Patents by Inventor Jianwei Zhao

Jianwei Zhao 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: 10314270
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated G3697124H. Also included are seeds of canola G3697124H, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola G3697124H and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola G3697124H with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola G3697124H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Ross Gingera, Donna Carolynn Knievel, Jianwei Zhao, Sherry Gore
  • Patent number: 10306852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated G1992650A. Also included are seeds of canola G1992650A, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola G1992650A and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola G1992650A with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola G1992650A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Ross Gingera, Donna Carolynn Knievel, Muhammad Tahir, Jianwei Zhao
  • Patent number: 10294072
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of elevator control, and provides an elevator system capable of monitoring children use and a control method thereof. The elevator system of the present invention includes: an elevator control system; an RGB-D sensor or an intelligent wearable device; and an information analytic processing apparatus. The elevator system and control method thereof in the present invention is accurate, reliable and safe when monitoring the situation of children using the elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhao, Hui Fang, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 10282847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of passenger conveyor technologies, and provides a monitoring system of a passenger conveyor and a monitoring method thereof. In the monitoring system and detection method of the present invention, a monitored object of the passenger conveyor is sensed by using an imaging sensor and/or a depth sensing sensor to acquire a data frame, and the data frame is analyzed by a processing apparatus to monitor whether the monitored object is in a normal state. The monitored object may include a landing plate, a step, a barrier used in a maintenance and repair working condition and/or a step speed, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: JianGuo Li, ZhaoXia Hu, LongWen Wang, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn, Wei Ge, Wilfrid Fuchs, Arthur Hsu, Yanzhi Chen
  • Publication number: 20190128552
    Abstract: A living organism statistical system in a predetermined spatial region according to the present invention includes Bluetooth modules that can be carried by living organisms and configured to broadcast a Bluetooth signal to the predetermined spatial region, and a living organism statistical device mounted in the predetermined spatial region and configured to receive Bluetooth signals from one or more of the Bluetooth modules and obtain quantity information of living organisms in the predetermined spatial region based on the received Bluetooth signals. The present invention can implement automatic determination of quantity information of living organisms in a predetermined spatial region, and therefore, the present invention can dynamically control one or more air terminal devices of an HVAC system in a self-adaptive manner according to changes in the quantity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhao, Liang Cai, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 10244716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated CL3701975H. Also included are seeds of canola CL3701975H, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola CL3701975H and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola CL3701975H with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola CL3701975H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Shaw, Van L. Ripley, Jianwei Zhao, Sherry Gore, Muhammad Tahir
  • Patent number: 10238068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated G6667223H. Also included are seeds of canola G6667223H, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola G6667223H and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola G6667223H with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola G6667223H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Ross Gingera, Donna Carolynn Knievel, Jianwei Zhao, Sherry Gore, Muhammad Tahir, Ushan Alahakoon
  • Publication number: 20190082634
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated CL6665383H. Also included are seeds of canola CL6665383H, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola CL6665383H and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola CL6665383H with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola CL6665383H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Shaw, Van L. Ripley, Muhammad Tahir, Jianwei Zhao, Sherry Gore, Ushan Alahakoon
  • Publication number: 20190082633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola, designated G6667223H. Also included are seeds of canola G6667223H, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola G6667223H and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola G6667223H with itself or another canola genotype, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola G6667223H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Ross Gingera, Donna Carolynn Knievel, Jianwei Zhao, Sherry Gore, Muhammad Tahir, Ushan Alahakoon
  • Patent number: 10221046
