Patents by Inventor Kai Ding
Kai Ding 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: 12266363Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, devices, apparatus, and storage medium for performing speech-to-text conversion. The method includes: displaying, by a first device, a first user interface, the first user interface being a display screen of a virtual environment that provides a virtual activity place for a first virtual role controlled by a first user account; displaying, by a second device, a second user interface, the second user interface being a display screen of a virtual environment that provides a virtual activity place for a second virtual role controlled by a second user account; in response to a speech input operation by the first user account performed on the first device, displaying, by the first device, a chat message in a first language, and displaying, by the second device, the chat message in a second language.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Peicheng Liu, Xiaohao Liu, Yancan Wang, Dong Ding, Kai Tang, Shan Lin
-
Patent number: 12264582Abstract: An in-situ stress measurement device for ultra-deep non-vertical drilling adopts a technical route of single channel and bidirectional rolling of in-hole equipment, and its related functions are mainly realized by a bidirectional rolling device and a split-type axial-force-free circuit switching valve. The bidirectional rolling device can drive the in-hole equipment to move freely in a circumferential direction and back and forth, which changes sliding friction between the in-hole equipment and a hole wall into rolling friction during an in-situ stress measurement of non-vertical drilling. The split-type axial-force-free circuit switching valve provides a technical solution for a single-pipe test in the non-vertical drilling.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Changjing River Scientific Research InstituteInventors: Xiaoyu Han, Zhihong Dong, Xiuli Ding, Ping Fu, Liming Zhou, Xinhui Zhang, Bin Wang, Yuankun Liu, Sheng Luo, Chunhua Zhou, Kai Ai, Heng Zhang
-
Patent number: 12255529Abstract: The present invention provides a power factor correction (PFC) and DC-DC multiplexing converter and an uninterruptible power supply including the same. The multiplexing converter includes a multiplexing bridge arm and a battery hookup bridge arm. During power supply of a battery, the converter controls one electrode of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery to be alternately connected to a neutral point and one of positive and negative direct current buses that has the same polarity as the electrode, to enable a level of the electrode of the battery to synchronously and alternately rise or drop with the alternate supply of power to the positive and negative direct current buses; or controls one electrode of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery to be constantly connected to the neutral point.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Lian Zheng Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kai Liu, Yusong Ding, Zhongyong Xu
-
Patent number: 12252542Abstract: An antibody may be capable of specifically binding CD137 or an antigen binding fragment thereof, wherein the light chain variable region and the heavy chain variable region have one or more mutations. The antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof may be used in preparing a drug. The antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof may specifically bind CD137, and may include a light chain variable region VL and a heavy chain variable region VH, wherein compared to a sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 103, the VL comprises one or more VL amino acid mutations, and the VL amino acid mutation occurs at one or more positions: V3, A10, K44, D71, and/or V77.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Shihuida Pharmaceutical Group (Jilin) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xin Zhang, Jianjian Peng, Kai Fu, Hui Ma, Xiaolong Pan, Shilong Fu, Shuli Ma, Jian Ding
-
Patent number: 12232684Abstract: Provided are a filter cleaning apparatus and a filter cleaning system. The filter cleaning apparatus includes a shielding body, and at least one cleaning strip is arranged on an inner wall of the shielding body, a dust collection connector is arranged on the shielding body, one end of the dust collection connector is communicated with a dust collection apparatus, and the other end of the dust collection connector is communicated with a cavity in the shielding body. By arranging a dust collection connector on the filter cleaning apparatus, when the filter is cleaned, the dirt may be sucked into the dust collection apparatus in real time by the dust collection connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: TINECO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Huaiqiang Ren, Kai Liu, He Xu, Mingyang Ding
-
Publication number: 20250053177Abstract: A robot control method, including: determining a target operation map according to target position information of a current operation of a robot; determining, based on a pre-established map connection relationship, a transfer position that the robot moves to; controlling the robot to move to the transfer position and switching maps, until the robot moves to the target operation map; and controlling the robot to move to an operation destination according to map information of the target operation map and the target position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Zihan SHANG, Kun Du, Kai Liu, Linfeng Wen, Song Ding, Peng Yi, Zhongxing Bai
-
