Patents by Inventor Hongming Zhang

Hongming 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).

  • Patent number: 12047152
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a MIMO communication method and system, and a receiver node. The method includes: receiving, by a number of optical detection modules of a receiver node, optical signals transmitted by a number of optical transmission modules of a transmitter node. Different optical detection modules of the receiver node have different orientations, and different optical transmission modules of the transmitter node have different orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD., TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tian Cao, Hongming Zhang, Hui Yang, Jian Song, Jia Shen, Jing Xu
  • Publication number: 20240211694
    Abstract: A method including: receiving an input comprising natural language texts; selecting, via a knowledge selector, one of a plurality of knowledge categories from an external memory based on a context of the input; retrieving one or more helpful knowledge pieces from the selected knowledge category; augmenting the input using the one or more helpful knowledge pieces; feeding the augmented input into a text-to-text model; and generating an output answer based on the text-to-text model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoman PAN, Wenlin YAO, Hongming ZHANG, Dian YU, Dong YU, Jianshu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240211501
    Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code for instance-wise adaptive knowledge injection in a pre-trained language model (PTLM) including determining a necessity of external knowledge in a plurality of queries of a first dataset based on a likelihood that a respective query is solved by internal knowledge of a target model. Then, the one or more queries determined to need external knowledge may be augmented with pieces of external knowledge. A combined dataset may be generated by combining the first dataset and the one or more augmented queries, and the combined dataset may be applied to the target model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Wenlin YAO, Jianshu Chen, Dong Yu
  • Publication number: 20240193362
    Abstract: A method for zero-shot event extraction, performed by a computer device. The method includes training a context encoder, a first definition encoder, and a second definition encoder with auto extracted context-definition alignment data; retrieving a plurality of verbal synsets from a lexical database; refining a representation model based on the context-definition alignment data and the plurality of verbal synsets; encoding a plurality of candidate event type definitions; encoding the refined representation model with the trained context encoder; and determining whether the encoded representation model belongs to one of the plurality of candidate event type definitions based on a cosine similarity between the encoded representation model, the trained context encoder, the first trained definition encoder, and the second trained definition encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Hongming ZHANG, Wenlin YAO, Dong YU
  • Publication number: 20240193375
    Abstract: A method performed by at least one processor includes receiving a first input stream of a task and a second input stream of a solution. The method further includes selecting the first input stream or the second input stream. The method further includes providing the selected input stream to an image conversion model and a language model. The method further includes creating, based on the selected input stream, a model ensemble of the conversion model and the language model. The method further includes outputting a prediction based on the model ensemble. The method may further include generating an image corresponding to text, converting a textual task into a multimodal task, and solving the multimodal task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Wenlin Yao, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoyang Wang, Dong Yu, Jianshu Chen
  • Publication number: 20240025236
    Abstract: A control device of a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus has an outside air heat absorption heating mode in which a refrigerant that has been discharged from a compressor and has dissipated heat in a heating unit absorbs heat in an outdoor heat exchanger, and a combined heating mode in which the refrigerant that has been discharged from the compressor and has dissipated heat in the heating unit absorbs heat in the outdoor heat exchanger and a chiller heat exchanger, and upon switching from the combined heating mode to the outside air heat absorption heating mode, performs control in such a manner as to increase a degree of opening of a first electronic expansion valve to a given degree of opening, maintain the given degree of opening for a given period of time, and fully close a second electronic expansion valve within the given period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiki SHIBAOKA, Kouhei YAMASHITA, Hongming ZHANG, Kodai MATSUZAKI
  • Patent number: 11856322
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus. When image data is received, a position of a clipping box is adjusted according to a position of a target object in the image data; and an adjusted image is output to a second chip, the adjusted image is a portion of the image data in the adjusted clipping box, and the second chip is configured to receive the adjusted image output from an image processor and output the adjusted image to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiyan Jia, Zhikui Wang, Hongming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220399939
