Patents by Inventor Nan Liu

Nan Liu 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: 20210274910
    Abstract: A cosmetic container includes a base including an inner cavity and at least one positioning member on a wall of the inner cavity; a support frame including an axial channel, at least one latch at an end, and at least one complementary positioning member each disposed between the end of the support frame and a portion of each latch and configured to mate in snap-fit engagement with the positioning member; a lipstick carrier including a rotational member at an end, an outer shell, and an inner shell secured to the rotational member and slidably disposed in the outer shell, and an axial space in the inner shell wherein the lipstick carrier is mounted through the support frame and an open end of the rotational member is held in position in the base; and a cap releasably secured to the support frame for covering the lipstick carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Zhuhai Ding Rong Plastic Products Co., LTD
    Inventor: Ting Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20210256101
    Abstract: An unlocking processing method can be applied to a terminal, and include: in response to detecting a touch operation on a hot zone for a spot of the terminal, determining a direction of a signal generated by the touch operation among a plurality of directions; determining a threshold according to the direction, wherein at least two of the plurality of directions each corresponds to a respective different threshold; and reporting a request for lighting up the spot in the hot zone, in response to that a coverage of the signal exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nan LIU
  • Publication number: 20210243259
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, central control device, an application device for the Internet of things and communication methods applied to the Internet of Things system. The Internet of Things includes the center control and a plurality of application devices, wherein the central control device includes: a central control unit configured to perform a central control function of the central control device under control of a first clock signal; an asynchronous communication unit configured to perform data communication between the central control device and a plurality of application devices in the Internet of Things by using an asynchronous circuit; a synchronous-asynchronous interface configured to perform data transmission between the central control unit and the asynchronous communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Nan LIU
  • Patent number: 11064787
    Abstract: An environmentally friendly lipstick case formed of PET includes a cap including an internal annular groove on a bottom; a rotation tube including internal spiral guide grooves; an ascending and descending tube including two opposite guide pins on an outer surface, and longitudinal ribs on an inner surface; a support tube including two opposite longitudinal tunnels on a surface, each longitudinal tunnel having an upper horizontal end and a lower horizontal end oriented in a direction opposite to that of the upper horizontal end, and an annular toothed member on a bottom of an inner surface; and a lower exterior casing including an annular shoulder on an outer surface of an upper portion, projections between the annular shoulder and an open top, and a protrusion on a blind bottom disposed in the toothed member. The guide pins are moveably disposed through the longitudinal tunnels into the guide grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Zhuhai Ding Rong Plastic Products Co., LTD
    Inventor: Ting Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20210192711
    Abstract: A method for compensating a design image of a workpiece and a system for processing the design image of the workpiece are disclosed. The method includes the following steps. Obtaining a real image of the workpiece, with the real image having registration holes. Calculating a slope value for each of the registration holes. Determining an amount of interpolation points between each two neighboring registration holes of the registration holes according to the slope value corresponding to each of the registration holes. Obtaining positions of control points in blocks formed by the registration holes. Compensating the design image of the workpiece according to positions of the registration holes, positions of the plurality of interpolation points and the positions of the control points for generating a mapping image. Outputting the mapping image adapted to be mapped onto the workpiece. The system, together with the method, will be introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shau-Yin TSENG, Yan-Jen SU, Jin-Nan LIU, Chien-Wei CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210177343
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for contactless sleep monitoring. The contactless sleep monitoring system collects patient data from a plurality of sensors, including thermal, radar, and audio sensors. The data is then processed using various signal processing techniques. Machine learning algorithms then convert the thermal data, audio data, and radar data into latent representations, preserving the features of each type of data but enabling them to be combined together for analysis. Finally, the system fuses the representations and then predicts sleep states by performing machine learning analysis on the fused data. Sleep states include sleep stages and sleep conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Erheng ZHONG, Ke ZHAI, Nan LIU, Yujia LI
  • Patent number: 11031164
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a receiving element that includes a ferromagnetic structure axially symmetrical around a central axis disposed along a length of the ferromagnetic structure. The ferromagnetic structure includes a groove region defining two end regions on opposing sides of the groove region, where the groove region has a smaller length than the two end regions. The receiving element also includes an inductor coil wound about the groove region of the ferromagnetic structure and in between the two end regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Blake R. Marshall, Florence W. Ow, Joel N. Ruscher, Liquan Tan, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Hao Zhu, Qigen Ji, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Nan Liu, Robert Scritzky, Gianpaolo Lisi