Publication number: 20250056920Abstract: The present disclosure provides devices and methods for repairing dice during micro-LED display fabrication. The devices include a backplane. The backplane has a plurality of backplane electrodes. Each backplane electrode includes a first material. A plurality of micro-LEDs having a plurality of micro-LED electrodes is included in the device. Each micro-LED electrode includes a second material. Each micro-LED electrode is bonded to each backplane electrode with an alloy of the first material and the second material therebetween. At least one backplane electrode is bonded to the micro-LED electrode via a repair material. The device includes a plurality of subpixel isolation (SI) structures formed over the backplane. The SI structures define wells of sub-pixels. Each well includes a respective micro-LED between adjacent SI structures. The sub-pixels have a color conversion material disposed in the wells.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Peiwen LIU, Uma SRIDHAR, Hyunsung BANG, Kai DING, Jeffrey L. FRANKLIN, Mingwei ZHU, Hou T. NG, Nag B. PATIBANDLA
-
Patent number: 12221118Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing knowledge distillation for autonomous vehicles. One of the methods includes obtaining sensor data characterizing an environment, wherein the sensor data has been captured by one or more sensors on-board a vehicle in the environment; processing, for each of one or more surrounding agents in the environment, a network input generated from the sensor data using a neural network to generate an agent discomfort prediction that characterizes a level of discomfort of the agent; combining the one or more agent discomfort predictions to generate an aggregated discomfort score; and providing the aggregated discomfort score to a path planning system of the vehicle in order to generate a future path of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Minfa Wang, Kai Ding, Haoyu Chen, Wei Chai, Maher Mneimneh
-
Patent number: 12215901Abstract: A deflector for a condenser. The condenser has an inlet in communication with a compressor, and a deflector for guiding a refrigerant gas flow from the compressor is arranged in the condenser and at a position close to the inlet. The deflector is provided with a deflecting structure projecting toward the inlet, and the deflecting structure is configured as impermeable to the refrigerant gas flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Michael A. Stark, Scott A. Nieforth, Kai Deng, Haiping Ding, Yuling Shi, HongYi Li
-
Publication number: 20250025585Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the fields of radiopharmaceuticals and nuclear medicine and provides a precursor composition of HER2 affibody, comprising: HEPES, sodium glucoheptonate, stannons chloride and an HER2 affibody, wherein the composition is free of vitamin C and cysteine, and the composition is a lyophilized powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Jiong CAI, Yi LIU, Dalin GAO, Xu SONG, Kai XIAO, Chen LIANG, Guozhong DING, Mingxia LIU
-
Publication number: 20250028898Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The information processing method includes: obtaining a first type document and a second type document of a preset file, and displaying the first type document and the second type document in a first area of a page, wherein the first type document is an electronic version of the preset file, and the second type document is a scanning version of the preset file; and comparing the first type document with the second type document, and displaying a comparison result of blocky content in a second area of the page, wherein the blocky content includes a picture, a table and/or a newly added page.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Zikai QI, Yifan DING, Kai DU, Kuo PEI, Ni ZHUANG
-
Patent number: 12204333Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, sensor data for an object as well as a plurality of predicted trajectories may be received. Each predicted trajectory may represent a plurality of possible future locations for the object. A grid including a plurality of cells, each being associated with a geographic area, may be generated. Probabilities that the object will enter the geographic area associated with each of the plurality of cells over a period of time into the future may be determined based on the sensor data in order to generate a heat map. One or more of the plurality of predicted trajectories may be compared to the heat map. The vehicle may be controlled in the autonomous driving mode based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Khaled Refaat, Kai Ding
-
Publication number: 20240403114Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a task schedule for generating prediction data for different agents. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving data that characterizes an environment in a vicinity of a vehicle at a current time step, the environment comprising a plurality of agents; receiving data that identifies high-priority agents for which respective data characterizing the agents must be generated at the current time step; identifying available computing resources at the current time step; processing the data that characterizes the environment using a complexity scoring model to determine a respective complexity score for each of the high-priority agents; and determining a schedule for the current time step that allocates the generation of the data characterizing the high-priority agents across the available computing resources based on the complexity scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Tacettin Dogacan Guney, Kai Ding, Olivier Gravel Aubin
-
