Patents by Inventor Ming Liang

Ming Liang 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: 12643575
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) by automatically annotating objects surrounding the AV are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data from a sensor coupled to the AV and generate an initial object trajectory for an object using the sensor data. Additionally, the system can determine a fixed value for the object size of the object based on the initial object trajectory. Moreover, the system can generate an updated initial object trajectory, wherein the object size corresponds to the fixed value. Furthermore, the system can determine, based on the sensor data and the updated initial object trajectory, a refined object trajectory. Subsequently, the system can generate a multi-dimensional label for the object based on the refined object trajectory. A motion plan for controlling the AV can be generated based on the multi-dimensional label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Ming Liang, Wenyuan Zeng, Min Bai, Raquel Urtasun
  • Publication number: 20260147120
    Abstract: Generally, the disclosed systems and methods implement improved detection of objects in three-dimensional (3D) space. More particularly, an improved 3D object detection system can exploit continuous fusion of multiple sensors and/or integrated geographic prior map data to enhance effectiveness and robustness of object detection in applications such as autonomous driving. In some implementations, geographic prior data (e.g., geometric ground and/or semantic road features) can be exploited to enhance three-dimensional object detection for autonomous vehicle applications. In some implementations, object detection systems and methods can be improved based on dynamic utilization of multiple sensor modalities. More particularly, an improved 3D object detection system can exploit both LIDAR systems and cameras to perform very accurate localization of objects within three-dimensional space relative to an autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Bin Yang, Shenlong Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma, Raquel Urtasun
  • Publication number: 20260072664
    Abstract: This application provides an application deployment method, including: obtaining a configuration template provided by a user, where the configuration template includes a first configuration item and a second configuration item, and a value of the first configuration item is configured by the user; obtaining at least one available resource that matches the second configuration item and that is in a cloud environment; and determining a value of the second configuration item based on the at least one available resource, to deploy an application on a cloud based on the first configuration item, the value that is of the first configuration item and that is specified by the user, the second configuration item, and the value that is of the second configuration item and that is automatically determined by an application deployment apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Applicant: Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Liangfeng Ye, Xiaoming Yue
  • Patent number: 12570329
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for forecasting the motion of actors within a surrounding environment of an autonomous platform. For example, a computing system of an autonomous platform can use machine-learned model(s) to generate actor-specific graphs with past motions of actors and the local map topology. The computing system can project the actor-specific graphs of all actors to a global graph. The global graph can allow the computing system to determine which actors may interact with one another by propagating information over the global graph. The computing system can distribute the interactions determined using the global graph to the individual actor-specific graphs. The computing system can then predict a motion trajectory for an actor based on the associated actor-specific graph, which captures the actor-to-actor interactions and actor-to-map relations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Wenyuan Zeng, Renjie Liao, Raquel Urtasun, Ming Liang
  • Patent number: 12546560
    Abstract: An air gun including: a cylinder, a cartridge, an air valve, a stop piece. The air valve includes an assembly channel, a communication port, and an air passage connected to the assembly channel through the communication port. The cartridge is disposed in the assembly channel and includes an ejection channel communicating with the air passage through the communication port. The stop piece is disposed on the air valve to push the cartridge towards the communication port, thereby locking the cartridge onto the air valve, and tightly fitting the cartridge and the air valve at least at an outer circumference of the communication port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: S-BEAM PRECISION PRODUCTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Xiaoliang Luo
  • Patent number: 12517252
    Abstract: Generally, the disclosed systems and methods implement improved detection of objects in three-dimensional (3D) space. More particularly, an improved 3D object detection system can exploit continuous fusion of multiple sensors and/or integrated geographic prior map data to enhance effectiveness and robustness of object detection in applications such as autonomous driving. In some implementations, geographic prior data (e.g., geometric ground and/or semantic road features) can be exploited to enhance three-dimensional object detection for autonomous vehicle applications. In some implementations, object detection systems and methods can be improved based on dynamic utilization of multiple sensor modalities. More particularly, an improved 3D object detection system can exploit both LIDAR systems and cameras to perform very accurate localization of objects within three-dimensional space relative to an autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Bin Yang, Shenlong Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma, Raquel Urtasun
  • Patent number: 12496240
    Abstract: An ambulance-type mobile catheter room for cardiovascular interventional surgery enables interventional diagnosis and treatment devices for acute and severe cardiovascular diseases to be deployed quickly, is flexible and high in adaptability, and provides hardware devices for cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment interventional surgeons to timely diagnose and treat patients. The ambulance-type mobile catheter room for cardiovascular interventional surgery includes an ambulance. The ambulance is internally provided with an antibacterial internal environment, a robotic angiography machine system, a wireless medical Internet of Things system, a self-generating system and an auxiliary system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PLA NORTHERN THEATER COMMAND
