Patents by Inventor Liu

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: 11974296
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a transmission type for a physical downlink shared channel, wherein the transmission type is a multicast transmission type or a unicast transmission type. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the transmission type for the physical downlink shared channel, a transmission configuration indicator state, of a plurality of possible transmission configuration indicator states, that corresponds to a quasi-co-location assumption, of a plurality of possible quasi-co-location assumptions, for the physical downlink shared channel. The UE may decode the physical downlink shared channel based at least in part on the transmission configuration indicator state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Le Liu
  • Patent number: 11969896
    Abstract: Robot scheduling, robot path control and robot fire control methods and devices, a server and a storage medium are provided. The robot scheduling method includes: receiving a scheduling instruction; determining a working state and a current position of a robot in a working area in response to the scheduling instruction; wherein the working state comprises an idle state and a non-idle state; and when the working state of the robot is idle and the current position is outside a preset target range, scheduling the robot from the current position into the target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Liu, Jun Liu
  • Patent number: 11972617
    Abstract: A method of hybrid lane modeling, including, receiving a roadway image, extracting a set of lane points from the roadway image, fitting a polynomial line to the set of lane points, determining a fitted error of the fitted polynomial line, outputting the polynomial line if the fitted error is less than a predetermined threshold, selecting a set of clean lane points from the set of lane points if the fitted error is greater than the predetermined threshold and interpolating a cubic spline line to the set of clean lane points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Liying Liu, Zuoguan Wang, Qun Gu
  • Patent number: 11972098
    Abstract: Techniques of interaction data processing in a distributed computing system are disclosed herein. One example technique includes upon receiving a user interface output having a content item to be surfaced on a client device and a script configured to detect an interaction with the content item at the client device, surfacing the user interface output having the content item on a display of the client device and automatically executing the script embedded in the user interface output to detect an interaction with the surfaced content item at the client device. Upon detecting an interaction with the content item on the surfaced user interface output, the example technique also includes generating and transmitting interaction data representing the detected interaction to a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Ke Wang, Ahmed Hassan Mohamed
  • Patent number: 11970199
    Abstract: An electric vehicle is provided, including: a main body, traveling wheels, a drive assembly and a controller. The traveling wheels are arranged on the main body. The drive assembly is arranged on the main body and includes a hub motor. The hub motor is arranged on the traveling wheels. The controller is used to control the hub motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Yu Xiao, Shouchuan Feng, Zhibing Liu, Wanchun Jiao
  • Patent number: 11973105
    Abstract: An integrated circuit structure comprises at least one metal gate formed in a first dielectric layer, the at least one metal gate comprising a workfunction layer and the gate oxide layer along sidewalls of the first dielectric layer. A field effect (FE) dielectric layer dielectric layer is above the first dielectric layer of the at least one metal gate. A precision resistor comprising a thin-film metallic material is formed on the FE dielectric layer above the at least one metal gate and extending laterally over the at least one metal gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chieh-Jen Ku, Bernhard Sell, Leif Paulson, Kinyip Phoa, Shi Liu
  • Patent number: 11971340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for predicting a lattice defect in a metal-organic framework (MOF) membrane. The method comprises acquiring a number n of a ligand during preparation of the MOF membrane, and acquiring a theoretical number m of connections formed between a core secondary building unit and a surrounding secondary building unit; setting a number of collisions of the ligand with the core secondary building unit and the surrounding secondary building unit; and calculating an expected value of a number of connections formed on lattices based on a collision probability, wherein the number of collisions is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gongping Liu, Guozhen Liu, Wanqin Jin
  • Patent number: 11973124
    Abstract: In method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a source/drain epitaxial layer is formed, one or more dielectric layers are formed over the source/drain epitaxial layer, an opening is formed in the one or more dielectric layers to expose the source/drain epitaxial layer, a first silicide layer is formed on the exposed source/drain epitaxial layer, a second silicide layer different from the first silicide layer is formed on the first silicide layer, and a source/drain contact is formed over the second silicide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Chang, Shahaji B. More, Yi-Ying Liu, Yueh-Ching Pai
  • Patent number: 11973971
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for processing video are described. In a representative aspect, a video processing method is provided to include: maintaining tables, wherein each table includes a set of motion candidates and each motion candidate is associated with corresponding motion information; performing a conversion between a first video block and a bitstream representation of a video including the first video block based on the tables; and updating, after performing of the conversion, zero or more tables, based on an update rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11973302
