Patents by Inventor Ning Duan

Ning Duan 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).

  • Patent number: 10828959
    Abstract: A method to train a machine learning model for in-vehicle air quality control in a knowledge-based system, executed by one or more computer processors, includes collecting data related to in-vehicle air quality from a plurality of probe cars where the data is collected by various on-board systems in each probe car. The method includes correlating the data related to in-vehicle air quality from each probe car with air quality measurements from each probe car, where the correlation is used to update the machine learning model. The method includes determining a situation when an in-vehicle air quality measurement of the air quality measurements is above a pre-determined in-vehicle air quality level and determining instructions for actions by one or more of the one or more on-board systems in each of the probe cars to maintain an in-vehicle air quality level at or below the pre-determined in-vehicle air quality level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Jing Chang Huang, Peng Ji, Chun Yang Ma, Wei Sun, Zhi Hu Wang, Ren Jie Yao
  • Patent number: 10832501
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product, include obtaining window status decision information based on vehicle interior background noise and determining switch status of the vehicle window(s) based on the obtained window status decision information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Jing Chang Huang, Peng Ji, Shao Chun Li, Guotao Zhao
  • Patent number: 10790623
    Abstract: An interconnection unit includes a first connector configured to be coupled to an electronic device. There is a second connector configured to be coupled to a power station and to provide a path to the electronic device via the first connector. There is a low pass filter coupled between the first connector and the second connector and configured to allow the electronic device to receive power from the power station while maintaining data security of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Chun Yang Ma, Zhi Hu Wang, Ren Jie Yao
  • Patent number: 10776405
    Abstract: A hierarchical spatial encode structure stored on a computing device is disclosed. The hierarchical spatial encode structure includes a plurality of scale levels having a plurality of encode expressions for a multi-scale context. The encode expressions on a first of the scale levels may include a first length. The encode expressions on a second of the scale levels may include a second length greater than the first length. Each encode expression of the second of the scale levels may include one or more of the encode expressions of the first of the scale levels. A context of the first of the scale levels may have a contain/nest (contained) spatial relation to a context of the second of the scale levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Yu Huang, Zhi Hu Wang, Xin Zhang, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10752239
    Abstract: One or more sensors associated with a vehicle detect a roadway condition of a first roadway and an evasive maneuver is performed by the vehicle to avoid the detected roadway condition. In response to one or more processors determining that the evasive maneuver was successful, a record of the successful maneuver and the roadway condition are stored in a database. Subsequent to storing the record in the database, one or more computers associated with one or more vehicles is trained to execute the evasive maneuver, in response to determining that the one or more vehicles is exposed to the roadway condition experienced by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Guoqiang Hu, Jing Chang Huang, Junchi Yan, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10731995
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for generating a road network. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method comprising: identifying a target area to be refined in a road network skeleton; and refining the target area using at least one trajectory associated with the target area to generate the road network. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a corresponding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Dong Ding, Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Peng Ji, Xin Zhang, Qian Kun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10726332
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a training model based on feedback are provided. The method for generating a training model based an feedback, includes calculating an eigenvector of a sample among a plurality of samples; obtaining scores granted by a user for one or more of the plurality of samples in a round, obtaining scores granted by the user for a first number of samples; obtaining scores granted by the user for a second number of samples in response to detecting, based on the eigenvector, an inconsistency between the scores granted by the user for the first number of samples; and generating a training model based on the scores granted by the user for the first and second numbers of samples. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, Ning Duan, Qian Lin, Chen Wang, Junchi Yan, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10677605
    Abstract: A system for tracking cumulative motor vehicle risk includes a satellite navigation system receiver disposed within a motor vehicle and configured to determine a present location of the motor vehicle. A computer processor receives the determined present location of the motor vehicle from the satellite navigation system receiver and generates a traveled route therefrom. A first computer server receives a plurality of motor vehicle claims records, determines a plurality of motor vehicle accident locations from the plurality of motor vehicle claims records, and generates a motor vehicle accident heat map from the plurality of motor vehicle accident locations. A second computer server determines a cumulative risk exposure of the motor vehicle based on the generated traveled route and the generated motor vehicle accident heat map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Shan Dong, Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Kai Li, Zhi Hu Wang, Ting Yuan, Xin Zhang, Shi Wan Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200143566
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is presented for inferring passenger routes in a subway system. The method includes identifying, via an imaging device, a target passenger within the subway system, employing an exiting flow extractor to determine passenger exiting waves, employing an exiting wave identifier to mark an exiting wave of the passenger exiting waves including the target passenger, employing a supporting evidence backtracer to determine an entrance gate for each of the passengers in the marked exiting wave including the target passenger, determining a route probability for each of the passengers in the marked exiting wave including the target passenger via voting or distribution estimation processing, and employing a most probable route inferer to infer a route of the target passenger based on an aggregate route probability for all the passengers in the marked exiting wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Xin Zhang, Peng Gao, Zhi Hu Wang, Ning Duan, Gang BJ Ning, Yan Fang
  • Publication number: 20200012755
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a road network are disclosed. The method for generating a road network comprises: aggregating a plurality of grid cells partitioned in advance on a trajectory map based on trajectories in each grid cell of the plurality of grid cells to form level-1 regions; and generating a link of the road network by merging a level-1 region having two valid neighbors with its neighbor level-1 regions having two valid neighbors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Guoqiang Hu, Jiandong Ding, Peng Ji, Ning Duan, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10527439
    Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating in consideration of estimated air quality in an individual area of a geographic region includes receiving traffic data for the individual area and sensor data of environmental pollution sensors within the individual region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Peng Ji, Zhi Hu Wang, Guotao Zhao
  • Patent number: 10525791
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for controlling the internal air-quality of a vehicle. In-vehicle sensor data of a vehicle are acquired and the usage status of the vehicle is determined based on the acquired in-vehicle sensor data. Based on the acquired in-vehicle sensor data and the determined usage status, a changing trend of the in-vehicle air-quality is determined and responsive to the determined changing trend of the in-vehicle air-quality, a control system of the vehicle is signaled to control the usage status of the vehicle based on a control policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Jing Chang Huang, Peng Ji, Chun Yang Ma, Zhi Hu Wang, Renjie Yao
  • Publication number: 20200001681
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for controlling the internal air-quality of a vehicle, including determining a changing trend of the in-vehicle air-quality based on acquired in-vehicle sensor data and usage status of the vehicle and responsive to the determined changing trend of the in-vehicle air-quality, signaling a control system of the vehicle to control the usage status of the vehicle based on a control policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Jing Chang Huang, Peng Ji, Chun Yang Ma, Zhi Hu Wang, Renjie Yao
  • Patent number: 10455816
    Abstract: An apparatus or a method for detecting activity quantity of an object includes a sense unit, a count unit, a trigger unit, and a radio circuit. The sense unit senses movements of the object, and generates a sensing signal based on the sensed movements. The count unit receives the sensing signal from the sense unit, counts a number of the movements from the sensing signal, and generates a movement number signal including the number of the movements. The trigger unit generates a trigger signal based on whether one or more trigger conditions are satisfied. The radio circuit is triggered in response to the trigger signal, to generate an activity quantity signal based on the movement number signal and ID information corresponding to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Guoqiang Hu, Jingchang Huang, Peng Ji, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10452810
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a road network are disclosed. The method for generating a road network comprises: aggregating a plurality of grid cells partitioned in advance on a trajectory map based on trajectories in each grid cell of the plurality of grid cells to form level-1 regions; and generating a link of the road network by merging a level-1 region having two valid neighbors with its neighbor level-1 regions having two valid neighbors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guoqiang Hu, Jiandong Ding, Peng Ji, Ning Duan, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10436589
    Abstract: A method and system obtaining positioning data from an object traveling on a plurality of routes; mapping the data into a plurality of points on a digital map; identifying points that are matched based on a distance and having a traveling direction consistent with the route directions; obtaining candidate transition points from the plurality of points on the digital map; aggregating the candidate transition points by applying a clustering algorithm to obtain a first cluster of points and a plurality of second clusters of points, verifying a confidence that the first cluster of points are transition points indicating a transition between the routes, and in response to the confidence being below a threshold confidence, classifying the first cluster of points as a first plurality of traveling points having a first direction and automatically adjusting the digital map at least in part based on the first cluster of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Shan Dong, Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Zhi Hu Wang, Jun Chi Yan
  • Patent number: 10429189
    Abstract: A method and system obtaining positioning data from an object traveling on a plurality of routes; mapping the data into a plurality of points on a digital map; identifying points that are unmatched to the stored route trajectory; obtaining candidate transition points from the unmatched points; aggregating the candidate transition points by applying a clustering algorithm; selecting a first cluster of points and a plurality of second clusters of points, determining a confidence level that the first cluster of points are transition points indicating a transition between the routes, classifying the first cluster of points as a first plurality of traveling points having a first direction in response to the confidence being below a threshold confidence and automatically adjusting the stored route trajectory to indicate that the first cluster of points are on the route trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Shan Dong, Ning Duan, Peng Gao, Zhi Hu Wang, Jun Chi Yan
  • Patent number: 10346746
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a training model based on feedback are provided. The method for generating a training model based on feedback, includes calculating an eigenvector of a sample among a plurality of samples; obtaining scores granted by a user for one or more of the plurality of samples in a round, obtaining scores granted by the user for a first number of samples; obtaining scores granted by the user for a second number of samples in response to detecting, based on the eigenvector, an inconsistency between the scores granted by the user for the first number of samples; and generating a training model based on the scores granted by the user for the first and second numbers of samples. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, Ning Duan, Qian Lin, Chen Wang, Junchi Yan, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10321664
    Abstract: An apparatus or a method for detecting activity quantity of an object includes a sense unit, a count unit, a trigger unit, and a radio circuit. The sense unit senses movements of the object, and generates a sensing signal based on the sensed movements. The count unit receives the sensing signal from the sense unit, counts a number of the movements from the sensing signal, and generates a movement number signal including the number of the movements. The trigger unit generates a trigger signal based on whether one or more trigger conditions are satisfied. The radio circuit is triggered in response to the trigger signal, to generate an activity quantity signal based on the movement number signal and ID information corresponding to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Guoqiang Hu, Jingchang Huang, Peng Ji, Jun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20190171737
    Abstract: A method and/or system for managing a database that stores space-time context objects is provided. The system receives a query range in a multi-dimensional space. The system maps the query range into a set of fragments of a space-filling curve that fills the multi-dimensional space in all dimensions of the multi-dimensional space. The system uses each mapped fragment in the set of mapped fragments as a key to query the database for space-time context objects that are mapped to the space-filling curve. The system queries the database by identifying one or more context objects that intersect the mapped fragment at the space-filling curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Chun Yang Ma, Makoto Tanibayashi, Zhi Hu Wang, Shoichiro Watanabe, Nan Xia, Xin Zhang, Jun Zhu