Patents by Inventor Ming Xu
Ming Xu 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).
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Patent number: 10587777Abstract: In an imaging method an image or multiple images, an ink specification and substrate or substrates for imaging are selected. A central computing device (CCD) determines a volume of ink required to form the images and communicates with a plurality of printers that are geographically remote from the CCD. Each of the plurality of printers communicates to the CCD an ink specification available at the printer, a volume of ink available and optionally substrates that are available at the printer location. The CCD selects a printer or printers from the plurality of printers to fulfill the print job considering the geographic location of the printer(s), the ink specification available to the printer, and the volume of ink available at the printer. The CCD provides to the printer information and specifications which may include an image specification, an ink specification, a waveform specification and a substrate specification.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Inventors: Ming Xu, Nathan Hale, Major Murphy
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Publication number: 20200073945Abstract: A computer-implemented method for leveraging computer aided input segmentations is provided. The computer aided input segmentations identify divisions in a source text. The division are utilized to translate the source text from a first language to a second language. In this regard, segmentation boundaries are designated within the source text based on the computer aided input segmentations, which determine the divisions. Each division is automatically translated into the second language to generate translated segments corresponding to the division. These translated segments are combined to generate a translated text.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Fei Huang, Jian-Ming Xu
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Publication number: 20200073949Abstract: A translation text output corresponding to a machine translation from a source text of a first language to a target text of a second language is received. The translation text output includes at least one sentence including at least one translation chunk. A first translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one sentence of the text and a second translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one translation chunk are received. A first translation confidence indicator for the at least one sentence and a second translation confidence indicator for the at least one translation chunk are displayed. The first translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different first translation confidence indicators based upon the first translation quality confidence estimate. The second translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different second translation confidence indicators based upon the second translation quality confidence estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jian-Ming Xu, Fei Huang
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Publication number: 20200074610Abstract: Systems and methods for optimal electron beam metrology guidance are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the method may include receiving an acquired image of a sample, determining a set of image parameters based on an analysis of the acquired image, determining a set of model parameters based on the set of image parameters, generating a set of simulated images based on the set of model parameters. The method may further comprise performing measurement of critical dimensions on the set of simulated images and comparing critical dimension measurements with the set of model parameters to provide a set of guidance parameters based on comparison of information from the set of simulated images and the set of model parameters. The method may further comprise receiving auxiliary information associated with target parameters including critical dimension uniformity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Lingling PU, Wei FANG, Nan ZHAO, Wentian ZHOU, Teng WANG, Ming XU
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Patent number: 10558762Abstract: A translation text output corresponding to a machine translation from a source text of a first language to a target text of a second language is received. The translation text output includes at least one sentence including at least one translation chunk. A first translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one sentence of the text and a second translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one translation chunk are received. A first translation confidence indicator for the at least one sentence and a second translation confidence indicator for the at least one translation chunk are displayed. The first translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different first translation confidence indicators based upon the first translation quality confidence estimate. The second translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different second translation confidence indicators based upon the second translation quality confidence estimate.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jian-ming Xu, Fei Huang
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Patent number: 10548462Abstract: A duodenoscope protected with disposable consumables comprises a body having an insertion portion covered with a cuff, and a disposable forceps passage tube inserted into a tube of the body. A distal end portion of the body is covered with an end cap, which is integrally connected to the cuff and to the disposable forceps passage tube. The end cap is made of transparent elastic material with an elongated opening, compatible in shape to an opening of the distal end portion of the duodenoscope body, and further comprises a soft connection port in a shape of a pipe with a small-orifice end secured onto the disposable forceps passage tube, and a large orifice end secured onto an edge of the elongated opening. A forceps-lifting unit is disposed at the distal end portion of the duodenoscope body, and comprises a grooved pulley coupled with a steel wire for maneuverability.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Inventors: Shouwang Jiang, Xiangyang Wu, Jian Zhang, Ming Xu, Chong Chen, Kerang Jiang
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Patent number: 10547425Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
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Publication number: 20200003576Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information providing method for an on-demand service. The method may include receiving service request information from a passenger of a passenger terminal device. The service request information may include a departure location of the passenger. The method may further include acquiring historical service request information related to the passenger; and determining travel-route-related information based at least in part on the departure location of the passenger and the historical service request information. Also disclosed is a system for implementing the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ye CHEN, Chengxiang ZHUO, Zhaoxue WU, Ming XU, Kaijie QIN, Yajie ZHANG, Haiyang LU, Dong GUO, Peng YU, Yanjun LU, Wenyi BAO
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Publication number: 20200007716Abstract: In an imaging method an image or multiple images, an ink specification and substrate or substrates for imaging are selected. A central computing device (CCD) determines a volume of ink required to form the images and communicates with a plurality of printers that are geographically remote from the CCD. Each of the plurality of printers communicates to the CCD an ink specification available at the printer, a volume of ink available and optionally substrates that are available at the printer location. The CCD selects a printer or printers from the plurality of printers to fulfill the print job considering the geographic location of the printer(s), the ink specification available to the printer, and the volume of ink available at the printer. The CCD provides to the printer information and specifications which may include an image specification, an ink specification, a waveform specification and a substrate specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Sawgrass Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ming Xu, Nathan Hale, Major Murphy
