Patents by Inventor Kui Zhang

Kui Zhang 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: 11856748
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a semiconductor memory preparation method and a semiconductor memory, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate in which transistors are formed and have an array layout; forming a film stack structure on the semiconductor substrate; forming through holes penetrating the film stack structure to expose sources of the transistors; epitaxially growing a storage node contact layer on exposed surfaces of the sources of the transistors; and forming a bottom electrode of a capacitor on a surface of the storage node contact layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Zhan Ying
  • Publication number: 20230408009
    Abstract: The utility model discloses a pipe connection mechanism, a refrigeration system having the same, and a refrigeration appliance. The pipe connection mechanism is used for connecting a flexible pipe and a rigid pipe, and includes: a joint pipe and a sleeve sleeving the flexible pipe, wherein the joint pipe has a first pipe part fixedly connected to the rigid pipe, and a second pipe part forward inserted into the flexible pipe and stretching the flexible pipe in an interference manner; and the sleeve backward sleeves the second pipe part and the sleeve and the second pipe part clamp and fix the flexible pipe together. The refrigeration system includes a rigid pipe and a flexible pipe which are fixedly connected in a fit manner through the pipe connection mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: PENG YANG, KUI ZHANG, XIAOBING ZHU, JIANRU LIU, JIANQUAN CHEN, YANBIN WAN
  • Publication number: 20230383888
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a noise reduction device. The noise reduction device includes an outer connecting tube, and the outer connecting tube includes a first end connected to a capillary tube and a second end connected to an evaporator, wherein a plurality of porous wire meshes arranged at an interval is disposed in the outer connecting tube, and side edges of the porous wire meshes abut against an inner wall surface of the outer connecting tube; and pore diameters of the plurality of porous wire meshes are gradually reduced from the first end to the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: PENG YANG, KUI ZHANG, JIANQUAN CHEN, JIANRU LIU
  • Publication number: 20230367869
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for providing system services. In some embodiments, a method is disclosed. According to the method, from a user program in a user address space, a request for a system service is received via a program call instruction of a set of program call instructions in an application interface code library. Based on the program call instruction, a target authorized address space of a plurality of authorized address spaces and a target system service routine for providing the system service in the target authorized address space is determined. A result of running the target system service routine in the target authorized address space is returned to the user program as a response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: NAIJIE LI, Min Cheng, Kui Zhang, Yi Chai, Guang Han Sui
  • Patent number: 11814535
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing a polymeric clay composition for coating. A clay-polyacrylate composite is produced, where the clay-polyacrylate composite includes one or more layers of clay intercalated with polyacrylate, where the one or more layers of clay include at least one organosilane coupling agent including an acrylate moiety, where the at least one organosilane coupling agent is attached to a surface of the one or more layers of clay and the polyacrylate is covalently attached to the organosilane coupling agent, and where the polyacrylate consists of a first acrylate monomer and a second acrylate monomer having different solubility, where the first acrylate monomer is a hydrophilic acrylate monomer including a hydroxyl (—OH) group and the second acrylate monomer is a hydrophobic acrylate monomer which repels water. Furthermore, the clay-polyacrylate composite is mixed with a solution including a polymer to form the polymeric clay composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Xu Li, Yu Zhang, Ming Yan Tan, Siew Yee Wong, Xi Kui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11814534
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing a clay-polyacrylate composite. An aqueous solution including clay is mixed with at least one organosilane coupling agent including an acrylate moiety to form a silanized-clay suspension. The silanized-clay suspension is contacted with a first acrylate monomer and a second acrylate monomer in an inert environment, where the first acrylate monomer and the second acrylate monomer have different solubility. A polymerization initiator is added to the silanized-clay suspension before or during the contacting of the silanized-clay suspension with the first acrylate monomer and the second acrylate monomer in the inert environment to form the clay-polyacrylate composite including the first and second acrylate monomer, where the first acrylate monomer is a hydrophilic acrylate monomer including a hydroxyl (—OH) group and the second acrylate monomer is a hydrophobic acrylate monomer which repels water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Xu Li, Yu Zhang, Ming Yan Tan, Siew Yee Wong, Xi Kui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11817228
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wind-solar reactor system and a working method thereof. The wind-solar reactor system comprises a nuclear reactor system, a wind power generation system, a solar power storage system and a balance energy system, wherein the nuclear reactor system uses an integrated small modular reactor design, the solar power storage system uses a tower-type solar power storage system design, and a hydrogen production system uses a copper-chlorine cycle hydrogen production technology. A reactor keeps rated full-power operation, generated electricity is adjusted and distributed through a power controller, most of the electricity is used for smoothing the fluctuation of wind power generation, and the excess electricity is used for hydrogen storage of the hydrogen system. Solar power is used for heating saturated steam generated by the reactor into superheated steam through a heater, and then the superheated steam enters a high-pressure cylinder to do work by expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guanghui Su, Yan Zhang, Wenxi Tian, Kui Zhang, Suizheng Qiu, Ronghua Chen
