Patents by Inventor Liang Wang

Liang Wang 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: 20220208073
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a host controller. The host controller splits a to-be-displayed image into at least two sub images, where each sub image and an adjacent sub image thereof include at least one column of overlapping image pixels. The host controller sends the at least two sub images to at least two display drive circuits, so that the at least two display drive circuits can jointly drive a display screen to display the to-be-displayed image in a sub pixel rendering (SPR) manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Dustin Yuk Lun Wai, Kun Wang, Anli Wang, Liang Wang, Chiaching Chu
  • Patent number: 11372101
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for determining a relative pose, a device, and a medium. The method comprises: obtaining millimeter-wave data for obstacles in a scene collected by a millimeter-wave radar sensor in a vehicle and first data for the obstacles in the scene collected by a first sensor in the vehicle, wherein, at least one millimeter-wave radar signal booster is disposed in the scene as a target obstacle and the obstacles comprise the target obstacle; determining first obstacle data for the target obstacle in a millimeter-wave radar coordinate system and second obstacle data for the target obstacle in a first sensor coordinate system according to the millimeter-wave data and the first data for the obstacles in the scene; and determining the relative pose between the millimeter-wave radar sensor and the first sensor according to the first obstacle data and the second obstacle data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xun Zhou, Yuanfan Xie, Shirui Li, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11372098
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium for determining an angle of yaw, relating to a field of automatic driving. The method includes: obtaining, during a vehicle being driving straightly on a straight road, data of each obstacle in an environment located by the vehicle, the data of each obstacle being detected by a millimeter wave radar sensor located in the vehicle, at least one metal obstacle being provided on the straight road; recognizing the metal obstacle based on the data of each obstacle, and obtaining a metal obstacle line by fitting positions of the metal obstacle at different time points; and determining an angle between the metal obstacle line and a direction of a vehicle body as an angle of yaw between the millimeter wave radar sensor and the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xun Zhou, Yuanfan Xie, Shirui Li, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11364568
    Abstract: A method of joining two ferrous alloy component parts. The method includes hot metal casting a portion of a first ferrous alloy component part onto a first joining surface of a low carbon intermediate element; friction fitting a joining surface of a second ferrous alloy component part against a second joining surface of the low carbon intermediate element; and fusion welding with a concentrated energy source the intermediate element to the second ferrous alloy component part. The hot metal casting includes flowing a molten ferrous alloy onto the textured first joining surface, wherein the molten ally encompasses tabs extending from the first joining surface and filling apertures defined in the intermediate element. Then cooling the molten ferrous alloy such that a metallurgical and mechanical bond is formed between the portion of the first ferrous alloy component part and the first joining surface of the low carbon intermediate element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Huaxin Li, Liang Wang, Dale A Gerard
  • Publication number: 20220189017
    Abstract: A medical image processing method and apparatus, and an image processing method and apparatus, terminal and storage medium that obtains a to-be-processed medical image; generates a difference image according to the first image data, the second image data, and the third image data included in the to-be-processed medical image; and performs binarization processing on the difference image to obtain a binarized image, a foreground region of the binarized image corresponding to a pathological tissue region of the to-be-processed medical image. A difference image is generated based on color information of different channels before binarization processing is performed on an image, thereby effectively using the color information in the image. The pathological tissue region extracted based on the difference image is more accurate and facilitates subsequent image analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang WANG, Hanbo CHEN, Jiarui SUN, Yanchun ZHU, Jianhua YAO
  • Publication number: 20220189136
    Abstract: An image generation method, apparatus, device, and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining contour information and target region information; determining at least one target contour according to the contour information and the target region information, the at least one target contour wholly or partly located in a target region; decreasing first coordinates of a plurality of contour points in the at least one target contour to obtain second location information, second location information of the at least one target contour includes second coordinates of a plurality of contour points in the at least one target contour, and the first coordinates of the plurality of contour points in the at least one target contour having a same decreasing extent; and generating a target image corresponding to the target region according to the second location information of the at least one target contour and the target region information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang WANG, Jiarui SUN, Yanchun ZHU, Jianhua YAO
  • Publication number: 20220189142
