Patents by Inventor FEIYU CHEN

FEIYU 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: 11756309
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network using contrastive learning. One of the methods includes obtaining a network input representing an environment; processing the network input using a first subnetwork of the neural network to generate a respective embedding for each location in the environment; processing the embeddings for each location in the environment using a second subnetwork of the neural network to generate a respective object prediction for each location; determining, for each of a plurality of pairs of the plurality of locations in the environment, whether the respective object predictions of the pair of locations characterize the same possible object or different possible objects; computing a respective contrastive loss value for each of the plurality of pairs of locations; and updating values for a plurality of parameters of the first subnetwork using the computed contrastive loss values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Alper Ayvaci, Feiyu Chen, Justin Yu Zheng, Bayram Safa Cicek, Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev
  • Publication number: 20220164585
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network using contrastive learning. One of the methods includes obtaining a network input representing an environment; processing the network input using a first subnetwork of the neural network to generate a respective embedding for each location in the environment; processing the embeddings for each location in the environment using a second subnetwork of the neural network to generate a respective object prediction for each location; determining, for each of a plurality of pairs of the plurality of locations in the environment, whether the respective object predictions of the pair of locations characterize the same possible object or different possible objects; computing a respective contrastive loss value for each of the plurality of pairs of locations; and updating values for a plurality of parameters of the first subnetwork using the computed contrastive loss values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Alper Ayvaci, Feiyu Chen, Justin Yu Zheng, Bayram Safa Cicek, Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev
  • Patent number: 11085988
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes steps of acquiring by an MRI scanner undersampled magnetic-field-gradient-encoded k-space data; performing a self-calibration of a magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function using a first neural network to estimate systematic waveform errors from the k-space data, and computing the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function from the systematic waveform errors; reconstructing an image using a second neural network from the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function and the k-space data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Feiyu Chen, Christopher Michael Sandino, Joseph Yitan Cheng, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20200300957
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes steps of acquiring by an MRI scanner undersampled magnetic-field-gradient-encoded k-space data; performing a self-calibration of a magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function using a first neural network to estimate systematic waveform errors from the k-space data, and computing the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function from the systematic waveform errors; reconstructing an image using a second neural network from the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function and the k-space data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Feiyu Chen, Christopher Michael Sandino, Joseph Yitan Cheng, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Patent number: 10740931
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging performs unsupervised training of a deep neural network of an MRI apparatus using a training set of under-sampled MRI scans, where each scan comprises slices of under-sampled, unclassified k-space MRI measurements. The MRI apparatus performs an under-sampled scan to produce under-sampled k-space data, updates the deep neural network with the under-sampled scan, and processes the under-sampled k-space data by the updated deep neural network of the MRI apparatus to reconstruct a final MRI image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Joseph Y. Cheng, Feiyu Chen, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20200105031
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging performs unsupervised training of a deep neural network of an MRI apparatus using a training set of under-sampled MRI scans, where each scan comprises slices of under-sampled, unclassified k-space MRI measurements. The MRI apparatus performs an under-sampled scan to produce under-sampled k-space data, updates the deep neural network with the under-sampled scan, and processes the under-sampled k-space data by the updated deep neural network of the MRI apparatus to reconstruct a final MRI image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph Y. Cheng, Feiyu Chen, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Patent number: 10520573
    Abstract: A method for performing wave-encoded magnetic resonance imaging of an object is provided. The method includes applying one or more wave-encoded magnetic gradients to the object, and acquiring MR signals from the object. The method further includes calibrating a wave point-spread function, and reconstructing an image from the MR signals based at least in part on the calibrated wave point-spread function. Calibration of the wave point-spread function is based at least in part on one or more intermediate images generated from the MR signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Feiyu Chen, Tao Zhang, Joseph Y. Cheng, Valentina Taviani, Brian Hargreaves, John Pauly, Shreyas Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20180234248
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first electronic device, and a second electronic device that monitors a state of the first electronic device. The first electronic device includes a transmitter that transmits a first frame including a first verification value forming a Hash chain to a bus network. The second electronic device includes a storage unit that stores the first verification value included in the first frame received from the bus network. The transmitter transmits, after transmission of the first frame, a second frame including a second verification value forming the Hash chain to the bus network. The second electronic device further includes a determination unit that determines that the state of the first electronic device is normal when the second verification value included in the second frame received from the bus network and the first verification value stored in the storage unit construct the Hash chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: YOSHIHARU IMAMOTO, JUN ANZAI, KAZUYA FUJIMURA, MASATO TANABE, KOUJI KOBAYASHI, FEIYU CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180143277
    Abstract: A method for performing wave-encoded magnetic resonance imaging of an object is provided. The method includes applying one or more wave-encoded magnetic gradients to the object, and acquiring MR signals from the object. The method further includes calibrating a wave point-spread function, and reconstructing an image from the MR signals based at least in part on the calibrated wave point-spread function. Calibration of the wave point-spread function is based at least in part on one or more intermediate images generated from the MR signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicants: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: FEIYU CHEN, TAO ZHANG, JOSEPH Y. CHENG, VALENTINA TAVIANI, BRIAN HARGREAVES, JOHN PAULY, SHREYAS VASANAWALA