Patents by Inventor Li Liu

Li Liu 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: 11956448
    Abstract: Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of processing video data includes determining, for a conversion between a video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, a gradient of a prediction vector at a sub-block level for the video block according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies to use a same gradient value is assigned for all samples within a sub-block of the video block; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Yuwen He, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Tianliang Fu, Junru Li, Siwei Ma
  • Patent number: 11953903
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a neural network-based method for calibration and localization of an indoor inspection robot. The method includes the following steps: presetting positions for N label signal sources capable of transmitting radio frequency (RF) signals; computing an actual path of the robot according to numbers of signal labels received at different moments; computing positional information moved by the robot at a tth moment, and computing a predicted path at the tth moment according to the positional information; establishing an odometry error model with the neural network and training the odometry error model; and inputting the predicted path at the tth moment to a well-trained odometry error model to obtain an optimized predicted path. The present disclosure maximizes the localization accuracy for the indoor robot by minimizing the error of the odometer with the odometry calibration method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing University, Star Institute of Intelligent Systems, DB (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co., LTD
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Jie Zhang, Junfeng Lai, Huan Liu, Ziqiang Jiang, Li Huang
  • Patent number: 11956449
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing video processing techniques are described. In one example implementation, a method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video coded using a combined inter and intra prediction (CIIP) coding technique and a bitstream representation of the video, an intra-prediction mode of the current block independently from an intra-prediction mode of a neighboring block. The CIIP coding technique uses an intermedia inter prediction value and an intermedia intra prediction value to derive a final prediction value of the current block. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11955915
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a variable-frequency compressor with adaptive heating power control and a method for operating the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the variable-frequency compressor includes: a compression unit, for compressing a medium entering the variable-frequency compressor; a motor, including a stator and a rotor, for driving the compression unit; and a controller, configured to adaptively control a heating power of a winding of the stator according to information of the variable-frequency compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DANFOSS (TIANJIN) LTD.
    Inventors: Shizhong Ji, Wanzhen Liu, Yingke Sun, Li Yao
  • Patent number: 11954710
    Abstract: A media recommendation for a target item is provided while media information is displayed through an information display interface that includes detailed information of the target item when a display position of the media information meets a preset condition. A dynamic effect is displayed that the target item moves from the media information to a preset position in the detailed information while displaying the detailed information. The dynamic display of the target item enriches display of the target item to attract users' attention and focus, thereby improving the recommendation effect of the target item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rui Han, Liyun Wang, Si Lin Liu, Ren Jun Zheng, Tingting Li, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 11954464
    Abstract: This application discloses a mini program production method performed at a terminal. The method includes: displaying a mini program production interface including a panel region and an editing region; receiving an editing operation of moving one or more target basic UI elements from the panel region to the editing region; generating a program interface of the mini program in the editing region using the one or more target basic UI elements; performing data binding between the one or more target basic UI elements and corresponding data associated with the mini program in the program interface; generating the mini program according to the one or more target basic UI elements and the corresponding data in the program interface; and transmitting the mini program to a server associated with a host application program, wherein the server is configured to publish the mini program on the host application program for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Peiran Guo, Haicheng Su, Shida Zhu, Yuli Cai, Li Liu
  • Patent number: 11955441
    Abstract: An interconnect structure comprises a first dielectric layer, a first metal layer, a second dielectric layer, a metal via, and a second metal layer. The first dielectric layer is over a substrate. The first metal layer is over the first dielectric layer. The first metal layer comprises a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from the first portion. The second dielectric layer is over the first metal layer. The metal via has an upper portion in the second dielectric layer, a middle portion between the first and second portions of the first metal layer, and a lower portion in the first dielectric layer. The second metal layer is over the metal via. From a top view the second metal layer comprises a metal line having longitudinal sides respectively set back from opposite sides of the first portion of the first metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian-Hong Lin, Kuo-Yen Liu, Hsin-Chun Chang, Tzu-Li Lee, Yu-Ching Lee, Yih-Ching Wang
  • Patent number: 11955554
    Abstract: A method of fabrication of a multi-gate semiconductor device that includes providing a fin having a plurality of a first type of epitaxial layers and a plurality of a second type of epitaxial layers. The plurality of the second type of epitaxial layers is oxidized in the source/drain region. A first portion of a first layer of the second type of epitaxial layers is removed in a channel region of the fin to form an opening between a first layer of the first type of epitaxial layer and a second layer of the first type of epitaxial layer. A portion of a gate structure is then formed in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huan-Sheng Wei, Hung-Li Chiang, Chia-Wen Liu, Yi-Ming Sheu, Zhiqiang Wu, Chung-Cheng Wu, Ying-Keung Leung
  • Patent number: 11956431
    Abstract: A method for processing a video includes performing a determination, by a processor, that a first video block is partitioned to include a first prediction portion that is non-rectangular and non-square; adding a first motion vector (MV) prediction candidate associated with the first prediction portion to a motion candidate list associated with the first video block, wherein the first MV prediction candidate is derived from a sub-block MV prediction candidate; and performing further processing of the first video block using the motion candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11953910
