Patents by Inventor Ji TAO

Ji TAO 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: 11945658
    Abstract: A platform for processing a workpiece includes a transmission mechanism, a plurality of workstations and a plurality of movable vehicles. The transmission mechanism transports the workpiece to be processed to one of the plurality of workstations. Each movable vehicle includes a processing module and a docking interface adapted to connect with a docking station of each workstation. The movable vehicles are each adapted to move in and out of each workstation, and each processing module is adapted to process the workpiece transmitted to the workstation after the movable vehicle is moved in and positioned in the workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Qingdao) Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Wenhe Ma, Peng Ji, Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Tao Xu
  • Patent number: 11913420
    Abstract: An anchoring device for adapting to tide level for a wave energy power generation device comprises: a housing, wherein a central main shaft is provided at the center thereof, two ends of the central main shaft are respectively rigidly connected to a volute spring, and the interior of the housing is divided into several independent compartments, including a central compartment accommodating the central main shaft; a shaft lock and a central main gear capable of driving the central main shaft to rotate mounted on the central main shaft; and a plurality of hoisting wheel compartments arranged at equal intervals in a circumferential array around the central main shaft. A hoisting wheel is provided in each of the hoisting wheel compartments, and an anchor chain wound on the hoisting wheel protrudes out of the housing through an opening at the bottom of the hoisting wheel compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Feifei Cao, Hongda Shi, Meng Han, Xiaoqiang Jiang, Ziyue Zhong, Yilin Pan, Haozhe Bai, Zhen Liu, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20240023711
    Abstract: A base mechanism is adapted for a function module and an device main part and includes a mount and a connecting component, the mount is partially disposed in the device main part, the connecting component is connected to the function module and movably disposed on the mount, and the function module is movable with respect to the mount via the connecting component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: SHAOBO PENG, Ji Tao LI, Yan Ping WU
  • Patent number: 11774032
    Abstract: A biaxial pivoting mechanism configured for connecting an object to a holder includes a mount component, a rotatable connector, a main body and a mount base. The mount component is configured to be fixed to the object. The rotatable connector is rotatably disposed on the mount component about a first axis. The main body is fixed to the rotatable connector. The mount base is configured to be fixed to the holder, and the main body is rotatably disposed on the mount base about a second axis not parallel to the first axis. The main body has a first surface, a second surface, and an accommodating space. The first surface is located closer to the rotatable connector than the second surface. The accommodating space extends to the second surface from the first surface. At least part of the mount base is located in the accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Miaochun Tang, Ji Tao Li
  • Patent number: 11705005
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus and a device for an illegal vehicle warning. The method includes: detecting an illegal vehicle in a preset area; and performing the illegal vehicle warning on a target vehicle entering the preset area according to vehicle information of a detected illegal vehicle in the preset area. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the traffic control unit detects the illegal vehicle in the preset area, and the illegal vehicle warning is performed on the target vehicle entering the preset area according to the vehicle information of the detected illegal vehicle in the preset area, thereby avoiding or mitigating the collision of the target vehicle with the illegal vehicle, and improving the traffic safety of the target vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Tao, Huo Cao, Zeshu Shen, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao, Dewang Song
  • Patent number: 11520684
    Abstract: The application provides a method and an apparatus for testing an autonomous vehicle, and a storage medium, where the method includes: obtaining detection information of the autonomous vehicle, where the detection information is configured to indicate the test result obtained when the detecting apparatus in the autonomous vehicle tests the autonomous vehicle; further, generating a test interface according to the obtained detection information, and displaying the test interface, so that the tester can visually check various test information of the autonomous vehicle during the road running test, thereby not only saving a labor cost, but also improving a test efficiency of the road running test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Yaling Zhang, Ji Tao, Hongshun Shen
  • Patent number: 11374688
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method and a data transmission device for an intelligent driving vehicle, and a device. The method includes: acquiring data to be transmitted; encoding the data to be transmitted to generate encoded data; generating a check digit according to the data to be transmitted; adding the encoded data to a data packet, wherein a trailer of the data packet comprises the check digit; and transmitting the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifeng Shi, Xing Hu, Haisong Wang, Lei Fang, Ji Tao
  • Patent number: 11368827
    Abstract: Provided are a communication system and a communication method of an autonomous vehicle. The system includes: a plurality of application modules, and an in-vehicle terminal. The in-vehicle terminal includes: an external communication module configured to communicate with another autonomous vehicle or a server in a message mode, and an internal communication module configured to communicate with the plurality of application modules in a service mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifeng Shi, Xing Hu, Haisong Wang, Lei Fang, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20220186874
    Abstract: A biaxial pivoting mechanism configured for connecting an object to a holder includes a mount component, a rotatable connector, a main body and a mount base. The mount component is configured to be fixed to the object. The rotatable connector is rotatably disposed on the mount component about a first axis. The main body is fixed to the rotatable connector. The mount base is configured to be fixed to the holder, and the main body is rotatably disposed on the mount base about a second axis not parallel to the first axis. The main body has a first surface, a second surface, and an accommodating space. The first surface is located closer to the rotatable connector than the second surface. The accommodating space extends to the second surface from the first surface. At least part of the mount base is located in the accommodating space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Miaochun Tang, Ji Tao Li
  • Patent number: 11353579
    Abstract: Provided are a method for indicating at least one obstacle by a smart roadside unit, a system and a non-temporary computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: detecting the at least one obstacle via a radar to generate an obstacle set; acquiring status information reported by an autonomous vehicle; filtering the obstacle set according to the status information reported by the autonomous vehicle, to remove the autonomous vehicle object from the obstacle set; and sending a filtered obstacle set to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifeng Shi, Xing Hu, Huo Cao, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao
  • Patent number: 11308739
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an automatic driving system, a vehicle control method and a device. The automatic driving system includes a main monitoring equipment, a secondary monitoring equipment, at least one equipment to be detected, and a standby equipment corresponding to each equipment to be detected; the primary monitoring equipment and the secondary monitoring equipment are connected to each equipment to be detected and the standby equipment corresponding to each equipment to be detected; the primary monitoring equipment is connected to the secondary monitoring equipment. The above system and control method ensure that an equipment of the vehicle is is abnormal, the vehicle can be switched to a standby equipment of the equipment in time, which greatly reduces an incidence of a safety accident caused by a failure of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Yaling Zhang, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20220099063
    Abstract: An anchoring device for adapting to tide level for a wave energy power generation device comprises: a housing, wherein a central main shaft is provided at the center thereof, two ends of the central main shaft are respectively rigidly connected to a volute spring, and the interior of the housing is divided into several independent compartments, including a central compartment accommodating the central main shaft; a shaft lock and a central main gear capable of driving the central main shaft to rotate mounted on the central main shaft; and a plurality of hoisting wheel compartments arranged at equal intervals in a circumferential array around the central main shaft. A hoisting wheel is provided in each of the hoisting wheel compartments, and an anchor chain wound on the hoisting wheel protrudes out of the housing through an opening at the bottom of the hoisting wheel compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Feifei CAO, Hongda SHI, Meng HAN, Xiaoqiang JIANG, Ziyue ZHONG, Yilin PAN, Haozhe BAI, Zhen LIU, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20220050210
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, an apparatus for superimposing laser point clouds and a high-precision map and an electronic device, comprising: when superimposing the laser point clouds and the high-precision map for visualization, first performing dilution processing on non-road laser point clouds in the laser point clouds to be fused to obtain target non-road laser point clouds, which effectively reduces the amount of data of the laser point clouds to be fused; and performing segmentation processing on the map to be fused to obtain multi-level map data corresponding to the map to be fused, which effectively reduces the amount of data of the map to be fused. In this way, when superimposing the laser point clouds and the high-precision map for visualization, both non-road information may be visualized through the laser point clouds, and road information may be visualized through the high-precision map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Wei MA, Ji TAO, Xing HU, Liqi WANG, Kun WANG
  • Patent number: 11250702
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for assisting in controlling automatic driving of a vehicle, a medium, and a system. The method for assisting in controlling automatic driving of a vehicle may include: acquiring sensing information related to environment collected by a sensor, the sensor being disposed in the environment and independent of the vehicle; determining an environment sensing result related to the environment by processing the acquired sensing information, the environment sensing result indicating relevant information about a plurality of objects including the vehicle in the environment; and providing the environment sensing result to a vehicle-side control device associated with the vehicle for assisting in controlling a driving behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Tao, Tian Xia, Xing Hu
