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: 12089074
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reporting a master cell group (MCG) failure and/or a Primary Cell (PCell) failure when the MCG failure and/or the PCell failure is detected by a wireless communication device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for reporting a Master Cell Group (MCG) failure by a wireless communication device, includes: detecting a first MCG failure; and reporting the first MCG failure to a first wireless communication node, according to at least one of the following: a first indicator, a first failure type of the first MCG failure, a status of a Secondary Cell Group (SCG), and a Signal Radio Bearer (SRB) configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengjie Zhang, He Huang, Jianxun Ai, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 12088793
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for determination of temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP) candidates for inter-prediction in video coding. The disclosed methods, for example, include restricting the number of TMVP candidates in a motion vector predictor (MVP) list and provide various search mechanism in order to promote MVP candidate diversity among TMVP and other types of MVP candidates and to improve coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Han Gao, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12086156
    Abstract: A method and device for storing data in a distributed database according to a row storage mode and a column storage mode, respectively, the method including: when a change is detected in the data in the row storage mode, obtaining the target row data that has changed based on a preset synchronization policy; determining the number of original data copies and the number of redundant data copies based on the attribute information and the number of failure-resistant nodes of the target row in which the target row data is located; coding the target row data in accordance with a predetermined corrective coding algorithm based on the number of original data copies and the number of redundant data copies, generating coded data; and distributing each copy of the coded data equally by column or group of columns to different nodes in the distributed database for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HEFEI SWAYCHIP INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Min Zhou, Junling Xiang, Ruimin Liu
  • Patent number: 12085935
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating assets for a simulation in order to test autonomous vehicle control software. For instance, data identifying a vehicle object, a polygon for the vehicle object, and a polygon for an open-door object associated with the vehicle object may be received. A rectangle may be fit to the polygon for the vehicle object. A polygon for the vehicle object without the open-door object may be determined based on the rectangle. A vehicle asset representing a vehicle may be adjusted based on the polygon for the vehicle object without the open-door object. A position and rotation of the rectangle may be used to position an open-door asset representing an open door for the simulation. The open-door asset is adjusted based on the adjustment to the vehicle asset. The simulation may be run with the positioned and adjusted open door asset in order to test the autonomous vehicle control software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Evan Birenbaum, Xiaoyi Liu
  • Patent number: 12086453
    Abstract: A memory for an artificial neural network (ANN) accelerator is provided. The memory includes a first bank, a second bank and a bank selector. Each bank includes at least two word lines and a plurality of write word selectors. Each word line stores a plurality of words, and each word has a plurality of bytes. Each write word selector has an input port and a plurality of output ports, is coupled to a corresponding word in each word line, and is configured to select a byte of the corresponding word of a selected word line based on a byte select signal. The bank selector is coupled to the write word selectors of the first bank and the second bank, and configured to select a combination of write word selectors from at least one of the first bank and the second bank based on a bank select signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Mudit Bhargava, Paul Nicholas Whatmough, Supreet Jeloka, Zhi-Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 12085801
    Abstract: A backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The backlight module includes a first optical element which can switch between a transparent state and a scattering state, first light sources, and a light-shielding layer disposed on a light path of light emitted from the first light sources to a liquid crystal display panel. The light-shielding layer includes a plurality of gratings arranged at intervals, each of the gratings is made of a light-shielding material, and one light transmission gap is formed between any two adjacent gratings, thereby improving uniformity of backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui He, Wei Cheng, Changchih Huang, Guanghui Liu
  • Patent number: 12089356
    Abstract: A terminal device can include a metal contact component. The metal contact component can include a metal substrate and a non-allergenic contact layer which is on the metal substrate and the non-allergenic contact layer forms a part of outer surface of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bing Liu
  • Patent number: 12083775
