Patents by Inventor Lei Miao

Lei Miao 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).

  • Publication number: 20230131892
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an inter-channel phase difference parameter encoding method, where a current frame is obtained; a signal type and a previous IPD parameter encoding scheme of a previous frame are obtained; a current IPD parameter encoding scheme is obtained at least based on the signal type of the previous frame and the previous IPD parameter encoding scheme; and an IPD parameter of the current frame is processed based on the current IPD parameter encoding scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Xingtao ZHANG, Haiting LI, Zexin LIU, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 11610592
    Abstract: An audio signal decoding device includes a non-transitory memory storage stores audio data in a form of a bitstream; and an audio decoder, by which a first spectral coefficient of a first sub-band of a current frame of an audio signal by decoding the bitstream is obtained; a first average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of the first sub-band is obtained; a first noise filling gain for the first sub-band is obtained when the first average quantity is less than a threshold; a second spectral coefficient is reconstructed according to the first noise filling gain; a frequency domain audio signal is obtained according to the first spectral coefficient and the second spectral coefficient; and a time domain audio signal is generated according to the frequency domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Fengyan Qi, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20230077905
    Abstract: In a stereo encoding method, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first obtained, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the obtained channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11580998
    Abstract: A method for encoding a high frequency signal includes determining a signal type of a high frequency signal of a current frame, smoothing and scaling time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame and obtaining time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame that require to be encoded when the high frequency signal of the current frame is a non-transient signal and a high frequency signal of the previous frame is a transient signal, and quantizing and encoding the time envelopes of the high frequency signal of the current frame that require to be encoded, and frequency information and signal type information of the high frequency signal of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CRYSTAL CLEAR CODEC, LLC
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao, Anisse Taleb
  • Patent number: 11580996
    Abstract: A signal processing method and device includes obtaining spectral coefficients of a current frame of an audio signal, in which N sub-bands of the current frame comprises at least one of the spectral coefficients. A total energy of M successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, a total energy of K successive sub-bands of the N sub-bands, and an energy of a first sub-band are obtained to determine whether to modify original envelope values of the M sub-bands. When the original envelope values of the M sub-bands are modified, encoding bits are allocated to each of the N sub-bands according to the modified envelope values of the M sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Lei Miao, Zexin Liu
  • Patent number: 11568882
    Abstract: This application discloses an IPD parameter encoding method, including: obtaining a reference parameter used to determine an IPD parameter encoding scheme of a current frame of a multi-channel signal; determining the IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame based on the reference parameter, where the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame is one of at least two preset IPD parameter encoding schemes; and processing an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the determined IPD parameter encoding scheme of the current frame. The technical solutions provided in this application can improve encoding quality of the multi-channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20230014616
    Abstract: This application discloses a charging management and control method and an electronic device. The method includes: When connecting to an external power supply, the electronic device starts to obtain data such as a time at which the external power supply is connected, a battery level, and a charger type; the electronic device obtains first duration and second duration based on the data; in the first duration, the electronic device performs fast charging on the battery; and in the second duration, the electronic device performs slow charging on the battery, or suspends charging the battery. In this way, the electronic device performs management and control on a charging process of the battery when charging the battery, to reduce a time of continuing charging the battery in a fully charged state by the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kenan Liu, Xinxian Lu, Lei Miao, Junjie Wang, Hongma Liu, Zhaohui Tang, Duming Wu
  • Patent number: 11527253
    Abstract: In a stereo encoding method, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first obtained, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the obtained channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220366922
    Abstract: An encoding method includes dividing a to-be-encoded time-domain signal into a low band signal and a high band signal, performing encoding on the low band signal to obtain a low frequency encoding parameter, performing encoding on the high band signal to obtain a high frequency encoding parameter, obtaining a synthesized high band signal, performing short-time post-filtering processing on the synthesized high band signal to obtain a short-time filtering signal, and calculating a high frequency gain based on the high band signal and the short-time filtering signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220328053
    Abstract: An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method includes obtaining a parameter for obtaining an information extraction manner for a current frame of a multi-channel signal; obtaining an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the parameter for obtaining the information extraction manner, where the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner is one of at least two preset IPD parameter extraction manners; and obtaining an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11459304
    Abstract: Provided herein are lipidoid compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive lipidoid compounds, compositions, or formulations for treating and/or preventing diseases (e.g., genetic disease, proliferative disease, hematological disease, neurological disease, painful condition, psychiatric disorder, metabolic disorder, long-term medical condition, inflammatory disease, autoinflammatory disease, liver disease, lung disease, spleen disease, familial amyloid neuropathy, cardiovascular disease, viral infection, infectious disease, fibrotic condition, or autoimmune disease) in a subject, methods for synthesizing the compounds described herein, and compounds described herein synthesized by the synthetic methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Lei Miao, Linxian Li, Daniel Griffith Anderson, Yuxuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11462225
