Patents by Inventor Lei Ma

Lei 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).

  • Patent number: 10936071
    Abstract: One embodiment described herein takes the form of a watch, comprising: a housing; a crown comprising: a crown body outside the housing; and a shaft extending from the crown body into the housing; and an actuator coupled to the crown and configured to provide haptic output through the crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Erik G. de Jong, Colin M. Ely, Benjamin G. Jackson, Lei Ma, Steven C. Roach, Steven P. Cardinali
  • Patent number: 10927811
    Abstract: A start control method for wind turbines (102), comprising: a master control determines whether its real-time wind speed reaches a preset start wind speed when a wind speed of at least one wind turbine (102) or anemometer tower in a wind farm reaches or exceeds the preset start wind speed; the master controller updates a corresponding number simulative start times when determining that its real-time wind speed reaches or exceeds the preset start wind speed, and starts the wind turbine (102) when the number of simulative start times reaches a preset count value. The present invention also relates to a master controller, a system, and a central controller for wind turbines (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Ma, Qingjiang Li, Yong Lu
  • Publication number: 20210035272
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provide to perform automatic banding correction in captured images. For example, the methods receive from a plurality of sensing elements in a sensor array, first image data captured with a first exposure parameter, and second image data captured with a second exposure parameter. The methods partition first image data and second image data and determine values for each partition. The methods compute banding errors based on the determined values of the partitions for first image data and second image data. The methods also determine a banding error correction to one or more of first image data and second image data based on the banding errors. Further, the methods perform an automatic correction of the banding errors on one or more of first image data and second image based on the banding error correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yihe YAO, Tao MA, Yawen CHI, Yan-Jing LEI, Lei MA
  • Publication number: 20200347787
    Abstract: A hybrid electric propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine having at least one compressor section and at least one turbine section operably coupled to a shaft. The hybrid electric propulsion system includes an electric motor configured to augment rotational power of the shaft of the gas turbine engine. A controller is operable to determine an estimate of hybrid electric propulsion system parameters based on a composite system model and sensor data, determine a model predictive control state and a prediction based on the hybrid electric propulsion system parameters and the composite system model, determine a model predictive control optimization for a plurality of hybrid electric system control effectors based on the model predictive control state and the prediction using a plurality of reduced-order partitions of the composite system model, and actuate the hybrid electric system control effectors based on the model predictive control optimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy J. Crowley, Sorin Bengea, Manuj Dhingra, David Gelwan, Kevin Hendricks, Joshua Adams, Martin Richard Amari, Richard P. Meisner, David Lei Ma
  • Patent number: 10823142
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for controlling wind turbine shutdown. The method includes: obtaining, according to a preset sampling period, a grid voltage for a wind turbine, and sending the obtained grid voltage to an converter controller; determining, by the converter controller and based on the grid voltage, an operating condition of a power grid is power outage of power grid; sending, in a case that the power outage of power grid is determined, a signal indicating power outage of power grid to a main controller of a main control system of the wind turbine; and controlling, by the main controller in a case that the signal indicating power outage of power grid is received, a pitch system to perform a variable-rate feathering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Zhiqiang Yang, Lei Ma
  • Publication number: 20200337363
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sucking particle for heat-not-bum cigarettes, which comprises the following components by weight fraction: 8-20 parts of microcrystalline cellulose, 50-80 parts of tobacco powder, 0.5-2 parts of tobacco pyrolysate, 1 part of physiological taste adjusting component of tobacco, 8-30 parts of atomizing agent, 0.1-2 parts of tobacco essence and 1-10 parts of propylene glycol; the present invention further provides a manufacturing method for the above product. The product has the benefits of good heating performance, rapid atomizing when heated at 250-310° C. with a heating sheet, complete heating and considerable smoke, similar tobacco aroma and physiological satisfaction as smoking traditional cigarettes and less processing difficulty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Jianbing QIAN, Lei MA, Baoming ZHAN
  • Patent number: 10816595
    Abstract: A self-test apparatus for use in an electronic system includes an inter-chip communication bus, a plurality of circuit devices, circuitry including memory, and test controller circuitry. The plurality of circuit devices each has a distributed self-test controller circuit and analog, mixed signal or digital circuit elements. The distributed self-test controller circuits are integrated communicatively via the inter-chip communication bus and negotiate a self-test protocol with each other. The circuitry including memory stores self-test properties of the circuit elements, the self-test properties corresponding to an identifier of each of the circuit elements and a manner or protocol in which the circuit elements are tested. The test controller circuitry collects the self-test properties of the circuit elements and controls execution of the self-test according to the negotiated self-test protocol and the self-test properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiankun Jin, Jan-Peter Schat, Tao Chen, Lei Ma