    Abstract: A preparation method of a display apparatus and the display apparatus are provided, the method and the apparatus are relating to a field of display technologies, an edge of at least a side of a flexible display module of the display apparatus is bent to a back side of the flexible display module to form a first bending portion; the preparation method includes providing a flexible display assembly, which includes a flexible display module and a first supporting plate fitted to a display surface of the flexible display module; the first supporting plate is made of a rigid material; an edge of at least a side of the first supporting plate is bent toward a side where the flexible display module is located to form a second bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu Liu, Xiaofei Luo
  • Patent number: 12088622
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for defending against cyber-attacks, and a computer storage medium. An apparatus for defending against cyber-attacks randomly generates a new keyword. The apparatus for defending against cyber-attacks transmits the new keyword to a transmitting device and a receiving device, respectively. The receiving device updates a keyword set of the receiving device to include the new keyword, acquires a keyword carried in a communication message transmitted by the transmitting device, and determines whether the communication message is a cyber-attack message according to the keyword carried and the keyword set. The receiving device discards the communication message in response to the communication message being determined to be a cyber-attack message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Cangming Liu, Xianjin Hong
  • Patent number: 12089474
    Abstract: A texture recognition apparatus and an opposite substrate are provided. The texture recognition apparatus includes a light source array, an image sensor array and a light shielding layer. The light source array includes a plurality of light sources; the image sensor array includes a plurality of image sensors, an orthographic projection of the light shielding layer on a plane where the light source array is located is between two adjacent light sources, an orthographic projection of the light shielding layer on a plane where the image sensor array is located at least partially overlaps with the plurality of image sensors; the light shielding layer has at least one opening, and at least a part of an orthographic projection of the first opening on the plane where the image sensor array is located is at least on one side of the first image sensor or overlaps with the first image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Lei Zhang, Peng Jia, Shi Shu, Yunke Qin, Lin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12084579
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are receptor-substrate complexes comprising an octacationic tricyclic cyclophane and a pyrrole dye complexed therein and methods of using and making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: James Fraser Stoddart, Wenqi Liu
  • Patent number: 12086467
    Abstract: A memory controller managing a memory device receives a memory read command from a host device that is communicably coupled to the memory device. The memory device includes a storage memory comprising a first type of memory cells and a cache memory comprising a second type of memory cells. The memory controller determines, from the memory read command, a physical address of a target memory location in the storage memory indicated by the memory read command. The memory controller executes a read operation on the target memory location corresponding to the physical address. The memory controller determines a read attribute of the target memory location. Conditioned on determining that the read attribute satisfies one or more threshold conditions, the memory controller programs an entry in the cache memory with information corresponding to the target memory location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ting-Yu Liu, Yi-Chun Liu
  • Patent number: 12087245
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a driving method therefor. The driving method includes: determining a gaze area and a non-gaze area of a user on a display apparatus in real time (S10); and driving the gaze area for image displaying at a first resolution, and driving the non-gaze area for image displaying at a second resolution, wherein the first resolution is higher than the second resolution. By using of the display apparatus, image resolution can be adjusted according to different areas, so as to realize high-resolution image display in a display area at which a user gazes and realize low-resolution image display in other areas, thereby reducing power consumption and achieving reasonable allocation of resources on the premise of ensuring the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaolei Zong, Jigang Sun, Weixin Jiang, Bin Wang, Wei Sun, Xin Duan, Shuhuan Yu, Kexin Hao, Jiaqi Fan, Zhaoyun Gu, Shaoru Zhang, Tieshi Wang, Kuanjun Peng, Xue Dong, Wei Qin, Weixing Liu
  • Patent number: 12084848
    Abstract: A central position of a water storage tank is provided with a drain opening; a water return bowl is in a short box shape, and is made of silicone; the bottom end of a skirt of the water return bowl is in direct contact with a bottom plane of the water storage tank to form a closed surface; a top plane of the water return bowl can attach to a grate, and the skirt of the water return bowl can be folded inwardly to form a curved flaky structure under drainage pressure; drain holes of the grate are provided on the edge of the water storage tank. Supports for supporting the grate are provided in the water storage tank. A gas buffer device is provided on the top surface of the flat-top water return bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN FORESIGHT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yujian Liu
