Patents by Inventor Ning An

Ning An 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: 20240282291
    Abstract: A speech recognition system may determine speech in the presence of multiple, different forms of corrupted audio. The system may obtain audio-visual data including visual data associated with a person and audio data associated with the person. The system may also determine, based on the visual data, pronunciation data associated with speech by the person. The system may also convert the speech to encoded data. The system may also synthesize, based on the encoded data, the speech to obtain synthesized speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventor: Wei-Ning Hsu
  • Patent number: 12068041
    Abstract: A data storage device including, in one implementation, a number of memory die packages disposed on a substrate within the data storage device. Each memory die package has a die density that includes one or more memory dies. The die density of each memory die package is configured to provide an even thermal distribution across the number of memory die packages. The respective die densities of two memory of the die packages are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shrikar Bhagath, Dean Jenkins, Hedan Zhang, Bret Winkler, Ning Ye
  • Patent number: 12065848
    Abstract: An umbrella assembly including a central shaft, the central shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; a canopy coupled to the first end of the central shaft; an auger extending from the second end of the central shaft; a collar/hub nonslideably coupled to the central shaft and spaced from the auger; a plurality of legs, each of the plurality of legs having a first end and a second end; wherein the first end of each of the plurality of legs is coupled to the collar/hub, the second end of each of the plurality of legs extends towards the auger, and the collar/hub remains in a fixed position with respect to the central shaft when the second end of each leg extends outwardly from the central shaft to a deployed position and returns towards the central shaft from its deployed position to a stowed position; and a flexible material having an opening through which the central shaft extends and wherein the second end of each leg is coupled to the flexible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ShelterLogic Corp.
    Inventor: Ning Xue
  • Patent number: 12068414
    Abstract: A method for reducing stress induced defects in heterogeneous epitaxial interfaces of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure with a fin base, a superlattice structure on the fin base, forming a polysilicon gate structure on the fin structure, forming a source/drain (S/D) opening within a portion of the fin structure uncovered by the polysilicon gate structure, modifying the first surfaces of the first layers to curve a profile of the first surfaces, depositing first, second, and third passivation layers on the first, second, and third surfaces, respectively, forming an epitaxial S/D region within the S/D opening, and replacing the polysilicon gate structure with a metal gate structure. The superlattice structure includes first and second layers with first and second lattice constants, respectively, and the first and second lattice constants are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventors: Winnie Victoria Wei-Ning Chen, Pang-Yen Tsai, Yasutoshi Okuno
  • Patent number: 12068717
    Abstract: A photovoltaic array fault diagnosis method based on composite information is provided. The method includes: collecting and preprocessing composite information data of photovoltaic array working state, including image data and text data; using the image data of photovoltaic array working state to train a pre-established fault classification model of deep convolutional neural network, to thereby obtain an image fault classification model; using the text data of photovoltaic array working state to train a pre-established fault classification model based on a support vector machine, to thereby obtain a text fault classification model; fusing the image fault classification model and the text fault classification model by logistic regression algorithm to obtain a fusion model, and training the fusion model using the composite information data of photovoltaic array working state to thereby obtain the photovoltaic array fault diagnosis model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Fang Deng, Zelang Liang, Ning Ding, Xinyu Fan, Xin Gao, Yeyun Cai, Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 12066559
    Abstract: A method of determining a location of a measurement device includes determining, at a server: measurement times of first positioning signal measurements, of first positioning signals from first positioning signal sources and/or a subset of positioning signal sources of second positioning signal sources. The method includes sending at least one measurement command from the server to the measurement device to cause the measurement device to obtain the first positioning signal measurements in accordance with the measurement times and/or obtain second positioning signal measurements of second positioning signals sent from the subset of positioning signal sources. The method includes: receiving, at the server from the measurement device, measurement data corresponding to the first positioning signal measurements and/or the second positioning signal measurements; and determining, at the server, the location of the measurement device based on the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yinghua Yang, Bo Zheng, Gengsheng Zhang, Ning Luo
  • Patent number: 12069706
    Abstract: Described are a method for transmitting a signal, a network device and a terminal device. The method includes: sending, by a first terminal device, second indication information to a second network device, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating a capability of the first terminal device to receive a signal through a first frequency band and/or interference information of interference caused by a second frequency band to a first frequency band; wherein the first frequency band is a new radio (NR) carrier, and the second frequency band is a long term evolution (LTE) carrier; and receiving, by the first terminal device, signals sent by a first network device within the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yang, Zhi Zhang, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 12063940
    Abstract: A non-freezing meat fresh-preservation control method, a controller and a refrigerator are provided. The non-freezing meat fresh-preservation control method includes: acquiring a current temperature of meat food in a compartment of a refrigerator in real time; judging whether the current temperature of the meat food is greater than or equal to a first temperature threshold t0, and if yes, controlling the compartment to perform a cooling operation; judging whether the meat food is frozen during the cooling operation, and if yes, controlling the compartment to perform a heating operation; and continuing the performance of the acquiring the current temperature after the performance of the heating operation is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinqin Gong, Huixin Shi, Zhigang Wu, Zhifang Ning
  • Patent number: 12067081
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for training a transferable vision transformer (TVT) for unsupervised domain adaption (UDA) in heterogeneous devices are provided. The method includes that a heterogeneous device including one or more graphic processing units (GPUs) loads multiple patches into the TVT which includes a transferability adaption module (TAM). Furthermore, a patch-level domain discriminator in the TAM assigns weights to the multiple patches and determines one or more transferable patches based on the weights. Moreover, the heterogeneous device generates a transferable attention output for an attention module in the TAM based on the one or more transferable patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: KWAI INC.