  • Publication number: 20200331977
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of biopharmaceuticals and provides a nerve growth factor (NGF) fusion protein and a preparation method and use thereof. The fusion protein has a general formula represented by A-B or A-L-B, wherein A is a nerve growth factor, L is a linker peptide, and B is an Fc moiety of IgG, or an analogue of the Fc moiety of IgG, or a fragment of the Fc moiety of IgG. The fusion protein of the present disclosure has the following advantages over a wild-type NGF: higher biological activity, a half-life extended more than 17 times, greatly reduced administration frequency, and significantly increased efficacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Qingshuang Zhang, Lei Ma, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 10776665
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a set of images. The method also includes determining a motion region and a static region based on the set of images. The method further includes extracting, at a first rate, first features from the motion region. The method additionally includes extracting, at a second rate that is different from the first rate, second features from the static region. The method also includes caching the second features. The method further includes detecting at least one object based on at least a portion of the first features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ching-Hui Chen, Chinchuan Chiu, Lei Ma, Shuxue Quan
  • Publication number: 20200250098
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a cache memory to store data as a plurality of cache lines each having a data size and an associated physical address in a memory, access circuitry to access the data stored in the cache memory, detection circuitry to detect, for at least a set of sub-units of the cache lines stored in the cache memory, whether a number of accesses by the access circuitry to a given sub-unit exceeds a predetermined threshold, in which each sub-unit has a data size that is smaller than the data size of a cache line, prediction circuitry to generate a prediction, for a given region of a plurality of regions of physical address space, of whether data stored in that region comprises streaming data in which each of one or more portions of the given cache line is predicted to be subject to a maximum of one read operation or multiple access data in which each of the one or more portions of the given cache line is predicted to be subject to more than one read operation, the prediction circuitry being configured
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Lei MA, Alexander Alfred HORNUNG, Ian Michael CAULFIELD
  • Patent number: 10725923
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a cache memory to store data as a plurality of cache lines each having a data size and an associated physical address in a memory, access circuitry to access the data stored in the cache memory, detection circuitry to detect, for at least a set of sub-units of the cache lines stored in the cache memory, whether a number of accesses by the access circuitry to a given sub-unit exceeds a predetermined threshold, in which each sub-unit has a data size that is smaller than the data size of a cache line, prediction circuitry to generate a prediction, for a given region of a plurality of regions of physical address space, of whether data stored in that region comprises streaming data in which each of one or more portions of the given cache line is predicted to be subject to a maximum of one read operation or multiple access data in which each of the one or more portions of the given cache line is predicted to be subject to more than one read operation, the prediction circuitry being configured
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Lei Ma, Alexander Alfred Hornung, Ian Michael Caulfield
  • Patent number: 10711734
    Abstract: A control system for a gas turbine engine, a method for controlling a gas turbine engine, and a gas turbine engine are disclosed. The control system may include a nozzle scheduler for determining an exhaust nozzle position goal based on a nozzle schedule of exhaust nozzle positions related to flight conditions. The control system may further include a control module for determining a control command for the gas turbine engine. The control command may include, at least, a fuel flow command and an exhaust nozzle position command and the control command may be based on, at least, the exhaust nozzle position goal and an estimated thrust value. The control system may further include an actuator for controlling the gas turbine engine based on the control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chaohong Cai, Timothy J. Crowley, Mark E. Lacour, David Lei Ma
  • Publication number: 20200211166
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for high dynamic range (HDR) processing. In one aspect, the device may generate multiple frames, each frame being generated through a line-based exposure at a camera image sensor. The multiple frames can have at least two different exposure times and have staggered line-based exposure times during the at least two different exposure times. Additionally, the device can obtain movement information associated with the camera image sensor from a gyroscope sensor. The device can also modify the multiple frames based on the obtained movement information from the gyroscope sensor. Moreover, the device can combine the multiple frames into a staggered HDR image. The device can also generate a de-warp mesh for each frame based on the obtained movement information from the gyroscope sensor, and each frame can be modified based on its corresponding generated de-warp mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yihe YAO, Chien Chen CHEN, Lei MA, WenHao LIN, Fanxing KONG