    Abstract: A moving handrail monitoring system includes a sensor configured to sense at least part of a moving handrail of the passenger conveying device to acquire a data frame; a processing device configured to analyze and process the data frame to monitor whether a tension degree of the moving handrail is in a normal state, wherein the processing device is configured to include: a target object recognition module configured to recognize, based on a sensed movement and/or position and/or color and/or shape, a moving handrail portion that serves as a target object from the data frame; an object feature extraction module configured to extract a tension degree feature of the moving handrail portion; and a judgment module configured to compare the extracted tension degree feature with a system preset interval, and judge whether a current tension degree of the moving handrail is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: ZhaoXia Hu, Wilfrid Fuchs, Alois Senger, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn
  • Patent number: 10214391
    Abstract: The present invention provides a handrail entry monitoring system of a passenger conveyor and a monitoring method thereof, and belongs to the field of passenger conveyor technologies. In the handrail entry monitoring system and the monitoring method of the present invention, at least part of a handrail entry region of the passenger conveyor is sensed by using an imaging sensor and/or a depth sensing sensor, to acquire a data frame, and the data frame is analyzed to monitor whether a handrail entry of the operating passenger conveyor is in a normal state or an abnormal state. The monitoring system of the present invention and the monitoring method thereof can timely and effectively detect a danger that a foreign matter is about to be entrapped into the handrail entry, helping prevent foreign matters from being entrapped into the handrail entry, thereby improving safety of the passenger conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: LongWen Wang, ZhaoXia Hu, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn, Gero Gschwendtner
  • Patent number: 10183843
    Abstract: The present invention relates to step roller monitoring and maintenance personnel monitoring of a passenger conveyor, and belongs to the field of passenger conveyor technologies. In the monitoring system and monitoring method of the present invention, an imaging sensor and/or a depth sensing sensor is used to sense the step roller/maintenance personnel of the passenger conveyor to acquire data frames, and the data frames are analyzed and processed to monitor whether the movement or position of the step roller/activity or position of the maintenance personnel is in a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: ZhaoXia Hu, JianGuo Li, Alois Senger, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn, Wei Ge, Yanying Chen, LongWen Wang, DuEon Kim
  • Patent number: 10173864
    Abstract: A moving handrail monitoring system includes a sensor configured to sense at least part of a moving handrail of the passenger conveying device to acquire a data frame; a processing device configured to analyze and process the data frame to monitor whether a tension degree of the moving handrail is in a normal state, wherein the processing device is configured to include: a target object recognition module configured to recognize, based on a sensed movement and/or position and/or color and/or shape, a moving handrail portion that serves as a target object from the data frame; an object feature extraction module configured to extract a tension degree feature of the moving handrail portion; and a judgment module configured to compare the extracted tension degree feature with a system preset interval, and judge whether a current tension degree of the moving handrail is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: ZhaoXia Hu, Wilfrid Fuchs, Alois Senger, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn
  • Patent number: 10176381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video analysis system for an energy-consuming building equipment. The video analysis system includes a camera and an image processing unit to monitor people who appear in a target region, and in an actual space where the camera coexists with the energy-consuming building equipment, a height from the camera to a bottom surface of the actual space ranges from 2 to 10 meters. The present invention further relates to an intelligent building management system provided with the video analysis system for the energy-consuming building equipment. With the video analysis system of the present invention, a security system of a building is combined with the energy-consuming building equipment by means of an optimal camera design/arrangement, which can improve the operation efficiency of the whole building significantly and achieve a desirable energy-saving effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhao, YuHui Kuang, Robert Hong-Leung Chiang
  • Publication number: 20180309909
    Abstract: The utility model provides an image sensor terminal and a building management system, and belongs to the field of building intelligent management technologies. The image sensor terminal of the utility model includes an image sensor and a lens element, and further includes: a photosensitive filter and light-transmitting layer disposed at a light incoming side of the lens element; and the image sensor terminal is further provided with a mounting portion for fixing the image sensor terminal into a building. The building management system of the utility model uses a plurality of the image sensor terminals. Image information acquired by the image sensor terminal of the utility model under strong light conditions is more accurate, and image information acquired under different ambient light density conditions is more consistent. The control of the building management system of the utility model under different ambient light density conditions has better accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhao, Benliang Li, Qiang Li, Anning Qui
