Patents by Inventor Mingzhi CHEN

Mingzhi CHEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240151661
    Abstract: A radiographic inspection apparatus and a vehicle-mounted security inspection system. The radiographic inspection apparatus includes a scanning device, where the scanning device includes: an upright framework; a slip ring rotatably provided on the upright framework; and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes: a driving mechanism provided on the upright framework; and a contact portion provided on the driving mechanism to come into contact with an outer ring of the slip ring under a driving of the driving mechanism, so as to prevent the slip ring from rotating relative to the upright framework.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Li ZHANG, Zhiqiang CHEN, Qingping HUANG, Mingzhi HONG, Yi CHENG, Minghua QIU, Yao ZHANG, Jianxue YANG, Lei ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20240117957
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lighting fixture in which a threadless fit is achieved between a lens cover and a housing. The lighting fixture comprises a housing, a circuit board and a lens cover. The housing and the lens cover are arranged on opposite sides of the circuit board. The housing comprises a first slot. The lens cover comprises a first tab configured to fit into the first slot by a threadless fit, thereby securing the lens cover to the housing. Compared with lighting fixtures in the prior art, the lighting fixture of the present disclosure can save process steps, simplify manufacturing process, reduce manufacturing cost, and improve heat dissipation and light distribution efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jianming HUANG, Kai CHEN, Ming XU, Mingzhi GAO, Takeshi TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240103196
    Abstract: A radiographic inspection device and a method of inspecting an object are provided. The radiographic inspection device includes a support frame, where an inspection space applicable to inspect an object is formed within the support frame, and the inspection space has a first opening connecting to an outside; a transfer mechanism applicable to carry the object and move through the inspection space; a shielding curtain mounted at the first opening; and a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism includes: a driver mounted on the support frame; and a joint portion, where an upper end of the shielding curtain is connected to the joint portion. The driver is configured to synchronously drive two ends of the joint portion, so that the shielding curtain moves up and down with the joint portion to open or close the first opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqiang CHEN, Li ZHANG, Yi CHENG, Qingping HUANG, Mingzhi HONG, Minghua QIU, Yao ZHANG, Jianxue YANG, Lei ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20240104884
    Abstract: A method of acquiring feature information of a detected object is provided, including: controlling the detected object to pass through a detection apparatus; controlling an imaging system to perform radiation scanning on the detected object acquiring a radiation scanning image of the detected object acquiring feature information of the detected object through the radiation scanning image. The detected object includes a first part, a detection part and a second part sequentially in a first direction. The acquiring feature information of the detected object through the radiation scanning image includes: acquiring a first boundary line between the detection part and the first part and a second boundary line between the detection part and the second part through the radiation scanning image; and calculating a dimension between the first boundary line and the second boundary line in the first direction to acquire a dimension of the detection part in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Li ZHANG, Zhiqiang CHEN, Ming CHANG, Xin JIN, Qingping HUANG, Xiaofei XU, Mingzhi HONG, Liguo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11870867
    Abstract: A method of processing service data, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of a computer technology, and in particular to a field of service deployment technology. The method of processing service data includes: determining, in response to receiving an operation request for a target service, a request type of the operation request; determining a target proxy module corresponding to the request type based on the request type; and sending the operation request by using the target proxy module, so that a service deployment cluster operates on the target service based on the operation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzhi Chen, Changqing Sun, Jiangtao Bi
  • Publication number: 20230094948
    Abstract: A method of processing service data, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of a computer technology, and in particular to a field of service deployment technology. The method of processing service data includes: determining, in response to receiving an operation request for a target service, a request type of the operation request; determining a target proxy module corresponding to the request type based on the request type; and sending the operation request by using the target proxy module, so that a service deployment cluster operates on the target service based on the operation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Mingzhi CHEN, Changqing SUN, Jiangtao BI
  • Publication number: 20230048649
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of processing an image, a device, and a medium. The method of processing the image includes: performing a noise reduction on an original image to obtain a smooth image; performing a feature extraction on the original image to obtain feature data for at least one direction; and determining an image quality of the original image according to the original image, the smooth image, and the feature data for the at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaoyun WANG, Mingzhi CHEN, Zhao WANG
  • Publication number: 20230049656
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of processing an image, a device, and a medium. The method of processing the image includes: performing an image processing on an original image to obtain a component image for brightness of the original image; determining at least one of the original image and the component image as an image to be processed; classifying a pixel in the image to be processed, so as to obtain a classification result; processing the image to be processed according to the classification result, so as to obtain a target image; and determining an image quality of the original image according to the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaoyun WANG, Mingzhi CHEN, Zhao WANG
  • Patent number: 11478208
