Patents by Inventor Meng Yao

Meng Yao 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: 11999258
    Abstract: A method of detecting safe and other states of battery while electric vehicle is being driven controls an inverter to generate ripple current on the battery; ripple voltages of a plurality of battery cells are measured, voltage phase shifts between the battery cells are calculated. The battery can be analyzed as normal or otherwise according to the voltage phase shift between plurality of the battery cells. A vehicle-mounted device and a non-volatile storage medium therein, for performing the above-described method, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Zhang, Meng Yao, Xiaohui Li, Bozhi Yang, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 11803366
    Abstract: A firmware updating system and method are provided. The firmware updating method includes configuring a host to digitally sign a firmware to be updated, and configuring an electronic device to perform an authorization verification on an update tool, and only the update tool that passes the verification has an update permission. The update tool uses an encryption algorithm to encrypt the firmware to be updated that includes a digital signature. After the encryption is completed, the host sends the update tool to the electronic device through the update tool. The electronic device then uses a decryption algorithm to decrypt the received firmware to obtain the firmware to be updated including the digital signature, and write the firmware to be updated into a firmware storage area to be updated. The electronic device then verifies the digital signature in the firmware to be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Dong-Yu He, Meng-Yao Gu, Jian Sun
  • Patent number: 11748250
    Abstract: This application discloses a data processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. When execution is performed at an operation layer of a neural network model, based on a pre-stored buffer allocation relationship, a first address range for cyclic addressing is set for a first buffer corresponding to input data and a second address range for cyclic addressing is set for a second buffer corresponding to an output result. Subsequently, cyclic addressing can be performed in the first buffer based on the first address range for cyclic addressing, to read the input data for the operation layer; and cyclic addressing can be performed in the second buffer based on the second address range for cyclic addressing, to write the output result of the operation layer into the second buffer. In this way, efficiency of buffer utilization can be effectively improved, and further operation efficiency for the model is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Horizon Robotics Technology Research and Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianjun Li, Meng Yao, Zhenjiang Wang, Yu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11721854
    Abstract: A battery thermal management system and method are provided. The system includes: a battery, a battery thermal exchange structure, a pump, at least one first valve and one or more thermal adjustment components, wherein the battery thermal exchange structure includes a thermal exchange channel passing through the battery, and has a first port and a second port; a first coolant circulation loop is formed via connecting the pump and the battery thermal exchange structure, and a second coolant circulation loop is formed via connecting the pump, the battery thermal exchange structure and the one or more thermal adjustment components; the first valve is set at each or one of two joint locations between the first coolant circulation loop and the second coolant circulation loop and is configured to direct coolant flowing through the first valve into either the first coolant circulation loop or the second coolant circulation loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohui Li, Bozhi Yang, Qin Yang, Meng Yao
  • Patent number: 11704896
    Abstract: A Method, apparatus, device, and storage media for image processing are provided. The method include: acquiring a set of image sequences, the set of image sequences including a plurality of image sequences; determining a first similarity measurement between image sequences in the set of image sequences; dividing the set of image sequences into one or more subset of image sequences based on a first similarity measurement; and determining, in each subset of image sequences, degrees of correlation between images in one image sequence of the subset of image sequences and images in other image sequences of the subset of image sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Meng Yao
  • Patent number: 11682193
    Abstract: An automatic guided vehicle (AGV) comprising a mobile base including a drive train and configured to drive the AGV in a self-navigation mode within a facility, a first camera configured to capture first image data of objects within the facility, a second camera configured to capture second image data of objects within the facility, the second camera including a content filter, and a main control module configured to receive the first and second image data from the first and second cameras. The main control module executes a recognition neural network program. The neural network program recognizes targets in the first image data. The main control module also executes a supervisor program under user control. The supervisor program is receives the second image data and recognizes markers attached to targets in the second image data. The supervisor program produces a supervised outcome in which targets to which markers are attached are associated with categories based on user commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Lingdong Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiung-Lin Chen, Meng Yao
  • Patent number: 11679691
    Abstract: A battery heating device of an electric vehicle, a battery heat adjustment method, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The device includes a battery heating circuit, an engine cooling circuit and a three-way valve. The three-way valve connects the battery heating circuit and the engine cooling circuit to mix a first liquid in the engine cooling circuit and a second liquid in the battery heating circuit, and transmits a mixed liquid to the battery heating circuit to heat a battery in the battery heating circuit. By means of the disclosure, the problems of large overall weight and packaging space of a system caused by the use of a heat exchanger and high manufacturing cost in a conventional art are solved, the overall weight and packaging space of the system are reduced, additional components are reduced, and the cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qin Yang, Meng Yao, Bozhi Yang, Xiaohui Li, Yifeng Lin, Zihui Ma