    Inventors: Yaling Han, Jingyang Sun, Ming Liang, Xiaozeng Wang, Yang Li, Dan Liu, Fei Li
  • Patent number: 12487050
    Abstract: An air gun, includes: a cartridge including a launching chamber, a cylinder including an air chamber, an air valve, a first pin, and a second pin. The air valve is disposed in the air chamber and partially extends out of the cylinder to connect to the cartridge; the air valve is an integrally-formed structure and includes an air passage comprising an air inlet and an air outlet; the air inlet is connected to the air chamber, the air outlet is connected to the launching chamber; the first pin is movable relative to the cylinder to open and close the air inlet, and the second pin is movable relative to the cylinder to open and close the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: S-BEAM PRECISION PRODUCTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Xiaoliang Luo
  • Publication number: 20250252128
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of computer technologies, and discloses a method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium for processing recommendation information. The method includes: displaying a content document on a document page, where the content document includes a plurality of content document pages; acquiring target position information of recommendation information to be processed in the content document, where the target position information is determined based on a statistical analysis result of display durations of the content document pages; and processing the recommendation information to be processed on the document page based on the target position information, where the processing includes displaying or issuing a recommendation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Wenwen SHAO, Shilong WAN, Zhaopeng XIONG, Yuyang NIE, Ziyang CHEN, Yufei QI, Mengxue SHENG, Wei ZHUO, Yaqin LIANG, Ming LIANG, Xin LI, Yang YU, Xiaoguang ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12376809
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted angiography machine with a double-robotic-arm type structure is used for interventional surgery diagnosis and treatment on patients on the site of cardiovascular diseases and on the way and occupies a small space. The vehicle-mounted angiography machine includes a six-degree-of-freedom robotic lower arm at the lower portion of an ambulance body space, a three-degree-of-freedom mobile table located in the middle of the space for moving a patient, and a seven-degree-of-freedom robotic upper arm at the upper portion of the space. An end portion of the upper arm is connected to a flat panel detector of the angiography machine, and an end portion of the lower arm is connected to an anode ball tube of the angiography machine, Large-scale isocentric detection is realized by cooperation of the central motion of the upper arm and the lower arm and the up-down, left-right and front-back motion of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PLA NORTHERN THEATER COMMAND, SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Yaling Han, Jingyang Sun, Ming Liang, Xiaozeng Wang, Yang Li, Dan Liu, Hao Liu, Peng Lin
  • Publication number: 20250214614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating attention masks are provided. In particular, a computing system can access sensor data and map data for an area around an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can generate a voxel grid representation of the sensor data and map data. The computing system can generate an attention mask based on the voxel grid representation. The computing system can generate, by using the voxel grid representation and the attention mask as input to a machine-learned model, an attention weighted feature map. The computing system can determine using the attention weighted feature map, a planning cost volume for an area around the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can select a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle based, at least in part, on the planning cost volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Raquel Urtasun, Bob Qingyuan Wei, Mengye Ren, Wenyuan Zeng, Ming Liang, Bin Yang
  • Patent number: 12282328
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating attention masks are provided. In particular, a computing system can access sensor data and map data for an area around an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can generate a voxel grid representation of the sensor data and map data. The computing system can generate an attention mask based on the voxel grid representation. The computing system can generate, by using the voxel grid representation and the attention mask as input to a machine-learned model, an attention weighted feature map. The computing system can determine using the attention weighted feature map, a planning cost volume for an area around the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can select a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle based, at least in part, on the planning cost volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Raquel Urtasun, Bob Qingyuan Wei, Mengye Ren, Wenyuan Zeng, Ming Liang, Bin Yang
  • Publication number: 20250116482
    Abstract: An air gun including: a cylinder, a cartridge, an air valve, a stop piece. The air valve includes an assembly channel, a communication port, and an air passage connected to the assembly channel through the communication port. The cartridge is disposed in the assembly channel and includes an ejection channel communicating with the air passage through the communication port. The stop piece is disposed on the air valve to push the cartridge towards the communication port, thereby locking the cartridge onto the air valve, and tightly fitting the cartridge and the air valve at least at an outer circumference of the communication port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Ming LIANG, Xiaoliang LUO
  • Publication number: 20250037298