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a visible light communication network. The visible light communication network includes a plurality of optical network nodes, any two optical network nodes of the plurality of optical network nodes are connected through an optical connection, the plurality of optical network nodes form at least one optical communication link, and each of the at least one optical communication link includes at least part of the plurality of optical network nodes. A first optical network node is configured to communicate an optical signal with another optical network node through an optical connection between the first optical network node and the other optical network node, and the first optical network node is any optical network node in the optical communication link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Di ZHENG, Hongming ZHANG, Hui YANG, Jian SONG, Jia SHEN, Jing XU
  • Publication number: 20220393751
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a MIMO communication method and system, and a receiver node. The method includes: receiving, by a number of optical detection modules of a receiver node, optical signals transmitted by a number of optical transmission modules of a transmitter node. Different optical detection modules of the receiver node have different orientations, and different optical transmission modules of the transmitter node have different orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tian Cao, Hongming Zhang, Hui Yang, Jian Song, Jia Shen, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 11498110
    Abstract: A fine blanking device and method for forming a friction plate with friction material layers. The fine blanking device includes an upper die, a lower die, a guide mechanism, a punch and a counter punch. Upper and lower blank holders are respectively provided at outer circumferences of the punch and the counter punch. The upper and lower blank holders are respectively provided with a buffer mechanism. Friction material powders are sintered on both sides of the base sheet. The friction material layers are trimmed and planished by hot pressing. The base sheet with the friction material layers is fixed by the upper blank holder and the lower blank holder. A tooth profile with an absolute shear fractural surface is formed. The fixing indentation of the V-shaped structure of the friction material layers is cut off for obtaining a finished friction plate product with the friction material layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: Southwest Technology and Engineering Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai
    Inventors: Qiang Chen, Gang Chen, Xusheng Chang, Hongming Zhang, Dayu Shu, Hong Zhan, Lin Xiang, Yunliang Xiang, Yan Tang
  • Publication number: 20220309357
    Abstract: Disclosed are a knowledge graph (KG) construction method for eventuality prediction and an eventuality prediction method. The KG construction method preprocesses pre-collected corpora and extracts a plurality of candidate sentences from the corpora; extracts a plurality of eventualities from the candidate sentences based on preset dependency relations; extracts seed relations between the eventualities from the corpora; extracts eventuality relations between the eventualities based on the eventualities and the seed relations between the eventualities, to obtain candidate eventuality relations between the eventualities; and generates a KG for the eventualities based on the eventualities and the candidate eventuality relations between the eventualities, and extracts a common syntactic pattern based on the dependency relation to extract a semantically complete eventuality from the corpora.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hongming Zhang, Xin Liu, Haojie Pan, Yangqiu Song
  • Patent number: 11265820
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmit power of a terminal, and a terminal, where the method and the terminal include, working states of a first antenna and a second antenna may be monitored, and then a transmit power of the first antenna or that of the second antenna may be controlled according to a preset correspondence. Therefore, according to the method and the terminal, a transmit power of an antenna in a working state in the first antenna and the second antenna may be accurately controlled. If the transmit power is less than a standard transmit power, a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Luo, Hui Jin, Songping Yao, Hongyu Li, Yingwei Li, Hongming Zhang, Xuyang Du
  • Publication number: 20220014709
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus. When image data is received, a position of a clipping box is adjusted according to a position of a target object in the image data; and an adjusted image is output to a second chip, the adjusted image is a portion of the image data in the adjusted clipping box, and the second chip is configured to receive the adjusted image output from an image processor and output the adjusted image to a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Qiyan JIA, Zhikui WANG, Hongming ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210316354
