Patents by Inventor Hongfei Zhou

Hongfei 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: 20240159015
    Abstract: A robot for pond desilting is provided, which includes a frame, a lead screw sliding table, and a suction pipe. An end of the frame is provided with a pressure-resistant cabin. A lead screw base is disposed on the lead screw sliding table. A rotary lead screw is disposed on the lead screw sliding table. The lead screw base is disposed on the rotary lead screw. Waterproof motors are disposed above the lead screw base, a pump body is disposed in the frame, and the suction pipe is disposed at an end of the pump body. When the robot is placed at the bottom of the pond, the motor inside the pressure-resistant cabin drives the power wheels to rotate, the power wheels drive the tracks to rotate around the power wheels, bearing wheels, and tension wheels, thereby driving the frame to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Guanglin WU, Mingxian WANG, Jinbo LIN, Hongfei MAO, Yifang SUN, Qinglong CHEN, Ruixin LIU, Haoyu TAN, Jiaxin LI, Hailing ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11982633
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for analyzing the signal of a neutral atom imaging unit, including: preparing a neutral atom imaging unit, which includes a semiconductor detector array and modulation grids disposed at intervals in front of the semiconductor detector array; preparing a neutral atom source plane, energetic neutral atoms emitted by the neutral atom source plane are received by the semiconductor detector array after passing through the modulation grids, and the modulation grids form a projection on the semiconductor detector array; obtaining a response function of the imaging unit according to the projection; calculating the data signal obtained by the neutral atom imaging unit; and performing inversion imaging on the neutral atom emission source according to the response function of the imaging unit and the data signal. The method well inverts the neutral atom emission source to obtain the intensity and size of the neutral atom emission source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Peking University
    Inventors: Yongfu Wang, Qiugang Zong, Linghua Wang, Hongfei Chen, Hong Zou, Xiangqian Yu, Weihong Shi, Lyu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11926787
    Abstract: A well cementing method is described for improving cementing quality by controlling the hydration heat of cement slurry. By controlling the degree and/or rate of hydration heat release from cement slurry, the method improves the hydration heat release during formation of cement with curing of cement slurry, improves the binding quality between the cement and the interfaces, and in turn improves the cementing quality at the open hole section and/or the overlap section. The cementing method improves cementing quality of oil and gas wells and reduces the risk of annular pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: PetroChina Company Limited, CNPC Engineering Technology R&D Company Limited
    Inventors: Shuoqiong Liu, Hua Zhang, Jianzhou Jin, Ming Xu, Yongjin Yu, Fengzhong Qi, Congfeng Qu, Hong Yue, Youcheng Zheng, Wei Li, Yong Ma, Youzhi Zheng, Zhao Huang, Jinping Yuan, Zhiwei Ding, Chongfeng Zhou, Chi Zhang, Zishuai Liu, Hongfei Ji, Yuchao Guo, Xiujian Xia, Yong Li, Jiyun Shen, Huiting Liu, Yusi Feng, Bin Lyu
  • Publication number: 20240079786
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures, a first antenna, and a second antenna. A gap may divide the housing structures into a first segment forming an arm of the first antenna and a second segment forming an arm of the second antenna. A first feed terminal may be coupled to the first segment and a second feed terminal may be coupled to the second segment. Switchable components may be coupled in parallel between the first and second feed terminals across the gap. The switchable components may be adjusted to tune the frequency response of the first and/or second antenna. The switchable components may have a first state in which only the first feed terminal feeds the first antenna and may have a second state in which both the first and second feed terminals feed the first antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Han Wang, Aobo Li, Victor C Lee, Yuancheng Xu, Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Christopher Q Ma, Zhiheng Zhou, Sherry Cao, Dale T Morgan, Timothy L Stickles, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini
  • Publication number: 20240079784
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element and a light source module mounted to a flexible printed circuit and a metal cowling. The module may emit light through a rear housing wall. The printed circuit may be interposed between the metal cowling and a conductive support plate in the rear housing wall. The printed circuit may include a ground trace coupled to the resonating element. A dimpled pad may couple the ground trace to the support plate. Compressive foam may be used to exert a force against the flexible printed circuit that presses the dimpled pad against the conductive support plate. The ground trace and the dimpled pad may form a return path to ground for the resonating element. The dimpled pad may occupy less height within the device than other structures such as metal springs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Han Wang, Victor C. Lee, Jingni Zhong, Ming Chen, Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Christopher Q. Ma, Zhiheng Zhou, Sherry Cao, Kevin M. Froese, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11765170
    Abstract: This application discloses a data processing method, system, and apparatus, a storage medium, and a device, and belongs to the field of database technologies. The method includes receiving, a trigger request; triggering, according to the trigger request, the first cloud encryptor to store a root key seed, an operating policy, a data key seed, and a data key identifier, and triggering the database proxy to store an encryption data dictionary, the operating policy indicating an operation policy of the first cloud encryptor. The method further includes receiving a data processing request from the client; sending first data that the data processing request requests to process and the data key identifier in the encryption data dictionary to the first cloud encryptor. The method further includes implementing the operating policy, processing the first data, and responding to the data processing request by using the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hongfei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11746132
    Abstract: An ultramarine fluorescent protein, is a protein selected from (a) and (b) protein: (a) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID:NO. 2; (b) a protein derived from (a) by substitution, deletion or addition with one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of (a) and having activity of the ultramarine fluorescent protein. The ultramarine fluorescent protein (UFP) has the characteristics of pH-insensitivity and light stability, and its chromophore can absorb long-wavelength ultraviolet (UVA) and release fluorescence at wavelength longer than 400 nm. And the aromatic amino acids residue (with content of 9.2%) can absorb medium wavelength ultraviolet (UVB) and release UVA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Meihao Sun, Huihui Wang, Mengmeng Shi, Hongfei Zhou, Jie Liu
  • Publication number: 20230170866
    Abstract: A limiter system for an active speaker may include at least one lowpass filter configured to receive an input signal and output a signal lower than a crossover frequency, at least one highpass filter, configured to receive an input signal and output a signal higher than the crossover frequency, a first allpass filter configured to adjust the phase of the signal lower than the crossover frequency, a second allpass filter configured to adjust the phase of the signal higher than the crossover frequency, a first limiter, configured to receive and limit the signal from the first allpass filter, a second limiter, configured to receive and limit the signal from the second allpass filter, and a mixer, configured to mix the signal lower from the first limiter and the signal from the second limiter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Mengrui HUANG, Hongfei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11646709
    Abstract: A limiter system for an active speaker may include at least one lowpass filter configured to receive an input signal and output a signal lower than a crossover frequency, at least one highpass filter, configured to receive an input signal and output a signal higher than the crossover frequency, a first allpass filter configured to adjust the phase of the signal lower than the crossover frequency, a second allpass filter configured to adjust the phase of the signal higher than the crossover frequency, a first limiter, configured to receive and limit the signal from the first allpass filter, a second limiter, configured to receive and limit the signal from the second allpass filter, and a mixer, configured to mix the signal lower from the first limiter and the signal from the second limiter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mengrui Huang, Hongfei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11622193
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a limiter system. The limiter system includes a first equalization filter, a low-pass filter, a first limiter, a high-pass filter, a second limiter, and a mixer. The limiter system provided by the present disclosure further includes a second equalization filter. An audio signal from a signal source first passes through the first equalization filter, the signal equalized for the first time is divided into two signals, one signal is processed by the low-pass filter and the first limiter, the other signal is processed by the high-pass filter and the second limiter, and then the two processed signals enter the mixer to be mixed and outputted. The mixed output signal is subjected to second equalization filtering by the second equalization filter to avoid clipping distortion or to obtain a higher maximum sound level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mengrui Huang, Hongfei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230040657
    Abstract: A method and a system for instrument separating and reproducing for a mixture audio source is provided. The method and/or the system includes inputting selected music into an instrument separation model for extracting features therefrom, determining audio source signals of multiple channels for the separation of all instruments, each channel containing sound of one instrument, and transmitting the signals of the different channels to multiple speakers placed at designated positions for playing, which can reproduce or recreate an immersive sound field listening experience for users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jianwen ZHENG, Hongfei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11549264
    Abstract: A joint assembly for a truss bottom plate, the truss bottom plate includes a first bottom plate and a second bottom plate adjacent to each other, and a gap exists at an adjacent position between the first bottom plate and the second bottom plate; the joint assembly includes a first barrier plate and a second barrier plate; the first barrier plate is connected with the first bottom plate; the second barrier plate is connected with the second bottom plate; a part of the first barrier plate is arranged to overlap a part of the second barrier plate and cover the gap. A truss of an escalator or a passenger conveyor, the truss of the escalator or the passenger conveyor includes the joint assembly as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: KONE ELEVATORS CO., LTD., KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lichun Li, Fuqiang Zhang, Hongfei Zhou, Xiang Gao
  • Patent number: 11271892
    Abstract: This application discloses a network communication method applied to a network communication system including a first network device in a first private network, a second network device in a second private network and a gateway device coupling the first private network to the second private network. The first network device receives a first data packet transmitted from a terminal to a target blockchain node, and acquires an actual network address of the target blockchain node; and generates a second data packet according to the first data packet and the actual network address, and transmits the second data packet to a virtual network address of the second network device in the second private network, so that the operation overheads generated when the gateway device generates virtual network addresses for blockchain nodes can be reduced, thereby saving a storage space of the gateway device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhihao Shang, Jia Li, Huanxin Liu, Hongfei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11244393
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a credit messaging system, a credit data storage method, a device, and a medium, and belongs to the field of network technologies. A server generates a unified user identifier based on user information of a user, generates, based on behavioral data of the user, credit data of the user through calculation by using a unified algorithm, and then, stores the credit data of the user and a corresponding user identifier into a block chain by using a target policy. In a block chain system, a unified user identifier is obtained for a same user, so that organizations in the block chain system may query credit data of the user according to the unified user identifier, thereby implementing high-quality data circulation and transactions while improving accuracy and comprehensiveness of queries for the credit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhihao Shang, Hongfei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220018132
    Abstract: A joint assembly for a truss bottom plate, the truss bottom plate includes a first bottom plate and a second bottom plate adjacent to each other, and a gap exists at an adjacent position between the first bottom plate and the second bottom plate; the joint assembly includes a first barrier plate and a second barrier plate; the first barrier plate is connected with the first bottom plate; the second barrier plate is connected with the second bottom plate; a part of the first barrier plate is arranged to overlap a part of the second barrier plate and cover the gap. A truss of an escalator or a passenger conveyor, the truss of the escalator or the passenger conveyor includes the joint assembly as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: KONE Elevators Co., Ltd., KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lichun LI, Fuqiang ZHANG, Hongfei ZHOU, Xiang GAO
  • Publication number: 20220009975
    Abstract: An ultramarine fluorescent protein, is a protein selected from (a) and (b) protein: (a) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID:NO. 2; (b) a protein derived from (a) by substitution, deletion or addition with one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of (a) and having activity of the ultramarine fluorescent protein. The ultramarine fluorescent protein (UFP) has the characteristics of pH-insensitivity and light stability, and its chromophore can absorb long-wavelength ultraviolet (UVA) and release fluorescence at wavelength longer than 400 nm. And the aromatic amino acids residue (with content of 9.2%) can absorb medium wavelength ultraviolet (UVB) and release UVA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Zhejiang Normal University
    Inventors: Meihao SUN, Huihui WANG, Mengmeng SHI, Hongfei ZHOU, Jie LIU
  • Patent number: 11128899
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a media data processing method. The method includes obtaining, after determining that a user client performs a service operation with a first service client, first video data from the user client and second video data from the first service client; and synthesizing the first video data with the second video data to generate service operation video data. The method also includes transmitting the service operation video data to the user client and the first service client; obtaining a processing result of the service operation from the first service client; storing the service operation video data and generating storage information; receiving an access request that is transmitted by a second service client and that carries the storage information; and obtaining the service operation video data according to the storage information and returning the service operation video data to the second service client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hongfei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210194877
    Abstract: This application discloses a data processing method, system, and apparatus, a storage medium, and a device, and belongs to the field of database technologies. The method includes receiving, a trigger request; triggering, according to the trigger request, the first cloud encryptor to store a root key seed, an operating policy, a data key seed, and a data key identifier, and triggering the database proxy to store an encryption data dictionary, the operating policy indicating an operation policy of the first cloud encryptor. The method further includes receiving a data processing request from the client; sending first data that the data processing request requests to process and the data key identifier in the encryption data dictionary to the first cloud encryptor. The method further includes implementing the operating policy, processing the first data, and responding to the data processing request by using the second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Hongfei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210168502
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a limiter system. The limiter system includes a first equalization filter, a low-pass filter, a first limiter, a high-pass filter, a second limiter, and a mixer. The limiter system provided by the present disclosure further includes a second equalization filter. An audio signal from a signal source first passes through the first equalization filter, the signal equalized for the first time is divided into two signals, one signal is processed by the low-pass filter and the first limiter, the other signal is processed by the high-pass filter and the second limiter, and then the two processed signals enter the mixer to be mixed and outputted. The mixed output signal is subjected to second equalization filtering by the second equalization filter to avoid clipping distortion or to obtain a higher maximum sound level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Mengrui HUANG, Hongfei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10958650
    Abstract: This application discloses a data processing method, system, and apparatus, a storage medium, and a device, and belongs to the field of database technologies. The method includes receiving, a trigger request; triggering, according to the trigger request, the first cloud encryptor to store a root key seed, an operating policy, a data key seed, and a data key identifier, and triggering the database proxy to store an encryption data dictionary, the operating policy indicating an operation policy of the first cloud encryptor. The method further includes receiving a data processing request from the client; sending first data that the data processing request requests to process and the data key identifier in the encryption data dictionary to the first cloud encryptor. The method further includes implementing the operating policy, processing the first data, and responding to the data processing request by using the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hongfei Zhou