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating simulation data based on real-world dynamic objects are provided. A method includes obtaining two- and three-dimensional data descriptive of a dynamic object in the real world. The two- and three-dimensional information can be provided as an input to a machine-learned model to receive object model parameters descriptive of a pose and shape modification with respect to a three-dimensional template object model. The parameters can represent a three-dimensional dynamic object model indicative of an object pose and an object shape for the dynamic object. The method can be repeated on sequential two- and three-dimensional information to generate a sequence of object model parameters over time. Portions of a sequence of parameters can be stored as simulation data descriptive of a simulated trajectory of a unique dynamic object. The parameters can be evaluated by an objective function to refine the parameters and train the machine-learned model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Wei-Chiu Ma, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun, Bin Yang, Ze Yang
  • Publication number: 20250002050
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) by automatically annotating objects surrounding the AV are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data from a sensor coupled to the AV and generate an initial object trajectory for an object using the sensor data. Additionally, the system can determine a fixed value for the object size of the object based on the initial object trajectory. Moreover, the system can generate an updated initial object trajectory, wherein the object size corresponds to the fixed value. Furthermore, the system can determine, based on the sensor data and the updated initial object trajectory, a refined object trajectory. Subsequently, the system can generate a multi-dimensional label for the object based on the refined object trajectory. A motion plan for controlling the AV can be generated based on the multi-dimensional label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Ming Liang, Wenyuan Zeng, Min Bai, Raquel Urtasun
  • Publication number: 20250003713
    Abstract: An air gun, includes: a cartridge including a launching chamber, a cylinder including an air chamber, an air valve, a first pin, and a second pin. The air valve is disposed in the air chamber and partially extends out of the cylinder to connect to the cartridge; the air valve is an integrally-formed structure and includes an air passage comprising an air inlet and an air outlet; the air inlet is connected to the air chamber, the air outlet is connected to the launching chamber; the first pin is movable relative to the cylinder to open and close the air inlet, and the second pin is movable relative to the cylinder to open and close the air outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Ming LIANG, Xiaoliang LUO
  • Patent number: 12160976
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for metal foam cooling of vehicle electronic. An example apparatus may include an electronic control unit (ECU) comprising an electronic component included within a housing. The example apparatus may also include a metal foam configured to dissipate heat produced by the electronic component and also configured to facilitate electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding for the electronic component. The example apparatus may also include an interface between the ECU and the metal foam, wherein the interface provides a connection between the ECU and metal foam to facilitate heat dissipation from the electronic component to a location outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mahmoud Ghannam, Ming Liang, Michael Dupuis, Deepa Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 12141995
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating simulation data based on real-world dynamic objects are provided. A method includes obtaining two- and three-dimensional data descriptive of a dynamic object in the real world. The two- and three-dimensional information can be provided as an input to a machine-learned model to receive object model parameters descriptive of a pose and shape modification with respect to a three-dimensional template object model. The parameters can represent a three-dimensional dynamic object model indicative of an object pose and an object shape for the dynamic object. The method can be repeated on sequential two- and three-dimensional information to generate a sequence of object model parameters over time. Portions of a sequence of parameters can be stored as simulation data descriptive of a simulated trajectory of a unique dynamic object. The parameters can be evaluated by an objective function to refine the parameters and train the machine-learned model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ming Liang, Wei-Chiu Ma, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun, Bin Yang, Ze Yang
  • Patent number: 12120173
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus for managing user information of an application are described. One example method is applied to a user management device of a cloud platform, where the cloud platform is configured to hear an application registered by a user with the cloud platform. The method includes receiving a user management registration request of a first application, where the first application is one of applications registered with the cloud platform, and the user management registration request of the first application carries an identifier of the first application. A user management instance is created for the first application according to the user management registration request and the identifier of the first application, where the user management instance is used to manage user information of the first application. The user management instance is invoked to process a service that is in the first application and related to the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming Liang
  • Patent number: 12116015
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) by automatically annotating objects surrounding the AV are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data from a sensor coupled to the AV and generate an initial object trajectory for an object using the sensor data. Additionally, the system can determine a fixed value for the object size of the object based on the initial object trajectory. Moreover, the system can generate an updated initial object trajectory, wherein the object size corresponds to the fixed value. Furthermore, the system can determine, based on the sensor data and the updated initial object trajectory, a refined object trajectory. Subsequently, the system can generate a multi-dimensional label for the object based on the refined object trajectory. A motion plan for controlling the AV can be generated based on the multi-dimensional label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Ming Liang, Wenyuan Zeng, Min Bai, Raquel Urtasun