  • Publication number: 20180257912
    Abstract: A moving handrail monitoring system includes a sensor configured to sense at least part of a moving handrail of the passenger conveying device to acquire a data frame; a processing device configured to analyze and process the data frame to monitor whether a tension degree of the moving handrail is in a normal state, wherein the processing device is configured to include: a target object recognition module configured to recognize, based on a sensed movement and/or position and/or color and/or shape, a moving handrail portion that serves as a target object from the data frame; an object feature extraction module configured to extract a tension degree feature of the moving handrail portion; and a judgment module configured to compare the extracted tension degree feature with a system preset interval, and judge whether a current tension degree of the moving handrail is normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: ZhaoXia Hu, Wilfrid Fuchs, Alois Senger, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn
  • Publication number: 20180259215
    Abstract: A building air conditioning control system for controlling the comfort degree of air in at least one floor area of the building, and includes: a first head counting module to acquire first head count change data of a floor area according to a weight change of a cabin of an elevator when passing the corresponding floor area; a second head counting module to acquire second head count change data of the floor area according to data acquired by an image sensor mounted in the corresponding floor area; and an air conditioning control module to correct head count change data based on the first head count change data and the second head count change data, and control the comfort degree of air in the floor area based on the corrected head count change data. The building air conditioning control system and control method provide accurate control and good user experiences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Lijia Zhao, Sanming Wen, Jiahuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 10071884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of passenger conveyor technologies, and provides an engaging state detection system of a passenger conveyor and a detection method thereof. In the engaging state detection system and detection method of the present invention, a depth sensing sensor is used to sense at least an engaging portion between a step and a comb plate of the passenger conveyor to obtain depth maps, and the depth maps are analyzed by a processing apparatus to detect whether an engaging state between the step and the comb plate is a normal state. The detection of the engaging state includes detection on whether comb teeth of the comb plate are broken, whether engaging teeth of the step are broken, and/or whether a foreign matter exists on an engaging line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: JianGuo Li, Nigel Morris, Alois Senger, Jianwei Zhao, ZhaoXia Hu, Qiang Li, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn, LongWen Wang, Qian Li, Gero Gschwendtner
  • Patent number: 10059569
    Abstract: A monitoring system and a monitoring method for a passenger conveying device, and the passenger conveying device. The monitoring system comprises an imaging sensor and/or a depth sensing sensor for sensing a monitoring area of the passenger conveying device to acquire data frames; and a processing device for performing data processing on the data frames to monitor whether the monitoring area is abnormal, and configured to comprise: a background acquisition module for acquiring a background model based on data frames sensed when the monitoring area is in a normal state; a foreground detection module for comparing data frames sensed in real time with the background model to obtain a foreground object; a foreground feature extraction module for extracting a corresponding foreground object markup feature from the foreground object; and a state judgment module for judging whether the foreground object belongs to an abnormal population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Yanzhi Chen, Alan Matthew Finn, Arthur Hsu, Jianwei Zhao, ZhaoXia Hu, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Longwen Wang, XuLei Guo, Alois Senger
  • Patent number: 10046952
    Abstract: A moving handrail monitoring system includes a sensor configured to sense at least part of a moving handrail of the passenger conveying device to acquire a data frame; a processing device configured to analyze and process the data frame to monitor whether a tension degree of the moving handrail is in a normal state, wherein the processing device is configured to include: a target object recognition module configured to recognize, based on a sensed movement and/or position and/or color and/or shape, a moving handrail portion that serves as a target object from the data frame; an object feature extraction module configured to extract a tension degree feature of the moving handrail portion; and a judgment module configured to compare the extracted tension degree feature with a system preset interval, and judge whether a current tension degree of the moving handrail is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: ZhaoXia Hu, Wilfrid Fuchs, Alois Senger, Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Jianwei Zhao, Qiang Li, Anna Su, Alan Matthew Finn