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Publication number: 20190391602Abstract: An electronic device manufacturing system includes a mass flow controller (MFC) that has a thermal flow sensor. The thermal flow sensor may measure a mass flow rate and may include a sensor tube having an inner surface coated with a material to form an inner barrier layer. The inner barrier layer may prevent or substantially reduce the likelihood of a corrosive reaction from occurring on the inner surface, which may prevent or reduce the likelihood of the MFC drifting beyond the MFC's mass flow rate accuracy specifications. This may improve the repeatability of flow detection by the MFC. Methods of measuring and controlling a mass flow rate in an electronic device manufacturing system are also provided, as are other aspects.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Ming Xu, Sushant S. Koshti, Michael R. Rice, Steven E. Babayan, Jennifer Y. Sun
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Patent number: 10517089Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio
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Publication number: 20190380058Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
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Publication number: 20190372416Abstract: A retention component for retaining a coil in a slot of a stator for a generator having a rotor includes a first segment and a second segment, both of which are configured to be inserted into the slot. At least one of the first and second segments is made entirely of laminated sheets that together form a unitary structure of magnetic material. At least one of the first and second segments has an interfacing surface configured to directly interface a rotor surface in the absence of a structure therebetween. A channel is between the first and second segments, and a third segment that extends along and within the channel. The third segment is less magnetic or non-magnetic than at least one of the first and second elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Cristian Anghel, Ming Xu, Tom Phielix, William Scherzinger
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Patent number: 10472084Abstract: A system for driving an environmental control system (ECS) of a vehicle with ground-based electrical power may include a turbine engine on board the vehicle, coupled to the ECS to pneumatically drive the ECS, and an electric machine, on board the aircraft, mechanically coupled to the turbine engine, to drive the turbine engine. A control system such that the electric machine provides motoring assistance to the turbine engine, and that the motoring assistance is limited to match the available current from the ground-based electrical power.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Ming Xu, Cristian Anghel, Eric Blumer, Wayne Pearson
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Publication number: 20190332129Abstract: Gas distribution apparatus to provide uniform flows of gases from a single source to multiple processing chambers are described. A regulator is positioned at an upstream end of a shared volume having a plurality of downstream ends. A flow controller is positioned at each downstream end of the shared volume, the flow controller comprising an orifice and a fast pulsing valve. Methods of using the gas distribution apparatus and calibrating the flow controllers are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Michael Rice, Joseph AuBuchon, Sanjeev Baluja, Ashley M. Okada, Alexander Fernandez, Ming Xu, Marcel E. Josephson, Sushant Suresh Koshti, Kenneth Le, Kevin M. Brashear
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Patent number: 10458806Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information providing method for an on-demand service. The method may include receiving service request information from a passenger of a passenger terminal device. The service request information may include a departure location of the passenger. The method may further include acquiring historical service request information related to the passenger; and determining travel-route-related information based at least in part on the departure location of the passenger and the historical service request information. Also disclosed is a system for implementing the method.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ye Chen, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zhaoxue Wu, Ming Xu, Kaijie Qin, Yajie Zhang, Haiyang Lu, Dong Guo, Peng Yu, Yanjun Lu, Wenyi Bao
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Patent number: 10433202Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
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Patent number: 10419644Abstract: In an imaging method an image or multiple images, an ink specification and substrate or substrates for imaging are selected. A central computing device (CCD) determines a volume of ink required to form the images and communicates with a plurality of printers that are geographically remote from the CCD. Each of the plurality of printers communicates to the CCD an ink specification available at the printer, a volume of ink available and optionally substrates that are available at the printer location. The CCD selects a printer or printers from the plurality of printers to fulfill the print job considering the geographic location of the printer(s), the ink specification available to the printer, and the volume of ink available at the printer. The CCD provides to the printer information and specifications which may include an image specification, an ink specification, a waveform specification and a substrate specification.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventors: Ming Xu, Nathan Hale, Major Murphy
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Patent number: 10409295Abstract: An electronic device manufacturing system includes a mass flow controller (MFC) that has a thermal flow sensor. The thermal flow sensor may measure a mass flow rate and may include a sensor tube having an inner surface coated with a material to form an inner barrier layer. The inner barrier layer may prevent or substantially reduce the likelihood of a corrosive reaction from occurring on the inner surface, which may prevent or reduce the likelihood of the MFC drifting beyond the MFC's mass flow rate accuracy specifications. This may improve the repeatability of flow detection by the MFC. Methods of measuring and controlling a mass flow rate in an electronic device manufacturing system are also provided, as are other aspects.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Ming Xu, Sushant S. Koshti, Michael R. Rice, Steven E. Babayan, Jennifer Y. Sun
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Publication number: 20190266249Abstract: A translation text output corresponding to a machine translation from a source text of a first language to a target text of a second language is received. The translation text output includes at least one sentence including at least one translation chunk. A first translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one sentence of the text and a second translation quality confidence estimate for the at least one translation chunk are received. A first translation confidence indicator for the at least one sentence and a second translation confidence indicator for the at least one translation chunk are displayed. The first translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different first translation confidence indicators based upon the first translation quality confidence estimate. The second translation confidence indicator is determined from among a plurality of different second translation confidence indicators based upon the second translation quality confidence estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2018Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jian-ming Xu, Fei Huang