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: 11825113
    Abstract: The present disclosure relate to interaction between intra block copy mode and inter prediction tools A method for video processing is provided, including: determining that an Intra-Block-Copy (IBC) mode is applied to a current video block of a video, wherein in the IBC mode, at least one reference picture used by the current video block is a current picture where the current video block is located in; making a decision regarding a disabling of a specific coding mode for the current block; performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current video block and the bitstream representation; wherein the specific coding mode uses a motion vector and a non-current picture to derive a prediction of a video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11822046
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for calculating a safe drilling fluid density in a fractured formation, including the following steps: S1, performing image processing to identify a downhole fracture; S2, establishing three-dimensional (3D) geological models based on parameters of the downhole fracture, and establishing a drilling wellbore model based on a size and length of a wellbore; S3, assigning the model with material parameters, boundary conditions, and upper and lower bounds of an initial drilling fluid density, and calculating accuracy; S4, solving the 3D geological models using a 3-dimension distinct element code (3DEC) and determining stability of a well wall; S5, determining upper and lower bounds of a drilling fluid density using dichotomy; S6, repeating steps S4 to S5; and S7, after set accuracy conditions are reached, saving and outputting the safe drilling fluid density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Xiangchao Shi, Leiyu Gao, Jianfeng Liu, Hao Yu, Yuting Dai, Xiuping Chen, Qingling Li, Shuanggui Li, Yuming Wang
  • Patent number: 11823671
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for training and using a word embedding model configured to receive textual and context data associated with an utterance of a user. A word embedding model can be trained with text data and context data to account for context associated with the text data. The word embedding model can receive an input vector including text data and one or more sets of context data associated with the text data and perform word embedding based on the input vector. In some embodiments, the input vector can include an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) confidence score generated by an ASR model and one or more labels generated by an NLU model. In some embodiments, the input vector can include user information associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prathap Ramachandra, Lan Ma, Liu Yang, Yi Qin, Kyung Jae Lee, Wenbo Yan, Charlotte Alizerine Dzialo, Darshan Ashok Fofadiya
  • Patent number: 11821116
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an article of apparel including: a first woven area, where the first woven area includes a first weaving density and a first yarn weight per unit length; a second woven area arranged adjacent to the first woven area, where the second woven area includes a second weaving density and a second yarn weight per unit length; and a third woven area arranged adjacent to the second woven area, where the third woven area includes a third weaving density and a third yarn weight per unit length. The second weaving density in the second woven area changes gradually from the first weaving density to the third weaving density and/or the second yarn weight per unit length in the second woven area changes gradually from the first yarn weight per unit length to the third yarn weight per unit length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Julie Caroline Gretton, Ya Lun Liu
  • Patent number: 11823429
    Abstract: A method, a system and a device for difference automatic calibration in cross modal target detection are provided. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of modals of color-thermal images to be detected, and constructing an input image set; acquiring a feature map of each modal image in the input image set, and extracting a shared candidate region; aligning the shared candidate region, and obtaining a feature representation of the each shared candidate region through pooling; obtaining a category of the feature representation of the shared candidate region based on a preset classifier, and obtaining a position of the shared candidate region through deviation regression; adopting non-maximum value suppression to obtain a shared candidate region with the highest probability according to the category of the feature representation of the shared candidate region, and returning to the image to be detected for marking according to the position of the shared candidate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zhiyong Liu, Lu Zhang, Xu Yang
  • Patent number: 11823769
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a memory array. In one aspect, the memory array includes a first set of memory cells including a first subset of memory cells and a second subset of memory cells. In one aspect, the memory array includes a first switch including a first electrode connected to first electrodes of the first subset of memory cells, and a second electrode connected to a first global line. In one aspect, the memory array includes a second switch including a first electrode connected to first electrodes of the second subset of memory cells, and a second electrode connected to the first global line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng-Sheng Chang, Chia-En Huang, Yi-Ching Liu, Yih Wang
  • Patent number: 11821876
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a medium transmission test device and a method for concrete under a temperature-osmotic pressure-load coupling effect. The device includes a loading device and a water pressurization device; the loading device includes a press, an upper steel plate and a lower steel plate used for clamping a test block, and a fastener that connects the upper and lower steel plates; the upper steel plate includes a first steel plate and a second steel plate; a spring is sleeved on a screw between the first steel plate and the second steel plate; the water pressurization device includes a liquid storage tank, a pressurization pump, a liquid storage pool, a connecting pipe for communicating the pressurization pump to the liquid storage tank, and a connecting pipe for connecting the pressurization pump to the liquid storage pool; the liquid storage tank is provided with an open end; and a tank port of the open end is fixedly connected to a side surface of the test block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhiyong Liu, Xizhi Xia, Jinyang Jiang, Yunsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11822582
