Patents by Inventor Ji Zhou

Ji 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).

  • Patent number: 10838056
    Abstract: Provided are a target detection method, a circuit, a device for assisting visually impaired people, an electronic device, and a medium. The target detection method includes: acquiring an image collected by an image sensor; detecting whether there is at least a portion of a target object in the image; and providing, in response to not detecting at least a portion of the target object in the image, a prompt to adjust the target object to be within a field of view of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijiao Cai, Xinpeng Feng, Ji Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200353546
    Abstract: A jig saw including a clamping mechanism for removably clamping a saw blade and a driving mechanism. The clamping mechanism includes an actuating member and a clamping mechanism, the actuating member is configured to rotate about a first axis, thereby driving the clamping mechanism to achieve locking or unlocking of the saw blade. The actuating member includes an inclined surface extending in a rotation direction of the actuating member. The inclined surface cooperates with the clamping mechanism thereby to drive the clamping mechanism when the actuating member rotates. Since the clamping mechanism of the jig saw uses a clamping mechanism to apply pressure to the saw blade from the side, thereby abutting and fixing it on the main body, such a clamping mechanism therefore can be applied to different types of saw blades, regardless of the shape of the end faces of their clamping ends (e.g., V-shaped or U-shaped).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Lei HU, Xiao Ping QIU, Ji Zhou YAN
  • Publication number: 20200333634
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector, an assistive device, a wearable device, and a wearable device kit. The connector includes a first magnetic connecting component; and a second magnetic connecting component detachably connected to the first magnetic connecting component by magnetic attraction. By means of the connector of the present disclosure, the assistive device can be detachably connected to the wearable device more reliably and more flexibly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Chang SUN, Haijiao CAI, Xinpeng FENG, Ji ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10796187
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detection of texts. A text detecting method includes: acquiring a first image to be detected of a text object to be detected; determining whether the first image to be detected contains a predetermined indicator; determining, if the first image to be detected contains the predetermined indicator, a position of the predetermined indicator, and acquiring a second image to be detected of the text object to be detected; determining whether the second image to be detected contains the predetermined indicator; and determining, if the second image to be detected does not contain the predetermined indicator, a text detecting region based on the position of the predetermined indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Song Mei, Haijiao Cai, Xinpeng Feng, Ji Zhou
  • Patent number: 10795185
    Abstract: Provided is a connector, the connector comprises: a first connecting component provided with a first magnetic component; and a second connecting component provided with a second magnetic component, wherein the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component can be magnetically attached to each other, wherein the second connecting component can rotate by a predetermined angle relative to the first connecting component in a plane perpendicular to a direction of magnetic attraction. The connector of the present disclosure can solve the technical problem that the mounting angle of the assistive device relative to the wearable device cannot be flexibly and conveniently adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Sun, Haijiao Cai, Xinpeng Feng, Ji Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200276385
    Abstract: Drug delivery reservoir for delivery of a beneficial agent to a user includes a drug delivery reservoir housing having a fluid reservoir defined therein. The drug delivery reservoir housing has a drug delivery reservoir base region. The drug delivery reservoir includes a dip tube extending inside the fluid reservoir. The dip tube includes a tubular wall defining a flow lumen. The tubular wall has at least one aperture defined therein and spaced proximally from a distal end of the tubular wall in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir. The drug delivery reservoir includes an adaptor disposed external to the drug delivery reservoir housing and coupled to a proximal end of the dip tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: ABBVIE INC.