Patent number: 12157501Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that obtain scene features in an environment that includes an autonomous vehicle, a first target agent, and a second target agent, and determines whether the first target agent is an emergency vehicle that is active at a current time point. In response to determining that the first target agent is an emergency vehicle that is active at the current time point, an input is generated from the scene features. The input can characterize the scene and indicate that the first target agent is an emergency vehicle that is active at the current time point. Also in response, the input can be processed using a machine learning model that is configured to generate a trajectory prediction output for the second target agent that characterizes predicted future behavior of the second target agent after the current time point.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Aishwarya Parasuram, Alisha Saxena, Anoosha Sagar, Kai Ding, Stéphane Ross, Xin Liu
-
Patent number: 12139172Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting near-curb driving behavior. One of the methods includes obtaining agent trajectory data for an agent in an environment, the agent trajectory data comprising a current location and current values for a predetermined set of motion parameters of the agent; processing a model input generated from the agent trajectory data using a trained machine learning model to generate a model output comprising a prediction of whether the agent will exhibit near-curb driving behavior within a predetermined timeframe, wherein an agent exhibits near-curb driving behavior when the agent operates within a particular distance of an edge of a road in the environment; and using the prediction to generate a planned path for a vehicle in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Vishu Goyal, Kai Ding, Yang Wang
-
Publication number: 20240320899Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program code may be provided. The method may include obtaining a first scene space unit in which a dynamic scene element in a scene space is located at a first moment and obtaining a first photographing space unit in which a virtual camera is located in a photographing space at the first moment. The method may also include determining a visibility relationship between the first scene space unit and the first photographing space unit based on prestored visibility data. When the visibility relationship between the first scene space unit and the first photographing space unit is invisible, the method includes removing the dynamic scene element and obtaining remaining dynamic scene elements in the scene space. The method then renders the scene picture in the first moment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Hailong WANG, Kai DING
-
Patent number: 12073244Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a task schedule for generating prediction data for different agents. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving data that characterizes an environment in a vicinity of a vehicle at a current time step, the environment comprising a plurality of agents; receiving data that identifies high-priority agents for which respective data characterizing the agents must be generated at the current time step; identifying available computing resources at the current time step; processing the data that characterizes the environment using a complexity scoring model to determine a respective complexity score for each of the high-priority agents; and determining a schedule for the current time step that allocates the generation of the data characterizing the high-priority agents across the available computing resources based on the complexity scores.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Tacettin Dogacan Guney, Kai Ding, Olivier Gravel Aubin
-
Patent number: 12030877Abstract: Compounds and compositions are provided that can inhibit microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 (mPGES-1). The compounds and compositions can reduce inflammation in a subject, such as inflammation caused by an inflammation disorder or symptoms thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compound are also provided. Furthermore, methods are provided for reducing inflammation and/or inhibiting mPGES-1. The methods can comprise administering an effective amount of the composition to a subject.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: University of Kentucky Research FoundationInventors: Chang-Guo Zhan, Fang Zheng, Kai Ding, Ziyuan Zhou
-
Publication number: 20240186458Abstract: Micro-LED structures include an LED epilayer that may be formed before the micro-LED structure is coupled to a backplane substrate. In order to prevent light leakage and maximize light output, the sidewalls and other surfaces of the LED epilayer may be coated with a reflective coating. For example, the reflective coating may include a metal layer that is electrically insulated between dielectric layers from the micro-LED electrodes. The reflective coating may also be formed using multiple layers in a distributed Bragg reflector configuration. This reflective coating may be formed during the LED fabrication process before the micro-LED structure is coupled to the backplane. The pixel isolation structures on the backplane may also include a reflective coating that is applied above the LED epilayers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Kai Ding, Lisong Xu, Mingwei Zhu, Zhiyong Li, Hou T. Ng, Sivapackia Ganapathiappan, Nag Patibandla
-
Patent number: 11977382Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying high-priority agents in the vicinity of a vehicle. The high-priority agents can be identified based on a set of mutual importance scores in which each mutual importance score indicates an estimated mutual relevance between the vehicle and a different agent from a set of agents on planning decisions of the other. The mutual importance scores can be calculated based on importance scores assessed from the perspectives of both the vehicle and the agents.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Kai Ding, Minfa Wang, Haoyu Chen, Khaled Refaat, Stephane Ross, Wei Chai