Patents by Inventor Jianfeng Ren

Jianfeng Ren 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: 12028609
    Abstract: Disruptions in the continuity of image frames output from an image capture device due to switching from one image sensor to another image sensor of the device may be reduced or eliminated through controlled timing for switching of the image sensors according to a predefined image sensor configuration. Operation of a multi-sensor image device according to the predefined image sensor configuration may include an appropriate selection of a source for image adjustment during the zoom level transition. The predefined image sensor configuration may define transition parameters for particular zoom ranges of the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shizhong Liu, Jianfeng Ren, Weiliang Liu, Nikhil Uchil, Jincheng Huang, Sahul Madanayakanahalli Phaniraj Venkatesh, Krishnankutty Kolathappilly, Wei Zou
  • Patent number: 11908100
    Abstract: Artefacts in a sequence of image frames may be reduced or eliminated through modification of an input image frame to match another image frame in the sequence, such as by geometrically warping to generate a corrected image frame with a field of view matched to another frame in sequence of frames with the image frame. The warping may be performed based on a model generated from data regarding the multi-sensor device. The disparity between image frames may be modeled based on image captures from the first and second image sensor for scenes at varying depths. The model may be used to predict disparity values for captured images, and those predicted disparity values used to reduce artefacts resulting from image sensor switching. The predicted disparity values may be used in image conditions resulting in erroneous actual disparity values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shizhong Liu, Jincheng Huang, Weiliang Liu, Jianfeng Ren, Sahul Madanayakanahalli Phaniraj Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 11509837
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described regarding initiating a recursive blending of a plurality of frames following a camera transition. One or more processors may, subsequent to a transition from a first camera mode to a second camera mode, blend one or more pixels of a first frame with one or more pixels of a second frame to produce a first blended frame, the first frame captured via a first camera, and the second frame captured via a second camera. The one or more processors may then output the first blended frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Weiliang Liu, Shizhong Liu, Tao Ma, Jianfeng Ren
  • Publication number: 20220292630
    Abstract: Artefacts in a sequence of image frames may be reduced or eliminated through modification of an input image frame to match another image frame in the sequence, such as by geometrically warping to generate a corrected image frame with a field of view matched to another frame in sequence of frames with the image frame. The warping may be performed based on a model generated from data regarding the multi-sensor device. The disparity between image frames may be modeled based on image captures from the first and second image sensor for scenes at varying depths. The model may be used to predict disparity values for captured images, and those predicted disparity values used to reduce artefacts resulting from image sensor switching. The predicted disparity values may be used in image conditions resulting in erroneous actual disparity values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Shizhong Liu, Jincheng Huang, Weiliang Liu, Jianfeng Ren, Sahul Madanayakanahalli Phaniraj Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 11405563
    Abstract: This disclosure provides devices, methods, computer-readable medium, and means for spatial alignment transform. In some aspects, a device may perform operations including capturing a first image of a scene using a first sensor at a first zoom ratio, capturing a second image of the scene using a second sensor at a second zoom ratio, the first image having a different field-of-view (FOV) than the second image, determining a translation matrix based on one or more spatial misalignments between the first image and the second image, determining a confidence associated with the translation matrix, in response to the confidence being greater than a confidence threshold, determining a weighting factor based on the first zoom ratio, the second zoom ratio, and a current zoom ratio of the device, applying the weighting factor to the translation matrix, and warping the first image to the second image using the weighted translation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianfeng Ren, Shizhong Liu, Weiliang Liu, Kuan-Chen Pan, Nikhil Uchil, Wei Zou
  • Publication number: 20220201208
    Abstract: Disruptions in the continuity of image frames output from an image capture device due to switching from one image sensor to another image sensor of the device may be reduced or eliminated through controlled timing for switching of the image sensors according to a predefined image sensor configuration. Operation of a multi-sensor image device according to the predefined image sensor configuration may include an appropriate selection of a source for image adjustment during the zoom level transition. The predefined image sensor configuration may define transition parameters for particular zoom ranges of the image capture device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Shizhong Liu, Jianfeng Ren, Weiliang Liu, Nikhil Uchil, Jincheng Huang, Sahul Madanayakanahalli Phaniraj Venkatesh, Krishnankutty Kolathappilly, Wei Zou
  • Publication number: 20220150420
    Abstract: This disclosure provides devices, methods, computer-readable medium, and means for spatial alignment transform. In some aspects, a device may perform operations including capturing a first image of a scene using a first sensor at a first zoom ratio, capturing a second image of the scene using a second sensor at a second zoom ratio, the first image having a different field-of-view (FOV) than the second image, determining a translation matrix based on one or more spatial misalignments between the first image and the second image, determining a confidence associated with the translation matrix, in response to the confidence being greater than a confidence threshold, determining a weighting factor based on the first zoom ratio, the second zoom ratio, and a current zoom ratio of the device, applying the weighting factor to the translation matrix, and warping the first image to the second image using the weighted translation matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Jianfeng Ren, Shizhong Liu, Weiliang Liu, Kuan-Chen Pan, Nikhil Uchil, Wei Zou
  • Publication number: 20210360172
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described regarding initiating a recursive blending of a plurality of frames following a camera transition. One or more processors may, subsequent to a transition from a first camera mode to a second camera mode, blend one or more pixels of a first frame with one or more pixels of a second frame to produce a first blended frame, the first frame captured via a first camera, and the second frame captured via a second camera. The one or more processors may then output the first blended frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Weiliang Liu, Shizhong Liu, Tao Ma, Jianfeng Ren
  • Patent number: 10886740
    Abstract: Provided is an emergency accurate control method and system for large-scale interruptible loads. The method includes: acquiring, by a region control master station, a sheddable load sequence table; acquiring, by the region control master station, a first to-be-shed load; performing, by the region control master station, minimum under-shedding matching layer by layer according to the first to-be-shed load, and shedding a sheddable load corresponding to control substation matching with the first to-be-shed load; and sending, by the region control master station, a second to-be-shed load to the corresponding control substation for load shedding if the second to-be-shed load exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., Nari Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jijun Yin, Qing Chen, Gang Chen, Xiao Lu, Jianyu Luo, Haifeng Li, Xueming Li, Kaiming Luo, Lin Liu, Yunsong Yan, Yefeng Jiang, Jianfeng Ren, Haifeng Xia
  • Patent number: 10785043
    Abstract: Provided are an accurate load shedding system, and a communication method and an access apparatus thereof. The access apparatus includes: two E1 interfaces, eight optical fiber interfaces, a CPU and an FPGA. The two E1 interfaces are respectively connected to a control apparatus A and a control apparatus B of a control substation. The eight optical fiber interfaces are respectively connected to eight control terminals. The FPGA includes eight optical fiber transceivers respectively connected to the eight optical fiber interfaces through serial interfaces, and two E1 transceivers respectively connected to the two E1 interfaces through serial interfaces. Each optical fiber transceiver includes a reset submodule. Each E1 transceiver also includes a reset submodule. The CPU is connected to the FPGA through a parallel bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., Ltd., Nari Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jijun Yin, Qing Chen, Zheng Wu, Xiao Lu, Hengzhi Cui, Jianyu Luo, Chunlei Xu, Xueming Li, Xiangdong Chen, Kaiming Luo, Bijun Li, Lin Liu, Yunsong Yan, Jianfeng Ren, Haifeng Xia
  • Publication number: 20200251901
    Abstract: Provided is an emergency accurate control method and system for large-scale interruptible loads. The method includes: acquiring, by a region control master station, a sheddable load sequence table; acquiring, by the region control master station, a first to-be-shed load; performing, by the region control master station, minimum under-shedding matching layer by layer according to the first to-be-shed load, and shedding a sheddable load corresponding to control substation matching with the first to-be-shed load; and sending, by the region control master station, a second to-be-shed load to the corresponding control substation for load shedding if the second to-be-shed load exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Jijun YIN, Qing CHEN, Gang CHEN, Xiao LU, Jianyu LUO, Haifeng LI, Xueming LI, Kaiming LUO, Lin LIU, Yunsong YAN, Yefeng JIANG, Jianfeng REN, Haifeng XIA
  • Publication number: 20200252226
    Abstract: Provided are an accurate load shedding system, and a communication method and an access apparatus thereof. The access apparatus includes: two E1 interfaces, eight optical fiber interfaces, a CPU and an FPGA. The two E1 interfaces are respectively connected to a control apparatus A and a control apparatus B of a control substation. The eight optical fiber interfaces are respectively connected to eight control terminals. The FPGA includes eight optical fiber transceivers respectively connected to the eight optical fiber interfaces through serial interfaces, and two E1 transceivers respectively connected to the two E1 interfaces through serial interfaces. Each optical fiber transceiver includes a reset submodule. Each E1 transceiver also includes a reset submodule. The CPU is connected to the FPGA through a parallel bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Jijun Yin, Qing Chen, Zheng Wu, Xiao Lu, Hengzhi Cui, Jianyu Luo, Chunlei Xu, Xueming Li, Xiangdong Chen, Kaiming Luo, Bijun Li, Lin Liu, Yunsong Yan, Jianfeng Ren, Haifeng Xia
  • Patent number: 10615952