  • Patent number: 11609274
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device for detecting battery state comprises a controller, a load unit, and a switch unit. The load unit is coupled to the battery, the switch unit is coupled between the battery and the load unit. The controller can control the switch unit to disconnect or connect the battery and the load unit at a predefined frequency. The controller can switch the load unit to generate ripple voltage on the battery, and measure the ripple voltage of each battery cell, an abnormal state of a battery can be determined according to the ripple voltage of each battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Zhang, Meng Yao, Meng Wang, Xiaohui Li, Bozhi Yang
  • Publication number: 20230015814
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device for detecting battery state comprises a controller, a load unit, and a switch unit. The load unit is coupled to the battery, the switch unit is coupled between the battery and the load unit. The controller can control the switch unit to disconnect or connect the battery and the load unit at a predefined frequency. The controller can switch the load unit to generate ripple voltage on the battery, and measure the ripple voltage of each battery cell, an abnormal state of a battery can be determined according to the ripple voltage of each battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Chen ZHANG, Meng YAO, Meng WANG, Xiaohui LI, Bozhi YANG
  • Patent number: 11557047
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing an image are provided. The method may include: acquiring a set of image sequences, the set of image sequences including a plurality of image sequence subsets divided according to similarity measurements between image sequences, each image sequence subset including a basic image sequence and other image sequence, wherein a first similarity measurement corresponding to the basic image sequence is greater than or equal to a first similarity measurement corresponding to the other image sequence; creating an original three-dimensional model using the basic image sequence; and creating a final three-dimensional model using the other image sequence based on the original three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Meng Yao
  • Publication number: 20230008384
    Abstract: A method of detecting safe and other states of battery while electric vehicle is being driven controls an inverter to generate ripple current on the battery; ripple voltages of a plurality of battery cells are measured, voltage phase shifts between the battery cells are calculated. The battery can be analyzed as normal or otherwise according to the voltage phase shift between plurality of the battery cells. A vehicle-mounted device and a non-volatile storage medium therein, for performing the above-described method, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Chen ZHANG, Meng YAO, Xiaohui LI, Bozhi YANG, Meng WANG
  • Patent number: 11548349
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a refrigerant loop, a motor coolant loop, and a battery coolant loop. The refrigerant loop includes a first refrigerant main-line, a second refrigerant main-line, a first refrigerant branch, and a second refrigerant branch. The first refrigerant main-line includes a compressor, the second refrigerant main-line includes a cabin condenser, the first refrigerant branch includes a cabin evaporator, the second refrigerant branch includes a radiator. The first refrigerant main-line and the second refrigerant main-line selectively communicate with one of the first and second refrigerant branches. The battery coolant loop includes a coolant main-line, a first coolant branch connected to the cabin evaporator, a second coolant branch connected to the cabin condenser, and a third coolant branch. The coolant main-line selectively communicates with at least one of the first to third coolant branches. The battery coolant loop connects to the motor coolant loop in series or in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohui Li, Qin Yang, Bozhi Yang, Meng Yao, Chen Zhang, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 11552957
    Abstract: In a device including a processor and a memory, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of receiving an access control setting for granting access to an access-controlled resource and a dynamic tag characterizing a member group subject to the access control setting; accessing a data source storing member data including an attribute associated with each member, the attribute including a parameter related to a time or time period. The dynamic tag is mapped to the member data based on (1) the parameter of the attribute and (2) a time or time period associated with the dynamic tag, to identify mapped members forming the member group, wherein the mapped members identified based on a same dynamic tag vary depending on the time or time period associated with the dynamic tag, to identify the member group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ian Rubinstein, Amit Akiva Apple, Thaddeus Scott, Meng Yao
  • Publication number: 20220388368
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a refrigerant loop, a motor coolant loop, and a battery coolant loop. The refrigerant loop includes a first refrigerant main-line, a second refrigerant main-line, a first refrigerant branch, and a second refrigerant branch. The first refrigerant main-line includes a compressor, the second refrigerant main-line includes a cabin condenser, the first refrigerant branch includes a cabin evaporator, the second refrigerant branch includes a radiator. The first refrigerant main-line and the second refrigerant main-line selectively communicate with one of the first and second refrigerant branches. The battery coolant loop includes a coolant main-line, a first coolant branch connected to the cabin evaporator, a second coolant branch connected to the cabin condenser, and a third coolant branch. The coolant main-line selectively communicates with at least one of the first to third coolant branches. The battery coolant loop connects to the motor coolant loop in series or in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaohui LI, Qin YANG, Bozhi YANG, Meng YAO, Chen ZHANG, Meng WANG