  • Publication number: 20230362170
    Abstract: Method, systems, and computer program products for access configuration in hybrid network environments are disclosed. According to the method, an access configuration request is received from a client device in a first network environment, wherein the access configuration request is associated with an access to a network resource in a second network environment and comprises first authentication information associated with the client device. Further, second authentication information associated with the network resource is obtained. The first and second authentication information is further used to determine whether the access configuration request is verified. If the access configuration request is verified, connectivity between the client device and the network resource can be automatically established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Qian Xia Song, Xiao Ling Chen, Ai Ping Feng, CHUN LI JIA, Jin Jin Yang, Kui Zhang, Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 11811599
    Abstract: A connection request from one computing entity is obtained. The connection request is a request to connect to another computing entity and includes a requested connectivity protocol configuration. A determination is made as to whether the requested connectivity protocol configuration is a match to a particular connectivity protocol configuration of the other computing entity. Based on determining that the requested connectivity protocol configuration is not a match to the particular connectivity protocol configuration of the other computing entity, a selected configuration file that is a match to the requested connectivity protocol configuration is selected from a plurality of configuration files. Based on selecting the selected configuration file, routing of the connection request to a connectivity protocol service corresponding to the selected configuration file is initiated to facilitate establishing a connection between the one computing entity and the other computing entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiu Chang Du, Kui Zhang, Zhan Peng Huo, Yong Qing Xu, Peng Hui Jiang
  • Patent number: 11800057
    Abstract: In a multi-camera videoconferencing configuration, the locations of each camera are known. By referencing a known object visible to each camera, a 3D coordinate system is developed, with the position and angle of each camera being associated with that 3D coordinate system. The locations of the conference participants in the 3D coordinate system are determined for each camera. Sound source localization (SSL) from one camera, generally a central camera, is used to determine the speaker. The pose of the speaker is then determined. From the pose and the known locations of the cameras, the camera with the best frontal view of the speaker is determined. The 3D coordinates of the speaker are then used to direct the determined camera to frame the speaker. If the face of the speaker is not sufficiently visible, the next best camera view is determined, and the speaker framed from that camera view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Yan, Kui Zhang, David Young
  • Patent number: 11777754
    Abstract: The number of persons in a still image acquired during a videoconference may change over time due to movement or persons entering or exiting a conference room. Minimizing the number of person identifiers that are tracked is beneficial for framing purposes. Typically, a stream of frames is sent to a far side, such as another endpoint device, for viewing. If the number of persons identified keeps changing, the composition of the stream of frames will be constantly changing as well. By using person identification and the use of timers, movement by the same person or a temporary change in a number or set of persons may be detected without making changes to the number of identifiers and persons being framed. It is only when a change has persisted past a period of time that changes are made to the frames, thereby improving the overall viewing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Raghavendra Balavalikar Krishnamurthy, Rajen Bhatt
  • Publication number: 20230306698
    Abstract: A method including generating, by applying a three-dimensional pose estimation model to an original image generated by a camera, estimated three-dimensional poses for people in the original image. The estimated three-dimensional poses include distances from the camera. The method further includes determining, using the distances, a far people subset of the people. Each person of the far people subset corresponds to a distance from the camera exceeding a threshold distance. The method further includes, deriving, for the far people subset, regions of interest, upscaling a region of interest for a person of the far people subset to generate an upscaled region of interest, and generating, from the original image and the upscaled region of interest, an enhanced image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Varun Ajay Kulkarni, Raghavendra Balavalikar Krishnamurthy, Kui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11749691
    Abstract: An electronic device substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device substrate includes a base substrate, a first insulating layer, and light-emitting sub-units, a first conductive member and a second conductive member, which are on a side of the first insulating layer away from the base substrate. The light-emitting sub-units and the first conductive member are respectively in array region and periphery region, and the second conductive member is between the first conductive member and the array region; orthogonal projections of the first and second conductive members on the base substrate are spaced apart; each light-emitting sub-unit includes first and second driving electrodes, second driving electrodes of the light-emitting sub-units are integrated to form a first common electrode layer; the periphery region further includes a second common electrode layer electrically connected to the first conductive member and the first common electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Pengcheng Lu, Li Liu, Yunlong Li, Dacheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11737303
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. In the OLED display substrate, an anode pattern is located at a side of an insulating layer away from a base substrate and is located in an effective display region; an organic light-emitting layer is located on the anode pattern; a periphery region includes a lead wire region and a virtual region that are at least partly overlapped; a lead wire is located in the lead wire region; the virtual region is provided with a virtual anode pattern, the virtual anode pattern is insulated from the lead wire; the periphery region further includes an annular electrode surrounding the effective display region; a cathode is electrically connected with the annular electrode; the virtual region is located at an outer side of the annular electrode away from the effective display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kui Zhang, Li Liu, Pengcheng Lu, Yunlong Li
  • Publication number: 20230259740
    Abstract: Distributed machine learning inference includes acquiring, by an input device, an input frame, executing, by an embedded processor of the input device, a model feature extractor on the input frame to obtain extracted features of the input frame, and transmitting the extracted features from the input device to a processing device. The processing device executes a model feature aggregator to process the plurality of extracted features and obtain a model result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Varun Ajay KULKARNI, Raghavendra Balavalikar Krishnamurthy, Kui Zhang, David Wang
  • Publication number: 20230227688
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing a polymeric clay composition for coating. A clay-polyacrylate composite is produced, where the clay-polyacrylate composite includes one or more layers of clay intercalated with polyacrylate, where the one or more layers of clay include at least one organosilane coupling agent including an acrylate moiety, where the at least one organosilane coupling agent is attached to a surface of the one or more layers of clay and the polyacrylate is covalently attached to the organosilane coupling agent, and where the polyacrylate consists of a first acrylate monomer and a second acrylate monomer having different solubility, where the first acrylate monomer is a hydrophilic acrylate monomer including a hydroxyl (—OH) group and the second acrylate monomer is a hydrophobic acrylate monomer which repels water. Furthermore, the clay-polyacrylate composite is mixed with a solution including a polymer to form the polymeric clay composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Xu Li, Yu Zhang, Ming Yan Tan, Siew Yee Wong, Xi Kui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230225110
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes: a base; a plurality of channel pillars perpendicularly provided on the base; a plurality of parallel bit lines, each of the bit lines wrapping lower parts of one column of the channel pillars; and a plurality of parallel word lines, each of the word lines wrapping upper parts of one row of the channel pillars, where the word lines and the bit lines are perpendicular to each other on a same projection plane; an insulating material layer is formed around the channel pillars below the bit lines, between adjacent bit lines, around the channel pillars between the bit lines and the word lines, and between adjacent word lines, separately; and gaps are formed in at least one of the insulating material layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Kui ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230223429
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate, including a plurality of lower electrode pillars that are arranged at intervals; a dielectric layer, at least partially covering a sidewall of each of the lower electrode pillars; a first upper electrode, covering a surface of the dielectric layer; a first support layer, located above the plurality of lower electrode pillars, the dielectric layer, and the first upper electrode, wherein the first support layer at least exposes a peripheral region of a part of the first upper electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Kui ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230216988
    Abstract: In a multi-camera videoconferencing configuration, the locations of each camera are known. By referencing a known object visible to each camera, a 3D coordinate system is developed, with the position and angle of each camera being associated with that 3D coordinate system. The locations of the conference participants in the 3D coordinate system are determined for each camera. Sound source localization (SSL) from one camera, generally a central camera, is used to determine the speaker. The pose of the speaker is then determined. From the pose and the known locations of the cameras, the camera with the best frontal view of the speaker is determined. The 3D coordinates of the speaker are then used to direct the determined camera to frame the speaker. If the face of the speaker is not sufficiently visible, the next best camera view is determined, and the speaker framed from that camera view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yong YAN, Kui ZHANG, David YOUNG
  • Publication number: 20230212417
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing a clay-polyacrylate composite. An aqueous solution including clay is mixed with at least one organosilane coupling agent including an acrylate moiety to form a silanized-clay suspension. The silanized-clay suspension is contacted with a first acrylate monomer and a second acrylate monomer in an inert environment, where the first acrylate monomer and the second acrylate monomer have different solubility. A polymerization initiator is added to the silanized-clay suspension before or during the contacting of the silanized-clay suspension with the first acrylate monomer and the second acrylate monomer in the inert environment to form the clay-polyacrylate composite including the first and second acrylate monomer, where the first acrylate monomer is a hydrophilic acrylate monomer including a hydroxyl (—OH) group and the second acrylate monomer is a hydrophobic acrylate monomer which repels water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Xu Li, Yu Zhang, Ming Yan Tan, Siew Yee Wong, Xi Kui Zhang