Patents by Inventor Hepeng Zhang

Hepeng Zhang 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: 20240152532
    Abstract: A method for determining a spatial relationship, includes: obtaining a calculation request for the spatial relationship, the calculation request including a polygonal region and a set of report points; determining a plurality of first coded values corresponding to the polygonal region; determining a plurality of second coded values corresponding to the set of report points and a group of report points corresponding to each of the plurality of second coded values; determining a second coded value matching each of the plurality of first coded values by sorting and matching the plurality of first coded values and the plurality of second coded values respectively; and determining a relationship between the polygonal region and each report point in the set of report points according to a group of report points corresponding to the second coded value matching each of the plurality of first coded values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Li SONG, Yu ZHENG, Junbo ZHANG, Ting LI, Junkai SUN, Hepeng GAO
  • Patent number: 11862151
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alejandro Acero, Hepeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11725115
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a self-cleaning anti-icing coating based on brushlike organosilicon. In this method, a brushlike organosilicon-modified polyurethane coating is prepared by subjecting a thiolactone, a diamine compound and monovinyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane to a simple multi-component click reaction to obtain a dihydroxy-terminated block, and introducing the dihydroxy-terminated block into a polyurethane matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Qiuyu Zhang, Yi Tian, Hepeng Zhang, Baoliang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230072481
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Alejandro ACERO, Hepeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11538469
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alejandro Acero, Hepeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220254339
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Alejandro ACERO, Hepeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11380310
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alejandro Acero, Hepeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220154036
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a self-cleaning anti-icing coating based on brushlike organosilicon. In this method, a brushlike organosilicon-modified polyurethane coating is prepared by subjecting a thiolactone, a diamine compound and monovinyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane to a simple multi-component click reaction to obtain a dihydroxy-terminated block, and introducing the dihydroxy-terminated block into a polyurethane matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Northwestern Polytechnical University
    Inventors: Qiuyu Zhang, Yi Tian, Hepeng Zhang, Baoliang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10998573
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a lithium battery package comprising a housing (100), a lithium battery pack and a circuit board (400), wherein the lithium battery pack comprises a lithium battery holder (200) and a number of lithium cells (300) mounted within the lithium battery holder (200), and two sides of the lithium battery holder (200) are mounted respectively with metal pin means (500) coupled with the lithium cells (300), wherein the housing (100) is provided with a charging adaptor (111); a bottom portion at each side of the charging adaptor (111) is provided with a chute (115) along its length direction; a front end of the charging adaptor (111) is provided with six charging sockets (112); the housing (100) is further provided with a locking structure for locking an electric lood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Ningbo Zhongpeng Lithium Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hepeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200380966
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Alejandro ACERO, Hepeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10789945
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alejandro Acero, Hepeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200091548
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a lithium battery package comprising a housing (100), a lithium battery pack and a circuit board (400), wherein the lithium battery pack comprises a lithium battery holder (200) and a number of lithium cells (300) mounted within the lithium battery holder (200), and two sides of the lithium battery holder (200) are mounted respectively with metal pin means (500) coupled with the lithium cells (300), wherein the housing (100) is provided with a charging adaptor (111); a bottom portion at each side of the charging adaptor (111) is provided with a chute (115) along its length direction; a front end of the charging adaptor (111) is provided with six charging sockets (112); the housing (100) is further provided with a locking structure for locking an electric lood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Hepeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180330723
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Alejandro ACERO, Hepeng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9144919
    Abstract: A power tool having a depth adjustment mechanism includes a motor housing, a support base for supporting the motor housing, and a depth adjustment member coupled to the support base and movable between two positions. The depth adjustment member in a first position contacts a surface portion of the motor housing and in a second position is distanced from the surface portion of the motor housing such that the movement of the depth adjustment member from the first position to the second position is in a direction parallel to a plane that is substantially tangent to the surface portion of the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Ke Cui, Hepeng Zhang, Shuo Teng, Bing Zhu, Juergen Wiker
  • Publication number: 20130195575
    Abstract: A power tool having a depth adjustment mechanism includes a motor housing, a support base for supporting the motor housing, and a depth adjustment member coupled to the support base and movable between two positions. The depth adjustment member in a first position contacts a surface portion of the motor housing and in a second position is distanced from the surface portion of the motor housing such that the movement of the depth adjustment member from the first position to the second position is in a direction parallel to a plane that is substantially tangent to the surface portion of the motor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Ke Cui, Hepeng Zhang, Shuo Teng, Bing Zhu, Juergen Wiker