    Abstract: An AI-based object classification method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a target image to be processed, the target image including a target detection object; separating a target detection object image of the target detection object from the target image; inputting the target detection object image into a feature object prediction model to obtain a feature object segmentation image of a feature object in the target detection object image; obtaining quantitative feature information of the target detection object according to the target detection object image and the feature object segmentation image; and classifying the target detection object image according to the quantitative feature information to obtain category information of the target detection object in the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang WANG, Jiarui SUN, Rongbo SHEN, Cheng JIANG, Yanchun ZHU, Jianhua YAO
  • Patent number: 11363192
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for clock synchronization, a device, a storage medium and a vehicle. The method includes: determining a first pose change of an image acquirer with respect to a reference coordinate system at different image acquisition time points; determining a second pose change of a calibration acquirer with respect to the reference coordinate system at different corrected image acquisition time points, in which, the different corrected image acquisition correction time points are determined according to the different image acquisition time points and each predetermined correction time variable; and performing a clock synchronization on the image acquirer and the calibration acquirer according to the first pose change of the image acquirer and the second pose change of the calibration acquirer corresponding to the each correction time variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanfan Xie, Xun Zhou, Shirui Li, Liang Wang
  • Publication number: 20220182797
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user device may receive a text message and identify a keyword that relates to a future event. The user device may display, based on identifying the keyword, a first user interface that includes the text message and an option to set a reminder. The user device may receive a selection of the option and display a second user interface. The user device may receive a selection of a reminder type and automatically populate the reminder with text of the text message based on the selection of the reminder type. The user device may store the reminder and cause an action to be performed based on the reminder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kim M. GUTIERREZ, Yu Liang WANG, Manian KRISHNAMOORTHY, Steve M. BELLAI, Adam SCHWENK, Praveen ATREYA
  • Patent number: 11353476
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for determining a velocity of an obstacle, a device, and a medium. An implementation includes: acquiring a first point cloud data of the obstacle at a first time and a second point cloud data of the obstacle at a second time; registering the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data by moving the first point cloud data or the second point cloud data; and determining a moving velocity of the obstacle based on a distance between two data points in a registered data point pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Liang Wang, Yu Ma
  • Patent number: 11354461
    Abstract: A method and system for simulating a distribution of obstacles are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of point clouds of a plurality of frames, wherein each point cloud includes a plurality of original obstacles; acquiring real labeling data of an acquisition vehicle, and obtaining data of a simulation position of the acquisition vehicle based on the real labeling data and a movement rule of the acquisition vehicle; determining the number of obstacles to be simulated based on the data of the simulation position of the acquisition vehicle; selecting the determined number of obstacles to be simulated, from a range with the simulation position of the acquisition vehicle as a center, wherein the range is less than or equal to a maximum scanning range of the vehicle; and acquiring real labeling data of the selected obstacles, and obtaining a position distribution of the selected obstacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Fang, Feilong Yan, Ruigang Yang, Liang Wang, Yu Ma
  • Publication number: 20220162968
    Abstract: A valve seat formed within an aluminum engine component includes a valve seat surface machined within the aluminum engine component, a layer of copper alloy material laser clad onto the valve seat surface of the aluminum engine component, the layer of copper alloy material having a thickness of less than 2.0 millimeters, and a layer of copper alloy/tool steel carbide material laser clad onto the layer of copper alloy material, the layer of copper alloy/tool steel carbide material having an average thickness of less than 0.5 millimeters, wherein the layer of copper alloy/tool steel carbide material has an outer surface that is machined to a final valve seat profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel J. Wilson, Huaxin Li, Edward J. Keating, Liang Wang, Devin R. Hess
  • Publication number: 20220161362
    Abstract: A method of welding a component made from a ferrous alloy to a component made from an aluminum alloy includes machining and cleaning a fay surface on the ferrous alloy component, machining and cleaning a fay surface on the aluminum alloy component, depositing a layer of copper alloy material onto the fay surface of the ferrous alloy component, forming a weld groove on at least one of the layer of copper alloy material deposited on the fay surface of the ferrous alloy component and the fay surface of the aluminum alloy component, and laser welding the layer of copper alloy deposited on the fay surface of the ferrous alloy component and the fay surface of the aluminum alloy component to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Huaxin Li, Liang Wang, Daniel J. Wilson, Jatinder P. Singh
  • Patent number: 11343501
    Abstract: A video transcoding method is provided for a video transcoding device. The method includes obtaining a video sequence in source video data, which comprises a plurality of video sequences arranged in a sequence arrangement order; obtaining a source video frame in the video sequence; and obtaining a first ratio of a sum of absolute transformed differences of an initial frame in the video sequence to a bit rate of the video sequence. The method also includes adjusting a quantization parameter of the source video frame based on the first ratio; encoding the source video frame based on an adjusted quantization parameter to obtain a target video frame; replacing the source video frame with the target video frame to obtain a video sequence after the replacement; and adding the video sequence after the replacement to target video data according to the sequence arrangement order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY, TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Jianguang Wang, Xuerui Ma, Liang Wang, Haichang Zhai, Nianbo Liao
  • Patent number: 11341297
    Abstract: Embodiments of an obstacle distribution simulation method, device and terminal based on a probability graph are provided. The method can include: acquiring a plurality of point clouds of a plurality of frames; acquiring real labeling data of an acquisition vehicle at vehicle labeled positions, and acquiring data of a simulation position of the acquisition vehicle; determining the number of obstacles to be simulated at a position to be simulated; extracting real labeling data of the obstacles, and constructing a labeling data set; dividing the labeling data set into a plurality of grids and calculating occurrence probabilities of the plurality of obstacles; selecting the determined number of obstacles to be simulated according to the occurrence probabilities; and acquiring a position distribution of the selected obstacles to be simulated for the position to be simulated based on the real labeling data of the selected obstacles to be simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Fang, Feilong Yan, Ruigang Yang, Liang Wang, Yu Ma
  • Patent number: 11336560
    Abstract: A multicast frame directed to a plurality of devices coupled to a network can be received, where the plurality of devices comprising at least one intended recipient device and at least one unintended recipient device. A destination unicast address corresponding to an intended recipient device can be identified. The multicast frame can be converted into a unicast frame directed to the intended recipient device, the unicast frame configured with the destination unicast address. The unicast frame can be blocked from accessing the unintended recipient device. The unicast frame can be provided to the intended recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Stuart Gast, Liang Wang
  • Publication number: 20220148608
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of short-range communications technologies, and provide a method for automatically switching a Bluetooth audio coding scheme and an electronic device, to improve audio experience of using a Bluetooth electronic device by a user, and meet requirements of the user on sound quality and a latency. A specific solution is as follows: When a first device sends a Bluetooth audio data packet to a second device, and when a first application is running, the audio data packet sent by the first device to the second device is encoded by using a first Bluetooth coding scheme. When a second application is running, the audio data packet sent by the first device to the second device is encoded by using a second Bluetooth coding scheme. The Bluetooth coding scheme includes a high sound quality mode, a standard mode, or a low latency mode. The first Bluetooth coding scheme is different from the second Bluetooth coding scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Liang Wang
  • Publication number: 20220149868
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a polar code decoder for determining a to-be-flipped bit position when performing a successive cancellation list flip operation. The method includes: obtaining a polar code decoding tree generated by performing a successive cancellation list (SCL) operation on a polar code segment, and the polar code segment includes multiple bit positions, and each bit position in the polar code decoding tree includes multiple surviving paths and multiple pruned paths; in a post-processing stage for the SCL operation, estimating a correct path probability of each of the surviving paths and the pruned paths of the i-th bit position and accordingly estimating a reliability for the i-th bit position; selecting a specific bit position among the bit positions based on the reliability of each bit position; and performing an SCL flip operation on the polar code decoding tree based on the specific bit position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Chung-Hsuan Wang, Yi-Han Pan, Yu-Heng Lin, Yeong-Luh Ueng, Chin-Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11329034
    Abstract: Direct-bonded LED arrays and applications are provided. An example process fabricates a LED structure that includes coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structure on a flat bonding interface surface of the LED structure. The coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface surface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of a driver circuit for the LED structure. In a wafer-level process, micro-LED structures are fabricated on a first wafer, including coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structures on the flat bonding interface surfaces of the wafer. At least the coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of CMOS driver circuits on a second wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Invensas Corporation
    Inventors: Min Tao, Liang Wang, Rajesh Katkar, Cyprian Emeka Uzoh
  • Patent number: 11328653
    Abstract: A detection device for an insertion slot of an LED display system is provided. When a first receiving card is inserted in the insertion slot, the detection device outputs, to a display panel of the LED display system, a first data output with reference to an image signal outputted by the first receiving card. When a second receiving card is inserted in the insertion slot, the detection device outputs a high-impedance signal to the second receiving card to enable the second receiving card to generate an enabling output, generates a second data output with reference to the enabling output and the image signal outputted by the second receiving card, and transmits the second data output to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Top Victory Investments Limited
    Inventors: Ching-Liang Wang, Li-Wei Lin