    Inventors: Ted Hanagan, Wayne Klinger, Thomas Paul Grazier, Gurjinder Dhami, Scott Smieja, Jeff Schacherl, Sean Mackey, Megan Feilen, Ji Zhou, Rajkumar Conjeevaram, Martin Gibler
  • Patent number: 10745533
    Abstract: A foamed thermoplastic material includes a thermoplastic material exhibiting, in its unfoamed state, a particular flammability index, flame growth rate, and specific extinction area. The foamed thermoplastic material further includes a plurality of cells having a number average mean diameter of 5 to 150 micrometers present in an amount effective to provide the foamed thermoplastic material with a density that is 10 to 90 percent of the density of the unfoamed thermoplastic material. The foamed thermoplastic material exhibits a desirable tensile elongation and dielectric constant. A process for forming the foamed thermoplastic material, articles including the foamed thermoplastic material, and an article-forming process are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Shuailei Ma, Kapil Chandrakant Sheth, Ji Zhou, Jian Yang, Raghavendra Raj Maddikeri
  • Publication number: 20200227069
    Abstract: A method, device and apparatus for recognizing a voice signal, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: collecting a voice signal; extracting the voiceprint feature of the voice signal; comparing the voiceprint feature with a pre-stored reference voiceprint feature; and recognizing a content of the voice signal with a voice recognition model, in response to a consistence of the voiceprint feature with the pre-stored reference voiceprint feature. Embodiments of the present application can improve the accuracy of recognizing voice signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Ji Zhou, Xiangdong Xue, Peng Wang, Lifeng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200227049
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and device for waking up a voice interaction device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a voice signal; extracting a first voiceprint characteristic of the voice signal; comparing the first voiceprint characteristic with a pre-stored reference voiceprint characteristic to obtain a similarity between the first voiceprint characteristic and the pre-stored reference voiceprint characteristic; comparing the similarity with a preset threshold; and determining that the first voiceprint characteristic is consistent with the reference voiceprint characteristic in response to the similarity larger than the preset threshold; and determining a wake-up word included in content of the voice signal by using a wake-up word recognition model and waking up the voice interaction device. In the embodiments, the ratio for falsely waking up a voice interactive device is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Ji Zhou, Xiangdong Xue, Peng Wang, Lifeng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200227051
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a service control method, a service control apparatus and a device, the method including: determining an application service in operating state in an electronic device; and transmitting audio data captured by a microphone to the application service and a control service, where the application service is configured to perform multimedia information interaction according to the audio data, and the control service is configured to control the electronic device according to the audio data, thereby improving flexibility in controlling services in the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Liang HE, Aihui AN, Yu NIU, Lifeng ZHAO, Xiangdong XUE, Ji ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200219503
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for filtering out a voice instruction are provided. The method includes: receiving a conversation voice in a conversation process; determining whether control instruction information is included in the conversation voice; and filtering out the conversation voice with the control instruction information and prohibiting from sending the conversation voice to the opposite equipment of the conversation process. The apparatus includes a receiving module configured to receive a conversation voice in a conversation process, a determination module configured to determine whether control instruction information is included in the conversation voice, and a conversation module configured to filter out the conversation voice and prohibit from sending the conversation voice to an opposite equipment of the conversation process, in response to a determination of control instruction information in the conversation voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang HE, Aihui AN, Yu NIU, Lifeng ZHAO, Xiangdong XUE, Ji ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10659796
    Abstract: A system and method for scalable video coding that includes base layer having lower resolution encoding, enhanced layer having higher resolution encoding and the data transferring between two layers. The system and method provides several methods to reduce bandwidth of inter-layer transfers while at the same time reducing memory requirements. Due to less memory access, the system clock frequency can be lowered so that system power consumption is lowered as well. The system avoids having prediction data from base layer to enhanced layer to be up-sampled for matching resolution in the enhanced layer as transferring up-sampled data can impose a big burden on memory bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Ji Zhou, Zhen Chen, Min Yu
  • Patent number: 10621428
    Abstract: The present application relates to layout analysis on an image. The layout analysis method includes: dividing, based on coordinate information of a plurality of paragraphs in an image, the plurality of paragraphs into one or more columns arranged in a horizontal direction, each column including one or more paragraphs of the plurality of paragraphs; for one or more paragraphs included in each of at least some of the one or more columns, determining a main paragraph in the column based on a first criterion related to geometric information of a paragraph; and for each of the columns, if one or more non-main paragraphs and the main paragraph in the column satisfy a geometric relationship for adding a main paragraph, taking the one or more non-main paragraphs as additional main paragraphs to the main paragraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijiao Cai, Xinpeng Feng, Ji Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200112731