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and computer program products for improving query processing of a database. An example method can include: storing table data for a table in a plurality of micro-partitions, each micro-partition comprising a portion of the table data for the table; for each micro-partition of the plurality of micro-partitions, storing metadata for the micro-partition in at least one of a plurality of expression properties; and selecting, by a processing device, a subset of the plurality of expression properties to be grouped into a grouping expression property based at least partially on the metadata of the subset of the plurality of the expression properties. The grouping expression property may include cumulative metadata associated with the metadata of the subset of the plurality of expression properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Fang, Varun Ganesh, Xinglian Liu, Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly, Jiaqi Yan, Yizhi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11820476
    Abstract: A drive arrangement for a cycloidal marine propulsion unit including at least two electrical blade motors each associated to a respective blade for pivoting thereof, each blade motor being operationally coupled to a respective blade drive for actuating the corresponding blade motor. The at least two blade drives each include a respective blade drive power converter operationally coupled to a first common intermediate DC-link, wherein the at least two blade drives being configured to feed power from the first common intermediate DC-link to their respective blade motors, and to feed regenerative power from their respective blade motors to the first common intermediate DC-link. The disclosure also concerns a marine propulsion unit having such a drive arrangement, and a method of operating such a drive arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Veli-Pekka Peljo, Harri Lipponen, Timo Heine, Kimmo Kokkila, Bin Liu, Peter Fransson, Arne Trangard
  • Patent number: 11823315
    Abstract: This application belongs to the field of computer technologies, and provides an animation making method and apparatus, a computing device and a storage medium, to improve execution efficiency of animation making. In response to a pose selection instruction for a non-reference skeleton pose, a target plug-in node is invoked, the target plug-in node obtaining a non-reference skeleton shape model corresponding to the non-reference skeleton pose from a non-reference skeleton shape model set based on the pose selection instruction; target skeleton pose for an animated character is determined based on a parameter input instruction for a parameter of the target skeleton pose; and a target skeleton shape model of the target skeleton pose is generated based on the obtained non-reference skeleton shape model of the non-reference skeleton pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Jie Liu, Jingxiang Li, Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11821380
    Abstract: A method of controlling fuel injection to an internal combustion engine to reduce cylinder wall wetting, smokiness, and unclean combustion, on a cumulative basis, applies a self-adaptive control on a gasoline injection initial angle. Gasoline injection initial or original angle is known, being preset, and a self-adaptive controlling volume is added. The self-adaptive controlling volume is the addition of a first self-adaptive controlling volume and a second self-adaptive controlling volume to the original angle. The first self-adaptive controlling volume relates to predicted load and an engine coolant temperature. The second self-adaptive controlling volume is based on the rotating speed of the engine. Cylinder wall wetting is reduced or avoided, smoke is reduced, and cleaner combustion is achieved. An engine fuel injection control apparatus applying the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sicong Lin, Bo Qin, Hao Feng, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11825128
    Abstract: A method of dynamic point cloud partition packing is by at least one processor and includes obtaining one or more region of interest (ROI) patches from an ROI of a point cloud, and attempting to pack, into one among tiles of a tile map, one among the obtained one or more ROI patches, in a tile scan order. The method further includes identifying whether the one among the one or more ROI patches is packed successfully into the one among the tiles, and based on the one among the one or more ROI patches being determined to be not packed successfully into the one among the tiles, chunking the one among the one or more ROI patches into multiple ROI patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Arash Vosoughi, Sehoon Yea, Shan Liu, Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger
  • Patent number: 11822085
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical adaptive device and a wearable device. The optical adaptive device includes a carrier, a first light adjusting element, and a second light adjusting element. The first light adjusting element is in or on the carrier and configured to focus a first light from a first article on a visual area. The second light adjusting element is in or on the carrier and configured to focus a second light from a second article on the visual area. The second article is further away from the area than the first article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Ko-Fan Tsai, Tien-Chia Liu, Kuo Sin Huang, Cheng-Te Chou
  • Patent number: 11824664
    Abstract: A video encoding device (e.g., a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)) may transmit an encoded frame with a frame sequence number using a transmission protocol. The video encoding device, an application on the video encoding device, and/or a protocol layer on the encoding device may detect a packet loss by receiving an error notification. The packet loss may be detected at the MAC layer. The packet loss may be signaled using spoofed packets, such as a spoofed NAM packet, a spoofed XR packet, or a spoofed ACK packet. A lost packet may be retransmitted at the MAC layer (e.g., by the encoding device or another device on the wireless path). Packet loss detection may be performed in uplink operations and/or downlink operations, and/or may be performed in video gaining applications via the cloud. The video encoding device may generate and send a second encoded frame based on the error notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: VID Scale, Inc.
    Inventors: Weimin Liu, Rahul Vanam, Liangping Ma, Yuriy Reznik, Gregory S. Sternberg, Wei Chen, Dharm Veer
  • Patent number: 11820595
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of vertical automatic storage cabinets and provides a vertical automatic storage cabinet that comprises: a cabinet body; a storage rack provided on an inner wall of the cabinet body; a storage box, detachably provided on the storage rack; a manipulator assembly provided in the transportation space and being configured to grasp the storage box. In this vertical automatic storage cabinet, storage racks are arranged on both sides in the cabinet body, and the manipulator assembly is located in the area between the two storage racks, the storage boxes on both sides can be taken out of the cabinet body by the manipulator assembly in the middle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Zhongke Wenchang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuehai Cui, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 11822709
    Abstract: A system including a sensor configured so that the presence of a spectacle within a detection range of the sensor is detectable by the sensor when the spectacle includes a predetermined identification structure. The system may further include a control unit configured to receive an information from the sensor and to carry out a predetermined action, upon a condition in which the one or more spectacle lenses may be detected. A method may include detecting the presence of the spectacle within a detection range, and further providing, by the sensor, an information to the control unit. The information may confirm the detection of the spectacle. The method may include carrying out, by the control unit, the predetermined action. A computer program product including instructions to cause the system to execute the steps of the method. A computing device including the sensor and a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Yu Liu, Chit Yaw Fu, Yassine Fakhreddine, Xingzhao Ding
  • Publication number: 20230368947
    Abstract: A wall bushing, comprising a head assembly, a conductive rod, and a connecting terminal sealing and covering the head assembly and the conductive rod. The connecting terminal and the conductive rod are electrically connected. The head assembly includes a transition tank and a transition plate that are connected to each other. An upper end of the transition tank is provided with a first through hole, and a lower end of the transition tank is hole-through. The transition plate is provided with a second through hole. The conductive rod extends through the first through hole and the second through hole. The transition tank and the transition plate are fixedly connected such that an accommodation cavity is formed around the conductive rod and in the transition tank and.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: JIANGSU SHEMAR ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin MA, Chao LIU,
  • Publication number: 20230364660
    Abstract: Methods of treating soil contained in a volume of treatment in an underground site and forming a containment barrier within an underground site are contemplated herein. A treatment methodology may be administered upon soil having previously been contained in the volume of treatment. Such a treatment methodology may include the application of an adsorbent to this soil. A layer of micron-sized adsorbents may also be placed on one or more interfaces surrounding the volume of treatment to form a containment barrier operative to mitigate diffusion of contaminants into or from the volume of treatment. Soil in the volume of treatment may be removed to allow for the methods contemplated herein to be performed more simply and effectively. The volume of treatment may then be refilled with a filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kristen A. Thoreson, Paul R. Erickson, Steve Barnes, Yen-Ling Liu
  • Publication number: 20230367298
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system scalability and control method thereof. The system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The service platform or the sensor network platform adopts independent layout. The service platform and the sensor network platform both include sub platforms and each sub platform is provided with a database, a processor, and/or an information channel. The object platform includes a production line, and the production line is configured with a plurality of sensors. In each sub platform of the sensor network platform, a same communication protocol is used with the sensors connected to a same sub platform of the sensor network platform. Any sub platform of the sensor network platform is connected with a unique sub platform of the service platform through the management platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua SHAO, Haitang XIANG, Yaqiang QUAN, Bin LIU, Yong LI
  • Publication number: 20230368628
    Abstract: A cigarette smoke alarm device for non-smoking space, including: a thermal image sensing unit, which includes an infrared sensing array for sensing a thermal image in a non-smoking space; and an image processing circuit coupled with the thermal image sensing unit to receive the thermal image, the image processing circuit including a control unit, a memory and a communication interface, and the control unit being coupled with the memory and the communication interface, where the memory is used to store the thermal image, and the control unit is used for performing a smoke image evaluation operation on the thermal image to generate a detection result of a smoking event, and transmitting a data signal representing the detection result to an external device through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: Man-Chee LIU