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for aligning a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. The method includes ramping up a pumping power input into a laser amplifier chain of the MOPA system until the pumping power input reaches an operational pumping power input level; adjusting a seed laser power output of a seed laser of the MOPA system until the seed laser power output is at a first level below an operational seed laser power output level; and performing a first optical alignment process to the MOPA system while the pumping power input is at the operational pumping power input level, the seed laser power output is at the first level, and the MOPA system reaches a steady operational thermal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Lin Louis Chang, Henry Tong Yee Shian, Alan Tu, Han-Lung Chang, Tzung-Chi Fu, Bo-Tsun Liu, Li-Jui Chen, Po-Chung Cheng
  • Patent number: 11974377
    Abstract: A system and method for nighttime lighting control and danger monitoring and alarming are provided. The system includes a data acquisition system, an information processing system, and a terminal control system. The data acquisition system is configured to acquire video information in a room and a voice content of a person in the room, and transmit the video information and the voice content to the information processing system; the information processing system is configured to obtain voice command information based on the voice content and age information and safety state information of the person based on the video information, and transmit the voice command information, the age information and the safety state information to the terminal control system; and the terminal control system is configured to control a terminal lighting fixture, and perform capturing of an image of the person and perform voice alarming according to the safety state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: TIANJIN CHENGJIAN UNIVERSITY, XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Pengju Liu, Yihang Liu, Dacheng Jin, Bingan Pan, Pengfei Yang
  • Patent number: 11974175
    Abstract: A handover control method of a source base station (BS). The method includes: transmitting a conditional handover request to a target BS; when a handover request confirmation message is received from the target BS, transmitting a conditional handover message to a user equipment (UE); and receiving a conditional handover complete message from the target BS in response to a Radio Source Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration complete message being sent from the UE to the target BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11972566
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for detecting characteristics of an unhatched egg. A set of images of an unhatched egg are obtained, where each of the spectral images is obtained in a particular wavelength range. The set of images is processed to extract image features, where the image features includes an image texture feature. The extracted image features are processed to classify the unhatched egg according to at least one characteristic. The at least one characteristic may include fertility and/or gender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MATRIXSPEC SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Michael Ngadi, Li Liu, Chen Zheng
  • Patent number: 11969716
    Abstract: This application discloses a silicon carbide (SiC)-loaded graphene photocatalyst for hydrogen production under visible light irradiation and a preparation method thereof. Pure SiC and pure black carbon are respectively prepared and mixed to obtain a mixture with a resistance less than 100?. Then the mixture was vacuumized and processed with a current pulse with an increasing voltage until a breakdown occurs, and subjected to ultrasonic stirring, centrifugal washing and vacuum drying in turn to obtain the SiC-loaded graphene photocatalyst. By means of the current pulse, a heterojunction is formed between SiC and graphene to improve the catalytic activity of the photocatalyst; and the photocatalytic hydrogen production rate of SiC nanoparticles can be enhanced after loaded on the graphene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Guangdong University of Technology
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Shengbao Lai, Biao Li, Zuohui Liu, Guanhai Wen, Maoxiang Hou, Xin Chen
  • Patent number: 11971777
    Abstract: A method in an illustrative embodiment of the present disclosure includes determining, utilizing a first diagnosis model deployed in a storage system, whether a cause of a fault belongs to environmental factors. The method further includes determining, responsive to determining that the cause of the fault belongs to the environmental factors, whether the fault can be solved locally in the storage system. The method further includes sending, responsive to determining that the fault cannot be solved locally in the storage system, the fault to a second diagnosis model, wherein the first diagnosis model is obtained by distilling the second diagnosis model. According to the method for fault diagnosis of the present disclosure, particular faults can be diagnosed and solved locally in a storage system, so that the workload of a customer support team of the storage system in a cloud can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jiacheng Ni, Jinpeng Liu, Zijia Wang, Zhen Jia
  • Patent number: 11972717
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of driving display, and a display device. The method of driving display includes: scanning, progressively or rows by rows, a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an N×M array, to turn on each row of sub-pixels scanned, so that a duration in which two adjacent rows of sub-pixels are simultaneously in an ON state is greater than or equal to two times a unit scanning time, wherein the unit scanning time is a time required for scanning a row of sub-pixels, N is an integer greater than 1, and M is an integer greater than 1; and applying data signals to at least two rows of sub-pixels simultaneously in the ON state, so that a duration of applying the data signals to each row of sub-pixels is greater than the unit scanning time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhihua Sun, Yinlong Zhang, Qiujie Su, Feng Qu, Jing Liu, Yanping Liao, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: D1024500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Tao Liu
  • Patent number: D1024582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smile Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jinfeng Liu
  • Patent number: D1025329
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Ziqing Ruan, Huanlong Wu, Linjun Yu, Weirui Liu, Junjie Ling, Pan Li
  • Patent number: D1025505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Weiyi Liu