    Abstract: A system and method for scalable video coding that includes base layer having lower resolution encoding, enhanced layer having higher resolution encoding and the data transferring between two layers. The system and method provides several methods to reduce bandwidth of inter-layer transfers while at the same time reducing memory requirements. Due to less memory access, the system clock frequency can be lowered so that system power consumption is lowered as well. The system avoids having prediction data from base layer to enhanced layer to be up-sampled for matching resolution in the enhanced layer as transferring up-sampled data can impose a big burden on memory bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicants: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Ji Zhou, Zhen Chen, Min Yu
  • Patent number: 10611028
    Abstract: A robot, a map building method and a storage medium are provided. The map building method includes building an initial map according to a scene image captured by a robot in real time when the robot traverses a work area. The initial map includes a first map including a mapping of the work area and a map coordinate system, and a second map including a scene feature extracted based on the scene image, a geometric quantity of the scene feature and the scene image, which are stored in association with the pose of the robot in a scene database when capturing the scene image, the pose including a coordinate and an orientation of the robot, and the scene feature including a feature of a feature object in the scene and/or a feature of the scene image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Zhou, Xinpeng Feng
  • Patent number: 10607542
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a pixel, and an AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display device comprising the pixel and a driving method thereof. The pixel circuit comprises a power supply circuit, a basic circuit and a compensation circuit, which are sequentially connected. The power supply circuit is connected to a first power supply to supply power to the basis circuit. The compensation circuit is connected to second and third power supplies, respectively, for providing difference values compensating for a voltage and current of an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode). The pixel comprises an OLED and the pixel circuit. The AMOLED display device comprises the pixel circuit. By compensating for a difference between threshold and power supply voltages of a transistor, the response characteristics of the AMOLED may be improved to generate light of a same brightness, thereby meeting requirements on image uniformity and consistency of an AMOLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: KUNSHAN NEW FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD., KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Zhu, Siming Hu, Xiuqi Huang, Ji Zhou
  • Patent number: 10609467
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head wearable equipment with an adjustable bone-conductive acoustic device movably coupled to the head wearable equipment and the moving manner at least includes rotation. A technical effect of adaptive adjustment according to the wearer's head form or facial shape can be realized via the structural arrangement of the adjustable bone-conductive acoustic device, with the characteristics of a large adjustable range, strong adaptability, high comfortability and a wide range of application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijiao Cai, Xinpeng Feng, Ji Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200097017
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot, an auto-recharging method therefor and a storage medium. The auto-recharging method for a robot comprises: the robot moving from an initial position to a docking position, wherein the docking position faces a charging interface of a charging pile; the robot traveling from the docking position to a charging position along a first path such that the robot is docked to the charging pile at the charging position, wherein the first path is a straight-line or approximately straight-line path, and the robot maintains a docking pose during the course of traveling along the first path and the charging pile is identified in the images captured by the robot in real time. The present disclosure may achieve auto-recharging of the robot without guidance of active light source, thereby reducing the cost of the robot and meanwhile offering a high flexibility to the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Ji ZHOU, Xinpeng FENG
  • Publication number: 20200097133
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses smart glasses. The smart glasses may capture an image and then identify one or more objects in the image. The object located at a predefined position or region in the image is informed to a user. With the method, rather than all of the objects in the image, the object at the predefined position or region is informed to a user, such that the informing efficiency of the smart glasses and user experience are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: NEXTVPU (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijiao Cai, Xinpeng Feng, Ji Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200100014
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head wearable equipment with an adjustable bone-conductive acoustic device movably coupled to the head wearable equipment and the moving manner at least includes rotation. A technical effect of adaptive adjustment according to the wearer's head form or facial shape can be realized via the structural arrangement of the adjustable bone-conductive acoustic device, with the characteristics of a large adjustable range, strong adaptability, high comfortability and a wide range of application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Haijiao CAI, Xinpeng FENG, Ji ZHOU