Patents by Inventor Jianliang Ma
Jianliang Ma 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).
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Publication number: 20250009168Abstract: A method and system for locating food items and determining their outlines in the images captured by a food preparation system is disclosed herein. The method relies on reliable annotated data to determine locations and outlines of food items, with a higher accuracy than conventional methods, due to the additional constraints provided by food item identities and cooking progress levels of the food items. With the location and outline determination performed prior to the cooking progress level determination in a separate process, the disclosed methods and systems allow for different types of foods to be cooked simultaneously and monitored individually, and improving the functions of the cooking appliances and the convenience of the users.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Qiang LIU, Jianliang MA, Taoli YANG
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Publication number: 20250009169Abstract: A method and system for assessing individual and/or overall cooking progress of food items in a food preparation system is disclosed herein. The method for assessing cooking progress of food items relies on reliable annotated data in order to provide real-time feedback and guidance to a user. The methods and systems are specifically trained to optimize the accuracy of determining cooking progress of food items, utilizing a difference feature tensor that compares the cooking progress of a food item with a baseline image of the food item at the start of the cooking process. The noise and averaging effect due to the presence of different food items and/or same types of food items with slight variations in appearances and consistencies are reduced in the cooking progress level determination model, resulting in better accuracy of the cooking progress level assessment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Qiang LIU, Jianliang MA, Taoli YANG, Shufang PENG
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Patent number: 12122265Abstract: A track assembly includes a track and a support member connected to and configured move along the track. The support member may include an engagement portion. The engagement portion may be configured to engage the track to limit relative movement between the track and the support member in a loaded state of the track assembly. The engagement portion may be configured not to operatively engage the track or limit movement between the track and the support member in an unloaded state of the track assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Fahui Xiao, Jianliang Ma, Hui Zhang, Chao Wang, Chengyuan Liu
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System and method for collecting and annotating cooking images for training smart cooking appliances
Patent number: 12102259Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA KITCHEN APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiang Liu, Jianliang Ma, Taoli Yang, Xuemei Yu -
Patent number: 11597305Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided having a track assembly to allow a seat bottom to slide in a fore-aft direction. A lock assembly is connected to the track assembly and moveable between a locked status and an unlocked status, wherein in the locked status the seat bottom is prevented from sliding, and in the unlocked status, the seat bottom is allowed to slide. A seatback is pivotally connected to the seat bottom. When the seatback is pivoted forward to a first inclined position, the seatback engages and moves the lock assembly to the unlocked status. In the unlocked status, the seat bottom is biased to slide rearward to a rear storage position. In the rear storage position, the lock assembly is moved to the locked status.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Zhiqiang Hu, Suhua Zhou, Tao Yin, Jianliang Ma
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Patent number: 11586544Abstract: A data prefetching method and a terminal device are provided. The CPU core cluster is configured to deliver a data access request to a first cache of the at least one level of cache, where the data access request carries a first address, and the first address is an address of data that the CPU core cluster currently needs to access in the memory. The prefetcher in the terminal device provided in embodiments of this application may generate a prefetch-from address, and load data corresponding to the generated prefetch-from address to the first cache. When needing to access the data, the CPU core cluster can read from the first cache, without a need to read from the memory. This helps increase an operating rate of the CPU core cluster.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Gongzheng Shi, Jianliang Ma, Liqiang Wang
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Patent number: 11554696Abstract: An anti-submarine arrangement for a vehicle seat includes an elongated member pivotably attached between opposing members of a seat bottom support structure. A leg is fixedly attached to the elongated member and pivotably attached to a structural portion of the vehicle seat. The elongated member is rotatable forward and downward relative to the structural portion of the vehicle seat. A damper arrangement is attached to the leg and to the structural portion of the vehicle seat. The damper arrangement opposes a forward and downward rotation of the elongated member.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Zhiqiang Hu, Junjie Mo, Suhua Zhou, Jianliang Ma, Rahul Deshmukh, Yue Zuo