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for reconstructing a noise component of a speech/audio signal. A bitstream is received and decoded to obtain a speech/audio signal. A first speech/audio signal is determined according to the speech/audio signal. A symbol of each sample value in the first speech/audio signal and an amplitude value of each sample value in the first speech/audio signal is determined. An adaptive normalization length and an adjusted amplitude value of each sample value are determined according to the adaptive normalization length and the amplitude value of each sample value. A second speech/audio signal is determined according to the symbol of each sample value and the adjusted amplitude value of each sample value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220310104
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method includes determining a downmixed signal of a first channel signal and a second channel signal, determining an initial reverberation gain parameter of the first channel signal and the second channel signal, determining a target reverberation gain parameter of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a correlation between the first channel signal and the downmixed signal, a correlation between the second channel signal and the downmixed signal, and the initial reverberation gain parameter, quantizing the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on the downmixed signal and the target reverberation gain parameter, and writing a quantized first channel signal and a quantized second channel signal into a bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220310101
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; when the channel combination scheme for the current frame is different from a channel combination scheme for a previous frame, performing segmented time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame and the channel combination scheme for the previous frame, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal in the current frame; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Haiting LI, Lei MIAO
  • Patent number: 11430456
    Abstract: An encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, a transmitter, a receiver, and a communications system, where the encoding method includes dividing a to-be-encoded time-domain signal into a low band signal and a high band signal, performing encoding on the low band signal to obtain a low frequency encoding parameter, performing encoding on the high band signal to obtain a high frequency encoding parameter, obtaining a synthesized high band signal; performing short-time post-filtering processing on the synthesized high band signal to obtain a short-time filtering signal, and calculating a high frequency gain based on the high band signal and the short-time filtering signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220239846
    Abstract: An image processing method can include: acquiring a plurality of image frames obtained by photographing for a subject and a plurality of photographing state parameters respectively adopted when photographing the plurality of image frames, the subject being located at a same position of each image frame; determining a zoom ratio corresponding to the plurality of photographing state parameters respectively according to a preset corresponding relationship between the photographing state parameters and the zoom ratio; zooming corresponding image frames according to the determined zoom ratio to obtain a plurality of target image frames, and encoding the obtained plurality of target image frames into a video file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jing XU, Lei MIAO, Yan YI
  • Patent number: 11393480
    Abstract: An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method and apparatus, where the extraction method includes obtaining a parameter obtaining an information extraction manner for a current frame of a multi-channel signal, obtaining an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the parameter obtaining the information extraction manner, where the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner is one of at least two preset IPD parameter extraction manners, and obtaining an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingtao Zhang, Haiting Li, Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11393482
    Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method includes obtaining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, obtaining an encoding mode of the current frame based on a downmix mode of a previous frame and the channel combination scheme for the current frame, performing time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals of the current frame based on the encoding mode of the current frame to obtain primary and secondary channel signals of the current frame, and encoding the primary and secondary channel signals of the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLGOIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Bin Wang, Lei Miao
  • Patent number: 11386907
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method includes determining a downmixed signal of a first channel signal and a second channel signal, an initial reverberation gain parameter of the first channel signal and the second channel signal, determining a target reverberation gain parameter of the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on a correlation between the first channel signal and the downmixed signal, a correlation between the second channel signal and the downmixed signal, and the initial reverberation gain parameter, and quantizing the first channel signal and the second channel signal based on the downmixed signal and the target reverberation gain parameter, and writing a quantized first channel signal and a quantized second channel signal into a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zexin Liu, Lei Miao
  • Publication number: 20220191635
    Abstract: A delay estimation method includes determining a cross-correlation coefficient of a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining a delay track estimation value of the current frame based on buffered inter-channel time difference information of at least one past frame, determining an adaptive window function of the current frame, performing weighting on the cross-correlation coefficient based on the delay track estimation value of the current frame and the adaptive window function of the current frame, to obtain a weighted cross-correlation coefficient, and determining an inter-channel time difference of the current frame based on the weighted cross-correlation coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Eyal Shlomot, Haiting Li, Lei Miao