  • Publication number: 20210158583
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A method may include obtaining k-space data associated with MR signals acquired by an MR scanner. The k-space data may corresponding to a first sampling rate. The method may also include generating one or more estimated images based on the k-space data and a target neural network model. The one or more estimated images may correspond to a second sampling rate that exceeds the first sampling rate. The method may further include determining one or more target images based on the one or more estimated images and the k-space data using a compressed sensing model. The compressed sensing model may be constructed based on the one or more estimated images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqian HUANG, Guobin LI, Nan LIU, Yang XIN
  • Patent number: 11006726
    Abstract: An applicator includes a closure cap including inner retaining members; an application head including a housing, a support, and a coupling member wherein the housing includes an axial channel with the support substantially disposed therein, an inclined surface having an application face and holes, and roller-balls disposed in the holes respectively; the support includes a stair adjacent to the holes, and the coupling member includes a neck member at a first end and being urged against the support, an internally threaded member adjacent to a second end and disposed through the neck member, a mating retaining member disposed on an outer surface of the neck member between the inclined surface and the internally threaded member, the mating retaining member being secured to the retaining members; and a container assembly including an externally threaded neck at one end and threadedly secured to the internally threaded member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Zhuhai Ding Rong Plastic Products Co., LTD
    Inventor: Ting Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20210130860
    Abstract: An enzymatic deacidification method for partial glyceride lipase and PUFA-rich oil, comprising the following steps: 1) mixing a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA)-rich oil with a non-polar organic solvent and a short-chain monohydric alcohol, adding an immobilized partial glyceride lipase to carry out an esterification reaction, wherein the partial glyceride lipase is a mutant obtained by mutating the Phe at the 278th position of Lipase SMG1 as Asn; 2) recovering the immobilized enzyme, and recovering the organic solvent and the monohydric alcohol so as to obtain a deacidified PUFA-rich oil. The partial glyceride lipase does not catalyze alcoholysis of triglyceride and like side reactions, has high deacidification efficiency, low reaction temperature, prevents high temperature oxidation of PUFAs, and the immobilized enzyme may be recovered and reused repeatedly, and thus the present invention has good application prospects in industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yonghua WANG, Daoming LI, Weifei WANG, Nan LIU, Bo YANG, Dongming LAN
  • Publication number: 20210112325
    Abstract: A computing device includes a housing and a microphone module. The microphone module may be connected to the housing and selectively manipulated between an attached and detached state. In an attached state, the microphone of the microphone module is operatively linked to one or more electrical components of the housing. In a detached state, the microphone is disconnected from the one or more electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chyun Nan Liu, Chung Hua Ku
  • Publication number: 20210106248
    Abstract: A biometric signal graphical analysis system is described. In an embodiment, a graphical data preprocessing module is configured to receive a biometric graph and generate a normalized biometric graph. A graphical image analysis module is configured to receive and machine process the normalized biometric graph and generate a machine representation. A biometric information module generates an additional machine representation of biometric information combinable with the machine representation of the graphical image analysis module. A diagnosis module is configured to receive and combine the machine representation and the additional machine representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Nan Du, Nan Liu, Jia Li
  • Publication number: 20210093203
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a heart rate and respiratory rate from a radio frequency signal comprises inputting a radio frequency signal obtained from a test subject into a neural network. The method further comprises training the neural network using the radio frequency signal and extracting a heart rate and a respiratory rate from the radio frequency signal using the neural network. Further, the method comprises comparing the heart rate and the respiratory rate extracted from the radio frequency signal to a verifiable heart rate and verifiable respiratory rate for the test subject to compute an error measure. Finally, the method comprises using the error measure to apply back propagation to adjust front end parameters for one or more layers of the neural networks to improve a prediction accuracy of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Erheng ZHONG, YuJia LI, Nan LIU, Ke ZHAI
  • Publication number: 20210076801
    Abstract: An environmentally friendly lipstick tube formed of PET includes a rotation tube, an ascending and descending tube, and a support tube. The rotation tube includes spiral guide grooves on an inner surface. The ascending and descending tube includes two opposite guide pins on an outer surface, and parallel longitudinal ribs on an inner surface, and a support surface adjacent to a bottom edge. The support tube includes two opposite longitudinal tunnels on a surface, each longitudinal tunnel having an upper horizontal end and a lower horizontal end. The rotation tube is put on the support tube. The ascending and descending tube is in the support tube. The guide pins are moveably disposed through the longitudinal tunnels into the spiral guide grooves and the guide pins are anchored in the upper horizontal ends or the lower horizontal ends at an end of the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Zhuhai Ding Rong Plastic Products Co., LTD