    Abstract: The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot encountering an unexpected obstacle traversing an area in which the robot is performing an area coverage task. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Trifo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Zhang, Weikai Li, Qingyu Chen, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11956465
    Abstract: Difference calculation based on partial position is described. In a representative aspect, a method of video processing comprising: calculating, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, differences between two reference blocks associated with the current block or differences between two reference sub-blocks associated with a sub-block within the current block based on representative positions of the reference blocks or representative positions of the reference sub-blocks; and performing the conversion based on the differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11953633
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the technical field of exploration geophysics, in particular to a method, a device, and a computer device for decoupling anisotropic elastic wave. The method includes: determining a set of Thomsen parameters included in an anisotropic model based on a received to-be-decomposed wave field decomposition request; transforming the set of Thomsen parameters to obtain a set of initial elastic parameters; performing S-wave and P-wave velocities separation processing for the set of initial elastic parameters to obtain a set of target P-wave elastic parameters and a set of target S-wave elastic parameters; and substituting those into the anisotropic model to process the to-be-decomposed wave field and obtain a target P-wave matrix and a target S-wave matrix. The process of decomposing S-wave and P-wave fields is simplified and the calculation cost is reduced according to the embodiments of this disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Qizhen Du, Shihao Zhou, Zhaoshun Liu, Wenhao Lyu, Li-Yun Fu
  • Patent number: 11950914
    Abstract: Multiple circuits in a computing device can share one or more conductive elements. The use of the conductive element can vary by circuit, such as an antenna radiator for a radio frequency (RF) circuit or an electrode for an electrocardiography (ECG) circuit. The circuitry sharing a conductive element can utilize signals obtained over different frequency ranges. Those ranges can be used to select decoupling circuitry, or elements, that can enable the respective circuits to obtain signals over a respective frequency range, excluding signals over one or more other frequency ranges corresponding to other circuitry sharing the circuit. Such an approach allows for concurrent independent operation of the circuitry sharing a conductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Faton Tefiku, Yonghua Wei, Kevin Li, Man-Chi Liu, Lindsey Michelle Sunden, Peter W. Richards, Dennis Jacob McCray, Christos Kinezos Ioannou, Kyung Nim Noh
  • Patent number: 11956464
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for encoding and decoding digital video using a look-up tables (LUTs) containing motion candidates are described. In a representative aspect, a method of video processing includes maintaining one or more tables, wherein at least one table of the one or more tables is associated with one or more entries, deriving, based on a first set of motion candidates in the at least one table, a second set of motion candidates, and performing, based on the second set of motion candidates, a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11956439
    Abstract: A method for visual media processing includes performing a conversion between a current video unit of a visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video unit. The bitstream representation is configured according to a format rule. The format rule specifies a level of a video segment at which one or more syntax elements indicative of a scaling factor by which a chroma residual is scaled for coding the current video unit is selectively included in the bitstream representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11956432
    Abstract: An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a block of a first sub-picture of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, whether to apply a deblocking process across an edge between the block and a neighboring block of a second sub-picture based on whether a loop filtering process is allowed across subpicture boundaries. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng, Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11953792
    Abstract: The irregularly-shaped display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a shielding layer. some of the pixel units are shielded by the shielding layer to form irregularly-shaped pixel units, and each of the irregularly-shaped pixel unit at least comprises a first irregularly-shaped pixel unit; in the first irregularly-shaped pixel unit, the areas of opening regions of at least two sub-pixels shielded by the shielding layer are different, and the sub-pixel having a larger area of an opening region shielded by the shielding layer has a greater pixel pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Li Lv, Tingting Shen, Yunyang Liu, Yuchun Xu, Guangchen Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11953456
    Abstract: A method for separating oil-water two-phase NMR signals by using dynamic nuclear polarization comprising: using a combination of a non-selective free radical and a selective relaxation reagent to selectively enhance an NMR signal of an oil phase or a water phase, the relaxation reagent being capable of selectively suppressing dynamic polarization enhancement of the water phase or oil phase, thus achieving the polarization enhancement of a single fluid phase in the mixed fluid phases and realizing separation of the two-phase signals; or using a selective free radical to selectively enhance the NMR signal of the oil phase or the water phase, thus achieving the polarization enhancement of a single fluid phase in the mixed fluid phases and realizing separation of the oil-water two-phase NMR signals. The method is simple and easy to operate, has a short test time, and can efficiently separate NMR signals of oil and water phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Chaoyang Liu, Junfei Chen, Li Chen, Jiwen Feng, Zhen Zhang, Zhekai Zhang, Fang Chen
  • Publication number: 20240114154
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for sub-block based prediction are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video encoding includes partitioning, based on a first rule, a luma component of a block of video data into a first set of sub-blocks. The method also includes partitioning, based on a second rule, a first chroma component of the block of video data into a second set of sub-blocks. The first and the second set of sub-blocks include different numbers of sub-blocks. The method also includes performing a subsequent motion prediction based on the first and the second set of sub-blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Publication number: 20240114141
    Abstract: A method of video processing is provided to include determining, for a conversion between a video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, a parameter of a cross-component linear model (CCLM) for the video block according to a rule, and performing the conversion based on the determining, and wherein the rule specifies to use a variable representing a neighbouring luma sample in the determining of the parameter of the CCLM only in case that the variable has a certain value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yang Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang