Patents by Inventor Lifeng Yu

Lifeng Yu 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: 20240151057
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a stereo garage that comprises: a main body provided with a lifting shaft, wherein the lifting shaft is provided with an opening; a lifting platform located in the lifting shaft, wherein the lifting platform can ascend or descend in the lifting shaft along a height direction of the main body, such that the lifting platform can switch between an initial position and an end position, wherein the lifting platform can close the opening when the lifting platform is located in the initial position; an anti-falling device connected to the main body, wherein the anti-falling device comprises a blocking rod which can be switched between a locking position and an unlocking position; wherein, the blocking rod can block a movement of a vehicle when the blocking rod is located in the locking position, and the lifting platform can cause the blocking rod to be switched from the locking position to the unlocking position when the lifting platform comes into the initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: CSCEC Smart Parking Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Facheng HUANG, Hongyan WANG, Zhenyu WANG, Shaoyuan PENG, Longkang YIN, Lifeng HUANG, Xin LOU, Jing CHEN, Jianquan YU
  • Publication number: 20240135502
    Abstract: A neural network is trained and implemented to simultaneously remove noise and artifacts from medical images using a Generalized noise and Artifact Reduction Network (“GARNET”) method for training a convolutional neural network (“CNN”) or other suitable neural network or machine learning algorithm. Noise and artifact realizations from phantom images are used to synthetically corrupt images for training. Corrupted and uncorrupted image pairs are used for training GARNET. Following the training phase, GARNET can be used to improve image quality of routine medical images by way of noise and artifact reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan R. Huber, Shuai Leng, Andrew D. Missert, Lifeng Yu, Cynthia H. McCollough
  • Publication number: 20240106751
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a deterministic networking (DetNet) data packet. The method includes: performing, by a DetNet node, format encapsulation on a data packet of a DetNet application flow when the DetNet application flow passes through a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network, wherein an encapsulated data packet comprises a label indication and a flow identifier header; and forwarding the encapsulated data packet in the MPLS network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jinghai YU, Chenqiang GAO, Lifeng RONG, Aihua LIU, Quan XIONG
  • Patent number: 11744538
    Abstract: A system and method for determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using multi-energy computer tomography (MECT) imaging is provided. In some aspects, the method includes acquiring MECT data using a CT system, performing a material decomposition process on acquired MECT data to generate one or more material density maps, and selecting, using the one or more material density maps, one or more regions of interest (ROIs) encompassing at least one vessel cross-section. The method also includes measuring an iodine content in the one or more ROIs, and determining a stenosis severity based on the measured iodine content. The method further includes generating a report indicating the stenosis severity associated with the subject's vasculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Zhoubo Li, Cynthia H. McCollough, Lifeng Yu
  • Publication number: 20230183118
    Abstract: A glass tank furnace having a length to width ratio of no less than 2.3 and no greater than 2.8. The glass tank furnace includes one or more weirs and a plurality of bubbling tubes provided on a bottom of the glass tank furnace. The plurality of bubbling tubes are disposed before, behind, or on the weirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Yuqiang Zhang, Guorong Cao, Changying Fang, Lifeng Yu, Peijun Shen, Xianliang Zhao, Yucang Yan, Xiaodong Weng
  • Publication number: 20230097196
    Abstract: Images are reconstructed from data acquired using an ultra-fast-pitch acquisition with a CT system. As an example, an ultra-fast-pitch acquisition mode in single-source helical CT (p?1.5) can be used to acquire data. A trained machine learning algorithm, such as a neural network, is used to reconstruct images in which artifacts associated with insufficient data acquired in the ultra-fast-pitch mode are reduced. An example neural network can include customized functional modules using both local and non-local operators, as well as the z-coordinate of each image, to effectively suppress the location- and structure-dependent artifacts induced by the ultra-fast-pitch mode. The machine learning algorithm can be trained using a customized loss function that involves image-gradient-correlation loss and feature reconstruction loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Lifeng Yu, Hao Gong, Liqiang Ren, Cynthia H. McCollough
  • Patent number: 11517278