  • Publication number: 20200124662
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to a self-test apparatus for use in an electronic system. The self-test apparatus includes an inter-chip communication bus, a plurality of circuit devices, circuitry including memory, and test controller circuitry. The plurality of circuit devices each has a distributed self-test controller circuit and analog, mixed signal or digital circuit elements. The distributed self-test controller circuits are integrated communicatively via the inter-chip communication bus and negotiate a self-test protocol with each other. The circuitry including memory stores self-test properties of the circuit elements, the self-test properties corresponding to an identifier of each of the circuit elements and a manner or protocol in which the circuit elements are tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xiankun Jin, Jan-Peter Schat, Tao Chen, Lei Ma
  • Publication number: 20200099862
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for performing multiple frame electronic image stabilization (EIS). An example device may include a memory and a processor configured to receive a current frame for performing multiple frame EIS, determine a location of a cropping in the current frame for an EIS image, and crop current image information from the current frame using the cropping. The cropped current image information is included in the EIS image. The processor further may be configured to determine a portion of the cropping for the EIS image not in the current frame, retrieve from the memory prior image information for the portion of the cropping from one or more prior frames in response to determining the portion of the cropping not in the current frame, and generate, for the current frame, the EIS image including the current image information and the prior image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yihe Yao, Lei Ma, Fanxing Kong, Nan Jiang
  • Patent number: 10591533
    Abstract: A display substrate, a display panel including the display substrate and a display device including the display panel are provided. The display substrate comprises a flexible circuit board and test pads, wherein the flexible circuit board covers an area of the test pads. In the aforesaid display substrate, the flexible circuit board covers the area of the test pads, so that test points on the test pads can be prevented from contacting the outside, and corrosion of the test points and signal abnormity in signal lines resulting therefrom during testing are prevented; compared with the prior art, the process of coating the test pads with UV adhesive is omitted, thus the process flow is reduced, and the production efficiency and the productivity are improved; moreover, the thickness of the display substrate can be reduced, which is conducive for the display panel including the display substrate to be lighter and thinner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xue Dong, Lei Ma, Hailin Xue, Haibo Zhu, Yue Li, Wenbo Jiang, Dong Yang, Ming Yang
  • Publication number: 20200073477
    Abstract: One embodiment described herein takes the form of a watch, comprising: a housing; a crown comprising: a crown body outside the housing; and a shaft extending from the crown body into the housing; and an actuator coupled to the crown and configured to provide haptic output through the crown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Erik G. de Jong, Colin M. Ely, Benjamin G. Jackson, Lei Ma, Steven C. Roach, Steven P. Cardinali
  • Patent number: 10558243
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and a method for producing a housing, which relate to a technical field of electronics. The electronic apparatus comprises: a housing comprising a side wall forming an accommodating space and having an outer surface which is divided into K appearance layers, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, and wherein borderlines between adjacent layers in the K appearance layers are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Shurong He, Xiaoli Fan, Yue Qin, Yuming Xie, Yingjia Yao, Lei Ma, Xiaoqin Han
  • Publication number: 20200025130
    Abstract: A control system for a gas turbine engine, a method for controlling a gas turbine engine, and a gas turbine engine are disclosed. The control system may include a nozzle scheduler for determining an exhaust nozzle position goal based on a nozzle schedule of exhaust nozzle positions related to flight conditions. The control system may further include a control module for determining a control command for the gas turbine engine. The control command may include, at least, a fuel flow command and an exhaust nozzle position command and the control command may be based on, at least, the exhaust nozzle position goal and an estimated thrust value. The control system may further include an actuator for controlling the gas turbine engine based on the control command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Chaohong Cai, Timothy J. Crowley, Mark E. Lacour, David Lei Ma
  • Publication number: 20200011295
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for controlling wind turbine shutdown. The method includes: obtaining, according to a preset sampling period, a grid voltage for a wind turbine, and sending the obtained grid voltage to an converter controller; determining, by the converter controller and based on the grid voltage, an operating condition of a power grid is power outage of power grid; sending, in a case that the power outage of power grid is determined, a signal indicating power outage of power grid to a main controller of a main control system of the wind turbine; and controlling, by the main controller in a case that the signal indicating power outage of power grid is received, a pitch system to perform a variable-rate feathering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Zhiqiang YANG, Lei MA