Patents by Inventor Lu Zhang

Lu Zhang 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).

  • DRIVING SUBSTRATES AND DISPLAY PANELS
    Publication number: 20190304359
    Abstract: Disclosed are a driving substrate and a display panel. The driving substrate includes a substrate defining an irregular-shape non-display area, an anode layer, located on the irregular-shape non-display area and provided with a first curved groove for encapsulating, and an organic unit array formed on a surface of the anode layer away from the substrate. The organic unit array includes a number of organic units forming a number of unit rows and unit columns. The distances between every two adjacent organic units in each unit row or in each unit column are identical. The first curved groove is located between two organic units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Quan LIU, Xu Qin, Lu Zhang, Siming Hu, Shenzhen Han
  • DISPLAY PANELS AND DISPLAY DEVICES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20190296094
    Abstract: The present application relates to a display panel and a display device thereof. The display panel includes a base substrate and a number of display units disposed on the base substrate. The number of display units form a display region. A display region driving circuit is disposed on the display region of the base substrate and electrically connected to the number of display units so as to drive the number of display units. And a peripheral circuit is disposed on the base substrate at a periphery of the display region. The peripheral circuit includes a number of peripheral circuit units arranged side by side in a same direction. And the number of peripheral circuit units and the number of display units are respectively arranged correspondingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Xu QIN, Xiuqi HUANG, Jinfang ZHANG, Lu ZHANG, Siming HU, Zhenzhen HAN
  • DISPLAY PANELS AND DISPLAY DEVICES
    Publication number: 20190296051
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel, which includes a first sub-display area, a second sub-display area, and a non-display area. A number of pixel units in the first sub-display area unit is less than a number of pixel units in the second sub-display area. The first sub-display area includes a first a scanning wire. A fixed potential signal wire of the non-display area includes a first signal wire and a second signal wire. The second signal wire is connected to the first signal wire. The second signal wire includes a connecting portion and strip portions connected to the connecting portion and arranged at intervals. A width of the second signal wire is greater than a width of the first signal wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Xu Qin, Yuying Hang, Jinfang Zhang, Lu Zhang, Siming Hu, Zhenzhen Han
  • Benzothiophene-based redox molecules for flow battery
    Patent number: 10424805
    Abstract: The present invention provides a redox flow battery comprising a negative electrode (also referred to herein as an “anode”) immersed in a first liquid electrolyte (also referred to herein as a “negative electrolyte” or “anolyte”), a positive electrode (also referred to herein as a “cathode”) immersed in a second liquid electrolyte (also referred to herein as a “positive electrolyte” or “catholyte”), and a cation-permeable separator (e.g., a membrane or other cation-permeable material) partitioning the negative electrode/anolyte from the positive electrode/catholyte. The redox reactant of the catholyte comprises a compound of Formula (I) as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Jingjing Zhang, Lu Zhang, Ilya A. Shkrob
  • Organic non-aqueous cation-based redox flow batteries
    Patent number: 10424806
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous redox flow battery comprising a negative electrode immersed in a non-aqueous liquid negative electrolyte, a positive electrode immersed in a non-aqueous liquid positive electrolyte, and a cation-permeable separator (e.g., a porous membrane, film, sheet, or panel) between the negative electrolyte from the positive electrolyte. During charging and discharging, the electrolytes are circulated over their respective electrodes. The electrolytes each comprise an electrolyte salt (e.g., a lithium or sodium salt), a transition-metal free redox reactant, and optionally an electrochemically stable organic solvent. The redox reactant of the positive electrolyte is a dialkoxybenzene compound, and the redox reactant of the negative electrolyte is a viologen compound or a dipyridyl ketone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Lu Zhang, Jinhua Huang, Anthony Burrell
  • SCAN DRIVERS, DRIVING METHODS THEREOF AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20190287465
    Abstract: The present application provides a scan driver, a driving method thereof and an organic light emitting display. The scan driver includes a first driving area and a second driving area. The first driving area includes a number of first driving units, and the number of the first driving units sequentially sends a first driving signal and a third driving signal to a scan line. The second driving area includes a number of second driving units, and the number of the second driving units sequentially sends a second driving signal to the scan line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Guohua ZHAO, Siming HU, Lu ZHANG, Zhenzhen HAN, Hui ZHU
  • Computer Stylus Having Integrated Antenna and Sensor Structures
    Publication number: 20190265808
    Abstract: A computer stylus may be provided that includes an elongated body with a tip and an opposing end coupled together by a shaft that includes a metal tube. The stylus may include a substrate at the end of the elongated body and conductive traces on the substrate. The traces may form a sensor electrode for a sensor and an antenna resonating element for an antenna in the stylus. The sensor may include an electrode that gathers sensor signals. Control circuitry may wirelessly transmit the sensor signals to external equipment using the antenna. The sensor electrode may be coupled to the metal tube by a filter. The filter may form an open circuit at radio-frequencies and a short circuit at the frequency of the sensor signals. The filter may mitigate deterioration in wireless performance of the antenna associated with the presence of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Lu Zhang, Mattia Pascolini, Yi Jiang, Harish Rajagopalan
  • FOLDABLE ARRAY SUBSTRATE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190267558
    Abstract: The present application provides a foldable array substrate, a preparation method thereof and a display device. The foldable array substrate includes a base substrate, a gate metal layer disposed on one side of the base substrate, a source-drain metal layer disposed on the side of the gate metal layer opposite to the base substrate, and an insulating layer disposed between the gate metal layer and the source-drain metal layer. A plurality of holes are disposed on the foldable array substrate, and the holes are disposed between adjacent pixel units of a plurality of pixel units, and extend from the side of the insulating layer opposite to the base substrate toward the base substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Gang WANG, Lu ZHANG, Zhenzhen HAN, Siming HU, Hui ZHU
  • AUTOMATIC CROSS-PLATFORM GEOMETRIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR MOON-BASED EARTH OBSERVATION IMAGE
    Publication number: 20190251678
    Abstract: The disclosure analyzes moon-earth relationship and influencing factors for geometric distortion of a moon-based earth image, focuses on influences of position change of a sublunar point, a curvature of the earth, a terrain fluctuation on a large-scale hemisphere image, and the problem of small number of ground control points and uneven distribution thereof, and proposes a projection polar coordinate geometric expression method for the moon-based earth observation image, which takes into account of movement of the sublunar point, while considering multi-platform earth observation data, to realize accurate automatic geometric correction of the moon-based platform earth observation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Huadong GUO, Lu ZHANG, Guang LIU
  • GLASS HAVING ANTIGLARE SURFACE WITH LOW DISPLAY SPARKLE
    Publication number: 20190248703
    Abstract: A glass article having a low level of grainy appearance that can appear to have a shift in the pattern of the grains with changing viewing angle of a display, or “sparkle.” The glass article—which, in some embodiments, is a transparent glass sheet—has small-angle-scattering properties and/or distinctness-of-reflected-image (DOI), leading to improved viewability in display applications, especially under high ambient lighting conditions. In some embodiments, the antiglare surface of the glass sheet is an etched surface, with no foreign coating present on the antiglare surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Jacques Gollier, Shandon Dee Hart, Kelvin Nguyen, Alan Thomas Stephens, II, James Andrew West, Lu Zhang
  • Processes for making light extraction substrates for an organic light emitting diode using photo-thermal treatment
    Patent number: 10367169
    Abstract: A process includes providing a base substrate and disposing a precursor on the base substrate. The precursor includes powdered particles of a first material and an organic binder. The process includes photo-thermally treating the precursor to form a light extraction layer. The photo-thermal treatment includes exposing the precursor to a flash lamp that is energized in pulses. The process further includes disposing an organic light emitting diode adjacent to the light extraction layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Kuo, Jen-Chieh Lin, Lu Zhang
  • Resource reservation mechanism for overlay networking
    Patent number: 10361971
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system establishes a resource reservation protocol (RSVP) session corresponding to a flow between a first entity and a second entity operating within a computer environment that implements a network virtualization overlay protocol. Once the RSVP session is established, the information handling system encapsulates data packets of the flow based on the network virtualization overlay protocol and, in turn, sends the encapsulated data packet over the computer network with a quality of service (QoS) assurance level that is based on the established RSVP session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guo Xing He, Zi Jin Tao, Lu Zhang, Yuan Yuan Zhang
  • Scalable chromatic adaptation
    Patent number: 10354613
    Abstract: Scalable color balancing techniques for processing images to be presented on displays are described. One technique includes receiving ambient light color information from an ambient light sensor and input image data to be presented via a display coincident with receiving the ambient light color information. The display may have a first white point at a time prior to receiving the input image data. The technique may include determining a second white point for the display based on the input image data and the ambient light color information. The first and second white points may differ from each other. The technique may also include generating one or more chromatic adaptation transforms (CATs) based on the white points. Output image data may be generated based on applying the one or more CATs to the input image data. The output image data may be presented via the display. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Marcu, Kenneth Greenebaum, Lu Zhang, Jiaying Wu, Ian Hendry
  • PACKAGING STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20190207143
    Abstract: The present application discloses a packaging structure, the packaging structure includes a first substrate, a side of the first substrate including a power supply terminal; a second substrate; a metal extension layer, extending from the power supply terminal to both ends of the first side of the first substrate; and a packaging layer, covering the metal extension layer and fastening the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Zhaoli CHEN, Jinfang ZHANG, Lu ZHANG
  • PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND LAYOUT STRUCTURE OF TRANSISTOR
    Publication number: 20190189055
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a layout structure of a transistor. The pixel driving circuit includes a storage capacitor, a first to a seventh switching transistor, a first driving transistor, a second driving transistor, and an organic light emitting diode. The layout structure includes a circuit node and an active layer connected to the circuit node; the active layer includes: a first active layer, a second active layer, and a third active layer; a first source, a drain and a second source connected to the first, the second and the third active layer, respectively; a first gate, a second gate, and a third gate corresponding to the first, the second and the third active layer respectively; and a gate pattern composed of the first gate, the second gate, and the third gate being located above the circuit node and the active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu ZHANG, Guozhe WEN, Zhenzhen HAN, Xiujian ZHU
  • Display with ambient-adaptive backlight color
    Patent number: 10306729
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a backlight with light sources of different colors. The electronic device may include a color ambient light sensor that measures the color of ambient light and control circuitry that adjusts the color of light emitted from the backlight based on the color of ambient light. The light sources may include at least first and second light-emitting diodes that emit light having different color temperatures. The control circuitry may adjust the intensity of light emitted from the first light-emitting diode relative to the intensity of light emitted from the second light-emitting diode to produce a backlight color that more closely matches the color of ambient light. The first and second light-emitting diodes may include an ultraviolet light-emitting diode die and a blue light-emitting diode die that are mounted in a common semiconductor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Chen, Jiaying Wu, Lu Zhang, David A. Doyle, Christopher E. Glazowski, Adria Fores Herranz, Chenhua You, Wei Chen, Jun Qi, John Z. Zhong
  • Resource sharing method and resource sharing system
    Patent number: 10299130
    Abstract: Resource sharing method and device are provided. The method includes: sending an access request to a second communication network through a target backhaul link of the second communication network by a resource sharing device when the access request is received from a terminal from a first communication network; sending the access request to the first communication network by the second communication network, for authenticating the terminal; sending QoS level information of the terminal to the second communication network by the first communication network when the terminal is authenticated, and sending access rejected information to the second communication network when the terminal is unauthenticated; providing services for the terminal according to the subscription QoS level information, or rejecting to provide services for the terminal according to the access rejected information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: YULONG COMPUTER TELECOMMUNICATION SCIENTIFIC (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Fei Zhang, Ting Fu, Yi-Qing Cao, Chen-Lu Zhang, Ya-Jun Zhu
  • Hybrid electronic device antennas having parasitic resonating elements
    Patent number: 10290946
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a hybrid antenna that includes a slot resonating element formed from a slot in a ground plane and a planar resonating element formed over the slot. A parasitic element may be disposed over the planar element. A switch may couple the parasitic element to the ground. A tunable circuit may couple the planar element to the ground. The switch and tunable circuit may be placed in different tuning states. In a first state, the tunable circuit and switch form open circuits. In a second state, the tunable circuit may an open circuit and the switch is closed. In a third state, the tunable circuit forms a return path and the switch forms an open circuit. This may allow the antenna to operate with satisfactory efficiency in low, mid, and high bands despite volume constraints imposed on the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pietro Romano, Harish Rajagopalan, Umar Azad, Lu Zhang, Rodney A. Gomez Angulo, Mattia Pascolini
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING DATA TRANSACTIONS
    Publication number: 20190130014
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to systems and method for categorizing data transactions. In one embodiment, string type names are received from different users to describe different types of transactions. The string type names are preprocessed, tokenized, converted to values, and processed by a machine learning algorithm to generate likelihoods. The likelihoods may correspond to internal type categories of a common software platform, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SAP SE
    Inventors: Lu Zhang, Joshua Manoj
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING DATA TRANSACTIONS
    Publication number: 20190130015
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to systems and method for categorizing data transactions. In one embodiment, string type names are received from different users to describe different types of transactions. The string type names are preprocessed, tokenized, converted to values, and processed by a machine learning algorithm to generate likelihoods. The likelihoods may correspond to internal type categories of a common software platform, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SAP SE
    Inventors: Lu Zhang, Joshua Manoj