  • Patent number: 12088114
    Abstract: An inductive resonant wireless charging system includes a resonant wireless charging transmitting device, a wireless charging relay device and an inductive wireless charging receiving device. The resonant wireless charging transmitting device transmits a high-frequency radio frequency wave. The wireless charging relay device receives the high-frequency radio frequency wave using an electromagnetic resonance way, and converts the high-frequency radio frequency wave into a low-frequency radio frequency wave to transmit the low-frequency radio frequency wave. The inductive wireless charging receiving device receives the low-frequency radio frequency wave in a manner of electromagnetic induction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Edward Yi Chang, Stone Cheng, Wei-Hua Chieng, Shyr-Long Jeng, Ching-Yao Liu, Li-Chuan Tang
  • Patent number: 12086706
    Abstract: A hardware accelerator can store, in multiple memory storage areas in one or more memories on the accelerator, input data for each processing time step of multiple processing time steps for processing sequential inputs to a machine learning model. For each processing time step, the following is performed. The accelerator can access a current value of a counter stored in a register within the accelerator to identify the processing time step. The accelerator can determine, based on the current value of the counter, one or more memory storage areas that store the input data for the processing time step. The accelerator can facilitate access of the input data for the processing time step from the one or more memory storage areas to at least one processor coupled to the one or more memory storage areas. The accelerator can increment the current value of the counter stored in the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jack Liu, Dong Hyuk Woo
  • Patent number: 12087056
    Abstract: A video generation method and apparatus, and a promotional video generation method and apparatus are disclosed. The video generation method includes: obtaining a plurality of original files, each of the plurality of original files includes at least one subject matter; extracting multiple subject matters and labeling information corresponding to the multiple subject matters from the plurality of original files; establishing a display structure corresponding to the multiple subject matters based on the labeling information; and combining the multiple subject matters using the display structure to generate a target video. The present disclosure solves the technical problems of difficulties in automatic reconstruction and generation of video data from a product detail page in existing technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xikai Liu, Xing Gao
  • Patent number: 12084821
    Abstract: A foldable windproof unit, a large-span windproof net structure thereof, and a windproof method. The foldable windproof unit comprises a flexible windproof net, towers arranged at intervals, and a load-bearing rope erected on the two towers. The tower on one side is provided with a horizontal pulley assembly, and the tower on the other side is provided with two vertical pulleys. The top edge of the flexible windproof net is slidably connected to the load-bearing rope by means of a plurality of hanging structures. The foldable windproof unit further comprises a traction rope, the traction rope is arranged on the horizontal pulley assembly in a sleeving manner, and the two free ends of the traction rope extend to respectively bypass the two vertical pulleys and are connected to winding mechanism. The hanging structure close to the tower on one side is fixedly connected to the traction rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Shijiazhuang Tiedao University
    Inventors: Qingkuan Liu, Xiaobing Chai, Yifei Sun, Zhen Li, Xi Wang, Nian Liu, Yangxue Wang, Xing Chang, Saifei Fu
  • Patent number: 12086022
    Abstract: A bus monitoring device and method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device are disclosed. The bus monitoring method may include: arranging monitoring nodes in a bus, with each monitoring node arranged in one of subsystems to be tested of the bus, where the monitoring nodes are connected in series in a ring topology (202); acquiring a test vector and sending a test message according to the test vector to one of the monitoring nodes to transmit the test message across the monitoring nodes, the test vector being configured to instruct each monitoring node to execute the test message and acquire test information of the respective subsystem to be tested, where the test information is configured to indicate information of the bus of the respective subsystem to be tested when the monitoring node executes the test message (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nian Liu
  • Patent number: 12089204
    Abstract: Disclosed are a resource scheduling method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: an interleaving granularity of scheduled physical shared channels is determined according to a preset rule; and the scheduled physical shared channels are interleaved according to the interleaving granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youjun Hu, Bo Dai, Huiying Fang, Weiwei Yang, Kun Liu, Luanjian Bian