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for performing material decomposition using a computed tomography (CT) system. The method includes acquiring CT imaging data of an object including data subsets corresponding to at least two different energy spectral bins and using the CT imaging data at each of the at least two different energy spectral bins to form a series of equations for basis material decomposition. The method also includes using a general physical constraint, which quantifies how each basis material in the object is mixed together to form the object, within the series of equations. The method also includes determining at least one basis material density of the object using the physical constraint and the CT imaging data and generating an image of the object using the CT imaging data and the mass densities of at least one basis material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Cynthia H. McCollough, Shuai Leng, Zhoubo Li, Lifeng Yu
  • Publication number: 20220333736
    Abstract: Photography equipment, specifically a clamping and supporting apparatus for a smart mobile terminal, including an accommodating member and a mobile phone clamp assembly. The accommodating member includes an accommodating body and a connecting plate rotatably connected to the accommodating body. The mobile phone clamp assembly is disposed on the connecting plate and configured to be received in the accommodating body. The connecting plate rotates to allow the mobile phone clamp assembly to be received in the accommodating body. When the mobile phone clamp assembly is not in use, the connecting plate is rotated to allow the mobile phone clamp assembly to be received, so that space is saved and the accommodation and placement of the clamping and supporting apparatus are facilitated. The accommodating body is a handle, so that one can conveniently hold the accommodating body with one hand and open or close the connecting plate with the other hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Huaqiu ZOU, Gui LI, Lifeng YU
  • Patent number: 11367185
    Abstract: A fully image-based framework for CT image, or other medical image, quality evaluation and virtual clinical trial using deep-learning techniques is provided. This framework includes deep learning-based noise insertion, lesion insertion, and model observer, which enable efficient, objective, and quantitative image quality evaluation and virtual clinical trial directly performed on patient images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Lifeng Yu, Hao Gong, Shuai Leng, Cynthia H. McCollough
  • Patent number: 11328391
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for producing computed tomography (CT) images. In some aspects, a method includes obtaining medical image data sets acquired using the multiple energies of irradiating radiation and analyzing the medical image data sets for spatial and spectral features. The method also includes comparing the spatial and spectral features of the medical image data sets to identify similarities and using the similarities, weighting the medical image data sets to generate images of the subject having reduced noise compared to images of the subject produced from the medical image data sets without weighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Zhoubo Li, Cynthia H. McCollough, Shuai Leng, Lifeng Yu, Armando Manduca
  • Publication number: 20210358183
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for synthesizing information from multiple image series of different kernels into a single image series, and also for converting a single baseline image series of a kernel reconstructed by a CT scanner to image series of various other kernels, using deep-learning based methods. For multi-kernel synthesis, a single set of images with desired high spatial resolution and low image noise can be synthesized from multiple image series of different kernels. The synthesized kernel is sufficient for a wide variety of clinical tasks, even in circumstances that would otherwise require many separate image sets. Kernel conversion may be configured to generate images with arbitrary reconstruction kernels from a single baseline kernel. This would reduce the burden on the CT scanner and the archival system, and greatly simplify the clinical workflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Lifeng Yu, Andrew D. Missert, Shuai Leng, Cynthia H. McCollough, Joel G. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 10984040
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a method, device, system and server for acquiring and providing vehicle image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shi Ren, Lifeng Yu
  • Publication number: 20210024398
    Abstract: A glass fiber tank kiln passage crown structure includes a chest wall brick, a supporting column built on a top of the chest wall brick, and a crown having an arch structure. Two ends of the crown are built on the supporting column, and a span of the crown is in a range from 0.5 meters to 4 meters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Changying FANG, Lifeng YU, Yucang YAN, Xianliang ZHAO, Peijun SHEN, Xiaodong WENG
  • Publication number: 20210012487
    Abstract: A fully image-based framework for CT image, or other medical image, quality evaluation and virtual clinical trial using deep-learning techniques is provided. This framework includes deep learning-based noise insertion, lesion insertion, and model observer, which enable efficient, objective, and quantitative image quality evaluation and virtual clinical trial directly performed on patient images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Lifeng Yu, Hao Gong, Shuai Leng, Cynthia H. McCollough
  • Publication number: 20200366330
    Abstract: A clamping device for an intelligent mobile terminal includes a first clamping member provided with a first clamping portion; and a second clamping member slidably engaged with the first clamping member and provided with a second clamping portion, a space for clamping the intelligent mobile terminal being formed between the second clamping portion and the first clamping portion, wherein an end of the first clamping member away from the second clamping member in a sliding direction is provided with a male connector, and an end of the second clamping member away from the first clamping member in the sliding direction is provided with a female connector that matches the male connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Gui Li, Lifeng Yu, Huaqiu Zou
  • Publication number: 20200299167
    Abstract: A glass tank furnace having a high melting rate. The ratio of the length of the glass tank furnace to the width thereof is 2.3 to 2.8. By reducing the area of a furnace and optimizing the length-to-width ratio thereof, the heat loss of the tank furnace is reduced. By designing an appropriate liquid glass tank depth, the temperature of a furnace bottom is improved and the quality of the liquid glass is guaranteed. By providing pure oxygen burners (3) and electrodes (7), sufficient energy is guaranteed, the melting capability and the heating efficiency of the tank furnace are improved, and energy consumption and the discharge amount of carbon dioxide are significantly reduced. Weirs (5) arranged on the furnace bottom improve the outlet temperature of the liquid glass, reduce energy consumption, lower the temperature of the furnace bottom in the electrode area, prolong the service life of the furnace bottom, and guarantee an increased proportion of auxiliary power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: JUSHI GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuqiang ZHANG, Guorong CAO, Changying FANG, Lifeng YU, Peijun SHEN, Xianliang ZHAO, Yucang YAN, Xiaodong WENG
  • Publication number: 20200281552
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for performing material decomposition using a computed tomography (CT) system. The method includes acquiring CT imaging data of an object including data subsets corresponding to at least two different energy spectral bins and using the CT imaging data at each of the at least two different energy spectral bins to form a series of equations for basis material decomposition. The method also includes using a general physical constraint, which quantifies how each basis material in the object is mixed together to form the object, within the series of equations. The method also includes determining at least one basis material density of the object using the physical constraint and the CT imaging data and generating an image of the object using the CT imaging data and the mass densities of at least one basis material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Cynthia H. McCollough, Shuai Leng, Zhoubo Li, Lifeng Yu
  • Publication number: 20190374183
    Abstract: A system and method for determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using multi-energy computer tomography (MECT) imaging is provided. In some aspects, the method includes acquiring MECT data using a CT system, performing a material decomposition process on acquired MECT data to generate one or more material density maps, and selecting, using the one or more material density maps, one or more regions of interest (ROIs) encompassing at least one vessel cross-section. The method also includes measuring an iodine content in the one or more ROIs, and determining a stenosis severity based on the measured iodine content. The method further includes generating a report indicating the stenosis severity associated with the subject's vasculature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Zhoubo Li, Cynthia H. McCollough, Lifeng Yu
  • Publication number: 20190213715
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for producing computed tomography (CT) images. In some aspects, a method includes obtaining medical image data sets acquired using the multiple energies of irradiating radiation and analyzing the medical image data sets for spatial and spectral features. The method also includes comparing the spatial and spectral features of the medical image data sets to identify similarities and using the similarities, weighting the medical image data sets to generate images of the subject having reduced noise compared to images of the subject produced from the medical image data sets without weighting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Zhoubo Li, Cynthia H. McCollough, Shuai Leng, Lifeng Yu, Armando Manduca
  • Patent number: 10210728
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a monitoring method, server and system and an image acquisition device capable of obtaining a first distance ratio of the horizontal distances from three WiFi detectors to a target person. The application is also capable of obtaining a second distance ratio of the horizontal distances from the three WiFi detectors to a WiFi terminal based on the signal strength of WiFi signals. The application determines the MAC address of the WiFi terminal of the target person by matching the second distance ratios of various WiFi terminals with the first distance ratio, and monitors the target person according to the MAC address. Thus, the application achieves continuous monitoring of the target person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yiping Diao, Lifeng Yu