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Jingjing Liu, Jinyu Yang
  • Patent number: 12066750
    Abstract: A camera module and an electronic device are disclosed. The camera module is configured to be connected with a display device, and the display device is provided with a main board. The camera module includes: a mounting base configured to be fixedly connected with the display device; and a functional portion configured to be detachably connected with the mounting base. The functional portion includes a casing, a camera and a first adapter plate which are mounted in the casing. The first adapter plate and the camera are connected. The first adapter plate is configured to be connected to the main board in the display device when the functional portion is mounted on the mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xue Li, Yan Ren, Zhimao Wang, Ning Jia
  • Patent number: 12067704
    Abstract: A defect characterization method includes: a first scanning image and target defect coordinates in the first scanning image are obtained; a first defect image is obtained according to the target defect coordinates in the first scanning image, the first defect image containing a defect area where a target defect is located and a noise area not containing the target defect; the noise area is marked, Automatic Defect Review (ADR) calculation is performed on the defect area, and a pixel level value of a defect in the defect area is obtained; coordinates of the defect with a maximum pixel level value are obtained, and a second defect image is obtained according to the coordinates of the defect with the maximum pixel level value; and the defect with the maximum pixel level value is classified according to the second defect image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ning Huang
  • Patent number: 12068355
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a substrate, the array substrate includes a display region and a detection region. And the detection region includes a thin film transistor located on the substrate and a photodiode located on one side of the thin film transistor away from the substrate, and the array substrate further includes a first inorganic protective layer, an organic protective layer and a second inorganic protective layer located between the thin film transistor and the photodiode. And the first inorganic protective layer, the organic protective layer and the second inorganic protective layer are stacked in sequence in a direction away from the substrate, and an orthographic projection of the photodiode on the substrate is within the range of the orthographic projection of the organic protective layer on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiayu He, Ce Ning, Zhengliang Li, Hehe Hu, Jie Huang, Nianqi Yao, Kun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12066522
    Abstract: A navigation device applied to a wireless identification tag includes a movable signal transceiver and an operation processor. The movable signal transceiver is adapted to transmit a detection signal and receive an actuation signal relevant to the detection signal. The operation processor is electrically connected to the movable signal transceiver. The operation processor is adapted to analyze the actuation signal to acquire relative position between the movable signal transceiver and the wireless identification tag, and generate a motion parameter in accordance with the relative position for moving the movable signal transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Feng Chen, Han-Lin Chiang, Ning Shyu
  • Patent number: 12065682
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the bioengineering field, and relates to a method for fermentation production of L-theanine by using an Escherichia coli genetically engineered bacterium. The engineered bacterium is obtained by serving a strain as an original strain, wherein the strain is obtained after performing a single copy of T7RNAP, a dual copy of gmas, xylR knockout, and sucCD knockout on an Escherichia coli W3110 genome, and by integrating genes xfp, pta, acs, gltA, and ppc, and knocking out ackA on the genome. The present invention has a high yield, and stable production performance; after 20-25 h, L-theanine has a titer of 75-80 g/L, and the yield is up to 52-55%. The fermentation broth is purified by membrane separation in combination with a cation-anion resin series technique. Moreover, the one-step crystallization yield is 72.3% and the L-theanine final product has a purity of 99%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Henan Julong Biological Engineering Co., Ltd, Tianjin University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Xiaoguang Fan, Xiaodong Liu, Jing Li, Ning Chen, Bochao Liu, Shuai Liu, Chaochao Sun, Yongchao Liu, Jiajia Teng, Mengtao Zhang, Yuanqing Ji, Yuhang Zhou, Qingyang Xu
  • Patent number: 12068320
    Abstract: Gate isolation techniques disclosed herein form gate isolation fins to isolate metal gates of multigate devices from one another before forming the multigate devices, and in particular, before forming the metal gates of the multigate devices. An exemplary device includes a first multigate device having first source/drain features and a first metal gate that surrounds a first channel layer and a second multigate device having second source/drain features and a second metal gate that surrounds a second channel layer. A gate isolation fin, which separates the first metal gate and the second metal gate, includes a dielectric feature having a first dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant (e.g., a low-k dielectric core) and a second dielectric layer (e.g., a high-k dielectric shell) surrounding the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has a second dielectric constant that is greater than the first dielectric constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Pan, Kuo-Cheng Chiang, Shi Ning Ju, Yi-Ruei Jhan, Kuan-Lun Cheng, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 12067885
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a sensor configured to detect an indicator of a geo-fencing device; and a flight controller configured to generate one or more signals that cause the UAV to operate in accordance with a set of flight regulations that are generated based on the detected indicator of the geo-fencing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Gong, Jin Dai, Hao Cui, Xiaodong Wang, Han Huang, Jun Wu, Wei Fan, Ning Ma, Xinhua Rong, Xingsen Lin
  • Patent number: 12065079
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for a LiDAR mirror assembly mounted on a vehicle, such as an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. For example, a LiDAR mirror assembly may include a base plate mounted on a hood of a vehicle, where the base plate is coupled to one end of a support arm. The opposite end of the support arm is attached to a housing. The housing includes a top housing enclosure coupled to a bottom housing platform, where a sensor and a mirror is coupled to the housing, and where the sensor is at least partially exposed through an opening in the top housing enclosure. The opening for the sensor is situated near an end of the housing furthest away from the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Juexiao Ning, Todd Skinner, Jeffrey Renn
  • Publication number: 20240276767
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a preparing method therefor, and a display apparatus, the display substrate includes: a base substrate and a driving circuit layer arranged on the base substrate, the driving circuit layer further includes at least one first via hole, the first via hole is located between the second sub-electrode and the first active layer, an orthographic projection of the first via hole is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the first sub-electrode and an orthographic projection of the first active layer on the base substrate respectively, the first via hole exposes at least a portion of the first sub-electrode and at least a portion of the first active layer respectively, the second sub-electrode is electrically connected with the exposed first sub-electrode through the first via hole, and the second sub-electrode is electrically connected with the exposed first active layer through the first via hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Wei YANG, Ce NING, Lizhong WANG, Yunping DI, Tianmin ZHOU, Rui HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240274674
    Abstract: Provided are a thin film transistor, a display substrate and a display device, the thin film transistor includes: a gate on a base substrate; an active layer between the gate and the base substrate, the active layer includes a source contact portion, a drain contact portion and a middle portion therebetween, orthographic projections of the middle portion and the gate on the base substrate overlaps to form a first overlapping region, a material of the middle portion includes a metal oxide containing a doped element, a dissociation energy of the doped element from an oxygen element is greater than 500 Kj/mol; a source connected to the source contact portion and a drain connected to the drain contact portion, a ratio of an area of the orthographic projection of the gate on the base substrate to an area of the first overlapping region is less than or equal to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Jie HUANG, Ce NING, Zhengliang LI, Hehe HU, Niangi YAO, Kun ZHAO, Feifei LI
  • Publication number: 20240275745
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, terminal device and storage medium for processing information is provided. The method comprises: in response to inputting first information of a target object on a relevant page of the target object, creating a communication group associated with the target object; sending, to the communication group, a first notification message obtained based on the first information. The associated communication group of the target object is created after the first information of the target object is input, a user may create the communication group without creating a page in a group and associate the communication group with the target object, so it is unnecessary for the user to perform the steps of creating the communication group and sending the first information only if the target object is input, thereby reducing the user's operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Liaoyuan NING, Cong WANG, Xinru ZHANG, Guangyu ZHANG, Ying XIAO, Geliang TIAN