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Publication number: 20220194274Abstract: An anti-submarine arrangement for a vehicle seat includes an elongated member pivotably attached between opposing members of a seat bottom support structure. A leg is fixedly attached to the elongated member and pivotably attached to a structural portion of the vehicle seat. The elongated member is rotatable forward and downward relative to the structural portion of the vehicle seat. A damper arrangement is attached to the leg and to the structural portion of the vehicle seat. The damper arrangement opposes a forward and downward rotation of the elongated member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Zhiqiang HU, Junjie MO, Suhua ZHOU, Jianliang MA, Rahul DESHMUKH, Yue ZUO
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Publication number: 20210354598Abstract: A track assembly includes a track and a support member connected to and configured move along the track. The support member may include an engagement portion. The engagement portion may be configured to engage the track to limit relative movement between the track and the support member in a loaded state of the track assembly. The engagement portion may be configured not to operatively engage the track or limit movement between the track and the support member in an unloaded state of the track assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Fahui Xiao, Jianliang Ma, Hui Zhang, Chao Wang, Chengyuan Liu
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Publication number: 20210354602Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided having a track assembly to allow a seat bottom to slide in a fore-aft direction. A lock assembly is connected to the track assembly and moveable between a locked status and an unlocked status, wherein in the locked status the seat bottom is prevented from sliding, and in the unlocked status, the seat bottom is allowed to slide. A seatback is pivotally connected to the seat bottom. When the seatback is pivoted forward to a first inclined position, the seatback engages and moves the lock assembly to the unlocked status. In the unlocked status, the seat bottom is biased to slide rearward to a rear storage position. In the rear storage position, the lock assembly is moved to the locked status.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Zhiqiang HU, Suhua ZHOU, Tao YIN, Jianliang MA
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System and Method for Collecting and Annotating Cooking Images for Training Smart Cooking Appliances
Publication number: 20210228022Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Qiang LIU, Jianliang MA, Taoli YANG, Xuemei YU -
Publication number: 20210149806Abstract: A data prefetching method and a terminal device are provided. The CPU core cluster is configured to deliver a data access request to a first cache of the at least one level of cache, where the data access request carries a first address, and the first address is an address of data that the CPU core cluster currently needs to access in the memory. The prefetcher in the terminal device provided in embodiments of this application may generate a prefetch-from address, and load data corresponding to the generated prefetch-from address to the first cache. When needing to access the data, the CPU core cluster can read from the first cache, without a need to read from the memory. This helps increase an operating rate of the CPU core cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Gongzheng SHI, Jianliang MA, Liqiang WANG
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Patent number: 10530049Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cable structure, a power cord structure and an electrical device. The cable structure includes: a power cord, a shell arranged on the power cord, and an antenna arranged in the shell. Because the antenna is arranged in the shell and does not need to be exposed to the outside, it works in a good environment and can be protected from being damaged easily and, thereby guaranteeing the working reliability and stability of the antenna. Because the shell is arranged on the power cord, the electrical device does not need to be provided with additional antenna devices, thereby improving the overall appearance, convenience for carrying and the user experience. The shell is arranged on the power cord, the position of the shell can be at the middle, the front or different positions depending on requirements of the power cord, therefore satisfying different user needs.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA KITCHEN APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianliang Ma, Zhenfeng Zhang, Songtao Li
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Patent number: 10525852Abstract: A seat arrangement for a vehicle includes first and second mounting brackets configured for attachment to a vehicle body. A seat back frame is attached to the first mounting bracket and is pivotable relative to the first mounting bracket around a first pivot axis. A seat cushion frame is pivotably attached to the second mounting bracket, and attached to the seat back frame such that the seat cushion frame and the seat back frame are pivotable relative to each other around a second pivot axis positioned above the first pivot axis when the seat back frame is in a use position.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Lear CorporationInventor: Jianliang Ma
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Publication number: 20190110638Abstract: A cooking appliance uses machine learning models to provide better automation of the cooking process. As one example, a cooking appliance has a cook chamber in which food is placed for cooking. A camera is positioned to view an interior of the cook chamber. When food is placed inside the cook chamber, the camera captures images of the food. From the images, the machine learning model determines various attributes of the food, such as the type of food and/or the amount of food, and the cooking process is controlled accordingly. The machine learning model may be resident in the cooking appliance or it may be accessed via a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Xiaochun Li, Hua Zhou, Jianliang Ma, Yue Zhang
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Publication number: 20190074638Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power cord plug, a power cord structure and an electrical device for a power cord, and the power cord plug includes: a shell, and a communication device and an antenna arranged in the shell. According to the power cord plug provided by the present disclosure, as the communication device and the antenna are arranged in the shell of the power cord plug, the communication device is far away from the electrical device, so the communication ability of the communication device will not be shielded by the metal shell of the electrical device, and will not be affected by a motor, a circuit board, coils, a magnetron and other factors in the electrical device, or affected by the high temperature caused by the operation of the equipment, accordingly the communication device works in a good environment, and the working reliability and stability of the communication device are guaranteed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Jianliang MA, Zhenfeng ZHANG, Songtao LI
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Publication number: 20190058249Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cable structure, a power cord structure and an electrical device. The cable structure includes: a power cord, a shell arranged on the power cord, and an antenna arranged in the shell. Because the antenna is arranged in the shell and does not need to be exposed to the outside, it works in a good environment and can be protected from being damaged easily and, thereby guaranteeing the working reliability and stability of the antenna. Because the shell is arranged on the power cord, the electrical device does not need to be provided with additional antenna devices, thereby improving the overall appearance, convenience for carrying and the user experience. The shell is arranged on the power cord, the position of the shell can be at the middle, the front or different positions depending on requirements of the power cord, therefore satisfying different user needs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Jianliang MA, Zhenfeng Zhang, Songtao Li
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Patent number: 10011196Abstract: A seat assembly is provided with a seat bottom adapted to mount to a vehicle. The seat assembly further includes a first seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom defining a recline angle relative to the seat bottom, and a second seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom proximate to the first seat back defining a recline angle relative to the seat bottom. A pin is pivotally connected to the second seat back, is sized to be received within a latch mechanism on the first seat back, and is operably connected to the second seat back to pivot to a stowed position when the first seat back is pivoted to a recline angle that is less than the second seat back recline angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: LEAR CorporationInventors: Nizar Freijy, Rahul Deshmukh, Jianliang Ma, ShuYing Xia, YiHua Huang, Michael Heinrich Joop Heyer, Norbert Hertling, Martin Stanner, Stephan Purnhagen
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Publication number: 20180079333Abstract: A seat arrangement for a vehicle includes first and second mounting brackets configured for attachment to a vehicle body. A seat back frame is attached to the first mounting bracket and is pivotable relative to the first mounting bracket around a first pivot axis. A seat cushion frame is pivotably attached to the second mounting bracket, and attached to the seat back frame such that the seat cushion frame and the seat back frame are pivotable relative to each other around a second pivot axis positioned above the first pivot axis when the seat back frame is in a use position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventor: Jianliang MA
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Publication number: 20160375802Abstract: A seat assembly is provided with a seat bottom adapted to mount to a vehicle. The seat assembly further includes a first seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom defining a recline angle relative to the seat bottom, and a second seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom proximate to the first seat back defining a recline angle relative to the seat bottom. A pin is pivotally connected to the second seat back, is sized to be received within a latch mechanism on the first seat back, and is operably connected to the second seat back to pivot to a stowed position when the first seat back is pivoted to a recline angle that is less than the second seat back recline angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Nizar FREIJY, Rahul DESHMUKH, Jianliang MA, ShuYing XIA, YiHua HUANG, Michael Heinrich JOOP HEYER, Norbert HERTLING, Martin STANNER, Stephan PURNHAGEN