  • Patent number: 11155273
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for assessing a comfort level of a driving system. A method for generating an assessment model for comfort level in a driving system comprises acquiring a first assessment from a user on a comfort level of at least one traveling operation of the driving system, and acquiring a measurement of a traveling indicator of the driving system when performing the at least one traveling operation. The method further comprises generating the assessment model for the comfort level in the driving system based on the first assessment, the measurement of the traveling indicator, and a second assessment from the user on an overall comfort level of the driving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunyan Hu, Yaling Zhang, Yue Cui, Simin Sui, Ji Tao, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11124199
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automatic driving system, fault alarm method and device, the system includes a primary monitoring device, an auxiliary monitoring device, at least one device to be detected and a fault alarm device; where the primary monitoring device and the auxiliary monitoring device are respectively connected to each device to be detected and the fault alarm device; the primary monitoring device and the auxiliary monitoring device are connected, the primary monitoring device and the auxiliary monitoring device respectively perform a fault detection on the each device to be detected; and if it is detected that any device to be detected is abnormal, the primary monitoring device or the auxiliary monitoring device sends an alarm instruction to the fault alarm device, so that the fault alarm device performs an alarm operation according to the alarm instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Yaling Zhang, Ji Tao
  • Patent number: 11084494
    Abstract: A method for detecting safety of a driving behavior, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes acquiring current driving data of a vehicle during a driving process of the vehicle; determining current driving behavior feature data of the vehicle according to the current driving data of the vehicle; inputting the current driving behavior feature data of the vehicle into a real-time safety detection model and calculating a security score corresponding to current driving behavior of the vehicle; and determining whether the current driving behavior of the vehicle is safe according to the security score corresponding to the current driving behavior of the vehicle. The method can assist an optimization of a vehicle driving system, reduce a safety risk of vehicle driving, and improve a riding experience of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventors: Yunyan Hu, Ya Wang, Yifeng Pan, Dayang Hao, Rui Liu, Lizhi Zhang, Xiaojun Luo, Yaling Zhang, Ji Tao, Ruixiang Shen, Qihao Huang
  • Publication number: 20210225162
    Abstract: Provided are a method, an apparatus and a device for illegal vehicle warning. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, vehicle information of an illegal vehicle in a preset area transmitted by a traffic control unit; and performing, by the terminal device, the illegal vehicle warning when it is determined that a target vehicle may collide with the illegal vehicle according to the vehicle information of the illegal vehicle in the preset area. The target vehicle entering a preset area receives the vehicle information of an illegal vehicle in the preset area, and performs the illegal vehicle warning when it is determined that the target vehicle may collide with the illegal vehicle according to the vehicle information of the illegal vehicle in the preset area, thereby avoiding or mitigating the collision of the target vehicle and the illegal vehicle, and improving the traffic safety of the target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: SHENG TAO, HUO CAO, ZESHU SHEN, HAISONG WANG, JI TAO, DEWANG SONG
  • Patent number: 10969498
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle positioning method, an apparatus and a device. The method includes: sending an auxiliary positioning request to an auxiliary positioning device within a preset distance range; receiving an auxiliary positioning message returned by the auxiliary positioning device with respect to the auxiliary positioning request, where the auxiliary positioning message carries location information of the auxiliary positioning device; and determining a current location of a current vehicle according to the location information of the auxiliary positioning device and distance information between the current vehicle and the auxiliary positioning device. The method of the present disclosure can implement vehicle positioning without a satellite positioning signal. The vehicle positioning can be performed when the vehicle is blocked by an obstacle such as a tunnel, a building and the satellite positioning signal cannot be received, improving the accuracy of the vehicle positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Tao, Zeshu Shen, Huo Cao, Yifeng Shi, Lei Fang, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao
  • Patent number: 10950004
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium for calibrating an intelligent roadside unit. The method includes: obtaining an intelligent driving vehicle within a preset range of the intelligent roadside unit; obtaining a first point cloud detected by a first radar in the intelligent driving vehicle, and obtaining location information of the intelligent driving vehicle; obtaining a second point cloud detected by a second radar in the intelligent roadside unit; and obtaining location information of the second radar based on the first point cloud, the second point cloud, and the location information of the intelligent driving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifeng Shi, Tian Xia, Xing Hu, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao