Patents by Inventor Nan Zhang

Nan Zhang 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: 20230332556
    Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The cylinder head is connected to the cylinder block. The piston is movably connected to the cylinder block. The cylinder block, the cylinder head, and the piston form a combustion chamber. The cylinder head includes an intake valve hole and an exhaust valve hole. An intake valve is disposed at the intake valve hole and an exhaust valve is disposed at the exhaust valve hole. A barrier protrusion is protruded at the edge of the intake valve hole away from the exhaust valve hole. The included angle between a first connecting line connecting a first end of the barrier protrusion and a center of the intake valve hole and a second connecting line connecting a second end of the barrier protrusion and the center of the intake valve hole is greater than 120 degrees and less than or equal to 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Qiang WANG, Nan ZHANG, Shiyi PAN, Shuguang ZHANG, Peng GUO
  • Publication number: 20230337035
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, assistance information associated with a serving cell of the wireless terminal, and disabling at least one measurement based on the assistance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei CAO, Nan ZHANG, Jianwu DOU, Chenchen ZHANG, Jianqiang DAI
  • Publication number: 20230335049
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for display processing including an apparatus, e.g., a display processor. In some aspects, the apparatus may store one or more pixel conversion factors for at least one display panel. The apparatus may also determine whether to switch from a previous frame refresh rate to an updated frame refresh rate at the at least one display panel. Additionally, the apparatus may identify, upon determining to switch from the previous frame refresh rate to the updated frame refresh rate, a pixel conversion factor of the one or more pixel conversion factors associated with the updated frame refresh rate. The apparatus may also refresh the at least one display panel based on the updated frame refresh rate associated the pixel conversion factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Yongjun XU, Wenkai YAO
  • Publication number: 20230337082
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, a measurement configuration including a beam indication; and receiving at least one reference signal based on the beam indication of the measurement configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chenchen ZHANG, Nan ZHANG, Wei CAO, Kaibo TIAN, Zhen YANG
  • Publication number: 20230328120
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may be equipped with multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMS) capable of supporting emergency calls. When an emergency call is detected, the UE may send emergency call requests to a network through the multiple SIMS. The UE may handle the emergency call through whichever SIM that receives the earliest successful response from the network. By utilizing multiple SIMS to establish the emergency call, both reliability and session response time may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Zhiguo LI, Ronghui LIN, Nan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230328709
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive first configuration information indicating a transmission time interval (TTI) bundling resource. The UE may receive second configuration information indicating semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resources. The UE may detect, during a communication session, an SPS trigger for using the SPS resources in a subframe that is misaligned with a periodicity associated with the TTI bundling resource. The UE may determine whether the SPS trigger is valid based at least in part on a number of TTI bundling grants subsequent to the detection of the SPS trigger that are misaligned with the subframe associated with the SPS trigger. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Ahmed Omar Desouky ALI, Sumanth Kumar KOTA, Neha JOTHI, Zhibin DANG
  • Publication number: 20230326093
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for processing a plurality of layers of image data corresponding to a frame configured to be displayed on a display, the plurality of layers comprising a first subset of layers having respective bit-depths less than or equal to a threshold and a second subset of layers having respective bit-depths greater than the threshold. The method includes performing, by a first processor, composition processing of at least one first layer of the first subset of layers based on the at least one first layer having a respective bit-depth less than or equal to the threshold. The method further includes performing, by a second processor, composition processing of at least one second layer of the second subset of layers based on the at least one second layer having a respective bit-depth greater than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yongjun XU, Nan ZHANG, Wenkai YAO
  • Publication number: 20230319637
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that dual audio channels are to be established over dual quality of service (QoS) flows. The UE may establish a first audio channel of the dual audio channels over a first QoS flow and a second audio channel of the dual audio channels over a second QoS flow based at least in part on receiving the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Zhiguo LI, Yongjun XU
  • Publication number: 20230319715
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, an indication of a discontinuous reception paging cycle and a wake up signal time offset value. The UE may transmit, to the second UE, a wake up signal based at least in part on the discontinuous reception paging cycle and the wake up signal time offset value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Yongjun XU, Long HAN
  • Publication number: 20230309041
    Abstract: A system and method for system information transmission. The system and method include broadcasting, by a wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, a system information block that indicates configuration of different resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jianqiang DAI, Nan ZHANG, Jianwu DOU, Wei CAO, Chenchen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230291522
    Abstract: A signal processing method and apparatus, an information configuration method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The signal processing method includes: receiving reference signal configuration information, the reference signal configuration information including a reference signal generation mode; and processing a signal on the basis of the reference signal configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Linxi HU, Nan ZHANG, Wei CAO, Zhen YANG
  • Publication number: 20230292258
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to configuring a primary component carrier (PCC) and at least one secondary component carrier (SCC) for transmitting uplink communications to one or more nodes of a wireless network using carrier aggregation (CA) in a first subscription of the UE, and transmitting, to at least one of the one or more nodes, a manipulated power headroom report for the at least one SCC based on a migration from an idle state to an active state in a second subscription of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Chetan Jagdeesh BHARADWAJ, Kiran PATIL, Qi HUANG, Sagar KAKADE, Xiaojian LONG, Cheol Hee PARK, Zhengming LI, Saurabh CHUM, Qingxin CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230292277
    Abstract: A positioning method includes: transmitting, by a transmitting device, a pilot signal to an electromagnetic reflecting surface; transmitting, by the transmitting device, control information to an electromagnetic reflecting surface control unit, where the control information includes temporal information and control direction information, the control information is used for instructing the electromagnetic reflecting surface control unit to orient, in target time periods, reflected beams formed by target pilot signals on the electromagnetic reflecting surface towards preset directions, and the preset directions are directions indicated by multiple pieces of preset direction information corresponding to respective ones of the target time periods; and determining, by the transmitting device or the receiving device, signal measurement results corresponding to the preset directions, and positioning, by the transmitting device or the receiving device, the receiving device according to the preset directions and the s
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jianwu DOU, Min FANG, Yijian CHEN, Nan ZHANG, Lin PENG
  • Patent number: 11757680
    Abstract: Provided are a reference signal sending method and device, a reference signal receiving method and device and a storage medium. The reference signal sending method includes: determining that frequency domain positions occupied by a reference signal satisfy a predetermined condition, where the predetermined condition includes: discontinuous frequency bands existing among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal, and a union of the discontinuous frequency bands occupied by the reference signal is smaller than a frequency hopping bandwidth; and sending the reference signal at the determined frequency domain positions; wherein the frequency hopping bandwidth is a bandwidth determined according to two frequency domain positions with a largest distance among the frequency domain positions occupied by the reference signal or a predetermined bandwidth acquired by receiving a first signaling message; and wherein each frequency band comprises a physical resource block (PRB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, YuNgok Li, Yuxin Wang, Chuangxin Jiang, Hao Wu, Nan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230284071
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enhancing reliability of voice over new radio (VONR) in dual connectivity (DC) by duplicating quality of service (QoS) flow using motion metrics measured at the user equipment (UE). At a high level, the UE may detect a motion metric, such as rotation or displacement, and determine whether the detected motion metric exceeds a threshold. When the motion metric exceeds the threshold, the UE requests the network to duplicate the QoS flow in response to the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Yongjun XU
  • Patent number: 11749424
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a hoisting cable with small diameter, high strength, and high flexibility, including an inner conductive core, an insulating layer, an outer conductive wire layer, a tensile layer, and an outer protective layer. The insulating layer is located at an outer side of the inner conductive core and provides insulation between the inner and outer conductors; the outer conductive wire layer is located at an outer side of the insulating layer; the tensile layer is located at an outer side of the outer conductive wire layer; and the outer protective layer is located at an outer side of the tensile layer. The high tensile strength can ensure the safety of hoisting operations, and the small diameter, small bend radius, and high flexibility can ensure the minimization design and the large rope capacity of a winch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: JILIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Hui Liu, Youhong Sun, Pavel Talalay, Ting Wang, Xiaopeng Fan, Bing Li, Rusheng Wang, Da Gong, Yunchen Liu, Yang Yang, Jialin Hong, An Liu, Yanji Chen
  • Patent number: 11742658
    Abstract: A method for generating electric substation load transfer control parameters includes adjusting elements in a fundamental scale matrix according to a condition change of a power grid, wherein the fundamental scale matrix is constructed based on the topology structure of the power grid, and the elements in the fundamental scale matrix represent switch information and risk values of paths between nodes of the power grid, wherein the switch information represents number of switching times required for connecting two nodes of the power grid; and performing operations on the adjusted fundamental scale matrix to generate switch information and risk values of paths for electric substation load transfer control, as electric substation load transfer control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhen Huang, Feng Jin, Qi Ming Tian, Wen Jun Yin, Ya Nan Zhang, Ming Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230267871
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for configuring an image data transfer time for sending image data from a processor to a display panel along a display path. For example, one disclosed method includes receiving, by the processor from the display panel, a display panel refresh interval indication indicating a display panel refresh interval of the display panel, the display panel refresh interval of the display panel corresponding to a time duration of a display period of the display panel. According to the method, the display panel is configured to refresh each display period. The image data transfer time is computed based on the display panel refresh interval. One or more components of the display path are configured to support the computed image data transfer time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Junzhi ZHAO, Yongjun XU
  • Publication number: 20230268961
    Abstract: Provided are a positioning method, device and system for a transmitting device, and a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes that: control information is determined by a receiving device, wherein the control information includes temporal information and control direction information, and the control direction information is used for instructing a meta-surface control unit to adjust a reflection coefficient of a meta-surface to a target reflection coefficient corresponding to a preset direction within a target time period; a pilot signal is transmitted to the meta-surface by a transmitting device; the control information is sent to the meta-surface control unit by the receiving device ; and a signal measurement result corresponding to the preset direction is determined, and the transmitting device is positioned according to the preset direction and the signal measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Jianwu DOU, Min FANG, Yijian CHEN, Nan ZHANG, Lin PENG
  • Patent number: 11733405
    Abstract: Systems and methods include an analog-to-logic circuit and a digital processing component. The analog-to-logic circuit receives a first electrical signal, outputs a first logic signal indicating whether or not a voltage of the first pulse is greater than a first threshold voltage, and outputs a second logic signal indicating whether or not the voltage of the first pulse is greater than a second threshold voltage. The digital processing component receives the first logic pulse and the second logic pulse, determines, based on the second logic signal, if the first pulse is valid, and determines, based on the first logic signal, a first trigger time associated with the first pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Zhang, Martin Judenhofer, Joshua Kolb