    Abstract: Provided are a synchronization method, a wide area system protection apparatus, a plant station and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: sending to a second plant station a first data frame that includes a sequence number p and a sending timestamp of the first data frame; receiving a second data frame sent by the second plant station, and recording a receiving timestamp of the second data frame, the second data frame including a sequence number q of the second data frame, a sending timestamp of the second data frame and a receiving timestamp of the first data frame, and the first data frame being adjacent to the second frame on the second plant station; calculating a time phase difference and a crystal oscillator frequency deviation between the first plant station and the second plant station; and adjusting time and a clock frequency of the first plant station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD., NARI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, NANJING CHSCOM ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jijun Yin, Qing Chen, Zheng Wu, Xiao Lu, Jianyu Luo, Haifeng Li, Xueming Li, Li Zhang, Feng Xue, Kaiming Luo, Lin Liu, Yunsong Yan, Jianfeng Ren, Haifeng Xia
  • Patent number: 10586102
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a first frame of a scene. The method also includes performing object recognition of at least one object within a first bounding region of the first frame. The method further includes performing object tracking of the at least one object within the first bounding region of the first frame. The method additionally includes determining a second bounding region of a second frame based on the object tracking. The second frame is subsequent to the first frame. The method also includes determining whether the second bounding region is valid based on a predetermined object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianfeng Ren, Feng Guo, Ruiduo Yang
  • Patent number: 10375399
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for generating a background picture. The background picture can be used for coding one or more pictures. For example, a method of generating a background picture includes generating a long-term background model for one or more pixels of a background picture. The long-term background model includes a statistical model for detecting long-term motion of the one or more pixels in a sequence of pictures. The method further includes generating a short-term background model for the one or more pixels of the background picture. The short-term background model detects short-term motion of the one or more pixels between two or more pictures. The method further includes determining a value for the one or more pixels of the background picture using the long-term background model and the short-term background model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Ying Chen, Ning Bi, Xuerui Zhang, Lei Ma, Chinchuan Chiu, Jianfeng Ren
  • Patent number: 10262466
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a combined image. The combined image includes a combination of images captured from one or more image sensors. The method also includes obtaining depth information. The depth information is based on a distance measurement between a depth sensor and at least one object in the combined image. The method further includes adjusting a combined image visualization based on the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Feng Guo, Ning Bi, Bijan Forutanpour, Tao Zhang, Jianfeng Ren
  • Patent number: 10152630
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for processing video data. For example, techniques and systems are provided for performing content-adaptive blob filtering. A number of blobs generated for a video frame is determined. A size of a first blob from the blobs is determined, the first blob including pixels of at least a portion of a first foreground object in the video frame. The first blob is filtered from the plurality of blobs when the size of the first blob is less than a size threshold. The size threshold is determined based on the number of the plurality of blobs generated for the video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jianfeng Ren, Jian Wei, Ning Bi
  • Patent number: 10133947
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an object detector configured to receive image data of a scene viewed from the apparatus and including an object. The image data is associated with multiple scale space representations of the scene. The object detector is configured to detect the object responsive to location data and a first scale space representation of the multiple scale space representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ruiduo Yang, Ning Bi, Sichao Yang, Xinzhou Wu, Feng Guo, Jianfeng Ren
  • Patent number: 9898668
    Abstract: A system and method of object detection are disclosed. In a particular implementation, a method of processing an image includes receiving, at a processor, image data associated with an image of a scene. The scene includes a road region. The method further includes detecting the road region based on the image data and determining a subset of the image data. The subset excludes at least a portion of the image data corresponding to the road region. The method further includes performing an object detection operation on the subset of the image data to detect an object. The object detection operation performed on the subset of the image data is exclusive of the at least a portion of the image data corresponding to the road region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jianfeng Ren, Ruiduo Yang, Feng Guo, Shili Xu, Shuxue Quan, Ning Bi
  • Publication number: 20180046858
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for processing video data. For example, techniques and systems are provided for performing content-adaptive blob filtering. A number of blobs generated for a video frame is determined. A size of a first blob from the blobs is determined, the first blob including pixels of at least a portion of a first foreground object in the video frame. The first blob is filtered from the plurality of blobs when the size of the first blob is less than a size threshold. The size threshold is determined based on the number of the plurality of blobs generated for the video frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jianfeng Ren, Jian Wei, Ning Bi