    Abstract: An X-ray image quality control system includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an X-ray image and determine the type of imaged body part and the type of projection mode. A quality detection unit is configured to detect an image defect in X-ray image with regard to the type of the imaged body part and/or the type of the projection mode. The quality control system effectively identifies image defects including inaccurate positioning, patient movement, external object artifacts, and poor exposure. The system provides feedback to the technician at the image acquisition point to adjust the image acquisition solution in a timely manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Sun, Mingzhi Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Jing Zhang, Minggang She
  • Publication number: 20220280129
    Abstract: This invention concerns digital radiography, especially in relation to a long-length imaging method based on digital radiography, as well as a digital radiography device, an image processing system and a computer-readable memory medium to implement the method. According to one respect of the invention, the long-length imaging method based on digital radiography comprises the following steps: A. determining a part of interest of an anatomy of an object; B. determining imaging parameters of digital radiography based on the part of interest, the imaging parameters at least including a plurality of specified positions of imaging components, wherein the plurality of specified positions are configured to make X-ray images captured at the plurality of specified positions by the imaging components include the part of interest of the anatomy of the object; and C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Ken SUN, Mona ZHANG, Mingzhi CHEN, Xinyu ZHANG, Minggang SHE, Jun LIU
  • Publication number: 20220254253
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of failure monitoring for signal lights, and a storage medium is provided. The method includes: acquiring state information of signal lights fed back by a signal machine in a time period; acquiring an indication state of the signal lights and a traffic flow of the intersection in the time period by parsing data acquired by a monitoring device at an intersection where the signal lights are located in the time period; and determining whether the signal lights are under a failure condition based on the state information of the signal lights, the indication state of the signal lights and the traffic flow of the intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Wei DAI, Mingzhi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220148422
    Abstract: The present application provides an annunciator control method, an electronic device and a system, and relates to the field of intelligent transportation and cloud computing in the artificial intelligence technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: CHI ZHANG, MINGZHI CHEN, GAO YU, CHUANG WANG
  • Publication number: 20220139219
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal light control method, apparatus and system. The specific implementation includes: acquiring control strategy data for a signal light at an intersection, where the control strategy data represents a control rule for controlling the signal light, and the signal light have a plurality of light heads, and determining light state information of each phase of the signal light according to the control strategy data, where a phase represents a traffic flow of a light head corresponding to the phase within a preset time period, and determining control-related information of each phase according to the light state information of each phase, where the control-related information represents an association relationship between respective light colors of the light head corresponding to the phase, and controlling, according to the control-related information of each phase, the light head corresponding to each phase to display a light color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: CHUANG WANG, GAO YU, MINGZHI CHEN, CHI ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210321968
    Abstract: An X-ray image quality control system includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an X-ray image and determine the type of imaged body part and the type of projection mode. A quality detection unit is configured to detect an image defect in X-ray image with regard to the type of the imaged body part and/or the type of the projection mode. The quality control system effectively identifies image defects including inaccurate positioning, patient movement, external object artifacts, and poor exposure. The system provides feedback to the technician at the image acquisition point to adjust the image acquisition solution in a timely manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Ken SUN, Mingzhi CHEN, Xinyu ZHANG, Jing ZHANG, Minggang SHE
  • Publication number: 20200402229
    Abstract: An X-ray image quality control system includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an X-ray image and determine the type of imaged body part and the type of projection mode. A quality detection unit is configured to detect an image defect in the X-ray image with regard to the type of the imaged body part and/or the type of the projection mode. The quality control system can effectively identify image defects including inaccurate positioning, patient movement, external object artifacts, and poor exposure. The system can also provide feedback to the technician at the image capture point, which helps to adjust the image capture solution in a timely manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Mingzhi CHEN, Xinyu ZHANG, Minggang SHE, Dongdong LI
  • Patent number: 10026221
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to an automation process method to generate a set of wetland predictive variables using Light Detection and Ranging (“LiDAR”) data within a geographic information system (“GIS”) software platform, according to some embodiments, and to model and predict wetland in ArcGIS platform using the generated variable set. The automatic process also can run analysis on and display of the predicted wetland. The process is built by developing modules and connection in GIS. The above mentioned processes are automatically run and may just be run by one-button press, or on click, or separate buttons press, or separate clicks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    Inventors: Sheng-Guo Wang, Libin Bai, Jing Deng, Meijuan Jia, Morgan Weatherford, LeiLani Paugh, Wenwu Tang, Mingzhi Chen, Shen-En Chen
  • Publication number: 20150347673
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to an automation process method to generate a set of wetland predictive variables using Light Detection and Ranging (“LiDAR”) data within a geographic information system (“GIS”) software platform, according to some embodiments, and to model and predict wetland in ArcGIS platform using the generated variable set. The automatic process also can run analysis on and display of the predicted wetland. The process is built by developing modules and connection in GIS. The above mentioned processes are automatically run and may just be run by one-button press, or on click, or separate buttons press, or separate clicks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Sheng-Guo WANG, Libin BAI, Jing DENG, Meijuan JIA, Morgan WEATHERFORD, LeiLani PAUGH, Wenwu TANG, Mingzhi CHEN, Shenen CHEN