    Abstract: A fine blanking device and method for forming a friction plate with friction material layers. The fine blanking device includes an upper die, a lower die, a guide mechanism, a punch and a counter punch. Upper and lower blank holders are respectively provided at outer circumferences of the punch and the counter punch. The upper and lower blank holders are respectively provided with a buffer mechanism. Friction material powders are sintered on both sides of the base sheet. The friction material layers are trimmed and planished by hot pressing. The base sheet with the friction material layers is fixed by the upper blank holder and the lower blank holder. A tooth profile with an absolute shear fractural surface is formed. The fixing indentation of the V-shaped structure of the friction material layers is cut off for obtaining a finished friction plate product with the friction material layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Qiang CHEN, Gang CHEN, Xusheng CHANG, Hongming ZHANG, Dayu SHU, Hong ZHAN, Lin XIANG, Yunliang XIANG, Yan TANG
  • Patent number: 10820280
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmit power of a terminal, and a terminal, where the method and the terminal include, working states of a first antenna and a second antenna may be monitored, and then a transmit power of the first antenna or that of the second antenna may be controlled according to a preset correspondence. Therefore, according to the method and the terminal, a transmit power of an antenna in a working state in the first antenna and the second antenna may be accurately controlled. If the transmit power is less than a standard transmit power, a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Luo, Hui Jin, Songping Yao, Hongyu Li, Yingwei Li, Hongming Zhang, Xuyang Du
  • Publication number: 20200178181
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmit power of a terminal, and a terminal, where the method and the terminal include, working states of a first antenna and a second antenna may be monitored, and then a transmit power of the first antenna or that of the second antenna may be controlled according to a preset correspondence. Therefore, according to the method and the terminal, a transmit power of an antenna in a working state in the first antenna and the second antenna may be accurately controlled. If the transmit power is less than a standard transmit power, a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Jian Luo, Hui Jin, Songping Yao, Hongyu Li, Yingwei Li, Hongming Zhang, Xuyang Du
  • Patent number: 10552705
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and an electronic device of character segmentation are disclosed. The method includes obtaining character segmentation points of a character image to be segmented as candidate segmentation points using a predetermined segmentation point generation algorithm, the character image to be segmented being a foreground character image that is obtained by removing a background image from an original grayscale character image; selecting and obtaining correct segmentation points from the candidate segmentation points based on the original grayscale character image and a pre-generated segmentation point classifier; and performing character segmentation for the character image to be segmented based on the correct segmentation points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Mengchao He, Yuan He, Hongming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10497121
    Abstract: A method includes determining whether a region to be recognized corresponding to a specified feature exists in an image to be processed. The method may also include determining a main subject region containing the main subject of the image to be processed in accordance with a preset feature parameter of the main subject region and the coordinates and size of the region to be recognized when the region to be recognized exists. The method may further include extracting an image of the main subject region as a foreground image for an extraction process of a foreground target, and taking the extracted image as the main subject of the image to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Shan An, Hongming Zhang, Bin Liu, Guocheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10168210
    Abstract: Disclosed are a snapshot-type polarized hyperspectral camera and an imaging method. The camera comprises polarizers (11), an image sensor (12), and a spectra filter (13). The spectra filter (13) is located on the image sensor (12). The polarizers (11) are located on one side of the image sensor (12). The method comprises: shielding and transmitting incident light by means of polarizers (11), so as to obtain light signals (101) with different polarizing angles; receiving, by means of an image sensor (12), the light signals with different polarizing angles, which are obtained by the polarizers (11), and converting the light signals with different polarizing angles into electric signals (102); and receiving, by means of a spectra filter (13), the electric signals converted by the image sensor (12), and filtering the electric signals, so as to obtain high-frequency electric signals (103) with a preset wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Lifu Zhang, Hongming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180288710
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmit power of a terminal, and a terminal, where the method and the terminal include, working states of a first antenna and a second antenna may be monitored, and then a transmit power of the first antenna or that of the second antenna may be controlled according to a preset correspondence. Therefore, according to the method and the terminal, a transmit power of an antenna in a working state in the first antenna and the second antenna may be accurately controlled. If the transmit power is less than a standard transmit power, a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jian Luo, Hui Jin, Songping Yao, Hongyu Li, Yingwei Li, Hongming Zhang, Xuyang Du