  • Patent number: 11521350
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing an image, an electronic device and a storage medium. A specific implementation comprises: acquiring a matching association relationship of a feature point in each to-be-modeled image frame in a to-be-modeled image frame set, a plurality of to-be-modeled image frames in the to-be-modeled image frame set belonging to at least two different to-be-modeled image sequences; determining a first feature point set of the each to-be-modeled image frame based on the matching association relationship, the first feature point set including a first feature point, and the first feature point matching a corresponding feature point in a to-be-modeled image frame in a different to-be-modeled image sequence; and selecting, based on a number of the first feature point in the first feature point set in the each to-be-modeled image frame, a to-be-modeled image frame from the to-be-modeled image frame set for a three-dimensional reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Meng Yao
  • Patent number: 11502350
    Abstract: Provided is a battery heating system, a battery device and an electric vehicle. The battery heating system includes: a battery pack having multiple battery cells; a plurality of heating resistors, each heating resistor is connected to a corresponding battery cell and is configured to heat the connected battery cell; a switching circuit, which is connected to each battery cell and each heating resistor; a controller, which is connected to the switch circuit and is configured to select one or more battery cells for discharging and one or more battery cells to be heated from the plurality of battery cells according to the temperature and/or energy of each battery cell, and control switches in the switching circuit to switch on/off, so that the current of the one or more battery cells for discharging flows through the corresponding heating resistor to heat the one or more battery cells to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Yao, Jiucai Zhang, Bozhi Yang, Qin Yang
  • Patent number: 11483169
    Abstract: In a communication device including a processor and a computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium includes instructions for performing receiving a text input composing a message, the text input including a word characterizing a recipient group; transmitting the text input to a server; receiving, from the server, feedback data indicating that the recipient group for the message has been identified; in response to receiving the feedback data, providing an indication that the recipient group for the message has been identified; receiving a user input requesting to send the message to the identified recipient group; and in response to receiving the user input, transmitting, to the server, a request to send the message to the identified recipient group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ian Rubinstein, Amit Akiva Apple, Thaddeus Scott, Meng Yao
  • Publication number: 20220197786
    Abstract: This application discloses a data processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. When execution is performed at an operation layer of a neural network model, based on a pre-stored buffer allocation relationship, a first address range for cyclic addressing is set for a first buffer corresponding to input data and a second address range for cyclic addressing is set for a second buffer corresponding to an output result. Subsequently, cyclic addressing can be performed in the first buffer based on the first address range for cyclic addressing, to read the input data for the operation layer; and cyclic addressing can be performed in the second buffer based on the second address range for cyclic addressing, to write the output result of the operation layer into the second buffer. In this way, efficiency of buffer utilization can be effectively improved, and further operation efficiency for the model is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jianjun Li, Meng Yao, Zhenjiang Wang, Yu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220086015
    Abstract: In a communication device including a processor and a computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium includes instructions for performing receiving a text input composing a message, the text input including a word characterizing a recipient group; transmitting the text input to a server; receiving, from the server, feedback data indicating that the recipient group for the message has been identified; in response to receiving the feedback data, providing an indication that the recipient group for the message has been identified; receiving a user input requesting to send the message to the identified recipient group; and in response to receiving the user input, transmitting, to the server, a request to send the message to the identified recipient group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ian RUBINSTEIN, Amit Akiva APPLE, Thaddeus SCOTT, Meng YAO
  • Publication number: 20220085438
    Abstract: A battery thermal management system and method are provided. The system includes: a battery, a battery thermal exchange structure, a pump, at least one first valve and one or more thermal adjustment components, wherein the battery thermal exchange structure includes a thermal exchange channel passing through the battery, and has a first port and a second port; a first coolant circulation loop is formed via connecting the pump and the battery thermal exchange structure, and a second coolant circulation loop is formed via connecting the pump, the battery thermal exchange structure and the one or more thermal adjustment components; the first valve is set at each or one of two joint locations between the first coolant circulation loop and the second coolant circulation loop and is configured to direct coolant flowing through the first valve into either the first coolant circulation loop or the second coolant circulation loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaohui LI, Bozhi YANG, Qin YANG, Meng YAO