Patents by Inventor Haiting Li

Haiting Li 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: 10714102
    Abstract: In a stereo encoding method and a stereo encoder, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first determined, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the determined channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20200211575
    Abstract: A method for encoding a multi-channel signal and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial inter-channel time difference (ITD) value of the current frame, controlling, based on characteristic information of the multi-channel signal, a quantity of target frames that are allowed to appear continuously, where the characteristic information includes at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the multi-channel signal or a peak feature of cross correlation coefficients of the multi-channel signal, and an ITD value of a previous frame of the target frame is reused as an ITD value of the target frame, determining an ITD value of the current frame based on the initial ITD value and the quantity of target frames allowed to appear continuously, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the ITD value of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10700663
    Abstract: A resonator may include a first dielectric member, a second dielectric member, and a composite member. The first dielectric member may have a first cavity. The composite member may include a piezoelectric layer and may overlap at least one of the first dielectric member and the second dielectric member. At least one of the second dielectric member and the composite member may have a second cavity. The piezoelectric layer may be positioned between the first cavity and the second cavity. A projection of the first cavity in a direction perpendicular to a flat side of the first dielectric member and a projection of the second cavity in the direction may intersect each other to form a polygon. No two edges of the polygon may be parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, NINGBO SEMICONDUCTOTR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Clifford Ian Drowley, Jiguang Zhu, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 10693431
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus includes: on a base substrate, forming an isolation trench layer, a first dielectric layer, a lower electrode layer and a second dielectric layer; forming a piezoelectric film and an upper electrode layer in an opening in the second dielectric layer; forming a third dielectric layer; forming a first cavity in the third dielectric layer to expose at least part of the upper electrode layer; bonding a first assistant substrate to seal the first cavity; removing a part of the base substrate to expose the isolation trench layer; forming a fourth dielectric layer on a side of the isolation trench; and etching through the fourth dielectric layer, the isolation trench layer, the first dielectric layer to form a second cavity beneath the lower electrode layer, plan views of the first and second cavities providing an overlapped region having a polygon shape without parallel sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, NINGBO SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Clifford Ian Drowley, Jiguang Zhu, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20200194014
    Abstract: Example signal reconstructing method and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a reference sound channel and a target sound channel. An adaptive length of a transition segment is obtained based on an inter-channel time difference in the current frame and an initial length of the transition segment. A transition window in the current frame is obtained based on the adaptive length of the transition segment. A gain modification factor of a reconstructed signal is obtained. A transition segment signal on the target sound channel is obtained based on the inter-channel time difference, the adaptive length of the transition segment, the transition window, the gain modification factor, and a reference sound channel signal and a target sound channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal SHLOMOT, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU
  • Publication number: 20200194015
    Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes determining a window length of an attenuation window based on an inter-channel time difference, determining a modified linear prediction analysis window based on the window length of the attenuation window, where values of at least some points from a point (L?sub_window_len) to a point (L?1) in the modified linear prediction analysis window are less than values of corresponding points from a point (L?sub_window_len) to a point (L?1) in an initial linear prediction analysis window, and the window length of the modified linear prediction analysis window is equal to a window length of the initial linear prediction analysis window, and performing linear prediction analysis on a to-be-processed sound channel signal based on the modified linear prediction analysis window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Jonathan Alastair Gibbs, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 10686422
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus includes: on a base substrate, forming an isolation trench layer, a first dielectric layer, a first metal connecting layer, a piezoelectric film, and an upper electrode layer; forming an acoustic resonance film by patternizing the piezoelectric film, the upper electrode layer, and the first metal connecting layer; above the base substrate, forming a second dielectric layer and a third dielectric layer; forming a first cavity through the third and second dielectric layers, and the protection layer; removing a part of the base substrate to expose the isolation trench layer; forming a fourth dielectric layer under the isolation trench layer; and forming a second cavity through the fourth dielectric layer, the isolation trench layer, and the first dielectric layer, plan views of the first and second cavities forming an overlapped region having a polygon shape without parallel sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, NINGBO SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Clifford Ian Drowley, Jiguang Zhu, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20200175998
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to time-domain stereo parameter encoding methods and apparatus. One example time-domain stereo parameter encoding method includes determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, determining a time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame, and encoding the determined time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame, where the time-domain stereo parameter includes at least one of a channel combination ratio factor or an inter-channel time difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Haiting LI, Bin WANG, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20200175999
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; when the channel combination scheme for the current frame is different from a channel combination scheme for a previous frame, performing segmented time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame and the channel combination scheme for the previous frame, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal in the current frame; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20200176000
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method may include: determining a coding mode of a current frame; when determining that the coding mode of the current frame is an anticorrelated signal coding mode, performing time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame by using a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal, where the time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode is a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to an anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme, and the anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme is a channel combination scheme corresponding to a near out of phase signal; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Haiting LI, Bin WANG, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20200176001
    Abstract: A method for determining an audio coding mode and a related apparatus are provided. The method may include: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, where the determined channel combination scheme for the current frame is one of a plurality of channel combination schemes; and determining a coding mode of the current frame based on a channel combination scheme for a previous frame and the channel combination scheme for the current frame, where the coding mode of the current frame is one of a plurality of coding modes. The technical solutions provided in embodiments of this application help improve encoding quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20200160872
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, and a decoding apparatus for a stereo signal. The encoding method includes: performing interpolation processing based on the inter-channel time difference in the current frame and an inter-channel time difference in a previous frame of the current frame; performing time-domain downmixing processing on the stereo signal after the delay alignment in the current frame, to obtain a primary-channel signal and a secondary-channel signal in the current frame; and quantizing the inter-channel time difference after the interpolation processing in the current frame, the primary channel signal and the secondary channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal SHLOMOT, Haiting LI, Bin WANG
  • Patent number: 10643625
    Abstract: A method for encoding a multi-channel signal and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial inter-channel time difference (ITD) value of the current frame, controlling, based on characteristic information of the multi-channel signal, a quantity of target frames that are allowed to appear continuously, where the characteristic information includes at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the multi-channel signal or a peak feature of cross correlation coefficients of the multi-channel signal, and an ITD value of a previous frame of the target frame is reused as an ITD value of the target frame, determining an ITD value of the current frame based on the initial ITD value and the quantity of target frames allowed to appear continuously, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the ITD value of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20200137504
    Abstract: A delay estimation method includes determining a cross-correlation coefficient of a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining a delay track estimation value of the current frame based on buffered inter-channel time difference information of at least one past frame, determining an adaptive window function of the current frame, performing weighting on the cross-correlation coefficient based on the delay track estimation value of the current frame and the adaptive window function of the current frame, to obtain a weighted cross-correlation coefficient, and determining an inter-channel time difference of the current frame based on the weighted cross-correlation coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20200126571
    Abstract: This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20200082834
    Abstract: A stereo signal processing method and apparatus, where the method includes performing delay estimation on a stereo signal of a current frame to determine an inter-channel time difference of the current frame, identifying a sign of the inter-channel time difference of the current frame is different from a sign of an inter-channel time difference of a previous frame of the current frame, performing delay alignment processing on the first-channel signal of the current frame based on the inter-channel time difference of the current frame, and performing delay alignment processing on the second-channel signal of the current frame based on the inter-channel time difference of the previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 10511284
    Abstract: A resonator may include a first dielectric member, a second dielectric member, a composite member, a first sealer, and a second sealer. The first dielectric member may have a first cavity. The second dielectric member may have a second cavity. The composite member may include a piezoelectric layer and may be positioned between the first cavity and the second cavity. The first sealer may be positioned between two portions of the first dielectric member. The first cavity may be positioned between the first sealer and the composite member. The second sealer may be positioned between two portions of the second dielectric member. The second cavity may be positioned between the second sealer and the composite member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, NINGBO SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Clifford Ian Drowley, Jiguang Zhu, Haiting Li
  • Publication number: 20190325882
    Abstract: In a stereo encoding method and a stereo encoder, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first determined, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the determined channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190189134
    Abstract: A method for encoding a multi-channel signal and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial inter-channel time difference (ITD) value of the current frame, controlling, based on characteristic information of the multi-channel signal, a quantity of target frames that are allowed to appear continuously, where the characteristic information includes at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the multi-channel signal or a peak feature of cross correlation coefficients of the multi-channel signal, and an ITD value of a previous frame of the target frame is reused as an ITD value of the target frame, determining an ITD value of the current frame based on the initial ITD value and the quantity of target frames allowed to appear continuously, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the ITD value of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20190172474
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame, determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one, determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame. Hence, the method and the encoder ensure better accuracy of inter-channel information of a multi-channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao