing of the media content; and refining the media content editing architecture using the stored contextual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Fan Chen, Kin Chung Wong
  • Publication number: 20260112156
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for long video understanding. One of the methods includes obtaining a video; extracting frames from the video; encoding the extracted frames; extracting multimodal features including encoding speech content from the video as a text modality; encoding spatiotemporal dependencies between the extracted frames and aligned multi-modal features; providing the encoded temporal dependencies to a language model (LM) that learns spatiotemporal understanding of the entire video content; and using the language model to respond to user queries about the content of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Guang Chen, Dawei Du, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen, Ye Yuan, Wen Zhong, Sijie Zhu, Chia-Wen Kuo, Ziaohui Shen
  • Publication number: 20260093934
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method, an apparatus, a device and a computer readable storage medium for generating data. The method proposed herein includes: obtaining a first feature representation by sampling from a target feature space, the target feature space being determined by processing a set of training samples with an encoding unit; processing the first feature representation with a diffusion unit to determine a second feature representation; and providing a second feature representation to a pre-trained language model to generate a target data sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventors: Ying Zhou, Xinyao Wang, Yulei Niu, Yaojie Shen, Lexin Tang, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen
  • Publication number: 20260093978
    Abstract: The present application discloses a model training method, an image editing method, an apparatus, a device, a medium, and a product. The method includes: first acquiring an original image, an editing description text corresponding to the original image, an edited image corresponding to the original image with respect to the editing description text, and evaluation information of the edited image, enabling the evaluation information to describe the state of the edited image in at least one evaluation item. Then the original image, the editing description text and the evaluation information by using an image editing model are processed to obtain an image editing result corresponding to the original image. According to the difference between the image editing result and the edited image, the image editing model is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventors: Xin GU, Sijie ZHU, Fan CHEN, Longyin WEN
  • Publication number: 20260094056
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for improving efficiency and flexibility of a machine learning model. A machine learning model is configured to decompose self-attention in the machine learning model into a plurality of attention operations. The machine learning model is configured to process information from a plurality of modalities. Concatenated tokens are received by the machine learning model. The concatenated tokens comprise multimodal tokens representative of a content item and textual tokens indicative of a text query. Updated multimodal tokens for a next layer of computation are generated by performing diagonal-attention on the multimodal tokens. Updated textual tokens for the next layer of computation are generated by performing self-attention on the textual tokens and performing cross-attention between the multimodal tokens and the textual tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventors: Chia-Wen Kuo, Sijie Zhu, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen
  • Patent number: 12589786
    Abstract: A method is provided for shunting route setting of a centralized traffic control system. The method includes S1, acquiring a shunting operation plan from an interface of a SMIS and generating a shunting route sequence, by a centralized traffic control system; S2, adding an operation direction, a location identifier of a shunter, a current control mode of the shunter and a description of a next route based on an original shunter number of the centralized traffic control system; S3, configuring a manual setting mode and an automatic triggering mode for shunting route setting; S4, adding identifiers of the manual setting mode and the automatic triggering mode to shunter number display; and S5, in the manual setting mode, adding a shunting plan constraint state and a free setting state to a shunting route setting logic of the centralized traffic control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: CASCO SIGNAL LTD.
    Inventors: Fan Chen, Baowei Tang, Ruyue Wang, Gang Wang, Yuehua Zhai, Zhenguo Feng
  • Publication number: 20260065670
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for generating video descriptions using a machine learning model. A plurality of sets of visual tokens corresponding to a plurality of frames of a video is generated. A first type of tokens is generated by implementing temporal pooling on the plurality of sets of visual tokens corresponding to the plurality of frames. A second type of tokens is generated by compressing each of the plurality of sets of visual tokens corresponding to each of the plurality of frames. A third type of tokens is generated by applying cross-attention between each of the plurality of sets of visual tokens and a fourth type of tokens including text tokens generated based on an input text query. A text description of the video is generated based on the first type of tokens, the second type of tokens, the third type of tokens, and the fourth type of tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: Lu Xu, Sijie Zhu, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen
  • Publication number: 20260065036
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method, an apparatus, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for training a generative model. The method includes: constructing a training prompt; and performing a plurality of rounds of iterative training based on the training prompt, wherein each round of iterative training includes: obtaining a plurality of response contents generated by the generative model based on the training prompt; determining a first response content and a second response content from the plurality of response contents based on evaluation information of the plurality of response contents, wherein an evaluation of the first response content is superior to an evaluation of the second response content; and adjusting a parameter of the generative model to increase a first probability of outputting the first response content and reduce a second probability of outputting the second response content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: Yaojie Shen, Xinyao Wang, Yulei Niu, Ying Zhou, Lexin Tang, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen
  • Publication number: 20260065525
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, device, and computer-readable storage medium for image processing are provided. The method includes receiving a text input for an initial image, the text input describing a visual effect for the initial image. A fusion feature for the text input and the initial image is generated based on the text input and the initial image. A target image corresponding to the initial image is generated based on a first image feature of the initial image and the fusion feature, the target image having a visual element related to the visual effect. The fusion of text and image can better express the desired visual effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: Xin Gu, Sijie Zhu, Fan Chen, Longyin Wen
  • Publication number: 20260065872
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The driving method includes the following steps: simultaneously controlling switches of an M-th row of sub-pixels and a (M+2)-th row of sub-pixels to be turned on or off, and sequentially controlling switches of four adjacent rows of the same color sub-pixels to be turned on or off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuming CHANG, Yoongu KIM, Xintian SU, Jiajia CHEN, Xiaoying GUO, Qiqi LIN, Fan CHEN, Lina WANG
  • Patent number: 12548597
    Abstract: Examples are provided relating to system evolving architectures for refining media content editing systems. One aspect includes a method of refining a media content editing architecture, the method comprising: editing a media content using a large language model and a back-end tool service comprising a prompt pool and a plurality of application programming interfaces corresponding to a plurality of editing tools; publishing the edited media content; storing contextual information relating to the editing of the media content; and refining the media content editing architecture using the stored contextual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: Lemon Inc.
    Inventors: Fan Chen, Kin Chung Wong
  • Patent number: 12542086
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the scan lines is electrically connected to a row of the sub-pixels. The plurality of sub-pixels include a first pixel column and a second pixel column. The first pixel column and the second pixel column are arranged adjacent to each other. The first pixel column includes a plurality of first pixel units. The second pixel column includes a plurality of second pixel units. Each of the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit includes three sub-pixels, and colors of the three sub-pixels are different. At least two adjacent first pixel units and at least two adjacent second pixel units are electrically connected to a same data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuming Chang, Yating Wen, Weisheng Zheng, Yuning Zhang, Qian Wang, Shijie Deng, Zhaoming Liang, Fan Chen
  • Patent number: 12530768
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image storage. The methods may include obtaining a first image of a subject. The methods may further include obtaining a second image of the subject. The second image may include scan status information of the subject. The scan status information may be associated with a status of the subject when the first image is acquired. And The methods may also include storing the second image correspondingly with the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Bu, Fan Chen