    Inventor: Ting Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20210076802
    Abstract: An environmentally friendly lipstick case formed of PET includes a cap including an internal annular groove on a bottom; a rotation tube including internal spiral guide grooves; an ascending and descending tube including two opposite guide pins on an outer surface, and longitudinal ribs on an inner surface; a support tube including two opposite longitudinal tunnels on a surface, each longitudinal tunnel having an upper horizontal end and a lower horizontal end oriented in a direction opposite to that of the upper horizontal end, and an annular toothed member on a bottom of an inner surface; and a lower exterior casing including an annular shoulder on an outer surface of an upper portion, projections between the annular shoulder and an open top, and a protrusion on a blind bottom disposed in the toothed member. The guide pins are moveably disposed through the longitudinal tunnels into the guide grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Zhuhai Ding Rong Plastic Products Co., LTD
    Inventor: Ting Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20210072803
    Abstract: In example implementations, a mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a camera, a microphone, a metallic housing and a privacy cover. The metallic housing encloses the camera and the microphone. The metallic housing includes a privacy cover storage area. The privacy cover is removably coupled to the privacy cover storage area. The privacy cover is dimensioned to cover the camera and the microphone and stay within a bezel of the metallic housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yi-Ying LAI, Chyun Nan LIU, Chung Hua KU
  • Patent number: 10936707
    Abstract: A fingerprint circuit, and a force touch control method and a device are provided. The fingerprint circuit includes a circuit cover plate, a fingerprint sensor, a light source and an optical sensing device. A specular reflection layer is arranged below the circuit cover plate. The light source, the optical sensing device and the fingerprint sensor are positioned below the specular reflection layer. The light source and the optical sensing device are positioned on two sides of the fingerprint sensor respectively. Light emitted by the light source passes through a gap between the fingerprint sensor and the circuit cover plate to irradiate the specular reflection layer and is reflected to the optical sensing device through the specular reflection layer. The optical sensing device converts the light reflected by the specular reflection layer into an electrical signal, and the electrical signal may be configured for force touch control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nan Liu
  • Publication number: 20210048499
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a plurality of groups of imaging data. Each group of the plurality of groups of imaging data may be generated based on MR signals acquired by an MR scanner via scanning a subject using a diffusion sequence. The method may also include determining one or more correction coefficients associated with an error caused by the diffusion sequence for each group of the plurality of groups of imaging data. The method may also include determining, based on the one or more correction coefficients corresponding to the each group of the plurality of groups of imaging data, a plurality of groups of corrected imaging data. The method may further include determining averaged imaging data by averaging the plurality of groups of corrected imaging data in a complex domain and generating, based on the averaged imaging data, an MR image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guobin LI, Nan LIU, Zhaopeng LI
  • Patent number: 10923955
    Abstract: A wireless power system may use a wireless power transmitting device to transmit wireless power to a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device may have an array of coils that extend under a wireless charging surface. Control circuitry may supply alternating-current control signals to inverters. The inverters are coupled to resonant circuits. Each resonant circuit includes a capacitor coupled to a respective one of the coils. During operation, wireless power signals are transmitted from the coils to the wireless power receiving device through the charging surface. The capacitor associated with each resonant circuit may potentially be individually selected to enhanced uniformity of the wireless power transmitting device. The array of coils may have multiple layers and the capacitors in each layer may have different respective values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Liu, Rohan Dayal, Weihong Qiu, Zaki Moussaoui
  • Publication number: 20210042390
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions that are executed by the at least one processor to specifically configure the at least one processor to implement a common labeled annotated document converter. A transcription service receives a natural language electronic document to be annotated for processing by a cognitive computing system. The cognitive computing system performs natural language processing and cognitive analysis of features extracted from content of the natural language electronic document based on annotations associated with the natural language electronic document. The transcription service processes the natural language electronic document to convert the natural language electronic document from a first format of the natural language electronic document to a common labeled annotated document (CLAD) format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tongkai Shao, Xianying Liu, Sheng Hua Bao, Nan Liu, Pathirage Dinindu Sujan Udayanga Perera, Feng Wang, Abhinandan Kelgere Ramesh